Latest Dad2summit Podcast Episodes
Episode 118: Opportunity Cost of Unfortunate Phlegm
Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 29, 2022 04:10 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFelice Primavera! As we celebrate the first week of Spring 2022 and bring Season 4 of the podcast to a close, we look back at the many high points, of both this season and the four-season cycle as a whole. The stories we've learned, the advice we've taken, the mere act of conversation that susta...
Episode 117: Joel Willis Leans Into the Ironic Bigness
Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 21, 2022 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBorn on April 1st and raised in a town that gambled on cow poop, Joel Willis began his editorial career with a dad blog called the Glad Stork. From there, after years as a contributing writer at Scary Mommy, he was tapped to pilot The Dad as its editor-in-chief in 2017. We talk about the conte...
Episode 116: Charlie Capen and the Sympathy Viral Load
Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 15, 2022 03:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOn the fifth anniversary of the day he joined GISH, Charlie Capen returns to talk about what it's like when your job is finding where help is needed and marshaling big-hearted weirdos to fill that need. Each year, Misha Collins's brainchild generates global goodwill, in funds and in deeds, by ga...
Episode 115: The Night Dave Lesser Chose His Children
Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 08, 2022 04:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDave Lesser started his dad blog, "Amateur Idiot, Professional Dad" soon after he left his legal career to stay at home with his two kids. And after two years of sobriety, he remembers the night that scared his family and got him off booze for good. We also talk about how running helps him man...
Episode 114: The Dumb Dads Never Found Their Keys
Dad 2.0 Podcast - March 01, 2022 04:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter auditioning for a few too many "dumb dad" roles, actors Kevin Laferriere and Evan Kyle Berger found the perfect name for their Dumb Dad podcast and TikTok channel. And in their short, comedic history, they've built some huge platforms based on some widely shared viral moments. We talk ab...
Episode 113: When Aymann Ismail Lost His S—t
Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 22, 2022 06:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSlate staff writer Aymann Ismail nearly pulled his first-person piece about postpartum depression and anxiety because it seemingly paled in comparison to pregnancy's physical toll on women. Just two months later, it has gone viral, generated conversations all over the world, and inspired a forth...
Episode 112: John & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 15, 2022 06:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 2008, before the influencing Earth cooled, John Andrews and Ted Rubin came together over a radical new idea to involve bloggers in marketing campaigns. Their new book, Retail Relevancy, offers strategies based on 14 years of research, common sense, and lessons learned to help brands convert c...
Episode 111: Taylor Calmus: Builder Eye for the Dad Guy
Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 08, 2022 07:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSince his first appearance, Dude Dad's Taylor Calmus has had a third child, written a second book, and launched his first foray into basic cable, as Super Dad debuts on the Magnolia Network this weekend. Join us for a historic discussion (as Jeff Zooms in from the way-too-balmy Antarctic Circl...
Episode 110: Julie Nowell Loves Slow, Wiggly Growth
Dad 2.0 Podcast - February 01, 2022 05:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFrequent Dad 2.0 contributor Julie Nowell started 3C Consulting in order to inspire a slow, boring, disciplined business ethic among the influencers she hires for brand partnerships. She sees an industry that was primed for a reset cruising back into high gear between smarter brands and rejuvena...
Episode 109: Patrick Quinn Glams Up Your Lock Screen
Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 25, 2022 06:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Patrick Quinn last appeared on the podcast (pre Dad 2.020 and pre-COVID), he was ebullient about the bright future of influencer marketing. And now, two or 10 or 3,000 years later, he's back to assure us that business is still booming, and brands recognize more value in independent content ...
Episode 108: The Doug Zeigler Telehealth Call
Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 18, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJust like Doug Zeigler's life, this episode has everything: A dystopian lottery! Redemptive agony! Prophylactic cosplay! Plus a cameo from the Beetlejuice of toxicity! As he recovers from a heart attack that required five stents in his genetically narrow arteries, Doug talks about reading his ...
Episode 107: Brian Gordon Is Half Stubborn, Half Stupid
Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 11, 2022 04:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIf Brian Gordon hadn't lost his marriage, his job, and his dog over several dark months in 2015, he may never have created the wildly popular cartoon Fowl Language. And now, he's looking to support his blended family by expanding into merch, animation, NFTs, a partnership with TinyView, and what...
Episode 106: Tshaka Armstrong Works Googobs of Hours
Dad 2.0 Podcast - January 04, 2022 06:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere's nothing niche about Tshaka Armstrong, who admits he emerged from the womb blessed with big-time Neil DeGrasse Nerdery and loves to explain all he's learned. He works as a TV producer and tech reviewer, but he's not afraid to let loose his opinions on politics and race as Villain McBeardf...
