The Company of Dads Podcast

Interview with Kate Mangino / Gender Expert, Researcher, Author HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Splitting up work at home equally doesn’t mean you do the dishes and I take out the trash. It means both partners share the mental load of running a house, raising children and tending to all the things that crop up. Kate Mangino spent time with 40 men who are equal partners to their spouses – as verified by th...

Interview with Andrew Jensen / Pro Athlete, Mental Health Advocate, Suicide Survivor HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Andrew Jensen was an elite athlete all through the junior and university ranks. Handsome, fit and charming, he nearly reached the pinnacle of his sport, falling just a few notches short of playing on the PGA Tour. Throughout it all, Andrew was struggling with his sense of self-worth and han...

Interview with Brian Page / Founder of Modern Husbands, Financial Literacy Expert HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN For our first joint podcast, Paul Sullivan, founder of The Company of Dads, and Brian Page, founder of Modern Husbands, come together to discuss what the two groups have in common and where we differ. No competition here, just two men discussing one set of key issues that have come out of the...

Interview with Han-Son Lee / Founder of Daddilife, Leader in HR Change in the UK HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Han-Son Lee, the founder of Daddilife, a parenting website for fathers in the United Kingdom, is working to change the way companies treat working dads. Human resources departments can be there to facilitate changes and help create Working Dad Groups, but the only way men are going to come on b...

Interview with Mike McGee / Marketing Guru, Lead Dad to Annika Sorenstam HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Mike McGee was a sports marketing guru in his own right before going to work for Annika Sorenstam, one of the greatest golfers of all time. About 15 years ago, their relationship turned romantic, and he’s now a Lead Dad to Annika and their children Will and Ava. Growing up in a golf family – his father...

Interview with Bruce Feiler / Creator of The Council of Dads, thinker on family and friends HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Bruce Feiler is best-selling author, sought-after speaker and contemporary thinker on fatherhood, family and work. He may be best known as the creator of The Council of Dads, an idea and a book he conceived when he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his leg. He wanted to recruit...

Interview with Paula Ratliff / Tech Leader, Workplace Thinker, Kentucky Colonel HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Men far outnumber women in tech, but Dads have the ability to even the playing field for working moms, says Paula Ratliff, president of Women Impact Tech, which helps women thrive in the tech space. She talks about the “He’s for She’s” that helped her in her own career and can help women today....

Interview with Kenneth Braswell / National Expert on Responsible Fatherhood HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN What’s a big lesson for fathers? Having patience – and the understanding that none of us can do it all, says Kenneth Braswell a leader in the responsible fatherhood movement. Kenneth is the chief executive officer of Fathers Incorporated, a widely recognized nonprofit that supports fathers, research...

Interview with Gary Barker / Leader in the Global Men’s Movement / O.G. Lead Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Gary Barker is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and creating a positive view of masculinity. He is the CEO and founder of Equimundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries - starting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He’s also the founder of...

Interview with Carrie Schwab Pomerantz / Expert in Family Finances HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Carrie Schwab Pomerantz is an absolute expert in family finance. She has served two White House administrations. She advised the Council on Financial Literacy under President George W. Bush, and was later appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. She kno...

Interview with Dana Suskind / Surgeon, Author, Child Development Expert HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Dana Suskind is an acclaimed pediatric surgeon at the University of Chicago and the author of “Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise.” What’s a parent nation? It’s a group that values and supports the labor and love of raising the next generation, particularly in...

Interview with Jay Lauf / Thinker on the Future of Work, Reformed Daily Commuter HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Jay Lauf is the co-founder and president of Charter, a news site going deep on the future of work. He’s had a great career in magazines and media. He was the chairman and publisher of Quartz, the publisher of The Atlantic and the publisher of Wired. But for 20 years, the constant was his daily...

Interview with Jill Castle / Expert on Feeding Kids For Maximum Health and Happiness HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Parenting is some combination of exhausting and exhilarating. Making healthy meals can fall into the exhausting category. And it’s complicated: if Daddy is drinking a rum punch and attacking a basket of fried seafood, can he really tell his kids to skip the Shirley Temples and chicken finge...

Interview with Jeffrey Forte / National Advocate for Families / Special Ed Attorney HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Jeff Forte is special education attorney in Connecticut and advocate for parents and children. He runs one of the few law practices in the state dedicated entirely to helping families navigate the state’s special education laws to insure their children get an appropriate education. Sometimes...

Interview with Stephanie Coontz / Expert on Contemporary Families and Marriage HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN How have husbands and wives balanced working, parenting and being together throughout history? Stephanie Coontz, the director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families, says it’s generally not how most of think about it today. If anything, the past 50 or 60 years ar...

Interview with Chris Bell / Musician, Lead Dad of Two, Guitar Master HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN A New Hampshire guy originally, Chris Bell has called Austin, Texas, home for almost two decades. A classically trained musician, he used to teach but now he is, what he calls, a ‘stunt guitarist’! He and his wife knew each other since they were kids but they reconnected 20 years ago. He’s the Lead Dad to...

Interview with Nick Brophy / Bakery Owner, Career Supporter, Wise Man HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Today my guest is Nick Brophy, father of five children, ages 7 to 24. Nick played football at Princeton and the team won the Ivy League championship his junior year. Then he took a traditional path to Wall Street. He loved it and excelled at it for nearly 20 years. His wife Sarah was also enjoying a thriv...

Interview with Rob Kenney / Creator of "Dad, How Do I?" HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Rob Kenney came up for the idea for “ Dad, How Do I? ” during the pandemic. He wanted to provide what he calls “Dadvice,” to kids who didn’t have a dad. He knew that role personally, growing up without a father – his mom died and his dad left the family when Rob was 14. Little did he know that his first video...

Interview with JR Havlan / 8-Time Emmy Award-Winning Comedy Writer, Lead Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN A funny thing happened on the way to J.R. Havlan using his college degree to get a job on Wall Street: the stock market crash of 1987. With every offer evaporating, he did the next logical thing and went into comedy. While he surely would have been the funniest guy at the water cooler, he also was...

Interview with Lara Bazelon / Lawyer, Author, Honest Assessor of Dads HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Lara Bazelon is an attorney and author of the book Ambitious Like A Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career is Good for Your Kids . Her book is about this moment in time, when we’ve come out of the pandemic where whole groups of people have been able to work from home, and that has allowed spouses to see exa...

Interview with Franco Finstad / Jazz Trumpeter, City Dad, Quick-witted Storyteller HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Franco Finstad is a dad-at-home in Manhattan, as he calls it on his LinkedIn profile. He has twins, a boy and a girl. Before they were born, he was a software engineer and a musician – trumpet being his instrument. But a funny thing happened on the way to being the Lead Dad to his twins. Whil...

Interview with Kamau High / Journalist / Kid Pickup Pro / Lead Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Kamau High is a senior editor at The Baltimore Sun, where he helps shape the news agenda and manages a team of reporters. It’s been an interesting path to get where he is. He married his high school sweetheart. They moved to New York, they had fun, they worked – she is a cardiologist, he was a reporter at th...

Interview with Tony Maws / Award-Winning Chef, Restauranteur, Lead Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN Famed chef, Tony Maws was a central part of the Boston food scene for more than two decades. He won a slew of chef honors, including the highest – a James Beard Award. One of his restaurants, Craigie on Main, attracted a loyal foodie following who gathered around his famed chef’s table. (He also had a mo...

Interview with David Weinstein / Legendary Baby Doctor – At Nearly 11,000 Births HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN David Weinstein has delivered nearly 11,000 babies in the New York area—most at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. He’s one of the all-time greats. Stories of his grace and coolness under pressure are legion. High-risk pregnancies? No problem. Record deliveries in a day? 12 – out of 600 a year f...

Interview with Max Rivera / New York City Firefighter, Lead Dad HOSTED BY PAUL SULLIVAN After the September 11 attacks, Max Rivera knew he wanted to be a New York City firefighter. It’s not an easy job to get but he was determined to do it. It took him over a decade to accomplish his goal. But he made it and was assigned to a storied fire house in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He’s now part of an elite spec...