004: Struggles of relationships for men, unspoken culture of “down low” in black community, why black women don’t like black men dating non-black women with Vernon Ross

Vernon Ross is a business coach helping people push past their limiting beliefs and achieve peak performance as well as the host of a top ranked podcast The Social strategy podcast. We talk a lot about being a family man and discussed 

• Growing up in the ghetto with a single black mom with four kids and how they survived, 
• Being married for 20 years, the biggest struggles and fears in a relationship/marriage, 
• Being outnumbered in a household with all women, 
• His role as a man and leader within the family, 
• His mom’s role in having a successful 20 + year marriage and what she taught him about handling women, 
• What a woman’s job is in a relationship, 
• How people give away their power in relationships, 
• Why its so important to have individual identity outside of children, significant other etc, 
• How its terrifying to set example for daughters and teaching them to navigate this world, 
• A straight man’s perspective on gay black men and the unspoken culture of “down low” in the black community and 
• Why black women don’t appreciate black men dating non black women.