A transformative conversation between Jeff Siegel & Reggie D. Ford on redefining masculinity, healing from disordered eating, and reimagining success beyond hustle culture.
Together, we explore questions that men—and all humans—need to sit with:
- How do we shed societal expectations and allow ourselves to simply be?
- What do you need that you didn’t get?
- Can success coexist with rest, presence, and peace?
Jeff shares his struggle with an eating disorder, the impact of absentee fatherhood, and the cultural pressures that push men away from vulnerability. He also explores his multi-layered healing journey, ranging from martial arts to Buddhist studies, neuroscience to spiritual embodiment, and offers listeners tools to return to their bodies, center their nervous systems, and reframe productivity with compassion.
“There’s a tremendous freeing energy in the surrender and asking for help, this can get us into this conversation around some of the masks of masculinity.
Jeff Siegel
Like why it’s so hard for so many men to ask for help, because it appears weak. Because it is vulnerable.
And it goes against all of these sociocultural messages like a real man is independent, and is strong and autonomous and can do things on his own and doesn’t need somebody to come, right?
We need to unravel all of that stuff because none of us were meant to do this alone.”