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EP 8: Are You Living… Or Just Performing Survival? ft Dustin Ross
How do you know when you’re becoming yourself… instead of just surviving?
In this episode, Kier Gaines sits down with media personality, comedian, and podcast host Dustin Ross for one of the most layered conversations the show has had yet.
What starts as a discussion about career pivots and reinvention quickly turns into something deeper: masculinity, authenticity, identity, external validation, Black manhood, therapy, purpose, and the emotional cost of pretending to have it all figured out.
Kier opens the episode reflecting on how many men lose their “whimsy” as they…
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