Boy energy abounds in this special Father's Day Show honoring men and boys and the women that love them. Join us as we discuss the art of being and raising a boy with Roger Martin and Drew Wing of Boys To Men and martial arts expert, Dameron Midgette, from Body Knowledge: three inspiring fathers who share what it takes to become a confident, healthy, and dynamic man in the 21st century.

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 12pm on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below: 

Raising Good Men: Dr. Lisa # 40

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Click here to read the article referenced in our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England.

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Our first segment features Roger Martin and Drew Wing, of the Boys to Men organization. 

Roger Martin was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Unum US in June 2005. In this capacity, Roger is responsible for all financial, actuarial, and planning functions within the Unum US organization.

Roger joined Unum in 1996 as a 2nd Vice President for Long Term Care. Following the merger in 1999 with Provident, he was promoted to Vice President of Business Analysis and in 2003 promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary. Previously, Roger worked for Paul Revere from 1985-1996.

Roger graduated magna cum laude from Assumption College with a mathematics degree in 1985.

He is a Fellow to the Society of Actuaries, where he serves as Chairman of the Group Long Term Disability Committee. He is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and has 24 years of disability experience. He is a member of the board of directors of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute where he serves as co-chair of the finance committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Boys to Men organization.

Married with 2 sons, Roger resides in Scarborough, Maine.

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Drew Wing is the Executive Director of Boys to Men. Drew moved into the position of director after several years as a business developer for a commercial construction company. Prior to that he owned and operated his own residential construction company and led several multifamily housing development projects. While at Michigan State University, Drew received an undergraduate degree in Employment Relations and most recently completed his Master’s degree in Theology at Bangor Theological Seminary. His goal has been to become involved with pastoral counseling and social service work, making Boys to Men a perfect fit for his education, interests and experience. Drew is an avid outdoorsman and takes every opportunity get out in the woods and on the water. He resides in Freeport with his wife, Kim and two children, Lucy and Gus.

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Our next featured guest is Dameron Midgette. Dameron Midgette is the owner of Body Knowledge.  Dameron is "madly in love with life." He's spent most of it so far exploring, discovering how things connect and expanding his capacity for experience. He has recently acknowledged that understanding is much less valuable than feeling and experience. A lot of the exploration has heavily involved that basic canvas of living, the body. As the physical home, display, and memory of our unconscious and conscious actions, it is a rich and useful terrain.

With a formal background in exercise science, martial arts, bodywork, movement therapy, dance, competitive athletics, and various spiritual lineages, many perspectives inform his approach to health and living in the world. He currently teaches group classes in martial arts and fulfilling our ultimate physical and creative potential, as well as seeing individual clients for specific work resolving old patterns and re-discovering choice, freedom and health.

Join us next Sunday, June24th at 11 am for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast on WLOB radio Portland 1310 AM/streaming online. Our topic will be "Sisters" and we will be joined by Beth Schissler of Sea Bags and Linda Greenlaw, author of The Maine Summers Cookbook,  as well as the Tomlinson sisters, Sonya, visiting artist at the Telling Room and Jessica, on staff at MECA.