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C H A P T E R 1
Building the Team Dad Community
Meet Dr. Kwame Foucher
Kwame Foucher MD, MBA, FAAFP, is a board-certified family physician, bestselling author, and dad
coach who is also the father of three amazing children––two girls and the youngest a boy. He founded the
Team Dad community and through this resource offers tools, training, and support to help fathers have
better relationships with their children and raise them into resilient, healthy, and happy adults!
Dr. Kwame Foucher is passionate about his role as father in the lives of his children. He has a track
record of personally overcoming tremendous adversity from being raised with only intermittent, at best,
contact with his father, to now having an enviable relationship with his dad, to rising from being an at-risk
child himself, to becoming a medical doctor, providing care in the same community where he was raised.
With new data showing that adverse childhood experiences shorten life expectancy, he decided to step out
with purpose and apply his medical knowledge and experience to empowering and encouraging fathers to
improve their relationships with their children. This led to founding the Team Dad community and
developing a coaching curriculum for fathers.
In addition to being a physician in the exam room, providing direct primary care to adults and children
alike as a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, his professional career
has involved five years at UnitedHealthcare (UHC) as a medical director and several more years focused
on sustainability of health benefits through affordability initiatives for prominent Medicare, Medicaid,
and commercial health plans in Illinois. He has led quality management programs and been responsible
for securing clinical objectives and industry-leading benefits for health plan members at local hospitals
and physician affiliates. Dr. Kwame led clinical services, quality, and affordability initiatives that work
to keep healthcare benefits attainable for regular families in need.
Dr. Kwame earned a bachelor of science degree, graduating magna cum laude, from Morehouse College
(Phi Beta Kappa) and earned his MD and MBA degrees from the UCLA MD/MBA program where he was
a multiple scholarship awardee. He served and completed residency at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. He enjoys helping his patients live healthy and fulfilled lives, which led him to also develop
extensive managed care experience besides his work at the patient’s bedside. He has served as a
physician executive/medical director with both Cigna and Accretive Health, en route to UHC, and also
has a demonstrated passion for population health, community-based care, and providing care for the
underserved.
He is also responsible for medical oversight for community-based initiatives in the south suburbs of
Chicago, Illinois for COVID-19 testing. He partners with an organization that distributes flu vaccines and
COVID-19 vaccines to the general public.
Dr. Kwame currently resides in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. His children are
exceptional students and citizens and have volunteered for several years, raising money for Christmas and
Thanksgiving for families in need. He loves his work coaching and watching growing children thrive in
their social and emotional skills development. As a father managing adversity and having personal
experience overcoming adversity, he is eager to work with dads, old and young, as their fatherhood
coach, helping them to also become awesome dads! Read his book The Awesome Dad Playbook: A
Father’s Guide to Raising Resilient, Healthy and Happy Children.
Learn more at Drkwame.com
My Story
I know that you want to know if I really can produce the results that make father’s chests stick out about
how well their children behave and how great their grades are, how well they perform at recitals and on
the athletic fields, and how frequently their children tell them that they are the best dad in the world!
Although my kids frequently tell me that I’m the best dad in the world, and I believe that, I believe your
children will tell you the same thing, and I’m happy to share what I know about being a dad.
This amazing job can sometimes feel overwhelming like a challenge that has no solution or a project with
no instruction manual. When your kid throws a tantrum in public or frustrates you to no end, you remind
yourself, just like I have many times, that this must be handled effectively but without screaming, hitting,
threats, or any other severe punishments that you yourself might remember from your childhood or
watching how other parents handled their kids. You want to be positive in correcting them, but the
correction doesn’t always come out that way. You might be like me and know that you need new kinds of
answers for today’s problem kids.
Because I’m a father, I know all too well how we think about these challenges––because we all have them
in common. Because I am a family physician, I have also heard the concerns of parents looking for a little
(or a lot of) professional guidance.
Hey, but you know what? To have a great relationship with your child and establish leadership, direction,
and influence in your children’s lives is not only a dream, but it is achievable and 100 percent necessary.
