Becoming the Father You Needed with Glen Henry
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
I sit down with Glen Henry, creator of Belief in Fatherhood and author of Father Yourself First, to talk about the real work of becoming a better man and father. We dive into the challenges modern dads face—balancing ambition, healing our own wounds, and showing up with patience and presence.
Glen shares raw insights on building relational equity, repairing trust, and learning to father yourself before fathering others. This one’s a heartfelt and honest look at fatherhood that every man needs to hear.
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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 – The biggest challenges fathers face
02:40 – The crisis of absent fathers
05:00 – Mentorship and the power of guides
08:20 – Storytelling and fatherhood in Black culture
12:00 – Entering fatherhood with fear and purpose
17:20 – Accepting your child’s invitations
22:00 – Learning patience and self-compassion
28:40 – Healing, failure, and forgiveness
31:40 – What it means to father yourself
38:20 – The power of proof and mentorship
43:30 – Adventure, play, and connection
49:10 – Managing ambition and presence
56:40 – Rebuilding trust with your kids
01:00:25 – Understanding relational equity
01:02:20 – Glen’s message for fathers everywhere
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Mr. Glenn Henry, how are you doing today, my friend? |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm fantastic, man. How are you? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm good. Yeah, I'm very, very good, man. I'm very good. I'm excited to have this conversation |
| 0:16.6 | with you and jump in. Let's just start with, I like starting with broad questions and then narrowing down |
| 0:23.6 | into some more of the minutia, some more of the meat and potatoes of it. |
| 0:28.6 | But what do you think are the biggest challenges facing fathers in today's culture? |
| 0:35.2 | Oof. |
| 0:36.5 | I think there's a lot. |
| 0:38.3 | I think there is, |
| 0:40.4 | there's a lot of pressure to be perfect and not make a mistake. |
| 0:47.1 | I think there is, you know, being too rough on kids. |
| 0:57.4 | I think that is another like meta message that we've received. |
| 1:04.0 | And I also think there's another part of us not knowing when to be gentle. |
| 1:11.7 | Knowing what, you know, knowing when the coaching season is over and the cheerleading season starts. |
| 1:17.2 | Because when you can't control your kid and they start doing what they want to do, |
| 1:19.5 | we kind of have like an identity crisis. |
| 1:30.2 | And then there's like another thing that we're facing as far as like apologizing when we get it wrong and then committing to getting it right, |
| 1:36.1 | you know, uh, and doing the work to get it right. So there's a lot, man. It, and it depends on what stage of father you're in, you know. Do you think that culturally fathers have been |
| 1:42.5 | devalued? Do you think that it's harder to be a dad today than it's been before? |
| 1:47.8 | Like, how do you look at that? |
| 1:50.1 | So I think it depends on what culture you're from. I think black culture, you know, there's almost like a badge of honor when you struggle. |
| 1:59.6 | You know what I'm saying? So there's like almost like a, yo, yeah, now I need them. |
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