Tyler Adams

Goodpain Podcast Season 02, Episode No. 009: Cultural Seductions of Men & the Hooks of Addiction

Jeremy & Tyler are back in the studio to how culturally rewarded patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting can function like addictions for men, keeping them trapped while believing they are powerful and “in control.” The cost? Over time, they diminish the man himself, shrinking his humanity, robbing his authentic relationships, mystery, interdependence, and the…

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Goodpain Podcast Season 02, Episode No. 008: Bill O’Melia – Grief as a Father, Sharing Grief as Men

We return to the topic of grief as our starting point and shared story, however, this discussion goes beyond that. In it we sit down with Bill O’Melia, who was thrust into role as an advocate following the passing of his son, Drennan in 2010. Bil and his wife, Melissa, with their two surviving sons…

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Goodpain Season 02 Episode No. 007: The Masculine Principle – Fletcher Galeano, Finding Self within Estrangement

This week we speak with Fletcher Galeano, author of Letters to a Living Ghost, a memoir of his personal journey that explores themes of identity, grief, and healing. His journey involved emotional abuse, parental neglect, mental illness, family estrangement, and trauma and he shares the vulnerable details in this discussion. Fletcher Galeano’s Amazon Author Page

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Goodpain Season 02 Episode 006: The Masculine Principle – Deremiah *CPE, Embracing Wisdom and Letting Go Poverty Mindsets

“Whether you are rich or whether you are poor, life delivers challenges to you” and despite these challenges, our guest Deremiah points out how much embracing our choice and autonomy regardless of the circumstances defines how we live. We do not get to choose our challenges. Learning how to listen to ourselves, to listen to…

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Goodpain Season 02 Episode 005: The Masculine Principles – Losing Ourselves to the Myths of “Winning”

This week we explore what it means to be a bully, a manipulator, a tyrant, and an addict under the siren song of “winning.” We ask ourselves how the reductionist and simplistic rules of sports or the battlefield do not serve the versions of leadership to which we aspire and know we are capable of…

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Goodpain Season 02, Episode No. 04: Interview with Kyle Quincey (former NHL, Do Good Ranch) – Self-Worth, Play, & Eldership

Today we sit down with our friend Kyle Quincey, former defenseman in the NHL and Owner of Do Good Ranch. Kyle shares his story coming up playing hockey in Canada through the end of his storied career in the NHL. Kyle describes how the professional system reinforces the belief tha “You’re never good enough” and…

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Goodpain Season 02 Episode No. 03: Interview with Charlie Moss, Associate Editor SPIN – Men & Grief

Charlie Moss is an Assistant Editor at SPIN Magazine and penned a review of Director Brian Brightly’s 2025 film release The Wake, a fictional exploration of men and grief. Charlie and I connected following the article drop and in a subsequent discussion around the topic, found ourselves discussing male imagination, world building, stability, and play….

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Sparks + Embers Episode No. 020: Relationships of Abundance or Transaction

We’ve explored how community begins with an inner capacity for connectedness, and how that capacity must be large enough to hold intensity without flinching. But this raises a new question: if community isn’t manufactured through desire or design, what actually sustains it? What keeps the connections alive across time and distance, through seasons of plenty…

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Community & the Gift Economy: Reconciling Abundance and Transaction

Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. In a Gift Economy We Must Reconcile How Abundance Draws Us Together, While Transaction Separates The Economics of Abundance: Gift Circulation and Non-Transactional Exchange Part 1: The Gift Economy – When Giving Creates Relationship We live in a world that runs…

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Goodpain Season 02 Episode No. 02 – Becoming a Real Man & The Roles We Learn

This week we explore our own encounters with how traditional expectations both elevate and imprison, leading to breakdown before breakthrough. The conversation explores: “What expectations about manhood did you inherit that nobody taught you how to actually embody?” “When have you felt most trapped by the very roles that were supposed to give you strength…

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