Men on Show
"Candid conversations with everyday heroes"
Heroes don't always come regaled in capes or fly through the air.
Sometimes you could (and quite likely have) walked past one on the street and not even known.
We hear so many stories about men behaving badly, but what about the men being brilliant?
Join Andrew Pain as he finds and chats to these "everyday heroes", ordinary men who have done, and are doing extraordinary things.
Men on Show
S1 E41 | Why Men Are Choosing Running Over Therapy
Richard Loftus is the founder of Well Run Brum, the wellbeing running group for men and a non-executive Director at the historic Birmingham recording studios, Grosvenor Road Studios and has a career spanning two decades in the theatre and live music industry.
Key Points of the episode:
- How other people pretty much knew he was gay before he did!
- His career in the arts.
- How he experienced full on discrimination in some parts of America.
- How a mental health crisis started and what he did about it.
- How he got a great person on the phone at the doctors when he called for help.
- How he recovered and now feels so much better.
- The running club he now runs.
- The difference between running away from your problems and running and "leaning in" to them.
- How the run is designed for excellent male mental health.
Learn more here:
www.instagram.com/wellrunbrum
www.strava.com/clubs/wellrunbrum
www.wellrunbrum.co.uk
Here's my personal IG:
https://www.instagram.com/richardjloftus
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