Kier Gaines: Becoming Your Own Role Model

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Mental health therapist and digital content creator, Kier Gaines shares about his fears, marriage and fatherhood, how his experiences being raised by powerful women shaped the man he is, and why it’s so important to him to be a part of breaking the stigmas of mental health, especially in the Black community. With his wisdom and magnetic personality, Kier shows that self-awareness, vulnerability, and therapy are not just trendy topics, but are powerful tools that allow us to be confident and comfortable in who we are. New episodes every Monday 🎙️ The video version of every episode and bonus features will always be available at https://ManEnough.com/podcast The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. JOIN THE MAN ENOUGH COMMUNITY: https://instagram.com/wearemanenough https://tiktok.com/wearemanenough https://twitter.com/WeAreManEnough https://facebook.com/wearemanenough Subscribe to the Man Enough newsletter for behind the scenes, updates, sneak peeks of new episodes, and positive masculinity content: https://manenough.com/newsletter Read the Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books FOLLOW KIER GAINES https://www.tiktok.com/@kiergaines https://www.instagram.com/kiergaines https://twitter.com/KierGaines https://www.youtube.com/c/KierandNoemie https://www.kierandthem.com/ FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ SPECIAL ADVERTISER OFFERS FOR YOU Athletic Greens This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, the health and wellness company that makes comprehensive daily nutrition really really simple. ONE tasty scoop of AG1 by Athletic Greens contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food-sourced ingredients, including a multivitamin, multi-mineral, probiotic, greens superfood blend and more in one convenient daily serving. To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you an immune supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase when you visit http://athleticgreens.com/MANENOUGH today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Man Enough. I'm Justin Balconi. I'm Liz Plank. I'm gonna say my name after you tell me why you got them glasses
0:18.5	I'm Jay me Liz Plank is wearing shades. Like design, like beautiful designer shades.
0:26.5	She's just like red carpet ready.
0:28.8	Thank you. But like red carpet ready, but like out in the middle of the day,
0:32.1	sun coming down and you gotta wear shades. Yes. I accidentally broke my contact lens and so this is my coping mechanism and I might get used to it so be careful be careful I might be a full and I
0:45.9	win tour and just wear them all the time I'm not mad at it not mad you look great
0:50.1	but I just miss seeing your eyes. They're here.
0:53.0	They're here.
0:54.0	They're here.
0:55.0	Hey, what are we doing here?
0:57.0	What we got coming?
0:58.0	Yeah, man enough if you are just tuning in for the first time,
1:01.0	is a conversation rooted in my work in this book that came out
1:06.4	called Man Enough, Undefining my masculinity, and my personal journey is a man and questioning
1:11.8	all of the things, all of the traditional structures of masculinity that
1:15.6	have hurt me and haven't served me and caused me to hurt people that I love and realizing that there's a larger conversation here, that there's an intersection
1:26.2	that masculinity meets and I believe we have to do away in many ways with the way that we viewed
1:31.6	masculinity and undefined it to make room for anybody
1:35.1	who identifies as a man to be a man so that we can be the best humans we can be and show up for
1:40.6	the women in our lives and create a safe space for all people. That means
1:47.5	women, gender non-conforming trans people and so we're just having these pretty
1:51.8	intense conversations here. it's not just like
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