How to celebrate the ups —and downs— of family life(with Glen Henry)
How to Be a Better Human
TED
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Families can be the cause of both great happiness and deep struggle. In today’s episode, Glen shares how he uses humor and empathy to redefine fatherhood, equip parents, and inspire children. Glen Henry is a musician, writer, and content creator, who believes documenting and sharing the ups --and downs-- of family life can help everyone feel less alone. In 2015, Glen created the YouTube channel Beleaf In Fatherhood where he welcomes viewers into his home to show the misadventures of parenting. He shares four children with his wife of ten years, Yvette Henry. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to How to Be a Better Human. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Chris Duffy. |
| 0:11.0 | I am really excited for today's guest I'm always excited but I'm particularly |
| 0:15.5 | excited for today because I find this guy's work to be so inspiring I'm always trying |
| 0:20.5 | my hardest to push back on these ideas about what a guy is supposed to be, |
| 0:24.3 | what a man is supposed to be. |
| 0:25.4 | I just find them so regressive and they don't make sense to me. |
| 0:29.3 | And I love that today's guest, Glenn Henry, he's built this massive following online by undercutting those ideas. |
| 0:36.3 | Glenn makes videos that show him joyfully, lovingly, and emotionally raising his kids. |
| 0:41.2 | He's on a mission to redefine fatherhood and he uses humor and |
| 0:45.2 | empathy to do it and he's also just really cool. I don't know how else to say it he's a |
| 0:49.3 | cool guy. So in today's show as you can, we are obviously going to have lots of useful |
| 0:55.1 | information for those of you who are currently parents. |
| 0:58.5 | But if like me, you're not currently a parent, it's just something that you would like to have down the road, well, we've got lots for you too. |
| 1:06.0 | And if you have no interest in kids or no interest in being a parent whatsoever, don't worry, we also have something for you too. |
| 1:13.4 | I bet you didn't expect that. |
| 1:14.4 | But Glenn has some behind the scenes looks |
| 1:16.9 | at how he shoots his video and how he thinks |
| 1:19.6 | about framing his work as a YouTube influencer. |
| 1:22.4 | There's something for everybody here. To get started, |
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