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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
- The Daily Dad
Carry Them With You Like This
While we don’t have our families as much as we like, as inevitable as partings are, as constant as the missing is, we do get to carry them with us🎶 Song…
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Even This, You’ll Miss
Right now, you have them. That does not last forever.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily Dad Society…
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Show Them What They’re Learning
Our kids don’t always need another lecture. They don’t always need us to explain it one more time. They need us to help them see it.📚 Pick up a copy of Mark…
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Are You Doing This Enough?
Where could you be more affectionate and connected and loving? And more importantly, what do you think it would change if you did?👉 Give yourself the ultimate…
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This Is What They Love About Them
You don’t have to spoil your kids, but as we’ve said, you can and must take them seriously.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and…
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The Family Vacation That Builds Character | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Long walks, travel delays, upset stomachs, public meltdowns, and at least one parent swearing they are never leaving the house again. In today’s episode, Ryan…
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It’s Well Before You Think
We all wrongly think of these milestones as points our kids will reach someday, as opposed to transitions that are already ongoing.👉 Give yourself the ultimate…
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They Have a Pressing Claim
You deserve time with them. But you’re going to have to fight for it and protect it. 📚 Books mentioned: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age…
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This is What You’re Going To Do With It?
You only get so much time with them. This is how you’re going to spend it?👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join…
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Worry is Not a Make-Good
Constantly fretting and being anxious about your kids does not make them feel like you care about them and doing it now certainly doesn’t compensate for any…
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How Will They Respond?
Your emotions, moods, choices and the examples you set are affecting your kids, always.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and…
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The Holiday Family Rule For When Things Go Wrong
A family road trip will test your patience, your plans, and your ability to stay calm when everything starts going sideways. In today’s episode, Ryan reflects…
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Everybody Has Their Uphill
Every family has an uphill they’re climbing, even as we’re climbing our own.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community…
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Give Them Access To These
Our job as parents is to give our kids access to ideas and worlds, to surround them with books, to encourage them to go where their interests take them—even if…
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You Will Wish You Said It
Don’t wait. Don’t hold back. Tell them. Tell them again. 📚 Pick up a copy of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/👉…
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You Know Who Would Say Yes?
Make the memory. Play the game. Because this is what it’s about.👉 Give yourself the ultimate gift of parenting tools, structure, and community. Join The Daily…
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Getting There Is Part of The Trip
If the point is for our family to be together, if the point is for us to have fun together, to relax together, to get closer together, we need to start much…
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Your Kids Don’t Need A Perfect Parent | Jon Gustin
Your kids don’t need you to pretend you have it all figured out. In this episode, Ryan talks with Jon Gustin, creator of The Tired Dad, about losing your…
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This Is What Matters
What matters isn’t how you see yourself or how others see you. What matters is that you be what, and who, they need you to be.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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You Can Always Find a Way
You can always find a way if you try. And it’s going to be an important moment. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the…
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They Are Not Entitled, They’re Just Scared
It’s not our job as parents to give them everything they want. It is our job to help them with these very reasonable feelings. Listen to the full podcast…
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You Will Remember This
How many of us wish we could tear ourselves away from our phones and spend more intentional time with our kids and families? 👉 The Daily Stoic Habits for…
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Each Time is Closer to the Last Time
Children are a ticking clock. They are on their way to not being children.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily…
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Ryan’s Airport Anxiety Took Over | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Family fun hits different when there’s a flight to catch. In this episode, Ryan and Sam talk about what happened when a spontaneous stop at a state park turned…
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Don’t Dismiss These Hints
It can seem like they don’t like what you like. It can even seem like they don’t like you. That’s what children do, after all, they try to discover what they…
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What Does This Say About You?
We say our kids are important—but words don’t matter. Our choices are what matter.👉 The Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness course is a…
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This Is The Way We Teach
They need literature. They need to know the myths. They need to know the riveting moments of human history. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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In The End, No Reason Will Suffice
How often are you saying “no” when they want to connect, when they want to do something, when they ask for attention or time together?👉 Join The Daily Dad…
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They’re Bringing You
Our job is to drag them around, to expose them to things, to get them to where they need to be…but aren’t they also doing the same thing for us?👉 Join The…
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How To Stay Calm When Your Kid Isn’t | Dr. Becky Kennedy
Kids have big emotions. Parents do too. The work is not pretending those feelings are not there, but learning how to stay in the driver’s seat when they show…
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It Won’t Last Much Longer
Enjoy it while you have it. Because you’re losing a little bit of it everyday.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the…
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Are You a Good Example to Them?
