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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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Ryan And Sam On Who Makes The Decision
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on understanding the alternatives later and making the decision, while teaching our…
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You’re Making Them Hungry
It does work. We have to concede that. For generations, some parents have tried withholding praise, withholding pride, withholding approval so that their kids…
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What Legacy Are You Providing?
Harry Truman was not a good businessman. The clothing shop he opened with a friend was a disaster—and he was paying off the debts through his senate career and…
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What Do You Want Them NOT To Say?
We know what we want our kids to say about us when they grow up. We want them to say that we were great parents, that we did our best. We want them to say that…
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Teach Them This To Give Them That
We want happy kids, obviously. But as we talked about recently, you can’t make your kids happy. Certainly, you can’t always keep them happy.So what do you…
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You Gave Up This Right
Being a parent doesn’t mean you give up on your dreams. We’ve talked about this many times. What kind of message would it send to your kids to see their…
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Ryan and Sam On Reflecting Through Parenting And Solving The Problem
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on breaking constraints, finding the solution to the problem, and the impacts on…
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How To Raise Generous Kids
It’s a world with too many problems. It’s a world with too much suffering. It’s a world with too much selfishness. We can’t fix all of this as people nor as…
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No One Has It Better Than You
Things could be so much better. This could be a world that takes care of parents and families. It could be a world with a better safety net. It could be a…
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It’s Been Like This A While
Kids have always been like this. They’ve always been crazy. Always had trouble sleeping at night. Always liked to play and explore. They’ve been overwhelmed by…
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This Is What To Train Them In
It’s easy to forget it when you see them hitting a sibling. Or when you catch them in a lie. When you hear them say something mean. When the call comes in from…
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How To Care Less What Others Think
We used to need so much to be happy, as we talked about recently. We needed things to go well. We needed excitement and success. We needed people to like us…
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Ryan & Sam On The Right Way To Praise
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on staying consistent to the system, the results to bad decision making, and…
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It’s Not Annoying, It’s The Job
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.”Sometimes it can…
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You Don’t Have The Time
We talked recently about some of the folks who comment on the Daily Dad Instagram (do follow us!) or reply to these emails. Sure, some of the responses are…
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Only They Can Say
Gandhi was a saintly man, but he was not a particularly great father. He was too demanding of his children, too controlling, too quick to push them away when…
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You Can’t Fault Them For Your Hypocrisy
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.”The author Rinker…
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Try To Get To This Place
The thing about parenting is that it’s always thrusting us into situations we have to deal with, we have to solve, we have to correct, we have to stop. Our…
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Ryan Holiday And Adam Grant On Creating Your Own Momentum
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan speaks with organizational psychologist and book author Adam Grant on seeing things in the context of where they…
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Do You Know Your Purpose?
What gives you the right? What’s your purpose on this planet? Why do you work so hard, why do you fight for the causes you fight for, why do you put up with…
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Beware This Energy
You think it’d be pretty non-controversial. Over on the Daily Dad Instagram (you should follow us!) we’ll post something about having fewer opinions and…
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How Much Of This Do You Give Them?
You give your kids a lot. You pay for everything. You sacrifice so much–parts of your career, your health, your hobbies. You drive them around, you build your…
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It’s The Worst Lie
“I do it all for them,” we say. We tell ourselves that’s why we’re getting on the plane, that’s why we’re spending another long night at the office, why we’re…
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It Will All Be Past Tense Soon
It sort of sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? For years, you literally fell asleep next to this person. They fell asleep on you. You were the last thing they saw…
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Ryan & Sam On Emotional Vaccination
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the difference between expressing pride and relief, and practicing motivated…
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They Need This, Whether They Know It Or Not
Stoicism 101: Philosophy for Your Actual Life It’s an awesome, accessible, and practical two-week deep dive into philosophy that every parent (and even older…
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You Still Have Time To Avoid Those Regrets
On their deathbeds, fathers think about a lot of things. They think about the world they’re leaving to their sons and daughters. They think about how they…
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Take Their Pain Seriously
We all have some version of this memory: We didn’t feel well. We fell awkwardly on our wrist. We hit our head. We told our parents, but they didn’t believe…
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It’s For Parents Too
Aristotle wrote his famous Nicomachean Ethics for his son, Nicomachus. Seneca was given a philosophy teacher by his father. Cato too, was given the…
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There’s Enough To Worry About Already
Being a parent is terrifying. Joan Didion’s famous line, as we talked about recently, is that once you have kids you are never not afraid. We are hostages to…
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Can Your Kids Say This?
