For three years and over 150 episodes, Real 50 Over 50 has been a show by women, for women, about women over 50. So when I tell you that this episode features our first-ever male guest, I want you to understand what that means: it had to be the right person, for the right reasons.
Enter Brad Walsh. Podcast Producer, Photographer, Author, Speaker, Host of the EMPOWEROGRAPHY Podcast Featuring the Stories of Over 800 Women.
Watch the Replay above. Here is a small clip
Overview
Raised by a single mom and his grandmother, Brad grew up surrounded by strong women, and that early world shaped everything that came after. He built a career as a women’s empowerment photographer, creating spaces where his clients could feel safe enough to be truly seen. When the pandemic paused those in-person sessions, those conversations found a new home: a podcast called Empowerography, now closing in on 800 episodes and ranked in the top 1.5% of shows globally. Brad is also an international bestselling author, speaker, and soul empowerment guide, and he’s currently building a platform, book, and TEDx talk around allyship.
Brad shared that he has been transformed by the work itself. He talks about being invited into the passenger seat of someone’s story — trusted to witness it, never to drive it — and about how interviewing hundreds of women has changed how he shows up as a husband, a father, and a man. We talk about the weight hosts carry after a hard conversation, what it really takes to build trust before the mic even turns on, and why “fixing women” has never been the answer.
This conversation is about allyship in practice, not as a destination you arrive at, but as something you choose every day. Brad brings a perspective that’s rare: a man who has spent years listening, actively listening, to women tell their stories, and the impact this has had on his life and his work. I think you’re going to love this one.
Brad’s Wisdom Bomb at the close said it all:
"We have to be in and of a service mindset to people in business and in life... it's the three C's, connection, collaboration, and community... that being in and of service mindset is part of the key to that. I wholeheartedly believe that. That's part of why we're all here."
Highlights
The discovery call before the interview
Brad explains that trust and connection are built before the mic ever turns on — through the discovery call, the rapport-building, knowing the guest came through someone in his community — so that by the time of recording, "there's really no armor that's up.”
The passenger seat
Brad describes what it’s like to be trusted with someone’s story, not as the driver, but as someone invited along for the ride. It’s a beautiful reframe of what it means to be a good listener, and a good guest in someone else’s life.
Why allyship can’t just be women talking to women
Brad makes the case that conversations about allyship need men in the room — not as an afterthought, but as essential participants — and shares the HERE method he’s developed for heart-led listening: hold space, empathize without ego, ask questions, respond with presence.
Brad Says…
“I always say it’s like I am being invited into the passenger seat of their car. They’re taking me on the journey of their story. I get to sit front seat and witness that. What an honor that is.”
— Brad Walsh
“A room full of women talking about an issue like allyship, that’s an echo chamber. We need to bring men into the conversation. If it’s just women talking to women about the importance of ally, what good is that? There’s no men there to hear it and to know what needs to change with what they’re doing.”
— Brad Walsh
About Brad
Brad Walsh is a podcast host/producer, photographer, story doula, and a published #1 International Best-Selling Author and an International Speaker who found himself wanting to inspire others during the pandemic. He birthed the idea of EMPOWEROGRAPHY, a Top 1.5% Globally Rated Podcast, a platform that highlights 800+ strong, inspirational, dynamic women who share their stories of success, triumph, resiliency, and transformation.
Brad is building a platform, a book, and a TEDx talk around allyship — what he learned from those 800+ conversations with women and how he thought allyship was a destination when it's actually a practice. Not one-and-done, but something you do every damn day. It's a lifelong commitment
Brad is building this platform to teach other men how to show up for the women in their personal and professional lives, not because he has figured it all out. Because he is committed to continuing to listen and learn.
Connect with Brad
Have a question for Brad? Drop it in the comments — I’ll make sure he sees it. And come back next Wednesday at noon ET, we have interviews booked months in advance. Or catch the replays.
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