Podcast Episodes

It’s Ultimately This That They Judge You On

There’s no question Hemingway was a great writer. He was the voice of a generation—The Lost Generation. He redefined prose style in the English langu…

2 years, 1 month ago

Ryan Holiday And Whitney Cummings On Self-Awareness And The Ability To Update

On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad,  Ryan talks to American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, and podcaster Whitney Cummi…

2 years, 1 month ago

This Is Something To Be Glad About

It can be hard to express your feelings as a father sometimes. Not so much because men are expected to bottle up their emotions, but because the emot…

2 years, 1 month ago

Don’t Try To Make Them Happy

A parent is only as happy as their unhappiest child, goes the expression. And even if that wasn’t true, even if it didn’t directly impact our own hap…

2 years, 1 month ago

Why Not?

He was a young man fresh out of the Naval Academy and a stint in the submarine service. He was being interviewed by Admiral Hyman Rickover for a cove…

2 years, 1 month ago

Let Them Know They Have It

We wanted it so badly and we never got it. We still haven’t got it. Dad was withholding, dad was hard to please—we wanted to make him proud, but we j…

2 years, 1 month ago

You Have This Freedom Now

There are things you would have never done before. You’d never have sung a crazy song in public. You’d never have painted your nails. You would have …

2 years, 1 month ago

How To Raise A Resilient Child

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2 years, 1 month ago

Don’t Let Your Kids Be Worse

We’ve talked about this before: Being a father is a second chance. It’s a fresh start. It’s an obligation to work on yourself so your kids pick up wh…

2 years, 1 month ago

It Doesn’t Happen All At Once

No one is the parent they want to be. That’s the bad news. The good news is that most of us are better parents than we were.

​We’ve talked a lot about…

2 years, 1 month ago