Healthy Masculinity is NOT a business. It’s a voluntary, fully self-funded project.

Every video has been designed to pass the 'Parent Filter'.

Every parent is encouraged to check-out the most relevant videos for their sons - and only then - send the video link and ask their son what THEY think, in order to create a 'conversation starter' with their son.

Likewise, teachers and youth workers may choose to identify a video, show it in the classroom and then open a discussion about it.

I’m Roy Sheppard. I’m retired now, but over the years I’ve worked as a BBC television and radio presenter and reporter, an international conference speaker and facilitator, and a visiting lecturer at universities and business schools. Rather than play golf, or watch daytime TV I use my decades of experience to make these videos from my shed.

I’m also the author of seven books, mostly about personal development, confidence, relationships and helping people get more from their lives.

So why am I spending my retirement making videos for teenage boys?

Because I became increasingly concerned about who is teaching boys how to become men.

Teenage boys have always looked beyond their parents and teachers for ideas about adulthood, masculinity, relationships, success and their place in the world. Today, many of those influences are strangers on the internet — selected and amplified by algorithms designed to keep boys watching.

I don't believe the answer is simply telling boys what not to watch, what not to think or what not to become.

I'd rather help them develop the confidence and skills to think for themselves.

That's what Healthy Masculinity is about.

The videos explore some of the things boys may need as they move towards adulthood: independent thinking, decision-making, confidence, self-esteem, resilience, emotional wellbeing, friendships, relationships, sex, work, money, responsibility and dealing with the inevitable Life-Storms along the way.

I'm not trying to tell teenage boys what to think.

Quite the opposite.

I want them to become better at deciding what they think — including questioning me.

There is no subscription. No paid course waiting at the end. And I'm not looking for donations.

It's simply my attempt to use some of what I've learned over a long and varied life to create something that might be useful to the next generation.

“Until ANY government or well-resourced educational institution creates something better — produced by people far better qualified than me — I'll keep making these videos for teen boys. From my shed.”