Books & Resources

The work doesn't end
when the school day does.

Books, ebooks, and a self-paced course for parents, educators, and mentors. Each one comes out of real work with boys and is meant to help you understand what they're facing and what to do about it.

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Meet Coach Ben

A picture book about a boy who thinks strength means never showing weakness, until Coach Ben teaches him otherwise. When an accident brings Lucas to tears, he wonders whether the strongest man he knows ever cries. Coach Ben's answer stays with him: "Tears mean your heart is strong enough to get full in the first place." By the end, Lucas starts to see that his strongest muscle might be his heart. For boys ages 4–8 and the adults who read with them.

Kirkus Star★ Kirkus Star · “GET IT” Verdict: “A powerful tale about achieving positive emotional health.” · Kirkus Reviews
Includes a Parenting Playbook

A caregiver's guide to the emotional moments that catch you off guard: what to say, what to avoid, and how to turn tears into connection. It comes built into the book.

Get the Digital Copy · $10 →Physical Copy · $15
Ebooks for Parents & Educators

Short reads for the people raising boys.

Three guides drawing on a decade in K–12 schools and graduate work in communication and counseling. Each is short enough to read in an afternoon and specific enough to use the next day.

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For Parents & Caregivers
From Boys to Better Men
An Introduction for Parents & Caregivers Navigating Masculinity, Media, and Emotional Growth
If you're raising a boy right now, you already know something is happening. This guide gives you language and real strategies for the cultural noise, from the manosphere to media literacy, and for raising a son who's strong enough to be honest about who he is.
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$10 on Payhip · buy without subscribing

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For Fathers & Mentors
Modeling Masculinity
How to Be the Man Young Men Need to See
A CBT-informed guide for the men in a boy's life. How you handle emotions, accountability, failure, and strength is already teaching him something. This one helps you make that teaching intentional, across four areas where boys are paying closest attention.
$10Get it →
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For Schools & Youth Orgs
Becoming Better Men
A 4-Week Workbook toward Healthy Masculinity, Identity, and Growth
A structured 4-week workbook for schools, families, and youth organizations. Each week builds on the last, from breaking the "man box" to emotional intelligence, accountability, and deciding what kind of man you want to become. It comes with exercises, reflections, and challenges boys will actually use.
$10Get it →
Detoxifying Masculinity course
Online Course

Detoxifying Masculinity

A self-paced Udemy course for adult men who want to examine their own conditioning around masculinity and do something about it. Six modules, drawn from the same frameworks as the school curriculum but rewritten for grown men working through this on their own time.

★★★★★ 4.8 · Student rating on Udemy
6 Modules: Socialization, the man box, language & media, masculine & feminine, empathy, and authentic living
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Dr. Munib Rezaie
About the Author
Dr. Munib Rezaie, PhD

Munib Rezaie spent more than a decade inside schools, as a teacher, counselor, and eventually principal, watching what boys were being taught about what it means to be a man. His PhD is in Communication with a focus on media studies; his master's is in school counseling. He is also the father of two boys.

Every book and resource on this page came from that experience: the conversations in the hallway that no one else was having, the behavior patterns that punishment never touched, and the gap between what boys are told and what they need to hear. Meet Coach Ben was reviewed by Kirkus and mentioned in Rolling Stone; the ebooks have reached parents and educators trying to figure out the same thing he is.

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The school curriculum goes further than any book can. Reach out. No pitch, just a real conversation about what your boys need.