Latest Dadhood Podcast Episodes
Mother's Day Special 2024!
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - May 10, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsIt's Mother's Day 2024, and we dedicate this episode to ALL the moms—the real superheroes who make our families run like well-oiled machines with their dedication, selflessness, and boundless love. Marc and Adam wager guesses on what would make for an ideal Mother's Day for their wives (and then...
Rewind Episode | The Today Show's Craig Melvin on Fatherhood, Parenting
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - May 03, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsIn July 2021, Dateline NBC reporter and Today Show personality Craig Melvin joined us to talk fatherhood. He shared candidly about the process of writing his book Pops: Learning To Be A Son And A Father, including stepping out of his comfort zone to conduct a number of interviews with his own da...
Breathe, Feel, Then Move | Ryan Cooper on Fitness, Breathing, Combating The Dad Bod
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - April 19, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsDads, raise your hand if becoming a parent resulted in falling out of healthy routines like exercise and mindful eating? Yeah, same here. And it's only natural... when there's a new baby in the picture your priorities immediately shift to your partner, the baby's well-being... and your own survi...
Rewind Episode | Matt Gourley on Being a New Dad, Finding Balance
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - April 06, 2024 19:52 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsEpisode 59 originally aired in February, 2020. Becoming a new parent can be a special kind of mayhem. Add a global pandemic into the mix, and the chaos of the first few months are elevated to a new level. But depending on your situation, those challenges may be coupled with opportunity. In Epis...
Many Ways To Say I Love You | Dr. Francois Clemmons on Cosmic Fatherhood + Fred Rogers
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - March 22, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsFor those of us who grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Fred Rogers taught us many lessons via his cast of characters in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe; the most prominent of which is that there are many ways to express your love and appreciation for someone. One member of that cast ...
Boredom Is The Birth of Art | Author Brady Smith on Parenting, Skateboarding, Kids' Books
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - March 08, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsWhat do bugs, sandwiches, skateboarding, comics, Saved By The Bell, mural painting, a chicken coop... and DADHOOD all have in common? Well, they have author and artist Brady Smith in common. (Duh.) Brady returns to the podcast to chat about many of the seemingly random things listed above... but...
Rewind Episode | Danny Tamberelli on Nickelodeon, Nostalgia, Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - March 01, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsA Day-Glo orange splatter of paint. A geyser of green slime. A seductive forearm tattoo named Petunia. If this doesn't conjure up some serious nostalgia, you either weren't a kid in the 90s, or your mom banned you from watching Nickelodeon. We invited Nick veteran and new dad Danny Tamberelli to...
What Is a "Lead Dad" ...And Could I Be One? | Paul Sullivan on Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - February 16, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsWhen you hear the phrase "Lead Dad," what does it make you think? A "stay at home" dad? A dad who prides himself on being the more involved parent? To Paul Sullivan, Founder of The Company of Dads, being a "Lead Dad" is much different... and many of us naturally fall into the category. Hear Paul...
Parenting Podcast Collab | Margaret Ables + Amy Wilson of What Fresh Hell
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - February 02, 2024 13:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsWhat fresh hell is this episode all about? Well, it's a collaboration with our new friends Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables, hosts of the popular momhood podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. The four parenting podcasters waste no time digging into why there are so many more ...
An Actor's Guide to Thriving in Single Parenthood | George Basil on Fatherhood, Raising a Teenager
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - January 19, 2024 14:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsBeing a single parent may result from an unplanned pregnancy, the relationship between two partners evolving or ending, or a purposeful decision. No matter the reason, it's fair to assert that single parents will navigate some unique challenges when raising a kid. George Basil (HBO's Crashing, N...
The Best of 2023 | Adam & Marc's Top 3 Clips
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - January 05, 2024 13:39 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings2023 has come to and end and Adam & Marc reflect on the guests, topics, and great conversations from the past year. The guys each present their Top 3 clips from the various episodes, and Marc closes out the episode with an utterly explicit edition of "So That's a Thing Now." The guys open Epis...
Saint Nick Sets The Record Straight | A Chat With Santa Claus
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - December 15, 2023 10:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsIn our holiday 2023 episode, we landed an interview with Father Christmas himself, Santa Claus. This episode is designed for parents and kids to enjoy together, as we ask Santa some hard-hitting questions which are on the minds of children around the world... and Santa delivers! Happy Holidays f...
Reviving Empathy Through Images of Real Leadership | Photographer Pete Souza on Empathy, Dignity, Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - November 10, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsThere are certain qualities, like leadership, empathy, kindness, respect, and compassion, that we all aspire for our children to embody as they grow. In this episode, Adam and Marc get a bit deep with Pulitzer Prize winner and Official White House photographer for two presidential terms, Pete So...
Encouraging Independence and Personal Responsibility in Our Kids | Bunthol Kim on Teenage Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - October 20, 2023 13:42 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsIs there a "right" way to reach our children to be independent and self-reliant? If we always do everything for them, they may never learn to own their responsibilities. But it can be emotionally trying (and short-term inconvenient) to allow them to fail and learn from their mistakes. B Kim join...
The Art of Explaining Farewells | Mortician Victor M. Sweeney on Fatherhood, Death, Balance
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - September 29, 2023 13:17 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsThere are a million idioms about death: It's "the only certainty in life." It's "the end of the road." It's "the great equalizer." But even as adults, death can be impossibly difficult to understand and process, let alone to know the best way to explain death to our kids. Mortician Victor M. Swe...
