Revealing Men

Men's Resource Center
  • 5.0 (17)
  • MENTAL HEALTH
  • UPDATED BIMONTHLY

We offer thought-provoking ideas and interviews to explain the inexplicable, while offering an inspiring vision for men to reveal their true selves and live more balanced and authentic lives.

Episodes

  1. 12/16/2025

    Psychological Wisdom from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

    In this holiday segment for the Revealing Men podcast, host Randy Flood and his colleague and son, Zach, take listeners through a laugh-inducing, scene-by-scene psychological analysis of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s a humorous and insightful conversation about what Randy calls a “masterclass parody in holiday psychology.” This over-the-top,1980s-era movie unwittingly offers a real perspective [...]

    45 min

  2. 11/06/2025

    Twenty-five Years Helping Men Become Healthier Human Beings

    It might seem unusual for a counseling and therapy center to publicly celebrate the anniversary of its founding. But the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan (MRC) is, itself, unusual. Co-founder and Director, Randy Flood,  M.A., L.L.P., describes the decision he and Charlie Donaldson, M.A., L.L.P. made in 2000 as: “an audacious, some would say, [...]

    55 min

  3. 10/02/2025

    Why Manhood Turns Deadly

    Recent events remind us that political violence rarely ends with one act—it sparks more violence. Politicians then exploit that violence to score ideological points or to win votes. But too often, the spotlight skips over the men who actually commit these acts. On this episode of Revealing Men, host Randy Flood takes on a question [...]

    28 min

  4. 06/19/2025

    A Masculinity Upgrade: Combating the Masculine Identity Crisis

    As host of the Revealing Men podcast, psychotherapist Randy Flood interviews a variety of experts who focus on men and their inner lives; what they are least likely to show to the people around them or even acknowledge to themselves. For this segment, Flood speaks directly to his audience about what he sees as an [...]

    17 min

  5. 05/22/2025

    Reimagining Healing and Masculinity with Poet Marcel Fable Price

    Marcel Fable Price is a storyteller and poet. He was the youngest, the first person without a college degree, and the first person of color to hold the title of Poet Laureate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Through deeply personal, brilliant, and colorful writing he invites his audience (readers and listeners) to reimagine what healing [...]

    1h 12m

  6. 04/24/2025

    Bodies at Work: Labor, Pain, and Masculinity

    Randy Flood, host of the Revealing Men podcast, is an avid reader of The Sun, a non-profit, ad-free magazine that publishes personal essays, short stories, and poetry. It was there that he first encountered author, Doug Crandell, through an essay about his father’s life as a laborer: “His Body of Work.” Flood, a psychotherapist and [...]

    55 min

  7. 03/19/2025

    A History of Dr. Ronald Levant’s Career and the Study of Men and Masculinities

    Dr. Ronald Levant is widely considered one of the key people responsible for creating the field of psychology of Men and Masculinities. He’s a feminist scholar, Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Akron, the past president of the American Psychological Association and the Association's Division 51, the Society for the Psychological Study of [...]

    58 min

  8. 01/01/2025

    Understanding Why It’s Difficult for Men to Seek Therapy and Ask for Help

    As host of the Revealing Men podcast, Randy Flood usually engages a guest in conversation about the issues men face in working through their own and society’s expectations of what constitutes masculinity in the 21st century. This time, there is no guest. They fell ill. Instead of canceling, Flood uses the time to talk about [...]

    13 min

  9. 11/14/2024

    Navigating the Trauma of a Father’s Death by Suicide

    In 2009, while a client at the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, Jim Musial —an avid runner— wrote a guest post about how “running could be hazardous to your emotional health.” He only hints at what it is he was running from; at the time, emotionally able to share just part of his story. [...]

    55 min

  10. 09/18/2024

    Hot Sex in the Age of Consent

    The Revealing Men podcast typically features conversations that seek to pull back the curtain to reveal the inner lives of men. For this conversation, host Randy Flood, psychotherapist and Director of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, and his guests, somatic therapists Ken Porter and Monica Vergara do more than pull back the curtain; [...]

    55 min
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We offer thought-provoking ideas and interviews to explain the inexplicable, while offering an inspiring vision for men to reveal their true selves and live more balanced and authentic lives.

Information

  • Creator
    Men's Resource Center
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2019 Men's Resource Center
  • Show Website
    Revealing Men