The Your Story Matters Podcast

🌠 The Holiday Emotional Leftovers | Ep. 010

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/fan_mail/new] Working through the emotions that our dysfunctional families leave behind   There is a reason the quiet after the holidays feels louder than the chaos itself. When the family leaves, when the door finally closes, when the house settles back into stillness, something strange happens. Your body exhales, but your nervous system does not fully stand down. You feel relief mixed with guilt. Exhaustion mixed with sadness. Peace mixed with a low hum of anxiety you cannot explain. This podcast episode, Branon explores the power of naming those leftovers. Understanding why they linger. And learning how to gently reclaim your peace without shaming yourself for needing recovery. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/support] ✌️Thanks for Subscribing!  ✅ Enjoy these links below ➡️ 30-40 Men Rising Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbD8Sq7PDX912jxaQU60MnpHHr_AHLNi ➡️ Podcast / iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-your-story-matters-podcast-with-branon-dempsey/id1609639138 ➡️ Branon Dempsey Substack:   https://branondempsey.substack.com ➡️ Join our Threads, Instagram, X Bluesky: @branondempsey ➡️ Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/BranonDempsey Copyright 2025 Your Story Matters, Branon Dempsey | WTT, Inc.

🌠 What 2025 Is Still Teaching Us About Healing | Ep. 009

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/fan_mail/new] As this year closes, we are not rushing past what shaped us. This episode is a pause. A breath. A look back at the conversations that cracked things open, named the pain, and pointed toward healing. Over the past year on Your Story Matters, we talked about childhood trauma, emotional survival, boundaries, nervous system healing, identity loss, recovery after abuse, and what it actually looks like to heal instead of just cope. Through podcast episodes, long form articles, and short videos, one message kept rising to the surface again and again. Your story still matters, even the parts you tried to bury. In this year end review, we reflect on the themes that showed up the most. The patterns many of us did not realize were trauma responses. The moments where naming the wound brought relief instead of shame. The hard truth that healing is not about fixing yourself, it is about coming home to yourself. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/support] ✌️Thanks for Subscribing!  ✅ Enjoy these links below ➡️ 30-40 Men Rising Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbD8Sq7PDX912jxaQU60MnpHHr_AHLNi ➡️ Podcast / iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-your-story-matters-podcast-with-branon-dempsey/id1609639138 ➡️ Branon Dempsey Substack:   https://branondempsey.substack.com ➡️ Join our Threads, Instagram, X Bluesky: @branondempsey ➡️ Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/BranonDempsey Copyright 2025 Your Story Matters, Branon Dempsey | WTT, Inc.

🎙️Micro Matters: Don’t Believe The Hype

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/fan_mail/new] Men in their 30s and 40s are some of the most exhausted people on the planet. Why? Because we’ve spent years chasing hype. We’ve been told that masculinity is about appearing strong, looking successful, or proving ourselves at every turn. We’ve been taught to fake confidence when we’re dying inside, to build reputations instead of relationships, and to trade our true selves for applause that never lasts. But here’s the truth: every man has to face this question at some point: Am I willing to stop faking and start healing?  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/support] ✌️Thanks for Subscribing!  ✅ Enjoy these links below ➡️ 30-40 Men Rising Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbD8Sq7PDX912jxaQU60MnpHHr_AHLNi ➡️ Podcast / iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-your-story-matters-podcast-with-branon-dempsey/id1609639138 ➡️ Branon Dempsey Substack:   https://branondempsey.substack.com ➡️ Join our Threads, Instagram, X Bluesky: @branondempsey ➡️ Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/BranonDempsey Copyright 2025 Your Story Matters, Branon Dempsey | WTT, Inc.

🌠 BJ Communicates | Telling The Truth We Can’t Forget | Ep. 008

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/fan_mail/new] In this powerful episode of Your Story Matters, with Branon Dempsey, our guest BJ Communicates joins us to talk about the cost of “forgetting the truth” when it comes to childhood abuse—and how many of us were taught to bury what really happened. We explore the subtle, daily ways trauma shows up in adulthood, even when we’ve convinced ourselves we’ve “moved on.” And we unpack why telling the truth about our past feels terrifying at first, but ultimately becomes the doorway to freedom and healing. LISTEN NOW! or 📺 WATCH: https://youtu.be/JEQbHQipRRs Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/support] ✌️Thanks for Subscribing!  ✅ Enjoy these links below ➡️ 30-40 Men Rising Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbD8Sq7PDX912jxaQU60MnpHHr_AHLNi ➡️ Podcast / iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-your-story-matters-podcast-with-branon-dempsey/id1609639138 ➡️ Branon Dempsey Substack:   https://branondempsey.substack.com ➡️ Join our Threads, Instagram, X Bluesky: @branondempsey ➡️ Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/BranonDempsey Copyright 2025 Your Story Matters, Branon Dempsey | WTT, Inc.

🎙️Micro Matters: “Trigger Trouble"

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/fan_mail/new] Triggers Are Windows to Heal (the Wounds) You know the feeling: a sudden sound, a fleeting look, a familiar smell, or a particular phrase, and just like that, you’re transported back to that childhood bedroom, that kitchen table, or that hallway, completely frozen in time. So even though your body feels it, how do you handle triggers? 👍 Download, Listen & Subscribe:  “Trigger Trouble" Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1937055/support] ✌️Thanks for Subscribing!  ✅ Enjoy these links below ➡️ 30-40 Men Rising Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbD8Sq7PDX912jxaQU60MnpHHr_AHLNi ➡️ Podcast / iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-your-story-matters-podcast-with-branon-dempsey/id1609639138 ➡️ Branon Dempsey Substack:   https://branondempsey.substack.com ➡️ Join our Threads, Instagram, X Bluesky: @branondempsey ➡️ Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/BranonDempsey Copyright 2025 Your Story Matters, Branon Dempsey | WTT, Inc.