The Epic Dad Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jason McCleery
Welcome to The Epic Dad podcast. I'm your host Jason McCleery and I'm here to help you create better relationships, better health and an all-around amazing life. Each week, I feature interviews with experts to deliver inspiration, motivation, tools and tricks to create the life you love. The Epic Dad Podcast is here to help you to become your best self, as a parent, spouse and an all-around epic human being. If you want to remove yourself from the drift, and start taking intentional steps to become the Epic Dad you always wanted to be, then this podcast is for you.
Today, we're talking about a common challenge many couples face - losing your marriage to parenthood. It's easy to let the demands of parenting consume your relationship, but it's crucial to remember the importance of prioritizing your marriage and keeping the spark alive. Let's dive in and learn how to avoid losing your marriage to parenthood.
Before the holidays, I put out a post on my socials asking what the husbands in the audience really wanted to get out of marriage. What aspects of marriage are they getting value out of and that makes them feel fulfilled within their marriage. The comments and DMs that I received were really insightful. What I found out that what men want all kind of fall into 4 main themes. They want to feel respected, accepted, appreciated, and desired. So I wanted to take this episode to really dig into each of these areas and get a feel for what we really mean when we say we want to be Respected, Accepted, Appreciated, and Desired.
On today's episode, we have Len Arcuri.
Len and his wife Cass are the founders of All In Parent Coaching where they help motivated but overwhelmed autism parents get the clarity, confidence and tools they need NOW to help their child overcome challenges. They are also the host of the Autism Parenting Secrets.
On today's episode, I speak with fellow dad, and now podcaster, Jonathan Chambers about grief and how we model that for our kids.
This podcast was recorded back when it was still the Epic Dad Podcast so, it's been a long time coming.
In the second episode of The Epic Marriage Podcast, I break down a few things that you can do to break out of those periods of time when you feel like your spouse is more of a roommate than a lover.
Welcome to the first episode of The Epic Marriage Podcast!
This episode will introduce you to myself, my marriage story and what I plan to do with the podcast from this point forward.
In this episode with author, educator and speaker Kimberly Wolf about how to talk with your daughter so they can hear and you can listen.
Kimberly's first book "Talk with Her: A Dad’s Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident & Capable Daughters" is a comprehensive playbook to help dads support their daughters through the pre-teen and teen years up to adulthood.
This will be the last Epic Dad podcast, as next week, the podcast is moving direction slightly to focus on marriages and will be rebranded the Epic Marriage Podcast.
Brian Anderson is a husband and father to two spirited daughters that keep me inspired and exhausted every day. Prior to co-founding Fathering Together, Brian has worked as a social worker, community organizer, university chaplain and interfaith leadership development consultant.
As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Fathering Together, Brian brings those experiences to empower fathers to be agents for positive change.
When not working, Brian serves as an amateur chef to his family and working on his forthcoming book: Fathering Together that provides a roadmap for fathers using servant leadership as a guide.
On the show today, I'm speaking with Tricia Underwood.
Tricia is an Academic Coach who helps students successfully navigate the entire school experience by increasing their self-awareness and how to align their daily actions, thoughts, and feelings with their goals. Her work unlocks and protects students’ strengths and spirits as they move through challenges in school. She especially loves to work with unique students who do not fit the status quo.
Her upcoming book, Happy Grades: How to improve focus, learning, and productivity without sacrificing joy, peace of mind, and free time, will show you the methods behind her over 20 years of teaching teenagers who struggle with executive functioning, boredom, and stress at school learn how to succeed without trading in on their happiness, creativity, and peace of mind.
For the last sixteen years, Chris has been a funeral homeowner. In addition to learning many things about love, loss, and life, his entrepreneurial spirit drove him to create two websites from the ground up: first magillaloans.com and, more recently, funandmoving.com, a streaming exercise and rehab platform for those over sixty years of age and the infirm.
Chris has a Juris Doctorate and Master’s in Environmental Law (Magna Cum Laude) from Vermont Law School and a BA in Politics and History from Brandeis University. He has been a licensed New York State attorney for over twenty-eight years.
He has been married for over twenty years and enjoys coaching his sons in various sports and I wanted to bring him on because he is also the author of Four Months...And A Lifetime A Father, His Son, and Their Epic Basketball Team's Nine-Year Journey Together.
On the show today is Mike Zeller.
Mike is a business architect and entrepreneur mentor who helps professionals find their zone of genius and rewire their subconscious to fuel momentum toward their life’s purpose.
He has mentored over two hundred high-level entrepreneurs from all over the world, helping add tens of millions in revenue to his clients.
An avid traveler, Mike and his wife have visited over 30 countries. He is a devoted dad to his daughter and an NFL fan.
His new book, The Genius Within: Your Natural Pathway to Impact, Fulfillment, & Wealth is available now.
On the this week's episode, our guest is Brandon Miller
Brandon is the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consulting agency that educates, empowers, and encourages working parents to take a strengths-based approach to parenting in order to unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy children and teens. He and his wife Analyn Miller are successful business owners, parents to seven children, and authors of "Play To Their Strengths" and "Incredible Parent".
Their latest book, "Incredible Parent", released in January 2021, leaves readers with an innovative strengths-based intentional approach to child raising that will make them more confident, aware, and energized as a parent, allowing the freedom to do what one does well and bring out the best in kids.
On the show today, I have Archie Messersmith-Bunting.
Using dynamism and authenticity, Archie, better known as The Feelings Guy™, champions mental health awareness worldwide at corporations and universities. He challenges people to rethink complicated and emotional topics like depression, suicide, alcohol and drug addiction.
He lives with his husband and son Kade in Charlottesville, Virginia and loves to binge romantic comedies, explore the outdoors and read to Kade in his spare time.
It’s difficult to believe that we are already celebrating 50 episodes!
It feels like yesterday when I was just hoping I would get to this point. And now, we’re moving in a direction I never thought I would be in — helping dads and families live a purposeful life through intentional discussions.
This week, as we celebrate wins we also chat about creating identity-based habits to reach the goals you’ve been setting for yourself. Using the journal workbook I’ve created and used to get to where I am, we discuss a step-by-step guide on how you too can move towards your goals and make a lasting impression on your life.
In this episode we talk about:
- The importance of aligning your identity with your desired outcomes
- Breaking down your life’s purpose into different pillars and creating an identity around those pillars
- Creating an identity statement
- Taking into account daily habits that you need to get to that identity statement with process goals
- Stepping up with your big audacious goals
- Tracking wins and measuring backwards with progress notes
I created a special journal for myself and you can get your copy of the journal at https://epicdadcoaching.com/identity
One of the human basic needs that play a central role in social processes is freedom. And when the pandemic hit, we experienced a heightened sense of it by working remotely.
Our guest for today, and the Co-founder of Caffeine Interactive Technologies, Dustin DeVries shares his take on the importance of having personal freedom while being a successful entrepreneur working with remote teams and managing his family.
Working remotely since 2013, Dustin communicates the urgency of intentionality that comes from having flexibility. He also shares their personal pathway to adoption and how they are raising their kids toward finding their own path.
In this episode we talk about:
- Understanding adoption and Dustin’s personal experience
- The benefits of allowing yourself to be open to other opportunities and other options
- How to have intentional relationships as a family
- Building a good foundation for your kids to make their own choices
- Mastering you busy life with self-awareness
Everyone feels stuck, trapped, anxious at some point. But because men are socialized not to express these feelings, many if not all know little on how to deal with it.
This week’s chat with Israel Smith, Well-Being and Emotional Resilience Coach explores how epic dads like you and me can be the best version of ourselves for our partner and our kids plus what that looks like.
Israel walks us through his experience of going through depression, overcoming it and moving towards being able to manage his mental well-being from a preventative standpoint. Our conversation digs deep into recognizing the various factors at play and how we can start the shift by focusing on our inward journey.
In this episode we talk about:
- Learning to recognize the symptoms that manifest from depression/anxiety
- The importance of seeking external support and help
- Looking at the lifestyle factors that your body needs to heal and regulate
- How the 4-story mansion framework can help you turn the attention back inward
- Maintaining your well-being with Israel’s 7 core components
Every year most of us make a long list of resolutions. Only to find out after 6 months that most of it doesn't stick.
If you’re like me and you’re ready to pick up where you left off and do things differently this year, you’re in luck because on this week’s episode, we talk about how we can make that change. In particular, how we can shift our big audacious goals to becoming guiding points for what we want our daily habits to become.
