Raw Minds

What if you could hear your dad’s voice again?Not an old recording. Not a voicemail. A real conversation.In Raw Minds Podcast Ep 74, Erick sits down with entrepreneur Miles Spencer, founder of Reflecta.ai, the platform that allows families to preserve voices, memories, and legacies using artificial intelligence.Eight years after his father passed away, Miles created a way to speak with him again. Using only a short voice sample and...

Why do so many successful leaders still feel empty inside?

In this powerful episode of the Raw Minds Podcast, Erick sits down with Dr Ron Stotts, psychologist, bestselling author, and leadership transformation guide, to break down what conscious leadership really means.

Dr Ron Stotts shares his journey from PTSD and a suicide attempt to becoming a global guide for leaders who want more than surface level success. We talk about trauma...

Infant loss, NICU trauma, PTSD, and a father’s mental health journey are at the center of this Raw Minds Podcast episode.

Nathan Wieser shares the true story of losing his infant daughter after medical failure, surviving multiple miscarriages, and enduring a life threatening NICU battle when his son was born at 26 weeks. This is a real conversation about grief, trauma, PTSD in fathers, and survival.

This episode of the Raw Minds Podc...

Psilocybin and mushrooms for mental health are changing how doctors and researchers approach PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, and sleep. In this Raw Minds Podcast episode, host Erick sits down with Michael from Spores MD for a real, grounded conversation about trauma, healing, and what the research actually says.

This episode is not hype. It is not medical advice. It is about real research, lived experience, and responsible dis...

What does healing look like after war? Who helps the helpers when they break? And how do men face the pain they’ve buried for decades?

In this soul-level conversation, Erick sits down with Chaplain Sy Alli—a man who served with honor and now leads with heart. From military combat to mental health recovery, Sy’s journey reveals what happens when strength collapses, faith is tested, and identity is shattered.

He doesn’t speak in theory...

She lost both her sons. One to murder. One to tragedy. Her mother passed. Her youngest battled mental health. But Marcia Earhart didn’t break — she rebuilt.

In this powerful conversation, Erick sits down with Marcia, founder of The Sterling Rose Sanctuary, to explore deep grief, unspoken pain, spiritual healing, and the process of learning to live again.
This isn’t theory. This is a raw, lived journey through hell and back.

You’ll...

Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Today’s episode is about ADHD, men’s mental health, addiction, and purpose. Not from a textbook. From lived experience.

I sit down with Ron Souers, coach, speaker, and host of the podcast Dont Mind Me I Just Have ADHD. Ron works with men navigating adult ADHD, addiction recovery, depression, and identity struggles later in life.

Ron believes ADHD is not a flaw. It is a different operatin...

Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Today’s episode is uncomfortable. It’s not polite. And it’s necessary. I sit down with Matt Melvin, author of Bullied Behind Bars, to talk about prison trauma, bullying behind bars, men’s mental health, and what incarceration really does to the human mind. Matt made one impulsive decision while working at a car dealership.

That decision sent him to prison. What followed nearly destroyed...

Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Tonight I sit down with Elliot Justin, an emergency physician, healthcare entrepreneur, and innovator who has spent over 25 years working at the intersection of men’s health, technology, and real world medicine.

Elliot is the co founder of FirmTech, the company behind the TechRing, an FDA registered wearable designed to objectively measure nocturnal erections, which are a critical early...

Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Tonight I sit down with William Person, a former nine-year Team USA Bobsled athlete who pushed his body and brain to the absolute limit — and paid the price in ways most people never see.

After years of extreme impacts and head trauma, William began experiencing CTE-like symptoms that slowly destroyed his memory, emotional control, and sense of self. At his lowest point, he could barely...

Tonight’s episode is raw, honest, and heavy. We sit down with Scotty Hulshof, a man who survived federal prison, addiction, extreme violence, trauma, and solitary confinement and came back with truth for the rest of us. Scotty spent nearly ten years in federal prison, survived 15 months in solitary, lived through overdoses, street violence, riots, torture, and the kind of darkness most men never recover from.This is a story about m...

He’s not just a rabbi.
He’s not just a headline.
He’s a human being who broke down, stood back up, and found purpose through pain.

In Raw Minds Episode 63, Erick sits down with Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski known in the media as “The Road Rage Rabbi” to uncover the truth behind that viral moment, and what it really exposed about mental health, masculinity, and shame in high-powered men.

Rabbi Alfredo is a spiritual teacher, former a...

From BMX races and crack houses to prison cells and cryo chambers
Chad Dunn has lived it all and came back with a code for life

In this Raw Minds episode Chad shares how he went from chasing a street high to building MOVE Human Performance Center in Chandler Arizona where he helps people walk again move again and believe again

We talk about his book Mind Over Virtually Everything addiction and recovery time in prison the Buffalo m...

Welcome to Raw Minds. This one is for anyone who thinks it is too late.

Mike O’Brien was a heroin and meth IV user. He lost his girl, his kids, his family, his hope. He chased numb until he almost died.

Today he is clean, a dad at home, a coach, and a man building an honest life one hard rep at a time.

We talk about rock bottom, the moment you choose life, community, the gym, faith, fatherhood, borderline diagnosis, boxing for charity...

Raw Minds S2 Ep. 60 – Erick sits down with Olympic silver medalist and Emmy Award winner John K. Coyle for one of the deepest conversations ever recorded on the show. This episode is a raw exploration of identity loss, ego death, trauma, fatherhood, grief, and how to slow time when life speeds out of control.

John opens up about:

• What it felt like to lose his Olympic dream — twice

• The dark decade that followed

• How he clawed his way...

In this deep and powerful episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with Balongo Amos — global speaker, leadership coach, nonprofit founder, and recording artist — to talk about turning adversity into purpose.

Amos shares how growing up in Kenya shaped his mission to help people find their voice, heal through communication, and lead with heart. From coaching military generals to creating Africa’s first children’s ukulele orchestra, Amos...

In this raw and powerful episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with Eric Day, a man who knows what it means to hit rock bottom and climb back. From living out of his car to becoming a voice of resilience and change, Eric’s story is one of pain, purpose, and survival.

Eric talks openly about what led to his darkest moments, the loneliness of isolation, and how he turned everything around — not for followers, not for applause, but to ...

This episode of Raw Minds might be the realest one yet.

Rob Kancler, founder of Bedroom Genius and creator of The Compass assessment, joins Erick for a raw and unfiltered talk about the things most men never speak on sex, shame, emotional honesty, intimacy, porn, relationships, and masculinity.

Rob has spent over 20 years helping thousands of men transform their inner world by understanding one truth: if you master this part of your ...

In this powerful episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with Ed from the UK to talk about addiction recovery, relapse, men’s mental health, and what it really takes to heal. Ed opens up about his personal journey and the challenges he’s overcome, including battling addiction and building back a better life.

This is a raw and unfiltered conversation about what men go through — mentally, emotionally, and spiritually — and how they ...