The "What's Your Revolution?" Show with Dr. Charles Corprew"

Dr. Charles Corprew
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The "What's Your Revolution" show with Dr. Charles Corprew, is a show for men and the people who love them where we dialogue about how men can find and embrace the healthiest version of themselves.

  1. Sep 15

    Living Longer Isn’t Enough: The Black Man’s Guide to Healthspan After 40 with Dr. Noelle Reid

    I have been thinking a lot about what it means to grow older as a Black man. My father lived to 93, but vascular dementia changed the final years of his life. My mother is now 85 and living with Alzheimer’s. Those experiences have forced me to ask a harder question. I do not simply want to live a long time. I want to live well. That is the difference between lifespan and healthspan. In this conversation with board-certified family physician Dr. Noelle Reid, we unpack what Black men over 40 need to start paying attention to now if we want to remain strong, sharp, sexually healthy, mobile, and independent well into our 60s, 70s, and 80s. Dr. Reid makes one thing clear: what your health looks like at 60 is being built at 40. Waiting until something hurts, your energy disappears or your body stops performing the way it once did puts you behind the curve. We talk about becoming more medically literate and asking for health markers that may go beyond the standard physical, including ApoB, lipoprotein(a), fasting insulin, inflammatory markers, and a more complete look at thyroid and hormone health. We also go directly into a conversation many men avoid: andropause. Lower testosterone, changing estrogen levels, loss of muscle, fatigue, changes in mood, decreased libido and erectile changes can all be signals that something is shifting. The answer is not automatically testosterone replacement therapy. The first step is understanding your numbers, your symptoms and what is actually happening in your body. Dr. Reid also challenges the way many of us think about fitness. Longevity is not just how much weight you can lift or how hard you can go in the gym. Core strength, lower-body strength, spinal mobility, balance, and flexibility all matter. That is why we spend time talking about yoga, Pilates, and something many high-performing men struggle with: stillness. One of my biggest takeaways from this conversation was simple: The goal is to balance movement with stillness. Exercise. Build strength. Eat enough protein. Get your vitamin D checked. Protect your sleep. Pay attention to your hormones. Learn how to breathe. Learn how to recover. Most importantly, stop waiting for your body to break before you start taking care of it. For Black men over 40, longevity cannot simply mean adding more birthdays. I want us hiking, traveling, making love, building businesses, playing with our grandchildren, and creating impact for decades to come. That requires us to stop asking, “How long will I live?” The better question is: How well will I live while I am here? That is the revolution.

  2. Aug 27

    Self Preservation is the First Law Of Nature with Dr. Nekeshia Hammond

    # Burnout Is Not the Price of Success: Dr. Nekeshia Hammond on Protecting Your Mind, Energy, and Peace For a lot of Black men over 40, success can become its own kind of trap. You built the career. You became the leader. You learned how to provide, solve problems, take care of family, and keep moving when things got difficult. People depend on you because you have proven that you can handle it. The question is: **What is all that strength costing you?** I brought psychologist, speaker, and USA Today bestselling author Dr. Nekeshia Hammond back to *What’s Your Revolution?* because our first conversation about burnout resonated deeply. This time, we explore something even bigger: how do we continue building the life we want without destroying ourselves in the process? We talk about the pressure to always be productive, the exhaustion that comes from leadership and caregiving, the emotional weight of social media and the news, and why so many high-achieving men struggle to simply admit, “I need a break.” For Black men, that admission can feel particularly difficult. Many of us were raised to believe strength means carrying the load without complaining. Handle your business. Protect your family. Keep producing. Figure it out. That mindset may have helped us get here. It does not necessarily get us where we want to go next. Dr. Hammond challenges us to see self-care differently. This is not about pampering yourself or escaping responsibility. It is about protecting the mental, physical, and emotional capacity required to lead your life well. Sometimes that means taking a five-minute break. Sometimes it means shutting off social media. Sometimes it means asking for help, building a stronger circle, or admitting that something you have been carrying alone needs to be shared. That matters because freedom by design requires more than money. What good is financial freedom if your health is failing? What good is leadership success if you have no energy for the people you love? What good is building a powerful life if you are too burned out to actually enjoy it? Health. Wealth. Love. Leadership. They are connected, and burnout has the ability to quietly undermine all four. One of the most important things Dr. Hammond says in this conversation is that we have to make ourselves a priority. I do not hear that as selfishness. I hear it as strategy. The goal is not to stop being ambitious. The goal is to build a life where ambition, health, relationships, purpose, and peace can exist together. Because at this stage of our lives, the revolution is not about proving how much we can endure. It is about becoming free enough to decide how we actually want to live. Ready to revolutionize your health, wealth, love, and leadership? Visit WhatsYourRevolution.com for tools, conversations, and resources designed to help Black men over 40 build a life of freedom by design. Follow the show, share this episode with another brother, and start building your revolution.

