About The Evolved Caveman
The Evolved Caveman is a modern media platform and podcast exploring masculinity, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness for men. It exists to help men understand their inner patterns so they can respond to life and relationships with clarity, purpose, and grounded reasoning rather than reactivity.
Dr. John Schinnerer
About Dr. John Schinnerer
Dr. John Schinnerer is a psychologist, speaker, and media host focused on emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and how men actually change. His work explores the psychological patterns that shape performance, relationships, and reactivity—especially under stress.
Dr. John earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and has spent his career translating psychological science into language people can actually use. He served as an expert consultant on Pixar’s Inside Out, helping shape how emotions are understood and portrayed for a global audience.
His work has been recognized across healthcare, technology, and education. He has spoken at organizations including Stanford Medical School, UC Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and UPS, and has coached leaders and executives at companies such as Meta, Twilio, Okta, Airbnb, Stanford University, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.
Dr. John’s expertise spans emotional intelligence for men, anger management, stress and performance, masculinity and culture, positive psychology, and building healthy, sustainable relationships. His approach emphasizes clarity over hype and awareness over willpower.
He is the host of The Evolved Caveman Podcast, a top-ranked self-help podcast that explores masculinity, emotion, and self-awareness without bravado, blame, or bullshit. More than 20,000 people have completed his online anger management course, and his micro-courses on anger and forgiveness—created for Simple Habit—have been listened to nearly 200,000 times in their first year.
Dr. John has been featured in national media including U.S. News & World Report, Reader’s Digest, Fatherly, and SELF Magazine. He was recognized with the Leadership in Healthcare Award (2022) and named Best Executive Coach in Danville (2020).
The Evolved Caveman Podcast
About the Podcast
Over the past six years, The Evolved Caveman Podcast has grown into a long-running media platform with 300+ episodes, hundreds of guests, and more than half a million downloads, reaching tens of thousands of listeners around the world.
The podcast began unexpectedly during a retreat in Costa Rica. What started as resistance turned into a realization: this was a medium capable of sharing thoughtful, grounded conversations at scale. Not a personal brand project—but a platform for ideas worth sitting with.
Since then, Dr. John has hosted weekly conversations with authors, psychologists, academics, and cultural thinkers, as well as ongoing dialogues with his partner, Joree Rose. The show explores the patterns that shape how men think, feel, and relate—especially under pressure.
Rather than offering quick fixes or motivational soundbites, The Evolved Caveman focuses on perspective and awareness. Episodes examine themes such as self-criticism, addiction, relationships, masculinity, sex & intimacy, compassion, forgiveness, stress, anger, attachment, shame, anxiety, meaning, and purpose—always with an emphasis on clarity over hype.
The podcast exists to make useful psychological ideas widely accessible, free of charge. It’s an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and engage with the inner work that leads to more deliberate choices and healthier relationships.
You can listen and subscribe to The Evolved Caveman Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Love Isn’t Enough Podcast
A relationship podcast by Joree Rose, LMFT & Dr. John Schinnerer
Love Isn’t Enough is a relationship-focused media project by Joree Rose and Dr. John Schinnerer that explores how couples actually grow—not just how they hope to.
Most couples don’t struggle because they lack love. They struggle because they lack the skills, awareness, and emotional regulation required to sustain connection over time.
Imagine this:
You and your partner fall into a familiar disagreement—but instead of escalating, shutting down, or sweeping it under the rug, you’re able to slow the moment down. You feel heard. You repair more quickly. And instead of distance, you end up feeling closer.
That outcome isn’t magic. It’s learnable.
We’re often taught that if we find the “right person,” everything else will fall into place. But love alone doesn’t teach us how to communicate under stress, repair after conflict, stay emotionally connected, or grow together instead of apart.
You can deeply love someone and still:
- Struggle to communicate effectively
- Miss each other emotionally
- Lose intimacy or sexual connection
- Fight in ways that create distance
- Feel unseen, unheard, or misunderstood
- Grow in different directions
This isn’t a personal failure. Most of us were never taught how relationships actually work.
Love Isn’t Enough exists to examine what does make relationships work: emotional awareness, communication skills, accountability, repair, and intentional growth. Through conversations, podcasts, and classes, Joree and Dr. John explore how couples can show up more effectively—for themselves and for each other.
Because love is essential.
It’s just not sufficient on its own.