XYBM Clips: Black man, take a nap!
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
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In XYBM 140, I sit down with Dr. Michael H. Forde, a public health expert and cultural storyteller, for a powerful conversation on health, equity, and advocacy in the Black community. With over a decade of experience in public health strategy, innovation, and education, Dr. Forde leads statewide efforts to reduce disparities and improve care access for Maryland's Medicaid population. We dive into the impact of medical gaslighting on Black men and women, the importance of self-advocacy and community support, and debunk the damaging myth that Black men are “strong enough to handle it all on their own.”
Tune in for an eye-opening discussion on health equity, empowerment, and the tools Black men need to take control of their well-being. Available on all podcast streaming platforms, including YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Naps were one of the things that I started doing too, bro. |
| 0:02.4 | I was like, yo, I need to take me a nap, bro. |
| 0:21.0 | Again, I used to be tired of like 9 a.m., 10 a.m. I'm like, bro, why am I trying to force myself to stay up? Right, right, right. I can't even read an email without draw. I might as well just go fall asleep real quick. Right. Let me go take a nap. I took a nap for like an hour one time and I woke up |
| 0:22.8 | and like when you wake up from an hour nap, it's kind of, it's weird. Right. Initially you're like, bro, what the fuck am I doing up? I might as well just keep sleeping. Then when you get up and you actually start paying attention to this stuff, like it takes me like five minutes to really get into the, like, into my groove. I'm like, damn, like, I got so much more energy. Yeah. You feel so much more energized than when you were before you took, before you fell asleep. So, like, bro, naps were, like, very crucial for me at one point. And even to this day, I still would take it. |
| 0:54.2 | If I feel like I didn't take that, |
| 0:55.4 | I'm going to go fall right as to be, bro. |
| 0:57.2 | Take that net. |
| 0:58.0 | And I just want to hop in and say, |
| 0:59.5 | progress is not perfection. |
| 1:00.9 | Fast, please. |
| 1:01.9 | Progress is not perfection because everything you're saying, |
| 1:05.8 | it is possible for us to do. |
| 1:07.9 | Right. |
| 1:08.2 | It's not impossible. |
| 1:09.3 | It's not. |
| 1:09.7 | But, you know, one of the biggest things that I have seen in friend groups with my colleagues, |
| 1:19.6 | professionals, is when we get so caught up in the idea of change, we sometimes scare |
| 1:27.1 | ourselves out of doing it, out of making it. |
| 1:30.6 | Because it seems like it's such a big deal. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.4 | Right. |
| 1:33.9 | That's why, like, for people who are trying to quit bad habits, doing cold turkey sometimes |
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