In this season two bonus episode, I F**king Love Myself, I do something that’s not easy for me: I pause to celebrate. Instead of setting goals for the next year, I honor the harvests of 2025—the beauty, abundance, and growth already here. I reflect on what I’m proud of: staying rooted in one home, tending relationships, risking my heart, working with aligned clients, creating diverse income streams, making music, releasing 25 podcast episodes, and saving money for the first time in a decade. ...
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In this season two bonus episode, I F**king Love Myself, I do something that’s not easy for me: I pause to celebrate. Instead of setting goals for the next year, I honor the harvests of 2025—the beauty, abundance, and growth already here. I reflect on what I’m proud of: staying rooted in one home, tending relationships, risking my heart, working with aligned clients, creating diverse income streams, making music, releasing 25 podcast episodes, and saving money for the first time in a decade. ...
In this season two bonus episode, I F**king Love Myself, I do something that’s not easy for me: I pause to celebrate. Instead of setting goals for the next year, I honor the harvests of 2025—the beauty, abundance, and growth already here. I reflect on what I’m proud of: staying rooted in one home, tending relationships, risking my heart, working with aligned clients, creating diverse income streams, making music, releasing 25 podcast episodes, and saving money for the first time in a decade. ...
The Season 2 finale opens with my song “I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore,” a raw reckoning with my will to die and the ongoing choice to remain. I’m joined by OWL, whose name carries a fierce truth: you have to want to be here to be here. Together we explore our will to live—not as an entitlement, but as something forged, earned, and continually chosen. OWL names the paradox of our death-phobic culture—how death is hidden and outsourced—and how this invisibilization correlates with rising suic...
In this episode, Ben Raya and I explore the quiet grief at the heart of modern masculinity: the split between providing for our families and being present with them. I share my original song “Sometimes in Life I Get Called Away,” a tender reflection on my relationship with my father—being paged to work in moments when I longed most for connection. The song opens a doorway into the inherited patterns many men carry around duty, love, and absence. Ben offers a powerful framework for understandi...
What does it mean to be a peaceful man—and a present father—inside a world that measures worth by money, stability, and performance? In this episode, Ravi Rothenberg shares his journey of returning to his car dealership job not as a compromise, but as an energetically aligned role where regulation, care, and integrity matter more than hustle. We explore how a car-buying experience can become an unexpected initiation space, where Ravi offers steadiness, nervous system regulation, and a quiet f...
In this episode, I’m joined by Relationship Death Doula Yana Rumi for a deep, honest conversation about the death of relationships—whether intentional or not—and what gets born in their wake. We explore anger and jealousy, not as emotions to bypass or purify, but as powerful somatic experiences. We talk about the unexpected turn-on that can arise when imagining our lovers with others, and what happens when we let sensation move instead of moralizing it. I also share two original songs in th...
I loved my episode with Yoshua Greenfield of You Enjoy Life homestead (https://youenjoy.life/). We are definitely soul brothers. In our convo, we talk about how Boulder people tend to over-process their emotions, and under-process meat and animals. How folks love to authentically relate, when we just want to relate to the land soil, animals. We talk about Yoshua's role as a new father, and also how he is a "daddy" to 60 animals (goats, pigs, chickens, bunnies). This episode ...
I sit down and receive some 1:1 personal coaching from my dear friend Hannah Aline Taylor. We talk about my enmeshment pattern in romantic relationship; how I put on other people's skins in order to protect myself from feeling the fear of existing. She helps me reframe what I believe is a problem of dropping people, as actually a problem of picking people up for too long. Highly recommend checking her out and booking your own session at https://www.securedetachment.com/
In this powerful episode, John Wolfstone (https://www.thresholds.earth/facilitator-training) welcomes listeners into the heart of a men’s rite-of-passage unlike any other — “Courting the Sacred Hunt.” Drawing deeply from ancestral wisdom and wilderness initiation, John illuminates how the hunt serves as a mythic map for mature masculinity, leadership and cultural renewal. Enjoy!
On this episode, I welcome a new friend Sam Charles (www.samcharlescoaching.com). We share plenty of laughter as we talk about our first times masturbating, pee shyness, and trusting our animal bodies. As usual, this episode include live improvised music with both of us freestyling and the creation of our new song: "Small cock, soft cock, hard cock...it doesn't really matter." The episode concludes with my favorite practice- cockliments- where we give compliments to e/o's cocks. Enjoy!
This is a very special episode. It's the first female guest on the show! And she is my mom!!! She talks about raising 3 boys through puberty, the recent death of a lover of hers (Leo), and her practice of deeply loving and accepting men by being abundantly boundaried and having appropriate expectations. I share two songs "Didn't your momma" and "I'm never enough" a tribute to Leo. I share both the deep gratitude and grief of having a mother raise me through puberty when really wha...
