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The Daily Dad

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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.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Daily Dad episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Daily Dad for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Daily Dad episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Daily Dad - What Message Are You Sending?
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07/06/21 • 4 min

“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 first trip to Disneyland. It’s more likely that they’re going to remember something you can’t possibly predict. Something small, and seemingly insignificant to you right now.”

Ryan explains what your kids will actually remember.

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The Daily Dad - Of All The Things To Be Extra About, This Is It
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07/05/23 • 3 min

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, indulge every whim and desire, shelter them from discomfort and the slightest independence. They celebrate the most minor of accomplishments, they encourage the most unusual of behaviors.
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The Daily Dad - Don’t Tie Down Your Eagle
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07/04/23 • 2 min

When a young Florence Nightingale began making moves toward volunteering in hospitals, her aristocratic parents were horrified. It had been difficult enough raising a precocious child. Now she wanted to debase herself with work below her station? They were embarrassed. What would their friends think? How would it look? Like a lot of parents with determined, independent children, they felt rejected. They thought her choices rebuked theirs.
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The Daily Dad - You Must Give Them This Gift
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12/22/23 • 29 min

Theodore Roosevelt lived an incredible life. He was an author. A naturalist. A rancher. A police chief. A cowboy. A hunter. A governor. A soldier. A president. An explorer. A philanthropist. And that’s probably not even close to an exhaustive list. His life was full of activity. It was full of adventure. It was marked by triumph and adversity to overcome.
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The Daily Dad - Are You Inspiring Them With This?
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11/30/20 • 2 min

"There’s a lot of darkness in the world. A pandemic. Corrupt and failed politicians. Institutions groaning under the weight of modern problems. Maybe your neighbors are a jerk, or your boss sucks.
It can be easy to feel depressed about how things are. It can be easy to pass this onto your children. But how fair is that? You’re going to let your cynicism infect them? This early?"
Learn how to inspire your chidlren to fulfill their highest potential on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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The Daily Dad - Why Are You Rushing This?
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06/15/21 • 2 min

“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 up. Dinner becomes less satisfying because there’s less time to taste the food. In fact, from a kid’s perspective, speeding things along starts to feel like it’s the most important thing in the world to us.”

Ryan explains why you should run towards life not away from it, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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The Daily Dad - You’re Your Parents Now
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11/27/20 • 2 min

"It hits you randomly. You’re in the middle of packing your kids up for a drive to the beach. You’re laying on the couch because your back hurts. You’re telling your daughter to stop messing with the thermostat.
Holy crap. I have become my parents."
Ryan talks about the impact of this realization, and what it means for you, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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The Daily Dad - You Have To Have Their Back
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01/25/22 • 2 min

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The Daily Dad - You Are Not A Babysitter
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01/27/20 • 2 min

The late ESPN broadcaster—and father of two girls—Stuart Scott, was once sitting in a restaurant with some friends and their respective children. Everyone was having fun, and it was one of those delightful scenes where you see parents bonding with their kids. The kids were behaving. The dads were present. All was well.

Until a mom walked by and, recognizing Scott, tried to pay him a compliment for “babysitting the kids.” She did not realize that this was an insult to Scott—and in fact to all fathers. Because dads don’t babysit. It’s impossible. Babysitting is something somebody else does for your children on your behalf. A babysitter is by definition a non-parent. These were Scott’s kids. He couldn’t babysit on his own behalf. It’d be like calling a homeowner a security guard every time you see them lock their house when they leave for work. They’re not protecting someone else’s property, they’re just being a responsible homeowner. They’re just doing their job.

Scott was doing his job. He was being a dad. No more, but certainly no less. As his friend would observe after Scott’s tragic death from cancer, “We didn’t see ourselves as an occasional parental figure who might take the kids off mom’s hands for a couple hours.”

See what you do as important. Because it is.

You’re not a babysitter. You’re not some lesser figure in your kids’ lives. When you are with them—and when you are not with them—you’re their father. That matters. It’s an important job, one that you should take seriously and never demean (and not let others demean, either). You’re doing it because you love it, because you get something out of it, and you know what kind of impact it has.

Not because you’re covering for someone else. Not because anyone can do it. They can’t.

You’re the only one who can. And that’s why it’s got a special name when you do it.

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On today’s episode, Ryan talks to author Charlie Mackesy about his #1 New York Times bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, the process of writing and creating the book, how beautiful and rare it is to find contentment, and more.

Charlie Mackesy is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. The book has sold over 1.4 million copies and spent 55 weeks on the Sunday Times Bestsellers List top ten. He co-runs Mama Buci, which is a honey social enterprise in Zambia.

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How many episodes does The Daily Dad have?

The Daily Dad currently has 1532 episodes available.

What topics does The Daily Dad cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Parenting, Fatherhood, Wisdom, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Dads and Relationships.

What is the most popular episode on The Daily Dad?

The episode title 'What Message Are You Sending?' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Daily Dad?

The average episode length on The Daily Dad is 6 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Daily Dad released?

Episodes of The Daily Dad are typically released every day.

When was the first episode of The Daily Dad?

The first episode of The Daily Dad was released on Dec 2, 2019.

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