Dadicated Joe

Feeding kids has become way more complicated than it should be. After building Serenity Kids around nutrient-dense ingredients, I've seen how much fear, confusion, and bad advice parents are handed around baby...

Being physically there for our kids is not the same as being present. I know how easy it is to be in the room, but still carry work, stress, old wounds, and unfinished emotional work into fatherhood. Stephen joins me to...

Why do entrepreneur dads who've built successful businesses still feel like they're missing fatherhood? Jon Vroman built Front Row Dads after his wife told him: "Thank you for being a moment maker for the rest of the...

I didn't feel free to go water skiing or spend three hours making a costume when my wife was still worrying about the house. It didn't feel fair, so I didn't do it. And then I felt resentful. Fair Play changed that for...

If this one resonated, go back and listen to the episode on why men feel unappreciated. It gets into the resentment that builds when we serve from sacrifice instead of joy, and it pairs directly with what I cover here...

Parents spend a lot of time trying to get their kids to change their behavior. I know I struggle a ton with how to do this in a way that teaches her long-term skills, and doesn't just manipulate her into bending to my...

For this Mother's Day special, I sat down with my biggest fan, the woman who raised me — my mom, Jackie Carr, aka Nana — for a conversation about childhood, parenting, shame, unconditional love, and what it looks like...

Feeling unappreciated as a dad? If you do a lot for your family and still feel invisible, this episode is going to challenge something you might not want to hear. I used to think feeling unappreciated meant the people...

Ben Greenfield's wife lifted and swam until six days before giving birth to twins. That's not the surprising part. The surprising part is what he says he'd change. A lot of dads want to help during pregnancy but still...

Fatherhood has a 100% failure rate. There is just no way to do it perfectly. Fatherhood gets healthier when you stop chasing a rigid role and start paying attention to what your family actually needs from you. Devon...

If you're raising an autistic child or have an autistic person in your life, then this episode is for you! I was diagnosed autistic at 22 — not as a child, and for a long time, I felt broken before I ever understood I...

For years, I complained about my wife nagging me or criticizing me. What I finally saw was that I was acting like the house was hers, and I was just there to help. So when she gave me feedback it felt like it was coming...

Feeling unappreciated as a dad? If you do a lot for your family and still feel invisible, this episode is going to challenge something you might not want to hear. I used to think feeling unappreciated meant the people...

Fatherhood isn't just about parenting. It's about the kind of man I become. In this DadicatedJoe episode with Kenneth Braswell, we explore a deeper idea that has challenged how I think about fatherhood. Kenneth argues...

We try not to use punishment or reward as ways to motivate our child's actions because it diminishes their intrinsic motivation and harms the parent/child relationship. See my episode on how we use an evidence-based...