In this episode we explore the hidden burdens that men carry beneath the surface of privilege. Luis Mojica (holisticlifenavigation.com) and I dive into the roots of male addiction—how the dysphoria and dysregulation of puberty can create longings that later show up in sex, food, substances, and digital habits. We unpack the ways relationships can become entangled with these addictive patterns, the confusion between passion and dysregulation. Safety, presence, and integration—especially in wha...
In this episode, Drew Hornbein (dddrew.com) and I open up about bisexuality, early sexual exploration, the ways men crave touch, and how intimacy between men often gets tangled with shame. We talk about cuddling in public, breaking down barriers of male closeness, and how even video games can become a space for trust and rites of passage. Drew shares about his creation of Dark Moon Tarot, the grief of losing his best friend Ainslee, and the impact of growing up without male mentors. Tog...
This episode is a personal and somatic reflection on how screen use has impacted my nervous system — and how it became a hidden part of my developmental trauma. I define trauma as an overwhelm of charge the body cannot digest, and screen time — especially scrolling through YouTube, Instagram, reels, and Facebook — has often left me frozen, overstimulated, and disconnected from my body. This isn’t about shaming ourselves for using screens. It’s an invitation to feel what they’re doing to us. I...
In this episode, I sit down with my little brother Bij for one of the most vulnerable, hilarious, and healing conversations I’ve had on this podcast. We talk about: -What it was like when Bij ended up in a relationship with someone I had been sleeping with— and the rupture that created between us -A real, tender conversation about early childhood touch and the process of revisiting that memory with honesty and care And in between, we improvise songs like “Eskimo Brothers” and “I Will Stan...
At age 30, I set out on foot and walked over 220 miles from Fort Collins to Pueblo, Colorado. For two weeks, I moved through landscapes, grief, longing, and memory — and in doing so, I crossed a threshold into a deeper experience of manhood. In this episode, I reflect on that pilgrimage as my first true rite of passage. I speak about the profound mentorship of Jonathon Stalls of Intrinsic Paths, the power of land-based healing, and the songs that emerged as my voice liberated itself through w...
Before Grindr, there were Craigslist M4M personal ads — and that’s where I first started chasing anonymous hookups. In this episode, I revisit my relationship to cruising apps and fast sex through a somatic lens. We explore: How Grindr conditions the nervous system for urgency and disembodimentThe collapse and numbness that can follow fast, ungrounded sexAnd the craving for deeper contact underneath it allThis isn’t a takedown of queer hookup culture — it’s an invitation into honesty, curiosi...
In this first episode of From Boys to Men, I open up about my journey with addiction — from smoking weed after the death of a close friend, to years of codependent relationships and love addiction. I share how grief, loss, and a lack of safety in my body shaped these patterns, and how psychedelic medicine began to bring me back to feeling. This episode features two songs: “I’m an Addict,” a raw reflection on my entanglement with my ex, and “Stepping Up,” a tribute to my best friend Tyle...
In this deeply vulnerable episode, I share the most shameful moment of my puberty: my story of sexually assaulting someone at age 12. This is the reason I started this podcast—to confront this painful memory and unshame myself by sharing it openly. There are a lot of emotions as I reflect on this experience, seek forgiveness, and embrace the healing process. Shame thrives in secrecy, but when witnessed with love and compassion, it can be dissolved. Join me as I process this story, and...
I sit down with Christoph Fink from Radical Honesty, (www.radicalhonesty.com/christoph-fink). We talk about wanting to be "good men." We share stories of betrayal, brotherhood wounds, and times when we have been hurt by a brother. This episode is completely unedited, and finishes with a vulnerable live diss diss track called "Tantric F*** Boy." Christoph guides me and listeners to be with our emotional body, without necessarily reacting, expressing or amplifying the energies...
JP Kingston (https://jpkexperience.com/) and I go deep into the unspoken layers of brotherhood—the ways men seek connection, the hunger for male nourishment, and the wounds we carry when that connection is missing. We talk about the testicular web, the power of men sharpening each other like iron, and the beauty of male bonding beyond performance or competition. We also share openly about our experiences seeking out homosexual connections with men—wondering if, at times, it was a response to ...
In this season two bonus episode, I F**king Love Myself, I do something that’s not easy for me: I pause to celebrate. Instead of setting goals for the next year, I honor the harvests of 2025—the beauty, abundance, and growth already here. I reflect on what I’m proud of: staying rooted in one home, tending relationships, risking my heart, working with aligned clients, creating diverse income streams, making music, releasing 25 podcast episodes, and saving money for the first time in a decade. ...
