Men Behaving Honestly Podcast

A men's mental health podcast that doesn't sound like one. Men Behaving Honestly is the conversations most men are having in their heads, now said out loud.Hosted by Johnny Lawrence (behavioural change expert featured on the BBC, The Telegraph and the NHS) and James Shireby (qualified coach and counsellor). Two men who help others figure themselves out, now turning that honesty on themselves.Taboo topics. Emotional truth. Humour. Real conversations, no filter.For men, and for the people who love them.

Men Behaving Honestly Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 8 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #8

  The One About: Relationships

  Jul 7, 20261h 56mS1

  Nobody ever sat us down and taught us how to do relationships. Not the rows, not the intimacy, not the sex, not even how to stay in the room when it gets uncomfortable. So we blag it, and then we're surprised when the spark goes. This week Johnny and James sit down with relationship coach David Chambers for an honest, unpolished conversation about what actually goes on for men behind the front door. Why we can feel powerless at home. Why listening is the skill nobody teaches us. Why compromise is never really 50/50, and why thinking it is leaves you both losing. What real intimacy looks like, in and out of the bedroom. How to hold space when your partner tells you something hard. Why cheating is so often about self-worth. And why your mates might be the thing keeping you well. It's messy, it's funny, it goes everywhere, and it might be the most useful conversation about love you hear all year. No experts with all the answers. Just two blokes and a guest, being honest out loud. Take the free self-assessment: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/free-self-assessment-check The conversations most men are having in their heads. Now said out loud. For men, and for the people who love them. This episode includes an open conversation about sexual assault and briefly references suicide. If you're struggling, you can reach Samaritans any time on 116 123.

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  Episode #7

  The One About Loneliness: When's the Last Time a Mate Actually Checked in on You?

  Jun 28, 202659 minS1

  When's the last time a mate actually checked in on you? Not a "you alright?" in the group chat. Properly checked in. Most men can't answer that. And most men don't realise they're lonely either, because loneliness doesn't look like sitting on your own. It looks like being in a room full of people, with a partner, kids and mates around you, and still not being able to say how you actually feel. In this episode, Johnny and James get honest about loneliness. The kind you can't admit to because admitting it feels weak. They talk about "philosophical loneliness", where you've outgrown the conversations your mates want to have and you feel like a loser for it, when really you're just in the wrong room. They get into the stuff most men never say out loud: why personal growth can quietly cost you friendships, why attraction beats demand every time (the barbecue with the non-alcoholic beer says it all), the bravery it takes to be the one who suggests the walk instead of the pub, and the brother's stag do that went from 60 men to 8 the second the plan changed. And the big one. Why we're so bad at checking in on each other. The barber hurt that one mate never messaged him. The 3pm text that means more than you think. Why "let me fix it for you" isn't what your mate needs, and why holding space beats jumping to solutions every time. Because asking for help isn't giving up. It's refusing to give up. For men, and for the people who love them. Men Behaving Honestly. The conversations most men are having in their heads. Now said out loud. 🎧 Listen & follow: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com 📸 Instagram: @menbehavinghonestly📝 Free self-assessment check: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/free-self-assessment-check 🎟️ September workshop (limited spaces): https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/workshop-september Hosts: Johnny Lawrence (behavioural change expert, featured on BBC, The Telegraph, NHS) & James Shireby (qualified coach & counsellor). ⚠️ This episode touches on loneliness, depression and suicidal feelings. If you're struggling, you're not alone. Samaritans are free, 24/7, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.

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  Episode #6

  The One About... Escape: If You Want to Know Why You Drink, Stop Drinking.

  Jun 21, 20261h 51mS1

  "If you want to know why you drink, stop drinking." That's what a therapist told Sober Dave. And it's the most uncomfortable, honest thing in this whole episode. In 2026, three out of four suicides are still men. A lot of them involve a drink. But this episode isn't really about alcohol. It's about escape. The urge most men know but never name, to get away from how they're feeling, whatever it takes. Johnny and James sit down with David Wilson, aka Sober Dave, who drank from 14 to 54 and is now coming up to eight years without it. He's not preaching from the mountain top. He's a bloke who hid cans from the off-licence so no one would call him an alcoholic, who drank alone to Pink Floyd until the door of his "pod" clunked shut and reality could do one. Together they get into the stuff most men never say out loud: why the thing is never the thing (seven years sober and it was a joint on a beach that nearly got him, then trainers, then Greggs), why connection is the actual antidote to addiction, the "mistress" he had to dump, and the void that's so loud when you stop that you'll fill it with anything. They go underneath it too. The childhood needs that never got met. The note Dave's mum left when he was 14. Trauma as not what happened to you, but what should have and didn't. And the question Dave couldn't answer without going quiet: who are you with the labels off? Because addiction isn't really the problem. It's the solution you found to a problem you never got to talk about. For men, and for the people who love them. Men Behaving Honestly. The conversations most men are having in their heads. Now said out loud. -------------------------------- 🎧 Listen & follow: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com 📸 Instagram: @menbehavinghonestly📝 Free self-assessment check: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/free-self-assessment-check 🎟️ September workshop (limited spaces): https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/workshop-september -------------------------------- Hosts: Johnny Lawrence (behavioural change expert, featured on BBC, The Telegraph, NHS) & James Shireby (qualified coach & counsellor). ⚠️ This episode touches on addiction, alcohol, depression and suicide. If you're struggling, you're not alone. Samaritans are free, 24/7, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.

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  Men Behaving Honestly Podcast

  The One About Anger: Suppressed Anger Will Destroy You

  Jun 14, 202657 min

  Suppressed anger is one of the most dangerous things a man can do to himself. Bottle it up and it goes one of two ways. Outward into rage, or inward into depression. Neither ends well. In this episode, James and Johnny get honest about anger, the emotion James has wrestled with his whole life. From kicking off over a game of pool as a kid, to carrying it through the military, to slowly working out that he never really had an anger problem at all. He had a self-worth problem. Because here's the thing most men never get told: anger is rarely the real issue. It's a message. An alert. Usually it's sitting on top of something harder underneath, like rejection, fear, feeling not good enough, feeling helpless. Deal with the anger and you'll chase it forever. Deal with what's underneath, and it starts to settle. This one's a proper conversation, funny, raw and honest, about why "calm down" never works, why you should stop asking yourself why you're angry, the difference between anger and rage, and a simple framework you can actually use the next time you feel yourself boiling over. For men, and for the people who love them. Men Behaving Honestly. The conversations most men are having in their heads. Now said out loud. -------------------------------------------- 🎧 Listen & follow: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com 📸 Instagram: @menbehavinghonestly📝 Free self-assessment check: https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/free-self-assessment-check 🎟️ September workshop (limited spaces): https://www.menbehavinghonestly.com/workshop-september -------------------------------------------- Hosts: Johnny Lawrence (behavioural change expert, featured on BBC, The Telegraph, NHS) & James Shireby (qualified coach & counsellor). -------------------------------------------- ⚠️ This episode touches on depression and suicidal feelings. If you're struggling, you're not alone. Samaritans are free, 24/7, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.

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  Episode #4

  The One About Intimacy:

  Jun 7, 20261h 31mS1

  <p>Porn will never judge you. It'll never let you down. It'll never say no. And that's exactly the problem.</p><p>In Episode 4, James and Johnny are joined by Tanner Hassan, psychotherapist, addiction specialist and a man 20 years into his own recovery, for the conversation most men have never had out loud: when does porn stop being harmless and start being the thing you hide behind?</p><p>They get into why porn has quietly become the sex education for a generation of young men. Why this is the one with no warning signs, nothing shows until it's already...

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