Let's Talk Bruh

Does it feel good? That's the question we're answering today.  For many us, we've been taught that we can only express our sexuality in a very limited way.  Today we talk about why sexual exploration and curiosity is important when it comes to achieving the most pleasure possible. We discuss that exploring your sexuality does NOT diminish your masculinity or manhood. Tune in now! About our guest Nick Gaines: Nickolas Gaines (he, him, his) is a veteran, national speaker, and educator. Nickolas is a prominent scholar-practitioner who has a wealth of experience, expanding over 10 years of service in local, regional, national, and international communities. He is a global citizen who has served the United States Army for seven years and has led initiatives for the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs providing spiritual care and clinical mental health care. Follow Nick on Instagram as he'll be dropping helpful content related to managing stress, anxiety taking care of yourself and loved ones a

Watch this episode on the Let's Talk Bruh YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nzkzJ8oFTg Some say everyone gets to define Black masculinity except for Black men, so today we ask a few friends of Let's Talk Bruh their definitions of Black masculinity, their personal relationship with masculinity from childhood to adulthood, and the current state of Black masculinity as its presented in pop culture, media, and current events. We also discuss what accountability looks like among Black men and the future of Black masculinity. As many of us come to grasp a more fluid understanding of gender norms and identity, will we even be having conversations like this in 10, 20, or 50 years? Tune in now and share on social media using the hashtag #LetsTalkBruh Big thanks again to our guests Preston Mitchum, Rasheed Copeland, & Geronimo Collins Subscribe to the Let's Talk Bruh YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa2wXlKMWlpAER8v16zXZw Article mentioned on this week's episode: “Good men” and t

When it comes to Black tv & film, there's often a conversation of who is allowed to tell what stories.  Can Black folks from the UK tell stories about Black americans? Can Black folks with privilege tell stories about folks growing up in the hood? Can straight folks tell stories about queer Black folks?  This week I talked to actor, founder of Rise and Thrive, and performance based transformation coach Tom Williamson.  You may know Tom from The Fosters, VFW, Running Wild and All Cheerleaders Must Die.  We talked about his life growing up in DC, becoming an actor, and his experience at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.  We talk about about Tom's experience navigating some of these issues as an actor and what it's like to prepare for a role that you personally don't identify with on the surface.  Tune in now! To keep up with Tom and his moves, follow him on IG. Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/

This week I was joined by author, artist, teacher, DJ, and speaker Brandon Alexander Williams to talk about his book The BLK Love Mixtape, loving black women, loving ourselves and his top 5 MCs. Tune in for our discussion. Follow Brandon on IG and Twitter. Check out his book The BLK Love Mixtape -the BLK love mixtape is an anthology of contemporary literature dedicated to the BLK woman. We created this body of work to uplift HER and to teach young BLK men how to identify love based on our examples so that they may love her most carefully. In Case You Missed It: Be Great DC x Let's Talk Bruh Twitter Chat (2/24) on Black Men & Mental Health - #BGDCLive For our DC Folks! Come join us on March 7th for: BlackMenYogaToo.Eventbrite.com Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode

Late last year we received an email from a listener about his challenges dealing with rejection from women.  He mentioned that he's not entitled to a woman's time or attention, but would like to find positive ways of dealing with, understanding, and accepting from rejection.  So today, joined by friend of the podcast, Larry J. Sanders of What Suits Him, we dive all the way in and tackle all things rejection and even how rejection highlights our insecurities. Follow Larry on IG and Twitter and visit the WHATSUITSHIM website for his professional consulting services today. Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode    

In this week's episode we call up our first international guest! You'll be hearing a conversation with Daniel Edmund, the Co-Founder of Milk For Tea.  Daniel is a speaker and coach who is passionate about serving the male community in the UK and seeing men transformed from the inside out.   This conversation is important for a number of reasons:    1) Jeremy and Daniel both went to Hampton University together, but this is their first time speaking 2) Daniel talks about his experiences growing up in Maryland and the differences if any between masculinity in the UK vs the US 3) We talk about why healthy conversations around sex and consent and important and how Milk For Tea achieves does this with their work 4) How Daniel and Milk for Tea maintain their integrity while working inside the "manconomy" 5) Near the end, we entertain a brief discussion of whether or not toxic masculinity in sports can ever be considered a good thing.     Resources mentioned in this week's episode: Masculinity and my Black male

