Podcast Episodes

Rich Is How Much You Get To See Your Kids

There are lots of different trappings of wealth. A big house. A nice car. Exotic vacations. First-class flights? Private flights? Not everyone can af…

2 years ago

Don’t Send Them In Defenseless

Your kids are going to face stuff in life. Big stuff for sure–failing tests, being made fun of, getting fired, losing something important to them. We…

2 years ago

Ryan Holiday And Dr. Becky Kennedy On Emotional Vaccination

On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on how we emotionally vaccinate, the abilit…

2 years ago

Show Them What They’ll Get Out Of This

Most schools and most parents teach reading all wrong. They bully kids into doing it. They pressure them. They tell them, “Reading is what smart and …

2 years ago

This Is What We Have To Try To Get Better At

We spend so much time at the office, trying to get better at our jobs, trying to make a little more money, trying to climb further up the ladder. We …

2 years ago

You Have To Know How These Things Land

It doesn’t feel like they listen. In fact, we have pretty visible evidence that they don’t. We tell them not to do this or that and then we watch the…

2 years ago

This is What It Costs

We’ve been quoting recently from the old children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, about a toy that’s so loved by a young boy that it becomes real. This…

2 years ago

Show Them It’s Not Too Late

We talked recently about what Dr. Becky Kennedy always tells parents: it’s never too late. 

We’ve talked about Nell Painter’s mother, who became an au…

2 years ago

Ryan and Sam Holiday on The Importance Of Routine

On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad,  Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on  finding common ground and learning to empathize after they had kids,…

2 years ago

Why Are You Trying To Make This Go Away?

We’ve said this before, but one of the things we need to constantly remind ourselves of as parents is that our kids are just being kids. If we’re bei…

2 years ago