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.

They must have this strength. It's hard because it seems weak. It's hard because it involves other people.

It's hard because it means admitting ignorance or failure or fear. And yet it's also easy and strong

and the only way to get better. What we're talking about is the powerful act of asking for help.

Giving our kids this power, normalizing, encouraging it, this is one of the greatest gifts we can give them.

How do we do it? By modeling it. First, by acknowledging where we are falling short, where we are

struggling, what we're afraid of, and then verbalizing those things. Second, by acknowledging where we are falling short, where we are struggling, what we're afraid of,

and then verbalizing those things.

Second, by seeking out help, comfort, advice, counsel.

Let them see you ask for questions.

Let them see you going to therapy or hiring a coach.

Let them see you follow the prescriptions of experts.

Let them see you grow and change and be improved for having done so.

Hey, it's Ryan. If your childhood was anything like mine growing up, you ate all sorts of horrible

processed food with processed sugar and all sorts of things you shouldn't have been having.

Even the vitamins, like the Flintstone vitamins

that I would have as a kid, I would never give those to my kids. I'd never take them now. As a parent,

I'm super cautious about what I give my kids. So every day, my son and I both take a ritual

multivitamin. Ritual is clean, vegan-friendly multivitamin is formulated with high-quality

nutrients in bioavailable forms your body can actually use. A multivitamin is formulated with high-quality nutrients in bio-available forms your body

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