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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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Make Them Promise
Ryan explains why you should teach your kids this lesson early on.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram…
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It’s Easier Than You’re Making It
Ryan explains how you should look at the time that you spend with your kids.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.coFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram…
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Teach The Why
Ryan explains why you must show your children the importance of continuously gaining knowledge.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.coFollow Daily Dad…
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Daily Dad on Managing Your Screen Time
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan and his writing partner Nils Parker talk about the difficulties of managing screen time as a parent, how when your…
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Don’t Let Them Get Sick
Ryan explains why you must guard your children against this modern illness.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram…
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Count These Small Mercies
Ryan discusses why you must be the right example for your kids.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, FacebookSee…
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Did This Teach You Something About Time?
Ryan explains why the pandemic should have taught you this.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, FacebookSee…
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You’ll Never Regret Playing With Your Kids
Ryan discusses the one thing that you’ll never regret doing with you children.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter…
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You Only Have One Thing to Do
Ryan explains why you must always be present with your children.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, FacebookSee…
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Daily Dad on Sending Kids Back to School This Year
On today’s episode, Ryan discusses why he’s not sending his kids back to school this year, how you should weigh decisions based on how they affect other…
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You Can Always Give Them This
Ryan discusses the things that are always available to you to give to your children. Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter…
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It’s Always A Blessing
“The thing about being a parent is that it gives you superpowers—or at least a superpower. Nothing too special. You can’t fly. You can’t stop bullets with your…
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Always Keep Their Interests In Mind
“There will always be a gulf between parents and their children, at least when it comes to taste. As it should be, your tastes are informed by years of…
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It’s Good That You Worry About This
“The question hits you in a soft place. It hits you when you least expect it...and yet it’s there constantly. Am I a good parent? Am I doing enough? Am I…
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You Are The Toy
Ryan discusses the way children look at their parents.Magic Spoon is an adult version of what you loved as a kid—without the sugar, carbs, or guilt. Go to…
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Daily Dad on Why I Won’t Be Exploiting My Kids On Social Media
“It was a surprisingly easy decision to make: No posting kid photos on social media. My wife and I made this decision not because, like everyone, we’ve been…
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You Have To See It This Way
“The defining feature of this parenting life is how much stuff goes wrong. Plans dash to pieces. Your kids change their mind. They get hurt, stuff comes up…
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This Is The Most Impressive Form Of Greatness
Ryan explains how you should lead your family.If you want to become a better leader, sign up for the new 9-week live course The Daily Stoic Leadership…
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What Did You Learn From This?
“There’s no question that the last year and half has been tragic. Millions of people have perished in a merciless pandemic, millions more are still dealing…
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It's All About The Specifics
Ryan explains how the particular circumstances of your children’s life are all that matters.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad…
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This Is What They Really Want
Ryan explains why you should cherish all of the time that you can with the people that you love.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad…
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Daily Dad on How Hard It Is to Be a Kid
On today’s podcast, Ryan talks about the difficulties that your children face, why it’s so important to put yourself in their shoes and try to remember how you…
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What Messages Are You Sending To The Future?
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Be Ready to Go...Wherever They Go
“We’ve told the story a bunch of times, but it’s so good, it’s worth repeating. In high school, Jim Valvano told his dad he was not only going to be a college…
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They Have To Do This. You Don’t.
“Have you ever left Twitter feeling better about humanity? When was the last time you had a productive discussion with someone on Facebook? How often does…
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It Should Be The Easiest Thing In The World
“Parenting is very hard. Keeping your kids safe. Keeping them fed. Keeping them in the best schools, making sure they get good grades in those schools. We have…
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Everything Is A Phase
“It’s tricky to understand this because before you had kids, everything in your life seemed permanent. It just was. If your job sucked, it was never going to…
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Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on Raising Self-Driven Children
On today’s podcast, Ryan speaks with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their book The Self-Driven Child which they wrote to help parents and educators…
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You Have To Say Yes
“They want you to get in the pool with them. They want you to let them ride on your back. They want you to drive them to their friend’s house. They want to…
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You Cannot Let This Happen
“You know, your parents weren’t always like this. They were young once. Hopeful, open-minded, even adventurous. They weren’t always so conservative, so stuck…
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You Don't Have To Do Anything But This
Ryan explains why this is all you have to do.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at…
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Just Pick Yourself Back Up
“Maybe you haven’t been as good of a dad as you would like to be lately. You were on your phone too much. You let your short temper get the best of you. You…
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Try To Get This
“While we have talked recently about the dangers of multitasking as a parent—because it makes you distracted, because it gives you conflicting priorities—that…
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Daily Dad on Why the Slower Life is the More Natural Life
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan contrasts his life pre-pandemic, during the pandemic and now on the brink of post pandemic, how your routines as a…
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You've Got No Right
“Kids are so sweet. So innocent. Which makes the famous photo all the more haunting. A young boy dressed in a white robe and a tall, white, conical hat touches…
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This Is Where They Get You
“The author Sebastian Junger does not own a stroller, even though he has two young kids. When we had him on the Daily Stoic podcast recently, he explained that…
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Don't Thrust Them Away
“Of course, they can be annoying. Painfully so. They scream in your ears. They ruin your clothes with their food and dirt-covered hands. They can cut off your…
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What Message Are You Sending?
