What happens when “I’m fine” becomes the mask a man wears for years?
Andy Grant, host of the award-winning Real Men Feel podcast, joins Richard Taliaferro for a candid conversation about men’s mental health, masculinity, vulnerability, identity, and what it means to stop performing toughness and start living more authentically.
A survivor of multiple suicide attempts, Andy shares how his own struggle with depression and disconnection eventually led him toward healing—and toward helping other men reconnect with themselves.
Richard and Andy explore why sensitivity is still treated as weakness, how men become trapped by external definitions of success, why vulnerability requires courage, and what happens when your identity becomes reduced to roles such as provider, husband, father, or professional.
They also discuss the importance of values, the fear of failure and rejection, finding genuine support, and simple practices—including gratitude, meditation, and mirror work—that can help men begin coming home to themselves.
Because men are more than what they produce, provide, or accomplish.
Andy’s podcast: https://www.realmenfeel.org
In this episode:
Men’s mental health and emotional well-being; masculinity and vulnerability; the “I’m fine” mask; identity beyond career and achievement; overcoming fear of failure and rejection; authentic male friendships and support; values, purpose, and self-worth; and practical ways men can reconnect with themselves.
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I’m Richard Taliaferro, a certified career coach, former journalist, and curious human. I talk with people navigating reinvention—founders, creatives, career changers, and purpose-driven professionals—about the work they’ve built, the lessons they’ve learned, and what it means to create a life that actually fits.
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