Season 2: SEX
The conversations we wish we'd had sooner.
Most of us learned something about sex long before we learned how to talk about it.
We learned from family, friends, religion, porn, partners, culture, silence, experience, mistakes, love, and loss. Some of what we learned served us. Some of it confused us. Some of it hurt us or the people we loved. And some of the most important lessons came much later.
For Season 2 of the Men’s Healing Network Podcast, we want to make room for the conversations many of us wish we had been having all along.
We want to talk about desire and pleasure, love and intimacy, bodies and biology, marriage and commitment, porn and sexual scripts, consent and power, shame and trauma, violence and nervous systems, infidelity and divorce, integrity and mistakes, accountability and repair. I also want to talk about ecstasy, joy, connection, and what it means to feel fully alive in relationship with ourselves and with other people.
This is not a conversation only for men.
We are inviting practitioners, therapists, facilitators, researchers, sex educators, survivor advocates, coaches, community leaders, organizers, and others whose work touches men, boys, relationships, sexuality, healing, or accountability. I want women, queer and trans practitioners, and people whose perspectives have too often been missing from men’s spaces to be part of this inquiry too.
Some guests will bring years of professional experience. Some will bring research. Some will bring lived experience. Most will bring all of those things together.
At the center of every conversation are three questions:
What do you wish you had known sooner?
What do you wish you had practiced sooner?
What do you wish men and boys were learning now?
We are especially interested in the space between knowing and practicing.
Share Your Questions
A brief, anonymous reflection form open to adults.
Share Your Wisdom
Is there something you know, teach, research, or practice that you believe belongs in this conversation?
Joining Season 2 of the Men’s Healing Network Podcast: SEX, The conversations we wish we'd had sooner.
Vincent Perez is recording first round interviews on December 6, 13, 19, and 20, 2026. If you have a perspective, story, practice, or body of work you think belongs in this conversation, I’d love to hear from you.
Schedule your interview here:
The Men’s Healing Network Podcast
This podcast is a space where men sit together with intention, speak honestly, and share the moments that have shaped who they are.
Each episode brings together three men:
The host (Vincent Perez)
A man he invites
A man that guest invites
The conversation forms a living circle. One relationship leads naturally into the next, creating continuity, trust, and depth rather than isolated interviews.
This is not a show about fixing yourself or performing for an audience. It is about presence, truth, and being witnessed by other men.
Season One Episodes
Ep. 1:
Fathers, Sons, and the Journey Home
In this Father’s Day launch episode, Vincent Perez is joined by Alex Craighead and his father Tom Craighead for a powerful conversation about fathers and sons, wounds and wisdom, and the lifelong journey of healing. Together, they reflect on vulnerability, purpose, rites of passage, and the importance of community in shaping who we become.
Ep. 2:
The Medicine of Friendship
Can friendship heal? Vincent Perez sits down with Leo Lopez and Miguel Chuca to discuss brotherhood, fatherhood, and the transformative power of authentic connection in men's healing.
Ep. 3:
The Courage to Feel
What if strength is not holding it all in? In this episode, Vincent Perez speaks with Jordan Lyon and Brian “Yam” Dwyer about grief, fatherhood, and brotherhood and what opens up for men when they stop carrying pain in isolation and start learning to stay with it together.
Ep. 4:
Practice Makes Human
What if healing isn't something we achieve, but something we practice? Vincent Perez sits down with Jason Hill and Mason Aviles of Beyond The Man Box to explore emotional intelligence, relationships, and the everyday choices that help us become more fully human.
Ep. 5:
The Wisdom of the Wild
What if healing requires more than talking?
In Episode 5, Vincent Perez sits down with Elias Serras and Darren Silver to explore the power of ritual, nature, rites of passage, and community in men's healing. Together, they ask what happens when we step away from self-help and performance and return to something deeper: belonging.
We can't heal in isolation.
Ep. 6:
The Freedom to be Fully Human
What if men's healing isn't about becoming a better kind of man, but becoming more fully yourself?
Vincent Perez joins Gregory Flynn and Efraín Gutiérrez for a powerful conversation about masculinity, queerness, connection, identity, and the freedom to move beyond the roles we've been taught to perform. Together, they explore what it means to reclaim the parts of ourselves we've hidden, challenge rigid ideas of masculinity, and become more fully human, together.
Ep. 7:
The Way Back To Ourselves
What if healing isn't about becoming someone new, but remembering who you've always been?
Vincent Perez is joined by Joshua Zamrin and Nate Berner-Tobin for a conversation about emotional health, belonging, and coming home to ourselves.
Ep. 8:
Don’t Do This Alone
Men are taught to carry it alone.
Michael “Roddy” McDowell and Dan Dantzic challenge that script, exploring what happens when men learn to ask for help, receive support, and stay beside each other through the hard stuff.
Ep. 9:
Beyond The Patriarchy
What if men’s healing requires us to look beyond the individual?
In the Season One finale, Vincent Perez, Fernell Miller, and Dr. Jen Self explore patriarchy, identity, belonging, racial and gender justice, and what it means to move beyond systems of domination toward deeper connection and collective healing.