Today’s episode is my conversation with Dr. Brendan Kwiatkowski.

Brendan is a researcher, speaker, consultant, and educator focused on the social-emotional development and wellbeing of boys and men, particularly in relation to the wellbeing of those around them.

His interdisciplinary work bridges psychology, sociology, and education. Brendan completed his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Edinburgh in 2023, researching emotions, masculinities, and school experiences among Canadian teenage boys.

This interview was such a blast and brings so much clarity to the importance of emotional regulation and doing the work of sitting with yourself and processing your pain and trauma.

For further study I would highly recommend diving into the therapeutic modality of IFS or Internal Family Systems. IFS was developed by Richard Schwartz in the 80s. Psychology Today describes it as “an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person's mental system.”


If you would like to check out more of Brendan’s work, you can find his website at remasculine.com

You can also find him on Instagram @re.masculine