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The Daily Dad
The audio companion to DailyDad.com’s daily email meditations on fatherhood, read by Ryan Holiday. Each daily reading will help you find the wisdom, inner strength, and good humor you need in order to be a great dad. Learn from historical figures and contemporary fathers how to do your most important job. Find more at dailydad.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Parenting Wake-Up Calls That Reveal Our Inner Child | Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Dempsey talks to Ryan about a parenting wake-up call he had that motivated him to do the work around healing his inner child. Patrick Dempsey is an…
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You’ll Get What You Want (Just Not When You Want It)
The thing you say you want, the connection you crave. It’s there. Just not always when you want it…or how you want it.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email…
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This Is Your Role
You don’t need to understand it. You need to encourage them. You need to be behind them as they discover who they are.📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily…
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What Do They Hear Most?
What do you think your kids hear most from you? Is it words of affection and kindness and encouragement? Or is it those phrases we find ourselves repeating…
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Be Patient With Yourself
They’re not doing this to you on purpose. Please be kind. Be patient. Be accommodating. With them…but most of all with yourself.📚 Grab a copy of Sorrow and…
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Stop Checking Your Watch
Be present. Appreciate the moment. Stop checking your watch.🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at…
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Raise Adults, Not Kids | Gary Vee
Last year, Ryan was interviewed by Gary Vee about The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. Today, you'll hear an excerpt from…
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Be A Real Fan
We have to believe in our kids. To be their fan. Why would they be brave enough to put themselves out there, to try new things, if their own parents aren’t…
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Maybe It’s You
Have you tried taking your own temperature? Don’t blame them. Check yourself first. Take care of yourself first.☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when…
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It Was You Who Did This
They expect our protection. Nothing is more shocking and devastating than when they don’t get this. They won’t remember the context, what will stick with them…
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This Is A Secret To Wisdom (And Greatness)
It’s from stories that we learn the timeless lessons of the human experience. It’s from stories that we can give our children an education in the school of…
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Buckle Up, It’s Coming
After a long and peaceful summer, every family careens into the school year. Enjoy it, because the chaos is wonderful.☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free…
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Spend Time In The Car Wisely | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Spending time in the car with your kids is rich with opportunities to create connection, even if it means just listening to their music. Ryan and Sam talk…
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Don’t Do This Alone
Parenting is so hard to do alone, so hard. We are stronger when we, our children’s parents, parent together. We go further, together.📚 Grab a copy of The Baby…
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You’re A Bigger Target Now
Life has something over us now. We have something to worry over. Something we love more than life itself.📚 Pick up a copy of Blue Nights by Joan Didion at The…
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This Is Too Wonderful To Ignore
What we want is connection, right? So don’t turn it away. Take the hand when it’s offered.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad…
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This Is All It Takes
We have to figure out how to be a fan. We have to figure out how not to stifle.📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love…
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Try To Consider This
Give them the benefit of the doubt. If you’re going to assume anything, assume facts not in evidence. Give them a break.💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to…
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Spoil Them The Right Way | Katy Milkman
Katy Milkman and Ryan talk about encouraging curiosity as a parent, embracing their kids interests, and when it is okay to spoil them.Katy Milkman is a…
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It Has Stolen So Much From You
Anxiety. It makes you a less vigilant parent in many ways—you’re so busy thinking about what might happen that you don’t always see what is happening.To better…
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This Is All There Is
Parenting is a grind. It’s exhausting. It also goes by very, very fast.🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver…
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We All Have Something Like This
Even if our kids are perfectly healthy, they all have their own issues. Whatever it is, it hasn’t changed how much we loved them. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on…
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We Will Be Fine
Things are going to go wrong. It’s a chance to show them that everything is going to be fine. Because you’re going to make sure it’s fine.🎙️ Learn from Evelyn…
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Even the Powerful Are Powerless
It doesn’t matter how powerful you are. All of us, now that we have kids, are vulnerable.👟 To learn more about the kid's Mach 6 shoe, visit www.hoka.com✉️ Sign…
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Teaching Kids Gratitude and Presence | Ryan and Sam Holiday
While juggling the many responsibilities that come with being a parent, it's easy to fall into the trap of treating each day as a checklist to get through. In…
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Say It While You Can
You have the power and capacity to speak your piece. Do it while you still can, while you still get to.🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus…
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Who Are You Keeping This For?
Don’t keep it to yourself. Don’t wait. Give it to them now.💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscriptionorder or get 15% off all of my…
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This Is Our Wonderful Weakness
Our children are our wonderful weakness…and our incredible strength.📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and…
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It’s Tough But You Gotta Show Them
This is what is most important. This sense of justice, this sense of fairness. It’s important that we don't just talk about these things, but we live them. We…
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Make Them Very Lucky
There is one way we can make our kids very, very lucky - at least right now. 🎶 Lyrics mentioned are from Quiet Town by The KillersHiya Health |…
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The Current Parenting Pandemic | Gary Vee
Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends. His latest project is a children's book…
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Don’t Feel Guilty
✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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This Is All You Have To Do
🎥 Watch this YouTube video where Alfred Molina talks about still wrestling with the idea of disappointing his father📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily…
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What Are They Seeing From You?
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They Want To Connect
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This Is What Keeps Us Going
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Turning Garbage Time Into Quality Time
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Who Are They Learning From?
📕 The Vanishing American Adult by Senator Ben Sasse✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube…
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Do It Now
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What A Great Idea
📰 Check out the Daily Dad article on helicopter parents: Don’t Be That Guy—Or That Guy✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad…
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You Cannot Wait
📚 Pick up a copy of Essaysby Michel de Montaigne at The Painted Porch📕 Learn more about Michel de Montaigne’s life in Sarah Bakewell’s biography of him, How to…
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We’re Not Balanced Right
📚 Pick up a copy of Die with Zero by Bill Perkins at The Painted Porch🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of…
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How to Teach Your Kids About Ancient Philosophy
📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable…
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Don’t Put This Off
🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets at ryanholiday.net/tour💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscriptionorder or get 15% off…
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Let Them Teach You This
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This Is All They Want
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This Is Something You’ll Regret
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Why You Have To Do Better
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Is It Best For Them, Or Best For You? | Ryan and Sam Holiday
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Instill This Spirit In Them
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It’s A Bad Calculation
💡 Take the first step towards a calmer future by checking out our course: Taming Your Temper: The 11 Day Stoic Guide to Controlling Your Anger over at the…
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What’s Keeping You From It?
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It’s Not That Hard
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You’re Depriving Them of This
🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets at ryanholiday.net/tour✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram…
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A Cautionary Tale: Tiger Woods' Childhood
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Can You Teach Them This?
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This Is Why They Love Them
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When Do You See Your Kids?
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It Costs What It Costs
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This Is The Point
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