The Dude Therapist

This is a special featured episode with me! After chatting with Dr. Shawn Horn on this week's episode, I felt it was appropriate to be honest and real about some things and bust some shame feelings. These last few weeks have been hard and weird for me due to reading an amazing book "Man Enough" by Justin Baldoni and all the Anti-Semitism happening in the US, causing me to feel some feelings. This...

We have all dealt with shame and embarrassment over our life and Dr. Shawn is the shame busting therapist helping us learn more about vulnerability and ourselves. Dr. Shawn's mission is to bust through shame, ignite hope, and inspire wholehearted living! She is a licensed psychologist, author and TEDx speaker. In addition to her private practice in Spokane, WA, she serves as faculty at the Univers...

After the devastation of her own divorce, Alexandra Eva-May started speaking out about how the experience impacted her life. She quickly realized there were many others out there just like her and found true solace in connecting with other divorce warriors. She emerged from the entire experience with new-found hope, self-love, happiness and optimism. Soon after, Alexandra founded the blog The Sple...

As a parent, we all need help, support and normalization of our feelings and experiences. In this weeks episode I had the privelage to chart with Abbey all about honest and real parenting. Abbey Williams, MSW, LSW is a behavioral health therapist, the producer and host of the Mimosas with Moms Podcast, content creator of the social media platforms @mimosaswithmoms, Author of An ABC of Families, an...

Dr. Renee is a sought after Educational Psychologist, Author, Associate Professor, Curriculum Developer, and International Master Teacher and Mentor. Combining her lived experiences, with her expertise as a researcher and master teacher, Renee presents cutting edge strategies aiding listeners to access the largely untapped potential for bringing out mental and emotional energies into greater balan...

We all deserve to be happy and in a state of flow.. so how do we get there and how do we keep it? Find out today with my chat with Sarah Gregg! Sarah Gregg is a relatable, no-nonsense expert on mindset, happiness, and flow. She's a psychologist (a member of the British Psychological Society), qualified and accredited careers advisor, NLP Practitioner, and certified coach. She recently had her book...

Katie is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a Private Practice in San Diego, CA, as well as the co-founder of Habitbetter, an app designed to help you build better habits. As an LMFT, Katie has specialization in helping individuals, couples and family navigate and build healthy relationships and manage relational anxiety. Contact: Katie Miles katiemileslmft@gmail.com katiemileslmft.com...

Josephine is an expert in mindfulness and meditation and in helping others overcome adversity to find joy. Through her unique journey on her path to becoming a mom of five, Josephine weathered many ups and downs with miscarriages, IVF, international adoption, and surrogacy. Channeling her experience to find calm and courage and to focus on perseverance, she now helps others navigate life’s curveba...

As a parent and someone who is married to a dietitian, we are always looking, wondering and testing what the best ways to raise our child to be the healthiest they can be. This week's episode is with a specialist in how to raise healthy and happy eaters. We chatted about:- What it means to be a healthy eater- Our role as parents in the eating process - The crossover of mental health and eating- Th...

This weeks guest was secretly one of the first people I met from the “family” when dating my wife. He made me feel instantly calm and smile. He has played a huge part in my families life and mine. Nicholas is someone you never forget after meeting, bringing such positive energy, joy and love into this world. NICHOLAS PRATLEY, the founder and CEO of SP8CE by Nicholas Pratley, is a licensed Neuro-Li...

I'm a social media wizard, creator, designer, baker, writer, media planning assistant with PRH & a wellness blogger living with IBD. My hope is to inspire others to lead a fulfilling life that they truly love while honing in on self-love & self-care. What sparked my passions and changed my life, was getting diagnosed with and battling Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease ever since I was 17. Sim...

As we are bombarded with the “should” and “shouldn’t” of how to look and feel about our bodies. In this weeks episode we have an eating disorder coach and body empowering influencer, inspiring and motivating so many, like myself. Julia Parzyck is an eating disorder recovery coach and body-acceptance influencer. She helps women find a healthy relationship with their bodies, food, and fitness and tr...

