Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody talks about.The three valleys of decline we fade into. Physical decline. Social isolation. Emotional silence & identity loss. All hitting at the same time.Against the Fade is a podcast for men 35-65 who refuse to disappear. Hosted by Jonathan — a 47-year-old personal trainer and health coach who’s spent years training men through this chapter of life.New episodes every Tuesday.

ABOUT MEI'm Jonathan Timmermann. I'm 47, I live in Salt Lake City with my wife, and I've spent the last decade-plus as a personal trainer and health coach, working with men through the chapter most of us weren't warned about. Before that, I built a corporate career, walked away from it, moved my family across the country, watched a business fail in the middle of a pandemic, and dug out of a season dark enough to teach me a few things I wish someone had told me at 35. Against the Fade started because I kept noticing the same thing happening to a lot of us in midlife. The body softens. The friend group thins out. The fire we used to feel about work, faith, purpose, whatever moved us, starts running on fumes. That's the fade. It's not depression and it's not a crisis. It's a slow drift, and most men don't see it until they're already deep in it.This show is for men who'd rather fight back than fade out. No guru act. Just a man talking to men.

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