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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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Why This Is So Terrifying
As we said recently, the wonderful thing about parenting is that it opens you up. It expands your heart to a new capacity, a level you didn’t think possible…
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They Learned This Lesson For You
The comedian and actor Rob Delaney’s son Henry was healthy and beautiful, but then he got sick. Delaney and his wife Leah didn’t know what to do, so they took…
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Daily Dad and David Rubenstein on Raising Happy and Healthy Kids
David M. Rubenstein is a successful entrepreneur and an innovative philanthropist.He is the co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group and host of “The…
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Meet Them While There Is Still Time
In his book, The Vanishing American Adult, then-U.S. Senator Ben Sasse pondered what might strike a person from the distant past as odd about our modern…
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Maybe You Were Saved
If you’re one of those kids who didn’t get everything you needed from your parents–and let’s face it, pretty much everyone is–you probably carry something with…
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Teach Them Real Class
Of course, we want our kids to have class. That is to say: A strong sense of decency and taste, restraint and grace, with a set of values that have become…
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You Must Make Time For This
When we have to go to the doctor, we make the time. If the check engine light comes on in our car, we get it to the shop. When we have some lucrative business…
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We Must Show Them That We Mean It
When she was 68 years old, Jimmy Carter’s mother joined the Peace Corps. She asked to be sent somewhere far away where they could use a nurse’s help, and she…
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Daily Dad on the Winter Storms and the Obligations of Success
On today's episode Ryan talks about a recent winter storm that came through Texas, how him and his family thought about it, how success changes your…
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Try To Be All In
Have you ever watched someone sit and play with a little kid for hours? Like totally engrossed, never checking a phone, never rushing, never getting bored or…
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Do You Want To Lose This?
We talked recently about the costs of selfishness. Ego, narcissism, self-centeredness–it’s not only a recipe for inevitably overreaching in the professional…
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Never, Ever Forget This
Maybe you had a rough day with the kids. Or a tough day at the office. It’s in one of those moments you doubt whether you’re doing enough of this or that, or…
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This Is Better Than I Love You
Of course, we try to tell our children we love them. Sometimes they receive it. Sometimes they roll their eyes. Sometimes–depending on how we grew up and what…
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This Is What Is Making You So Stressed
Parenting and stress seem to just go together. Anxiety, concern, they follow too. There’s always something we are tracking, something we’re worried about. If…
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Daily Dad On 'The Last Time'
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Ryan talks about how as parents we can get so caught up in raising the kids we forget to appreciate the little things…
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They Must Learn Through Trail And Error
You can’t prevent your kids from making mistakes. Nor, honestly, should you really want to. You have to let them learn on their own. And you have to give them…
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Point Them Towards What They Can Change
We’d love to give our kids everything they want. We’d love to fulfill every wish and eliminate every inadequacy. We can’t. So we must focus on what we control…
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What Are You Teaching Them?
We can tell them now, we can tell them early, that we’d rather them develop themselves as people, find their project, find their people, than optimize…
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It's Still Hard For Them
The good thing is that our kids are smarter and more resilient than we think. With time, they’ll come to understand that hey, we struggled with our issues too…
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So Little Is Left Over
Even when our kids get up early, we have, at most, a couple hours with them before school and work. Then after school or sports and work, we have what, maybe a…
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Daily Dad And Scott Hershovitz On Being A Model Parent
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with Scott Hershovitz to discuss how we can become model parents. Rather than getting angry with our…
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This Is All That Matters
We need to deliberately let all the craziness and mundane tasks of life to fall away. Because all of those things that we allow to stick around, even if just…
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They Already Doubt Themselves Enough
It’s not that you don’t think they’re great or talented. You’re a big fan. You always have been. You know they can do it. You just worry. You just want them to…
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Be More Than A Hero
From the outside, we can admire people. We can acknowledge and be inspired by their heroism, but we must still strive to learn from their failure to be great…
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You're Stretched To A New Capactity
There’s no question that becoming a parent has stretched you beyond limits you ever thought possible. You are busier now than you ever were in your life. You…
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How Have We Gotten So Far From This?
Remember: A little fellow follows you. Your kids are always watching. They’re the ones you should want to impress. They’re the ones you should never want to…
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Daily Dad On Delegating Time For A Successful Home Life
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with writing partner Nils to talk about the work life time management and how to balance their…
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It's A Lie And An Excuse
A little fellow follows you, remember that. The decision to shut down emotionally doesn’t just impact you. The decision to overcommit. The decision to be gone…
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Give Them A Minute!
You missed them while they were away at school. You want to hang out with them. You want to be an attentive, interested parent. You want to make sure they’re…
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The Block Doesn’t Always Chip
We want such big things for and from our kids. Because we know what they’re capable of. Because we have worked so hard to provide a better childhood for them…
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Does It Have To Be Hard To Be Your Kid?
