PODCAST · health
Leading Through Loss
by Jason MacKenzie
Helping Men Live After Loss www.mandown.tools
Episodes
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No, I Do Know
People mean well when they tell a widow she’s still young and that you never know who’s around the corner. If your marriage ended in violence and then in suicide, that advice skips the first question most women ask about any man, which is whether they’ll be safe with him. In our third…
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What Loss Does to a Person that No One Talks About
People have a hard enough talking about grief. It’s even harder to talk about what it’s really like, behind closed doors and in the confines of your own mind. That’s the version that not too many people want to admit. In this conversation, I sit down with Jeannie Ewing, who spent ten years…
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How Men Heal and Grow
Thank you Harriet Corvine, That Woman Who Writes Things, and many others for tuning into my conversation with Damon Mitchell! Damon Mitchell is a coach for men. He’s one of the few people on Substack whose comments consistently make me stop and think, so I asked him to sit down with me and talk....
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Losing Your Identity After Loss
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Three and half years after my daughter’s death and I finally feel happy
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🎙️Let’s Get Unstuck x Jason Mackenzie🎙️
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Honoring Grief with Jason MacKenzie
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Live with Bridget Belden and Jason McKenzie
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They Did Everything They Could And Lost Their Son
This episode is about what happens when a family loses a son and a brother to suicide after a long, exhausting fight with mental illness. In this episode of the Man Down podcast, Jason sits down with Eric Fulmer, a husband, father of six, and technology leader who lost his 23 year old son,...
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He Lost His Kids. Then He Got Cancer.
Grab your Kleenex. Or if you’re feeling especially macho, get ready to pretend there’s something in your eye. This episode is not about staying positive or pushing through. It is about what happens when a man spends years fighting to see his kids and then gets diagnosed with a very aggressive…
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Men Don’t Grieve the Way You Think They Do
Most men aren’t taught how to grieve. They’re taught how to hold it together. Get up. Go to work. Handle your responsibilities. Don’t fall apart. And absolutely don’t make it anyone else’s problem. In this episode, Jason sits down with Tom Golden, a therapist who’s spent decades working almost...
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When Grief Changes Who You Are: Parenting, Purpose, and the Long Road After Loss
What happens when loss doesn’t just break your heart—but permanently changes who you are? In this deeply honest conversation, Jason MacKenzie sits down with Chris Coulter, founder of The Mentor Well and creator of Lifeline Parenting Workshops, to explore what life actually looks like ten years...
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Surviving Grief’s Firsts
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Growing Up In Chaos: How Trauma Shaped a Leader, and a Brother
What happens to a person when the place that’s supposed to keep them safe… isn’t? In this raw conversation, Jonathan Fennell opens up about growing up in chaos, living with hypervigilance, loving a brother in crisis, and trying to build a life while carrying trauma that never fully lets go.…
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Surviving the Holidays After a Devastating Loss
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The Leper and the Sundial
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Surviving a Spouse’s Suicide
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The Ocean Took His Son. The Aftermath Became Phil's Life's Work
When Phil Cohen’s 14-year-old son disappeared at sea, the world watched the largest civilian Coast Guard search in history unfold. For seven days he lived in the space between hope and hell—and nothing in his life would ever be the same. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Phil (“The Grief…
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The Best Question to Ask When Supporting a Grieving Person
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Resilience is Relational
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He Lost Both Sons in a Crash. What He Says Next Will Change How You See Grief.
Lenny Hunt’s story begins with an ordinary moment every parent knows—a quick glance into the backseat to share a smile with his son. Seconds later, both of his boys were gone. What followed wasn’t healing. It was survival. For years, Lenny lived in the wreckage—haunted by guilt, drowning in...
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Wrestling with God
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Resilience Isn’t Strength. It's Skill
Most men think resilience means staying tough. Pushing through. Holding it together no matter what. But what if that’s not resilience at all? Professor Jo Clarke has spent over two decades working in some of the toughest environments imaginable—the British prison system. She’s seen what trauma…
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From Grief to Growth: How Jacque Ecuyer Turned Intolerable Pain into Purpose
Episode Summary Most men are taught to tough it out. Jacque Ecuyer tried that, and it nearly cost him everything. In this raw and deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Jacque to talk about the pain of losing his parents, years of bullying, addiction, and the moment he finally said, “I need...
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Episode 1: Why I Started This Podcast (and Why I Think It Matters)
Too many good men die, not just physically, but emotionally, because no one ever taught us how to handle pain. In this raw, unfiltered first episode of The Man Down Project, Jason McKenzie lays it all on the table: the suicide of his first wife, Cindy; the tragic death of his 19-year-old…
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My wife’s death almost killed me too with Jeff Pinner
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Life After a Child’s Death with Aaron Sorensen
Math teacher and expatriate dad Aaron Sorensen joins me from Taipei to talk about life overseas and the day everything changed when his son, Lucas, died. Aaron shares the kind, bright kid Lucas was (AP Calc, baseball, board-game strategist) and how crushing pressure and a dangerous coping…
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Grief & Growth After Losing A Daughter with Mark Pearson
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Helping Men Live After Loss
www.mandown.tools
HOSTED BY
Jason MacKenzie
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