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Express Yourself Black Man

Ep. 155: The Self-Love Black Men Were Never Taught with Marquis

Express Yourself Black Man

Kizzle

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

5.0 β€’ 556 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In XYBM 155, we sit down with Marquis Hill (Real MJ Hill), a 20-year-old motivational speaker, author, and youth mental health advocate. He explains the disruptive behavior of youth as a deep need for validation and a cry to simply be heard, often rooted in his own early struggles with comparison, the pain of losing a close mentor to suicide, and the profound identity shift he experienced after a sudden heart diagnosis ended his basketball dreams.
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When you have that individual in your journey who believes in you and who supports you, go hard for them.

0:06.6

Give your all in what you do for them, even in the moments where you feel tired, where you may feel drained,

0:12.0

where you may not feel like putting in the work.

0:13.8

We're never going to feel like it.

0:15.5

And if it was easy, everybody will be out here doing it.

0:18.4

But if you got somebody that's in your corner and they're supporting you and they backing you, you got to be great for them and for everybody else that

0:25.3

supporting you in this world. All right, y'all. We're back with another episode, man. This podcast

0:30.8

is a platform that we started to help build a better black community. And we believe that building a better black community starts with the black man. So we've got to be a better black community. And we believe that building a better black community

0:39.7

starts with the black man.

0:41.3

So we prioritize everything black man related,

0:45.5

especially when it comes to healing.

0:48.0

And we have a guest today that understands that all too well,

0:52.6

that is doing his own work in our community, in our schools,

0:57.2

with organizations, making sure that they're motivated, but not only motivated, but they're aware

1:01.9

of what's necessary and what comes with this healing work, especially when you are a man and

1:07.8

a black man. So if you're going through your own healing journey, if you know

1:12.2

someone that's going through their healing journey, please share this episode with them. If you've already

1:16.5

shared an episode in the past or you've liked or you've commented or you've supported us in any

1:22.4

way, we want to say thank you because without you, we do not get to the point that we are at today.

1:27.1

And we just want to implore you to continue to share because as you we do not get to the point that we are at today and we just want to

1:27.8

implore you to continue to share because as you share we continue to grow and we continue to

1:33.0

help impact the black community which is what this is about um so without further ado i want to

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