The Authentic Dad Podcast

Self-Discovery, Amicable Divorce, and Guy Friends with Simon Ravona

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships. (Where we think it matters most).

Today, I'm joined by Simon Ravona. Simon is a Whole Person Certified Coach (WPCC), as well as a trained lawyer, negotiator, mediator and HR consultant. 

Since completing his own amicable divorce in 2017, Simon has immersed himself in every possible self-help resource including books, articles, podcasts and studies. 

In 2018, he started Catalytic Coaching Co. to help others, especially men, find wisdom, direction, and improvement, by looking into themselves, committing to mind-shifts and executing tiny habit changes.  His self-help journey is informed by evidence that people—more often men—do divorce alone, without a guide, support, hoping lawyers and therapists will help them move on. 

However, Simon discovered that other community, and especially other men, are essential to overcoming major life obstacles.

In 2017, Simon started a Meet-ups group, that went from zero to 120 members in one month.  Simon found that people experience divorce almost alone; but wish to find support, wisdom and a path forward by connecting with others who have thrived despite divorce.  This helped Simon realize that one of Simon’s life purposes is to help people discover their own meaning, life purpose and achievement through internal integration, authenticity practice, self-love, learning and training. 

To reach him, please email him at simon@catalyticcoaching.co. 

If you're a dad (or other person) who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

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Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

Plant Medicine, Microdosing, and Good Vibes with Ana-Alicia Montano

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

DISCLAIMER:  This episode is for informational purposes only and is not intended to give you advice of any kind. Also, please don't break the law.  

Today, I'm joined by Ana-Alicia Montano.  Ana is from the twin island republic of Trinidad & Tobago, and she is a psycho-spiritual counselor & coach, a psychedelic integration coach, a kambo practitioner and a reiki master.

Through a combination of different modalities, Ana is a guide that facilitates healing & growth in her clients through a deep journey into self so that they can realize their potential, align with their values, expand their consciousness, transform as they reach their goals, and come home to oneself.

Follow Ana on Instagram @journeyswithanaa

If you're a dad (or other person) who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instagram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:         @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

How To Thrive After Divorce (and Heartbreak) with Chelsea King

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

Today, I'm joined by Chelsea King. Chelsea is an Organizational Development Consultant and Certified Professional Coach with Heart Centered Work, where she cultivates workplaces that honor the dignity of those who work there by developing honest and respectful communication processes. Previous clients include: The Nature Conservancy, Rogue Credit Union, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Heart of Oregon Cardiology and more.

She was an Adjunct Professor at Portland State University, where she taught courses on Culture, Race and Communication. Chelsea is a publicly elected official who serves as the Vice-Chair of West Linn-Wilsonville School Board. She is also a co-founder of the Wilsonville Alliance for Inclusive Communities, an organization dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive place in Wilsonville, Oregon, where Chelsea resides with her three teenagers and a large floppy-eared dog.

Chelsea is also the creator of Transmuting Heartbreak, a community that turns the pain of loss into an expanded capacity to give and receive love.

Chelsea lived a chaotic childhood that had both trauma and unconditional love, poverty and creativity. As an adult, she vowed to create a stable life for herself and her own family. This vow motivated her toward significant achievement, but didn't protect her from her own divorce, which was the most painful process she has ever experienced. Movement, recovery, ritual and the support of community were integral to her healing.

Now that she has moved through the pain (it still comes back up!) and is experiencing an expanded ability to give and receive love (it's a practice!), she has the desire to accompany others in their process of transforming the pain into greater authenticity and love.

If you're a dad (or other person) who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instagram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:         @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

 

Young Adult Relationships, Marital Wisdom, and Social Media with Melissa Wright

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

Today, I'm joined by Melissa Wright. Melissa is an ICF-certified life coach who credits her instincts and life-experience for the successful relationships in her life. From her 28-year (and counting) marriage, to the 22 years she spent as a stay-at-home parent where she used everything she learned in college (and more), to the countless friendships she has nurtured along the way, Melissa knows what it takes to create and maintain healthy relationships.

