Making Sense of Being a Man - Men's Mental Health Month Special - Episode 97
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
Release Date: 07/03/2025
One From The Vault - The Sandwich Generation - Episode 109
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
THE SANDWICH GENERATION: This is one from the vault of the Rise Up With Dragon Show. Caring for both your kids and your parents. Who’s taking care of you? Is the goal to train your kids by example to take on the role or burden of being the sandwich? Or, is there value in self care. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. ►Follow the Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: Instagram: / drjcdoornick Facebook: / makessensepodcast YouTube: / drjcdoornick These episodes get edited and cleaned up...
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Making Sense of Metabolic Health - What are our symptoms trying to tell us? - Episode 108
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
We live in a culture obsessed with treating symptoms, weight gain, fatigue, high blood pressure, brain fog, poor sleep, as if each were an isolated problem. But what if these struggles aren’t the problem at all? What if they’re just the flashing check engine lights on the dashboard of your body, pointing to a deeper issue that’s been hiding in plain sight: Metabolic Disease. In this episode, Dr. JC Doornick pulls back the curtain on why nearly every chronic health crisis in America today — from obesity and Type 2 diabetes to heart disease, hypertension, and even dementia — can...
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Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
Our guest today is someone who doesn’t just write about productivity; he lives and experiments with it. Chris Bailey is the bestselling author behind The Productivity Project, Hyperfocus, and most recently, Calm Your Mind. You may have seen Chris’s TED Talk called , It went viral and has 18 million views. Through immersive self-experiments, research synthesis, and efficient insights, Chris has helped millions of people rethink how they use their time, attention, and energy. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TED Talks, and beyond. He has a way...
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One From The Vault - Bring Forth - My Experience with Ayahuasca - Episode 106
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
DAILY FOCUS: BRING FORTH: From my new book project "Bring Forth" that covers my full experience with Ayahuasca and DMT in the Amazon Jungle in Peru, one of my biggest takeaways was a beak-through i made with the relationship of sorrow and love. If you find yourself struggling with the residue left behind by unresolved childhood trauma, this one will help you see the light at the end of the tunnel. SOTD: I'm GOOD: Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. ►Follow the Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: Instagram: /...
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Making Sense of The Omen Frequency - Episode 105
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
Most of us go through life tuned into the station we were told to listen to—the one filled with survival, proving, and noise. But all along, another signal has been broadcasting, waiting for us to notice. I call it the Omen Frequency. It’s the hidden channel of life that speaks through synchronicities—those so-called coincidences, repeating numbers, chance encounters, or inner nudges. But here’s the key: synchronicities are just the signs. Omens are what happens when you interpret those signs as meaningful, when you realize they’re guiding you. For me, that realization came in the...
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Making Sense of A Second Chance On Love with Jenny and Bryan Drollinger - Episode 104
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
Sometimes, life writes love stories so unexpected, you couldn’t make them up if you tried. Today’s guests, Jennie and Bryan Drollinger, know precisely what it means to become lost and then, against all odds, be found. Years ago, Bryan and Jennie were young, in love, and full of possibility. But like so many couples, life had other plans. At a time where dating was limited to in person communication and catching someone at the right time on a land line, a few simple misses turned into misunderstandings. Bryan followed his path as a devout Mormon, got married, raised a family of seven,...
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One From The Vault - Natural Intelligence - Episode 103
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
This is one from the vault of killer perspectives from the previous Rise Up With Dragon podcast. Is there a similarity between that if ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and that of the HUMAN INTELLIGENCE? Let's continue down the rabbit hole of consciousness and get the skinny on what it is and where it comes from. We might not be as cool as you thought. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. ►Follow the Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: Instagram: / drjcdoornick Facebook: / makessensepodcast YouTube: /...
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Making Sense of Taxes with Shawn Finnegan from Taxhive
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
It's almost comical to recognize that in the Makes Sense Ecosystem, our cornerstone system that helps people reclaim control of their reality and learn to think for themselves in a world that is thinking for us, we inappropriately call the IRS: Interface Response System. But when it comes to taxes, the relationship most people have with the other IRS is… complicated. We dread it. We avoid it. We joke about it. But rarely do we understand it. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain to explore how the tax system works, and more importantly, how to work with it instead of against it....
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Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
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One From The Vault - The Eye of the Storm - Episode 100
Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick
This is One From The Vault of the Old Rise Up With Dragon Podcast. They say you can dance in a hurricane, but only when you're standing in the eye. There is magic in the space between all of the chaos that exists in life. Let's spend some time learning to dance in the hurricane of your life by finding the Eye of the Storm. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. ►Follow the Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: Instagram: / drjcdoornick Facebook: / makessensepodcast YouTube: / drjcdoornick These...
info_outlineIn recognition of Men’s Mental Health Month, I offer this not as a diagnosis but as a mirror—a reflection—of one man’s honest reckoning with what it really means to “be a man” in a world that rewards our silence and buries our truth.
Every June, we remember the tragic loss of great men—Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Anthony Bourdain. Men who made us laugh, think, feel… and then left us too soon. These weren’t weak men. They were men crushed by the quiet torment of expectations they could no longer uphold. And the silence that made it impossible to ask for help.
So let me say something that might cost me the stamp of being a “real man” in the eyes of some:
Hi. My name is JC Doornick, and I get scared about many things.
I know some will read that and think I’ve betrayed the code. That I've "outed the brotherhood." But I’m tired of pretending. I’m tired of losing men I love to silence. To pride. To pressure. To shame. And if sharing my truth helps even one man remove the mask, it's worth it.
Because here’s the truth: Being a man today is a zero-sum game.
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Highlights:
0:00 - Intro
2:57 - Manning Up - The Zero Sum Game of Manhood
7:00 - The truth about being a man today?
10:48 - The Nine Shadow Fears that Haunt the Modern Man
13:47 - I don’t want to pass on the pain to my kids.
19:32 - Shadow Work
23:59 - The Arrows that men hide?
28:44 - Integrating this change into your life