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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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Have You Shown Them What Greatness Looks Like?
Do you know the story of Cincinnatus? He was a Roman general who had retired to his farm until he was called to rescue his country from an invasion. Made…
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You Can't Have It All
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares an article from a Father's Day read from The Free Press on the upstream choices we have to make and…
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In The End, It Doesn’t Even Matter
Being two minutes late to school. The fourth discussion about cleaning up before company comes over. The grouchy tone. The broken vase. The mischief with their…
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You Can Have More Time If You Do It Right
It’s a good reminder, one that we can zip past too easily because we’re busy, because we have so much on our plate: You only get 18 years with your kids. It’s…
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It’s Your Job To Help Open Their Eyes
Almost every talented and successful person can remember their introduction to whatever it was that became their thing. In Mastery, Robert Greene explores…
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The Words To Notice
As a society, we have very attuned ears for what words are offensive. There are words that religious people find offensive. There are the words that…
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You Are Never Not Afraid
It would be wonderful if it ever eased up, but it doesn’t. You worried when they were in the womb, and here you are all these years later, still worrying. Are…
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Ryan Holiday On Relaxing The Exceptions While On Vacation at Jackson Hole
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks about the straw that breaks the camel's back and relaxing the impulse to force things.✉️ Sign up for the…
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As A Father, This Is Your One Job Today
Your job today as a father is to do one thing. It’s to read this poem, which dates back to 1895, and then to think about how to incorporate its lessons into…
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Give Them This Ambition
We try to inspire our kids. We try to motivate them. We try to incentivize them. We want them to care about winning–that’s why we push them into sports. We…
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Of All The Things To Be Extra About, This Is It
It’s clear some parents take things too far. They push their kids too hard in sports. They push them too hard in school. They solve every problem for them…
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Don’t Tie Down Your Eagle
When a young Florence Nightingale began making moves toward volunteering in hospitals, her aristocratic parents were horrified. It had been difficult enough…
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Great Is Not The Same As Good
We watch sports with our kids. That’s greatness, we say of some 4th quarter comeback win. They’re the G.O.A.T, we explain–the greatest to ever do it. We talk…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Being Present And Doing Less
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on doing less by saying no, physically being present and the cost of every…
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Nobody Wins A Battle Of Wills
Because you’re in charge, because you’re so much bigger and stronger and smarter, it’s easy to get trapped into a battle of wills with your kids. Don’t do that…
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Nothing is Better Than This. Prioritize Accordingly.
Is there anything better than the feeling of your kid’s head on your chest? Them running towards you at pick up time? Seeing their name pop up as an incoming…
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Where Are You Trying To Get Better?
Tom Brady has always been relentless about trying to get better. Trying to get his passes out quicker. Trying to get his spirals a little tighter. Trying to…
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This Is All We Have To Do
We know the world throws a lot at our kids. We know it’s noisy out there and there are competing influences. We know they’re pretty forgetful too. These are…
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How To Get Them Through Tough Times
One thing we know for certain is that our kids will go through things. They’ll have a crisis of identity, of faith, of social status. They’ll be overwhelmed…
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Daily Dad And Austin Kleon On Parenting And Creativity
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with one of his favorite writers Austin Kleon on Parenting strategies before and after writing a book, and…
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Where Will Your Kids Get This From?
We know that our kids want to feel good, feel safe, feel loved. We know they want to feel that someone is proud of them, that they’re talented, that they’re…
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They Must Be Diligent In Their Business
It matters far less what a person does in life than how they do it. An exploitative corporate executive might have an expense account and a fancy title, but we…
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Teach Them To Be Kings
Unless you are currently in line for a hereditary throne, it’s unlikely your children will ever be a king or a queen. This is a good thing, as it seems like…
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You Can Give Them What You Wish You’d Gotten
Few of us felt completely understood as kids. At a young age, our parents didn’t quite understand what we were saying, what we wanted, how much we missed them…
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Everything Is A Test Of Your Priorities
We put our family first. That’s what we believe. That’s what we say. That’s the first commandment in the Daily Stoic Parenting Challenge. That’s the advice we…
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Everything Marcus Learned From Antoninus
Happy Father’s Day to everyone!It’s pretty incredible how concise Marcus Aurelius is throughout Meditations. There are nearly 500 passages throughout, and…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Setting Our kids And Ourselves Up For Success
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on setting our kids and ourselves up for success, creating space by doing less and…
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This Is Why They Study
The point is not to get good grades. The point is not a good score on their SATs. It’s not about what college they get into. College is not about what kind of…
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They Don’t Learn Anything Important This Way
Think of all the stuff you know. The skills you have. The movie quotes you can throw out there mid-conversation.It’s interesting, isn’t it? You remember more…
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How To Be Someone They Can Be Proud Of
Of course, her father would have preferred to be powerful, to be wealthy, to hold some prestigious position. He didn’t want to dig sewage canals or wait on…
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Their Feelings Are Their Feelings
Some of the things your kids think are ridiculous–products of their imagination or their fears. Some of the things they like are hilarious and weird–the…
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Tell Them They Have This
Nobody would have wanted Joseph Kennedy to be their dad. He was an avaricious businessman. He cheated on his wife. He had his daughter lobotomized and sent…
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Ryan And Wife Samantha Holiday On Grumpy Mornings And Parenting Strategies
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks with his wife Samantha on screen time & the differences in parenting moods in the morning.✉️ Sign up for…
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Why Don’t They Come To You With Problems?
