204 SelfWork: The Masks of Masculinity: A Conversation with Lewis Howes
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Trigger Alert: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, so please listen with care.
Movember is a movement whose focus is to raise concern and awareness about the state of men's health, both medical and mental, in the United States. I myself have seen firsthand how extremely difficult it is for many men to seek help or open up at all about what’s going on with them. So I thought about who I could approach to help achieve Movember’s mission, and one person immediately came to mind. That person was Lewis Howes, and he graciously agreed to be interviewed.
Lewis overcame tremendous obstacles, including a learning disability, bullying and sexual abuse on his way to becoming a media sensation and a New York Times bestselling author. His podcast, The School of Greatness, is rated in the top 100 of all podcasts, garnering 250 million downloads in seven short years. His books, the first also entitled The School of Greatness, and his second, The Masks of Masculinity, have reached millions of readers as well. All while he followed his own path to working through the very experiences that had led him to be angry and feel victimized at every turn for years. He's here on SelfWork to talk about those experiences, and the necessary but frightening choices he made to open up about what had happened, allow others to truly see him, and to achieve a much deeper way of living.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to the two hundred and fourth episode of self-work. I'm Dr. |
| 0:34.7 | Margaret Rutherford, a clinical psychologist at a Fable, Arkansas, and I've been doing |
| 0:39.4 | self-worth now for about four years to try to reach all of you who are interested in psychological |
| 0:44.0 | and emotional issues, to those of you who just been diagnosed with something and are looking |
| 0:48.2 | for answers, or to those of you who might not think you would ever darken the door of a therapist, but are just |
| 0:53.9 | interested enough to listen to self-work. Today we have a bonus episode in honor of |
| 0:59.9 | what's termed Mo-V-E-M-B br mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mau mr mau mau mau mau mau mr mau mr mau mr mau mr mr mr mr mau mr mr mr mr mr mr mr The average life expectancy for men in the US is almost five years less than women. |
| 1:15.0 | One in two men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. |
| 1:18.8 | More than a third of adults are obese. |
| 1:21.6 | And 12% of men 18 years and over are in fair |
| 1:25.0 | fair or poor health. The reasons for this are many. There's a lack of |
| 1:29.2 | awareness and understanding of the health issues men face. They don't discuss their health and how they're |
| 1:34.8 | feeling. They have a reluctance to take action when they don't feel physically or |
| 1:40.0 | mentally well. Also, men are more likely to engage in risky activities that |
| 1:45.3 | threaten their health. They deal with more stigma about mental health, and |
| 1:49.8 | they're actually 24% less likely than women to have visited just a medical doctor |
| 1:55.2 | within the past year. I myself have seen firsthand how extremely difficult it is for men to seek |
| 2:01.9 | help or open up at all about what's going on with them. |
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