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"No llores coño, tu eres hombre!" aka "Don't cry damnit, you're a man!"

This is one of many phrases I heard growing up in a Cuban community in Miami, Florida, where if you're not Latino, you're a minority.

A community that is very big on masculinity, machismo and just men flaunting their peacock feathers to show how tough and manly they are. Where things like emotions and feelings and tears are reserved for women and children.

Where if you don't adhere to the strict rules of what it means to be a man, you run the risk of being labeled gay, feminine, weak, soft or many other disparaging insults that are thrown at men who dare venture into the softer side of being a man.

My guest Jorge Emanuel Berrios, like me, knows all about growing up in this macho atmosphere. An atmosphere where men are expected to take ownership of their women, expected to cheat on their women, and expected fight anyone who says otherwise.

Jorge is an actor, comedian and writer now residing in Los Angeles, California. He is part Cuban, part Puerto Rican. Join us as we reminisce on our lives of growing up Cuban and how those manly expectations shaped the men we are today. Listen in as Jorge shares some deeply intimate stories and feelings that he hasn't shared with many people, and how he's worked hard to become and express the man that he truly is and was born to be, and let's go of the man society told him he should be.