Change starts within.
The ability to change the outside world comes from our ability to ‘go inside’ of ourselves, a direction too rarely prioritised in Western business as usual, and especially within men. To go there, we need to embrace healthier masculinity.
Come listen in.
This platform exists to explore how men can bring that balance into business and leadership, transforming workplaces from sites of performance and dominance into spaces of authenticity, connection, and shared power.
The liberation and power of generative listening
with Colin Smith, Dexterity Solutions
This episode shows clearly the value and power of generative listening within business spaces. Through their different contexts, Garry from within big business, and Colin as a consultant to business leaders and business owners, they explore the barriers to listening, how unhealthy masculine traits can destroy value, and also model in real-time the possibility and freedom that comes from listening with intention.
Helping men uncover their uniqueness and brilliance
with Helen Amery, Wildfig Solutions
In this episode, I speak with Helen Amery about the importance of feeling into root causes, exploring the abundant capacity that comes with healthier masculinity, and the real-world impact of holding onto negative identities.
Community as an antidote to unhealthy masculinity
with Stepheni Mendez, Soul and Strategy Collective
In this episode, Garry meets ex tech sector UX designer Stepheni Mendez as they explore healthy and unhealthy masculinity from very different contexts. However they find common ground in the power of community, the importance of discomfort for growth, and the clarity that we must attack the system, not one another.
Unleashing human energy and potential through healthier masculinity
with Josh Allan Dykstra, The Work Revolution
In this episode, Garry meets futurist and Future Design pioneer Josh Allan Dykstra to examine why workplaces starve people of flow and treat the “human stack” like a low-efficiency afterthought. Coming from different angles, they surface how unhealthy masculine habits block potential, and why designing for flow, asking for help, and allowing things to end well are non-negotiable.
Waking up to the business value of healthy masculinity
with Garry Ridge, The Learning Moment Inc.
In this episode, former WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge cuts through performative culture to show how real high-performance is built: by refusing “artificial number” layoffs and instead designing for belonging, trust, autonomy, recognition, and the deliberate reduction of fear. He unpacks how a healthy blend of masculine and feminine leadership turns learning into experiments, experiments into practice, and practice into durable results.
The creative and business impact of emotional health
with Dawna Jones, Navigating Uncertainty
In this episode, Garry meets coach, mentor, and facilitative leadership expert Dawna Jones to explore how emotional maturity, “soft skills,” and our inner lives shape the way we navigate complexity. Together they unpack the power of holding multiple worldviews at once, breaking out of either/or thinking into “yes/and,” and reading the hidden emotional patterns that keep people and organisations stuck.
Garry sits down with chemicals-industry peer Christophe Le Ret to explore why asking for help is still so rare in senior leadership, and how narrow models of masculinity block vulnerability, creativity, and honest reflection. Together they unpack the power of a polymathic mind and invite listeners to question where their willingness to be uncomfortable might open up space for more caring, regenerative ways of working.
Exploring the chemistry of healthy masculinity
with Christoph Le Ret, MoxWorld
Pluriversal masculinity: shaping new worlds
with Sahana Chattopadhyay, Pluriversal Planet
Sahana Chattopadhyay joins Garry to explore how empathy, creativity and love are suppressed to serve systems of profit, control and “normality.” They trace how architectures of power shape who gets to feel, speak and belong, and how comfort often becomes a subtle form of collusion. This is an invitation to ask harder questions and to imagine forms of dignity, solidarity and resistance where justice and care become ordinary.
Embodying conscious leadership
with Mark Edgar
Garry meets Mark Edgar to reflect on how even our greatest strengths can turn into blind spots when overused. They explore the gap between intent and impact, the need to dial up or down our driving and listening modes, and what becomes possible when leaders feel safe to talk about emotions, uncertainty, and discomfort.
In this episode, Garry sits down with leadership coach and facilitator Cornell Thomas to interrogate why so many workplaces feel like prisons. Cornell unpacks how toxic environments often come from leaders who think they’ve already arrived, and why real leadership is defined by continual learning, humility, and the capacity to be changed. The episode is an invitation to reclaim agency (and sanity), to hold “care + performance” as a non-negotiable YES/AND.
High performance through caring
with Cornell Thomas
Garry sits down with abolitionist strategist and cultural architect Hannah Litt to re-imagine what success looks and feels like, to regulate before strategise, and to redesign work so justice becomes operational rather than aspirational. Drawing on lived experience, anti-racist and decolonial practice, and nervous-system literacy, Hannah unpacks how power, trauma, and conditioning shape leadership, culture, and decision-making.
Activating healthy change in community
with Hannah Litt
Modelling the impact of healthy leadership
with Rafik Zahy
Garry sits down with executive and global business-development leader Rafik Zahy to explore why healthy masculinity is still so rare in corporate life. Drawing on Rafik’s experience scaling businesses across Africa and beyond, they examine how metric-obsessed cultures dehumanise people, harm mental health, and mute real engagement—and why intentionally designing healthier cultures is essential if men are to honour both performance and people.
Understanding the politics of healthy masculinity
with Lewis Glynn
In this episode, Garry meets Lewis Glynn—higher education student experience specialist, choir chair, writer, and Green Party activist—to explore healthy masculinity through the lens of power, community, and courage. They unpack how vulnerability and accountability create space for healthier leadership, how to balance strength with care, choose discomfort for growth, and trust that small, collective acts of ordinary people can keep the darkness at bay.