Terry Crews On Healthy Masculinity, Strength Through Vulnerability & True Power

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we explore masculinity—both toxic and healthy. Overcoming obstacles. How to confront your past, own your path, and ultimately step into your truest power and most self-actualized self. Our guide for this journey is star of screens big and small, Terry Crews. You may know him from films like Idiocracy and The Expendables. Or from his starring turn in television shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Everyone Hates Chris, America’s Got Talent or one of his many other projects. Terry’s latest book, and the focus of today’s conversation, is entitled Tough: My Journey To Power: a memoir that chronicles the trauma, challenges and unhealthy social programming he faced—factors that led to anger, addiction, selfishness, entitlement, and the many problems those dispositions invite. Today Terry shares his journey—warts and all. The visually inclined can watch the magic transpire on YouTube. As always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Pick up Rich’s lates book VOICING CHANGE Vol. II HERE. For full show notes and to read more about Terry, go HERE. Enjoy the show! Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm super proud to announce the publication of Voicing Change Volume 2.
0:06.9	The second in our series of incredible coffee table book anthologies featuring wisdom,
0:13.1	essays, conversation excerpts, and beautiful photography inspired by 64 of my favorite
0:19.5	podcast guests.
0:21.3	All books are hand signed and we're shipping globally, so to learn more, and pick up your
0:26.1	copy visit richroll.com, supplies limited, so act today.
0:31.8	Alright, let's do the show.
0:39.0	Most addictions thrive in secrecy.
0:43.8	The secret is the killer.
0:47.2	Let me tell you, my best advice, period, find someone you love and trust and tell them
0:55.9	when I started the voice that I had and it actually, I started to voice what the
1:00.6	pornography thing was and I started to talk.
1:04.0	It's like exposing the germs to sunlight.
1:08.3	It loses its power slowly but surely it takes the power away from it.
1:15.0	So anyone who's going through this, the more you find someone you trust that you can
1:20.4	share these things with, it slowly starts to just, I like to say it shrinks and it gets
1:26.4	cleaned out.
1:28.4	But the secrecy, man, everything grows in secret, dude.
1:34.0	You lose total control.
1:35.4	That's one reason why I'm so vulnerable, because I don't want any secrets.
1:39.7	I just don't, I don't want any more.
1:41.4	I tell the whole story and man, I'm in control.
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