This episode talks about the importance of setting up better systems and how it pushes you in the direction of those big audacious goals. And if you’ve experienced a setback, how you can try again and still move towards the person you want to become.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why you shouldn’t wait until new year’s to start working on your goals
- Recognizing the patterns you’ve set up for yourself in the past and how you can try again
- Building daily habits and routines instead of resolutions
- Finding joy in small wins
- Creating an identity that is consistent with your goals
This week, I'll be playing best of episode that are the most downloaded and shared episodes along with episode that I just really enjoyed throughout the last year and a half of the podcast.
On the podcast today, I have my very first repeat guest, Dezi Abeyta.
Dezi is a registered dietician, author and High Performance Mentor who empowers his clients to create habits for purpose and success.
He's my coach and has been helping me a ton, not only with my fitness goals that I've been reaching for this year, but a lot of the whole mindset and fulfillment piece of life as well.
This week, I'll be playing best of episode that are the most downloaded and shared episodes along with episode that I just really enjoyed throughout the last year and a half of the podcast.
Even though my oldest just started high school, our family has been talking a lot more about college lately.
Suddenly those "someday" plans don't seem so far off.
And, as is everything with our firstborn, this is new territory. Even though my wife and I both went to college, a lot has changed since then and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to set our kids up for success.
And this is why I was so excited to talk with this week's podcast guest, Emma Perez. Emma is a mentor who specializes in helping teens and young adults craft who they want to be and how they will impact the world.
Listen to episode 36 as we talk about:
- Questions to ask to help your teen clarify what they want to do
- The pros and cons of taking a gap year
- Various ways to save for college (and how to avoid surprise expenses)
And more!
Whether you have a teen or simply like to plan ahead, episode 36 is full of practical tips that can help you (and your teen) start planning today.
This week, I'll be playing best of episode that are the most downloaded and shared episodes along with episode that I just really enjoyed throughout the last year and a half of the podcast.
In this week's episode, I have a great conversation with my amazing wife, Becky McCleery. Becky has battled depression in one degree or another ever since our oldest daughter was born over 13 years ago. We talk about how life is for her, and how we have come together as a team to cope with the illness.
This week, I'll be playing best of episode that are the most downloaded and shared episodes along with episode that I just really enjoyed throughout the last year and a half of the podcast.
Joining me for this weeks episode is Casey Caston founder of Marriage365 and a leading marriage expert, though he admits that he has to work everyday to take his own advice.
Marriage365 started 7 years ago with a goal of producing tools for couples to connect in their relationship, they’ve self published a question book which has sold over 50,000 copies, created online courses, Casey has a husbands course, and have a subscription service that gives access to all of their content with over 25,000 couples from around the world.
We had a great conversation about how to create a deeper more lasting relationship with your wife and how you should be continuing to date her, even if you've been together for a long time.
Managing money as a couple can be tricky especially with many elements in play — we’re talking two different views on money, upbringings, experiences, and goals.
How do you make it make sense — and cents for the both of you as you move forward?
In this episode, we are graced with the presence of Amy Scott, Certified Professional Financial Coach™, Speaker, Budget Expert to discuss the importance of navigating through your finances as early as possible and the different ways to approach it as a couple in order to build your relationship and not burn it.
Amy lays the groundwork on how you can see eye to eye with your partner and gain clarity with your finances by letting us in on the 3 different ways you can classify your expenses and a number of doable strategies to successfully manage debt.
In this episode we talk about:
- Having the money talk with your partner and identify the issues before setting goals
- Connecting your everyday financial choices with your long-term goals
- Recognizing differences, experiences, and expectations around money with your partner
- How you can classify your expenses for better budgeting
- Effective ways to get out of debt
How do you raise an empowered daughter? And as dads, how can we do that as they’re growing up?
Executive career coach, author, and international speaker, Ashlee Klevens Hayes, grew up hearing her dad say, “go out, do something, get your feet wet.” That might not be the first thing that pops into your head when you’re thinking about how to raise powerful daughters, but he was right.
Ashlee reveals in our conversation the tools and lessons she has picked up along the way from her mentors and her dad’s lasting legacy, as preserved and shared in her latest book — From establishing a deep connection with your daughter/s to also empowering them to develop into strong, confident women, who pursue their passions and find their voice.
