How We Feel Podcast

Episode 25 is for all the people feeling disconnected and yearning for community.  Nate x Joey discuss how we can strive to make friends as an adult. How can we build sustainable community? How can we be intentional in forging meaningful connections? What's holding us back from meeting new people, expanding our comfort zones, and finding kindred spirit?

Bonus Episode -  Nate x Joey talk through the rise of incels, alpha mentality, and angry men. How did this happen? Why do men feel entitled to other people, their attention, and their bodies? How do we dismantle patriarchy in our everyday lives.

CW: Suicide ideation, mental health, and mental care. Episode 24 is all about paying attention and being in community. Nate x Joey talk through how we show up for one another, processing through loss, and the sometimes performative nature of mental health advocacy. How can we as people be who forge relationships of care, notice when others are not well, and build relationships of reciprocal care.

Episode 23 is a special holiday but year-round episode.  Nate x Joey cover all things boundaries. How can we establish and hold steadfast in boundaries with loved ones, families, and others? Will we always feel guilty for not indulging others? Is it true that we treat others what we'll accept by what we permit from them? Boundaries up. It's the most wonderful time of the year - always.

Episode 22 is one of our long lost episode.  Nate x Joey tackle the "Lonely Single Men" viral Psychology Today story and explore what self-aware men can be. How did we get here? What are people looking for in their partners? Who can men be for themselves? What must men give up to embrace a new manhood? What do we have to gain by doing our self-work? Time to put in the energy and effort and reap the benefits. We're here to do it together.

Episode 20 is the season one finale on HWF.  Nate x Joey finish with self-investment and how it shows up in our spaces. What spaces have we created for ourselves and what stops us from inviting others in? When do we feel overwhelmed and how do our spaces reflect that physically? Why don't we feel like we are worth spending time, energy, effort, and money on? Do we live here or are we stuck between elsewhere and nowhere? Time to tidy up our rooms and our lives. Let's do it together.

Episode 19 is here.  Nate x Joey tackle abandonment. Why do people leave us? Why do we feel so much of the loss? What is it all about when it's about us. Join as we do a big reframe around abandonment, catering to your inner child, and doing the heavy lifting of coming to terms with deeply held self-beliefs. There is healing on the other side of this pain. Let's go there together. 

Episode 18 has arrived. Nate and Joey talk through copycat emotions, empathy, sympathy, and internalizing feelings. Can we create healthy boundaries around what others are feeling and preserve our own? How do we take ownership of what we feel? Deciding when, where, and how we'll do feeling can be a brave way to honor ourselves and others in their biggest emotions. Are we looking for someone to vent, listen, offer solutions, or take an action? Let's go there together. 

Episode 17 is here. Nate and Joey talk through the remarkable feelings that come with unconditional love and chosen family. Making lasting connections in life, especially adulthood, can be challenging. Who is going to stick around? Who is going to be temporary? What is our relationship with the idea of family? We can define what family means to us, and be open to adding people, in addition to transforming difficult traditional familial relationships of obligation into those of continuous choice. Ready to feel, here we go!

Episode 16 is Nate and Joey doing what they do best in talking about how they feel in a world of polarization, needing to be right, and shaming to win. What happens if we choose to give apologies freely? Can we accept being wrong? What do we have to lose? How do we learn to apologize to ourselves when others may not offer apologies? Can we heal even without the acknowledgement of those who have hurt us? Can we as a country tell the truth about ourselves and hold ourselves accountable? Let's talk through it together. 

Episode 15 has the men behind HWF, Nate and Joey, talking through the overwhelming feelings of anguish, hopelessness, and despair. How do you get out a seemingly endless cycle of wallowing? What do you do when all seems lost? What role does belief play in guiding our self-understanding, what we think is possible, and we experience our reality. Life can be heavy, how do we heal to not be crushed by it. 

Episode 14 has the guys behind HWF, Nate and Joey, in their feelings in unfiltered ways like never before. With all the heaviness of shootings, wars, violence, hurt, harm, suffering, pain, and loss how do we feel? How do we make space to just exist when doing so feels exhausting? What do we do with our emotions when they are unrelenting? The spectrum of empathy to apathy is real and we're all somewhere on it. What does it mean to go through instead of around our feelings? Let's work through this time together.

