Ep. 143: Why are BLACK MEN so ANGRY? (Part 1) with Odi
Express Yourself Black Man
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5.0 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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In XYBM 143, I sit down with Professor Odi — a psychotherapist doing incredible work with Black men in our community @blackmansafehaven. For his third appearance — and part one of a two-part series — Odi returns to share new insights on the emotional landscape of Black men, exploring why so many feel unseen, unheard, and misunderstood. We unpack the “deficit model” that defines Black men by what they lack, the male loneliness epidemic, and how patriarchy harms everyone — especially those it claims to empower.
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| 0:00.0 | You are angry because you are attempting to engage yourself in a system that at its core is antithetical to you. |
| 0:08.2 | Hyperindependence is a trauma response irrespective of your gender. |
| 0:11.4 | We have not learned how to be honest about what it is that we need because we believe that if we are honest about it, |
| 0:19.8 | the women in my life will whether watching me down this horse |
| 0:22.3 | than to get off of it. |
| 0:25.2 | Okay, y'all, listen, we got a very special guest, |
| 0:29.3 | a guest that has been here multiple times. |
| 0:31.7 | This is the only guest that I've had on the platform three times. |
| 0:35.7 | This is the third time. |
| 0:36.5 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:11.4 | So it's real. It's real. It's that real, brother. Before we get started, I want you all to know that this is going to be a classic. I don't even got to, all you got to do is watch the last two episodes with this guest to know that this is going to be a classic. The energy in the room is amazing right now. It is immaculate. I'm a big energy guy if you guys don't know. So it's immaculate. It's always immaculate with this brother. And I want to shout to know, if somebody has sent you this episode, they love you, they care about you. They want you to win and they want you to heal, especially if you're a black man listening to this. If you are a black woman, listen to this, we hope you're an ally. We hope you send it to other black men and we hope that you learn something from it because there is going to be a lot of gems dropped. I would say grab a notebook, but nowadays with AI, you could just throw the transcript into AI and just get you notes that way. So just do that or do whatever you want to do to grab your notes, your gems, whatever you need to, because this is going to be a classic. Okay? This is not pre-recorded. |
| 1:30.5 | This is not something I'm recorded. your notes, your jams, whatever you need to, because this is going to be a classic, okay? |
| 1:29.0 | This is not pre-recorded. |
| 1:30.5 | This is not something I'm recording after the episode, |
| 1:32.8 | and I already know what we talked about, |
| 1:34.2 | and I know it's good. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm telling you this before the episode |
| 1:36.7 | because I know the episode is going to be that good |
| 1:38.9 | just based off of the content that we talk about |
| 1:42.6 | and the content that I know we're going to get into. |
| 1:45.1 | So with that being said, I like to introduce my brother, Odie. |
| 1:48.9 | Odie, you have been talking before we even started. |
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