Think about the life of Randolph Churchill, who we have talked about. Think about the life of Claudia Williams, the daughter of Ted Williams, who we’ve talked…
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It's Always Been Like This
Out in the street, the kids are playing and screaming. They’re throwing balls and sharing toys. It’s noisy and insane, sweet and overwhelming. It’s always been…
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Daily Dad On Making The Most Of Your Time With Your Kids
On this weekend of episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares a compilation of emails that help parents understand the importance of our time with our kids. ✉️ Sign…
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You Must Learn To Measure Life On Different Terms
Douglas MacArthur seemed relatively accepting of his quiet, sensitive boy. It was undoubtedly MacArthur’s dream to see his son graduate from West Point and…
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Here's What Happens If You're Selfish
Each of us has dreams and demons, goals and baggage. Sometimes in equal measure, sometimes not–and not always in favor of the good stuff. We have trauma from…
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Ask Them This Question Every Day
We’re always asking our kids questions. How was school? How did baseball practice go? Did you stay out of trouble? What did your teacher say about your math…
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If Not Them, Who?
We do our best to be good citizens. Good colleagues. Good people. We don’t freak out like some demonic Karen in a viral video when something goes wrong at the…
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It's Invisible Work
It would be nice if the work we did at home was as clear as the work we do at, well, work. At the office, the number of hours matters. At the office, you have…
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Daily Dad On Demonstrating Valuable Lessons While On Vacation
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan shares a story from his Family trip to Hawaii over the holidays! Through this experience Ryan draws a lesson on…
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What Schools Are Your Kids Attending?
What schools are your kids attending? No, not what college or prep school. This is more of a “school of life” question. Charis Denison, a relationship…
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Why You Can’t Compare Yourself To These People
These apps are designed to make you feel vulnerable, hook you, and sell you stuff. While that is great for the social media platforms, it’s not so great for…
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It's Afternoon Now
Don’t be sad. Don’t be delusional. Adjust. Accept. Appreciate. Because, as Lindbergh perfectly puts it, “in our breathless attempts we…miss the flowering that…
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Have Them To Teach Them
If we want kids who know their own space, know what’s appropriate and what isn’t, what will hurt other people and what brings a smile to someone’s face, then…
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Why Not Get Better Here?
If the Stoics have taught us anything it is that we should focus only on the things we can control. We can control what kind of parents we are. We cannot…
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Karen Duffy on Parenting With The Hand Your Dealt
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast, Ryan sits down with former actress and stoic Karen Duffy to discuss her latest book stoic inspired parenting…
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Remind Yourself What Love Is
There are few scenes in literature that capture love and loss and the terrifying but also inspiring moment of becoming a father quite like the end of A…
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Let Them Write Their Own Script
It seems like it would be easy but as we have found out in the course of our own lives, it’s one of the hardest things in the world: Figuring out who you are…
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Put Your Focus Here
You’re at the store and you see a parent talking rudely to their kids. Or letting them run around like it’s their house. You read some news story about some…
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This Is What You'll Remember
It won’t be the recitals. Or the graduations. Or the expensive trips to theme parks. Or the birthdays or the Christmas mornings. When you think back on your…
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Is This Really Something To Be Proud Of?
Some people’s houses look like they don’t even have kids. You see it on the Instagram accounts of the picture-perfect influencers. Or you go to a dinner party…
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Daily Dad On Maintaining Your Kids Presence
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad, Ryan sits down with writing partner Nils to talk about how parents can get things wrong when it comes to maintaining…
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Your Kids Can Have A More Grateful Outlook
It’s important that you teach your kids about gratitude. Because it’s so easy to take life, to take the gifts we have been given, for granted. Especially when…
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Everyone Needs This
Regardless of what some people say, it never hurts to give your kids a positive word, or to tell them that you love them and are proud of them. In fact, that’s…
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How Much Do You Want It
Every parent knows that kids make a great excuse. When people ask us to do something we’d rather not do, if we need a way to get out of a commitment we…
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Demand The Best Of Yourself For Them
This is that weird time of year where we start to think about how we want the following year to go. We start thinking about what we call “resolutions”—the…
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They're Not Trying To Give You A Hard Time
It can sometimes feel like everything is falling apart. No one is behaving. No one is listening. Everyone is yelling. Causing problems. Making messes.In…
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This Is A Gift You Can Give Yourself (And Your Family)
Here on Christmas, and throughout this holiday season, take some time to think about what it will take to have that. Think about the choices you’re making with…
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Daily Dad On How To Form Good Habits For The New Year
On this weekend episode of the Daily Dad Podcast Ryan shares a compilation of his best thoughts on how to form the best habits from this past year. Ranging…
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Those Impactful Moments Can Come Any Time
When we think teacher, we think classroom. When we think leader, we think the corner office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops. But the truth…
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We Are All The Same
Nobody wants to be like their parents…or like the adults they remember growing up. The ones who were clueless…or uncool. The ones who seemed to forget what it…