Glen Henry on Parenting, Identity & Breaking Generational Cycles
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ep572. Renee is joined by Glen Henry (Author of Father Yourself First) for a great conversation about parenting, identity, and the long road of becoming yourself while raising kids. Glen discusses his own upbringing, the lessons he’s had to unlearn, and how those experiences have shaped the way he shows up as a parent today. They talk about emotional availability, breaking generational patterns, and the discomfort that often comes with doing things differently than how you were raised. it's about learning in real time, giving yourself grace, and recognizing that growth — for parents and kids alike — isn’t linear.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:14.3 | Glenn, welcome to the mom room. |
| 0:16.7 | Thank you so much, Renee. |
| 0:18.1 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:19.3 | Appreciate you. |
| 0:20.3 | I just want to make note that he has a professional microphone, and I was so delighted when he popped up on the screen because this is a treat for me. |
| 0:29.9 | Thank you. I was a musician for a long time, and I still make music. So I've collected a bunch of microphones over the years. |
| 0:36.5 | You have all the equipment. Yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Sometimes people pop on and they're like in their car on their phone. I'm like, oh no. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. I've been that guy before, you know, younger kids, different situation. Now I'm your |
| 0:49.3 | schedule. You're on the schedule. My assistant plugged it in. I was ready to go. I got lotion |
| 0:53.1 | on. I'm good. You're good to go. I got lotion on. I'm good. You're good. You're good to go. |
| 0:56.1 | So my first question, I'm so curious how you got started as a content creator and, you know, |
| 1:03.1 | building this massive following, especially on YouTube. And then obviously your journey from that into writing a book. |
| 1:13.3 | Like what did that look like for you? |
| 1:14.9 | Did you ever anticipate years ago that you would be doing this? |
| 1:18.2 | Oh, it was a plan. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | Really? |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.4 | Really? |
| 1:22.4 | Yes, a plan. |
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