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Introducing: (L)earned the Hard Way with Kier Gaines · Learned the Hard Way with Kier Gaines

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it was good, y'all. You're listening and learned the
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  Speaker 1: hard way with your favorite therapists and host care games.
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  Speaker 1: I am a husband, I'm a father, I am a
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  Speaker 1: licensed therapist, and I am a man who really had
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  Speaker 1: to learn a lot of things the hard way. This
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  Speaker 1: space is about black men's experiences, specifically less specifically, it's
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  Speaker 1: about men's experiences having honest conversations that it's really not
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  Speaker 1: safe to have anywhere, but you're having them with a
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  Speaker 1: licensed professional who knows what he's doing. And this is
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  Speaker 1: nothing but real talk about pressure, purpose and honestly what
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  Speaker 1: it takes to become a healthier man out here. How
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  Speaker 1: many men carry a suit of armor. It looks good.
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  Speaker 1: It signals to the world that you're not to be
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  Speaker 1: played with, and I think there's power there. A five
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds suit of armor is exhausting to lug around.
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  Speaker 1: And just because you have the capability to carry around
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  Speaker 1: five hundred pounds, that does not mean that you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Ryan Clark, Sometimes when we're in the pursuit of
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  Speaker 1: the thing, we get so wrapped up in the chase
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  Speaker 1: that we don't realize that we are in possession of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. And we're still chasing it and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know when we've done enough. Because people scoreboard wise, life
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  Speaker 1: becomes about wins and losses.
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  Speaker 2: People hate going through the thing. I hate going through
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  Speaker 2: the thing right from that exactly. But the things are
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  Speaker 2: what make you.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast was specifically built to help you navigate. This
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  Speaker 1: is going to be real talk, no fluff. Every time
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  Speaker 1: I'm somewhere and I'm having conversations with people about masculinity,
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  Speaker 1: about emotional development, emotional awareness, emotional acuity, it's never a
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  Speaker 1: long drawn out conversation. We hit it for a second,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't really get the deep dive into it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly why this space is here. But who's
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  Speaker 1: the person? Are you good because you find it important
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  Speaker 1: to be a good person while you hear on earth?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a good person because you're free? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: two different intentions, absolutely, and that's two different levels of trust.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to just really be a good person
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  Speaker 1: in your heart air, yeah, because when they get rough,
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  Speaker 1: you'll always revert back to who you are. How do
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  Speaker 1: you see this thing? How do we secure that? When
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  Speaker 1: you say we gotta make a safe place to run.
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  Speaker 3: A Couple of the guys in the group have kids.
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  Speaker 3: They talk about, Hey, man, how did you handle when
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  Speaker 3: your daughter did this the first time and threw the
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  Speaker 3: toy across the room. What did you do? Bro? Because
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  Speaker 3: I felt myself getting angry and I knew that I
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  Speaker 3: was about to move from that instead of you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. We can have convos like that.
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