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Episode 67: Amy Joyce Loves Ffrench Ffries

Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 26, 2021 00:21 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In her seven years editing The Washington Post's On Parenting, Amy Joyce has used her platform to discover new writers and help parents raise good people. We talk about the publication process from pitch to byline, the importance of soliciting dads' opinions, and helping her sons understand the ...

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Episode 66: Thom Hofman Had One Helluva 2020

Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 18, 2021 20:52 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When we try to redeem 2020, Thom Hofman's story is a great place to start. After a life of scoring beers at 6am landed him in the hospital for the fifth time, he got sober by learning to "resensitize to the mundane." He's been home helping his kids with their online learning, resuming his homele...

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A Group Discussion On Principals

Professional Dad 24/7 - January 17, 2021 01:24 - 41 minutes
Fatherhood, Principals, Real Dads, Fatherprenuer

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Episode 65: Jason Kravits Will Perform On Your Roof

Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 12, 2021 04:32 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Jason Kravits is the type of writer/performer who relaxes by working—on his Lords of the Playground web series, his Off The Top improv revue, his crowd-sourced "Sing-Alone" videos—and as host for many years of the Dad 2.0 Summit Live Lounge. We talk about inspiration, getting started as an actor...

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Episode 64: Dynamic Insertion For Your Pleasure Center

Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 04, 2021 19:03 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The new year begins with a provocative title for provocative times. We discuss some of the myriad responses to our 2020 recap, the great art that offset our less-than-great moments, and the themes we'll continue to revisit often in 2021 (paid leave, gender equality, family advocacy, prioritizing...

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Episode 63: 2020 Recap: The Antidote to Doomscrolling

Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 28, 2020 21:38 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We're pretty sure 2020 can't get any more wretched in its last three days. But among that wretchedness, Jeff got married and launched a literary project. Aaron and John got new jobs. Mike started grad school. Michael and Brad and Tom published books. Stewart and Taylor and Penn had productive ye...

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Episode 62: Rob Ainbinder Knows Why People Click

Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 21, 2020 22:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
During a long career in content marketing and SEO, and as he rebuilds his personal life after his wife's protracted illness and death last year, Rob Ainbinder has learned a lot about Why People Click. We first came to know him as a blogger, whose Team Angela FB group helped build a community aro...


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Episode 61: Masterpitch Theatre, starring David Stanley

Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 14, 2020 19:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
After he became a work-at-home dad in the early '90s, David Stanley began his career of pitching writing and voice-over projects that he synthesized into his brilliant Masterpitch Theatre workshop at Dad 2.0 Digital. He has great advice about how to catch someone's eye, how to be courteously per...

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Episode 60: Danielle Wiley Can Curse In Senegalese

Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 08, 2020 02:32 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Danielle Wiley sits with us from the unique perspective of having spoken at the first Dad 2.0 Summit, just a few months after she launched Sway Group, and at our most recent in-person Summit back in February. Her experience as both a blogger and an executive at Edelman Chicago informs her advice...

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Episode 59: Penn Holderness Podcasts From the Tub

Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 01, 2020 04:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Right around the time the Christmas Jammies videos became an annual thing, Penn Holderness left a news anchor job (when he never saw his family) to start a media company with his wife, Kim (and saw his family every moment of every day). When they started focusing on their own content, the Holder...

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Episode 58: Michael Ian Black Keynotes Dad 2.0 Digital

Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 24, 2020 01:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
You think you know a guy, and then Michael Ian Black turns his sardonically comic persona on its head with his terrific new book, A Better Man, a (mostly) serious letter to his college-aged son, Elijah. Male role models were scarce after Black's dad died abruptly when he was 12, so Black essenti...

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Episode 57: Season 2 Wraps (Thanks for the Earballs!)

Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 17, 2020 03:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
After 57 episodes, Jeff and Doug wrap Season 2 with a state-of-the-business chat, about doors closed and subsequent windows opened. Press trips are returning, cold pitches are finding warmer ears, and we're focusing our efforts to make family life easier and reverse America's plummeting birth ra...

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Episode 56: Taylor Calmus Is Not A One-Man Show

Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 10, 2020 01:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Since Taylor Calmus defines a Dude Dad as "an invested father dedicated to raising kids in the most epic way possible," he says he's clearly not the only one. And he's quick to thank his parents (who sent him from rural South Dakota to LA for "a semester abroad") and his wife Heidi (who refused ...

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Episode 55: What Fresh Hell Is Spelling "Coxsackie"?

Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 02, 2020 21:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
What Fresh Hell podcast co-creators Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson will tell you: the best recipe for a successful online content marriage is when one is an Idea Cannon and the other knows her way around a spreadsheet. Together, they've converted their careers as writer/performers and complementa...

