June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month.

I almost didn’t write this. Not because it doesn’t matter to me, but because it matters so much that I wanted to get it right. And I’ve learned that the things worth saying are usually the hardest ones to start.

So here it is: most of the high-performing men I know, the ones running teams, closing deals, building companies, raising families, are quietly carrying more than they’re letting on. Depression. Anxiety. A general feeling that something is off but they can’t quite name it. And most of them are doing it alone.

Not because they’re weak. Because the script for men in leadership says you push through. You figure it out. You hold it together for everyone else. Asking for help or admitting you’re struggling is somehow incompatible with being the person others depend on.

That script is costing us.

I’ve been facilitating a men’s group for a while now. With a group of men who show up, tell the truth, and invest in themselves as people, not just as professionals.

The question I use to open almost every session: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how purposeful does your life feel right now?” Then: “What’s the hardest thing in your life right now, and what do you think it’s trying to teach you?”

You’d be surprised how fast a room full of high-achieving men gets real when they’re given permission to be honest. About what’s hard or stalled. About the gap between who they know they can be and how they’re actually showing up.

That gap is where the real work lives.

I’ve built the Arcadia philosophy around a core belief: you can love who you are and still push toward the next best version of yourself. Those two things aren’t in conflict. In fact, the first one is what makes the second one sustainable.

But you can’t do that work alone. Or at least, it’s a lot harder alone.

That's why I started a men's group inside the Arcadia community. Arcadia is a home for tech and GTM leaders, women and men, who want real peer connection and a place to grow as people and not just professionals. The men's group is one of several spaces we've built within it, and it happens to be the one closest to my heart.

We have 20+ men who are on a similar journey. Tech leaders, GTM executives, founders. Men who are good at what they do and want to be better at who they are. Men who want a space where the mask comes off and the real conversation can start.

We talk about purpose. About what’s sabotaging our best intentions. About how we change the channel when we’re stuck. About what it actually means to show up fully, for our teams, our families, and ourselves.

It’s not therapy or a seminar. We have honest, vulnerable conversation with other men who get it because they’re living it too.

If you’ve been curious about Arcadia, or you’ve been looking for a space like this, I want to invite you in. This is what we’re building.

If you want to be part of the Arcadia men’s group, reach out to me directly. My inbox is open and I respond personally. You don’t have to have it figured out to show up. That’s kind of the whole point.

And if you’re going through something right now and just need someone to talk to, reach out. Seriously. I mean that.

You can reply to this email or find me at [email protected]

This month is a reminder. Not just to check on the men in your life, but to let yourself be checked on too. That’s not weakness. That’s the work.

Here’s to doing it together.

Be Great,
Jason Yarborough
Co-founder, Arcadia