“Ten or twenty years from now, they won’t remember the Princess breakfast that you spent hours and hundreds of dollars arranging for the first morning of their…
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Why You Must Bring This Home
“So many moments of greatness can be traced back to this. Where did an athlete’s love of the game come from? Where did the scientist’s curiosity come from? The…
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Daily Dad on Getting Rid of Your Stuff
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about why it’s important to go back through the old and useless stuff, how it helps clean out not only your house…
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There Must Be Hope
“A lot has happened in your life. It’s rightly made you cynical about some things, be it politics, relationships, or other people. A lot has happened in…
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Would It Change Anything?
“We’ve talked before about the nature vs nurture debate. As we’ve said, it’s a waste of time (because the debate is clearly settled). But here’s the weird…
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This is Another Secret
“A few weeks ago, we talked about the secret to being a better parent. We talked about getting more juice for your squeeze. We talked about hiring…
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Prepare, Because It's Inevitable
“Your kids came into your life as a blessing. They brought you unalloyed joy. They are the source of so much happiness and positivity. But you have to…
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You Can't Be Remote
“Anyone who has read about aristocratic British parenting can’t help but be appalled. Children were not only not seen, but not heard from—for years. They were…
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Daily Dad on the 9/10 Ratio of Positivity and Discipline
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about creating a positive ratio of being a fun loving parent while still maintaining a disciplined outlook, why…
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This Is Why You're Here
“Sometimes you get a glimpse into the lives of single or childrenless people and feel a tinge of jealousy. How much more time they have. What they haven’t had…
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How To Deter Them
“There are things we don’t want our kids to do. We set up rules. We create punishments. We supervise them closely. It works...to a degree, but it’s also…
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This Was a Wake Up Call
“We can imagine that parents who have nearly lost a child—or parents who tragically have—operate on a different plane of consciousness than those of us who…
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Don't Let Them Sneer
“You’ve seen a lot. You’ve been through a lot. You know what’s up. As a parent, you have to make sure that the insight you’ve gleaned from these experiences…
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They Owe You Nothing
“Yes, you’ve done a lot for your kids. You brought them into the world. You wiped their butts. Maybe you even paid for all their years of grad school.”Ryan…
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Daily Dad’s 6 Father’s Day Lessons
On today’s special Father’s Day episode, Ryan talks about 6 lessons that have helped him on his journey as a parent. The lessons are: 1. Tame your temper 2…
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Daily Dad on Lessons Learned Traveling With Young Kids
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks about the RV trip that he and his family took out to West Texas, and the lessons that he took from the…
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This is 90% of Being A Dad
“What’s the key to being a great dad?”Jay asks at the beginning of the second episode of the show Modern Family.”Ryan discusses what the key to being a great…
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This Is What They Want (But This Is What They Need)
“They just bit their brother. They failed their math test. They scratched the car. They did something wrong, and you’re upset. And now they’re lying to you. Or…
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How You See It Matters
“There’s stuff that happens that nobody wants to have happen—especially to their kids. Whether it’s breaking an arm or being bullied, life visits things upon…
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Why Are You Rushing This?
“Bedtime can be stressful when you’re convinced it has to happen by a certain time. The evening walk becomes less fun because you keep telling them to hurry…
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Is It Nature or Nurture?
“How much of this is nature and how much is nurture? Nobody really has a great answer to that question. What we know for certain, though, is that the debate as…
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Sebastian Junger on the Wonder of Existence and the Complexity of Freedom
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger about his new book Freedom which details his 400 mile journey along the…
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This Is The Secret
“When you look at successful people with kids—be they CEOs or athletes or artists—it can be easy to marvel: How do they do it? How do they get it all done? How…