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EPISODE · Apr 9, 2026 · 58 MIN

Who Young Men Follow When the Manosphere Fails Them - Lewis Wedlock

from The Mature Male · host Wes Lambert

Lewis Wedlock is a men's educator, school facilitator, TEDx speaker, and author who has spent years in secondary schools across the UK working directly with thousands of young men on masculinity, mental health, and identity.The narratives around young men right now are loud, alarming, and largely wrong. While documentaries and headlines warn about radicalization and the manosphere, what Lewis actually finds in the school halls is something more hopeful and more overlooked: boys who desperately want to talk, who are far more open than anyone gives them credit for, and who are starving for adults willing to meet them with curiosity instead of condemnation.Expect to learn what young men are actually saying when adults stop telling them what to think, why the curious versus furious framework changes everything about engaging boys on difficult topics, what mendable masculinity means and how it frees men from the trap of rigid identity, how to regulate yourself before entering hard conversations with the men and boys in your life, why a social media screen time audit is more powerful than any lecture, what the gap really looks like between media portrayals of young men and the reality on the ground, how to challenge someone's ideas without attacking who they are as a person, why modeling matters more than anything you could ever say out loud and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

Lewis Wedlock is a men's educator, school facilitator, TEDx speaker, and author who has spent years in secondary schools across the UK working directly with thousands of young men on masculinity, mental health, and identity.The narratives around young men right now are loud, alarming, and largely wrong. While documentaries and headlines warn about radicalization and the manosphere, what Lewis actually finds in the school halls is something more hopeful and more overlooked: boys who desperately want to talk, who are far more open than anyone gives them credit for, and who are starving for adults willing to meet them with curiosity instead of condemnation.Expect to learn what young men are actually saying when adults stop telling them what to think, why the curious versus furious framework changes everything about engaging boys on difficult topics, what mendable masculinity means and how it frees men from the trap of rigid identity, how to regulate yourself before entering hard conversations with the men and boys in your life, why a social media screen time audit is more powerful than any lecture, what the gap really looks like between media portrayals of young men and the reality on the ground, how to challenge someone's ideas without attacking who they are as a person, why modeling matters more than anything you could ever say out loud and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

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