Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive

at how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes,

I talk to bestselling authors and elite performers and other guests. But lately, I've also been

having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two boys. And we do it over

in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. And she and I talk about things that we're working on

as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting each other,

challenging each other, and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.

Guest or not, I hope you'll hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.

I was better for having the conversation.

I hope you enjoy.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday.

Welcome to another weekend episode of The Daily Dad podcast.

Samantha and I need to get in the studio and do some recording here soon.

But I just got back from a trip.

I was in San Diego and Las Vegas over the weekend.

I gave two talks.

Then actually I was in Dallas the next day.

Anyways, this little thing came up.

And I thought I would tell that story because there

was a parenting lesson in it for me as someone who has young kids. I was glad to talk to

someone who had older kids. The man's son was about my age. It gave me something really to think

about. So a little bit of context. So I travel a lot. Usually when I'm doing these talks,

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