The Father’s Day Message You Didn’t Know You Needed | General McChrystal
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, General Stanley McChrystal sits down with Ryan for a special Father’s Day reminder that you won’t want to miss. General McChrystal shares personal stories from his own parenting journey, lessons that changed his perspective as a father, and what he admires most about his son.
General Stanley McChrystal is a retired U.S. Army general best known for leading Joint Special Operations Command in the mid-2000s. In 2011, he founded the McChrystal Group, a leadership consultancy that helps senior executives navigate complex change and build stronger teams. His new book, On Character, offers a blueprint for living with purpose and integrity—challenging us to examine not just what we do, but who we become in the process.
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On Character by General McChrystal
Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves
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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. I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:53.9 | We just had some friends over at the bookstore that go to school with my son. |
| 0:58.3 | And as they were leaving, I said, oh, wait, wait, wait, I have something for you. |
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| 2:13.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 2:14.1 | Welcome to another weekend episode of The Daily Dad Podcast. So my wife was out of town. I guess it was last weekend. And a friend of mine who I went to high school with was going to be in town. He was staying at Lost Pines, which is this hotel out in Bastrop County. It's this sort of beautiful resort thing right on the river. It's where we go for like Easter and Mother's Day, stuff like that. |
| 2:36.5 | Anyways, my friend was going to be staying there, so I was like, you know what? I don't want to cook. |
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