Every Question Is an Invitation — Accept It | Ryan Holiday
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A seemingly simple question about Godzilla sparked an engaging conversation between Ryan and his son. Ryan shares how he approached explaining complex concepts in a way that his son can understand and the importance of seizing moments to connect and explore complicated ideas together.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive |
| 0:08.4 | and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes, |
| 0:13.9 | I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also |
| 0:18.5 | been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two |
| 0:22.6 | boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things |
| 0:29.0 | that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting |
| 0:35.8 | each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get |
| 0:40.3 | better at what we do. |
| 0:41.6 | Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent. |
| 0:47.2 | I was better for having the conversation. |
| 0:48.9 | I hope you enjoy. |
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