Emmanuel Acho: An Uncomfortable Conversation

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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What’s the reward for not calculating your every move? Emmanuel Acho, the Emmy-winning host of the popular series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, NY Times best-selling author, and former NFL player, opens up about how his actions are so carefully planned that he feels more like a robot than a human. When the hosts challenge him, which Emmanuel admits he’s not used to, he embraces it with honesty and begins to realize that his logical plan doesn’t quite fit with his happiness plan. Emmanuel inspires us to reflect on who we want to be as he leans into the weight of the armor he’s wearing and wrestles in real-time with the rewards of taking it off. New episodes every Monday 🎙️ The video version of every episode and bonus features will always be available at https://ManEnough.com/podcast The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. JOIN THE MAN ENOUGH COMMUNITY: https://instagram.com/wearemanenough https://tiktok.com/wearemanenough https://twitter.com/WeAreManEnough https://facebook.com/wearemanenough Subscribe to the Man Enough newsletter for behind the scenes, updates, sneak peeks of new episodes, and positive masculinity content: https://manenough.com/newsletter Read the Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books FOLLOW EMMANUEL ACHO https://www.instagram.com/Emmanuelacho https://www.tiktok.com/@emmanuelacho https://twitter.com/emmanuelacho https://www.facebook.com/theemmanuelacho https://www.youtube.com/c/Acho FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ PRODUCED BY: Wayfarer Studios: https://www.wayfarerstudios.com Wayfarer Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/WayfarerEntertainment P&G Studios Executive Producers: Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath, Tarah Malhotra-Feinberg, Marc Pritchard, Carrie Rathod, Chris Corcoran EPISODE ADVERTISERS - SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU Betterhelp This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. BetterHelp is the world’s largest therapy platform, offering access to licensed, trained, experienced, and accredited psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and board licensed professional counselors. An extensive study by the Berkeley Well-Being Institute found BetterHelp to be as effective as face-to-face therapy. Join over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/manenough Feals This episode is also brought to you by Feals. Feals is a premium CBD that will help to keep your head clear and feel your best. It’s hassle free, delivered directly to your door. CBD naturally helps reduce stress, anxiety, pain, and sleeplessness. There’s no hangover or addiction. Joining the Feals monthly membership makes your self-care easy. You’ll save money on every order and you can pause or cancel any time. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/MANENOUGH and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping. Ladder Insurance This episode is also brought to you by Ladder Life Insurance. Ladder is 100% digital – no doctors, no needles, no paperwork – when you apply for $3 million in coverage or less. You just need a few minutes and a phone or laptop to apply. Ladder’s smart algorithms work in real time, so you’ll find out instantly if you’re approved. Just go to LadderLife.com/manenough today to see if you’re instantly approved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm
0:07.0	I'm just in Baldoni. I'm just in Baldoni. I'm Liz Plank. And every week we have deep uncomfortable
0:16.9	conversations about what it means to be a man in the world today.
0:21.2	Something that Liz is an expert on.
0:23.0	She is.
0:24.0	And she has said something blew my mind.
0:28.0	One of the things that she said was, I asked her what makes you an expert on being and talking
0:32.4	about man enough. I said what makes me an expert on being and talking about man enough.
0:33.3	I said what makes me an expert to talk about masculinity is what makes you an expert to talk about
0:38.2	whiteness.
0:39.2	I mean that that I'm almost key.
0:41.2	So because of that, so glad that we do this together.
0:45.0	Who do we got coming on today?
0:47.0	Well, speaking of uncomfortable conversations, we have Emmanuel Acho who started uncomfortable conversations with the black man and that show was really
0:56.6	important to a lot of people and and God bless him for for being willing to have this conversation because not everybody in our country.
1:10.0	Well, I would say a lot of white folks in our country don't have a black person that they are close with and he kind of he kind of was willing to become everybody's black friend which, I don't know how he did that, knowing what you've had to put
1:25.8	up with just with me.
1:27.8	What are you looking at me like that for?
1:30.1	I'm agreeing, I'm saying I feel you on it, not just you but other people and family and my whole life.
1:36.7	Yeah, it's a it's a blessing.
1:40.5	It's a bounty I think it's a penalty and also a can be a burden it is and what I think in many ways what his show and what he is doing to help educate white folks is kind of what we're doing with men. Yeah.
1:53.0	A little bit here.
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