In this episode we talk about:
- Empowering your daughter — Foundational vs. Superficial Expectations
- Investing in yourself as a parent to create the space and energy for your priorities
- Modeling healthy behaviors and habits for your kids
- Planting seeds of trust in your daughter’s heart to establish a thriving Father-Daughter relationship
- How you can develop and create a radical impact in your daughter’s lives that’ll help them be confident, bold, brave, and assertive
Between career and family, how do you choose? Should you have to choose one over another?
After spending over 6 years of his life living as a corporate salaryman, husband, father, and later CEO, and Co-founder of the Marketplace Edge, Steven Pemberton, took a leap right in the middle of the pandemic and quit his corporate 9-5 job to pursue a life and a career built on intentionality.
To achieve this ‘balanced life’ that we all strive for whether you’re an employee or an entrepreneur, Steven shares how the concept of work-life integration has helped him live a life that has time for work, family, and all the things that exist outside of work that make you feel alive.
In this episode we talk about:
- Working through a joyful and lasting marriage
- Positioning yourself to look inward as you jump in with both feet
- Showing up intentionally and lovingly in difficult situations
- Serving as consistent and evolving role models for your kids
- How you can promote work-life integration around your relationships
He is also on a mission to give a better Christmas to 100 kids. You can help him out here: https://actintl.givingfuel.com/impact-christmas
As men and as dads, we unknowingly hold onto a broad spectrum of beliefs that limit us and rob us of our potential — some stem from the way we were brought up, outside influences or our personal experiences.
We’re joined by Marine veteran speaker, and coach, Ben Killoy to talk about how these limiting beliefs tie back to our careers, independence, families and the relationship we’re building with our kids.
Ben shares the positive impact of a simple hello in his life leading him to being at home within himself and leading his family towards a purpose-driven reality.
In this episode we talk about:
- Giving yourself the full permission to just be instead of seeking outside validation
- How allowing yourself to see more views gives you depth
- The importance of connecting to yourself from the inside and how to do just that
- Living a bigger dream and letting it pull you (instead of being dragged by what you don’t have)
We’ve all heard the adults in our life say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”. But as kids at that time, how many of us found real financial value in repeatedly hearing that?
Fast forward to living our lives as ‘the adults’, how can we teach financial wisdom to our children in a practical way that not only sticks with them but benefits their whole lives?
Successful entrepreneur, financial advisor, marketing director, real estate investor and epic dad David Delisle, takes us on his journey to instilling valuable financial lessons to his kids by helping them kick-start habits and mindsets that will last a lifetime.
David’s insights into good financial behavior backed with the intentionality and mindfulness behind it are truly unique as he busts some myths, explaining their model and telling his first hand experiences around it.
In this episode we talk about:
- Introspecting what a rich life is for you
- Finding your ‘awesome stuff’ and getting joy out of it
- Recognizing the transformative power of small, steady changes in our daily routines
- Why it’s important for you to teach decision making skills now and how it makes a difference in your kids’ lives
In Episode 41 I’m talking with Mike Cameron.
Mike is a passionate father, entrepreneur, speaker, and writer, a big proponent of lifelong learning, and always believes that there is something to be taken away from every experience he enjoys writing and sharing ideas and inspiring others to find the best in themselves.
Mike’s talking with us about his success in business and the life events that led him to question everything. Join us as we talk about how emotional connection can help you be an epic Dad and live an epic life.
In this episode we talk about:
- Questioning societal norms of being the “provider” and connecting with what your kids really need
- The identities we wrap ourselves in (and how that can hurt or help us)
- How healing your traumas can help your kids
- Emotional fitness and the life-changing impact of community
Plus, Mike’s sharing his top advice for every dad.
Tim Mousseau is a survivor of sexual violence turned educator and advocate on this critical topic. At the age of 22, Tim faced an incident of sexual assault. Coming to terms with his experience, Tim recognized how it left him feeling powerless and ashamed. He vowed no one else should ever feel the same way.
A researcher at heart, Tim began to study how to help prevent violence. His work led him to interview and collect data from men to better understand the traumas we face, how we can effectively speak up about our past experiences, and our responsibilities in using our male identities to better care for the people around us.
For the last nine years, Tim has spoken with over 400 organizations, including Congressional offices, professional athletic teams, and Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.