  3. Aug 11

    Your relationship will save you...or sabotage you.- LMFT Chris Matthews Returns

    I’ve spent a lot of my life thinking about relationships from the outside. Dating. Attraction. Sex. Chemistry. Finding the right person. What I understand now is that the harder work begins after you find somebody you actually want to build with. In this episode of What’s Your Revolution?, I sit down again with licensed marriage and family therapist Chris A. Matthews for a conversation about what it really takes to build relationships that can sustain us as we get older. Chris challenged me with an idea that stayed with me: your partner cannot—and should not—be responsible for meeting every emotional, intellectual, social, and relational need you have. Healthy relationships require two whole people who know themselves well enough to understand what they need, what they will accept, and where their boundaries live. We get very transparent about fidelity, opposite-sex friendships, emotional affairs, jealousy, trust, and why seemingly innocent connections can become dangerous when we stop protecting the relationship we say matters most. I also share pieces of my own evolution—from the man who once found validation in attention and multiple relationships to the man I am becoming now, who values the freedom that comes from integrity, transparency, and choosing my partner intentionally. Then the conversation moves somewhere I believe more men need to go: friendship. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed how easy it is for a man’s world to become smaller. Careers change. Friends disappear. People get married, have children, move away, or simply grow in different directions. Before you realize it, you can be successful, accomplished, surrounded by people—and still spend a tremendous amount of your life alone. Chris makes the case that male friendship requires something many of us were never taught to practice: intention. Sometimes you have to tell another brother, “I’m trying to build community. Let’s get together.” You have to risk vulnerability, survive the occasional misunderstanding, work through conflict, and stop treating every disappointment as a reason to cut somebody off. That may be the larger lesson of this episode. The relationships we choose can either reinforce the man we are trying to become or continually pull us back toward versions of ourselves we say we have outgrown. Great relationships are not simply found. They are managed, protected, repaired, and continuously renegotiated as we grow. Whether we are talking about the person you love or the brothers you call friends, the question is the same: Are the relationships in your life helping you become the man you say you want to be? Because part of your revolution is recognizing that who you allow close to you can save your life—or quietly sabotage it. If you're a Black man over 40 wanting to transform you life and design the next decade regarding health, wealth, and leadership, come spend some time with. I've got the road map to help you reach your goals. Schedule a call. https://calendly.com/whatsyourrevolution/15-min-meeting

  4. Jul 21

    Who Are You Without the Title? CEO of Brothers Empowerefd to Teach Larry Irvin on Success, Burnout, and Starting Over

    What happens when the work that made you successful begins to cost you your health, identity, and peace? In this episode, I sit down with my brother Larry Irvin, founder of Brothers Empowered to Teach, for an honest conversation about ending an organization that placed more than 200 Black men in classrooms and helped reshape how the country sees Black male educators. From the outside, Larry was thriving. Behind the accolades, national recognition, and major funding, he was carrying the organization mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Larry opens up about burnout, grieving the end of something he spent 12 years building, and realizing that his work had become inseparable from his identity. We discuss why successful leaders sometimes need to stop, simplify their lives, and resist rushing into the next impressive opportunity. This conversation is for every high-achieving man who has ever wondered who he would be without the title, organization, or reputation he worked so hard to build. Sometimes walking away is not failure. Sometimes it is the first courageous act of designing who you will become next.

  5. Jul 8

    The wounds we love from: Therapist Bashea Williams on how to build a healthy relationship after trauma

    In this episode of What’s Your Revolution?, I sit down with therapist and Dear Future Wife author Paul Bashea Williams for one of the most honest conversations I have had about Black men, relationships, rest, fatherhood, trauma, and the difficult work of becoming healthy enough to love someone well. This conversation hit me personally because I saw so much of myself in Paul’s story. We talk about what happens when our wounds start choosing our partners before we even realize we are wounded. We convince ourselves that we are protecting, providing, fixing, or saving someone when, in reality, we may be repeating patterns we learned in childhood. I have done it. Paul has done it. Too many of us have mistaken being needed for being loved. Paul gave language to something I wish I had understood decades ago: sometimes we are not choosing partners from a place of wholeness. Our wounds are choosing each other. That realization changes everything. We explore why so many men stay in relationships long after we know they are unhealthy, why we wait for something catastrophic to happen before giving ourselves permission to leave, and why being the “relationship expert” does not exempt any of us from doing our own work. Knowing the language of healing is not the same as healing. Paul and I also talk about the savior complex that many Black men carry. Somewhere along the way, some of us learned that being a good man means fixing everything, carrying everyone, and making ourselves responsible for another person’s recovery. That is not partnership. It is a burden that will eventually break you. A healthy relationship requires something different. It requires two people willing to examine themselves, communicate what they need, confront what they fear, and stop expecting the other person to heal wounds they did not create. Perhaps the most important lesson in this conversation is that healthy relationships start long before we meet the right person. They start with self-discovery. They start in therapy. They start when we ask ourselves why rejection affects us the way it does, why we keep choosing the same kind of person, why we stay silent until resentment explodes, and why we believe we have to earn love by being indispensable. Paul also challenged me on something else I am still learning: giving myself permission to rest. He created an entire day each week where the answer is simply no. No clients. No work. No obligation to be available. His practice forced me to confront my own question: Why do so many of us believe the world needs so much from us that we cannot stop? Rest. Love. Boundaries. Partnership. Healing. All of them require permission.

