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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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This Is Something You Should Do
When they’re young, when they’re asleep, when they’re older, when you’re old, when you’re on vacation, after a big Thanksgiving meal, early in the morning…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On The ability To Handle Frustration
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on being the model for our kids and the ultimate skill on the ability to handle…
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Don’t Let Your Curiosity Atrophy
By now, you’ve almost certainly lost count of how many questions you’ve been asked by your kids. From the moment they can talk, that’s what fatherhood…
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Are You The Splendid Or The Vile?
In 1940, as Nazi bombs rained down on London, an observer noted the contrasts between the “natural splendor and human vileness.” This idea (which inspired Erik…
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It’ll Come To You Later
In the moment, it seemed like a big deal. In the moment, you just needed them to understand your concerns. In the moment, the phone was ringing. In the moment…
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There Are Only Hard Decisions
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything was simple and straightforward? That’s what we’d like the job of a parent to be. We’d like there to be a blueprint that laid…
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This Is A Very Underrated Skill
There are parents who pay for music lessons so their kids can play an instrument. There are parents who tutor their kids in a foreign language. There are…
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Ryan Holiday And Paul Kix On Balancing Techniques And Being Self-Conscious
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Paul Kix about enjoying the time we do have with our kids, while being self-conscious of what we call…
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It’s Not Too Late To Make Improvements
F. Scott Fitzgerald knew the long term damage of being spoiled rotten. Not only was he a prime and painful example himself—as we’ve written about—but as he…
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You Can Give Them This
Your kids ask for a lot. Money. Patience. They ask for toys and games and attention. They demand chicken nuggets after you hand them the hamburger they told…
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You Must Study The Greats
Study any great leader, artist, athlete, or parent, and you’ll find that they had a hero, a mentor, or a model. Some were lucky enough to study directly under…
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Take This Seriously
They’re scared there’s something under their bed or in their closet. They tell you they don’t want to go to school today. They tell you they feel depressed…
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You Always Have Five More Minutes To Give
They were traveling with their three-year-old son. They boarded their flight in Boston. They were heading back to Los Angeles after visiting family in Cape…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Taking Advice And Understanding Parenting Phases
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on experiencing parenting versus taking the advice and understanding the phases of…
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Give What You Didn’t Get. Forget What You Did.
As we’ve said before, each of us as parents have to try to give what we didn’t get as kids. The attention. The support. The understanding. Whatever it is, we…
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You Won’t Let Them Do This To You Anymore
Before, you were a glutton for punishment. You were tolerant. You were accepting. If the boss wanted it, if the customer needed it, if it could help you in…
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Give Them A Little More Than Feels Safe
“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 scary. It’s…
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Is This A Family Habit?
“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.”Even a hundred…
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These Experiences Are Both Cheap And Rich
The pressure to do is one that rests heavy on all parents. We plan that big family vacation to Disneyland. We put everyone in the car and drive like a madman…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Normalizing The Parenting Journey
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on men having the conversation and creating the proper space for fatherhood.✉️ Sign…
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The Difference Between Schooling And Education
You send them to great schools. You make sure they do their homework. You drill them on their flashcards. You are saving for college. You are not going to let…
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You Won’t Regret This
There are a lot of things that don’t age well. Tattoos done late at night, on impulse. Trendy haircuts. Lots of things we think are important, that we chase…
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It Is A Temple
The house is noisy. It is messy. It is expensive, and not easy to maintain. It’s filled with toys, and sharp Legos that you step on in the middle of the night…
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This Is Your Advantage Now
Your career used to be the only thing you had. It was just you. You had your ambitions. You had as many hours as there were in the day. And you were willing to…
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You Can’t Do It For Them?
If you had an early flight, you’d get up no problem. If you had a chance to go see old friends or your favorite band, you’d stay up late without even thinking…
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Ryan Holiday And Casey Neistat On Building Better Parenting Routines
“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.”Visit…
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They Are Clay In Your Hands
Each of us, no matter how old or successful, has things we wish we knew how to do. We wish we could speak another language, or change the oil in our own car…
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You Already Blew Up Your Life
“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.”Yes, it’s not good…
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You’re A Hostage To Fortune Now
After having kids, every parent quickly realizes just how much less freedom they have. Your schedule is different. Your sleep is different. What you can watch…
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Guilt Is Not Productive
You hear people talk about “mom guilt”–the feeling that moms get for not being perfect, not measuring up to their own impossible standards, or the impossible…
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This Is How They Can Be Great
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today.We talked recently about the Spartan who pointed out that it wasn’t right to say that “the…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Building Courage And Exploring Curiosity
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on the skill set that comes with exploring curiosity, and teaching our kids how to…
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It’s OK That They Make You Crazy
Sometimes it’s good to acknowledge our biases. And one of the biggest biases in our lives is our kids. Not just a bias in the sense that we prefer them, but a…
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This Is A Sign You’re Doing Great
We all sit up at night and wonder if we’re doing a good job, if we’re failing our kids, if we’re raising them right. We kick ourselves for what we feed them…
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You Started Over
It doesn’t matter how many decades old you were. It doesn’t matter what you’d experienced, what you knew, how smart or powerful you were. A turning point was…
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Give Into This
You have a very important job. You have so much going on. That’s the terrible part about having kids, for both men and women–for most of us, it comes right in…
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How To Think About Your Approach
It was Seneca who said that a wise philosopher doesn’t just study in their particular school of thought, but surveys widely, taking and absorbing ideas from…
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Ryan Holiday On Illustrating Better Values To Our Kids
On this episode of the Daily Dad Ryan talks on the importance of illustrating different versions of ourselves while away or on vacation, and how you carry…
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They Need Their Space
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today.You have to give them space. Not just space right after school or soccer practice, as we’ve…
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It’s Not A Pretty Picture
Imagine that you’re gone and able to look down now and see your kids from above. Or imagine that somehow you had magical powers and could see inside their…
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Kiss It While It’s Here
“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 thing about…
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You Don’t Just Get To Leave
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today.Marriage is hard. Perhaps yours is especially hard. You both work very hard…or maybe only one…
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These Two Traits Are Enough
“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’s all these…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Setting up Flexible Boundaries For Our Kids
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on unavoidable reality, flexibility within their household, and creating space in…
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You Come From A Strong Tradition
Today’s episode is brought to you by LifeForce.Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today.If you’re in your 30s, then your parents raised…
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You Can Make A Break
It’s been this way for a long time. Parents who ignored their kids. Parents who were too busy working, surviving, to be there emotionally. Parents who drank…
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Take Them Seriously
Sometimes just a title, just a concept can be enough. Wherever You Go There You Are is a great book…and a great mantra. The Obstacle is The Way, and Ego is the…
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You’ve Already Gotten The Gift
Visit mylifeforce.com and receive $200 off your membership today.Nothing keeps us up, nothing haunts us like the thought that something could happen to our…
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It’s This Intention, This Choice That Matters
There are a lot of kids out there. There are fewer parents. Not just because most families have more than one child, but because unfortunately, tragically, not…
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Ryan Holiday And Matthew McConaughey On Being Present and Measuring Happiness
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with actor Matthew McConaughey about his new course: Roadtrip – the Highway to More, the importance of…
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Are You Making It Easy To Be A Kid In Your House?
Seeing your own parents now, as an adult, is stressful. There’s a great Ram Dass line that the comedian Pete Holmes has used in relation to his own parents…
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We Corrupt Our Children
We say we’re trying to raise kids who are kind, who help others, who are generous, who are not selfish, who are not cruel, who treat everyone equally, who hold…
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You Don’t Have To Squeeze One More Thing In
Yes, it’s true you only get so much time with them. Yes, it’s true you flew halfway around the world for this trip, you took time off work. Yes, it’s true that…
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Can You Imagine?
In some ways, the ancient world seems so remarkably similar to ours. Marcus Aurelius has a passage in Meditations pepping himself up to get out of bed early in…
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What Are You Optimizing For?
Health matters. Wealth matters. These things matter not just to us, but to our families. You only have to look around to see people who don’t optimize for…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Self Awareness and Generational Impacts
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on a second round of doing less and seeing the results, and how self-awareness…
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You Never Know What You’re Comparing Against
You’re wondering if you’re doing something wrong because your kid can’t ride a bike. You’re wondering why they’re not more athletic…or more academic. You feel…
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These Are Your 5 Choices
The hot button political issue of the day is “parental choice.” In Florida and D.C., Chicago and California, parents of differential political persuasions are…
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All Their Dreams Are A Parent’s Fears
There is an inherent tension, a conflict of visions even, at the heart of every family. They want to live happy, fulfilling, interesting lives, and as the…
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It’s All Bubbles
It was a timeless scene, one that might have happened in your house just this past afternoon. The kids are playing with bubbles. They are laughing and yelling…