Remaking Manhood: The Healthy Masculinity Podcast

In our conversation with Allan Ball, Director of White Ribbon Australia, we talk about our epidemic of male violence against women and why men must take responsibility for ending it. Over the last 15 years, Allan Ball has led social movements, frontline service delivery and international community engagement projects to assist women and children who are experiencing domestic violence and abuse. He has previously worked for Local Government, State Government, Federal Government and the Corporate Sector; and is now the National Director of Australia’s largest social movement asking men to intervene in and advocate for an end to men’s violence against women. Allan is a member of multiple international and national bodies focused on men’s engagement, masculinity, domestic violence prevention, gender equity and youth empowerment including serving as a Non-Executive Director of the 100% Project. Allan is a global influencer as a Top Voice for Gender Equity on Linkedin Global and is devoted to social justice and human rights. Contact Allan at: https://www.whiteribbon.org.au/ *** As a writer, speaker and consultant, Mark Greene has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He consults and coaches for organizations world wide on diversity, inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of ⁠The Little #MeToo Book for Men,⁠ ⁠Remaking Manhood⁠ and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of ⁠The Relational Book for Parenting and the newly released The Relational Workplace. You can learn more about Mark's work at ⁠RemakingManhood.com⁠ Charles is an educator and public speaker who has mentored hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth. You can learn more about his work at ⁠CharlesMatheus.com⁠ and/or by requesting to join the Facebook Group, ⁠Redefining Strength⁠. Contact Mark: ⁠remakingmahood@gmail.com⁠ ⁠charles@charlesmatheus.com⁠ Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music ⁠on most streaming services.  

Niobe Way, NYU professor, researcher, and author of Deep Secrets, joins Charles and I to talk about boy's crisis of connection. Way's book Deep Secrets is the inspiration for Director Lukas Dhont's 2022 film Close, nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 95th Academy Awards and winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. In this wide ranging conversation we pose a simple question. We know what's at the root of boys' challenges. Thanks to Dhont's powerfully conceived and directed film we have an unprecedented opportunity to pay renewed attention to what boys have been saying in over three decades of Way's research. Will we finally listen? Niobe Way's book Deep Secrets is available here. *** As a writer, speaker and consultant, Mark Greene has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity, inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of ⁠The Little #MeToo Book for Men,⁠ ⁠Remaking Manhood⁠ and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of ⁠The Relational Book for Parenting Their newest book is The Relational Workplace. You can learn more about Mark's work at ⁠RemakingManhood.com⁠ Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth. You can learn more about his work at ⁠CharlesMatheus.com⁠ and/or by requesting to join the Facebook Group, ⁠Redefining Strength⁠. Contact: ⁠mark@remakingmanhood.com⁠ ⁠charles@charlesmatheus.com⁠ Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music ⁠on most streaming services.  ⁠

This heartfelt and often funny conversation, Mark, Charles and Brian share stories about the new co-created ways of fathering that healthy masculinity gives rise to. This emergent fatherhood of playful collaboration is leading to more agentic, empowered children and happier more relaxed parents. Brian Anderson is a husband and father to two spirited daughters that keep him inspired and exhausted every day. He started Fathering Together to provide a community for connection and education for fathers everywhere. Prior to Fathering Together, Brian Anderson has been a social worker, university chaplain, and interfaith leadership consultant, but he always knew he wanted to be a dad. You can find Brian on most social media.  @FatheringTogether • ⁠Twitter⁠ • ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠The Fathering Together website.⁠ ⁠The Fathering Together Podcast⁠ *** As a writer, speaker, coach and consultant, Mark Greene has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity, inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of ⁠The Little #MeToo Book for Men,⁠ ⁠Remaking Manhood⁠ and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of ⁠The Relational Book for Parenting.⁠ You can learn more about Mark's work at ⁠RemakingManhood.com⁠ Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth. You can learn more about his work at ⁠CharlesMatheus.com⁠ and/or by requesting to join the Facebook Group, ⁠Redefining Strength⁠. Contact: remakingmanhood@gmail.com ⁠charles@charlesmatheus.com⁠ Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music ⁠on most streaming services.  ⁠

On this episode of Remaking Manhood, a wide ranging conversation with Jackson Katz, PhD. Katz takes us through his own history in the feminist movement, as well as a crucial exploration of why feminist thinkers have long contributed to a healthier and more connected culture of masculinity. Plus we deconstruct an active bystander moment, showing how Katz's active bystander training can be used to engage challenging behavior in a wide range of contexts. Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, lecturer, and social theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race and violence. He has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence.

WHY MEN DON'T TRUST EACH OTHER. In our new short form 15 minute episode, Charles and Mark explore a single issue that is harming men and all those whose lives we impact. It's an opportunity for us as men to acknowledge an issue that is often there for many of us, take on the work to make changes, and live richer full lives.  In this episode, we explore why so many men struggle to trust each other, the price we pay for this, and how we can do our work to form meaningful caring friendships with other men. Join  us for powerful conversations with the men and women leading the  healthy masculinity movement. For generations, our culture has taught us  a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result?  Epidemic levels of isolation and violence for boys and men and for the  multitude of others who’s lives we impact. But we can make a difference choice. We can choose a masculinity of  connection and in return have healthier relationships, and more  meaningful, lasting lives. As a writer, speaker and consultant, and coach, Mark Greene has spent over a  decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and  masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity,  inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of The Relational Book for Parenting. You can learn more about Mark's work at RemakingManhood.com Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored  hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth.  You can learn more about his work at CharlesMatheus.com Contact: mark@remakingmanhood.com charles@charlesmatheus.com Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music on most streaming services.

WHY SOME MEN MANSPLAIN. In our new short form 15 minute episode, Charles and Mark explore a single issue that is harming men and all those whose lives we impact. It's an opportunity for us as men to acknowledge an issue that is often there for many of us, take on the work to make changes, and live richer full lives.  In this episode, we offer our thoughts on some root causes for why men mansplain. We look at how men can learn the skills we need to end our reliance on such transactional forms of dialogue. Join us for powerful conversations with the men and women leading the  healthy masculinity movement. For generations, our culture has taught us  a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result?  Epidemic levels of isolation and violence for boys and men and for the  multitude of others who’s lives we impact. But we can make a difference choice. We can choose a masculinity of  connection and in return have healthier relationships, and more  meaningful, lasting lives. As a writer, speaker and consultant, and coach, Mark Greene has spent over a  decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and  masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity,  inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of The Relational Book for Parenting. You can learn more about Mark's work at RemakingManhood.com Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored  hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth.  You can learn more about his work at CharlesMatheus.com Contact: mark@remakingmanhood.com charles@charlesmatheus.com Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music on most streaming services.

WHY SOME MEN LIE. In our new short form 15 minute episode, Charles and Mark explore a single issue that is harming men and all those whose lives we impact. It's an opportunity for us as men to acknowledge an issue that is often there for many of us, take on the work to make changes, and live richer full lives.  In this episode, we explore what's driving men men to lie to others and to ourselves and how men's work can help us to move into authenticity and honesty.  Join  us for powerful conversations with the men and women leading the  healthy masculinity movement. For generations, our culture has taught us  a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result?  Epidemic levels of isolation and violence for boys and men and for the  multitude of others who’s lives we impact. But we can make a difference choice. We can choose a masculinity of  connection and in return have healthier relationships, and more  meaningful, lasting lives. As a writer, speaker and consultant, and coach, Mark Greene has spent over a  decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and  masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity,  inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of The Relational Book for Parenting. You can learn more about Mark's work at RemakingManhood.com Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored  hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth.  You can learn more about his work at CharlesMatheus.com Contact: mark@remakingmanhood.com charles@charlesmatheus.com Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music on most streaming services.

Our schools, public or private, primary or secondary, rich or poor are in tumult. They were already institutions that semi-unintentionally bred dominance hierarchies and reinforced unhealthy gender roles, but now the fake controversies around curriculum and teaching are inhibiting the kinds of conversations that can actually make schools safer, more welcoming AND can actually improve test scores. In this episode, Mark and I have a virtual sit-down with “faculty whisper” and school culture expert Jason Ablin. Jason Ablin is the author of The Gender Equation in School: How to Create Equity and Fairness for All Students. With over thirty years in education and educational leadership, he has served as a teacher, department chair, principal, and head of school. As an instructor at American Jewish University’s graduate programs for teacher training he helps teachers to create gender aware classrooms and has taught year-long courses to teams of educators in graduate level seminars regarding the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and education. Jason consults with schools across the country to help them create positive culture by: Getting staff on same page with mission and vision, Working on their own adult implicit bias and gender ideas Getting back to putting kids first, building relationships, and having meaningful, caring conversations. Jason, Mark, and I also talk about Three main groups of boys and how they often interact to perpetuate dominance, bullying and harassment. The differential suicide rate and how man box masculinity perpetuates  it What steps adults can take to make school better for all kids. Jason Provides a vision for how schools can build cultures and structures that empowers adults and nurtures kids, in particular boys. Although this is a podcast for adult men we know we all have a role to play in healing, morning or taking accountability for our own childhood AND making it better for current and future generations of kids. Listening to this podcast can be a part of that adult adventure. Link to Jason’s book on Amazon: The Gender Equation in Schools: How to Create Equity and Fairness for all Students Website: Ablin Education Blog Link: Educating Gender Join the conversation on Twitter!! @jasonablin

Finn Cox is a transgender man, personal trainer, and content creator committed to activism through outreach. He began his YouTube channel, Finntastic Mr. Fox, in 2020 with the goal of providing resources for trans and cis people alike, which has since evolved into a means of connecting and educating through introspection.  He holds firm to the belief that building bridges is a better use of time and energy than building walls, and has recently focused this effort on the topic of masculinity. Having lived experience being perceived as both a woman and a man, Finn hopes to bring insight to the gendered cultural conditioning that impacts all of us. It has been a humbling, and fascinating journey, one that he hopes can help others grow as he continues to do so himself. *** As a writer, speaker and consultant, Mark Greene has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity, inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of The Relational Book for Parenting. You can learn more about Mark's work at RemakingManhood.com Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth. You can learn more about his work at CharlesMatheus.com and/or by requesting to join the Facebook Group, Redefining Strength. Contact: mark@remakingmanhood.com charles@charlesmatheus.com Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music on most streaming services.  

Mark and Charles share what men get back when we break out of Man Box culture. It's a deep dive exploration of the anxiety and disconnection created by Man Box culture, and what changes when we do our men's work, come in out of the cold, and reconnect with our communities. We share our own stories of what happened in our lives when the Man Box lost its hold on us.  As a writer, speaker and consultant, Mark Greene has spent over a decade deconstructing our binary-riddled dialogues around manhood and masculinity. He consults to organizations world wide on diversity, inclusion and masculinity. Mark is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, Remaking Manhood and is co-author with Dr. Saliha Bava of The Relational Book for Parenting. Link to all of Mark's books, resources and social media at linktr.ee/RemakingManhood. Charles Matheus is an educator and public speaker who has mentored hundreds of men in communication, leadership, & emotional growth. You can learn more about his work at CharlesMatheus.com and/or by requesting to join the Facebook Group, Redefining Strength. Contact: mark@remakingmanhood.com charles@charlesmatheus.com Theme music composed by Gus Greene. Click here for links to his music on most streaming services.