Men’s Therapy Podcast

Something is off for Gen Z men right now. It can look like confidence on the surface, online presence, gym routines, and a few matches on the apps. But underneath all of that, there is often a young man who does not know who he is, who feels invisible in his own friendships, and who is watching his dating life go nowhere without understanding why.That is where this conversation goes.In this episode of Men's Therapy Online, Marc Azoulay answers real questions from gen z men about the things therapists rarely address directly: what kind of therapy actually works for a man who already overthinks everything, why dating apps are engineered to keep you failing, how to stop doom scrolling and start building something real, and what it actually takes to go deeper in male friendships without it feeling forced.The episode makes one thing clear quickly: Gen Z men are not struggling because they are weak or broken. They are struggling because they are being pulled in too many directions at once. They are being told to be emotionally aware but not soft, vulnerable but not needy, a leader but never dominant. And most of the answers being served to them online are either designed to monetize their pain or to sell them an identity that was never theirs to begin with.It shows up when a man:Spends hours online every day but feels more isolated every weekGets matches and responses on the apps, but keeps getting ghosted before anything real developsWants closer friendships but cannot figure out how to move past jokes, memes, and sports talkTries to figure out what kind of man he wants to be and ends up more confused than when he startedNot because he is doing something wrong, but because he has been trying to build himself from the outside in, following the loudest voices instead of the quietest, most honest one he has.That is the deeper problem here. When your sense of self is built on what you consume instead of what you do, when your relationships mostly live in comment sections and DMs, and when the friction and difficulty that actually build character have been engineered out of your daily life, you end up feeling empty without being able to name exactly why.Marc walks through what it looks like to start changing that. He covers how to find the right type of therapy for a mind that already knows everything but still cannot change, the mechanics behind dating app design and why it is built to keep you swiping, what actually creates attraction versus what kills it, the evolutionary reason men need to do things together before they can go deep emotionally, and what gen z men specifically need to start doing to build a life they are proud of.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.

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.

Narcissist. Psychopath. Sociopath. These words are everywhere right now, and most of the time, they are being used incorrectly. That is where this conversation starts.In this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, Marc Azoulay sits down with Dr. Peter Salerno. He is a clinical expert and author of The Nature and Nurture of Narcissism. He cuts through the noise of social media diagnosis culture and gets to what these personality disorders actually look like. He highlights how they operate and why they are so hard to identify and treat.The episode makes one thing clear early on. A narcissist is not just someone with a big ego. A sociopath is not just someone cold or distant. And a psychopath is not a movie villain. These are real clinical conditions with distinct traits, and conflating them does real damage to the people trying to make sense of what they experienced.What Dr. Salerno describes is something more unsettling than most people expect. Many of these individuals are not suffering in the way we assume. They possess superiority and victim mentality. Some of them genuinely like who they are. The manipulation is not a coping mechanism. For many, it is a strategy, and it is working. That realization changes everything about how you understand narcissistic abuse.It shows up when someone in your life:Makes you question what you saw, heard, or feltShows you with affection early on, then slowly pulls it awayPresents as charming to everyone else while making you feel like you are losing your mindReacts with rage or cold contempt the moment you push backThey consistently position themselves as the victim while causing harmThis is not emotional immaturity. This is a pattern. And according to Dr. Salerno, that pattern has biological and genetic roots that traditional talk therapy was never designed to reach.Marc and Dr. Salerno explore the future of the field, the limits of current treatment, and why integrating brain-based research with the traditional trauma model may be the only way forward for clinicians who are tired of referring these patients out and calling it a day.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.

Masculine energy in relationships is something most men have never been properly taught. They’ve been handed two versions, one that’s domineering and one that’s completely hollowed out. Neither works. The first drives his partner away. The second bores her. What actually works is something most men have never been taught: how to embody masculine energy in a way that is grounded, leading, and genuinely connective.That's what this episode is about.In this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, Marc Azoulay talks with GS Youngblood, men's coach, relationship expert, and author of The Masculine in Relationship, about what positive masculinity looks like inside a real partnership and why so many men are getting it wrong without realizing it.GS built his Masculine Blueprint after his own marriage fell apart. What he found was that the failure wasn’t about being a bad person. It was about not being grounded, not leading, and not knowing how to build real emotional connection with his partner. His framework is the answer he wishes he had then.The blueprint has three pillars:• Respond vs react: Stay grounded when she is emotional. Stop being reactive.• Provide structure: Lead in the relationship. Know your needs and act on them.• Create safety: Build emotional connection and emotional safety so she can actually relax into the relationship.GS and Marc also get into nice guy syndrome, polarity in relationships, nervous system regulation, sexual leadership, and what emotional leadership actually looks like the morning after a fight. This isn’t theory. It’s a practical, honest conversation about what it takes to be the man a relationship needs.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.

Most men don't struggle in relationships because they don't care. They struggle because nobody ever taught them how relationships actually work, at a neurological, psychological, and structural level. And by the time most couples realize something is badly wrong, the damage’s been quietly building for years.In this episode of the Men's Therapy Podcast, Marc Azoulay sits down with Dr. Stan Tatkin, clinical psychologist, researcher, developer of the psychobiological approach to couple's therapy (PACT), and author of the bestselling book Wired for Love — for a frank, science-backed conversation about what it really takes to build a healthy relationship. Dr. Tatkin doesn't deal in platitudes. He brings evolutionary biology, hard neuroscience, and some uncomfortable truths about what human beings are actually like, and what genuine relationship advice looks like when it takes all of that seriously.Marc draws on what he hears from the men he works with, men who feel reduced to a paycheck, disconnected from their partners, unsure how to fix a relationship that has slowly hollowed out, and asks Dr. Tatkin directly what to do about it. The answers are practical, grounded, and unlike anything most couples counseling has ever told them.The episode covers:Emotional safety; what it actually is and how to build it by design, not by luckWhy love and chemistry are not enough to sustain a relationship, and what actually isThe neuroscience of the male brain vs female brain and why it matters during conflictHow to govern a relationship like a team, and why that's the most practical relationship advice you'll ever getWhy physical intimacy alone, including sex, is not a reliable foundation for a lasting relationship "We see couple work as more like training for a sport, a two-person system, a team that has to work under increasing stress while remaining collaborative and cooperative."If that framing sounds unfamiliar, that's the point. Healthy relationships, in Dr. Tatkin's view, aren’t the result of compatibility or chemistry. They’re built, deliberately, by two people who decide to design something together and hold each other to it. For men who want to know how to be a better partner but aren't sure where to start, this episode gives you the framework. 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.