This week is a replay of a live stream that I did a couple weeks ago highlighting a few books that have really influenced me in the last 5 years. go to https://epicdadpodcast.com to download a resource guide with these and many more book and podcast suggestions to help you become a better father, husband and overall epic human being.
Stanley Dankoski is a dad to a 9-year-old daughter who just yesterday said she thought he was the most creative person in the world. They like building LEGO robots and coding with EV3, creating dollhouses and other artsy things out of cardboard boxes, going for hikes up a nearby mountain, planning their annual camping trip, and watching Star Trek while eating dinner. Stanley also channels such creativity into his work, helping heart-centered and purpose-driven nonfiction authors embrace their inner truth and get their book out into the world.
In each new stage, our kids have new experiences and face new challenges. And as parents, it can sometimes feel as though just as soon as we think we have this whole parenting thing figured out, everything changes.
In our family, we're in the early stages of the teen years. And while I think my kids are pretty amazing, I also want to make sure I'm doing everything I can to support them through this sometimes challenging stage of life.
So in episode 37 of The Epic Dad podcast, I'm talking with Richard Capriola about teen mental health and substance abuse.
Listen in as we talk about:
- what warning signs to look for in your teen or pre-teen
- how to start the conversation with your child (if you're concerned there is an issue)
- the next steps to take if your child is having mental health problems or a substance abuse problem
And more.
Whether your child is in the teen years or that's several years now, listen in to episode 37 for valuable ideas on how to best support your child.
Even though my oldest just started high school, our family has been talking a lot more about college lately.
Suddenly those "someday" plans don't seem so far off.
And, as is everything with our firstborn, this is new territory. Even though my wife and I both went to college, a lot has changed since then and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to set our kids up for success.
And this is why I was so excited to talk with this week's podcast guest, Emma Perez. Emma is a mentor who specializes in helping teens and young adults craft who they want to be and how they will impact the world.
Listen to episode 36 as we talk about:
- Questions to ask to help your teen clarify what they want to do
- The pros and cons of taking a gap year
- Various ways to save for college (and how to avoid surprise expenses)
And more!
Whether you have a teen or simply like to plan ahead, episode 36 is full of practical tips that can help you (and your teen) start planning today.
This week I'm talking with Dan Faill, an accomplished storyteller and international speaker.
Dan shares personal stories that engage and inspire us to be our authentic selves and be brave enough to have the conversations that matter.
Listen in as we talk about:
- Dan's experience with divorce and co-parenting
- The questions to ask when a friend is going through a hard time (and you don't know what to say or do)
- how vulnerability can actually be one of our greatest strengths
- what negative coping mechanisms are and how they might be holding you back
In this short episode, I talk about the most important things that I have learned from my dad over the years.
Today, I am talking with Purdeep Sangha
Purdeep is widely known as the strategist for businessmen and teaches men how to become the complete man.
His personal mission is to help men grow their businesses. Massively increase the personal fulfillment in life and improve their relationships with their wife and kids.
He is the founder behind the movement of men becoming mindful alpha males. Men who experienced complete victory and an award-winning author, entrepreneur speaker, podcaster business adviser.
After studying and working with some of the most successful men around the globe. Purdeep shows men the neuroscience behind becoming limitless.
In this episode we talk about
- Balancing a successful business with a happy family
- How talking about everything as a family is a good thing and can help
- Purdeep’s book The Complete Man
- The importance of knowing who you are, and how it can more align you with your goal.
- The importance of having communication with your kids about values and family goals
- The benefits of asking for help in your life and business.
Nate Klemp, PhD,is a husband and girl dad of one.
He is a co-author of the newly released book, The 80/80 Marriage: A new model for a happier, stronger marriage.
He is also a co-author alongside Eric Langshur, of the New York Times Bestseller Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing.
He is the founding partner of Mindful one of the world's largest mindfulness media and training companies.
Nate holds a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD from Princeton University.
In this episode, we talk about :
- How Nate's marriage brought the idea of writing the 80/80 book
- The 50/50 model of fairness in marriage and why it doesn't work for a happier and stronger marriage
- Nate explains the 80/80 and how it works better for couples.
- The importance of making chores list based on who enjoys doing the most
- How the 80/80 helps save room for purpose, interests and career to avoid feeling lost in marriage and life in general.
- Why we should model mindful things in front of our kids, as they are always watching.
My guest today is Armond Croom.
Armond is a husband, girl dad of 3, and U.S. Navy veteran.