There's a stat from the Pew Research Center stating that 24% of Black men marry interacially whereas only 12% of Black women marry interacially. Today we talk about why. Later in the conversation we also ask Dil of Redefining Black Masculinity (RBM) how and why he started RBM.  A few resources used in this week's episode: Trends and patterns in intermarriage - Pew Research Center An Interracial Fix for Black Marriage - Wall Street Journal Myth Busting the Black Marriage Crisis - The Root Don't forget to follow Dil and Genesis on Instagram as well as Redefining Black Masculinity. Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode

Why do you love Black women? How do you support Black women? How do you protect Black women? A few simple questions with not so simple answers?  This week I was joined by my good friend Taylor. Tune in for our discussion. A few resources used in this week's episode: Bystander Intervention - Collective Action for Safe Spaces DC You can follow Taylor on Twitter & IG Visit her website here: Love & Light Intuitive Readings with Taylor Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode

Let's Talk Bruh is going to sound a bit different as we get deeper into 2020.  Send this episode to your friends & family to spread the word. 

Fellas, what makes you feel sexy? I mean, we all love having sex and the feeling that comes from that experience, but how often do we think about whether or not we feel sexy or not? There's a ton of emphasis on women to be and feel sexy, but what does that look like for us? This week I was joined by David Wraith, Co-founder of Sex Positive STL to discuss sex positivity for men, the reason leaked nudes of Da Baby, Steph Curry, and ASAP Rocky and much more. Tune in now.  Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode

Happy new year LTB fam! We're back and hitting yall with another episode.  This time we're talking about the silent epidemic considered to be the biggest threat to public health over heavyweights like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.  We're talking about loneliness. It's something that impacts many of us, but few of us are openly talking about it, and why would we? As a man, we're forced to follow the "rules of masculinity" which forbade deep emotional connections with other men.  And technology these days has made it so easy to stay in contact digitally with folks that there's virtually no reason to actually pull up.  Well, because we know better, we know the importance of intimate connection with each other and we also know about the major health consequences associated with loneliness.  So we invite friend of the show Dr. Justin Hopkins to break down how we can overcome this isolation epidemic.  A few resources used in this week's episode: The Bromance Myth: How Men’s Health Suffers from Their Lack of

It's the end of the year, the end of the decade so it's time to rest up and plan for a new year.   There's enough W's for all of us, but it starts with a solid foundation and goals in place to achieve the wins we have in our sight.  This week we catch up with Mike Powell of the Powell Consulting Group to break down his vision mapping process. It's helped him, his clients, and it can help us too.  Tune in for the gems. Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode

It's the end of the year so we're breaking from our regularly scheduled format to talk about all the wild events that have happened in 2019 regarding masculinity.  We cover everything from John Legend being named the sexiest man alive, Tank's comments on sexuality, Malik Yoba speaking about being attracted to trans women, GQ's "new masculinity" with Pharrell, T.I.'s terrible parenting, Billy Dee William's misinterpreted comments on gender fluidity, The Wade/Union family, Male birth control, men finally embracing paternity leave, Jay-Z & Colin Kaepernick and much more.  Not to mention we didn't even cover the Gillette Ad & APA's New guidelines for boys and men, but you can listen to LTB's thoughts on that here. And last but not least, this week we were joined by a special guest and familiar voice who returned to the podcast for our final episode of the year.  Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/com

Trigger Warning: sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape culture What should a man's role be in the Me Too Movement? How are  we defining consent? What is rape culture?  If you're like us, these are questions you may have been asking yourself the past few years.  To get a few answers, we invite Ricky Pulley, the Underserved Survivor Outreach Coordinator at the Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands in Columbia, SC to chop it up about how rape culture has showed up in our lives, ways we have participated in it, the Black community's response to the Me Too Movement, and what does healthy consent really look like. Tune in now.  A few resources used in this week's episode: 45 Stories of Sex and Consent on Campus - NY Times Black Men Should Care About Survivors, No Matter How Many White Men Are Accused by Preston Mitchum 6 Black Men Who Call Out Rape Culture in the Era of Me Too A Black Man's Guide to Rape Culture 8 Ways Black Man Can Fight Rape - Colorlines What April Teaches Us About Rape Culture and What You

This. Is. The. Remix. You can also consider this a sequel to last year's episode on the same topic.  Either way, it's that time again and we're talking about Black Male Privilege.   Last year we dropped an episode called, "Black Male What? | The Black Male Privilege Episode" and it received a ton of feedback. So this year we're dropping part 2 of that conversation featuring our guest Bemo Brown who had very strong feelings towards the episode.   So we get into what Black Male Privilege is, a definition of it from L'Heureux Lewis and why this conversation is important when we talk about the future of the Black community. Tune in now.  A few resources used in this week's episode: Black Male Privilege? - NPR Interview with L'Heureux Lewis Black Male Privilege Checklist by Jewel Woods Black workers have made no progress in closing earnings gaps with white men since 2000 - Economic Policy Institute Challenging the Myth of Black Male Privilege - Hasan Johnson What exactly is "Imperialist Capitalist White Supr

