Lewis Howes

He is a five-time NBA All-Star, an Olympic gold medalist, 2016 NBA champion, and one of the most important voices in the mental health conversation.

Please welcome Kevin Love.

You spent nine years not speaking to both your mom and dad.

I'm so glad that you're here.

I've been trying to have you on for a while, but you're a busy guy, always playing in season.

But we have a number of things in common.

One, we're both athletes.

Two, you lived a long time in Ohio.

You won a championship in Ohio.

I'm from Ohio.

Thank you for your service of bringing a championship to Ohio.

We both have two daughters.

Yes.

And we both lost our fathers recently.

Yeah.

And we've both been through our own healing journeys and talking about what it means to be a man and deal with a lot of psychological and emotional wounds that we don't know how to navigate or we didn't know how to navigate until we started opening up.

So I want to acknowledge you first, Kevin, for being a voice of possibilities for so many people, specifically men, that us growing up, we didn't have a space

typically around our parents or around our peers to talk about our feelings or emotions, to talk about the confusion in our heart and our minds of why we're feeling something.

And so most of our childhood grew up being driven to prove people wrong.

driven to figure out how to overcome the anger emotion, because we didn't know how to communicate anything else, and driven to succeed to prove our value.