Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/221118-menspeak-radio/ MenSpeak Radio back in the studio, this time with a special guest, personal trainer Paul Harrild. The theme of the show is “Man up and talk about it”, with advice on how to get real and look life in...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/300818-men-speak-radio/ Kenny Mammarella – D’Cruz invites special guest Roland Chesters to discuss his new book “Ripples from the Edge of Life”. The book tackles issues around mental health and life after being...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/020818-men-speak-radio/ From Depression to Expression Featuring MenSpeak Creative Director And Digital Maestro Bertie Harriman-Smith. Men Speak Radio, opening up and talking about how we all need to be there for each...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/050718-men-speak-radio/ Kenny’s back with Men Speak Radio, this time he’s speaking with Lau Guerrero about friendship and acceptance.
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/140618-menspeak-radio-feat-special-guest-jack-peterson/ Join us for an incredibly important and thought provoking episode, discussing the community of ‘incels’ that have recently found a voice online, with real world...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/100518-men-speak-radio/ Men’s Speak Radio on 10 May 2018, interviewing Prostate Cancer UK.
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/120418-mens-speak-radio-w/ MenSpeak Radio discussing the important issues that surround men’s wellbeing and mental health, and especially depression. This month they talk with The New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/199Radio/150318-mens-speak-radio/ Men Speak Radio – Paul Harrild discussing topics with various guests, alongside a selection of memorable music. This week he talks about his life experiences growing up, losing a father, violence,...
Feb 28, 2019 | MenSpeak Radio
Mar 3, 2016 | Featured, Men
BBC3 Online recently released a powerful four minute documentary called “It’s Tough Being A Man”. It’s about depression in men and how men stay silent about it. I was happy to be one of the men filmed for this documentary because I strongly support the message that we...
Feb 9, 2015 | Featured, relationships
Kenny D’Cruz shares how his honeymoon took an unexpected turn when he was racially abused in front of his new wife. “Did I call you a liar? At least I’m not a ni**er and I work for a living!” was my Italian wife’s first real racist ‘attack’, behind my back, from the...
Feb 9, 2015 | Featured, Men, Uncategorized
Kenny D’Cruz was eight years old when his father took a phone call at his family home saying ‘we’re going to come and kill you tonight.’ “My father was declared an enemy of the state by Idi Amin’s Secret Service in 1972. He made a joke about the phone call” Kenny...
Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just got home, wearing nothing but a Mac! I was walking along the canal in London’s Camden Town, my head down as I chatted with my fiancé and our friend after her first Mixed Group with us. As we strolled along the canal a couple of young men cut between them and I....
Mar 21, 2014 | Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships
You are currently watching me lose my blogging virginity ..and I must admit, yet again, it’s a BIG relief! I remember walking home that morning through my adopted home town, past nosey neighbours with light breezes blowing wafts of sex from my pubescent skin...
Feb 3, 2014 | Featured, Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships
2014 Nine years old and we’d just moved from our second refugee camp – with my secret-service escapee father, who had been absent for nine months – into our new home. A tatty council house in a small town in 70s rural Wales, with lovely neighbours. The feeling I...
Jan 16, 2014 | Men
Originally published in my ‘Changing Times’ Column in 2006 This will be the third time I’ve had to deal with that pesky chest hair that so loudly contrasts all the others. I’ve treated it with far more respect than last months discovery: a grey pube which...
Dec 16, 2013 | relationships
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 They clapped when the plane landed in Pescara; and I wondered if Angela’s parents would clap when they saw the colour of my skin. Her parents were lovely. I learned a couple of lines of Italian for a respectful greeting...
Nov 16, 2013 | refugee
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 First snow in London yesterday. It’s magical every time, but biting cold! The first snow my Mother, brother and I saw was in Stone, Staffordshire, in 1972. We were ‘between refugee camps’ and...
Oct 16, 2013 | Men
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Have you noticed that when women speak, they sit facing one another; where when men speak, we generally face the same direction, discussing someone or something other than ourselves? Male eye contact, in our society, is...
Sep 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 I used to be a ‘toxic boy’. What a buzz. I loved it! I used to be a workaholic. On the edge, deadlines, clients, meetings, staff, planning, being ‘the star’, leaping around like a mad monkey on heat and being adored for...
Aug 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Football fanatics, health clubs, wealth clubs, men’s groups, Masons, jocks, pretty boys with designer gear, skinheads, yuppies, cyber folk in virtual relationships, family, the 12-Step tribe, the victim tribe (quite...
Jul 16, 2013 | relationships
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 I received a text message from a friend who asked me to describe her in one word, then forward it on to see what my friends really think about me. Naturally, I saw the opportunity to score Brownie points with a...
Jun 16, 2013 | Life purpose
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Kenny: Be gorgeous – you are! … and you’ll get yours, honestly. Cut the crap! … addiction, ego, avoidance, laziness, victim. Give energy (clean) … not excuses (lazy). Don’t chase or hide – belong! … from your own centre....
May 16, 2013 | relationships
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 “I won’t be rich or good looking until I’ve found the girl of my dreams.” Kenny aged five, wising-up early to the games people play. Thirty years later and I attracted her. The woman of my dreams. I precisely tweaked my...
Apr 16, 2013 | relationships
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Busting at the seams with too much food, not enough water, too much drink, not enough sleep, too much time on my hands; or is it self-harming, as the little child in me reacted to abandonment by my ’partner’ as she took...
Mar 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Is there such a thing as good or bad energy? Or is energy… everything. The magical raw material from which we manifest our feelings and fears. It’s up to us what we do with our energy. How we spend and expend,...
Feb 16, 2013 | Life purpose
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Christmas is a time for spending. Expressions of duty and love, safe from vulnerability. Some celebrate Jesus’ birth. Jesus was born in July. Winter Solstice falls around 25 December, as Christian Churches fall...
Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 I flew to Goa to touch my ancestral roots; and help my parents convert a concrete shell into a cozy retirement flat. Surrounded by workmen and an early, global-warming heat-wave, temperatures rose, tempers flared...
