Robert Beeson went from a successful Sony Nashville music executive to a single father raising three young daughters after his marriage collapsed.

In this Raw Minds episode, Robert opens up about single parenting, divorce, custody, fatherhood, shame, addiction, faith, mental health and rebuilding your life after losing everything.

Before becoming a single father, Robert founded Essential Records and helped develop artists including Jars of Clay, Third Day and Casting Crowns. At 40, his career ended. Three months later, his wife left. He was suddenly fighting through a custody battle and raising daughters who were nine, seven and four.

Robert talks openly about betrayal, loneliness, shame and his own mistakes, including an affair early in his marriage. He also asks a question many men face after life falls apart: Who are you when the job, marriage, money, status and identity are gone?

Robert spent more than eight years raising his daughters as a single father. That experience eventually led him to create Solo Parent, an organization built to give single parents the support and community he could not find during his own crisis.

We also discuss raising children after divorce, family court, rebuilding confidence, finding purpose and showing up for your kids while trying to hold yourself together.

I share my own experience as a single father, including walking away from a nearly 19-year construction career when the job no longer allowed me to be the father my daughter needed. That experience helped inspire ParentPath, a platform for self-represented parents to organize evidence, timelines, documents and case information.

If you are a single father, single mother, divorced parent or someone rebuilding after losing the life you expected, this conversation is for you.

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Book:
Solo Parent: The Transformational Journey of Parenting on Your Own

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ParentPath helps self-represented parents organize family court evidence, timelines, documents and case information.