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Divorced Dads of America: The Rebuild
by Anthony Thompson, Founder of Divorced Dads of America
You didn't lose your marriage. You lost yourself.This podcast is for the divorced dad who's done surviving and ready to rebuild — his confidence, his cashflow, and his connection with his kids.Every episode delivers one raw truth and one actionable framework grounded in Biblical truth and real strategy.No fluff. No therapy speak. Just the work.New episodes drop weekly. Follow the show so you never miss a rebuild.
Episodes
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Why Divorced Dads Wait Until It's 10x Harder to Quit
I waited years to tell anyone about a habit that was quietly running my life — and it didn't die until I did. This episode is about the pattern I now see in dad after dad who reaches out: crisis, relief, silence, and a worse crisis later. What's actually happening underneath it, and the exact...
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You Don't Have a Faith Problem — You Have a Memory Problem
This week on Sunday Table, the Sunday faith segment from Divorced Dads of America, Anthony Thompson asks a simple but exposing question: what does seeking God actually look like for you — compared to what seeking money looks like? Anthony walks through his own list of moments God came through for...
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Divorced Dads Ask: How Do You Deal With Missing Your Kid?
Episode Title: Divorced Dads Ask: How Do You Deal With Missing Your Kid? Description: A photo memory pops up. Your kids, two years younger, laughing about nothing. And it wrecks you before you've even had coffee. Anthony answers a question every divorced dad eventually asks — how do you actually...
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Why Divorced Dads Don't Have a Free Time Problem — They Have a Silence Problem
Description: The list runs out. The house goes quiet. And something in your chest gets loud. Anthony breaks down what actually happens the moment a divorced dad's to-do list empties out on a day off with no kids — the racing mind, the two default moves (burn the day moving, or numb out on the...
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You Don't Have a Patience Problem — You Have a Trust Problem
This week on Sunday Table, the Sunday faith segment from Divorced Dads of America, Anthony Thompson tells the story of waiting backstage with Kanye West and 2 Chainz at a concert in Australia — and what happened when the wait finally ended taught him more about trusting God's timing than any…
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Divorced Dads Ask: Am I Actually Healing, or Just Distracting Myself?
Description: A dad's question stopped Anthony in his tracks — am I actually healing, or have I just gotten really good at distracting myself from the pain? This episode is for every divorced dad who's been busy, productive, and looking like a comeback story on the outside while something specific...
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You Don't Have an Anger Problem — You Have a Mouth Problem
Description: What actually comes out of you when your ex squeezes you, when your kids push back, when the bill comes at the worst time? In this episode Anthony breaks down the orange test — a simple picture with a brutal application — to explain why getting squeezed doesn't create who you are, it...
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Why Divorced Dads Believe in God But Don't Trust Him — And What That's Costing You
This week on Sunday Table, the Sunday faith segment from Divorced Dads of America, Anthony Thompson makes the case that faith isn't belief — faith is trust, and most divorced dads have plenty of the first and almost none of the second. Anthony shares his own financial rebuild after divorce, a...
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Your Ex Started Dating — And It's Exposing Something You Weren't Ready to See
Your ex started dating. And something happened inside you that you were not prepared for. Maybe you went cold. Maybe you felt replaced. Maybe you felt like a failure — even though you have been doing the work and telling yourself you have moved on. This episode is not about her. It is not about...
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He Figured It Out Alone — And Lost His Daughter While He Was Doing It
A dad found this podcast. Got into the community. Shared that his teenage daughter was being alienated and the connection was slipping. When it came time to get real help — he disappeared. Months later he came back. He had kept doing the same thing expecting a different result. YouTube videos....
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Why Divorced Dads Skip Their Bible (And What It's Actually Costing You)
This week on Sunday Table, the Sunday faith segment from Divorced Dads of America, Anthony Thompson tackles the question most divorced dads avoid: if Jesus is really #1 in your life, can you prove it? Using his own calendar, bank account, and mind as the evidence, Anthony walks through why so…
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You Were Enough When You Were Married — So What Happened to That Man
A dad on a coaching call went quiet for almost a minute when I asked him what he was afraid of. Then he said — I felt like I was enough when I was married. And now I don't. That one sentence explained everything — why he keeps trying instead of committing, why he will not go for the promotion…
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The Divorce Already Humiliated You — So What Exactly Are You Still Afraid Of
I walked into my kids' event wondering what my ex had already told people about me. Carrying shame about being a church guy who got divorced. Terrified of failing publicly again. And then it hit me — the thing I was most afraid of had already happened. The humiliation was already on record. The...
