Men Talking Mindfulness
by Jon Macaskill & Will Schneider
Nobody Prepares You For This: Will Schneider On Caregiving, Grief…
About this podcast
Men Talking Mindfulness is a weekly podcast on men’s mental health, mindfulness, meditation, overall wellness, and leadership, hosted by retired Navy SEAL Commander Jon Macaskill and Stanford University Ambassador of Compassion Will Schneider. New episodes every Monday.
This show is for men who are doing fine on paper and know something is still off. Leaders, operators, veterans, tradesmen, dads... anyone carrying real pressure and tired of pretending it isn’t there. Every week Jon and Will sit down with psychiatrists, performance coaches, combat veterans, authors and everyday men to talk honestly about what we are all dealing with and what actually helps. Stress, sleep, anger, loneliness, focus, fatherhood, faith, testosterone, grief, burnout, and the daily practices that help a man come back to himself. No posturing. No lectures. Real conversations, real tools, and a mindfulness practice you can actually use.
Past guests include Jocko Willink, Mark Divine, Howard Behar, Rich Diviney, Dr. James Doty, Steven Pressfield, John Eldredge, and Dr. Mark Gordon.
Jon served 24 years in the Navy, 17 of them as a SEAL, and now teaches mindfulness and meditation to leaders in construction, engineering, manufacturing and defense. Will has taught yoga and mindfulness in New York City for nearly two decades and strips the fancy words away so the practices stick. Together they co-founded Focus Now Training and the Awareness to Action community.
If you have been told to meditate and never understood why it should matter to you, start here. Mindfulness will not make your stress disappear. It changes your relationship with it. That is the whole game.
Find the full back catalog, show notes and ways to work with Jon and Will at mentalkingmindfulness.com. Join the community at awareness2action.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 473 episodes
- Nobody Prepares You For This: Will Schneider On Caregiving, Grief, And Finding Your Calm Center · 46 min · Episode 113Will is going through it. His father is seriously ill, his brother is badly injured, and he is hours from home running between hospitals while trying not to torch a business he…
- Jiu-Jitsu World Champion At 64: David Meyer On Taming The Ego And Writing Your Next Chapter · 1 h 4 min · Episode 112David Meyer was one of the first Americans ever to earn a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He’s an eleven-time world champion, he holds the Coral belt, and he turns 64 this…
- How Loneliness & Poor Sleep Control Your Cravings | Dr. Jason Linder, Trauma Therapist · 48 min · Episode 111Most men who eat when they are already full have decided the problem is willpower. Dr. Jason Linder spends this episode taking that explanation apart and handing back something…
- Operator Syndrome: Dr. Chris Frueh on the Hegseth Memo and What Actually Heals · 39 min · Episode 110You do not have to have kicked in a door overseas for this conversation to land. Training alone carries a heavy physiological burden and the injuries it leaves behind have a…
- The Four Questions: Vaisesika Dasa on Attention, Purpose, and the Power of Service · 58 min · Episode 109Out of every punctuation mark in every language, Vaisesika Dasa argues the question mark is the most powerful. Why, because a question is a hook that pulls the answers already…
- How Howard Behar Overcame Depression and Realized Asking for Help is Our Biggest Strength · 38 min · Episode 108Howard Behar helped grow Starbucks from 28 stores to more than 15,000 and at 80, he found himself in a treatment center for depression. Howard is the former president of…
- Hegseth's Testosterone Plan: A Doctor Who Treats Veterans Responds | Dr. Mark Gordon · 55 min · Episode 107The average man today is walking around with meaningfully less testosterone than his grandfather had at the same age — and the fix the military is reaching for may be aimed at…
- The Barbarian in You: Ed Hinman on Vigor, Wonder, Fellowship, and Trusting Your Own Heart · 1 h 4 min · Episode 106The parts of you that feel most alive — the vigor, the wonder, the real friendship — aren’t gone. They’re just waiting for you to make a little room for them again. Ed Hinman is…
- Pain Is a Doorway: Alexander Love on Forgiving His Father’s Killer, Turning Toward What Hurts, and Why Being a Good Man Takes Courage · 1 h 9 min · Episode 105In 1998, Alexander Love’s father was murdered. Years later, he sat down — on Zoom — with the man who did it. And what he found there was not what anyone expected. Alexander Love…
- Why Asking for Help Early Is the Whole Game — Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, ER Psychiatrist · 1 h 4 min · Episode 104The crisis almost never arrives all at once. It builds — quietly, gradually — and then one day, people break. Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey has stood in two of the most extreme places…
- Male Loneliness Epidemic, and How Emotional Intelligence can help men Connect. - Dr. J.J. Kelly · 1 h 5 min · Episode 103One of the biggest reasons why many men are suffering with loneliness is their lack of emotional intelligence and emotional literacy. Dr. J.J. Kelly, the Punk Rock Doc, is a…
- Why Men Break When the Intimacy Stops: Dr. Celeste Holbrook on the Desire Gap, Purity Culture, and How to Fix It · 1 h 1 min · Episode 102What if the reason intimacy carries so much weight for men is that it’s the only place we’ve been given permission to be fully human? Dr. Celeste Holbrook is a sexologist with a…
- Why Can't I Focus? Janel Penaflor on the Real Science Behind Focus, Your Nervous System, and Why Stillness Is the Key · 1 h 10 min · Episode 101Trying harder to focus is making it worse. And there’s a reason for that. There is a very intimate relationship between your body and your mind. It's actually the health and…
- Dr. Mark Gordon on Peptides & the Science Behind Them: Brain Repair, Hormones, and Safety · 1 h 19 min · Episode 100Everyone is talking about peptides. Dr. Mark Gordon has been developing and proving the science behind them for 25 years. This man is the authority on peptides! As a physician…
- Hostage Negotiation: Make Someone Feel Heard and Everything Changes: Derek Gaunt on Tactical Empathy · 1 h 21 min · Episode 99A man walked into a room with a gun, a grievance, and nothing left to lose. The person who talked him down had spent 20 years learning one thing: the moment you make someone feel…
- The Ultimate Superfood NASA Endorsed and You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Dr. Catharine Arnston on Algae, Energy & Longevity · 1 h 3 min · Episode 98What if everything you’ve been taking to boost your energy, sharpen your focus, and fuel your body was covered by one single food? Dr. Catharine Arnston discovered algae sixteen…
- What the Manosphere Really Is w/ Elliot Hulse; Is the Netflix Documentary all Propaganda? · 1 h 18 min · Episode 97What is the manosphere, and why are young men gravitating towards it? Elliott Hulse has been on YouTube since 2007. With over one billion views across his channels and 2.4…
- Professor Joseph Fuller on why men are falling behind and what it means for all of us (An MTM AI Short) · 9 min · Episode 96Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Fuller joins Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider to break down decades of data showing that men are quietly falling behind in education, the…
- When We Connect, We Survive with Dr Shauna Springer on the 10 Beliefs About Mental Health That Are Quietly Killing Our Bravest · 1 h 8 min · Episode 95What if the things we say and do to support our bravest are actually the things putting them at risk? Dr. Shauna Springer is back. A Harvard-trained psychologist and Chief…
- Mediocrity Happens by Default, Exceptional Happens by Design: Greg Scheinman on Releasing the Midlife Accumulation Trap · 1 h 7 min · Episode 94What if the move most men never make in midlife is the one that changes everything? Greg Scheinman has had two seven-figure exits — one acquired by Disney CEO Michael Eisner…







