Ep. 142: Why EVERY BLACK MAN needs HOPE with Elliott Connie
Express Yourself Black Man
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5.0 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Elliott also opens up about his own story — growing up with an abusive father and how setting one boundary changed the entire fabric of their relationship for years.
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| 0:00.0 | We force kids to comply to our rules without a whole lot of conversation about why. |
| 0:05.3 | We're just told if you don't do that, you are going to be punished. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm not saying you can't hang around to people you grow up with, but once you choose, I'm going to go live a different life. |
| 0:15.1 | They've got to either come with you or you have to drop them off and leave you behind. |
| 0:18.0 | Love yourself more. |
| 0:19.8 | And do something today |
| 0:21.3 | that is evidence of self-love. Listen, y'all, we're back. We're back with another episode. This |
| 0:27.7 | is Express Yourself Black Man Podcasts. We are here with a very, very special guest. But before we |
| 0:32.2 | talk about the special guests that we're here with, I want to talk to you guys real quick. So for |
| 0:36.7 | those you that are new to the podcast, thank you for tapping in, whether somebody shared it with you |
| 0:41.2 | or you just clicked on it through YouTube or podcast, whatever outlet that you're listening on. |
| 0:46.3 | We're appreciative because every new listener brings us closer to helping a black man to heal. |
| 0:51.9 | And for those you that are sharing, reposting, liking, commenting, |
| 0:55.3 | and supporting various formats, we're appreciative as well. So if this episode resonates with you, |
| 1:00.8 | the title has resonated with you. If you have seen previous episodes that have resonated with you, |
| 1:05.3 | please continue to share, share it with a black man, black woman, black person that you feel |
| 1:09.8 | like could find value from the |
| 1:12.1 | conversation. Because what we're going to be talking about today is a lot of healing. I'm talking |
| 1:15.6 | about a lot of the things that we go through that we don't normally open up and talk about. And the |
| 1:19.4 | whole goal of this platform is to help black men to heal and ultimately help black men to win. |
| 1:24.6 | And with that being said, we have a guest here today. Elliot, Elliot, my brother, first of all, before we get started and we talk about all the things, can you tell the people how you're doing and then what it is that you do in the first place? Well, first of all, I'm doing great. Thank you for having me. Yeah. And what I do is I am a psychotherapist. Okay. I'm a licensed psychotherapist. I'm practicing psychotherapy almost 20 years, right at 20 years. I'm an author. I'm a speaker. I like to give lectures. Okay. I'm a podcast host. I do a lot of things. Yeah, and like I was telling you earlier, man, I'll say it again. I am very |
| 2:01.7 | excited for this episode, bro. I'm very excited because I feel like we have a really good, |
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