On Men, Mindsets, and The Man Box

Dr. John Schinnerer is back for round 2. Yay! My next guest is a glutton for punishment, he was on the show last year and is back for round 2. John Schinnerer has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from U.C. Berkeley and helps men learn how to achieve high performance,...

Four Seasons of Loneliness

A lawyers look at loneliness. J. W. (Terry) Freiberg has a Ph.D. from UCLA and a Harvard law degree. For 30 years he lawyered for many of Boston’s child social welfare and adoption agencies and scores of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. His dual...

Being the Strong Man a Woman Wants

Timeless wisdom on being a man. In this episode I talk with Elliott Katz. After he went through a divorce, he set out to understand what it means to be a man in a relationship. He found a lot of other men were asking the same questions he was, and they all struggled...

Such Unfortunates

A journey from childhood abuse, to drug addiction, to happiness. Andrew Mann grew up in an upscale neighborhood in New Jersey. From the outside, he had it made. But behind the scenes, he suffered sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at the hands of his parents,...

Stoicism Today

Tools for Emotional Resilience and More. Stoicism has been around since the 3rd century BCE and my next guest, Matt Van Natta, has been studying Stoic philosophy for almost that long. In case you missed it the first time around, some famous stoics of the distant past...