Black man to Black man. What does it mean to love each other?  On this week's episode I was joined by Jay Barnett, former NFL Player, Current Family Therapist, Founder of We Build Projects, The Kings' Program and 2019 Black Enterprise Modern Man of the Year. Today we talk about the importance of Black men loving each other,  how trauma, jealousy, and fear prevents us from loving one another, why we have anxiety around saying, "I Love You" and at the end of the episode Jay talks about the most important aspect behind loving each other.  20 Ways Black Men Can Support Each Other Follow Jay on IG: @kingjaybarnett & Twitter: @kingjaybarnett Follow Let's Talk Bruh on Twitter & Instagram Join our Men's Facebook Group here: Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group Email us your questions/comments/feedback at letstalkbruh@gmail.com and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode.

When it comes to intimacy, how far are you willing to go? How open could you get? Would you bare it all with your partner on camera? Maybe that's not your cup of tea. But for many it is.  Today my guest, Aaron aka Expressions Untold, is someone who captures those intimate moments on camera for a living and he joins us to talk about his beautiful art as well as how intimacy plays a major role in his work.  We also discuss how as men, we often want to feel desired by our partners, because who doesn't love a good ego boost every once in awhile? But because of strict gender roles we find ourselves in positions to always be the initiator, to not express this desire for words of affirmation and end up feeling less than attractive. Moral of the story, we like compliments too. We wanna get chose too. Gas us up babe! But it also takes us expressing that need to our partners. "I want you, but I want you to want me too." - Marvin Gaye Tune in now to hear Aaron and I discuss it all. Additional Resources from This Episode

The Few. The Proud. The Nutless. Some may say, it takes an insane person or insanely willed person (depending how you look at it) to go 30 days without sexual pleasure, but that's what a group of men do every November. It's called No Fap or No Nut November and every November millions of men take this 30 day journey. But why you may ask? The No Fap community on reddit lists a few benefits of No Fapping including: better sex, increased libido, self control, mental libido and much more.  And yes while, all that's good and well, others aren't completely sold on this movement. Why deny ourselves the pleasure we deserve? And what does this movement even mean for Black people who have historically been denied ownership of our pleasure and our bodies? Today we bring yall back into our facebook group as I speak to 4 guys to get their thoughts on Nutless November. Tune in now. A few resources used in this week's episode: What is No Nut November? - The Metro UK The Top 10 Most Common Benefits of No Fap  No Nut Novembe

This week on Let's Talk Bruh, I catch up with Gerrard Davis. If you've been keeping up with the show, then that name might sound familiar.  Gerrard joined me for a mini episode last month because Gerrard was the one who set our facebook group on fire with a conversation on whether or not it was gay for two men to cuddle. And without going down that rabbit role today, feel free to check that episode out for yourself. Now if you thought that was an interesting episode, you're in for a real treat today. Gerrard wrote on an article on their experience being both non-binary and bisexual (link below) and shared it in our facebook group.  So I speak to Gerrard about their article and we get into quite the interesting conversation on sexuality, gender identity, what it means to have gender imposed on us, and imagining a world with no gender.   A few resources mentioned in this week's episode: Living Non #Bi nary by Gerrard Davis How Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers” episode failed bisexual men & trans women -

We've all seen the phrase, #MenAreTrash, so need for a long introduction.  And for many of us men folk, we have a tendency to either 1) dismiss the phrase completely or 2) assume those tweets ain't talking about us because we know we ain't trash.  And if that's your response? We're challenging you to change your perspective. Today I was joined by my good friend Backpack Matt from the Over The Shoulder Podcast to tackle all things related to the men are trash movement, where it stems from, why we can't resort to, "Not all Men" or "Not Me", our experiences embodying trash behavior and how we can collectively hold ourselves accountable to not be trash.   A few resources mentioned in this week's episode: "Straight black men are trash": Do I have to agree? - Salon Here's Why Women Really Say "Men Are Trash" - Refinery Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People - Very Smart Brothas A Woman’s Response To ‘Straight Black Men Are The White People Of Black People’ - Huffington Post “Men are trash”: