Dad La Soul: Tackling Social Isolation for Dads with Dan Flanagan

Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast · Aug 5, 2024 · 38m

Dan Flanagan is a father and founder of Dad La Soul, an award-winning social impact organisation that focuses on tackling social isolation for dads. He shares his experience of struggling with being a dad and feeling like an outsider at mother and baby classes. He also reflects on his struggles with juggling his career, his father's illness, and how he found himself spending too much time on his phone at work and not experiencing fatherhood as he wanted to.

After a bout of illness, Dan decided to stop missing out on his son’s life, reprioritised his work to do so but he still found that he…