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Professional Dad 24/7 - July 29, 2021 04:06 - 57 minutes
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Episode 93: Richard Kind Describes the Ocean

Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 26, 2021 19:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Our Dad 2.0 Digital closing keynoter Richard Kind wanted kids all his life, but he didn't become a dad until age 45 because he admits he spent too much time thinking he wasn't ready. Now, he says, Don't wait. You'll figure out how to provide the life you know they need, and before you know it yo...

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Episode 92: Shannon Carpenter Cheers For Himself

Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 19, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
After 13 years of on-the-job training, Shannon Carpenter has stocked his upcoming Ultimate Guide to stay-at-home fatherhood with lessons and advice he wants you to learn more easily than he did. This book resulted from his proactive decision to care for his kids and pursue his writing career, an...

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Episode 91: Christopher Persley's Life Is A Pep Rally

Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 12, 2021 22:54 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We met Christopher Persley while he was blogging at The Brown Gothamite, but now he's focused on how best to support his daughter Pepper's burgeoning career as a sports journalist. And mentorship is in short supply, because not many dads have a 10-year-old who has broadcast an NBA playoff game. ...

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Episode 90: Aaron and MJ and Men and Miscarriage

Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 05, 2021 18:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Our first return guest is Aaron Gouveia, this time with his wife MJ; their new book Men and Miscarriage arrives tomorrow, July 6. They talk and write candidly about losing five pregnancies in nine years, struggling to share their feelings about them, and the stresses of collaborating on a book t...

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Episode 89: Damon Brown and His Jar Of Big Rocks

Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 28, 2021 17:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Damon Brown is one helluva Google. Scroll through his multi-faceted website that comprises his TEDx talks, his coaching business, his 26 books, his Inc. column, and his YouTube channel, and you won't believe he's also a stay-at-home dad for his two young sons. He's essentially living proof tha...

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Episode 88: Caleb Gardner Meets You Where You're At

Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 21, 2021 21:07 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the ten years we've known Caleb Gardner, he's moved from digital strategy at Edelman to social media for Barack Obama to building the backbone of the mission economy at 18 Coffees, He also moderated our Parenting It Forward panel, about breaking the cycle of flawed fatherhood, months after he...

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Episode 87, part II: Matt Logelin Leans Into the Tedium

Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 18, 2021 16:17 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The arrival of Fatherhood The Movie on Netflix today seems like a fitting coda for the segment of Matt Logelin's life as a world-famous widower. So Part II of our conversation (Part I is here) focuses on the now-teenaged Maddy, her mother's foundation, and the future Matt anticipates so readily....

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Episode 87, part I: Two Kisses For Matt Logelin

Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 14, 2021 19:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When Matt Logelin's wife died just 27 hours after their daughter Maddy was born, he processed his grief by starting the blog that became the book that is now the movie "Fatherhood," which opens Friday, June 18, on Netflix. We're celebrating Father's Day week with a two-part interview with a lo...

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Episode 86: Jim Curtin Forms A More Perfect Union

Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 07, 2021 20:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
"Hard work is a given," says Philadelphia Union coach Jim Curtin, who has made a career out of following his father's advice: Let your results speak for themselves. And from the Villanova Hall of Fame to MLS Coach of the Year, his results resonate throughout the terraces at Subaru Park. We dis...

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Episode 85: Up On The Roof (So Jeff's Dad Could Watch)

Dad 2.0 Podcast - May 31, 2021 21:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
For the first time since Episode 5, Doug and Jeff celebrate the return of human contact by reuniting on his NYC rooftop and recording face to face. Amid the usual BS about movies, sports, and designer grilled cheese, we talk about the complex emotions surrounding our re-entry into social situati...

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Episode 84: Jason Wallace Is The Guy Who Points

Dad 2.0 Podcast - May 24, 2021 14:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Rich Wallace rose from a childhood in foster care to become a self-made activist and serial entrepreneur, and his youngest son Jason has built a 15-year career in politics, public service, and podcasting. We talk with them both about how their different childhoods inform their different parentin...

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Episode 83: Jim Lin Is Goldilocks On A Soft-Tail

Dad 2.0 Podcast - May 17, 2021 13:50 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We've known Jim Lin since our beginning as a dad blogger and PR executive, but he's really a septuple threat (at least). And since he's been writing funny things and studying their impact since he was a kid, he's the perfect guest to discuss how successful influence works, where it's going, and ...

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Episode 82: Armin Brott Planted A Flag On The Moon

Dad 2.0 Podcast - May 10, 2021 17:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 1995, Armin Brott's "The Expectant Father" did what no bestseller had done before: It became an accessible, reassuring, and indispensable resource for new and expecting dads. Millions of copies, syndicated columns, fatherhood classes, and radio shows later, the book's fifth edition has been u...

