Brand New Father Podcast

Brand New Father Podcast is a place to find encouragement, real life stories, struggles, wins and some lessons to help you become a better dad today than you were yesterday!
Millennials were supposed to change the parenting status quo and make engaged fatherhood seem totally unexceptional. Even, if we are the most engaged, involved generation of fathers in history (which we probably are), the everyday grind of fatherhood is far from easy.
This podcast is my outlet for sharing my story and opportunity to connect with those who share the same values, and want to join me. Let’s build a community where new dads can be heard and understood.

Latest Episodes:

070 Emotional Bank Account concept and parenthood May 16, 2016

Show notes

The Emotional Bank Account concept was first introduced by Stephen Covey in the book "7 Habits of highly effective people". Basically it's a metaphor used to describe the amount of trust that's built up in a relationship. It's the feeling of safety that you have with another human being.

It means that we maintain a personal "emotional" bank account with anyone with whom we have a relationship with - our coworkers, friends or family. And just as with any bank account, we can make deposits and withdrawals with our actions and intentions. The currency just happens to be trust, fondness and confidence in the other person.

Tune in to listen how this concept applies to new parents and why it's especially crucial in this transition to parenthood!

Shownotes at BrandNewFather.com/070

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069 Interview with Larry Hagner from the Good Dad Project May 13, 2016

Show notes

Larry Hagner is a dad to 4 young boys – 10, 8, and 3 years old & a 3 months old baby.

In today's episode we're talking about:

Larry's own childhood and how this influenced his own fatherhood experience. Also, how having toxic father figure in your life can be as devastating as having no dad at all.
Common belief or expectation of dads that we should automatically know how to be a good dad and how this unrealistic expectation can lead to desperation.
Larry's biggest challenges as a dad (patience, work-life balance and setting boundaries) and how he's dealt with them.
How our inner dialogue/self-talk affects our life (including our parenting).

Tune in!

Shownotes at BrandNewFather.com/069

Connect with Larry:

Website: www.gooddadproject.com

Twitter (@GoodDadProjct)

Facebook (/TheGoodDadProject/)

Instagram (@good_dad_project)

Resources:

Larry's New Book: "The Dad's Edge"

Check out a free chapter from: THE DAD'S EDGE on UNLIMITED PATIENCE

068 Finding your role in parenting May 09, 2016

Show notes

Being a dad, and an involved one, is a wonderful opportunity – I love to be available and be part of our little one's giggles and even tears. But it's not always easy to find where you fit in.

When it comes to parenting, most things don't come naturally to men. We have to work for it and it's not always easy. Trying to figure out your own parenting style is challenging enough let alone becoming an effective parenting team with your partner.

Tune it to hear my experience and tips!

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067 Interview w/ Brendan Hufford from HustleHeart.co May 06, 2016

Show notes

Brendan is a dad to 2 young boys – 3 years and 3 months old. He's also a full-time teacher and runs couple of side businesses.

He's most passionate about his family and teaching other dads to build side businesses to get a bit more leverage in their life, whether that means just more money for their family or eventual freedom from their job to spend more time with their kids.

In today's episode we're talking about:

finding time and also learning about using the time that we already have wisely,
the importance of communication in (co-)parenting,
investing time to learn about being a dad. Treating it as the most important role in your life like it should be.
His biggest fear as a dad
And many other topics…

Tune in!

Connect with Brendan:

Snapchat (Brendan Hufford)

Twitter (@BrendanHufford)

Facebook group (/groups/HustleHeart/)

Website (HustleHeart.co)

Shownotes at BrandNewFather.com/067

066 Dad's bucket list May 02, 2016

Show notes

Dad's bucket list is a list of things I want to experience with my family and with my baby-girl before she leaves home. So it's not really a bucket list in its truest form, but let's not make things overly complicated :)

Six thousand and six hundred and thirty one days – that's how many days I have before our daughter's supposed to graduate high school. That may seem like an eternity and may not instill any sense of urgency. Then again, in a month it's already down to 6500s and in a year and a half already 5999.

It's scary to see the hundreds and thousands change… and that's what makes me appreciate the time I have with her, because it is limited and who knows how long until my time here is up.

Bucket list or not, I want to encourage you too to be more actively involved in your kids' lives.

Tune in to listen to what's on my "Dad's bucket list"!

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iPhone app "Countdown Star"

iPhone app "Countdown!!"

065 Interview w/ James Tew, a dad to 4 young daughters Apr 29, 2016

Show notes

James Tew is an Australian dad to 4 young girls ranging from almost 8 months to 9 years old. He served over 7 years in the Australian Navy while also being a husband and a new dad. Recently he secured a scholarship to go to University. So, in addition to studying, he's now also a stay-at-home dad.

In today's episode, we're talking a lot about his emotions and fears prior to him having his first girl. We'll also talk about how he has managed being away from his family for months at a time when he's been deployed and how he has transitioned from being in the Navy and deployed a lot to being basically stay-at-home dad.

Connect with James: Twitter (@james_tew) Facebook (/thesocialentrepreneurblog/) Email: hello@jamestew.me

064 Creating your family mission statement Apr 25, 2016

Show notes

Loving, supportive families don’t just happen. They take a lot of intentionality and one way to approach that is to come up with your family mission statement.

It’s a written statement of what you want your family life to be and the values by which you’ll live your family life. It lays out your family’s purpose, priorities, values, goals and standards.

Then again, having something written on paper doesn’t automatically guarantee more fulfilling family life either…

Tune it to the episode to hear about our process and the current draft of our family’s mission statement!

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Franklin Covey Mission Statement Builder

063 Interview w/ Aaron Gouveia, a dad to 7mo, 2yo & 8yo boys Apr 22, 2016

Show notes

Aaron is a father of three boys ranging from 7 months to 8 years old, and creator of www.daddyfiles.com, a website devoted to involved fatherhood since 2008.

His work has appeared in TIME, Huffington Post, Parents magazine, and American Baby and he has been featured on HuffPost Live, BBC NewsHour, CBC Radio, the Washington Post, and the Michael Smerconish Radio Program.

I wanted to bring him on because he’s passionate about things he’s involved in – whether it’s his family and fatherhood or Boston sports teams and training for semi-marathons.

Connect with Aaron:

www.DaddyFiles.com Twitter (@daddyfiles) Facebook (/daddyfiles) Instagram (@daddyfiles)

062 Daddy guilt and how to deal with it Apr 18, 2016

Show notes

We’re talking about work-life balance – more specifically about dad guilt! Yes, we dads, finally made it! We finally have equality – moms have been feeling guilty for decades for leaving to work too soon and putting the kids to day-care or not being “good enough parents” and now we have made it as well. We, dads, have the dad guilt!

It is a common struggle that is rarely talked about. Dads feel guilty today because it’s hard to decide on priorities.

Tune in to hear my experience and my 7 ways to get rid of the stress and guilt and loosen a bit up.

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061 Interview w/ Joshua Harris, a first-time dad to a 2 mo baby-girl Apr 15, 2016

Show notes

Welcome Joshua Harris, a fellow new dad from England. He's a dad to a 2 month old baby girl and he’s very much into being an involved dad. He's also very open about sharing his struggles and joys on his YouTube channel. You have to check it out - the link is below!

Tune in to learn about his biggest fears and joys so far!

Joshua’s links:

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thefoodhe

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedadhe

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDadhe/

NB: Check out his “Modern version of the dad dance”