When your kids mess up, what’s your reaction? Do you freak out? Or are you calm? Do you make the situation better...or worse?Can you actually listen?Or are…
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All They Want Is This
It was a long time ago. It was in a pretty conservative place, in a less understanding era. And even if it wasn’t, even in different circumstances, no parent…
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At Least They’re Getting Paid For It
There’s something that strikes us as a little gross, the way politicians trot out their families to win elections, to humanize themselves or get sympathy when…
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You Don’t Want A Doll
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier if they just did what we wanted. If they could sit there for a second, as we try to handle something. If they could…
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The Sign Of A Smart Kid
Education these days seems to be about signals. What did you get on your SATs? How many AP classes did you take? What schools did you apply to? What…
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Daily Dad and Sam Gwynne On Mental Health and Parenting Advice
On this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan talks to Sam Gwynne about new parenting advice, the youth building a community around mental health, and the…
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Are You A Rich Parent?
There are different kinds of rich families. There are families that have lots of money. There are families that have lots of time together. Sometimes these…
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How To Keep Them With You
We’re always losing our kids. In fact, we’re raising them to lose them–every minute, every interaction is building towards that moment when they will leave and…
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The Most Stoic Person In Marcus’ Life
Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius’ adopted father and predecessor, was not a Stoic. He didn’t identify as, nor did anyone call him, a philosopher. He left behind…
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Do This For Them And They Will Never Forget
From his dad, Bruce Springsteen learned about shame, about broken pride, and struggling with demons that you can’t quite conquer. It’s an all too common story…
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That’s The Job
Once, on an imperial tour in some distant province, a woman darted out from the crowd and blocked the path of the Emperor Hadrian, asking for help with some…
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Ryan Holiday And Tamron Hall Talk Daily Dad Book Release And The New Rules Of Sharing
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to Tamron Hall about his new book release, more wholesome moments while in NYC, and how "Sharing Sucks"…
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Do You Really Think They Did That On Purpose?
It happened again. Your kid screwed up. They did something stupid—from drawing on the walls to getting caught drinking. They hurt someone or they lied. They…
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The Things You Leave Behind
Plutarch recorded the story that Socrates went to the fanciest neighborhood in Athens and called out, “What are you doing, men? You are giving all possible…
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Where Is All That Now?
Those white shoes your parents told you to keep off the grass, the khakis they wanted you to keep clean on Easter. The car they didn’t let you eat in, the…
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These Things Don’t Matter
However much they seem to be prioritized by other parents, by certain cultures, perhaps by your own parents, or your instincts, in the end, it doesn’t…
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This Will Haunt You
We parents are collectors. We have the photos from the day they were born. We have the first drawing they did. Their first pair of shoes, the tickets to that…
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Ryan Holiday And CBS Morning Talk Daily Dad Book Release and Garbage Time
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to CBS Morning in depth on applying stoicism, Garbage Time versus Quality Time & unforgettable family…
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You Don’t Have To Be Perfect. You Do Have To Do This.
None of us will be perfect parents. Our children will not agree with and understand with every choice we make–now or later. We are going to make mistakes. We…
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Only Later Will You See This
“Only later,” Joan Didion wrote of her daughter, “did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.” Grieving, heart broken over the sudden and tragic loss of…
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It’s You You Know
They are so like you. So like their mother. They have the same affect. They have the same bad habits. The same hopes, the same fears you did when you were…
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Now’s The Time To Get It Together
Look, when you were young, you could get away with it. You could spend more than you had–knowing you’d figure things out later. You could be selfish because…
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The Kind of Marriage You Need To Build
There is a famous line we have posted many times here at Daily Dad, one that’s always popular on Instagram whenever it goes up. The most important thing you…
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Daily Dad And Wife Samantha Holiday Talk parenting and Better Safe Than Sorry
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan talks to his wife Samantha about what their learning as parents and when to enforce the better safe than sorry…
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Teach Them This Grand Tradition
For thousands of years, humans have been expressing wisdom to each other through fables. Whether it’s Aesop or the Bible or Leonardo da Vinci or Hans Christian…
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It’s Yourself You Should Be Worried About
There seems to be this concern, particularly on the right and from older generations, that kids are just way too soft these days. Everyone is sensitive…
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Quality Time Is The Easy Way Out
No vacation, no special experience, not even a family outing, just happens on its own. There is planning. There is time off work. There is the expense. There…