The Solo Dad Podcast
Your Wife is Gone. You’re Still Dad. Now What?
SoloDad is a podcast created for widowed fathers navigating the unthinkable—raising children while grieving the loss of a partner. Each episode dives into the raw, unfiltered reality of solo fatherhood, offering honest conversations, practical advice, and stories from dads who’ve been there. Whether you're searching for guidance, connection, or simply reassurance that you're not alone, SoloDad is here to help you rebuild your life, one day at a time. Together, we find strength, purpose, and hope in fatherhood.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 1.11 Widower Weds Meet Adam - Solo Dad of 3 Young Daughters, Breast Cancer widower
Widow Wednesday - Meet Adam, young father of 3 daughters, made a widower after his wife journey with breast cancer come to an end. He shares is long relationship with loss in his life, early struggle…
Episode 1.10.2 Saddest ABC Song Ever, Taking Credit for the Successes, and more Ken, Ben and Matt
Matt, Ben and Ken catch up, talk end of summer trips, beginning of school planning, and how being flexible is paramount in this Solo Dad journey. Talking about how to outsource things we can't do and…
Episode 1.10.1 Back to School Preparations, Blending the New and the Old trips - Ken, Ben and Matt
Matt, Ben and Ken catch up, talk end of summer trips, beginning of school planning, and how being flexible is paramount in this Solo Dad journey. Talking about how to outsource things we can't do and…
Episode 1.9 Summer is over, Back To School preparations - Matt and Ben
Matt and Ben talk about end of summer, and preparing for back to school as the solo parent. Making decisions in a relationship vacuum. Tools such as password keepers, "mom calendars", and other too…
Episode 1.7 Seven Widows & A Wedding
Matt and Ben catch up after attending a friend and fellow widows wedding. Listen as they talk about the feelings and emotions that come up with going to a wedding, watching a friend find love again, …
Episode 1.6.2 Matt Ben and Ken
The conversation continues about dating, telling the kiddos, and all the fun stuff that comes with trying to date again.
Episode 1.6 Matt Ben and Ken
Matt Ben and Ken discuss traveling with kids, books helpful through grief and tell the kids about dating again.
Episode 1.3 FatherHood Movie Review
Ben and Matt chat about the new Netflix movie Fatherhood. How is felt to see true life moments reflected in a move. What areas the movie over simplfies in our opinions, and how glad the move was made…
Episode 1.2 Matt's Solo Dad Anxiety
Ben asks Matt about his new found Solo Dad anxiety. How asking for help will allow for living again, why it is so important to receive help, getting a routine that allows for the solo dad to do just …
Mother's Day Recap
Matt, Ben and Ken discuss how Mother's Day went for them this year versus years previous.
What went well, what didn't, and how grief finds a way to impact the day, in small ways and big.
Ben is parta…
The Solo Dad Podcast Intro
The Solo Dad Podcast
Where we will talk about grief, grit and getting going again with life after the death of a spouse, partner or significant person in your life. We do so by opening up and sharin…