Episode 105: Chris Illuminati Has Very Dirty Thumbs
Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 28, 2021 03:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEver since he started Message With A Bottle, Chris Illuminati's primary plan has been to mimic his fitness regime and persevere as incrementally as possible. Eight hundred notes later, he has built a multi-vertical platform comprising books, podcasts, calendars, his own branded lines of Post-It ...
Episode 104: Zachary Levi Learns How To Be Kurt Warner
Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 13, 2021 19:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Kurt Warner and Zachary Levi get together to promote their upcoming movie American Underdog, the first thing that comes across is how well they get along. We had a great chat about the movie's many fatherhood themes, the complicated relationships with their own fathers, and the unexpected j...
Episode 103: Chris Ballew Doles Out the Applesauce
Dad 2.0 Podcast - December 07, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsChris Ballew fronted the Presidents half his life ago and just wrapped 19 albums and 1,247 live shows as Caspar Babypants, and at 56 he's publishing under his own name and feeling more creative than ever. He credits his parents for encouraging his empathy and silliness, and he wanted to have kid...
Episode 102: Aaron Yavelberg Will See You Now
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 30, 2021 04:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs a writer, social worker, and Hebrew school instructor, Aaron Yavelberg has a wealth of experience as a father and father figure to children, adolescents, and young adults all over New York City. On this second night of Hanukkah, we talk about teens and social media, making goals reachable by ...
Episode 101: Kevin Shafer 101: Intro to Dad Sociology
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 23, 2021 02:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe product of a blended family and blended citizenship, Kevin Shafer is an associate professor at BYU who specifically chose fatherhood as his primary research concentration. He uses his PhD, his Twitter platform, and his copious research to defend paid paternity leave and says American dads ca...
Episode 100: You Say Dubai, and I Say Hello
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 16, 2021 02:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFor our 100th episode, Jeff reports in from the farthest point to which he had ever flung himself — Dubai, en route to the Maldives — to (mostly) remember the conversations we've had during the podcast's first two years. Amid the myriad storylines of our 67 guests, some important themes emerge: ...
Episode 99: Simon Holland, the Stealth Bomber
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 09, 2021 04:27 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOur last double-digited guest is Simon Holland, the work-at-home father of two whose brilliant humor writing has built two colossal platforms on Twitter and Instagram. He's an inspiration to anyone with a desk job and a family that you can still make the time to leverage your talent and make the...
Episode 98: Jon Finkel and the Educated Meatheads
Dad 2.0 Podcast - November 01, 2021 21:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWatching his dad build an executive career from scratch taught prolific author Jon Finkel the value of daily discipline and chasing opportunity. His peripatetic childhood also helped him develop a versatile skill set that took him from The Man Show to manhood's ultimate test: being a stay-at-hom...
Episode 97: Jared Bilski Found Wisdom in the Wudder
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 26, 2021 03:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn early September, the "remnants" of Hurricane Ida flooded metropolitan Philadelphia -- and took out the entire first floor of Jared Bilski's house. And like all good writers, he turned the resulting flood of neighborly goodwill into a front-page story about the diverse, dedicated community tha...
Episode 96: The Human Experience of Emme Reynolds
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 19, 2021 04:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter years online, counseling parents how to raise children without gender stereotypes, the writer f/k/a Mike Reynolds has adopted Emme as their new name and begun experimenting with their appearance as a way of declaring their ongoing nonbinary self-discovery. Emme talks frankly with us abou...
Episode 95: Lasso-palooza! with Whit Honea
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 12, 2021 02:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNow that Season 2 of Ted Lasso has concluded, Doug and guest host Whit Honea discuss (with many, many spoilers) all the brilliant and baffling narrative choices the writers made in their sophomore season. We also break down the inspiration and process behind Whit's brilliant Washington Post arti...
Episode 94: Tales From the Boom-Boom Zoom Room
Dad 2.0 Podcast - October 05, 2021 03:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back! And Season 4 begins with Jeff and Doug catching up on all the new things that happened over the summer. Travel is back, schools are in-person, and Dad 2.0 has a new partnership with American Underdog, the story of how Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner became the NFL's best player ...
Episode 93: Richard Kind Describes the Ocean
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 26, 2021 19:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOur 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...
Episode 92: Shannon Carpenter Cheers For Himself
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 19, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter 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...
Episode 91: Christopher Persley's Life Is A Pep Rally
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 12, 2021 22:54 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe 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. ...
Episode 90: Aaron and MJ and Men and Miscarriage
Dad 2.0 Podcast - July 05, 2021 18:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOur 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...
Episode 89: Damon Brown and His Jar Of Big Rocks
Dad 2.0 Podcast - June 28, 2021 17:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDamon 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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