Today I’m releasing the best of Startup Dad from 2024! Across over 50 hours of conversations, hundreds of topics, and approaching 100 Dads (and Moms) I’ve covered a lot. In this episode you’ll hear from dozens of executives and founders like Scott Belsky of Adobe, Immad Akhund from Mercury, Siqi Chen from Runway, Chris Miller from Hubspot, Lane Shackleton from Coda and Adam Nash from Daffy. You’ll also hear best-selling authors and experts like Sean Ellis, Nir Eyal, Linda Flanagan and “Dad Brain” expert Darby Saxby alongside some lesser-known founders and solopreneurs who are making it work or sometimes just barely surviving.

The goal of Startup Dad has always been to learn something new about parenting and to normalize hearing more successful male leaders talk about their families—the struggles and the successes.

In this episode highlights include:

* The role of technology and artificial intelligence in our kids’ lives

* The importance of modeling the right behavior and how to recover when you don’t

* How to partner successfully with your significant other

* How we approach our own aging parents

* Navigating cultural differences inside your own family

* Building companies while raising kids

* How to approach paternity leave as a startup founder

* Defining and creating quality time

* Whether work/life balance is possible, a myth, or should be re-thought entirely

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In this episode, we cover:

[1:49] AI/Tech & parenting

[7:56] Talking to kids about over-reliance on AI?

[8:57] What's the most interesting thing that one of your kids has done with ChatGPT?

[19:46] Tech parents limiting kid’s access to tech

[21:53] Modeling behavior

[33:15] Adult children & relationships

[41:18] Aligned & disaligned w/ partner in parenting

[55:45] Raising families with cultural differences

[1:09:25] Parenting & Startups

[1:28:52] Paternity leave as a startup founder

[1:30:23] Partnership

[1:52:33] Healthy habits & kids

[2:01:39] Being present

[02:23:39] Cooking as a Dad

[02:27:39] Difficult times/adversity

[02:49:50] Frameworks

[3:20:10] Nurturing kid’s growth

[03:41:10] Thank You

Show references (more coming soon!):

Harriet Tubman: https://www.biography.com/activists/harriet-tubman

Gundam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam

Transformers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers

ChatGPT: chatgpt.com

Troomi: https://troomi.com/

Inside Out 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22022452/

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bringing-up-b-b-pamela-druckerman/1111325335

Alexa:https://www.alexa.com/

Tanzania: https://www.britannica.com/place/Tanzania

Daring Girls: https://daringgirls.org/

Paid Family Medical Leave Act: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/paid-family-and-medical-leave-pfml-overview-and-benefits

Ready to Die album by Notorious B.I.G: https://www.amazon.com/Notorious-BIG-Ready-Die-Remaster/dp/B0002GTWYW

Dadversity: https://dadversity.co.uk/

Five Love Languages: https://5lovelanguages.com/

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

by Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida (Translator), David Mitchell (Translator): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-reason-i-jump-naoki-higashida/1115218514

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-will-to-change-bell-hooks/1100306349?

Bruce Bolt Batting Gloves: https://brucebolt.us/collections/bruce-bolt-graduated-compression-adult-arm-sleeves?

Snagged: https://www.snagged.com/

Episodes Referenced:

Scott Belsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKpsGBYwcE

Kevin Hannaford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShD_P9fCwts

Ethan Austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNU_BAC9o0

Dan Doty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmF2htq2MKk

Linus Ekenstam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJDVGUQrJ0

Siqi Chen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Nm5Mkj0s0

Chris Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlpdCCof90

Jordane Guily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-TKN1W1-k

Carlo Navarro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-YI8OukPI

Kevin Hanaford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShD_P9fCwts

Matt Ragland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz04HgHcQcE

Ethan Austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNU_BAC9o0

Nathan Jefferson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3BL9zY3Oc

Rob Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5c4Fgpn3Go

Darin Swanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NB2G9OECI

Sean Ellis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYi6xHcMQmE

Martin Glover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zghatBo_Ic

Bianca Shulze https://www.youtube.com...