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The Daily Dad

Daily Dad and Volleyball Legend Gabrielle Reece on How Family Gives Us Meaning

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Dads, Society & Culture, Education, Parenting, Wisdom, Ryan Holiday, Kids & Family, Relationships, Fatherhood, Self-improvement

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ryan speaks to Gabrielle Reece about how family gives us meaning, the stillness that is required to accurately observe ourselves, how to properly maintain healthy relationships and find enough for yourself, and more. 

Gabrielle Reece is a professional volleyball player and author of the New York Times bestseller My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper. She is also an executive member of Laird Superfood and is also the host of the Gabby Reece Show.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring you a daily meditation of the best parenting wisdom you can find drawing on history and philosophy and psychology and literature to inspire you to be a little bit better at the most important job you have.

0:22.5

And then on the weekends, I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow dad,

0:27.3

and writing partner, Niels Parker.

0:29.0

We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're struggling with as parents,

0:32.8

what we're doing well, what we want to do better, and what we've learned along the way,

0:36.9

and what we've learned in the way and what we've learned in

0:37.8

the last week.

0:39.2

So let's go.

0:45.5

One of the weird rituals I've told you about in my life is I walk every morning with my kids

0:50.1

all the way to the end of the dirt road that we live on.

0:55.9

We open the mail. We just got these new sort of steel mailboxes. And you use your key. You open your mailbox and then I'm another key.

1:00.1

That's where your packages are. My kids are always so excited whenever I get a package.

1:04.7

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