Podcasts
Four Years of Insights from Lead Dads and Research on Fathers and Families.
Super Bowl Champs, Congressmen and Emmy Award Winners. Chefs, Firemen, Entrepreneurs, Pilots, Back-office workers and tile salesmen. World-class researchers on fatherhood and family. The Company of Dads’ Podcast has collected the stories of a diverse group of people who are all united by the focus on fathers being the best they can be for themselves, their families, their communities and their co-workers. Dive in and enjoy any of the 150-plus episodes today.
Featured Episodes
Fatherhood and Football With a Superbowl Champ
Interview with Najee Goode / Super Bowl Champion, Entrepreneur and Lead Dad
The Funniest Lead Dad in America Shares His Secrets
Interview with JR Havlan / 8-Time Emmy Award-Winning Comedy Writer, Lead Dad
The Emperor of All Lead Dads
Interview with Bruce Feiler / Creator of The Council of Dads, thinker on family and friends
All Episodes
EP 59: How To Combine Family and Career as A Working Dad
Interview with Roman Gaida / Business Leader Setting An Example
Lead Dads need examples at work. They need to see senior leaders being Full Parents at Work – not Event Dads who leave early for a game…
EP 58: How One Employer Understood A Lead Dad
Interview with Colin Haupt / Widowed Lead Dad Of Three
Colin Haupt was always a Lead Dad. When his children were young and he was a rising HR executive, he was the one to leave work when his…
EP 57: How To Find Work-Life Balance, from a B-School Professor
Interview with Stew Friedman / Director of The Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
When his first child was born, Stew Friedman, then a young professor, started researching how companies could think differently about…
EP 56: How a Hollywood Couple Made Parenting and Career Work
Interview with Bill Masters / Legendary Sitcom Writer and Creator, Lead Dad
Bill Masters is a comedy-writing legend. He parlayed stand-up into writing for “Seinfeld”. He created “Caroline in the City” and…
EP 55: Why Expectations Are The Key To Parenting Success
Interview With Sue Groner / The Parenting Mentor
All the myriad questions that parents have about their children can be boiled down into one, single issue: expectations, says Sue…
EP 54: What Divorced Lead Dads Need To Know
Interview With Drew Soleyn / Dad Coach and Founder of Connected Dads
Before coaching Dads, Drew Soleyn was a sports coach turned corporate coach. Coaching executives was important but what if the the…
EP 53: What a U.S. Congressman Can Do For Dads
Interview with Jimmy Gomez (& his infant son) / America's Most Famous Lead Dad
Congressman Jimmy Gomez, who represents Los Angeles in the House of Representatives, put his 4-month-old son Hodge into a baby sling and…
EP 52: Who Teaches You To Be a Dad at Work?
Interview With Rob Taylor / Corporate Dad Trainer
Companies are starting to give men paternity leave at work. It’s a start. But there’s still a macho culture that can make taking that…
EP 51: How To Mix Crime Fighting and Fatherhood
Interview With Trevor Kempner / Assistant District Attorney, Lead Dad
Trevor Kempner, assistant district attorney, a cappella singer, thirtysomething Lead Dad, is a fascinating study of human complexity. He…
EP 50: The 3C’s Working Parents Need To Have
Interview with Deborah Porter / Working Parent Coach
Deborah Porter is an influential voice on parenting. She runs Porter Systems and is a consultant to organizations and businesses to…
EP 49: Looking Back and Ahead
Paul Sullivan Talks About What He Learned as a First-Time Founder and What The Company of Dads Has Planned
We launched The Company of Dads in February, and our Paul Sullivan has told the story of how he came up with the idea many times. Now,…
EP 48: A Year of Fatherhood Experts
Highlights from Kirstin Shockley, Jamie Ladge, Kenneth Braswell, Dana Suskind, Jay Lauf & Jeff Forte
Welcome to The Company of Dads year-end review. The majority of our podcasts focused on Lead Dads and their stories. But we also sought…