The Daily Dad

Patrick Dempsey talks to Ryan about a parenting wake-up call he had that motivated him to do the work around healing his inner child. Patrick Dempsey is an actor, race car driver, and founder of the Dempsey Center. He is most known from his role as Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd from the series Grey’s Anatomy. Patrick has also starred in Enchanted, Sweet Home Alabama, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Made of Honor, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Ferrari, and more. 🎙️ Listen to Patrick Dempsey’s full conversation with Ryan: Part 1: How Patrick Dempsey Applies Stoicism in Acting and Race Car Driving | Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & Wondery Part 2: Patrick Dempsey on Ethical Dilemmas, Being of Service, and Embracing Stoicism | Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & Wondery 🎥 Watch Patrick Dempsey’s full interview on YouTube ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

The thing you say you want, the connection you crave. It’s there. Just not always when you want it…or how you want it. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

You don’t need to understand it. You need to encourage them. You need to be behind them as they discover who they are. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids: store.dailydad.com ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

What do you think your kids hear most from you? Is it words of affection and kindness and encouragement? Or is it those phrases we find ourselves repeating like broken records? This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

They’re not doing this to you on purpose. Please be kind. Be patient. Be accommodating. With them…but most of all with yourself. 📚 Grab a copy of Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Be present. Appreciate the moment. Stop checking your watch. 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store:https://store.dailydad.com/ This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp | https://betterhelp.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Last year, Ryan was interviewed by Gary Vee about The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. Today, you'll hear an excerpt from that interview on how to successfully instill discipline in kids. Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends. His latest project is a children's book, Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book! 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids: store.dailydad.com 📚 Grab your own copy of Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book 🎙️ Listen to Gary Vee’s FULL interview on the Daily Stoic podcast | Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & Wondery 🎥 Tune into Ryan’s interview on the GaryVee Audio Experience: Unpacking the Secrets of Successful Parenting with Ryan Holiday Connect with Gary Vee on Instagram, X, YouTube, TikTok: @GaryVee ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

We have to believe in our kids. To be their fan. Why would they be brave enough to put themselves out there, to try new things, if their own parents aren’t even backing them up when it matters most? 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Have you tried taking your own temperature? Don’t blame them. Check yourself first. Take care of yourself first. ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto atryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

They expect our protection. Nothing is more shocking and devastating than when they don’t get this. They won’t remember the context, what will stick with them is who did this. 🗞️ Check out the Daily Dad article on When You Have To Do Better 💤 Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep! | Go to https://shopbeam.com/DAILYDAD and use code DAILYDAD to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto atryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

It’s from stories that we learn the timeless lessons of the human experience. It’s from stories that we can give our children an education in the school of life. 📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out: The Boy Who Would Be King and The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus Hiya Health | hiyahealth.com/dailydad ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

After a long and peaceful summer, every family careens into the school year. Enjoy it, because the chaos is wonderful. ☕ TRADE Coffee | Get your first bag free when you subscribe! Visit drinktrade.com/DAILYDAD 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto atryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Spending time in the car with your kids is rich with opportunities to create connection, even if it means just listening to their music. Ryan and Sam talk about how they are finding ways to bond with the kids during the commute to school, allowing silence during shared activities, and generational differences when it comes to asking about kids interests. 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto atryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Parenting is so hard to do alone, so hard. We are stronger when we, our children’s parents, parent together. We go further, together. 📚 Grab a copy of The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problemby Julie Phillips | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto atryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Life has something over us now. We have something to worry over. Something we love more than life itself. 📚 Pick up a copy of Blue Nights by Joan Didion at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com 🏛 All time can be quality time. Get your own Tempus Fugit Medallion to remind yourself of this at The Daily Dad Store: store.dailydad.com/ 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

What we want is connection, right? So don’t turn it away. Take the hand when it’s offered. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

We have to figure out how to be a fan. We have to figure out how not to stifle. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids: store.dailydad.com 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Give them the benefit of the doubt. If you’re going to assume anything, assume facts not in evidence. Give them a break. 💪 Go to livemomentous.com to get up to 32% off your first subscription order or get 15% off all of my favorite products with the code DAILYDAD15 ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Katy Milkman and Ryan talk about encouraging curiosity as a parent, embracing their kids interests, and when it is okay to spoil them. Katy Milkman is a Behavioral Scientist, Wharton Professor, and Co-Director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. She is the Author of How to Change and podcast host of Choicology. You can connect with Katy on X: @katy_milkman and on Instagram: @katymilkman 🎙️Listen to Katy Milkman’s full episode | Spotify, Apple, Wondery ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Anxiety. It makes you a less vigilant parent in many ways—you’re so busy thinking about what might happen that you don’t always see what is happening. To better keep all that in mind, the team over at the Daily Stoic created the Anxiety Coin for you to carry around wherever you go and use as a tool whenever anxiety strikes. Grab your own Anxiety Coin at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube