Men’s Therapy Podcast

Anger. Rage. Aggression. Modern psychology has spent decades telling men these are problems to fix. That is exactly where this conversation pushes back.In this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, Marc Azoulay sits down with Mike LeBlanc. He is a Marine veteran, Harvard graduate, founder of a humanoid robotics company, and author of What If Anger Is the Answer. He challenges the cultural narrative that has pathologized male anger and makes the case that suppressing it is not the solution. It is the source of the problem.The episode makes one thing clear early on. Anger is not the same as violence. A man who feels rage is not dangerous by default. And a culture that conditions men to swallow every difficult emotion is not producing calmer, healthier men. It is producing depressed ones.What LeBlanc describes draws directly from the ancient Greeks. Unlike modern psychology, which splits the human soul into two parts: the rational and the impulsive, the Greeks identified a third. They called it thymos. It is the seat of drive, ambition, and command. It is where masculine purpose actually lives. And stripping it out does not make a man more civilized. It makes him directionless.This shows up when a man in your life, or when you yourself:Feels constantly told to calm down, breathe through it, or take a bubble bathHas been dismissed the moment emotion showed up, even when the emotion was justifiedDrifts into cynicism, isolation, or numbness and cannot identify whySenses something is being wasted but cannot name what it isHas never had a mentor, a rite of passage, or a moment that moved him from boy to manThis is not a character flaw. This is a generation of men handed a framework that was never built for them.Marc and LeBlanc trace the full arc, from the Marine Corps training that transforms raw anger into leadership, to the entrepreneurial initiation that demands the same reckoning, to the practical discipline of consistency that LeBlanc argues is the only thing that actually changes a life. They also go deep on parenting, on what healthy discipline looks like when chronic resentment is the far more dangerous alternative, and on why getting angry, truly, honestly angry, may be the first real step out of depression that many men have never been permitted to take.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.

Dr. Peter Salerno, clinical expert on personality disorders and author, explains how narcissism, psychopathy, and sociopathy differ from social media labels. He discusses intentional manipulation as a social strategy, love bombing and gaslighting, biological and genetic roots, limits of talk therapy, and how to spot persistent patterns of deception and victim positioning in relationships.

G.S. Youngblood, men's coach, relationship expert, and author of The Masculine Blueprint, explains his three-part framework for grounded, leading, and connective masculinity. He covers nervous-system grounding, repairing old wounds, logistical and sexual leadership, emotional containment, and practical embodiment exercises. Short, actionable guidance on how to provide structure, create safety, and stay steady after conflict.

Dr. Stan Tatkin, clinical psychologist and creator of PACT who uses neuroscience and attachment theory in couples work. He discusses designing emotional safety by intent. He explains governing a relationship like a two-person team. He covers why chemistry and sex are not enough and how training, governance, and observable behavior build lasting partnership.

Dr. Ryan McKellie, a research psychologist focused on masculinity and men’s mental health, unpacks why many men feel isolated. He contrasts loneliness with solitude. He explains how friendships form, how male depression often shows as anger or withdrawal, and why men’s groups and mentorship can rebuild connection.

A frank look at why modern men feel uninitiated and stuck in comfort. He traces missing rites of passage, the single insecurity that fuels imposter feelings, and how to design challenges that actually produce growth. Stories and rituals like Iron John show why breaking comfort and doing high-stakes tasks sparks bonding and masculine change.

Addiction is one of the most misunderstood forces in men's lives. It doesn’t always look like rock bottom. It can look like a high-functioning executive who has a spotless professional record. It can look like the life of the party who stays for the after-party when everyone else goes home. It can look like a college student pulling straight A's while quietly unraveling in private.That’s exactly what this conversation is about.In this April Roundtable episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay, himself in recovery from polysubstance use, sits down with three therapists who specialize in addiction recovery: Jack Lambert, a New York-based therapist trained at the Addiction Institute; Dr. Michael Zang, a gambling psychologist and founder of Incumental, a gambling recovery support platform; and Tim Mullins, a substance abuse therapist who entered the field after his own long recovery journey and 11 years in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA).Together, they cover the full landscape: what the signs of addiction actually look like, how isolation and deceit function as warning signals, what role shame vs. guilt plays in the recovery process, how spirituality in addiction recovery fits in (even for men who resist it), and what sobriety really feels like in those early, unvarnished months.This isn’t a polished, clinical overview. It’s a candid, experienced, and sometimes raw conversation from people who’ve seen addiction from both the inside and the outside. And it’s a conversation that could genuinely change the way a man looks at his own relationship with substances, gambling, gaming, porn, social media, or any pattern he’s been quietly defending.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.Individual Therapy: https://menstherapy.online/Men’s grouphttps://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/MTO Slackhttps://menstherapy.online/slack/

Emotional numbness does not always look like a crisis. For many men, it is quieter, a steady flatness, a sense of static that will not lift no matter how much they push. In this solo episode of the Men's Therapy Online Podcast, Marc Azoulay, therapist, coach, and founder of Men's Therapy Online, is breaking down one of the most common yet least understood struggles facing modern men: the feeling of being emotionally switched off. Marc argues that what most men are experiencing is not a mindset problem, not laziness, and not something that will pass if they keep grinding harder. It’s a neurological issue rooted in a depleted opioid system, the part of the brain responsible for deep satisfaction, contentment, and enoughness. When that system goes quiet, a man stops feeling alive. He covers anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), and alexithymia symptoms (difficulty identifying and naming emotions),  that quietly accumulate when a man is always seeking but never arriving. He also walks through the mental fog causes that keep men stuck, chronic overstimulation, dopamine hijacking, and the fear of slowing down. "Before I got into therapy and coaching and self-improvement, I was dead," Marc says. "I was doing all the things right,  the gym, dating, building a business, but I just felt completely empty." The fix, he explains, requires going inward: starving the dopamine system through deliberate stillness, then learning to feel the body again through somatic awareness. On the other side of the discomfort — the fear, the pain, the noise — is what Marc calls enoughness. A felt sense of safety. Of being present on the earth. 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.

Nima Rahmany, ex-chiropractor turned men’s coach and creator of the Becoming Trigger Proof framework, blends somatics and attachment work. He unpacks fawning as hidden people-pleasing that fuels resentment. The conversation covers how trauma lives in the body, avoiding overcorrection into dominance, cultivating the loving patriarch with clear boundaries, and practical first steps like reparenting and nervous system regulation.

Karen McMahon, a divorce coach and author who rebuilt her life after a three-and-a-half-year high-conflict divorce, shares candid stories and practical guidance. She explores how slow communication breakdowns and codependency create crushing conflict. Short, direct conversations cover protecting kids, using pain for growth, and rebuilding healthy relationships after separation.