Episode 13 has the people behind HWF, Nate and Joey, talking through the concept of time loss - pandemic, in life, or otherwise. How are we being intentional in using our time, reserving our time for ourselves, and using time wisely. How are we using time to come back to ourselves? How are we using time with purpose, authenticity, and decisiveness?

Episode 12 has the men of HWF, Nate and Joey, processing through creating closure. What does it mean to be decisive in choosing yourself, letting go of relationships that no longer serve us, and moving forward with severing connections. The guys hope you take away the courage to let go, to move on, and to embrace endings.

Episode 11 has the men behind HWF, Nate and Joey, diving into the deep end of trusting themselves through trauma. How do you fully embody your emotions, recognize triggers, and trust that the healing work that has been done will change the outcomes of dialogue going forward. This may be our best episode yet. The guys want to offer your an affirmation to yourself that you are making change, that you know yourself, and that you are capable of doing things differently.

Episode 10 of the How We Feel Podcast has Nate and Joey exploring the concept of ease. Is life meant to be hard? How do we know who we're supposed to be around and what we should be doing? How do we learn to trust our intuition? We hope you finish this episode with a renewed trust in yourself to check-in, pay attention, believe in you, and figure yourself out.

Episode 9 of the How We Feel Podcast find Nate and Joey talking about the experience of going out as guys. What's our intention? How do we center tenderness, connection, and community instead of aggression, entitlement, and excess? What happens if we can just exist, be safe, and be comfortable as we are? We hope you leave this episode with some ways to cultivate better friendships, people to rely on in social situations, setting boundaries/limits, evaluate your social role, and allow yourself to be open.

Episode 8 of the How We Feel Podcast follow Nate and Joey talking through beliefs around patriarchy, masculinity, and racism. How do you dot he work to change your belief system? How do you let go of beliefs, make room for new ones, and adjust accordingly? What does doing the work to accept your shortcomings, embrace new information, and put in good faith efforts look like? Things can change. We hope you leave this episode with a challenge to be curious, learn, adapt, and stay accountable. 

Episode 7 of the How We Feel Podcast follow Nate and Joey questioning their realities - changing your life, monumental impacts from little decisions, choosing your own path, and going against what you've learned. Abundance is possible. We hope you leave this episode with a critical curiosity and how to pause, awareness, question, explore, and adapt.

Episode 6 of the How We Feel Podcast follow Nate and Joey feeling through taking M.I.A. (missing in action) days - how to carve out time for them, setting boundaries, examining why we need them, and working through the guilt of reclaiming your time. We hope you leave this episode with an offering of self-grace, and ways to invite rules, novelty, meeting your needs, and reflection into your life.

Episode 5 of the How We Feel Podcast follow Nate and Joey striving to embody emotions -  dealing with being overwhelmed, parenting your inner-child, navigating trauma, and gaining mastery of your emotions. We hope you leave your time with us with insight on identities grounded in hurt, how to heal, and PREA (pause, reflect, evaluate, affirm) to use affirmations to combat false beliefs.

Episode 4 of the How We Feel Podcast see Nate and Joey feeling through dating - how/why people settle, venting with people outside relationships, and how to know when to break up. We hope you take away a decisive approach to dating - rules for venting and being vented to, feeling apathy versus passion, and choosing better when it's available to you.

On episode three of the How We Feel Podcast - Nate and Joey feel through relationships of all kinds, trusting intuition, reciprocating vulnerability, and letting people go. We hope you take away a decisive approach to relationships - showing up for yourself, expectation & anticipation, clarify the ambiguity, and know love is always on the horizon.

On episode two of the How We Feel Podcast - Nate and Joey feel through rest, demonstrating care, quieting the noise, and endless productivity. We hope this one helps you feel more well-rested and to combat exhaustion.

On the pilot episode of the How We Feel Podcast - Nate and Joey feel through all things self-empathy, setting boundaries, asking for help, and motivational interviewing for deeper understanding in a world of disconnect.