Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jimmy Ligemail, a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well and happy International Women's Week. I know that this was a weird time

to choose a straight white male to be on my show, but I felt like it was an important choice

because I believe that for women men are sadly our biggest threat. At times our biggest enemy,

not all men, not all men, not all men, but way too many men. And I believe they can be our biggest

ally and some of our great collaborators. And my hope is to continue to work to bridge the gap

between men and women to seek to understand men, so we can understand what's going on with them

because they are not okay. We can see that statistically and the mental health statistics and

the violence statistics towards each other. We can see that and the violence towards us.

We can see that in the violence towards themselves, the suicide rates are alarming and they're

getting younger and younger and younger. It's just not okay what's happening to them. And because

they are agenda still very restricted, socially restricted from really coming out about how they

feel and their fears and their vulnerabilities, they're just not having an appropriate outlet

to discuss how they can seek a happier life. And my guest today, Louis House, is a prime example

of what happens when pain and trauma and abuse is internalized by someone who's trying to portray

a kind of macho and tuff exterior. How that can just decimate you from the inside out and how

that can bleed onto the people around you. And I think it's a very, very common story, one much

more common than we realize. And because we don't have those conversations, we don't understand,

and if we don't understand, we can't fix it and if we can't fix it, then it just gets fucking

worse and then you end up where we are now. And we need men, you know, we need them because

they are the ones who predominantly are on the world. And they are the ones who can stop other men

from taking away all of our human rights, which we continue to see globally. Even in the most

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