The Truth About Fatherhood: Becoming One and Coping with the Loss of Another with Matt Fogelson
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Matt Fogelson shares his thoughts and feelings about becoming a new dad having lost his own father in Restrung: Fatherhood in a Different Key. He retraces the relationship, describes coping with his dad’s diagnosis and subsequent loss, and makes sense of the senseless in time to parent his own son. All of this is set to music as Matt navigates his life through the tunes that matter. (For those who know Phyllis Fogelson, this is her son.)
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| 1:38.0 | I loved talking to Matt Fogelson about his story with his father, the loss of his father when he was in college, how he |
| 1:47.1 | coped with grief, how he became a father now, and is parenting differently because of that. |
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