Vic & Max On Men’s Mental Health! How To Help Your Partner Open Up & Have The Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding
Real Pod
Dear Media
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Max Browne is back on Real Pod for a much-needed men’s mental health convo. Vic and her husband, Max, unpack why so many men feel pressure to be stoic, the generational messages they’ve absorbed (like “man up”), and why anger is often the only emotion society allows them to show. Max shares his experiences with anxiety, therapy, and performance pressure from his football career, and how learning to express his emotions has made him a better partner, friend, and man. They also dive into how couples can create emotional safety, shift unhealthy gender roles, and hold space for each other’s needs. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by a partner who won’t open up or you’re a guy trying to navigate your own mental health, this episode will leave you seen, validated, and better equipped. Send it to the men in your life so that you can keep fostering these open conversations and keep growing in your mental health journeys together!
Follow Max on Instagram @maxbrowne & TikTok @brownemax
More episodes with Max:
Max Got a New Job!! Why He’s Changing Careers & What’s Next
The Max Browne Interview - What Really Happened to the Nation's #1 Recruit
Vic & Max: How We Navigate Disagreements, Strengthen Our Bond, & Support Each Other
7 Tips For Building A Healthy Relationship (Ft. My Husband, Max!)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. |
| 0:19.3 | Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, |
| 0:22.0 | and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content |
| 0:27.5 | that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just |
| 0:31.8 | unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real. |
| 0:45.0 | Yay. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi, babe. |
| 0:47.7 | I feel like you start every time that I'm on real pot of. |
| 0:50.4 | Yay. |
| 0:50.9 | Do I? |
| 0:51.6 | Hi, babe. |
| 0:52.4 | We need to get an edit. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm literally like the narwhal from Elp. Bye, buddy. Bye I? Hi, babe. We need to get an edit. I'm literally like, I'm the Narwhal from Elp. |
| 0:56.2 | Bye, buddy. Bye, buddy. Hope you find your dad. Hi, Dave. Thanks, Mr. Narwal. Well, you know, I love having |
| 1:04.0 | you on the podcast. It's good to be back. I just suddenly had this epiphany or this decision that I wanted |
| 1:09.7 | to do an episode on men's mental |
| 1:11.2 | health because there's a unique stigma, obviously that men experience when it comes to mental |
| 1:16.9 | health. And I love the boys in my life. And it makes me so happy to see them like express their |
| 1:24.0 | emotions and own their emotions and like grow and be vulnerable. And I feel really |
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