As my wife is a dietition and is a huge believer in intuitive eating, I had to have this guest on to talk about it! As a man I struggle with body image and the value we put on certain foods, ideas about body and self, and we got into it on this episode! Sammy is the owner of Find Food Freedom and co-host of What The Actual Fork Podcast! Sammy graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. in Nut...

In this week's episode, we get the chance to chat with the amazing and Tik Tok famous therapist Lindsay Fleming. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who holds a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology. She is passionate about helping children, adolescents, and young adults. After encouragement from her middle school girls leadership workshop, she facilitated and joined Tiktok. After a...

In honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Day, we are having a special guest on, Oakley Peterson. Oakley Peterson is a California girl who married a Utah boy and has found herself living in the snow and mountains... where she never planned on raising a family! An even bigger change in life's “plans” was giving birth to a son with Down syndrome... an event that she never hoped for but is beyond grateful...

Something close to my heart is helping men become more aware to their feelings and in touch with their emotions. There’s so much stigma and societal pressure to be “manly” that it has hurt men from being their full and true self. In today’s episode we dive right into those issues with Mike Sagun. Mike is a certified professional men’s coach. He has a BA in Education and spent 10 years as a teachin...

In this weeks episode, we get into the nitty-gritty of what it means to be a man, masculinity, and being a father in 2020, welcome Ryan (Daring to Dad)Ryan is an integral men's coach based in Northern California. He works with men in breaking through barriers in order to experience their full selves. His work focuses on emotional awareness, spiritual exploration, fatherhood, and justice. He is Dar...

In this episode we dive right into the amazing world of Disney and creativity and how to utilize it in our every day life! SAUL BLINKOFF is a Hollywood filmmaker who has worked for many high profile clients including; THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS, MATTEL, AMAZON, & NETFLIX. He started his animation career on the hit DISNEY films Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan and Tarzan.  Saul speaks ar...

Robert is an ivy-league-educated Positive Psychology Expert, Celebrity Happiness Coach, Executive Coach, and Author. Robert studied under the direction of Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). UPenn is the only institution in the world to offer a Masters degree in Applied Positive Psychology. Robert is one of the world's leading experts on...

In this week's episode, we take a deep dive into infertility and how it can impact our relationship with ourselves, our spouses and alter our mental health with the amazing Erin Bulcao. Erin is a proud mom of twin 9-year-old girls, Natalia Gabriella and Eliana Giselle who she had via IUI. She also just gave birth to my third baby girl, Eriela Nicole, who took 3 years of IVF to conceive. She is a s...

In this weeks episode I get a chance to sit down with my amazing wife about our struggles with infertility and IVF Journey. Y’all know I shared my story a lot on social media, but here’s your chance to hear from my wife. There were some things I didn’t even know that she shared. In this day in age, there are so many avenues for support and we need to be there for each other, especially when it com...

They are authors of The New Power Couple and The Argument Hangover (which hits shelves Feb 2021 and already hit #1 New Release). With much excitement, they founded and launched Empowered Couples University: an online university where busy couples unlearn unhealthy patterns and gain modern relationship skills. They are sought after relationship coaches and have worked with celebrity couples, public...

Dr. Morgan Cutlip pursues her passion for helping others develop and maintain healthy relationships as she creates innovative and practical resources, content, and online courses for Love Thinks, LLC.She has presented topics related to emerging adults and millennials, premarital predictors of marital success, and marital relationships in conference keynotes including Smart Marriages, NARME, and Wo...

In this episode, we dive right into women empowerment, what it means to be a mother/parent and how we as parents handle our mental health, and how religion has shaped Dr. Julie Hanks to make her a stronger and more powerful woman. Julie de Azevedo Hanks, PhD, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with nearly 30 years experience specializing in women’s emotional health and r...

That's right, I worked on a psychiatric unit and boy was it an experience. I feel there are some truly inspiring, sad, and real stories that I saw on a daily basis that I felt were worth sharing with you. It is important for you to understand the ugly side of mental health and some raw realness to something that people don't usually get a chance to see. These stories and ideas are just the tip of...