Pod Talk, a podcast from the nonprofit Under the Hood Talk, creates a space for thoughtful dialogue on modern masculinity. Featuring a diverse array of experts, practitioners, and thought leaders in men’s work and mental health, the show delves into the challenges and complexities of manhood today.
Music as a Way In Feat. Mathew Alvarez of Sad Boy Radio
Henry sits down with Mathew Alvarez, creator and host of Sad Boy Radio, Chicago's #1 music podcast centered around mental health, for a conversation about what it means to build a life around the thing that saved you. Mathew reflects on the gap between how things look from the outside and how they actually feel, and the quiet reckoning that comes when you finally stop pretending those two are the same. Along the way, they talk about family, culture, and the unspoken rules that shape how much of ourselves we let the people we love see.
And of course, they talk about music, and why the stories artists tell can make it easier to tell our own.
Since launching Sad Boy Radio in 2021, Mathew has covered events like Rauw Alejandro's tour, Sueños Music Festival, and Lyrical Lemonade's Summer Smash, and interviewed artists from Def Jam, Atlantic, and Interscope, along with ESPN journalists and an NBA player.
A conversation about honesty, belonging, and learning to be at peace with what you have.
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17 Sept 2026
The Bachelorette Contestant Who Changed the Conversation on Mental Health
Jamie Blyth was a young college student, and at the lowest point of his life, battling panic attacks and social phobia so severe he considered ending it. In this episode, he joins Henry on Pod Talk to talk about that period, and the long road that took him from isolation to hosting his own show, Stepping Into the Fire, where he explores how struggle and adversity shape people into something stronger.
Jamie opens up about what it actually felt like inside a panic disorder, the fear of fear itself, and how a chance moment on the first season of The Bachelorette turned his private struggle into a very public platform overnight. They get into what it meant to write his book, Fear Is No Longer My Reality, and why facing fear head-on, not avoiding it, became the actual measure of success in his life.
The conversation also touches on what he's learned from his own podcast guests, from Mike Tyson's lessons on discipline to Ed Rapp's fight with ALS, and how those conversations keep sharpening his own understanding of resilience.
A candid, honest conversation about panic, fear, and what it takes to keep stepping back into the fire.
Follow Jamie and Stepping Into the Fire on YouTube, @steppingintothefire and Instagram, steppingintothefire.show (https://www.instagram.com/steppingintothefire.show/#)
2 Sept 2026
The Dude Therapist on Marriage in the Parenting Years
Therapist, author, and podcast host Eli Weinstein joins Henry for a wide-ranging, practical conversation about what it takes to build a family. Eli's debut book, From I Do to We Do: Navigating Marriage in the Parenting Years, came out of his own search for guidance as a new father, and this episode is full of the wisdom he wishes he'd had. They get into why love alone isn't enough to hold a family together, and why treating your relationship as a single unit, a team, matters more than winning any individual argument. As Eli puts it, if you're tallying, you're losing. They also talk about the difference between vague and concrete communication, and how incomplete thoughts get lost in translation. The conversation turns personal too: how men in particular struggle to find spaces for compassion and advice. Eli shares practical tools for shifting out of a negative headspace, the power of giving yourself permission to take pleasure in the moment, and how the patience we show our kids is a patience we can extend to our partners too.
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