Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive

and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes,

I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also

been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two

boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things

that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting

each other, challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.

Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.

I was better for having the conversation.

I hope you enjoy.

People ask me what it's like living with a stoic and what's your go-to line on that.

Well, I think when they ask you, you sometimes say, I don't know.

I just, what would that be like?

I think it's like nice.

You talk about this.

You are writing the books basically for yourself.

So you do the research. You're gathering things. They're forming. It's like you doing like deep work on these like things for yourself. That's always been the foundation of. Yeah, I'm not writing as like a 95 year

old monk that's practiced this for my entire existence, and I've mastered it.

I will say the biggest benefit to me about your interest in stoicism and your focusing, making it your life work has been able to use it against you.

I was just going to finish that sentence for you, which is such a nice

sentiment for you to express. Yes, you say things like, hey, Ryan, have you heard of this thing called

Stoicism? Or we had that Daily Dad thing about, I wrote a very good email for my own self

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