From Fiancé to Stranger, What Really Happened - VOTB

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

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

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Voice of the Broken dives deep into real relationship struggles, emotional breakdowns, and what it actually takes to rebuild yourself as a man when everything falls apart. Chris and his guest break down raw listener submissions, including a fiancé walking away after years of emotional disconnection and a marriage collapsing under stress, trauma, and poor communication. The conversation explores accountability, emotional regulation, leadership in the home, and why most men wait until it’s too late to change.

If you’re dealing with a breakup, struggling in your marriage, or trying to become a stronger, more grounded man, this episode gives you direct, no-BS insight into what went wrong and how to fix yourself moving forward. Expect real talk on anxiety, anger, fitness, therapy, masculinity, and the hard truth about attraction and respect in relationships. This is for men who are tired of being reactive, ready to take ownership, and willing to do the work to become better partners, fathers, and leaders.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.

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0:00.0	And we're back, kind of kind of, I think. It's been almost a year since Dead Eye and I have sat down to do a voice of the broken.
0:21.6	For those of you who don't know, Dead Eye Two Tongues, he is the host of the, what is your podcast called again?
0:28.6	I keep on here.
0:29.6	The Near Death Diary podcast.
0:31.6	Yeah, I keep wanting to call it the Death Diary podcast, near death.
0:35.6	That's kind of what it became.
0:36.8	Yeah.
0:37.0	You know, it turns out there's not a lot of people who have near death yeah that's kind of what it became yeah you know there turns out there's not a lot
0:38.6	of people who have near death experience stories you know yeah i mean there's quite a few of them out there
0:44.7	you see a lot of people that are on like channeling podcasts that have had indees but um maybe they just
0:50.9	don't want to talk to you because of the way you look. Could be.
0:54.7	Could be.
0:56.0	I'm used to that.
0:57.4	Yeah, that's funny.
1:28.3	So for those of you who don't know, we read emails from men and try to give some sort of life advice to either talk about their situation to give them advice to improve it or to cheer them on, whatever the case may be. We are opening this up to have wives write in if they would like to write in and get information on their husband, a man's perspective on what their husband's going through as well. If you guys are interested in sending an email in and having it read on the show, the email is to be better CO at gmail.com. Just make sure that in the subject line somewhere you put voice of the broken or VOTB so that our email screeners know where to send it. How's life been?
1:33.2	Pretty good, man. You know, we're about to actually, I think, right after this episode,
1:38.6	we are going to go hit the car lot and see if we can't finally get the much needed company vehicle.
1:45.2	And it's, uh, it's been a lot of grinding. You, you make social media, uh, we're finally kind of
1:51.2	hitting that stride. It's good. We're getting that wide stride going. And I think that's going to
1:56.8	open up so many more doorways for us. Uh, but man, we've, we've really just put, you know, the, uh, the balls to the wall and sort of
2:06.9	just, I mean, devote in every pretty much second, you know, of our lives to it.
2:12.5	You know, some of which have, you know, made me cross paths with you.
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