The Care Advocates with Lance A. Slatton & Sharon's Son, George "Male Grief"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Care Advocates is brought to you by the All Home Care Matters Media team and focuses on providing family caregivers and their loved ones with support, resources, and discussion on the issues facing them in the matrix of long-term care.
The Care Advocates are honored to welcome, Tony Lynch as guest to the show.
About Tony Lynch:
Tony Lynch, men's grief coach, program designer, conference host, host of the grief let's talk about it podcast, co-host of The connectwork, graphic novelist, editor in chief of Grief Talk magazine, international best seller, guest speaker, and founder of the non-profit Memories of Us Ltd/The Global Grief Network.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Welcome back, everyone to the care advocates. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm your co-host, Lance A. Slatton. |
| 0:36.9 | As always, I'm joined by my esteemed colleague and friend, Dr. George Ackerman, more famously known as Sharon's son, George. And we have a special guest today. We have Tony Lynch is joining us. He is a men's grief coach. Welcome, Tony. How are you? |
| 0:51.5 | I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's our pleasure. Thank you for being |
| 0:55.2 | with us. You know, I want to just quickly start off with before we get into the questions. I introduced |
| 1:00.0 | you as a men's grief coach, which I got to admit I love that because, you know, George and I are in |
| 1:07.2 | the caregiving space pretty heavily. George specializing mostly in Parkinson's. |
| 1:12.3 | We kind of do everything under the long-term care umbrella. |
| 1:15.8 | There's not a lot of us out there, guys, right? |
| 1:18.1 | It's mostly the ladies, you know, carrying that mantle. |
| 1:21.8 | What really got you involved in? |
| 1:24.0 | What is a men's grief coach? |
| 1:25.4 | And what got you involved in that, Tony? |
| 1:28.8 | Well, you know after after struggling through a few losses you know I and everything just kind of hit |
| 1:35.0 | me up all at one time like losing all of my friends my parents grandparents my younger |
| 1:39.9 | brother my parents my son you know going through homelessness, being in, you know, just |
| 1:47.8 | making really bad decisions. |
| 1:49.7 | I got to a place where I gave up and that's where I found, that's where I became curious |
| 1:56.1 | about seeing if there was other men out there like myself. |
| 1:59.8 | And to be honest with you, when I first started, |
| 2:02.6 | I wanted to be around these men so I could learn how to navigate it. |
| 2:06.6 | And it turned into something different. |
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