Brian Alsruhe has spent nearly 30 years under the bar. Strongman, powerlifting, coaching world champions and did a stint in counterterrorism before turning toward clinical mental health work.

In this conversation we map how Brian trains men for capacity in the gym, how Tim trains for it in the therapy room, and why the same program can break two very different men for two opposite reasons: the guy with no capacity who snaps at the first hard week, and the guy on the edge of burnout who runs any plan perfectly on paper and still falls off a cliff at home. Neither one has a willpower problem.

Every year we lose more men to suicide and overdose than we can easily talk about and the men most at risk are often the ones who've been taught they're not allowed to ask for help. The "honor or die" culture tells guys to be stoic, self-sufficient, and silent, and that silence is exactly where we lose people. In this episode, Tim sits down with Khara Crosswaite. a TEDx speaker, educator, and clinician who trains the next generation of therapists on suicide prevention to unpack what's really driving these deaths of despair and what any of us can do about it. 

Ever feel like you're carrying something incredibly heavy but you can't name it? Do you keep finding yourself blowing up or shutting down on the people you love, despite your best efforts and your promises to stop? In this episode, Tim sits down with Eric Blommel, a licensed psychotherapist and trauma specialist out of Colorado, longtime colleague, and dear friend, to unpack how men are carrying unprocessed trauma - and why it's costing us in record numbers through suicide, overdose, isolation, and emotional collapse.