Back to School, Back to Pod | Scott Mazuzan on Fatherhood + Parenting
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - September 15, 2023 08:45 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsThe guys make a formal apology for ghosting listeners for a short late-Summer stretch before talking "back to school" season with friend and dad of two, Scott Mazuzan. Episode 90 of Modern Dadhood starts with a rapid-fire catch up between Adam and Marc in which they each share several quick lif...
The Unattainable Myth of Work-Life Balance | Young Han on Fatherhood, Business, Happiness
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - July 21, 2023 08:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings"Work-Life Balance" is a buzzworthy phrase that has taken on new meaning since 2020. And it's a funny one, because it essentially divides your time into two camps: Work... and everything else. As parents, we all strive to set boundaries such that when we're NOT working, we can be present with ou...
Understanding Our Digital Footprint | Marc Groman on Online Privacy for Kids
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - July 07, 2023 21:13 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsOne of the most important things we must drive home to our children before putting a device in their hand, according to Privacy Professional Marc Groman, is that what they share on the internet should be treated as public and permanent... even if they only intend for one person to see it. Groman...
Raising Privacy-Conscious Kids in the Digital Age | Marc Groman on Fatherhood and Privacy
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - June 23, 2023 12:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsWe've all heard (or experienced) the horror stories around cyber bullying, the consequences of sexting, or kids accidentally blowing through thousands of dollars on a popular video game. And as dads, contemplating how (and when) to grant our kids access to certain types of technology can be over...
The Funny Side of Fatherhood | Comedian Dustin Nickerson on Fatherhood, Comedy, and Work Ethic
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - June 09, 2023 08:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsIt was never all that easy to predict the future, but it always felt like there were at least a few things you could rely on. However, these days, the fate of even some of the more historically steadfast institutions is murky at best: for example, the notion of attending college to get a degree ...
Mother's Day 2023 | Revisiting The Mom Takeover
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - May 19, 2023 08:45 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsWe love and respect all the mothers all year 'round... and can't think of a better day than Mother's Day to turn the show over to our wives to let them catch up about "modern momhood." This episode features the "Mom Takeover" by Sarah Flaherty and Jamie Checket, originally shared in June of 2021...
An "Epical" Orlando Vacation | Universal Orlando Resort 2023
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - May 05, 2023 09:35 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsAdam and his 9-year-old daughter Summer share about their epic family vacation to Orlando which included several days at Universal Orlando Resort, and their once-in-a-lifetime invitation to join hosts David and Kari on the Discover Universal podcast. Episode 85 of Modern Dadhood, a "bonus episo...
Being Cool With Not Being Cool Anymore | Chris Gethard on Fatherhood, Being Lame
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - April 14, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratings[This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation] In "The Lonely Dad Conversations," comedian Chris Gethard interviews a dozen dads to explore commonalities between their fatherhood journeys. What he finds, is that, plain and simple, when we become dads, we turn pretty lame. That's not to say that beco...
The Brick Wall That Is Fatherhood | Chris Gethard on Loneliness, Connection, Parenting
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - March 31, 2023 08:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsMost new-dads-to-be do the obligatory preparation: You look through the couple of "survival guide" style books gifted to you by a friend. Watch YouTube videos on swaddling techniques. Read up on tips for potty training. Buy a new coffee maker to elevate your caffeine game. And ready your mind fo...
Raising Digital Natives | Tom Adjemian on Screen Time, Privacy, Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - March 17, 2023 08:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsRemember AOL Instant Messenger? ICQ? Friendster? Do you recall the excitement and curiosity of exploring these platforms and connecting with new people? The internet was new, and our parents were either learning it alongside us... or maybe not interested in it at all. Either way, for many of us,...
Interabled Parents-To-Be | Shane Burcaw on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - February 17, 2023 09:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsYou know that feeling when you really want to be a dad but you've been in a powered wheelchair since you were two years old and you aren't sure if your balls can produce enough viable sperm that you and your partner can conceive so you do some testing and find out that the doctors aren't certain...
IVF, Disability, and the Road to Fatherhood | Shane Burcaw on IVF Testing, Interabled Parenting
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - February 03, 2023 09:50 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsShane Burcaw wants to be a dad. He and his wife Hannah Aylward make no secret of their desire to become parents as they share some of the most private aspects of their unique interabled life together in weekly videos and podcast episodes on their YouTube channel Squirmy and Grubs. But will their...
The 2023 "New Years" Episode
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - January 20, 2023 09:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsJanuary 2023 marks the third birthday of Modern Dadhood. And at 79 episodes in, we've had some remarkable conversations with dads of all walks of life. In line with our mission, we've gained plenty of new perspective on what it means to be a father... but the learning and laughs don't stop here!...
Normalizing Autism One Kid at a Time | Joe Mandravelis on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Fatherhood
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - December 23, 2022 11:18 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsJoe Mandravelis was about to become a dad to twins when he and his wife learned their two year old daughter had Autism Spectrum Disorder. What they also learned, was having one child with autism means any other children you have are 20 times more likely to be on the spectrum. Joe joins Modern Da...
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion | Jermaine Moore on Fatherhood, Raising Empathetic Kids
Modern Dadhood | Unpacking Fatherhood + Parenting for Dads (and Moms!) - December 09, 2022 09:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsEveryone wants to belong. According to Jermaine Moore, to feel welcome, respected, seen, and heard, comes second only to our human desire to be loved. That's why Jermaine, a father of four, has devoted his career to teaching and training business leaders on the vital importance (and proven benef...
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