Men’s Therapy Podcast

A lot of parents start this conversation with the same quiet fear: what does it mean about my kid, about our family, about me, if my child is exploring a gender or sexuality that doesn't match what I expected? On this roundtable episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay brings back two returning guests. Relationship and dating coach Shana James (author of Honest Sex) and psychotherapist Jack Lambert, who works predominantly with gay and queer men, to talk through exactly that fear.Shana speaks both as a coach and as the parent of a 14-year-old gender-expansive daughter, walking through the years of "brain-breaking" it took to let go of a binary view of gender. Jack brings the clinical lens, unpacking why the question "is this real" is the wrong question entirely, and why a parent's job in the early stages is simply to be a safe, steady presence rather than an interrogator. Together with Marc, they get into the grief that often goes unspoken when a child transitions, the sneaky ways homophobia and gender rigidity shape even well-meaning parenting, how a child's exploration can surface a parent's own questions about their sexuality, and concrete, practical ways to open the conversation without shutting your kid down.For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit www.menstherapy.online.Follow us on social media: https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online.Connect with ShanaWebsite: https://shanajamescoaching.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shanajames/?hl=en Connect with JackWebsite: https://www.jacklambertlmhc.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackknowsbest/ Individual Therapy:https://menstherapy.online/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Individual_TherapyMen’s grouphttps://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Mens_GroupsMTO Slackhttps://menstherapy.online/slack/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Slack_CTA&utm_campaign=MTO_SlackWebsite:https://menstherapy.online/

.Ask a parent what's going on with their Gen Z son, and you'll usually get a shrug, a worry, or both. On this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay reconnects with an old friend, Joanna Lilley. She is a therapeutic consultant and host of the podcast Success is Subjective. She spends her days working directly with young adults navigating exactly this territory.Joanna explains what a therapeutic consultant actually does (spoiler: it's not crisis intervention, and it's not long-term therapy either), then walks through what she's seeing across hundreds of conversations with Gen Z men: rising anxiety, isolation, screen-fueled body dysmorphia, and a wave of self-diagnosed mental health labels borrowed from 30-second TikTok clips. The conversation gets into the real danger of medicating a teenager based on an Instagram diagnosis, why young men are splitting into two extremes (rejecting masculinity entirely or diving headfirst into the manosphere), and why Joanna thinks the fix isn't more labels or more information, it's teaching young people how to actually think through a problem. It closes with concrete, practical advice for any parent wondering how to talk to their son about masculinity, gender, and mental health without shutting the conversation down.For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit www.menstherapy.online.Follow us on social media: https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online.Connect with JoannaWebsite: https://lilleyconsulting.com/ Resources MentionedSuccess is Subjective Podcast:https://www.successissubjective.org/ Individual Therapy:https://menstherapy.online/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Individual_TherapyMen’s grouphttps://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Mens_GroupsMTO Slackhttps://menstherapy.online/slack/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Slack_CTA&utm_campaign=MTO_SlackWebsite:https://menstherapy.online/

Walk into a CrossFit box at 6 a.m. and you'll see men doing more than chasing a workout PR. According to men's coach and ex-pastor Jason Lyle, they're doing therapy without calling it that. On this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay sits down with Jason, who spent ten years owning a CrossFit gym and now runs Sacred Grit, a men's coaching practice built around retreats, nervous system work, and one very cold morning ritual.The conversation unpacks why modern comfort has left men's nervous systems overloaded and under-challenged, and why hard physical practices like CrossFit, cold water immersion, and breathwork aren't really about fitness at all, they're about teaching the body how to stay regulated under stress. Jason walks through the biology of the amygdala hijack, why men can run a hundred-mile trail race but freeze up in a hard conversation with their partner, and why regulation without honest self-examination just becomes another way to avoid the real work. It closes with Jason's take on where masculinity goes from here, and why he thinks accountability and honesty, not apology, are what get men there.For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit www.menstherapy.online.Follow us on social media: https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online.Connect with JasonWebsite: https://thesacredgrit.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyle.jason/ Resources MentionedThe Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter: https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Crisis-Embrace-Discomfort-Reclaim/dp/0593138767 Wild at Heart by John Eldredge: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Heart-Revised-Updated-Discovering/dp/1400200393 Individual Therapy: https://menstherapy.online/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Individual_TherapyMen’s group: https://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Mens_GroupsMTO Slack: https://menstherapy.online/slack/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Slack_CTA&utm_campaign=MTO_SlackWebsite: https://menstherapy.online/

Every time a testosterone clinic pops up along the highway, third-generation chiropractor Dr. Kyle Hulsebus gets the same question from patients: "Doc, is it low testosterone?" After years of testing men from their 20s to their 80s, his answer is almost always no. On this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay sits down with Dr. Kyle to unpack why testosterone myths have become the default explanation for a much deeper problem: the existential crisis that quietly hits men around 40, when the life they built no longer feels like a fit.Dr. Kyle created the 40 Over 40 program, a scattered mix of physical, mental, spiritual, and somatic practices for men entering midlife, deliberately unorganized because he doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. The conversation covers the two archetypes he sees most in his practice (the man who feels behind in life, and the man who did everything "right" yet still feels hollow), why he's skeptical of the term toxic masculinity, and why breathwork, not bloodwork, is where he tells almost everyone to start. It closes with a personal story about a friend who appeared to have it all and died by suicide, and what that taught Dr. Kyle about chasing an objective versus chasing a fantasy.For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit www.menstherapy.online.Follow us on social media: https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online.

There's a pattern Coach Kevin Voisin keeps running into with his highest-performing clients: guys who can build a hundred-million-dollar business without blinking, then go home and have no idea how to navigate a conversation with their wife. The gap between those two skill sets, he says, comes down to the male ego, the same mental tool that sharpens ambition and decision-making early in life, but which, left unexamined, quietly hardens into a kind of prison most successful men don't even know they're living inside.On this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, Marc Azoulay sits down with Kevin Voisin, who coaches high-performing men and executives through his Live Legend system. He's spoken on five continents about helping driven men get out of their own way, and he's currently building an app to bring that work to more people at scale. The conversation ranges from psychology to biology to a few unconventional teachers along the way, a study on cuttlefish mating behaviour, a season of the Netflix survival show Alone, a story about pushing his son's shoulder instead of spanking him, but it keeps circling back to one idea: ego, in the beginning, is what lets a man become someone. Left unchecked, it's what keeps him from becoming anyone else.Voisin breaks a man's life down into five areas: fitness, faith, family, finance, and fun and pictures each one as either an engine pushing him forward or an anchor dragging him down. Most high-achieving men, he's found, have three strong engines and two anchors quietly sitting on the bottom, and their instinct when life slows down is almost always to add more engines instead of lifting the anchor. He also argues that "decision velocity is greater than decision accuracy," that perfectionism works like a horizon line the mind invents to help it navigate useful, but never something you can actually reach and that anger isn't an emotion men should starve into submission. It's energy that needs a healthy outlet, or it eventually finds an unhealthy one.This isn't a takedown of ambition or a call to soften up. It's a look at why so many capable, accomplished men feel quietly stuck, and a practical map for getting the parts of their life that aren't working back in motion without blowing up the parts that are.For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men's Therapy Online Community, visit www.menstherapy.online.Follow us on social media: https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online.