We recently connected with Anthony Crosby and have shared our conversation below.

Anthony, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The most meaningful project that I would say we have worked on as a podcast would have to be our episode titled “Addressing the Struggling Single Mom Theory,” which debuted on October 8th, 2025. Our goal for this episode was to tackle the stereotype that all single mothers are struggling with life, as to living a life of thriving, especially compared to people in other kinds of parenting dynamics. We wanted to answer the question, “Is this stereotype true, or are there examples of thriving single moms in our society?” To answer this question, we went to a popular Facebook group geared toward providing a community for single parents and asked the moms of that group to share with us whether or not they would describe their reality as one of thriving or struggling. The response was overwhelming as we had hundreds of women share their stories with us and provide numerous examples of how they’ve found so much success as single mothers. We narrowed those responses down to six of the ones we felt really tugged the most at our heartstrings and read them on the episode. It was so powerful to hear these women’s testimonies of triumph and overcoming obstacles to provide themselves and their children the best life possible, and we know those stories encouraged us as the hosts as much as it did our listeners.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’ve always had a passion for content creation. Ever since I got my first camcorder for Christmas when I was ten, I knew I loved sharing real stories with anybody willing to watch what I was able to produce. I carried this joy into adulthood; however, this love had to remain as nothing more than a hobby for a while as I found myself divorced with two small children to co-parent at the age of twenty-seven. I had to provide for my young girls as a single father, but I didn’t want my passion for content creation to fade. Therefore, I discovered a way to financially support my family by creating a local human interest blog centered on the people in my community, and I achieved success in that endeavor for a few years. The problem was, my town wasn’t very big, so there eventually became a ceiling on how high I could climb with that venture. With that hurdle, combined with many of my advertising partners pulling back their funding in 2020 due to the pandemic, it seemed like the natural time to let that business end. However, content creation was still an itch I wanted to scratch; I just needed to find time to do it while tending to my daily responsibilities as a single dad. I decided to look around the web at other single-parent creators in hopes of finding inspiration, but what I discovered was that there were not many uplifting personalities that fit my demographic. There was an obvious hole in that market that needed to be filled. So I decided to fill it by launching The Single Parents Podcast back in 2022. I published the show as a hobby, off and on, for a few years until Summer 2025 when I truly decided to invest in the show by bringing on another full-time co-host and business partner, Jessica Doretti, to help me take things to the next level. Now, the sky’s the limit for both us and our podcast!

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

One of our biggest goals is to help single parents find community and encouragement with people and stories that they can relate to, serving as daily reminders that they are not alone. We aim to achieve this goal through producing our weekly podcasts and creating other means of connectivity for single moms and dads. Parenting, as it is with many aspects of life, isn’t always a black or white reality. Sometimes, people find themselves raising children under circumstances that some would not label as traditional, and we believe that’s okay! As long as their children are being raised in a safe, loving, stable environment, then we want to remind our listeners that they’re doing amazing and should feel proud!

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

The biggest lesson that I personally had to unlearn was that I needed to compare myself to others in order to determine how successful I was. As I was learning the basics of how to create, produce, and distribute a podcast, I would often look at other men and women in the industry and feel the unrealistic need to be like them from day one. My show needed the camera quality that they had. My show needed the social media following that they had. My show needed to be edited, like there was etc. That mindset quickly became exhausting because it genuinely was just me doing everything for the longest time, but I was comparing myself to these other creators who had large budgets, elaborate recording studios, full-time staff, and more to produce their show. I had to be realistic and switch my thinking from trying to be like them to trying to be as authentic with my show as possible. I may not be able to record an episode with twenty thousand dollars’ worth of equipment, but I could put out an episode that people in my niche could watch and relate to. I needed to remember that authenticity and consistency are more important to the audience I was looking to reach than how much I spent on my camera setup.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/thesingleparentspodcast
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesingleparentspod
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesingleparentspodcast
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9m_mBJycqUdBF103uh7QWw
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesingleparentspodcast