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How Fathers, Culture, and Generational Trauma Shape Modern Manhood in the Black Community

In this episode of Four Titles, One Truth, Tommie and Lance have a real, reflective conversation about manhood — where our ideas of it come from, how they were shaped by our fathers and environment, and how those definitions change as we grow older.

This isn’t a debate or a rulebook. It’s a lived-experience conversation about what we were taught, what we questioned, and what we’ve had to unlearn along the way.

🔹 What We Covered

•Where did Our first definition of manhood actually come from?

•What did we need to hear from our father that we didn’t realize was missing?

•How much of manhood is inherited trauma disguised as strength?

•Are Black men judged by a different standard of manhood?

•Are men taught how to love, or just how to protect their pride?

•When did we realize that presence matters more than just good intentions?

•How does a man find balance across generations?

•What does it cost a man — and his family — when he refuses to evolve?

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