Using her signature style of honest and direct communication, coupled with a healthy dose of humor, Melissa coaches young women who are seeking to attract healthier relationships. Whether those are with friends, family, or romantic partners, Melissa helps young women by busting the myths around relationships, and working on the most important one of all, the one with themselves.

If you're a dad (or other person) who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instagram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:         @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

Podcasts, Dad Rock, and Disney Magic with Jeremy Stein

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

Today, I'm joined by Jeremy Stein.  Jeremy grew up in the small town of Damascus, MD and quickly fell in love with art, music and movies from a young age. Like most grunge music fans in the 90’s, Jeremy formed his first garage band in 1995 and would spend the next decade playing in various clubs and bars in different groups throughout Washington, DC and Baltimore, also finding a new love in photography and working with bands on graphic design and the early stages of social media.

In 2005, Jeremy moved to Florida after a fateful 2002 introduction to Rhonda, which happened oddly because of the band Creed. After getting married and starting a family, in 2015, Jeremy left the corporate world to form a marketing company, focusing on basketball and eventually professional speaking and podcasting.

Living in Florida, a love of Walt Disney World grew and in 2017, after an abundance of questions from their family and friends about Disney, Jeremy and Rhonda decided to launch the Main Street Magic Podcast.

Main Street Magic is hosted by Jeremy and Rhonda who, along with their 2 girls, have currently visited Disney World consecutively every month for over 5 years and continue to hit the parks and stay at the resorts on a regular basis to bring the latest content, news and reviews.

As a host and/or producer of over 1000 podcasts episodes, Jeremy has been part of over 3 million downloads to date and has allowed him to sit down with the likes of Mark Cuban and ESPN Analyst Jay Bilas. Learn more at www.mainstmagic.com or follow on social channels @mainstmagic

If you're a dad (or other person) who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instagram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:         @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

 

Fathering, Lawyering, Adulting, and Bob Dylan with Matthew Bennett

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

 

Today, I'm joined by my good friend and colleague Matthew Bennett.  Matt has been married for 16 years and has 2 children (both girls, ages 12 and 14). Matt graduated  from University of Maryland ("UMD") in 1992 with a degree in history. He graduated law school at UMD in 1996.  

In this episode, we talk in detail about his professional journey, love for Bob Dylan, and being a father and husband in the modern world.

If you're a dad who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instagram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:          @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

QiGong, Depth Sexuality, and Ecstatic Experience with Eve Bradford

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

 

Today, I'm joined by Eve Bradford.  Eve is an educator, artist and oracular practitioner working at the intersections of art, activism, medicine and magic to create work that is an uncompromising call into authentic aliveness.

 

Eve has been producing events, curating content, facilitating community ceremony, creating ritual theater and generally contributing to the evolution of west coast underground culture for the last 15 years.

 

With Isis Indriya, she is the co-founder of Living Village Culture and The Compass at LIB, as well as a collaborator and teacher with the Academy of Oracle Arts. She graduated from the Gallatin Division of NYU with an independently designed BA in Art Making and Cultural Process, and from California College of the Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing.

 

After a series of profound life-changing events in 2017, Eve began training intensively and has recently stepped into being a teacher and staff member within the Mogadao Institute, an original lineage of qigong, depth sexology, martial arts, meditation and Post-Daoist philosophy created by her mentor Zhen Dao. She is also a core player in Zhen’s SACRA Immanence Theater, a radical troupe dedicated to theater as the apotheosis of sacred embodiment and spiritual inquiry.

 

Eve currently teaches online both in daily drop-in classes and focused longer term thematic courses. Additionally, Eve works one-on-one with private clients both in-person and online, utilizing the Mogadao Teachings as well as a lifetime cultivation of counseling, ritual arts and oracular technologies to develop customized personal practices that call upon the full capacity of our most authentic selves in service of full-spectrum health, liberated embodiment, radical expression and deeply rooted ecstasy.

