TODAY Presents: The Parent Chat with Dylan Dreyer – Ashley Graham

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Hey Making Space fans! As a bonus, we’re giving you a special preview clip of our new podcast series, The Parent Chat with Dylan Dreyer. In this episode, Dylan sits down with model and entrepreneur Ashley Graham for an honest, hilarious conversation about what it's really like to raise three boys. Both boy moms get honest about the everyday chaos and the real work behind raising kind, emotionally intelligent men. From teaching manners and talking through big feelings, to modeling the behavior they want to see in the world, these two are thinking about the long game. Because at the end of the day, the goal isn't just surviving the chaos — it's changing the next generation. To listen to the full conversation now, just search ‘The Parent Chat with Dylan Dreyer’ wherever you’re listening. Follow now for new episodes every Thursday. https://swap.fm/l/tpwddfdew

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Dylan Dreyer from the Today Show. Excuse my voice today. Spring allergies are in full swing and I am feeling it. But I am so excited to let you hear a little bit of my new podcast, The Parent Chat. It's a judgment-free zone where I get to talk with other parents and friends about the wild, wonderful and messy world of parenting. You're about to hear the first few minutes of my conversation with Ashley Graham on being
0:23.1	boy moms.
0:24.1	I hope you enjoy it.
0:26.2	Hi, Ashley.
0:27.3	Hi.
0:27.9	Thank you so much for talking boy moms stuff because it's so nice to relate to another boy mom.
0:34.4	You have three.
0:35.0	Three, and you have three.
0:36.1	And I have three.
0:36.8	And I don't meet many people that have three. Three, and you have three. And I have three. And I don't meet many people
0:38.6	that have three boys living in their house. Don't she feel pretty like badass having three boys?
0:44.0	Yes, I do. I feel like I have like, I'm going to have like my own security guards pretty soon.
0:49.2	And then like I walk through like the queen. There's like a hair blow moment. That moment's coming.
0:55.0	I need to train them. I need to start working now.
0:57.0	I am training them to be the perfect men.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	Do you notice? Do you think about that?
1:03.0	So we are working on manners.
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	And like opening the door for mom or grandma or like, you know, making sure people that are older than you are going ahead or whatever.
1:11.3	But then my biggest goal is one that I did was I said thank you to my mother-in-law.
1:17.0	It was like totally like out of nowhere.
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