Shayden J. Bertagnolli MS LMFT Men's Mental Health Expert
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Men are stuck. Men are lonely. Men and masculinity is under attack. Why? Because men are powerful beyond measure to build and save the world. The Motyv Podcast is here to help librate men around the world, advocate what they're going through, while at the same time providing solutions. Come listen to the four amazing therapists who've partnered with Shayden Bertagnolli to create this movement to LIBERATE MEN! The first 91 episodes of the Motyv Podcast focus on solving life's hardest mental health problems and is loaded with value. Chapter two of the Motyv Podcast is focused on Liberating Men & Their M...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
The Motyv Podcast frames men's mental health through faith, relationships, pain, shame, resentment, attachment, and responsibility.
The Motyv Podcast belongs in Health & Fitness as a men's mental health show with a counseling-room feel and a clear faith frame. The sampled episodes move through therapist conversations, solo teaching, and long form guest interviews, with recurring attention to pain, shame,…
You want a therapist to hand your resentment a mirror, then make it useful.
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A steady look at burnout, values, and the early signs that recovery is no longer enough.
It treats burnout as a practical, values-based problem rather than a passing rough patch. The discussion keeps circling back to a simple test: when life starts to feel like survival mode or autopilot, what do daily habits say about what matters, and where has alignment slipped?
A searching solo talk about anxiety, rumination, and defenses that can harden into cages.
Shaden Bertinoli's solo turn stays close to anxiety, rumination, numbness, and the way a protective mind can harden into a cage. The piece works best when it keeps its feet on the ground, moving from the body to the heart to the habits people reach for when they are tired of…
A direct look at shame, hiding, worth, and the call to live differently.
The piece treats shame as more than a feeling. It becomes a habit of hiding, a way of pricing worth, and a lens that turns choices into wins or losses.
A clear talk about keeping everything in and telling the truth.
This episode treats men's mental health as more than a slogan. It follows a man who is finally ready to empty out the story he has been carrying, and the hosts use that honesty to examine what can happen when men keep everything in for too long.
A plainspoken look at triggers, shame, and coping habits that once felt like relief.
The episode starts with a practical clarification: they are still doing therapy, still seeing clients, and still trying to help men move out of shame loops.
A reflective return that treats men's hurt as something to understand.
The Motive Podcast returns after a pause and settles into a talk about men, attachment, and the way pride can make love harder to take in. It works best when it moves from the plain idea that life gets harder when people try to do hard things without skill or principle into…
A loose, practical conversation about busyness, presence, and discipline as a steady habit.
The discussion treats busyness less as a virtue than as a dodge from presence and stillness. It keeps circling back to phones, distraction, non-negotiables, and the idea that discipline becomes part of a person over time.
A patient conversation about naming feelings clearly before they blur into confusion.
This episode keeps circling a plain but useful idea: the right word can make a feeling easier to carry. It moves through depression and sadness, lust and attraction, niceness and kindness, then guilt and resentment, using those pairs to show how naming things clearly can change…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
The show opens with tears and a reflection on prayer and forgetting God’s greatness.
The Motyv Podcast explores betrayal trauma with marriage and family therapist Shaden and specialists Sadie and Phyllis.
In a solo episode of The Motyv Podcast, the host (a male-focused therapist and spiritual guide) shares insights from a recent men's group gathering centered on Mark chapter 9—the biblical story of a father bringing his possessed son to Jesus.
Shaden Bertinoli and Blake Alton use the Motyv Podcast to unpack resentment as a form of resistance, describing it as a way people protect themselves, relax their effort, or avoid accountability.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 9 centers on Sadie's client story about inner thoughts, a preschool driving moment, and the line between what people think in private and what they would never say in an elevator.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 14 compares three pairs: lust versus attraction, depression versus sadness, and nice versus kind.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 12 centers on the quote, “You don’t stop playing because you get old.
Shaden Bertinoli and Blake Altham, both licensed marriage and family therapists, center the episode on a ChatGPT answer that the opposite of discipline is “indulgence” and then apply that same opposites framework to anxiety, depression, belonging, and shame.
Shaden Bertinoli opens by framing Motive as both a therapy practice and a men's mental health brand moving toward a wider mission.
Shaden Bertinoli opens The Motyv Podcast with Eric Thompson, who is returning for part two after the two of them climb three flights of stairs because the elevator is broken.
The program gets talked through in plain terms.
Motive Podcast episode 22: Shaden Bertinoli and Blake explore 'busyness' as cultural identity and avoidance mechanism.
Host Shaden Bertinoli explores the psychological and spiritual consequences of an overactive mind that never turns off.
Shayden Bertagnolli introduces the Liberate program, designed to help men overcome pornography addiction by addressing barriers like time, money, and therapy avoidance, based on his 16 years as a therapist specializing in men's mental health.
Therapist Shaden Bertinoli and his 7th-grade basketball coach Eric Thompson, who both share ALS histories (Shaden's father died of it; Eric has lived 7 years with slow progression), discuss terminal illness, meaning-making, grief, and the redefinition of toughness.
The Motyv Podcast episode 25 centers on a private session with a man called Joe, whose list included “I should kill myself,” “I’m a bad person,” and “my life wasn’t supposed to be this way.” Shaden Bertinoli says Candice has recently been in touch with four men who took their lives, and he frames February as a hard month for men and a time for men’s mental health awareness.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 15 centers on Shaden, Steve, Jordan, and Sadie talking about gratitude as a Thanksgiving theme, but they frame it as more than a seasonal habit.
The Motyv Podcast episode "Unmasking Male Pain: The 5 A's of Masculine Pain" pivots from the host's return to a framework built around men, pornography recovery, and what he calls "liberate." He says he spent two years in the studio building a Christ-centered, clinically focused online course with seven modules, including four "P's" of pain, porn, pride, and purpose.
Shaden Bertinoli and Blake Altom spend the episode mapping a therapy pattern with pornography, alcohol, drugs, avoidance, and isolation as examples.
Shaden Bertinoli, a marriage and family therapist who says he specializes in men’s mental health, opens The Motyv Podcast by linking gratitude to “a baseline attribute” and asking whether bitterness is its opposite.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 11, “The Vulnerability behind the Man Cold,” starts with the host describing a 4:45 p.m.
The Motyv Podcast Episode 10 centers on how burnout can come from living out of alignment with values, with examples like sleep, parenthood, screen time, and phone scrolling.