#86 | Trump, Tate and Taming Your Inner Dragon - David Sutcliffe
About this episode
David Sutcliffe discusses the complexities of masculinity, emotional expression, and his views on traditional gender roles.
My guest today is David Sutcliffe , a somatic psychotherapist and former actor who has stepped off the red carpets of Hollywood to venture into the deeper landscapes of the masculine soul. David is something of an enigma to me. He’s a therapist who champions the necessity of men getting in touch with their feelings and expressing their rage and grief. Yet, he is also an ardent Trump supporter and has interviewed uber-masculine figures like Andrew Tate. In this conversation, we certainly don’t align on everything, but we remain willing to lean in and see what the friction reveals. It’s worth saying: this conversation was recorded in September 2025, before the wake of the Epstein files released December 2025. This would have come up in our conversation if we had recorded this afterwards. A little more about David. For years, he was an archetypal “cute guy” or “bad boyfriend” on television - but behind the scenes he eventually found himself on his own road of ashes - where the trappings of fame and success turned to dust, inviting him into a more rigorous descent. Together, we explore the cost of the “nice guy” mask and the disorientation of a fatherless upbringing. We speak of the…
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