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Chris: Welcome back to No Man's an Island. I'm Chris Hemmings.
Jett: And I'm Dr. Jett Stone. Today we're sitting down with Mike Nicholson — educator, writer, and founder of Progressive Masculinity.
Mike: Thanks for having me. I think the place I want to start is the word itself. 'Progressive' gets read as political. I don't mean it that way. I mean: moving forward, on purpose, into a version of masculinity that actually works for the boys in front of us.
Chris: What does 'actually works' look like in a classroom?
Mike: It looks like being allowed to be uncertain out loud. Most boys I work with have never seen an adult man say 'I don't know' without flinching. That's the first move.
Jett: And in therapy we see the cost of that on the other end — men in their forties learning the language for what they felt at twelve.
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