A dream is amazing to have, but without work that is guided and directed, it is awfully difficult to see it
come true. And if you are like me, you always have imagined yourself growing up and being a father.
I get so excited whenever I talk about fatherhood and the joys and audacious ambition of raising children
that it’s easy for me to get longwinded.
Let’s return to why you’re here though.
Here’s my story…
The way that I grew up, I have no memories and no pictures of my complete family with my mother and
my father and myself. My parents were separated before I was even born, and I have no recollections of
both parents even being in the same memory. And that was my normal. They tried intermittently, when I
was young, to work things out and even to co-parent from different households, but they didn’t achieve
success in that regard, leaving a fracture in how I remember my parents’ interactions which persisted for
many decades.
As I grew up and looked around and saw that that wasn’t everyone else’s normal, I wanted a new normal.
But as a child, I was powerless to change things around me in my family dynamic. That was cemented as
true when my mom got married and had children and later when my dad married my stepmom when I was
about eight. I felt sorry about my situation and knew that what I really wanted was for my mom and dad to
work together, to be together. But the something better that I wanted was only a better situation from my
view, not theirs. I no longer wanted the embarrassment of not knowing what it was like to have my parents
show up to my sporting events, graduations, or even to pick me up from school together. Rather, I wished
that I had those kinds of experiences as my own.
I became a family doctor to study what it takes for a family to be healthy and to build up my community
because so many families were unfortunately structured like mine––broken. Ultimately, I discovered that
there was no higher calling for myself and no better way to affect the future than to raise my own children
and be the dad that I always wished I had and missed growing up. I wanted to offer my children the
relationship, with both of their parents, that I never had.
I even waited until I was professionally and financially established to get married and hopefully start a
family. I studied and researched and did all kinds of premarital counseling with my fiancée at the time to
try to give myself the best opportunity for success in marriage. But what I didn’t know was that the
generational impact of my childhood experiences and those of the wife I chose affected what we were
looking for in a relationship.
While I was married for nine years and had three beautiful kids, at the end of my marriage, I was
heartbroken and financially struck. I believed that financial security, vacation trips, a stay-at-home
lifestyle for my wife, and most of all, love for my wife and children would sustain my family. I even had
great relationships with each kid and many of their friends and their parents. I volunteered as an elected
member of the local school council, but none of that protected me or my children from my marriage ending
in divorce. What I did gain, though, was a sincere focus on fatherhood, the best part of my family life.
Now, I have to parent my children through a similar kind of difficulty that I once faced, and it truly is a
challenge. I can see where they hurt, and I can see where they’re trying to grow. The court has not made
things easier nor has the oppressive terms of the divorce that I face because for the duration of my
marriage, I was the sole income earner. Sometimes, I even feel like I’m only parenting part-time. This
makes the time that I do have with my children very important. So, I continue to try to be the best that I can
during the time that I have because while my kids are young, I want to make the most of this opportunity to
have influence in their lives. I also don’t want to be so angry with their mother for our divorce that I
forget to acknowledge all of the ways that she is indeed a good parent too, despite the failure of our
marriage.
I want to cherish being the man who my daughters ask to walk them down the aisle and share their send-
off dance with at their weddings. I want to be the man who goes to all my son’s baseball, basketball, and
football games and maybe even who coaches him from the sidelines. I want all of them if they ever get
interviewed on TV to say, “Hi, Dad” first. And if you’re like me, I believe you dream of a similar future
for yourself and your children.
As a result, to create more time to be focused on these goals, I transitioned my career from being a
practicing medical doctor to a fatherhood coach. I enjoy writing books and making appearances on
television and radio. I’m working to make the most of my passion and my experiences as a medical expert
to be in alignment with my particular goals and ambitions.
I believe my highest purpose in life is to be a father and also to share what I’ve learned through my own
experience as a child growing up in adversity and now parenting through adversity. My goal is to use
what I’ve learned to help others raise healthy children and healthy families. This is what I’ve always
wanted anyway––to be a father, to help grow my relationship with my children, and to be in a community
with like-minded individuals.
There’s no way I can take care of other fathers if I don’t first take care of myself. I use what I’ve learned
through my medical experiences to train fathers to take the best care of their own health and that of their
children to build healthy, resilient children.
