It's a pleasure to have you. It's a treat to be on your own podcast. I never thought I'd be sitting across from you.

We have a very special guest today on the Tony Robbins podcast. Oh my gosh, I feel really privileged to be on this podcast.

The two of you especially listen, I know it's a father's day podcast and I know you guys are going to do the bulk of this because I guess that's what you promised to do Mother's Day, right?

We did indeed. And I'm not one. Yes, thank you. And on that podcast, we actually committed to it just felt in balance to only do one perspective.

And so thank you for joining us because we wanted to get from your eyes and your perspective. Obviously we're not fathers.

Yeah, but you both have amazing fathers. Obviously some present still some present from a distance on the other side in Mary's case, but both your fathers have had a big impact on me as well.

And just getting a sense, Tony, like what does it mean to you to be a father?

And can you speak on the father principle that's really alive in all of us as an attribute?

Well, I think the father's job is one of the most important jobs on earth other than others, probably.

I think it's unique. Everyone has their own idea of what that looks like. I think the most important thing if you're listening and father's day, first of all happy fathers day, no, the father's out there.

I send you all my love because I know what that means and I know we've all been shaped to some extent. And some people have been shaped because the father relationship was not a great one.

Some people barely know their father. Some people have very harsh relationships with others. Some have very loving relationships. So some are close, some are distance.

And I don't pretend to be an expert, but I do have the great privilege and blessing of being a father to five and a grandfather to five.

So at least I have some experience on the job and at different stages of my life, too, where I got several of my children all once.

I just have a unique experience of life. But I think, you know, the father role as far as I'm concerned is, it has two sides to it.

You know, there's anyone can be a parent, anyone can have a child.

But I think there's a difference between being a father and even being a dad to me in my world.

A dad is a really beautiful and fun experience. You know, a dad can, you can be the friend to your kids, but I think a father or someone who loves their child so much that you're willing to risk losing their love in the short term in order to serve them.

And so I look at father to me as a position of love and strength, like absolute unconditional love beyond imagination so that they know that no matter what happens in their life, you're always in their corner.

But a strength to call to the higher part of any stage of a child's life, even I'm discovering now, even the toddler stage, you know, so that their life actually manifests into something that they're proud of and magnificent.

It doesn't mean putting your approach to life or your, you know, tattoo on your child, because I don't think that's what a father does.

I think a father is someone who's acutely aware of that each child has different gifts and each child needs a different kind of support and each child needs a different kind of challenge.

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