Stories of Transition and the Journey of the Soul

Stories of Transition and the Journey of the Soul

From The Mythic Masculine by Ian MacKenzie

April 8, 2026 · 1h 15m

About this episode

This episode features personal stories of transition from trans men, exploring their experiences with vulnerability and identity.

Last week, I released Part One ( you can listen here ). This series grew from a seed - a conversation with Emmanuel H. Brown. Emmanuel has been navigating his own journey, seeking out the places where manhood and masculinity might be expanded to hold the lived experience of trans men. As someone rooted in the mythopoetic lineage , I recognize that these voices have often been missing from our circles. This series is an invitation to a broader framework - one that is mutually supportive for the soul of every man. In our first episode, The Seed and the Soil , we explored the trans man as a trickster figure - one who troubles the binary architecture many of us have been raised with. We looked at the history of gender as social control and the tension between biological certainty and the expansive human spirit. We asked how we might hold space for genuine curiosity and reckon with real violence against trans folk without losing our humanity to the polarized scripts of our time. Subscribe to get the full series in your inbox. If the first conversation was about the why of this series, this one is about the who . In this episode, Stories of Transition , we move from the intellect to…

People in this episode

Host: Ian MacKenzie

Guests: Emmanuel H. Brown, Lev, Kanoa, Aliko

Topics covered

  • trans men
  • masculinity
  • personal stories
  • gender identity
  • vulnerability

Keywords

  • trans men
  • masculinity
  • gender identity
  • personal stories
  • vulnerability
  • transition
  • mythopoetic

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