DeManuel Edmondson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, gender-based violence prevention educator, and trainer with A Call to Men — a leading organization dedicated to the health, healing, and accountability of men and boys.

Most young men will never admit they're lonely. They'll say "I'm good," change the subject, and carry it alone for years. This conversation digs into why that happens, what it costs them, and what it actually looks and feels like when a man finally lets the walls down — in a therapist's office, in a group of peers, or just in a real conversation with a friend.

Expect to learn what young men are actually carrying beneath the surface, why the "man box" teaches boys to suppress everything but anger, how unresolved trauma shapes male identity and relationships, why "I'm good" is a defense mechanism and what to do instead, what the male loneliness epidemic looks like from a therapist's chair, how to build the kind of male friendships where you're actually known, why holding men accountable and believing in their healing aren't opposites, and how joy — not achievement — might be the missing piece in men's lives and much more...

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Lewis Wedlock is a men's educator, school facilitator, TEDx speaker, and author who has spent years in secondary schools across the UK working directly with thousands of young men on masculinity, mental health, and identity.

The narratives around young men right now are loud, alarming, and largely wrong. While documentaries and headlines warn about radicalization and the manosphere, what Lewis actually finds in the school halls is something more hopeful and more overlooked: boys who desperately want to talk, who are far more open than anyone gives them credit for, and who are starving for adults willing to meet them with curiosity instead of condemnation.

Expect to learn what young men are actually saying when adults stop telling them what to think, why the curious versus furious framework changes everything about engaging boys on difficult topics, what mendable masculinity means and how it frees men from the trap of rigid identity, how to regulate yourself before entering hard conversations with the men and boys in your life, why a social media screen time audit is more powerful than any lecture, what the gap really looks like between media portrayals of young men and the reality on the ground, how to challenge someone's ideas without attacking who they are as a person, why modeling matters more than anything you could ever say out loud and much more...

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Emilio Parga is a grief educator, speaker, and nonprofit founder who has worked with thousands of children, teens, and adults navigating loss over the course of 24 years.

Most men are carrying grief they never named — from a father who died too young, a marriage that fell apart, a friendship that quietly disappeared. And because no one taught them how to grieve, it doesn't disappear. It shows up as rage, addiction, broken relationships, chronic disconnection, and a creeping sense that something is just wrong. Emilio Parga has sat with thousands of people across two and a half decades and watched the same pattern play out over and over. This conversation is about what grief actually is, how men bury it without knowing, and what it costs them when they do.

Expect to learn what unprocessed grief actually looks like in a man's body and behavior, why most men don't realize they're grieving until the damage is already done, what the five regrets of dying people reveal about how we're living right now, how to support a grieving friend using specific language that actually opens the door, why children are far more capable of processing death than adults allow them to be, how different cultures grieve and what Western men can learn from that, why grief doesn't end when a relationship ends, and what it really means to learn to live with loss rather than get over it and much more...

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Mitch Webb is a nervous system coach, somatic healing practitioner, and host of the Rooted Conversations podcast, working with men navigating chronic stress, emotional shutdown, and trauma stored in the body.

Most men believe that healing means pushing harder — stricter discipline, better habits, stronger willpower. But for millions of men, the real reason they stay exhausted, anxious, emotionally flat, or disconnected has nothing to do with effort. It's locked in their nervous system. And no amount of hustle, mindset work, or discipline touches it. Mitch Webb has spent years helping men understand why — and what actually works.

Expect to learn what a chronically dysregulated nervous system looks like in everyday male behavior, why exhaustion, irritability, emotional numbness, and physical symptoms are often symptoms of the same root problem, how trauma and chronic stress get stored in the body rather than the mind and why this changes everything, what somatic healing is and why it reaches places that talk therapy and willpower can't, the difference between a nervous system stuck in fight/flight versus one collapsed in freeze, why high-achieving men are disproportionately running on empty, how to begin regulating your nervous system without needing a therapist or a meditation practice and much more...

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Jason Rosario is the founder of The Lives of Men platform, a curriculum developer for the NYC Department of Education, a diversity and inclusion expert, and creator of The Manuscript leadership program for young men and boys.

Since 2016, the conversation around masculinity has become a cultural battleground. Men are falling behind by every metric—suicide, unemployment, academic failure, isolation—yet there's resistance to even naming these as problems worth solving. Meanwhile, young men scroll through extremist content from charismatic figures who offer simple answers to complex wounds. Jason Rosario has spent years in the trenches developing actual frameworks that help men develop emotional intelligence without abandoning their masculine identity, including his groundbreaking "Six P's" curriculum that redefines presence, purpose, power, partnership, protection, and play for modern masculinity.

Expect to learn why boys of color have been in crisis long before mainstream attention arrived, how the toxic masculinity discourse created an overcorrection that isolated men, what Jason's Six P's framework teaches about healthy masculinity, why our education system fails boys by treating emotional intelligence as optional, how the intention scale helps men identify and regulate emotions in their bodies, what it means to redefine power as agency rather than dominance, why young men are rejecting traditional paths like college and corporate jobs, how Jason's single immigrant mother taught him what it means to be a man, and much more...

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Andrew Reiner is a university professor, author, and expert on masculinity, boys and young men with a forthcoming book on male development releasing in 2027.

Why are so many young men retreating into online spaces instead of real-world mentorship? Andrew Reiner reveals the psychic marginalization happening to boys and men in modern culture, why influencers have become surrogate fathers, and what we're getting catastrophically wrong about raising the next generation of men. This conversation unpacks the appeal of the Manosphere, the anti-male bias embedded in pop culture, and why young men feel like they have a target on their backs despite never ascribing to toxic masculinity.

Expect to learn why boys are seeking rites of passage from influencers instead of their fathers, how toxic masculinity has been weaponized against well-meaning young men, what the Manosphere actually offers beyond misogyny, why we're raising boys in a 1.0 version while expecting 2.0 results, how to give your son grace to fail and grow, what psychic marginalization means for male identity, why leading with curiosity is more powerful than judgment, how to build genuine male friendships that go beyond surface level, and much more...

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Toby Gorniak MBE is a hip-hop pioneer, youth educator, creator of the UK's first hip-hop PhD program, and an advocate for Roma communities who survived a brutal neo-Nazi attack at age 11.

Most men are taught to suppress their trauma and push through pain without processing it. But what if the path to true masculine strength runs through vulnerability, not around it? Toby shares his journey from childhood trauma victim to peacemaker, including the transformative moment when a simple hug from his future wife changed everything and the day he chose to sit face-to-face with a former neo-Nazi to create a groundbreaking film about healing and forgiveness.

Expect to learn why modern masculinity should embrace gentleness over aggression, how unconditional love breaks cycles of conditional worth and male emotional suppression, what it means to be a "gentleman" in today's world, how to process male trauma without stuffing it down, the five principles Toby teaches his six children about manhood, why communication is the most powerful tool men possess, how to be fully present as a father while providing financially, what happened when Toby filmed a conversation with someone who could have been one of his childhood attackers, and much more...

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Chris Tinsley is a co-founder of ShopMy, a unicorn-valued creator commerce platform, MBA graduate from MIT Sloan, former finance professional at Cambridge Associates, and father of young children living intentionally outside a major tech hub.

Building a billion-dollar company while raising young kids creates impossible choices every single day. Chris reveals how he structures sacred family time that never gets compromised, why he chose proximity to family over NYC's business advantages, and the Catholic values that guide his ethical decisions - including turning away lucrative creator partnerships that conflict with his principles.

This conversation challenges the typical entrepreneur playbook of sacrificing everything for growth and explores what masculine leadership actually looks like when you refuse to make your kids feel secondary to your career.

Expect to learn how Chris navigated the intense pressure of MBA classmates pursuing traditional paths while he bet on entrepreneurship, the regret minimization framework that gave him courage to take massive career risks, why he believes creators are the modern-day retailers and male creators represent huge untapped potential, the Reed Hastings Thursday date night principle for protecting what matters most, how proximity to family provides accountability beyond your professional identity, why the hero's journey always returns you home rather than taking you further away, the three G's he teaches his kids every night that ground his entire worldview, how Catholic social teaching informs business decisions around human dignity and fair compensation, and much more...

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Christine E. Ohenewah is a professor, legal scholar, founder of the Elizabeth Chinabuah Foundation and creator of the mens rea division focusing on male loneliness and the crisis in masculinity.

What we call toxic masculinity might be a complete misclassification. Christine challenges the mainstream narrative by distinguishing between authentic masculinity and underdeveloped patriarchy - and explains why this reframe changes everything about how we understand men's struggles. She reveals why women's narrow acceptance of male vulnerability is breaking relationships, why the male loneliness crisis affects everyone, and how treating relationships like business partnerships creates the foundation for genuine connection.

Expect to learn why toxic masculinity is actually underdeveloped patriarchy operating from scarcity, how the mens rea legal principle applies to listening to men without judgment, why women misunderstand men more than men misunderstand women, why male loneliness is dismissed and what's really at stake, how to approach relationships as business partnerships rather than sites of conquest, why feeling powerful is different from being powerful, what it means to lead without dominating, why men's statistical outcomes reveal systemic issues not individual failure and much more...

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Dr. Ron Stotts is a psychologist with over 50 years of experience helping men develop consciousness, heal emotional trauma, and become integrated leaders.

Most men are taught that emotional mastery means suppression—that denying what you feel is masculine strength. But unprocessed emotions don't disappear; they drive your behavior from the shadows, showing up as anger, control, withdrawal, and exhaustion. Ron reveals why the parts of yourself you learned to hide as a child are precisely the parts you need to access now, and walks through the practical process of inner child healing that transforms men from reactive to conscious, from externally validated to internally integrated.

Expect to learn why mature masculinity is self-regulated rather than stoic, how childhood survival patterns become adult sabotage mechanisms, what the "inner cave" is and why you need to explore it, how consciousness determines your capacity for success and relationships, why 80% of men start by blaming external circumstances, the neurological benefits of healing suppressed emotions, what it actually looks like to fall in love with yourself as a man, why looking outside yourself keeps you stuck in old patterns and much more...

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