Raw Minds

Raw Minds

Raw Minds Podcast: Fearlessly breaking the silence around men’s mental health. Hosted by Erick and Anthony, Raw Minds unpacks the struggles men face through stories of resilience, healing, and growth. From battling depression to overcoming trauma, each episode is a raw, honest space for vulnerability and hope. More than a podcast, it’s a movement to shatter stigma, empower men to embrace their emotions, and prove that true strength is found in authenticity.

Episodes

October 10, 2025 54 mins

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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In this raw and vulnerable episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with Garrett M founder of Gnosis Therapy to talk about misdiagnosis, masculinity, addiction, recovery, and the real work of starting over.Garrett shares his personal story of being wrongly diagnosed, the identity crisis it created, and how trauma and addiction shaped his early life. But this conversation doesn’t stop at pain it moves toward clarity, healing, and pract...

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In this episode of Raw Minds, Thomas M. Jones breaks down the life-changing practice he created The Paradox Process a tool that helps you transform negative emotions into powerful insight and control your mind in real time.This is not traditional therapy.This is about taking full ownership of your internal world.We discuss what it means to direct your mind, how trauma loops keep us stuck, and what true healing can look like even af...

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He’s a bishop
He’s been broken
And he’s still standing
In this powerful episode of Raw Minds, Bishop Kevin Foreman joins Erick to speak on resilience, leadership, identity, and the cost of becoming the person you’re called to be — even when pain comes first
This isn’t a conversation about religion
It’s about owning your truth, rising through trauma, and learning to lead while healing
In this episode
How childhood trauma shaped his leaders...

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They were in love
They were lost
And they almost didn’t survive

In this powerful episode of Raw Minds, Josh and Heidi Case open up about addiction, relapse, misdiagnosis, and the fight to rebuild their lives together. From chaos and codependency to healing and advocacy, this is what real recovery looks like

Inside the episode
What addiction looked like behind closed doors
How misdiagnosed mental illness almost ended everything
Their lowes...

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He had the degrees.
He had the money.
But none of it meant anything — because he didn’t have purpose.

In this episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with entrepreneur, author, and host of the Unleash Success podcast, Corey Corpodian, to talk about the truth behind success, the danger of emotional disconnection, and what it really takes to build a mentally strong life.

We talk about real-life depression, identity, discipline, emotional f...

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What if the worst moment of your life was actually the start of something bigger?In this raw and revealing episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with Hussein Hallak a global mentor, speaker, and entrepreneur who helped launch over 500 startups and raised millions in funding.But success doesn’t tell the full storyThis episode is about what happened after it all fell apartThe breakdownThe silenceThe identity crisisAnd how he built so...

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What does it take to lead with heart, courage, and authenticity?

In this episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with James Robbins, bestselling author of Nine Minutes on Monday and The Call to Climb. James shares his journey from working in ministry to becoming a sought-after leadership coach who has trained over 50,000 leaders worldwide.

This conversation digs deep into what leadership really means beyond titles and authority and how...

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What do you do when life takes everything from you?

In this deeply emotional episode of Raw Minds, Erick shares his unfiltered journey from childhood trauma, heartbreak, and loss to building Raw Minds — a movement focused on men’s mental health and healing. As a guest on Men Thrive Daily, Erick opens up about surviving devastating experiences, from losing his fiancée on Father’s Day to raising his daughter alone and fighting through...

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What does it take to fight back from the edge and keep showing up as a dad?

In this unfiltered episode of Raw Dads, Erick welcomes Scott back for round three to talk fatherhood, recovery, sobriety, and the reality of being a modern dad. This conversation is raw, honest, and packed with real-life lessons about addiction, mental health, and resilience.

Scott opens up about his relapse, his time in rehab, and what it took to rebuild him...

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Why are men still dying in silence while the world stays quiet

In this powerful episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down with viral men's mental health advocate Char for an unfiltered conversation that exposes the silence around male pain, suicide, and the double standards that leave men unseen and unsupported.

Char has built a massive platform focused on saving lives. With millions of views, a Discord community, a support team, and a 2...

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What if the missing key to success isn’t in your grind but in your wounds?In this powerful Raw Minds episode, host Erick sits down with Randy Lyman physicist, entrepreneur, and author of The Third Element — to unpack how emotional healing is the real foundation of success. From trauma and ego to vulnerability and masculine leadership, this episode exposes the truth beneath the hustle.In this episode you’ll learnWhy unhealed pain bl...

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This isn’t just another episode.

This is the reason Raw Minds even exists.


June is the month I lost Jules.

The month everything shattered.

The month I realized silence wasn’t strength — it was killing me.


I recorded this to close out Men’s Mental Health Month, but truth is…

This one’s for me.

For the dads carrying grief behind their smiles.

For the sons trying to heal while raising kids.

For the ones still breathing.

And for the ones...

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Can pain become your greatest teacher?

In this deeply moving episode of Raw Minds, host Erick sits down with Angel Oren go and Rocio Aquino, the authors of The Orchid: The Secret Code of Modern Goddesses — a powerful book that goes far beyond gender, offering a spiritual and emotional framework for healing deep trauma, reclaiming self-worth, and stepping into authentic power.

Together, Angel and Rocio break open the silence around em...

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In this powerful solo episode, Erick sits down with Georgia Jean, a movement artist, bestselling author, healer, and skydiver with over 1,500 jumps. Georgia shares her journey from stand-up comedy and trauma to channeling higher consciousness and transforming lives through her work at Circle Evolution.

She opens up about her path to healing, the power of the nervous system, why many men struggle emotionally, and how practices like c...

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In this powerful episode of Raw Minds, Erick sits down solo with Lee Povey, a high-performance leadership coach, Olympic-level cycling coach, and founder of impactful men’s groups. They dive deep into the challenges modern men face from emotional repression and leadership burnout to fatherhood, purpose, and healing from trauma.


Lee gets real about his journey from elite sports to coaching founders, and why helping men build connecti...

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This one’s not easy and it’s not supposed to be.

We sat down to talk about what most men will never say out loud. The thoughts they carry in silence. The moments they break behind closed doors. The pain they’ve buried for years.

This isn’t just about mental health this is about survival.
This is about the moment you look in the mirror and don’t recognize the man staring back.
This is about the weight you’ve been carrying so lon...

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In this gripping episode of Raw Minds Podcast, Erick welcomes Steve from @MenThriveDaily, a man whose life was shattered by a traumatic brain injury and who chose to rebuild it with fire and faith. After being struck by a drunk driver and left on the side of the road, Steve faced years of loss, pain, and unanswered questions. But instead of giving up, he leaned into the chaos, found God, created a farmland to feed the struggling, b...

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