  6. Jun 23

    Black Men Need Rooms Where We Can Exhale: Jeff Lindor on Brotherhood, Leadership, and The Gentlemen’s Factory

    My conversation with Jeff Lindor reminded me of something I know deep in my bones: Black men need spaces where we do not have to perform, explain, shrink, or armor up. Jeff is the founder and CEO of The Gentlemen’s Factory, a space he built because he knew what isolation felt like. He was looking for a room where Black men could gather with intention. A room where we could talk about business, health, fatherhood, money, leadership, divorce, therapy, ambition, and the quiet weight of being “the only one” in too many places. He could not find that room, so he created it. That is the heart of this episode. This conversation is about community, but not surface-level community. We are talking about the kind of community that helps a brother breathe again. The kind that pushes him to go to the doctor. The kind that helps him find mentors, partners, investors, friends, and mirrors. The kind that allows younger brothers to sit with older ones and learn what life, leadership, and manhood actually require. Jeff and I talked about the loneliness that can come with success, the discipline it takes to build something that lasts, and the personal work required to lead from a healed place. We talked about therapy, fatherhood, divorce, co-parenting, entrepreneurship, and the power of being surrounded by men who will hold you accountable without judgement. What I heard in Jeff’s story is this: The Gentlemen’s Factory is not just a membership space. It is a place where Black men get sharper, healthier, more honest, and more connected. The revolution is not just building rooms for Black men. The revolution is what happens inside those rooms when we finally feel safe enough to exhale. Stay updated on all things What's Your Revolution. https://www.whatsyourrevolution.com/jointherevolution Looking for ways to design the next decade of your life. Check out our Substack: That Black Man's Guide Revolution. https://charlesscorprewphd.substack.com/ To view this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thewhatsyourrevolutionshow/videos

  7. Jun 2

    God Gave Her the Idea at 2am — Now Crystal Lugo Is Pitching Sharks and Building Generational Wealth

    I remember the first time I heard Crystal Lugo pitch. I was in the room and I knew immediately. This woman is onto something real. Not because the product was flashy. Because it was simple. The GloveScaler is a fish scaling glove with cleats that lets you grip and scale a fish with your bare hands. That is it. And that simplicity is exactly what great founders do. They solve a problem that has been sitting in plain sight for decades. But this episode is not just about a fishing glove. It is about what it actually takes to go from an idea God deposits in you at 2am to a full patent, a Shark Tank appearance, and a company with global ambitions. Crystal is a Black woman mompreneur, a wife, and a CEO who built this from scratch. No roadmap. No connections in the fishing industry. A patent lawyer who questioned whether she even had a working prototype. She figured it out anyway. We talk about the real cost of building something. The loneliness, the brick walls, the funding battles, and the moments you want to quit. We talk about what it means for a Black female founder to compete for capital, win pitch competitions, and walk through those double doors on Shark Tank after ten years of trying to get there. We talk about generational wealth and what it actually means beyond the buzzword. Crystal Lugo is one of the most resilient Black inventors I have met in 25 years of working in this space. GloveScaler is the unicorn fishing glove this industry has been waiting for. And it is just getting started. Go to glovescaler.com and get your pre-order in now. What's your revolution?

  8. May 19

    The Inheritance Nobody Talks About | Chazz Scott

    I thought I was bringing Chazz Scott back to talk about success. What we ended up talking about was rest and why so many of us feel guilty doing it. Chazz just delivered a TEDx talk tracing his family's roots back to a plantation in Sparta, Georgia. 1828. His great-great-great grandfather never had a choice about resting. And the science says that trauma doesn't just fade — it passes down. It shapes how we feel when we dare to slow down. That hit me different. Because I know that feeling. The anxiety. The guilt. The restlessness that shows up on day four of vacation and doesn't let up until day six. I've felt it. Most of us have. and we've been calling it ambition when it might actually be inheritance. Chazz also said something I keep coming back to: you can go faster by slowing down. More focus. More creativity. More of yourself to give. The research backs it up. So the real question isn't whether you can afford to rest. It's whether you can afford not to.

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