{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/673d178275e6ea9d68be5046/6906812f3906f8011a1e683b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Masculinity: The Strength to Be Soft","description":"<p>Welcome back to \"Can I Have a Word?\" — and welcome to Season 2!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We’re starting with a word that’s being stretched, questioned, reclaimed, and redefined: masculinity.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we explore masculinity as a living language — not a fixed identity or checklist of behaviors, but a space shaped by culture, history, and personal truth. We look at how masculinity is inherited, where it harms, where it heals, and how more men are learning to lead with presence, emotional honesty, and self‑definition instead of performance.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This isn’t about prescribing a new model of manhood — it’s about listening, unlearning, and expanding the ways we understand strength and control. In this redefinition, vulnerability and power equally coexist.</p><p><br></p><p>✨ If this resonates, like, share, and subscribe — and join the conversation.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Production Team&nbsp;</u></p><p>Host/Creator - Carl James&nbsp;</p><p>Lead Engineer - Josh Wilcox&nbsp;</p><p>Editor - Walter Nordquist</p><p>Logo Design - Stephanie Cardenas&nbsp;</p><p>Music - Yennaedo Balloo</p>","author_name":"Carl James"}