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A Father Buried His Son This Week — And Taught Me What "I Love You" Actually Means
This week on Sunday Table, the Sunday faith segment from Divorced Dads of America, Anthony Thompson sits with a grieving father in his community whose 16-year-old son was killed in a tragic accident — a father who was already fighting to save his marriage in the middle of an unwanted divorce.…
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You Want to Get Stronger — But You Won't Touch the Weight That Would Actually Do It
Two clients. One drowning in more business than he can handle — still working out of fear. One who could see the path to 3x revenue — still paralyzed by limiting beliefs. Both have the weight loaded on the bar. Neither will touch it. This episode is about why divorced dads stay small when the...
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Why Divorced Dads Stay Overwhelmed — The Time Audit That Puts You Back on Offense
Show me your calendar and I'll tell you what you actually value. Not what you say you value. What your time is actually going toward. For most divorced dads the calendar has work and maybe the gym — and everything else is whatever is left over after the day takes what it wants. That is called...
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Sunday Table: I Didn't Get The Job — I Got A Blueprint Instead
I prepped for weeks for a job I thought was the answer. High-paying, aligned, exactly what I needed. Then I didn't get it — and I was crushed. What I didn't see in that parking lot was that every hour of prep I'd just done was about to become the blueprint for the best business month I'd had up…
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His Greenhouse Was Dying — So Was He
Steve Super runs a horticulture business in California. He knows how to grow things. He knows what dying looks like. And when his daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in the middle of his divorce — he watched his greenhouse wither at the exact same rate he did. The plants stopped thriving. The...
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What Dying People Talk About — And Why It Should Change Everything About How You Live Today
My grandmother is in her upper 90s. She doesn't ask about my business or what I'm building. She tells me about soup. About a kid playing football in the street. She asks about my kids. And sitting with her I realized what most men spend their entire lives running from — at the end it is not the...
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The Sunday Table: I Drove Strangers Around At Midnight And Didn't Know God Was Still Driving Me
Two in the morning outside a bar in Gilbert, waiting on a rideshare ping. A drunk stranger gets in and asks what I do for a living. Six months earlier I had a title, a team, a marriage. Now the honest answer was — this. I drive strangers home at 2am so I can afford to see my own kids on the...
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She's Holding the Gun — You're Loading It | Sean Whalen
Sean Whalen built a multimillion dollar company, flipped nearly 4,000 houses, and had 170 employees. Then the market crashed in 2008. Twelve and a half million dollars in debt. Divorce. Suicidal. A Ruger P95 and a bottle of whiskey on his nightstand. He woke up the next morning with one thought —…
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The Odyssey Every Divorced Dad Is Living — And the One Move That Gets You Home
Odysseus won the war. Proved himself on the battlefield. And then spent years lost — not because he was weak, but because the journey home is never straight and the lotus flower is always on the next island. Every divorced dad is living this story right now. The lotus flowers have different names…
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I Might Die Like My Dad — But I Don't Have to Live Like Him | Mike Signorelli
Mike Signorelli has preached to thousands in Times Square. Built one of the fastest growing churches in America. Has a film, books, millions of followers. And behind all of it — infidelity, alcoholism, a marriage that should have ended a thousand times over, and a father wound so deep it almost...
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Stop Trying. Your Kids Are Drowning and You're Standing at the Edge of the Pool
If your child was drowning in a pool — would you try to save them? No. You would save them. No hesitation. No planning. No wondering if you were ready. So why are you still trying to become the man they need? The word trying sounds like progress. It feels like effort. But underneath it is…
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You Were There — But You Weren't: What My Daughter Taught Me About Presence
Anthony showed up to his daughter's performance. He was in the building. He took work calls. He missed the second half. When he asked her how the show was she said — you were there. But you weren't. That sentence hit like a punch in the face. This episode is the confession, the repair, and the…
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He Camped on the Floor With His Kids After Divorce — Troy Casey on the Body, the Rebuild, and the Truth Nobody Tells You
Troy Casey is 60 years old, built like a man half his age, and has been through everything a divorced dad fears most. The couch. The DUI. The savings account vaporized overnight. Starting over with nothing but a Kia and a credit card. And through all of it — camping on the floor with his kids on…
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You Say Your Kids Are Everything — So Why Won't You Do Everything?
