Learned the Hard Way with Kier Gaines

Kier Gaines

Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview-led men's mental health and personal development show hosted by a licensed therapist, combining solo reflections and mailbag episodes with occasional external guests. Credible pitches include therapists, psychologists, relationship experts, financial educators, authors, athletes, and creators with meaningful expertise or lived experience related to masculinity, emotional health, relationships, or identity; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 22

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

admin@carlawilmaris.com

Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.

Host

Kier Gaines - Licensed therapist with more than a decade of experience focused on men's emotional health, relationships, fatherhood, identity, and personal growth.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established therapists, psychologists, relationship specialists, financial educators, authors, athletes, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and public educators with credible expertise or compelling lived experience related to men's emotional health and personal development.

Required Achievements:

Recognized professional expertise, Published books or widely shared educational work, Public-facing media, entertainment, or educational platform, Notable career or personal transformation story

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Dakotah Tyler - Masculinity, Curiosity, Uncertainty, Identity, Starting Over, Learning, And Changing Beliefs.

Tiffany Aliche - Financial Anxiety, Emotional Spending, Scarcity Mindset, Financial Security, Money Beliefs, And Financial Wholeness.

KevOnStage - Fidelity, Commitment, Masculinity, Marriage, Emotional Intimacy, Trust, And Relationship Boundaries.

Recent Topics

Masculinity, Mental Health, Relationships, Fatherhood, Therapy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Learned the Hard Way with Kier Gaines

EP 21: I Love My Kids… But I Don’t Love Being a Parent

August 20, 2026

You can love your kids with everything in you and still not love being a parent all the time. The pickups. The drop-offs. The schedules. The sleepless nights. The endless questions. The responsibility of being needed every single day. Parenthood can be one of the most meaningful parts of your life while also being exhausting, overwhelming, and completely different from what you imagined. In this episode, Kier gets honest about his complicated relationship with fatherhood and why parents need ...

EP 20: Why Men Are Afraid to Say “I Don’t Know” ft. Dr. Dakotah Tyler

August 13, 2026

What if the smartest thing you could say is, “I don’t know”? In this episode of Learned the Hard Way, Kier Gaines sits down with astrophysicist and former Division I football player Dr. Dakotah Tyler (Dr. Star Kid) for a conversation about curiosity, masculinity, identity, and what happens when the life you planned suddenly disappears. Dakotah spent most of his life believing football was his purpose until a devastating knee injury forced him to imagine a future wi...

EP 19: You Can't Fix People You Love

August 06, 2026

Sometimes the people we love are carrying more than we can see. A new baby. A growing career. Depression. Anxiety. Burnout. The pressure of leadership. The weight of trying to hold a family together. When someone you love is struggling, your first instinct is usually to fix it but what if that's not actually what they need? In this mailbag episode, Kier responds to questions from listeners navigating some of life's heaviest moments. From supporting a spouse through postpartum depression and d...

Publicly listed emails

admin@carlawilmaris.com

Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.

Get your clients booked on top podcasts

Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.

Start Your Free Trial

Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings