Alexander Koppelman
Co-founder and CEO of the Children's Arts Guild in New York, author of "For Real: Helping Children Remain Their Authentic Selves in a Limiting World."
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Sep 17, 2026
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
I think, for men that we, intergenerationally, we don't have a male presence.
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
You know, the closest for me was my great-grandfather, who lived in another city, and an older neighbor who kind of took care of me for a little while after school.
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
I had no relationship to myself, didn't know how to be in relationship with other people.
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Zenzi SewaahHOST
So how did you, what steps apart from going and looking for, um, help, what steps did you take to overcome that and where did it lead you to?
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Alexander KopelmanGUEST
complicated in many ways because There were the truths that were out in, you know, shaping the system that you were supposed to espouse.
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
So how the country wanted to see itself, how the people wanted to see themselves, how, you know, the influence of the government.
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
And then there were the private truths that you learned were whispered at home that were 180 degrees different, the big truths.
Alexander KopelmanGUEST
And as a child, trying to understand how to navigate that could be really tricky.
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