Lead Dad 101

Johannes Oberlin – New Canaan, CT
Introducing Johannes Oberlin, our Lead Dad of the Week! Johannes is a father of two sons Liam, 4, and Nico, 8 months. Johannes grew up in…
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Financial Wisdom Equals Family Harmony
Carrie Schwab Pomerantz is an absolute expert in family finance. She has served two White House administrations. She advised the Council on Financial Literacy under President George W. Bush, and was later appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council…
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5 Tips To Make Your Kids Great At Sports
How To Manage The Cost of Sports – Beyond Just the Money. This is the first 5 Tips Series, looking at the positive role Lead Dads can play…
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Gerald Olson – Los Angeles, CA
Gerald is a storyteller, who has worked in television and at creative agencies. He is the father of a 3.5 year old son who he adopted…
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Want Your Kids To Excel? Join The Parent Nation
Dana Suskind is an acclaimed pediatric surgeon at the University of Chicago and the author of “Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise.” What’s a parent nation? It’s a group that values and supports the labor and love of raising the next…
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Help In Making a Tough Decision.
Saying Good-Bye to Leonardo DiCaprio and Turbo. Kids and pets go together and until recently we had dogs, cats, even fish. I got my first…
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Brian Anderson – Evanston, IL
Brian is the co-founder of Fathering Together and a father to his two daughters. 👧👧 Of his lead dad experiences, Brian says…
Read moreLessons from a Later-in-Life Lead Dad
Jay Lauf is the co-founder and president of Charter, a news site going deep on the future of work. He’s had a great career in magazines and media. He was the chairman and publisher of Quartz, the publisher of The Atlantic and the publisher of Wired. But for 20 years, the…
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Let’s Use Summer To Fix Our Party Problem
It’s Not That Hard To Put Two Emails on An Invite. Using sites like Paperless Post and Evite to organize parties makes sense. You save…
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Brian Page – Atlanta, GA
Say hello to Lead Dad of the week, Brian Page, a personal finance educator at Next Gen Personal Finance and a father of three kids…
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Feeding Time – How To Make It Fun, Not Frustrating
Parenting is some combination of exhausting and exhilarating. Making healthy meals can fall into the exhausting category. And it’s complicated: if Daddy is drinking a rum punch and attacking a basket of fried seafood, can he really tell his kids to skip the Shirley Temples and…
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How To Find Time To Have Fun
And Still be a Good Lead Dad – Several months ago my friend VJ invited me to the three-day member guest tournament at the Philadelphia…
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