The Solo Dad Podcast

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  S5E7 He Had Just 17 Days With His Wife 18.09.2026 2時間 5分

  Seventeen days changed everything. Shane Musgrove came home from a normal work trip expecting dinner and a movie with his wife, Sonia. Instead, a stop at a clinic became a trip to the emergency room. Then came three words: “You have cancer.” Seventeen days later, Sonia was dead. In this deeply personal conversation on the Solo Dad Podcast, Shane walks Matt through the 17 days that changed his family forever—and what happened after everyone else went home and grief became part of everyday life...
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  Breathe Through the Grief: Nature, Cold Water, and Becoming Unstuck 07.08.2026 1時間 44分

  What does grief feel like when the person who gave your life direction disappears without warning? In this episode of the Solo Dad Podcast, Matt talks with golf professional, widower, father, yoga teacher, and Wim Hof Method practitioner Kevin Chin about the sudden death of his wife, Terry, and the tools that helped him survive, rebuild, and become unstuck. Kevin and Terry met through Couchsurfing before apps like Airbnb had become part of everyday life. Kevin was traveling through Florida to...
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  The Empty Side of Our Bed: Love, Caregiving, and Life After Loss 31.07.2026 1時間 29分

  When someone you have loved for decades dies, the love does not end—but the life you shared changes completely. In this episode of the Solo Dad Podcast, Matt sits down with author and widower Bill Beckett to talk about his wife, Bonnie, their 27 years together, her cancer journey, and the difficult work of learning to live with the empty side of their bed. Bill and Bonnie met online in the early days of the internet, long before dating apps, profile pictures, and video calls. Their relationsh...
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  S5E6When the Firehouse Becomes Family: Firefighter and Solo Dad’s Journey Through Loss 24.07.2026 1時間 21分

  What happens when the person who helped you carry everything is suddenly gone? In this episode of the Solo Dad Podcast, Matt sits down with Zach, a firefighter, widower, and solo father raising his nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter after the death of his wife, Megan. Zach and Megan had been together since high school. What began with him borrowing her answers in an ACT prep class grew into a 17-year relationship, a marriage, two children, and a life built around family, food, spor...
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  S5E6 I Was Built for This Moment: Suzie’s Journey Through Loss and Solo Parenting 11.05.2026 1時間 30分

  In this episode of the Solo Dad Podcast, Matt sits down with Suzie Schumaker for a deeply honest Solo Mom conversation about love, loss, faith, caregiving, and raising kids after the death of a spouse. Suzie shares the story of meeting her husband Eric as kids in their Orthodox church community, building a life together, grieving the loss of their first daughter, and later facing Eric’s cancer diagnosis during the isolation and restrictions of COVID. Their story is filled with devotion, humor...
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  S5E5 When Mental Illness Changes the Grief Story: Alicia's Journey, from loss to finding helpers 11.05.2026 2時間 6分

  This episode of the Solo Dad Podcast is a deeply honest Solo Mom conversation with Alicia, whose story moves through love, marriage, parenting, mental illness, separation, suicide loss, and the reality of raising grieving children after trauma. Alicia shares what it was like to love a man whose laugh filled the room, while also slowly watching mental illness change the life they were building. She talks about the impossible choices that came with trying to protect her children, the guilt of n...
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  S5E4 Participate With Grief: Thank You, Cancer? 24.04.2026 1時間 34分

  In this deeply moving conversation, Danny Leslie joins Matt to talk about love, loss, solo parenting, and the ways grief changes shape over time. Danny reflects on the long road of Raf’s cancer, the heartbreak of becoming the one who had to carry impossible news, and what it has looked like to raise their daughters while keeping her presence alive in everyday family rhythm. He shares how writing, walking with a weighted vest, and choosing to “participate with grief” helped him move from hidin...
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  S5E3 You Need the Rain to Grow: Love, Cancer, Faith and Grieving as a Solo Parent 17.04.2026 1時間 24分

