XYBM Clips: This is why so many Black men are depleting themselves
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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In XYBM 139, I sit down with Jason Rosario, founder and CEO of The Lives of Men and host of the Yahoo! News original series 'Dear Men.' Jason opens up about the challenges men face in expressing vulnerability, the importance of healing oneself, and redefining masculinity in today's society. We discuss the impact of personal trauma, allyship, and effective strategies for mental health, including dealing with heartbreak, the pressures of success, and the importance of self-affirmation and gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | By day, I lead inclusion and diversity at an advertising company. |
| 0:03.8 | Okay. |
| 0:04.8 | But my passion work is men's work, right? |
| 0:07.4 | Helping men sort of embark on the journey to transformation, to becoming the best version of themselves, a fully embodied version of themselves. |
| 0:16.7 | And so I launched back in 2017, a brand of platform called The Lives of Men that's dedicated to that, right? |
| 0:24.0 | So one of our taglines is that we want to help, we want to be the compass that helps men navigate their life's journey across every aspect of their lives, right? |
| 0:32.1 | So when we think about who we want to be and how we want to embody that vision of of that man that masculinity um what does that |
| 0:40.4 | look like in both our personal and professional lives and so that's the work that i'm dedicated to do |
| 0:44.5 | why you started that like what made you what made you say like all right this is something i don't want |
| 0:49.0 | to do any work that's transformational like this is usually born out of some trauma right Right. And so I'm sure you can probably relate to it. |
| 0:55.7 | So I was experiencing some real heartbreak and challenges in my life back in 2017. |
| 1:05.3 | And, you know, I decided in that moment to do something different, right? |
| 1:10.0 | And it was specifically, it was a breakup. |
| 1:12.3 | And so, you know, what we're taught to do is, man, it's just like, oh, you're going through a breakup. I just go out there and date, do your thing. We'll get over it and then you'll be fine. Yeah. And that hadn't worked for me at that point. And so I decided to take a step back and say, like, what do I want to do different for myself? |
| 1:28.0 | What outcomes do I want that are different? |
| 1:30.1 | And so I decided to take a step back and say, like, what do I want to do different for myself? |
| 1:28.0 | What outcomes do I want that are different? |
| 1:30.1 | And so I started to journal. |
| 1:31.7 | I start to meditate more and really take a different approach to healing that didn't look like what I was being taught. |
| 1:39.2 | So I started to kind of journal and start, you know, create this, this running narrative of what I was experiencing |
| 1:46.4 | and I was sharing it with a friend of mine who said, man, I'm experiencing very similar things. |
| 1:51.4 | We should put this out. We should package this because there are other men that are experiencing |
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