Talking About Taylor Swift Turned Into a Parenting Lesson | Ryan and Sam Holiday
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Swift, book deadlines, and parenting—this episode covers it all. Ryan and Sam dive into the pressure to keep producing, the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and how their kids have turned Ryan’s public recognition into a game.
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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 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. |
| 0:49.0 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:54.1 | One of my favorite stories about Marcus Aurelius is him going off to learn from a philosopher. |
| 0:59.3 | Someone asks him why he's taking up his tablets and still going to school. And he says, |
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| 1:08.4 | To me, that's the question. Who are you learning from? How are you |
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