You are not perfect. Nobody would argue that–least of all your kids. But are you better? Better than you were when they were younger? Better than you were a…
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Ryan & Sam On Solving The Problem First
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the unexpected things in life we can’t prepare for, the anticipation of things…
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You Need To Calm Down
Your kids are going to make bad decisions. They are going to do things you disagree with. They may well grow up into someone you don’t understand.That means…
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You’ll Only Hear It If You’re Really Listening
It’s a noisy world out there… and most of us add to the din. We chatter on social media. We chatter on the phone. We chatter over email.Even as parents, we…
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If You Can’t Do That, Do This
Maybe someday, you’ll get there. It’ll probably be too late–your teenager will be grown up, the phase will be over, things will have calmed down. You know…
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This Power Corrupts
It happens so often that you hardly even notice it anymore. Your kids said they weren’t hungry and now of course they are. You told them to go to the bathroom…
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What Do They Think When You Come Home?
Here’s a test of your own childhood: Imagine you’re sitting on the couch watching TV. You’re in the kitchen making a snack. You and a friend are hanging out…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Emotionally Matured Parents
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on starting with the idea that your kids are good inside, what truly is our role in…
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Our Kids Owe Us Nothing
Family is wonderful. None of us would be here, the writer Aaron Thier once put it, if people hadn’t taken care of us when we were small. Somebody birthed us…
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You Need So Little Now
We had this idea of what we wanted, needed our lives to be. How much money we wanted to make and through what career path. We wanted a new house. We wanted to…
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No Need To Make Excuses
Yeah, some people won’t get it. Yeah, some people think it’s weak.But you? You know it isn’t.Which is why you make no secret about your other life–about your…
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Every Step Comes With This
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.”There was that…
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How Long Can They Hold Out?
We all want better for our kids. We want them to have a better life than we had. We want them to have better parents than we had. That’s why we’re trying so…
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Ryan Holiday And Steven Rinella On Recapturing Important Moments With Your Kids
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to Steven Rinella about the sense of wonder, respect & adventure for nature, spending time with family…
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Teach Them To Put Their Energy Here
There is so much we want to teach our kids—so much that fathers are expected to teach their kids. How to ride a bike. How to swim. How to throw a punch. How to…
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It’s Made You Stupid (But Better)
The last book you read was Goodnight Moon. The last series you binged was Harry Potter. You know more about the latest scandal at your daughter’s high school…
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This Is Everything You Ever Wanted
The two boys who look just like you. The daughter who lights up when you pick her up from school. The teenager who wears your old band t-shirts. The…
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Are You Good At Hearing?
“She’s not good at hearing people,” the musician Mikel Jollett writes of his mother in his haunting memoir Hollywood Park. “If we tell her we’re hungry, she’ll…
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They’re Probably Just Tired Of This
When they’re grouchy, when they’re glass-eyed, when they’re stuck, when they’re making choices that don’t quite make sense…there could be many reasons why your…
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Ryan Holiday And Christina Pazsitzky On Making Kids Priority
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.”On this weekend…
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You Were Given Something Special
You knew it that day in the hospital. You felt it the first time they threw their arms around you. You are reminded of it every time they do something decent…
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This Is Always The Goal
When your teenager sits you down to come clean to you about something…When you’re on vacation and wondering whether you should try to squeeze one more thing…
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It Can All Go Away In A Second
“This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dailydad and get on your way to being your best self.”It’s fitting that…
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This Is How To Hold Them To You
If you want to spend more time with your kids, as we said recently, the important thing is that you don’t drive them away. Yet that’s what so many of us do…
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You’re Going To Regret This
Imagine you’ve come to the end. You’re leaving this world, leaving your kids behind. Or worse, more unthinkably, your kids are leaving you. They’re off to…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Being Challenged More In The Parenting Domain
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on stepping outside of our own upbringing and challenging the conversation more as…
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Store These Moments In Your Soul
This change we’ve made, this decision to become dads—it has uprooted everything. It’s like we were hit, suddenly, with a crossfire hurricane. The house is a…
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You Won’t Be Able To Get It Out Of Your Head
You weren’t wrong. You did have some experience on the matter. You only wanted what was best for them.You wanted them to stay in school. You didn’t want them…
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Do They Get To See This Too?
They see you disheveled and groggy. They see you busy and preoccupied. They see you argue with your spouse. They see you burned out after a long week. They see…
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It’s Just Too Much For Them
The amount of choices we have today is not normal. Certainly, it’s quite new. When you were a kid–which was not that long ago–there were how many channels on…