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Recorded May 20, 2026
Career & Leadership
Recap: The first paycheck — what nobody told us
Hosts: Jelani Williams, Kwame Boateng, Devon Carter · 75 min
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Three brothers — an engineer eight years in, a freelance lawyer just made partner, and a high-school teacher in year fifteen — walked through what their first real paycheck taught them about money, family, and the silent rules nobody put on a syllabus. Jelani opened with a story about wiring half his second cheque home before he'd paid rent. Kwame pushed on the script of being 'the one who made it' and what that does to a young man's idea of generosity. Devon — the teacher — closed with the most quoted line of the night: 'I'm not broke. I'm just not allowed to be rich.' We took eight live questions from the room and ran fifteen minutes over. The takeaway every host agreed on: write down a remittance number you can actually sustain before your family writes one for you.
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Money & Generational Wealth
Money without shame: rebuilding your relationship with cash
Fri, Jun 5 · 22:32 UTC · 60 min
A live audio panel for men who grew up watching money be a source of stress, secrecy, or fight. We dig into the psychology — feast-or-famine spending, family-remittance anxiety, the shame of asking — alongside the practical: an emergency-fund target that actually works for you, how to automate without losing flexibility, and what to do when supporting family is non-negotiable.
Hosts: Jelani Williams, Ibrahim Cissé
Mental Health
Therapy for brothers: what actually works
Wed, Jun 10 · 22:32 UTC · 90 min
Three therapists who specialize in working with Black and African men sit down to talk about what their practice actually looks like — not the stereotypes, not the slogans. What modalities work. How to find a therapist who gets it. How to know when therapy is moving and when it's stalled. And the question every man asks at the start: how do I know it's working?
Hosts: Tunde Adebayo, Devon Carter, Yonas Tesfaye
Fatherhood
Single dads, summer schedule edition
Sun, Jun 14 · 17:00 UTC · 75 min
Three single fathers from three cities walk through how they actually run the summer when school is out and the kids are home all day. Camp budgets, work-from-home logic, co-parenting handoffs, and the small habits that keep everyone fed and sane until September.
Hosts: Reggie Harper, Curtis Owens, Sekou Diallo
Identity & Diaspora
Going home: the diaspora return question
Tue, Jun 16 · 22:32 UTC · 75 min
More brothers than ever are seriously considering moving — or moving back — to the continent. Three men who made the leap (Lagos, Accra, Cape Town) and one who decided not to share what it actually looked like: the visa logistics, the money math, the social shock, what they miss, what they'd do differently, and whether they'd do it again.
Hosts: Marcus Joseph, Mamadou Diop, Tunde Adeyemi, Bongani Khumalo
Fitness & Discipline
Strength after forty: training the second half
Tue, Jun 23 · 22:32 UTC · 60 min
How training changes after forty — and why most men get this wrong. A practical panel with two strength coaches and two longtime lifters who walk through programming, recovery, sleep, mobility, and the long view of staying strong, mobile, and useful into your 60s and 70s.
Hosts: Bongani Khumalo, Lethabo Mokoena
Money & Generational Wealth
First-time homebuyer clinic — real numbers, real timelines
Sun, Jul 12 · 18:00 UTC · 90 min
A working clinic, not a sales pitch. We walk through three real budgets at three real income levels and show what a two-year path to closing actually looks like — credit score work, down-payment savings, the FHA versus conventional choice, and the closing-week surprises that trip first-time buyers up.
Hosts: Donovan Hayes, Jelani Williams
Career & Leadership
From senior to staff engineer — the unwritten part
Sun, Jul 26 · 17:00 UTC · 75 min
Three Black engineers at staff-and-above levels at different companies talk about the part of the promotion that nobody writes down — the visibility work, the cross-team alliances, the politics of scope, and how to do it without selling yourself out. Q&A in the second half.
Know your numbers: heart screening for brothers over 35
Sun, Aug 9 · 17:00 UTC · 60 min
A cardiologist and two patients walk through what a basic heart-health check actually covers — blood pressure, lipids, A1C, and the family-history conversation. No scare tactics, no supplement pitches. Just the screening that has the most evidence behind it and how to make sure you get it.
Hosts: Dr. Olumide Adeyemi, Bongani Khumalo
Mental Health
Day counts: brothers in recovery, on the record
Sun, Sep 13 · 17:00 UTC · 90 min
Five brothers in different programs — twelve-step, SMART, faith-based, harm reduction, medication-assisted — share what is working and what is not. The conversation is frank, the names are real, and the room is held for the brother who is one day in.
Hosts: Brother Lawrence Hayes, Devon Carter
Faith & Spirituality
Faith after doubt — Christian, Muslim, neither
Sun, Oct 4 · 17:00 UTC · 90 min
An AME pastor, an imam, and a secular philosopher sit in the same room and talk honestly about doubt. What it has asked of them. What they have done with it. And what they would say to a brother who is in the middle of leaving — or returning to — the tradition he grew up in.
Hosts: Pastor Andre Wheeler, Imam Yusuf Bah, Dr. Kwesi Asante
Community & Mentorship
The long marriage: year twelve, year twenty, year thirty
Sun, Oct 25 · 17:00 UTC · 75 min
A couples therapist and three husbands at year twelve, twenty, and thirty walk through what each season actually asked of them — the drift years, the rebuild years, the empty-nest reset, and the daily practice of staying close in a long partnership.
Hosts: Dr. Marcus Reid, Marcus Joseph, Olúwáṣeun Akíntádé
Mental Health
The first anniversary — grief in year one
Sun, Nov 15 · 18:00 UTC · 75 min
A grief counselor and three brothers who lost a parent, a sibling, and a child within the last year talk about the anniversary, the birthdays, the holidays, and the daily weight that follows a major loss. Honest, slow, and held.
Hosts: Tre'Vell Brooks, Devon Carter
Money & Generational Wealth
End-of-year money: tax, giving, and the family ask
Sun, Dec 6 · 18:00 UTC · 60 min
December is the month every financial decision compounds. Three brothers and a mortgage broker talk through end-of-year tax moves that actually matter for working incomes, the math on year-end family transfers, and how to walk into January without the same money knot you ended last year with.
Hosts: Donovan Hayes, Ibrahim Cissé, Femi Okonkwo
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