Fatherhood Unlocked with Dan Doty

What does it look like for mothers and fathers to support each other fully? 

What world do we want to create for our children?

These questions require both mothers and fathers in the room to answer, as we further the evolutionary process together, in relationship. 

That’s why Rachelle Garcia Seliga and I are conducting a 3 part online conversation, called Journey into the Wilds, to discover what can happen when a collective of fathers and mothers allow themselves to be fully present with themselves and each other. 

This feels like a pinnacle moment of bridging the father’s space with the depth of knowledge and insight only available from the mother’s lived experience. Together we are excited to clear space and articulate a vision for the future of a truly empowered and connected parenthood journey. 

Rachelle Garcia Seliga is a Mother, Wife and Midwife who is midwifing a cultural shift through her teachings, trainings and in-person experiences. She is a Certified Professional Midwife. Hands-on, life experience informs all of Rachelle’s work, and forms a strong basis of INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, where students learn simple, empowering modalities that bring about true healing and vibrant health for postpartum Mothers and families.

Find out more and sign up here: https://dandoty.com/journey-into-the-wilds

For dads experiencing a divorce, or those curious about the taste of urine, or what it’s like to be spiritually cleaned by flies, this episode with Ben Redmond is for you. 

One of my oldest and dearest friends, Ben, is a ball of energy and knowledge and one of the best dads I know. His exuberant inner child keeps you laughing while sneakily dropping wisdoms that help to soften us to our children, and remind us we deserve some of that love for ourselves. 

His upcoming retreat, The Forge, is for men going through that transition space after a divorce and are wondering how on earth to rebuild themselves and their lives. His compassion and expertise in this arena, I’m confident, will make a huge impact on the lives of men who need this container. 

The host of the Emerald Podcast joins us to stake a flag in the ground and say “Life is here”. As fathers, we’re facing the ever encroaching threats posed by our world and wondering: How do we protect our children and somehow stay totally present?

This conversation points us to the balancing point between the vastness of everything we’re in the middle of, and the profound intimacy of being fully open to our children. Its a reminder to be community minded, rather than individualistic. Recognizing that being fitted into a larger whole is actually what satisfies us on a personal level, as well as safeguards us against danger, to the extent that we can be safe. The rest requires the remarkable feet of letting go and accepting. 

I am so grateful to Josh for taking the time to connect, and for his work on the Emerald Podcast that continues to inspire and take us deeper on our inner voyage. 

Joshua Schrei is a writer, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular the Indian subcontinent. Throughout a lifetime of teaching, study, meditation and yogic practice, wilderness immersion, art, music, and public speaking, Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative vision.

There is spiritual growth that can only come from bearing witness to the transformative event of childbirth. That is why OBGY Nathan Riley radically changed his practice from a medical interventionist model, to a more natural approach that believes in the power of the feminine force. Learning to recognize when NOT to fix a problem, and become the best support possible for nature to do what it does best. 

Nathan Riley, MD, is a board-certified OB-GYN and fellow of ACOG who left the medical industrial complex due to his disillusionment with the “standard of care” within the conventional maternity care model. He supports midwives as a collaborative physician for midwives of all varieties in over twenty states. His mission is to uphold midwifery as the art that it is and to honor birth as a sacred process and the transition to parenthood as spiritual transformation.

https://www.belovedholistics.com/

In this episode with Stuart McCalla, we map out what take home skills from business can be applied to helping your family thrive, along with a rallying cry for fatherhood communities as a mandatory piece of a successful future for our world.

Stuart McCalla is a Managing Partner at Evolution who supports senior leaders and leadership teams of fast-growing companies. As an executive and leadership coach trained in multiple coaching modalities, which includes deep process work and Agile Methodologies. Stuart has the skills to create profound outcomes in leaders who want to lead without reacting, and instead lead through building lasting change in themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Some of his tools and methodologies include the Leadership Circle Profile Assessment certification and the Enneagram for individual growth. By bringing all of these perspectives to the work with his clients, Stuart is able to create profound, and lasting transformational change.

In this inspiring episode we hear a story that proves just about anything is possible with enough focused attention. You’ll walk away with some practical tools to become dads that are mentally and physically capable of not only surviving the rigors of fatherhood, but genuinely engaging enough to make it actually fun. 

Ted Gonder is an international impact entrepreneur focused on improving human welfare through technology. He is the co-founding CEO of Moneythink, the only movement of young people restoring the economic health of the United States through preventative, transformative, and evidence-driven youth financial education. He also served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, advising the Obama Administration.

In this episode we dig into the common myths around fatherhood and present the case for a paradigm shift around men and parenthood, especially as it relates to the workplace and paid leave. 

Josh Levs is an entrepreneur, former CNN and NPR journalist, and the leading global expert on modern fathers in the workplace. He is the author of the award-winning book All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses–And How We Can Fix It Together. 

https://joshlevs.com/

This episode holds a story of truly epic proportions that embodies the Father Wound more potentially and literally than any I've heard. We also have at the center a hero who emerges from a childlike victimhood, to a Peaceful Warrior calling for the healing ceremony of an entire family.

I warn you that you will be changed if you listen to this. My hope is that we will all be changed for the better as this story ripples out to reveal the false promise of ungrounded masculine strength, and inspires many to heed the desperate call for the healing and honoring of our connection to the feminine.

This work requires us all, and I'm so grateful to this audience who is focused on being the best they can be for their families. There is no battle more sacred and essential than the keeping of our homes.

Raj Sisodia is the FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and also the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He has written ten books and over 100 academic articles. He is the co-author of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, and his most recent book is Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business.

http://rajsisodia.com/

And we're back! With the first in-person podcast to talk about the opportunities presented in parenthood to do the work, and to make a rallying cry for courageous dads out there to be the first to invite other dads to be your friend. It often takes just one to start the domino effect of creating community, and you know who you are if this sounds like something you're capable of!

Ashley is a certified cooperative childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula, and lactation counselor. She is the founder of Birthsmarter, which provides relevant and inclusive education for expectant parents living in NYC and virtually, across the world. With over a decade of experience supporting new parents, Ashley provides one-on-one support, group classes, lectures, and distance learning for the perinatal population and the professionals who serve them.

In this wisdom packed episode, our guest John Wineland shares his story of being a father who knows his child could die at any moment, and chooses to live and love fully because of it. John recounts how a men’s group helped him get sober and step into being a new father. He also shares his profoundly practical and accessible teachings for conducting love and self mastery. 

John Wineland is an author, teacher and speaker, who for over a decade, has been leading both men and women in the realms of spiritual intimacy, life’s purpose and embodiment. John teaches worldwide bringing his vision for a new paradigm of masculine leadership and conscious relationships to those yearning to live and love with wide open hearts. 

Links:
https://www.johnwineland.com/
https://www.instagram.com/john_wineland/