Are you stuck in your comfort zone? Are you practicing good boundaries? Are you challenging yourself to grow and change? Every day presents us with plenty of…
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Give Them What You Didn’t Get
If being understood is not in our control, there is something quite wonderful that is in our control: Understanding.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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These Are Not Unreasonable Feelings
Their feelings are reasonable. They’re just struggling a little bit at dealing with them, at understanding how to express them and how seriously to take…
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It’s Not Only Happening to Everyone Else
They were kids, just recently! But now they’re grown up.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email…
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Let Your Kids Have the Emotion | Ryan and Sam Holiday
Kids don’t come into the world knowing how to handle disappointment, frustration, or overwhelm. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about executive function…
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Suddenly, They Won’t Care
They’re growing up before your eyes. Make sure you see it.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society: https://dailydad.com/society✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email…
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This is How You Brighten A Place Up
You might think your house is a mess. You might be a little embarrassed to have people over. But you shouldn’t be.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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You’re Not Supposed to Be Enough
We are not meant to parent alone. We are not enough people to possibly handle this responsibility alone.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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It Feels Good For a Moment…And Then Horrible
Has there ever been a parent who didn’t yell, who didn’t lose their cool? Probably not.🪙 Carry The Daily Stoic Pause & Reflect Medallion as a reminder to…
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How Much Longer Will They Want To Do This?
There are a million reasons not to go. But it’s worth asking, as you run through these excuses, how much longer will they want to do this?👉 Join The Daily Dad…
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A Father’s Most Important Legacy | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
In honor of Father's Day weekend, Ryan talks with Lieutenant General (Ret.) Mark Hertling about fatherhood, legacy, and the lessons we hope our children take…
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Your Worries Are Your Problem
Let them live their life. Let them make mistakes. That’s the whole point.📚 Book Mentioned: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion👉 Join The Daily Dad…
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You Have To Give Them Access
We want to make sure our kids have opportunities in life. But sometimes, we neglect one of the easiest ways to help them get ahead.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society…
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This is Why You’ll Miss It
You’ve got a long commute to school and then the office. They never sleep. There’s drama in the mom or dad group. It’s a lot. It’s also nothing!📚 Books…
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You’ve Got Yourself a Wild Animal
Plato, with total seriousness (and probably a bit of humor too), said that “of all the wild things, a boy is the most difficult to handle.” A lot of parents…
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It’s Not Selfish. It’s Essential.
One thing far too many parents have in common is that they are always putting off taking care of themselves. This may come from a good place, but the results…
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15 Books That Will Make You a Better Parent
Instead of learning everything through trial and error, we can learn from the experiences and mistakes of others. Nowhere is that more important than in…
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This Is Worth It
Take the time while you can. Experience new places, new experiences together while you can.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off…
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Don’t Fritter It Away
When you look back and wonder where the time went, where their childhood went, it’s going to break your heart to have to account for how you spent it, for how…
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They Really Just Don’t Get It
They didn’t understand you? Of course they’re confused. Welcome to being a kid. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly…
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Always Keep Your Eye Out
One of the great things about kids is that they keep you on your toes. Not just because you have to worry about them all the time, but because they give you so…
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Let Them Be Bored
Some kids are extroverts. Some are introverts. But every kid needs to know how to be alone.🎟️ DAILY STOIC LIVE | Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you!…
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The Kids Are Fine. The House Is Not. | Ryan and Sam Holiday
The kids are fine. The house, on the other hand, has raccoons in the walls and a bird flying around upstairs. In today’s episode, Ryan and Sam talk about the…
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Suddenly You Don’t See Them
Their own life is gathering up speed, their own interests and obligations are on a collision course with yours. 👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s…
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They Are The Perfect Child
They are doing what kids do and have always done. And your job? Your job is to be patient and understanding.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day…
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This Is How You Get Better
We can get a little bit better each day. And you don’t have to do it alone.👉 Join The Daily Dad Society before Father’s Day and get $60 off your yearly…
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You Keep What You Can Of Them
It’s worth remembering, as we’ve said, that you’ll be nostalgic for this moment later on, that you’ll be jealous of this person you are now soon enough.👉 Give…
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Find The Things Where They're Happy To be With You
Look for those things that would make them happy to be with you—and use them as an excuse to spend time together. Whatever it is, get into it to be with them.🎥…
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Never Say This To Your Kid | Jon Gustin
The words we say to our kids don’t just disappear. They become part of how our kids understand themselves, what they believe they deserve, and what they carry…