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Episode 54: I Am Brad Meltzer

Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 26, 2020 22:59 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When Brad Meltzer delivered the opening keynote at the 2016 Dad 2.0 Summit, his core message was about legacy, and our impact on everyone from our families to total strangers. And of the myriad genres his career has spanned — fiction, nonfiction, television, comic books, etc. — he considers his ...

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Episode 53: Darren W. Carter Has Burned A Lot of Meat

Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 19, 2020 19:19 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The episode's title fits Cleveland Dads Group co-founder Darren W. Carter well, both as a foster parent of five ("As long as I am here, I'll have love to give") and aspiring pitmaster ("I'll shovel out to my pit barrel cooker before I shovel my driveway"), because parenting and barbecue are swee...

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Episode 52 -- Casey Palmer Opened the Big Door

Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 12, 2020 21:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today we celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada (and don't call it "Canadian Thanksgiving") with Torontonian Casey Palmer, who began blogging with purpose seven years ago when his first son was born. Now he's set his sights on thornier social issues and risked his PR-friendliness, in part because his ...

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Episode 51: Recapping Dad 2.0 Digital

Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 06, 2020 02:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
The first Dad 2.0 Digital began with a Black book and concluded with a Kind heart, and dads from all over the world tuned in for three days of programming delivered directly to our desktops. Tune in for an extended discussion about the importance of meeting more than once a year, how digital eve...

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Episode 50 -- John Kinnear Fights For the User

Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 28, 2020 18:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When John Kinnear started his Ask Your Dad blog, he established himself as one of the online dad community's premiere Answer Men. As Marketing Director at Clearlink and site manager at Reviews.org, he has come to Dad 2.0 Summit many times to teach us how to be the signal amid the noise and creat...

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Episode 49 -- Tom Riles Held Darryl Strawberry's Baby

Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 21, 2020 21:17 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Tom Riles has made a career by turning bad situations into better situations. When his PA job was ending, Henry Winkler asked him to move to LA. He met his wife while they were busting fingers playing 16-inch softball. And on the day he learned his infant daughter would need heart surgery, he st...


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Episode 48 -- Jorge Narvaez Is Keeping the Light On

Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 14, 2020 19:09 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This week, Reality Changers creator Jorge Narvaez offers up a healthy dose of the reality he'd like to change, both as a stay-at-home dad and full-time content creator. The stress of confinement can sap your creativity, and Jorge discusses how the key to perseverance is to embrace an "abundance ...

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Conversation With KP- The Oakland Family

Professional Dad 24/7 - September 08, 2020 08:35 - 46 minutes
Authentic, honest and straight forward dialogue.

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Episode 47 -- James Lopez Came From the Worst

Dad 2.0 Podcast - September 07, 2020 15:33 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
James Lopez has built Fatherhood Is Lit on several tenets he tries to live up to every day: Be different, be proud, have fun, and don't settle. And when it comes to working with brands, be unorthodox. He'd rather invest his time in father/child events that have a far more lasting impact than an ...

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Episode 46 -- Alec Lace Has A Million Things Going On

Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 31, 2020 15:10 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In March 2018, Alec Lace didn't know what a podcast was. Within a year, he was representing his First Class Fatherhood podcast on Media Day at the Super Bowl. Alec works hard, but he also works smart, which is the only way you can work two jobs, parent four kids, and post 382 podcast episodes in...

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Episode 45 -- Mike Adamick Is a Middle-Aged Undergrad

Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 24, 2020 17:34 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Moments before attending his orientation as a rising junior at Berkeley, author Mike Adamick joined us to talk about his early career as a journalist, how his blog jump-started his book-writing career, and his new life as a college kid, studying sociology and gender relations with a peer group h...

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Episode 44 -- Live and Let Dai Manuel Reboot Your Life

Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 17, 2020 19:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When you first encounter the Big Moose Energy of Dai Manuel, you might be surprised to learn about his struggles with obesity and alcohol abuse that respectively sabotaged his self-esteem and almost tanked his marriage. His successes are hard-won, and he's eager to share them to illustrate that ...

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Episode 43 -- Josh Levs Debunks Your Myths

Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 10, 2020 19:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
When "Chief Everything Correspondent" Josh Levs keynoted Dad 2.014, he had just launched an EEOC complaint challenging Time Warner's parental leave policy and announced his deal for All In, a compendium of several years of research into fatherhood. Six years later, he's still putting facts first...

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Episode 42: All About the Didgeridoo

Dad 2.0 Podcast - August 03, 2020 21:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Since 42 is the Answer to Everything, we devote this episode to introducing the world to Dad 2.0 Digital, our online event that will be delivered to you October 1-2-3, 2020. Much of the programming will be familiar — keynotes, breakouts, workshops, Spotlight readings, Sponsor networking, and Dad...

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