BEST MOMENTS of Ep. 139 with Jason Rosario
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In XYBM 139, I sit down with Jason Rosario, founder and CEO of The Lives of Men and host of the Yahoo! News original series 'Dear Men.' Jason opens up about the challenges men face in expressing vulnerability, the importance of healing oneself, and redefining masculinity in today's society. We discuss the impact of personal trauma, allyship, and effective strategies for mental health, including dealing with heartbreak, the pressures of success, and the importance of self-affirmation and gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | We have big hearts and we love deeply and we feel deeply. |
| 0:03.4 | And unfortunately, that gets masked with, you know, what you tend to see and what mainstream media kind of puts out as, you know, us acting out or being womanizers or being sort of all of the negative aspects of what men, what people know to be men. |
| 0:20.5 | And so what I wanted to do was something different. |
| 0:23.9 | And so as I was embarking on that journey, I was realizing, man, like, I'm hurt. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm deeply, like, sad right now. |
| 0:31.4 | And I just didn't have the language in that moment to articulate that. |
| 0:35.2 | Right. |
| 0:35.6 | So it was like, one, it was feeling these feelings and not |
| 0:38.8 | knowing how to, how to express them and needing the help to do that was what helped me then say, |
| 0:44.9 | all right, I need to go to therapy, right? Like, I need help to develop the language to then say |
| 0:49.6 | to whoever it was, my friends or the people that was supporting me and loving me at the time, |
| 0:53.6 | to express to them what it was that I was experiencing so that they can then help me. You know, you think that love is about just pouring, right? Just giving yourself. Because that's what we're taught to do as men, right? It's like you have to be a protector. You have to be a provider. You have to give, give, give. and we're not taught to receive. |
| 1:11.1 | And I think that value exchange in that relationship was incongruent. |
| 1:14.6 | I wasn't receiving the nurturing and the type of love and the space to just be me, the |
| 1:19.7 | fullest expression of who I was, right? |
| 1:21.9 | To be emotive, to be sad sometimes, right? |
| 1:24.7 | To be imperfect. |
| 1:26.5 | I wasn't afforded that opportunity in that relationship. And so when I looked back at that, I was like, right, to be imperfect. I didn't, I wasn't afforded that opportunity in that |
| 1:28.4 | relationship. And so when I looked back at that, I was like, man, that made me really sad. Yeah. And it made me feel incomplete. So I was like, man, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to feel like this anymore. So I want to, I want to take some time back and say, what do I need to do to give that to myself. |
| 1:43.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.9 | First and foremost, |
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