The Daily Dad
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.
- 4 minutes 11 secondsThis Reminds You How Lucky You Are
Yeah, these kids are crazy. Yeah, they are a lot…and take a lot out of us. But aren’t they also the best?
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7 April 2025, 7:00 am - 16 minutes 35 secondsYour Kids See More Than You Think | Ryan Holiday
It's the little things we do every day that shape our kids in big ways. In today’s episode, Ryan shares 7 powerful ways to lead by example and become the best role model for your kids.
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5 April 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 12 secondsTeach Them To Make It Beautiful
We only get one go at this thing called existence. We have to show them what happens when you take the time to do things right.
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4 April 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 13 secondsIt’s Amazing For Them
It can be thankless. It is tough. It pushes you in ways you never could have imagined. Should it really surprise us that people are having fewer kids? Or that some people are deciding to not have them at all?
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3 April 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 19 secondsWe Can’t Lie Like This
It’s tempting to think that we’re protecting their belief in the world and in humanity by shielding them from the horrors of the past, but real hope isn’t built on illusions.
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2 April 2025, 7:00 am - 3 minutes 52 secondsTake It While You Can
However old they are, whatever the activity is. Do it now.
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1 April 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 9 secondsWe Can Love The Game
They think they are sneaky but they are absolutely horrible at it. They have absolutely no future as criminals, that’s for sure.
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31 March 2025, 7:00 am - 15 minutes 40 secondsAustin Kleon: “Our Kids Need Bullsh*t Detectors!"
Bestselling author and artist Austin Kleon joins Ryan to discuss the challenges of raising kids in the digital age of social media and AI. He shares a recent Stoic lesson he taught his child about handling online validation, his strategies for making the most of car rides with his kids, and the key parenting advice he would offer to new parents.
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29 March 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 24 secondsDon’t Deny Them This
Let them be bored. Let them cultivate some time with themselves.
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28 March 2025, 7:00 am - 2 minutes 54 secondsThey’ll Wreck This
How will we ever convince Google that we do not, in fact, like Mr. Beast or prank videos? Will our Netflix suggestions ever recover from the Cocomelon we have watched? It’s annoying to be sure, but it’s a small price to pay for them to discover their own interests.
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27 March 2025, 7:00 am - 4 minutes 52 secondsShow Them All The Strains
We owe it to them to show these branches of the family tree, to introduce them to the ancestors who planted the seeds that are now growing inside them.
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