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Episode 81: How Asha and Christine Edit Their Lives

Dad 2.0 Podcast - May 03, 2021 19:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Asha Dornfest and Christine Koh began teaching us how to edit our lives long before it was cool, and we're celebrating Mother's Day week with a look at how their prescience has paid off. Emerging from quarantine will feature deep breaths, narrowed focus, and listening to signals instead of makin...

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Episode 80: Matt Villano Is Crepuscular And Peripatetic

Dad 2.0 Podcast - April 26, 2021 20:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
For 26 years, journalist Matt Villano has built his freelance writing career by pursuing true stories, standing up for marginalized voices, and occasionally dressing up as a humongous wine bottle. He also chronicles road trips with his three daughters, in whom he hopes to instill his commitment ...

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Episode 79: Our Tenth Birthday with Jason Greene

Dad 2.0 Podcast - April 19, 2021 21:07 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This week, we chat with our good friend, fellow Wall Walker, and Sexiest Man Alive Jason Greene about ten years of work, play, and butt portraits at the Dad 2.0 Summit. He got into performing to entertain his mom, and as a stay-at-home father of four, he got into dad blogging to tell stories abo...

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Episode 78: The Rigorous Feminism of Jordan Shapiro

Dad 2.0 Podcast - April 12, 2021 21:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Is there anything about fatherhood that is gender-specific? In his new book, Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad, the "urgent and intellectually rigorous" Jordan Shapiro used depth psychology and social theory to explain why the answer is "Not really." More importantly, he details why suppor...

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Episode 77: That Feeling When Things Are Looking Up

Dad 2.0 Podcast - April 06, 2021 01:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
There's a literal Spring in our step as we guardedly envision a post-pandemic, mostly-vaccinated world where actual human contact no longer seems like a luxury. With guarded optimism, we're making plans for the summer, celebrating a book deal and a move to New York City, and hashing out how our ...

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Episode 76: La Guardia Cross Is Laughing Accidentally

Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 29, 2021 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
On New Year's Eve 2013, La Guardia Cross decided the best way to become a self-sustaining artist was to show his process online and have his viewers hold him to account. Little did he know fatherhood would provide the boost he needed, and now his New Father Chronicles, featuring hilarious interv...

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Episode 75: Happy 7th Birthday, Gays With Kids!

Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 22, 2021 21:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Through adoption and surrogacy, Brian Rosenberg and Ferd van Gameren went from a childless couple to fathers of three in a mere 17 months. Since then, they've built Gays With Kids into the preeminent online resource for gay, bi, and trans men who want to be (or to become) the best dads they can ...


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Episode 74: James Breakwell Looks A Bit Less Terrible

Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 15, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
What do Madonna, Michelangelo, and Michael Stipe have in common? We compare them all to James Breakwell, who built his writing career by workshopping material on Twitter. In his fifth book, How To Be A Man (Whatever That Means), the man behind Xploding Unicorn attempts to determine what manhood ...

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Episode 73: Gary Barker: International Man of Mercy

Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 08, 2021 21:12 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The founder of Promundo was wired at an early age to study how men behave and to include men in global discussions about parenthood. He's devoted his career to gathering data and viewpoints to help the world realize that gender equality makes better lives for everyone. We talk about how family...

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Episode 72: The Brother Husbands of City Dads Group

Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 01, 2021 22:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Before co-founding City Dads Group, Matt Schneider and Lance Somerfeld were enrolled in extreme parenthood training as elementary school teachers in the South Bronx. Since 2008, they've built their two-person weekly meetups into a network of 20,000 dads in 41 North American cities, creating oppo...

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Episode 71: Ready For the Derreck Kayongo Musical

Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 22, 2021 17:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
From Ugandan refugee to CEO, Derreck Kayongo has made indelible contributions by working at Amnesty International and CARE, founding the Global Soap Project, running the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and closing the 2016 Dad 2.0 Summit with our first and only singalong. He sees everyone who...

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Episode 70: Is Donte Palmer A Model Parent?

Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 15, 2021 17:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the two years since his diapering photo went viral, Donte Palmer and his Squat For Change platform have led a global effort to install changing tables in men's bathrooms. Beneath that blinding spotlight, though, he's also a husband, father, and author with a lot to say about blending his comp...

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Episode 69: Doyin Richards Is Not Supposed To Be Here

Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 08, 2021 19:09 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Eight years after his now-famous fatherly photo went viral, Doyin Richards has written a new book, Watch Me, about how his father emigrated from Sierra Leone (and named his son Adedoyin, or "son of the king," to help preserve his African heritage). He's also launched his Anti-Racism Fight Club a...


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Episode 68: Beleaf Terrifies Himself Every Month

Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 01, 2021 15:31 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Glen Henry left Baltimore feeling worthless and suicidal, but after "starting over" with his father in San Diego, Beleaf has discovered his purpose as a visible example of fatherhood and mentorship. He works hardest to establish trust, and sets goals without limits in order to keep the past from...

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