Summary: <h2>Mike Cruse</h2> <p><strong>Mike Cruse is a dad blogger and our first dad on Lose the Cape Podcast. Happy 75th episode listeners! You’re going to love this one!</strong></p> <p><a href="http://losethecape.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/75b.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-9915 size-full" src="http://losethecape.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/75b.jpg" alt="" width="735" height="1100"></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In this episode, we talked about:</strong></p> <ul> <li>International Women’s Day and the first Day Without a Woman and why men should be involved.</li> <li>His daily posts in March on women who inspire him.</li> <li>How you can’t be afraid to offend people.</li> <li>How he became a dad blogger and earned this platform.</li> <li>The dad blog community, Dad 2.0 and how they are sometimes fighting a double-edged sword in the online blogging world.</li> <li>How his wife reigns him in online (and that’s a good thing, sometimes).</li> <li>His mental health advocacy and his abusive past.</li> <li>Raising our children through anxiety and depression and teaching them it’s okay to not be okay.</li> <li>Our school system and government as we stand now.</li> <li>How we have lost the dialogue completely in politics.</li> <li>What super powers he would want</li> </ul> <h2>Resources for Mike:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.dad2summit.com/">Dad 2.0</a></li> </ul> <h2><strong>More about Mike</strong></h2> <p>Mike Cruse is a parent, a writer, and lifelong storyteller. He always wanted to be an actor or stand-up comedian, but clearly didn’t make enough poor life decisions to get there. So, now he makes jokes on the internet. He’s been featured in the book Dad Behaving Dadly 2, as well as The Today Show’s List of Funniest Parents on Facebook, and is a contributor to Huffington Post, Good Men Project, Scary Mommy, and BLUNTMoms. And make sure to follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more of the funnies.</p> <div class="form-field"> <div class="field-value"><strong>Finding Mike:</strong></div> <div class="field-value"></div> </div> <div class="field-value"></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://papadoespreach.com/2016/03/17/being-a-parent-does-not-make-you-a-hero/">Being A Parent Does not Make You a Hero</a></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://papadoespreach.com/2015/08/17/the-day-i-realized-i-was-an-asshole/">The Day I Realized I Was an Asshole</a></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://papadoespreach.com/2016/10/12/dear-men-we-need-to-stop-saying-not-all-men/">Dear Men, We Need to Stop Saying Not All Men</a></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://papadoespreach.com">Website</a></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/papadoespreach/">Facebook</a></div> <div class="field-value"><a href="https://twitter.com/PapaPreaches">Twitter</a></div> <div class="field-value"></div> <div class="field-value"></div> <div class="form-field"> <div class="field-value"> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-118" src="http://losethecape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/itunes.jpg" alt="lose the cape" width="200" height="69"><img class="alignnone wp-image-121 size-full" src="http://losethecape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/header-logo.jpg" alt="lose the cape" width="322" height="79"> </div> </div> <div class="field-value"> <p>Do you know </p> </div>