Every divorced dad says his kids are everything. But when it comes to doing everything to become the man they need — the excuses show up. I'm trying. Life is hard. I don't have enough time. This episode is the one nobody wants to hear and everybody needs. Anthony breaks down the real cost of...
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She's Poisoning Your Kids — But That's Not Your Real Problem
She's poisoning your kids. She won't let you see them. Your lawyer is working on it. It's not fair and you know it. Every single one of those things may be true. And none of them are your real problem right now. The fastest way to win the war for your kids is to stop fighting the battle you can't...
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Shame Off You — Jon Gordon on What Guilt Is Really Doing to Divorced Dads
Jon Gordon almost got divorced. Lost his job. Lost his ego. Lost everything except his marriage — and nearly lost that too. Today one of the most influential voices in the world sits down with Anthony to talk about what guilt and shame are actually doing to divorced dads, why forgiveness unlocked...
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I Had the Life. Then I Drove Lyft. Here's What That Season Built in Me
A dad jumped on the free Monday night call this week. Six bedroom house — gone. Kids have everything at his ex's. He's in a small apartment wondering if he's the lesser option. Anthony's been there. Driving Lyft so his kids could eat. Living with his parents. Feeling like life was over. This...
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What Divorced Dads Feel on the 4th of July That Nobody Talks About
The whole magic of fireworks is watching your kids' faces. When they're not there — the holiday hits different. In this episode Anthony gets honest about what the 4th of July actually feels like without your kids, why your brain pulls you back to what no longer exists, and the system he uses to…
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She Called It the Best Thing She Ever Did — Every Divorced Dad Needs to Hear Why
Kristin Cavallari said her divorce was the best thing she ever did. No settlement. Half the time with her kids. Built everything from scratch. If you're in the middle of your divorce right now — or still rebuilding on the other side — this episode is the rope. Anthony breaks down what the…
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99% of You Already Knows She's Gone — The Other 1% Is What's Destroying You
You already know. You've known for a while. But that 1% — that tiny sliver of hope that maybe it turns around — is the most expensive thing you're carrying right now. In this episode Anthony breaks down the neuroscience of why smart, capable divorced dads stay stuck even when they know the truth,...
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Why Divorced Dads Can't Sleep — And the Dream Protocol That Finally Fixes It
The 2am spiral is one of the most common things divorced dads deal with — and almost nobody talks about what to actually do when it hits. In this episode Anthony introduces the Dream Protocol: a structured approach to what you do before you sleep, when you wake up in the middle of the night, and...
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Garbage Bags and God — How Adam Allred Rebuilt Everything After Divorce Took It All
When the divorce was done, Adam Allred had his old truck, garbage bags full of clothes, and three kids half the time. No money. Buried in alimony and child support. Living in his grandma's attic. Every morning he woke up sick to his stomach. Every night he went to bed not wanting to live. Today...
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Divorced Dads Ask: I Want to Run Away — And I Make Good Money and Still Feel Broke
This week two questions that look different on the surface — and hit the same place underneath. A dad who wanted to run away from his entire life. And a dad who makes good money and still feels financially suffocated every month. Anthony unpacks both honestly — including a real conversation that...
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Why Divorced Dads Keep Walking Into the Same Room (And How to See the Second Door)
Rumination doesn't go away — but it can become a decision. In this episode Anthony introduces the 2 Door Theory: the framework that turns an unconscious loop into a conscious choice. If you've been walking into the same room for months, this episode shows you where the second door is. → Apply for...
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The Letter Every Divorced Dad Should Write Before Sunday — And It's Not to Your Ex
Father's Day is this Sunday. Most divorced dads are waiting to be honored. This episode flips that. The challenge: write one letter to each of your kids before Sunday — not a text, a letter. Three things only. Anthony reads from his own letter on air and walks you through exactly what to write,...
