Episode #166: We Need to Talk NOW: Men’s Mental Health Emergency! Featuring DR. JODY CARRINGTON!

Jody Carrington (0:00)

Highest rate of suicide in your country and mine is middle-aged white men. If you check these four boxes, white, straight, able-bodied, male, you have access to the most privilege on this planet, full stop. That exact same cohort by a landslide is killing themselves at a much faster rate than any other on the planet. It is estimated that our great grandparents looked at their children 72% more of the time than we look at our babies today. We need each other to co-regulate. We need somebody to show us how to be kind and confident and empathic. Many of us experience significant amounts of trauma, some of us worse than others, that has resulted in us coming very protected and closed off.

Dylan Gemelli (0:35)

I had things inside of me that I didn't know were there, that I never think about that were killing me and making me turn into a completely different person.

Jody Carrington (0:44)

Can you give me an example of that?

Dylan Gemelli (0:46)

Certain things that happened with...

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I have been waiting for this conversation ever since I met my guest and we talked from the moment that I was a couple minutes late and her reaction made me absolutely love her on impact. And I mean impact. She speaks my language to the highest extent and she is literally one of a kind. So she's a powerhouse speaker and she's a fearless champion for authentic human connection. And she's highly sought after for her expertise, her energy, which I absolutely just love along with a genuine approach. She speaks my language, like I said, because she's authentic, she's sincere, she's direct, and she does not pull punches. She's the founder and principal psychologist at Carrington & Company. And she's written three best selling books. And she speaks on hundreds of stages globally each year and hosts the widely celebrated podcast, Unlonely. So my friends, welcome Dr. Jody Carrington.

Jody Carrington (3:15)

Is that where you have like a big cheering, like people go wild and shit in the background?

Dylan Gemelli (3:19)

I'm known for my intros and I just get lucky here and there and I get people cheered and that's all I'm good for.

Jody Carrington (3:26)

Oh my gosh, I love it. Dylan Gemelli.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's tell me, tell me everything. What are we going to talk about today? You need a little sesh, a little therapy sesh.

Dylan Gemelli (3:37)

Oh, well, shit. Too high need a therapy sesh.

That's the understatement of the year. You don't want to start psychoanalyzing me or we're going to have.

Jody Carrington (3:47)

These are only an hour. These are only an hour. These are only an hour.

Dylan Gemelli (3:52)

I think my bill, by the time I got it back from you, I don't know if I'd like to see it.

Jody Carrington (3:56)

Oh my goodness. It's not the truth of this all, though, these days, right? It's like, you know, I think this is, you and I chatted a little bit about this before, but it's like everybody appears to be okay. And this is, I think, when you get the highlight reel of social media, we're the first generation of leaders, of parents, of caregivers to have access to social media, and we're not talking about it. And so we have so much input from everybody else telling us they've got their shit together. And so the dichotomy of what it appears online, of how we get fed constantly, to what it feels like is happening inside our nervous systems, have never been this unmatched.