  In this episode of the Solo Dad Podcast, Dustin Morrow shares the story of how he and Mallie met, built a life together fast, welcomed their son Tristan, and then had everything change when back pain turned into a devastating cancer diagnosis. What followed was a two-year caregiving journey filled with hospital visits, hard conversations, hospice, and the helpless reality of loving someone through something you cannot fix. Dustin talks openly about being both caregiver and dad, what it ...
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  S5E2 Grief, Guilt, and Finding Love Again 10.04.2026 1時間 27分

  Jason opens up about losing his wife Heather unexpectedly, raising a daughter through grief, and the heavy guilt he carried in the years that followed. He shares what helped him heal, including therapy, hard-earned honesty, and learning to put down the things that were numbing the pain instead of helping him face it. The conversation also moves into something many widowed parents wrestle with but don’t always talk about openly: dating again, loving again, and blending a family while still hon...
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  S5E1.2 Twice Widowed, Still Standing (Pt. 2): “It’s Happening Again”—and You Still Have to Parent 21.02.2026 56分

  What happens when grief doesn’t just visit once—when it repeats? In this conversation, Michael Chapman and Matt talk through the kind of loss that changes your nervous system: sitting in a hospital room watching “a repeat of history,” the exhaustion that makes reality blur, and the moment a nurse gives permission to step away—because sometimes that’s when it happens. They get into the parts people rarely say out loud: the numbness that shows up as a survival skill, the impossible job of...
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  S5E1 Twice Widowed, Still Standing (Pt. 1): The Quiet After Cancer & the Permission to Move Forward 13.02.2026 1時間 11分

  In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Michael Chapman—an author and twice-widowed dad—shares what it’s like to love, lose, and keep showing up. From walking through terminal cancer to the shock of the silence after, Michael opens up about grief waves, “two dates on the calendar,” and the moment he realized moving forward isn’t forgetting—it’s surviving. Book Available here: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Days-Calendar-Life-Lessons/dp/B0DK6DFT5D Support the show Ready for more than just listeni...
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  S4 E6 Tony From Caregiver to Grief Educator 05.09.2025 1時間 10分

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  S4 E5 - Courage: Marc's Radical Story on Finding a Cure, For Her, For All 29.07.2025 1時間 25分

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  When the Rainbow's Hard to See....Become The Rainbow 16.05.2025 1時間 37分

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  S4E2 CJ Father of 3, Widower by Cancer, and Founder of Unvoiced 03.04.2025 1時間 20分

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  S4E2 Nadav Widower By Car Accident, a journey from shock to forgiveness and moving forward 03.02.2025 1時間 49分

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  Season 4 Episode 1 Four Years, moving forward with living 17.01.2025 45分

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  Episode 3.3 Abel Keogh Widower Author, Blogger, and Relationship Coach 15.05.2023 53分

  “It’s different now and that’s OK,” says Abel Keogh, author, blogger, relationship coach and host of YouTube channel Widower Wednesday. Abel became a widower 21 years ago at the age of 26 when his wife took her own life while she was seven months pregnant. He started anonymously blogging during that first year as a widower, sharing his experiences and awkward dating stories. The blog soon took off as there were virtually no other resources for widowers at the time. After receiving so many of ...
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  Episode 3.2 When and How to Be Ready to Date Again 13.04.2023 1時間 22分

  “I’m worth whatever I think I’m worth,” says Ken, describing the mindset he adopted while beginning to date after losing his wife. Rather than thinking of their widower status as baggage, solo dads who are preparing to date again should remember that if their amazing wives once loved them, then another amazing person will, too. They also agree that knowing what they might have done differently in their first marriage gives them the unique opportunity to do better in future relationships. Ken ...
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  Episode 3.1 John S. UK to Canada, Cancer during COVID Dad of 2 11.04.2023 55分

  “I’m still on a kind of mixed-grief journey, I guess,” says John Smith, father of two, who lost his wife Kathy to colon cancer nearly two years ago. She was diagnosed just as the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 an official emergency. They were living with her parents at the time, and John discusses the challenges he faced with his in-laws in the immediate period following Kathy’s death. Their approach to grief was completely different from his—they almost pretended it wasn’t happe...