 

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instragram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:          @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

 

Midlife Empowerment with Margaret Rizzuto

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

 

Today, I'm joined by Margaret Rizzuto. Margaret is a Midlife Empowerment Coach who serves women who are going through transitions whether feeling overwhelmed, redefining themselves or wanting to understand the things that hold them back.

She loves helping women to feel more empowered and fulfilled as they go through these experiences. She’s a strong believer that it is never too late and we are never too old to start something new. She’s uses positive psychology practices, intentional mindset, deep questioning and self observation as tools for creating big shifts for her clients.

Margaret’s been a guest on several podcasts, has written articles and conducted workshops on gratitude and runs a private Facebook group called, Mindful Midlife. A group for women who want to navigate midlife with curiosity, mindfulness and a whole lot of chutzpah! Gratitude is her touchstone and she’s an enneagram enthusiast who loves talking numbers and types.

If you're a dad who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instragram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:          @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

 

How To Win At Work with Eric Woodard

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

 

Today, I'm joined by Eric Woodard.  Eric is a high performance career coach interested in helping professionals at all levels win at work.

Part of the reason Eric is so interested in career success is because he struggled so much early in his own career. After plowing through the working world for decades, he now loves passing on the secrets of winning at work he wish he'd known at the beginning of his career.

Beyond advising numerous students, schools, employers, and professionals at all levels about career success, he has created and directed internship and other career programs at the White House, on Capitol Hill, at the U.S. State Department, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Eric is the author of multiple books about crossing the bridge between school and work, including Your Last Day of School, and The Ultimate Guide to Internships.

He holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of Missouri, and both an M.A. in International Affairs and an Ed.D. in Human and Organizational Learning from George Washington University where he researched the nature of internships that develop intern soft skills.

Eric holds a certificate in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance from American University and is recognized as a Certified High Performance Coach by the High Performance Institute.

Eric lives in Alexandria, VA with his amazing wife Keri and their 4 fantastic kids.

You can read more about Eric's story here.

If you're a dad who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instragram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:          @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.

 

 

 

How To Have The Conversations That Scare You with Shana James

Welcome to the Authentic Dad Podcast!  I'm David Waranch and I coach and support fathers on having a greater impact in the world, living on their own terms, and flourishing in their relationships.

Today, I'm joined by Shana James.  For 15 years, she has coached more than a thousand leaders, CEOs, authors, speakers and people with big visions who step into more powerful leadership, start and grow businesses, create more effective teams, increase their impact, get promoted, find love, rekindle spark, create a legacy, and become more personally inspired and fulfilled.

She's been known for my ability to assess, in just a few minutes, the cause of dissatisfaction and stuck points in your profession and love life. She then creates a clear and unique path for you to have true success and incredible love.

Referred to as a secret weapon, she cuts through distraction and provides direct access to your confidence, power and clarity. She is also a translator between women and men, providing effective tools to transform conversations and dynamics that have gone awry into connection and collaboration.

With an M.A. in psychology, DISC certification, Coaching training, more than a decade facilitating groups and workshops, starting multiple businesses and helping hundreds of entrepreneurs start their own, her range of skills is unlike many other coaches.

Shana's website https://shanajamescoaching.com/

Man Alive Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/man-alive-sex-success-relationships-health-money/id1253614865

If you're a dad who needs support in your relationships and are looking to make a greater impact in the world, I would love to hear from you.

My theme music is by Isaac Lourie.  Check him out on Instagram @isaac_lourie_official.

Please visit www.furthur.coach to say hi or schedule a free 30 minute coaching call.

Instragram:  @furthur_coaching

TikTok:          @furthurcoaching

Thanks for listening!  Please consider giving us a 5 star review and subscribing to the podcast.  It really helps people find it.