Yes, I know the journey because like my Team Dad community, I am a father who is trying to be
everything that my children need from a man. I would like to be their hero. I like what I’ve done and hope
to lead other men to choose to change some things to get on the path to a better, happier experience as a
father and have a better, stronger, and more fulfilling relationship with their children. I make sure that they
know that they don’t have to do it alone.
I know parents have questions, and there are lots of answers that are elusive and suspend sleep for
concerned parents as they stay up nights wondering what the future might be like for their children. My
wish, though, is that fathers are also ready to live their best lives right alongside their children. It is my
sincere hope that fathers in the Team Dad Academy are ready to make a difference.
That’s exactly what I’m here to help achieve. Through our shared efforts, I expose dads to expert insights,
knowledge, and experiences and connect them with psychologists, exceptional dads, educators, doctors,
and lots of other people who know all about the power of building strong children. I help fathers push
past their fear and do the work so that they can be strong and influential for their children.
Thank you for choosing to learn about me, Dr. Kwame. To learn more, read my book The Awesome Dad
Playbook: A Father’s Guide to Raising Resilient, Healthy and Happy Children, and please visit
www.drkwame.com
My Medical Mogul Formula
If you are a doctor looking to start a successful business, you will find several great tips in this book.
From my perspective, I would like to share with you the top seven tips I have identified.
First, it is critical that doctors reconnect with the person that they were before beginning the journey in
medical school. The path to medicine is so challenging that it forces us to become our work. Never forget
that you were chosen for this work because of who you were before you came to medicine. The ability to
help people and provide assistance to people in need was identified in you as you were selected to join
your entering medical class. Who you were is still who you are. Reconnect with that person and
remember what made you great before you became a doctor. For many of us who are in this career, this is
easy to forget. I hope my first tip reminds you that you are already important, and you already have
greatness within you!
Second, get organized! Trying to start a new business on your own is far too challenging when you are
already a practicing physician. You need help. This means finding an excellent coach who you believe can
help you bring the best out of yourself. Make sure that you have supportive people in your life who can
assist you with your efforts to go beyond the exam room and meet your business goals as you grow. When
you are an adult starting a new venture, it is a real challenge.
Third, you need a great team. Get a financial plan so that you can make sure that you are meeting all of
your personal monetary goals as you launch. Have money saved in reserve. Make sure that you have a
plan in place for child care if you are a parent. Take care of your marriage if you are married. Your
spouse can be a great support, and you will discover so much about the partnership as you push through to
new heights in business and entrepreneurship.
Fourth, set a consistent schedule so that you prioritize your entrepreneurial journey and do not become
overwhelmed trying to keep your already busy life moving forward. There are more than enough ways to
get sidetracked when you are balancing a medical career with life as a responsible adult. Scheduling and
having an in-person or virtual assistant will be a great help as you take on more responsibilities for
yourself and your new customers.
Fifth, find balance in your life. Being balanced and accountable on major aspects like your spiritual,
physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and financial life is critically important. This will help you to
build your best business. As doctors, you are certainly still managing life and death issues for your
patients at this point in your career. Balance is so critical! When you are balanced, this will help you to
identify and achieve the most optimal mindset that will strengthen and sustain you through the certain
obstacles that you will meet on your journey to being a business and medical mogul.
Sixth, which is really part of finding balance, schedule time for regular exercise and mental health.
Finding ways to practice mindfulness and fitness are critical. A coach or community are also helpful for
accountability so a good therapist, personal trainer, or team are good for maintaining accountability and
helping to keep you on track with your goals and your health.
Seventh, make sure that you take advantage of technology to assist you with the growth of your business.
Having a good client relationship manager helps you to maintain your schedule and creates automation for
nurturing your clients. Internet presence on social media helps you to connect to your ideal customers.
Utilizing automation for everything from regular posts on social media, to sending emails, setting meetings
on your calendar, and creating and distributing content is all helpful to grow your business rapidly and
effectively.
Good luck, doctors! You are in the right place for success. Be your best self and work in your purpose!
