Men on Show

Jon Salmon is an award-winning producer, a digital pioneer, co-founder of Byte Entertainment and Co-CEO of the Speakers Collective social enterprise.

Jon lost his father to suicide when he was a teenager. A few years later after starting his first job he was sectioned and admitted to hospital with stress and depression. Luckily, Jon was able to get the right help in the end and returned to work a year later.

However, Jon decided not to tell anyone about his mental illness or Dad’s suicide for nearly 20 years due to the stigma and affect he thought it would have on his career and friendships.

It was sadly after the suicide of a close friend due to postnatal depression in 2016 that Jon decided he had to speak out.

Jon couldn’t have picked a more public platform to speak out when he spoke alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales as part of the Heads Together mental health campaign in the lead up to the London ‘Mental Health’ Marathon in 2017.

Jon has since gone on to be the Co-CEO of the Speakers Collective not for profit, challenging stigma and facilitating important conversations with lived experience speakers.

Jon lives in London, a proud Dad and speaks openly about mental health and being dyslexic in the hope it will help others ask for help and save lives.

Website Social Media Accounts

www.jon-salmon.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jcsalmon
www.twitter.com/jonsalmon
www.instagram.com/j0nsalmon
www.metro.co.uk/author/jon-salmon-for-metro-co-uk

Mental Health Initiatives

www.speakerscollective.org – Co-CEO, Lived experience community and social enterprise

www.whatsgoingoninyourhead.org - Co-founder, live performance and discussion

https://www.timetotalkwf.co.uk Co-Chair & Champion Time to Talk Waltham Forest

www.letstalkaboutloss.org - Trustee, Supporting 18-35 year olds who have been bereaved

www.hosb.org.uk/mentoring - Mentor, The House of St Barnabas Homeless Employment Academy

www.talkitoutmusic.com Exec Producer, mental health music project bringing people together

www.jonandjohn.run – Ran New York Marathon in November for suicide prevention         
Byte Entertainment

www.byteentertainment.com

Key Points of This Episode.

• Who inspired him originally.
• His unique way of processing information and what he loves to do....
• .....and how the current school system does not serve it currently.
• HIs mental health challenges....
• ....and his revovery process.
• The importance (and growth) of people with lived experience

Reach out at www.speakerscollective.org

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After an 18-year career as a Secondary Teacher, including one year managing an education project in Ethiopia, Mike started Progressive Masculinity in order to address the damaging 'performance' many boys and young men felt pressured to live in order to be seen as a 'real' man. Progressive Masculinity challenges regressive dominance and power-based models of masculinity and supports young men to construct a model which is consistent with their personal values and the kind of man, friend, partner and father they wish to be. By creating safe, nonjudgemental spaces Progressive Masculinity helps boys and young men who feel unseen, unheard, marginalised and frustrated realise their value and the incredible potential of our gender. Progressive Masculinity has developed into a nationwide network of facilitators delivering pupil workshops, staff training and parental sessions with their work featured in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4 and Channel4

Key points of this episode:

• How he did not know what he wanted to do at first, and his very first job!
• His thoughts on the weaknesses of the current teaching model.
• Progressive Masculinity. What is it and how it started.
• How he was supported by his colleagues.
• The issues he listened to in the classroom, and the impact it soon started to have.
• Why he had to leave the system to have the impact he wanted.
• How the workshops work and what they seek to create.
• What Mike wished he had as a child.
• The "soft challenge" technique.
• The kind of learning that is most relevant post Covid.
• His message and vision

Reach out to Mike on.

www.progressivemasculinity.co.uk

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After spending most of his life trapped in the revolving doors of crisis and crime, David turned his life around and now uses his lived experience as a lived experience team member at the charity, Revolving Doors, and as a lived experience influencer at the National Suicide Prevention Alliance, to influence reform and change.

Reach out to David here on Linked In

Key points of the show:

• How it all began for him.
• How he finds it hard to put his finger on the exact start point of his troubles.
• The "School/Prison Pipeline
• How people who have done bad things are not necessarily bad people.....
• .....and what he is doing about it.
• His view on why school exclusions have rocketed.

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Chatting to Joel Shaldean in this episode all about his work as a Deputy Headmaster, Teacher Trainer, and pioneering thinker and programme facilitator in the educational field.

Key points of this episode:

• Joel's early influences
• His unlikely journey into what he is doing now
• A wise take on the solutions needed for boys in education.
• How the most disruptive need the most care.
• Equip! Engage! Inspire!
• A simple two word mantra that would serve men for life.
• A heartwarming and funny playground tale.

Reach out to Joel here https://ladsneeddads.org/

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Charlie Bethel is the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Men’s Sheds Association and has been with the organisation for over five years.  On leaving University where he studied Industrial Design, Charlie embarked on a career in Paralympic Sport having served as Chief Executive of British Wheelchair Basketball prior to joining Men’s Sheds.  He continues this love of wheelchair basketball as an Executive Council member on the sport’s international governing body.  He believes strongly in the transformational power of men’s sheds and sport as a way of improving and saving lives.Key points of this episode:

• The people that inspired Charlie in childhood.
• A very famous relative!
• How psychometric testing can be damaging.
• The transformational power of Mens Sheds....
• ....and the challenges faced.
• The Unconscious Bias sometimes encountered
• How "the tide should raise all boats", and it should not be exclusivist.
• The imporatnce of gender specific interventions (and probably not for the reason you think)
• His vision for the future, both strategically and politically.

Reach out to Charlie for more information here- including finding the sheds in your area.

www.menssheds.org.uk

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In this episode, we talk to Darren Harris who was diagnosed with bilateral retinalblastoma at the age of 4.

Since then Darren was the captain of the blind England football team, racking up an extraordinary 162 appearances and 10 world and European medals. and is a brilliant speaker and campaigner, talking about how to overcome adversity and how to create brilliantly diverse groups of people. 

Key points from the episode:

• How he remembers seeing in the early part of his life.
• How he went through the typical phases of grief.
• How some great teachers realised the skills he would need in the future.
• His thoughts on why some men are struggling.
• His incredible achievements, and the mindset that inspired it.
• Some ideas on future helpful attitudes and solutions.

Reach out to Darren and learn more here.

https://darrenharrisgb.com/

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Chris is a BACP psychotherapist and coach who specialises in working with men and boys, focussing on helping them to develop their emotional well-being. He’s also a professional, public speaker and workshop facilitator who founded the M-Path programmes having worked in schools, universities and businesses across the UK and beyond ever since his book, ‘Be a man: How macho culture damages us and how to escape it’ was published in 2017.​

He previously spent ten years as a journalist, producing and presenting numerous documentaries on the subject of men and masculinity for the BBC, whilst also writing about it in mainstream media such as The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph.

Key points from the episode:

• How on paper his life was fine, but he felt a mess, so started asking probing questions.
• Redefining the "hero" archetype.
• How there are so few things targeted directly at men now and the need for it.
• How to drive allyship (and not drive it away)
• How a magical spontaneous conversation happened at one of his events.
• A beautiful message for men.

Reach out on Linked In (Chris Hemmings)
www.m-path.com
Insta: @mpathmen

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Joe Horton is a Husband, Father, Podcast Host Coach and Business Owner, who helps men to live more meaningful lives by focussing on what is really important to them. He hosts The Joe Horton Show, which is an interview show dedicated to equipping dads with all the tools, resources and ideas, to help them make improvements in their own lives. He interviews Psychologists, Athletes, Relationship Experts, Best Selling Authors, Stuntmen, Film Makers and BBC presenters, along with many other remarkable people at the top of their game.

Joe's own journey started after losing his Dad in 2015 which, whilst a time of great pain and confusion, caused him to reflect on his life up until that point and how he was living his life. He went on his own journey of self discovery (which still continues to this day). This meant embracing change, making tough decisions about what his priorities in life would be, and taking action to put them front and centre going forward. 

Key points from the episode:

• How he set up the Guild of Dads podcast after a period of much change in his life.
• The people that inspired him in his early life.
• Why he started his own podcast
• The success of his mens group.
• How on paper his life was good but he felt a lack of purpose.
• How and why a man should do what he enjoys and have other interests alongside responsibilities.

Reach out to Joe here: @guildofdads

And check out his fantastic podcast here 

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​Ryan Parke is The Men's Coach, a TEDx and international, award-winning public speaker. In 2019, the most successful man Ryan personally knew, died by suicide. Bewildered and devastated by his death, Ryan was sparked into undergoing detailed research on men’s health. 

 Ryan’s knowledge and ability, to present complexity in an accessible way, stands him out as a speaker and particularly on the subject of testosterone, Ryan is challenging outdated yet popular opinion. In so doing, he is opening up a whole new narrative in how we approach male mental and physical health. Ryan works with companies and charities that want to improve mental health for men by taking an evidence-based approach. His 90-day coaching programme helps men to overcome depression, beat procrastination and achieve their life goals. 

Key points from this episode:

• How he had a wonderful childhood
• .... then an apprenticeship that showed him what he was not good at, but highlighted simultaneously what he was.
• How a peer of his "had it all" but was still mentally unwell.
• ....how he still took his life after doing all the "right" things
• How the hormome testosterone is not the bad guy as first thought. It's the opposite.
• Some leading edge science on it. 
• Techniques to increase testosterone.
• "Trying to be a man, kills a lot of men"
• Why talking is absolutely necessary for men, but more is needed.
• How generic talking therapy is not sufficient to address suicidal ideation in men.
• How there are gender differences in stress triggers with men and women.
• The dangerous myths of mens mental health.

Reach out to Ryan here:

https://www.themenscoach.co.uk

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Chris has travelled to eighty countries across seven continents, run 999 miles the length of Britain unsupported, completed a quadruple ironman triathlon, is a qualified pilot, skydiver, bestselling author, Antarctic explorer and polar scuba diver (I’m feeling cold already) 

He’s also English Veteran of the Year and is bold enough (or bonkers) to have driven volunteer journalists to India and back in an old and unroadworthy school bus, to highlight global inequality and poverty! 

He was awarded the Second level commendation of the Finnish nation on the grounds of human generosity for his ability to inspire others.

Key points from this episode:

• How and why he joined the forces
• A battle with addiction
• A rather scary adventure in the desert.
• A surprising view on enlightenment
• His views on "toxic mascilinity"
• A message of encourgement

If you enjoyed listening, please leave a review and recommend us to your communities. To find out more about Andrew's work, check out...

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