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Divorced Dads Ask: The Text That Wrecks Me and the Daughter I'm Slowly Losing
One text. That's all it takes. Everything you built — the routine, the peace, the progress — gone in seconds. And across town, a dad is driving his teenage daughter to her third activity of the week in complete silence, wondering if he even exists to her. Both of these dads are losing ground they...
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When Divorced Dads Run Out of Options — What God Does Next
The math didn't work. The savings were gone. The income was gone. The options were gone. On the same day Anthony signed his divorce papers he was laid off from his six figure job — the exact number everything in the agreement had been calculated against. His lawyer told him the savings was for a...
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He Designed for the World's Biggest Stars and Still Felt Not Good Enough — Then Everything Changed | Dominic Ciambrone
At 24 years old, Dominic Ciambrone was making shoes for Justin Bieber. Twenty pairs. Less than a week. He said yes. What happened next — a manic episode, a window, a hospital bed, a bipolar diagnosis — wasn't the story anyone was telling about the kid who turned a grandmother's sewing machine…
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She's Not in Your Life Anymore — So Why Is She Still Running It?
She's gone. But she's still in your head — in the car, at the store, every time you pass that place. Every time your mind loops back to her you lose energy, focus, and peace. And the harder you try to stop thinking about her — the louder it gets. In this episode Anthony unpacks the real reason...
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Your Work Ethic Is Not Your Strength — It's Your Hiding Place
You're a hard worker. Always have been. And right now you're working harder than ever — and nothing is moving. What if your greatest strength is exactly what's keeping you stuck? In this episode Anthony shares the three questions his coach asked him that hit like right hand hooks to the face —…
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No Father. No Excuses. How LaMorris Crawford Became the Dad He Never Had
He never met his father. His mother was murdered when he was a baby. By eleven he was gang banging. By fourteen he was selling crack. Today LaMorris Crawford walks the sidelines of the NFL as team chaplain for the Carolina Panthers — and he has spent his life becoming the father he never had. In...
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The Hardest Thing a Divorced Dad Can Do Is Nothing
You've been fighting to get out of this season as fast as possible. More hustle. More control. More grinding. And nothing is moving. In this episode Anthony shares the moment pounding his steering wheel — broke, alone, pissed — and the image of his baby daughter that finally cracked the code. The...
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Every Divorced Dad Says His Kids Mean Everything — So Why Doesn't He Do Everything?
Every divorced dad says his kids mean everything to him. So why doesn't he do everything? In this episode Anthony shares the story of a dad in The Climb who drove past the same store every single day — and the four-gate framework that finally sealed the hole. Because love without a system gets...
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He Cheated, Lost Everything, and Sat His Kids Down — Here's What He Learned / Tullian Tchividjian
He had everything. Billy Graham's grandson. Lead pastor of a massive church. Books. TV. Radio. Conferences. A rising voice in the evangelical world. A life that looked, from the outside, like it was exactly what it was supposed to be. Then in the spring of 2015, it all went public. The marriage....
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The Divorced Dad Who Keeps Losing — And the One Thing He Won't Do
You know why things are the way they are. The ex. The courts. The timing. The loss. And you're right about most of it. But what if being right about what happened to you is exactly what's keeping you stuck? In this episode Anthony shares the mentor question that changed everything — and unpacks…
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Your Kids Don't Need a Perfect Dad — They Need a Present One
You've been trying to get fatherhood right. The rules. The schedule. The perfect environment. And the harder you try — the further they drift. In this episode Anthony unpacks the single shift that changed everything in how he shows up for his kids after divorce — and why the pursuit of perfect...
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Divorced Dads Dark Questions Answered By a Pastor / Landon Macdonald
At 11pm, after the kids are gone and the house is quiet, divorced dads write things they can't say out loud. Anthony has been reading those posts. The ones buried in comment sections. The ones in the corners of the internet nobody talks about. The anger. The guilt. The shame. The men who are...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You didn't lose your marriage. You lost yourself.This podcast is for the divorced dad who's done surviving and ready to rebuild — his confidence, his cashflow, and his connection with his kids.Every episode delivers one raw truth and one actionable framework grounded in Biblical truth and real strategy.No fluff. No therapy speak. Just the work.New episodes drop weekly. Follow the show so you never miss a rebuild.
HOSTED BY
Anthony Thompson, Founder of Divorced Dads of America
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