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I first met Brad Gage at a birthday party for Mark Greene during a heavy snowstorm in Manhattan.  Niobe Way and I were in the middle of a Vulcan Mind Meld when Mark leaned in, pried me away, and said there is someone he wanted me to meet. Then, in his typical understated fashion, he remarked, “I think you two have a lot to talk about.” Then he let loose one of his signature giggles, as if he had lobbed a grenade between us. Brad Gage. Photo from Real Feels We soon discove

Through the Lens of a Gen Xer Working with Millennial and Gen Z Men One of the great delights of doing podcast interviews regarding my book Getting Naked is the opportunity to engage in conversation with hosts whose life experience and depth of expertise is so different from my own.  Alex Bove is such a person.  From Talk Like a Man Project With a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Studies from Widener University (one of the few doctoral programs in the topic at a fully accredited

“Getting Naked” at Work I first got to know Brian Anderson four years ago when his book Fathering Together: Living a Connected Dad Life  was in pre-publication. We met via Zoom during COVID as my two sons were beginning to establish their careers after college. It was a time in my life when I was filled with fresh impressions of one of the most exhilarating chapters of any adult male – launching the next generation.  Image From Fathering Together I deeply resonated with B

A Crisis of Presence that We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore I was surprised when David Allen Tracy asked me if we might do three-episode podcast interview on my book, Getting Naked . How could there possibly be that much material to explore? Then I reflected on the hour that we had spent engaged in a rapid-fire prepping for our conversation – it was an explosion of fireworks, thought starters that needed to be unpacked in a more orderly fashion. From Rooted & Wild Podcast

Free Sample Chapter from Getting Naked: A Field Guide For Men Getting Naked Begins Here What would happen if men stopped performing and started telling the truth? Getting Naked  isn’t about shock or spectacle. It’s about the quiet, radical act of removing armour—the beliefs and habits that teach men to stay silent, stay in control and stay disconnected from their own inner lives. In a culture that rewards toughness and polish, Getting Naked asks a different question: What if

The introduction from Mark Grayson's Getting Naked: A Field Guide for Men For men who feel the ground shifting beneath their feet—at home, at work, in their relationships— Getting Naked: A Field Guide for Men   begins with an honest admission: many of us were never given a usable map. Mark Grayson’s book is a clear-eyed, deeply human attempt to redraw that map, starting from lived experience rather than theory. The excerpt you’re about to read traces the book’s origins back t