He has always been a number’s guy; he graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science in finance.
Armond has been a trusted financial advisor for over 15 years and is the founder and CEO of Croom Financial and The Financial Effect blog.
But, in the early years of his career as a financial advisor, something was amiss—he felt like a fraud. Why? Armond was $30,000 in debt and by his calculations, he was going to owe the IRS another $30,000 at the end of that year. YIKES!
Armond decided to take charge of his life and his finances. In less than a year, he was the first success story of The Financial Effect budgeting system.
Armond is committed to helping people live their best lives. He believes that by using money as a tool families can change their financial future, just like he did.
Matthew P. Hoffman is a national speaker and author of Kickass Husband: Winning at Life, Marriage & Sex.
As the founder and co-developer of the Kickass Quotient, the Kickass Couples Podcast, and his live event series, he thrives on teaching spouses how to develop their #1 relationship.
His wife, Kimberly, is the first to vouch that he is, indeed, a kickass husband who leads men from selfishness and unfulfillment to satisfaction and love in their marriages.
On the episode today is Dr. Cameron Caswell, PhD, the “teen translator,” is an adolescent psychologist and family success coach who specializes in helping parents build strong, positive relationships with their teens through improved communication, connection, and understanding using her PRIME Parenting Method.
Since publishing her book, Power Phrases for Parents: Teen Edition, in 2015, Dr. Cam has been speaking about adolescent development and parent education at local schools, national organizations, on television, podcasts, and NPR.
Dr. Cam also hosts the Parenting Teens with Dr. Cam podcast and Parenting Teens Power Hour. She’s also created a series of online parenting courses including, “How to Have a Peaceful, Positive Relationship with Your Teen.”
On the podcast today, I have my very first repeat guest, Dezi Abeyta.
Dezi is a registered dietician, author and High Performance Mentor who empowers his clients to create habits for purpose and success.
He's my coach and has been helping me a ton, not only with my fitness goals that I've been reaching for this year, but a lot of the whole mindset and fulfillment piece of life as well.
On the show today we have Rob Yates. He is a loving father of 2 and has worked in the outdoor industry since the age of 16.
Rob currently coaches outdoor business owners who want to build their business. He set up the We Get Outdoors Affiliate Business Program, which enables outdoor lovers to start their own outdoor business. He is on a never-ending quest to research how he can maximize his potential and enhance the lives of others. And as such, he has developed the idea of the Dad and Kid Yard Adventure Pack as a way of combining his 2 loves, his kids and the outdoors.
This week, I talk about how we shouldn't be the hero and show ourselves as perfect to our children and what I believe is a better character to play.
My guest today is Ben Winter.
Ben certainly hasn’t been idle in life. A couple of years out of college and he started doing things and going places he never would have expected. From traveling to personal growth to
marriage and child to divorce and parenthood to entrepreneurialism and inspiring others. Ben has flown an airplane on his own and has been scuba diving in the Galapagos.
He has seen the animals of Tanzania and has traveled all over Europe with a 6-month-old child in tow. He has performed improv for over a decade, acted in several plays, and even a
movie. He has owned several businesses.
His biggest passion is exploring the mind. In all of his personal growth work, the one constant was that it all stems from the mind. Between personal growth and improv, he found this weird
realm called expectations. And while most people would shy away from such a thing, he decided to tackle it head-on. Along his journey, he decided that “the only reason anyone gets upset is because an expectation hasn’t been met.” And begin teaching that in his Success Improv business.
From there, he noticed that there has to be a way to use that upset feeling to fix the situation. And he created the amazing “How to stop being upset” flow chart.
From there it was a simple step of taking everything that he has explored on the subject and put it in a book called, “What to Expect when Having Expectations.”
In this week's episode, I talk about what I did to finally get out of my rut and make steps to be the husband, father and man that I want to be.
I teach you how to create the identity that you want in yourself.
My guest today is Guy Welsh
Guy played Baseball for the Seattle Mariners before joining the finance industry in 2012. He served as a member of the management team in New York Life Insurance company, before taking his passion and commitment to helping others, to the individuals and businesses of Tuscan.
