The Father Show with Mike Thompson‘s Podcast

How to Collect Back Child Support

Today on The Father Show with Mike Thompson we had Simone Spence the CEO of Athena Collects. Athena Collects is a company that helps custodial parent collect back child support that they are owed without paying an arm and a leg. Simone explains what child support is suppose to be use for and why the child(s) is the one that suffers when it’s not paid.   

How Anxiety & Depression Affects Men

Chandra Dew of Community Care Counseling came on the show to discuss Anxiety and Depression and how they affect your life. She explains the different types of Anxieties. Such things as Panic Attach, PTSD, Fear, Social Anxiety and more. Some symptoms of Depression include over sleeping, isolating yourself from others. She tells us how a couple are a team. How they have to work and support each other. How communication is so important. She tells us how physical exercise, self-health, environment, even your own thoughts, and medication can help deal with Anxiety and or Depression. 

How Parents Can Support Their Teens Overcome Negativity & Self Doubt

Our guest for this week was Lianna Tsangarides, LCSW who is a Teen Expert that helps with anxious and depressed teenagers stop self-destructive behaviors and self-criticizing thoughts so they can be effective in the daily lives. She lets us know that for our daughters can develop so of these tendencies in a much earlier age then you might think. She explains how we can and should engage with our kids and why it is so important. She explains where a lot of the pressure teens feel come from. Why it is okay for a teen to learn how to solve their own problems. Find out where you can get her book #GirlConfident: Discover Your Most Confident Self. 

How Black Men Can Stay Out of Criminal Justice System

In his own way of given back, Ali Shakoor wrote a book entitled “For Black Men Trying to Survive and Thrive in America: A Defense Attorney’s Advice and Life Experiences. He explains why black men should learn to love themselves which can help them be better fathers, better brothers, and better husbands. Ali explains how you can help get a bias judge off the bench. He also talked about staying away from negativity.

Men and Masculinity

This week on The Father Show we had Tonya Coover, PCC-S a Family Therapist and Wellness Advocate. She gives suggestion on what we as men can do to open up without losing our masculinity.  She gives insight as to why a man needs a man cave, when we should get our woman attention, and she tells us how men can use tapping to help lower stress. 

Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship

Husband, Father of 4, and Entrepreneur, Marcus Sorenson of Blue Coolers came on the show to inspire men to take control of their own destiny and have confidence to believe in yourself. Marcus gives tips on how to balance work and family. He share the steps he took when he and his business partner launch Blue Coolers.

Stay to the end of the show to get a special promo code to receive 10% off your new Blue Cooler.  

Fatherhood and Domestic Violence

We had the pleasure of having the Executive Director of Safe & Together Institute David Mandel, MA, LPC who has over 30 years of experience in domestic violence.

He gives great examples of who domestic violence perpetrators are, why they do what they do, the different forms of domestic violence, and most importantly how you can recognize it and over come it.

 
If you are a man that is controlling, or find yourself stocking your mate, and or is physically or emotionally abusive to your mate in any way, you need to watch this show. If you have a male friend that you know has some of these traits, you need to call him on it. Have him to watch the show. It can only help. 

How to Have a Fit & Wellness Life

Kim Farmer of Mile High Fitness and Wellness, Inc came on the show to give us men tips on how to live a fitness and wellness life. She provide practical steps you can take to get fit, lower your stress, handle stress, improve performance, productivity, and make long lasting changes for better health outcomes.  

Getting A Divorce and Having A Good Life

Can you have a good divorce? Sandrine Perradin from Beautiful Divorce believes you can. She comes on the show and tell us how she can help you have a good divorce, even if it didn't start off that way. She will help you achieve this anywhere in the divorce process. If your divorce and you have kids, she lets you know that a divorce is not the end of the family, just the marriage. A divorce is only a transformation of the family structure.

LGBTQ Divorce Law & Custodial Visitation Through Covid-19

Attorney Scott Goldman of Goldman Law, LLC came on the show to provide information on if a LGBTQ divorce is any different than a heterosexual divorce.                            

We also talk about how some custodial parent use Covid-19 to interrupt visitation and the consequences in doing so.