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EP 1: The Hidden Cost of Being the Man Everyone Needs You to Be
You’ve been doing it so long you don’t even notice anymore. Adjusting your tone, softening your edges, shrinking yourself just enough to fit the room. And at the end of the day you’re exhausted not from the work, but from who you had to be to do it.
In this episode, Kier Gaines gets real about masking and code-switching: what it is, where it comes from, and the quiet psychological tax it takes from men who’ve learned to survive by shapeshifting. From his first corporate job to the clinical research behind double consciousness, Kier breaks down why so many men are…
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