In this episode we talk about
- How Guy got started in finance from professional ball
- Life insurance and the benefits of having it
- Retirement or 401k( how it’s unique for every family)
- Strategies to build up your emergency fund
- College savings for your children (plus Guy’s idea that you might want to steal)
- The terrible financial advice that Guy thinks you should ignore
This week is a little different. Today, I talk about how the last year effected my life and how I decided that things needed a big change in my life. I also talk about some changes that are coming to the podcast. Join me, won't you?
On the podcast this week, we have the co-hosts of the top marriage podcast in iTunes, the ONE Extraordinary Marriage show, Tony and Alisa DiLorenzo. On which, they speak to a worldwide audience about sex, love & commitment, and challenge every listener to make their relationship a priority. For the last 10 years they have equipped couples with the tools and strategies they need to create their own extraordinary marriage. Whether you attend their ONE Marriage Conference, become a member of their Position of the Month Club or simply listen to the show, your marriage will be transformed through their combination of tough love, practical application, and humor. When it comes to marriage, no topic is off limits.
On the podcast today, we have Liz Frazier. Liz is the author of "Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands: How To Teach Young Kids About Finance" and a Certified Financial Planner specializing in financial planning for families and working professionals. Her goal is to educate and alleviate the anxiety that surrounds finances and provide simple advice for all of life's stages and changes.
She is also a regular finance contributor on Forbes.com, and has been featured in national media such as People.com, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, PBS, HerMoney, Bustle and more.
My guest today, Dr. Anthony Balduzzi, is a Naturopathic Physician and the creator of the Fit Father Project which is dedicated to helping busy fathers lose weight and build muscle to stay healthy for their families. He believes health is the foundation to enjoy a long healthy life, have a body that makes you feel confident and proud, and stay healthy to see your kids and grandkids grow up.
For this week, I had a great conversation with Chris and Holly Santillo about how to raise resilient kids.
Joining me for this weeks episode is Casey Caston founder of Marriage365 and a leading marriage expert, though he admits that he has to work everyday to take his own advice.
Marriage365 started 7 years ago with a goal of producing tools for couples to connect in their relationship, they’ve self published a question book which has sold over 50,000 copies, created online courses, Casey has a husbands course, and have a subscription service that gives access to all of their content with over 25,000 couples from around the world.
We had a great conversation about how to create a deeper more lasting relationship with your wife and how you should be continuing to date her, even if you've been together for a long time.
In this week's episode, I have a great conversation with my amazing wife, Becky McCleery. Becky has battled depression in one degree or another ever since our oldest daughter was born over 13 years ago. We talk about how life is for her, and how we have come together as a team to cope with the illness.
On the podcast today, I am really excited to introduce you to husband, father of 4, author, podcaster and founder of the Daddy Saturday Foundation, whose goal is equip father with the knowledge and tools to raise good kids who become great adults and end the fatherlessness epidemic.
Our guest this week is a husband and father, who also happens to be the founder of FrontRowDads.com and host of the Front Row Dads podcast.
On the podcast today, we have a husband, father of 2, entrepreneur, coach and consultant, podcaster and now author whose book, Lifestyle Builders: Build Your Business, Quit Your Job and Live Your Ideal Life is available now.
This week, we talk to Natasha Daniels, a child therapist specializing in anxiety and OCD.
Dezi Abeyta joins us to talk about the importance of modeling good nutrition and healthy relationships with food.
Today's episode features my first guest. Speaker, coach and mentor Sean Donohue joins us to talk about how we can create better relationships with our teens and tweens.
One of the biggest things that keeps us from moving toward postive change in our life or taking action on the goals that we have given ourselves, is the fear of failling. In this episode, I discuss failure, how to make yourself more accepting and less afraid of failing.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/support
Is the identity that you have created for yourself keeping you from realizing your goals?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/support
Welcome!In this brief episode, I give you some motivation to start moving in the direction of your dreams.Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode and if you’re not subscribed there’s a good chance you’ll miss out on those.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/support
Welcome!In the inaugural episode of the Epic Dad Podcast, I introduce myself and what this podcast is all about. Take a look at the show notes for time stamps and listen to the podcast on the below player, or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.:45 Welcome and quick intro1:35 How often the podcast will come out and what to expect as far as format and content.2:10 Who am I and why I wanted to create the Epic Dad Podcast.3:50 Who is this for?Subscribe & ReviewAre you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode and if you’re not subscribed there’s a good chance you’ll miss out on those.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/epic-dad/support