Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Other people have trouble, too. It's been a struggle, hasn't it? Managing work and family, family in life.

You haven't always gotten it right. In fact, you've probably screwed up, made the wrong call, had the wrong priorities, more times than you'd like to admit.

So it makes sense that you don't spend that much time thinking about helping other people get it right.

But you should because the people you work with or for or the people who work for you,

they also have a life outside work.

Like you, they are a mother or a father or a son or a daughter.

Like you, they have kids in relationships and struggle to balance them all.

The legendary NBA coach Greg Popovich is a hard-driving boss, but he does his best to try

to help the people who work for and with him.

His assistant coach Mike Brown tells the story of when he was going through a separation.

His two sons lived with their mom in Colorado, but were visiting him in San Antonio for a week.

Brown took them to the airport before he had to catch his own flight for an away game with the

spurs. His boys were crying and begging him not to make them get on the plane to be able to stay with

their dad. Brown called Popovich to tell them he was having trouble and asked him to hold the team

plane for a few minutes. Pop told Brown to stay with his kids. No, no, no, no, no, Brown said the kids will be fine. If you show up on this plane, Pop told them, you're fired. Come on, man, Brown said, I'm going to be there. Remember, Popovich said, if I see you on this plane, you're fired. Click.

Popp hung up on his assistant.

Brown and his boys missed their flights and spent three more days together.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to have someone do that for you?

Maybe not.

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