The Company of Dads Podcast

Interview with Elissa Strauss / Expert on What Care Does For Us HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Male caregivers are increasing in number. They're Lead Dads to their children and their wives. They're more vocal in the office. They're taking on roles that have been traditionally assigned to women based on outdated gender stereotypes. And care has changed them in positive ways. So why does it...

Interview with Timothy Smith / a.k.a. The Financial Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Why don't parents talk more about personal finance with their children? You talk to them about all the ways to keep them safe - dating, drugs, drinking, doing the right thing in tough situations. All super important, and so, too, is understanding financial choices - and the consequences they can have. Tim Smith, t...

Interview with David Graham / eSports Entrepreneur and Parental Ally HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN There are outdoor sports like football, soccer and tennis. And there are eSports like Fortnite and League of Legends. As parents, should we care which ones are children engage in? The answer from a leading eSports entreprenuer may surprise you. It starts with the question: How do we help our kids develop l...

Interview with Corinna Jenkins Tucker, Expert in Sibling Relationships HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Are sibling behaviors like pushing, intimidating just harmless rivalry? When does that rivalry go too far and become aggression? Should parents ignore the fighting? Should they step in and settle it for their kids? What are the best tactics to manage and diffuse the conflict as a parent? Listen as these...

Interview with Kevin Baker, Leader on Tween and Teenage empowerment HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Tweens can be moody. Teens can be withdrawn. As a father, you have a role to play in helping them through these periods of growth and change. Don't step back, lean in, says Kevin Baker, a thought leader and coach on tween and teen empowerment. Listen to 5 thoughts he has to help all parents. --- Get ou...

Interview with Jason Armishaw / Publisher of Start The Talk newsletter HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Your pre-teens and teens are getting messages about sex from their friends, from social media, from the school and community environment they're growing up in. To think differently is to be in denial - one that can be dangerous. Listen to 5 tips from Jason Armishaw, a sex educator focused on helping...

Interview with Matt Maynard / Family Therapist and Parent Coach HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN When it comes to parenting advice, your friends and most therapists aren't going to give it to you straight. Matt Maynard, a New Jersey-based family therapist, is not one for beating around the bush. In this podcast, he gives 5 actionable pieces of advice ripped from his new book, "Honey We F’ed up th...

Interview with Elliott Rae / Father Advocate HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Fathers need to step out and be more present, at home and in the office. This is the crux of the Parenting Outloud campaign that Elliott Rae has launched in London. He realized just how bad support for dads at work was when his now 8-year-old daughter was born prematurely. It started with having to leave his wife to go back to th...

Interview with Marc Hoffman / Advocate for Children with ADHD HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN In second grade, Marc Hoffman's teacher told him he wouldn't amount to anything. It crushed him but his parents and brothers rallied behind him. He ended up going to Williams College, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the U.S., and becoming a widely respected advocate for kids with ADHD and other...

Interview with Neal Conlon / Men's Group Leader and Coach HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Neal Conlon is one interesting guy. Out of high school, he went into the Marines where he served for nearly 8 years. Getting out, he chased status. He had success being an entrepreneur, raising capital and helping lead growth companies. Then he hit reset. Today he runs Omnis Rising, a community to support men, a...

Interview with Will Hoffman / Rare Disease Advocate HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Will Hoffman is a runner and when his son was diagnosed with NF - an incurable genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body - he ran towards the problem. With his son, with others, he tried to figure out what he could do and that was to raise money. But he had other children and had to balance...

Interview with Anthony Franzese / Seeker of Fatherhood Wisdom HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN What does it mean to be a Successful Working Parent? It's a question Anthony Franzese, a healthcare sales executive, had when he became a father. So he went on a quest: if you have fatherhood questions, ask a parent - or 52 of them. That's what Anthony did and nearing the end of the year he has some rev...

Interview with Verne Marble / Veteran, Advisor, Father HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Verne Marble is one of four and the father of four. His childhood was a bit haphazard. But he's a committed father who was clear-eyed about what mattered for his family. After college he wanted to serve his country but a few years into his Naval service he made a change so he could be more present for his family. L...

Interview with Abby Davisson / Expert on Money and Love HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Should love and money be linked together? If you want to be happy in life, Abby Davisson argues 100 percent. She wrote about it with one of her Stanford Business School professors - but that interest came out of a project she worked on with a fellow student, who is now her husband. They have two kids, too. Learn how to...

Interview with Michael Ray / International Fatherhood Advocate HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Michael Ray provided security for music superstars - Jon Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, INXS. Bruce Springsteen was the nicest. Then, on the cusp of turning 50, he became a father. Less than two years later, going through a cancer scare, he became a solo dad, when his daughter's mother left them both. Today, a...

Interview with Sean Keenan / Lessons from a Divorced Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Sean Keenan, an economist by training, has a harrowing story about a divorce that went to such a dark place. The least of it was it drained his savings account. His two children were put at the center of a horrifying alimony and custody battle. The accusations and allegations are extreme and terrifying for any parent....

Interview with Adrienne Prentice / Parent Coach for Companies HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Adrienne Prentice loved being a lawyer and was working her way up within the general counsel's office. She went on parental leave when her first child was born - and returned to find her position had changed. She wasn't invited to certain meetings or assigned to cases that involved travel. The assumptio...

Interview with Dan Doty / Founder of Evryman, Engaged Fatherhood Leader HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Before the pandemic, Dan Doty was one of the best known advocates for helping men live better, fuller and more fulfilled lives. He was a founder of EVRYMAN, which led group retreats but was ascending to a near-spiritual level of support for men. He was as comfortable talking to Joe Rogan as he was on Th...

Interview with Jon Macaskill / Navy Seal, Advocate of Mindful Meditation HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN When a doctor told Jon Macaskill, a decorated Navy Seal with decades of combat experience, that meditation could ease his mental health struggles, he laughed. He didn't want to hear anything about that "hippie sh@t" - he was an elite warrior who led other elite warriors into and out of c...

Interview With Dr. Amy Beacom / Parental Leave Expert HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Companies can have the most generous, equitable parental leave policies - plans polished and perfected to allow mothers and fathers time to bond with their new baby and return to work feeling valued. And then a manager ruins it all with a snide comment. Or calls during leave. Or has no plan for return whatsoever. Enter A...

Interview With Zach Watson / Fair Play Coach, Recovering Manchild HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Two words could change your married life for the better: mental load. It's a phrase coined by Eve Rodsky that has spawned a movement to rethink how work in the home is allocated. It's not so much about what gets done as who thinks of that what. Zach Watson, a star dad creator on Instagram and Tik To...

Interview with Todd Demsey / PGA Tour Player Who Walked Away From The Game HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN "Thirty weeks a year on the road - it's not worth it.," said Todd Demsey who wasn't a consultant or traveling salesman. He was a PGA Tour golfer living every golfer's dream. It was his dream, too - until his children were too old to travel with him. So he gave it up and moved...

Interview with George Grombacher / Founder of the LifeBlood podcast, Father of Three HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Success usually begets more obligations to fit on top of what you're already doing - without more time to do them. That happened to George Grombacher, who was a financial adviser when he launched Lifeblood, a podcast that delves into health, wealth, relationships, work and life. It too...

Interview with Sir Royce Briales / Founder of Welcome To Fatherhood HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Welcome To Fatherhood began when Sir Royce Briales asked his childhood friend, Dr. Raheem Young for fatherhood advice. The two Chicago dads began talking and Sir Royce wondered how he could share more broadly Dr. Raheem's advice. It was all about knowledge transfer and Sir Royce realized that transfer...

Interview with David Landman / Goldman Sachs HR leader, Workplace Advocate HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN After a 20-year career as a human resources leader at Goldman Sachs, David Landman recently left and has launched a consultancy that is working to bring more fulfillment, belonging and connection to the workplace. Armed with experience from one of the top Wall Street banks - a firm that has been more...