All right fellas. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from not one, not two, but THREE entrepreneurs who are also accomplished authors. The crazy part is, two of them are teenagers. 

I’m thrilled to introduce you to Eric Wohlwend, CEO and President of Clear Sky Properties and author of the #1 best-seller “The Family Success Triangle.” 

Eric’s kids, Ethan and Deven, have already written several books, purchased more than 70 real estate properties between them, and started buying real estate when they were only 7 years old. Oh! And they know how to fly a plane. No biggie, right? You’d probably think I was kidding.

If your kids have shown any interest in starting businesses, entrepreneurship and dreaming big, you’re definitely going to love today’s episode!

In our conversation, we discuss:

• Why you shouldn’t treat your kids like toddlers.
• How to get your children to believe they can achieve anything in life.
• The balance between being a strict and protective parent.

Here are my favorite moments from our conversation.

• How sheltering your children from the real world can backfire.
• What to do when your kids show entrepreneurial talent.
• Raising unstoppable children who can overcome any obstacle.
• Leading your family without being hyper-masculine. 

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It’s normal to want things to be perfect. We’re all trying to improve and get better as Dads and husbands. But as today’s guest will tell you, it’s about progress, not perfection.

Patrick Cummings is a family man, entrepreneur, coach and mentor. He’s the Founder of PNP strategies and a wealth management advisor with over $500M AUM. He’s also the author of The Family—Business Balancing Act: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Being a Family Man.

In our conversation, we dig into:

• How to build simple habits to deepen your relationships with loved ones.
• Raising resilient kids who never give up.
• Being okay with not being perfect as a dad and spouse.

Here are my favorite moments:

• Forgiveness is about healing yourself but also allowing others to heal.
• Committing to facing life’s challenges inspires your kids to do the same.
• Understanding your spouse’s love language
• Creating safe spaces for being vulnerable
• Accepting that you’ll never be a perfect dad.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

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My guest today is Dr. Michael Thompson. Michael has worked as a clinical psychologist and consultant for over fifty (50!) years and is a world-renowned authority on the subjects of children, schools, and parenting.

He’s authored 10 books focusing on the emotional lives of boys and has helped countless parents ease the tensions that arise in their relationships with their children.

In our conversation we dig into:

• Different parenting styles & how to determine which one’s best for your kid.
• How to help your kids open up by asking the right questions.
• How kids are more capable than we think they are.
• How valuable it is for them to spend some time away from you.

My favorite moments from our conversation:

• Having conversations, not debates, with your kid.
• How imposing your dreams on your child can backfire.
• Why parents misunderstand how their children learn about violence.
• The perfect age for letting them go to summer camp.
• How summer camps can be life-changing for your kids and tips for choosing the right one for yours.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

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What’s up fellas? I can’t even tell you how pumped I am to share this conversation with you. Today’s guest is a legit badass businessman, Dan Martell.

We talked about his new book and how entrepreneurs can buy back their time, meaningful ways to talk to your kids to praise them for their effort, tell them what you love about them and eliminate entitlement and much more.

For those that don’t know, Dan is a serial entrepreneur, husband, father of two incredible boys, ironman athlete, best-selling author, and coach to over 1000+ SaaS founders, including clients like ClickFunnels, Proposify, and Carrot.

He successfully exited 3 tech companies within 10 years. His new book, Buy Back Your Time, might be the most important book ever written for entrepreneurs, and especially our community at Front Row Dads. If that sounds like hyperbole, I’m not even joking. It’s that good. So let’s get right to it!

Here are my favorite moments:

• The Buyback Principle: You don't hire people to grow your business. You hire people to buy back your time.
•  It’s better if you allow things to happen with your kids. Let them figure things out, make mistakes and help them to fix them. Don’t treat them like babies forever.
• The great things that happen when we talk to our kids about real stuff instead of just asking about how their day was.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

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When we watch someone have incredible success, it’s easy to think that that person has life figured out. But as Gino Wickman will tell you, even top achievers carry a ton of baggage and trauma from their past that affects their personal and professional relationships.

We often think we can’t succeed without using those traumas as fuel to crush it at work. But until we realize we can remove them and still be successful, fear and ego will keep running the show.

Gino learned this the hard way. He saw many high achievers triple the zeroes on their bank accounts but remained miserable. He didn’t want to follow that path, so he worked through his inner demons and came out on the other side as a transformed man.

Today, Gino is the founder of EOS Worldwide and is responsible for creating the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) that helps companies achieve greatness. He’s also an award-winning author, including the best-seller, Traction, which has sold over 1 million copies and five other books in the Traction Library that have sold almost 2 million copies.

We absolutely love using the EOS system here at Front Row Dads, and there are 130,000 other companies using the EOS tools worldwide that feel the same way.

In our conversation, we discuss what he’s learned throughout his 30+ years as an entrepreneur and helping thousands of companies thrive.

We dig into his ten principles for maximizing your energy and his strategies and routines for success in business while being at peace and constantly evolving as a husband, father, and entrepreneur.

Gino Wickman Podcast Highlights

• How to channel your drive and energy to find peace and fulfillment.
• Doing the (often grueling) inner work is a lifelong journey.
• The ten disciplines that give Gino boundless energy.
• Having people around you that will keep you in check is a game changer. Be careful who you surround yourself with.
• It’s hard to be arrogant when you’re humble and grateful.
• Taking time off work is not slacking if you use that time to learn how to always show up at your best for your family.
• If you say yes to everything, you’re really saying no to everything. Learn how to say NO better without feeling guilty!
• Why self-awareness allows you to make decisions in life out of love, not fear and ego.
• Stop trying to fix the other person in the relationship and start taking ownership of how you show up for that person.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

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For any family man and entrepreneur, there are many things (and people) that are asking for your time and attention. But if we get lost in our to-do list, we’ll miss out on those magical moments with our kids and spouse that deepen our connection with them.

Taking a few minutes each day to pause and connect with our family can help us to remember why we are working so hard in the first place. 

It’s scary to think about letting go of the steering wheel for a bit. But, fellas, there's no way around the fact that we'll spend our entire lives looking back and wondering where the time went if we don't make time for enjoyment and fun intentionally. And I’m excited to share this conversation with Mike Rucker.

Mike is a behavioral scientist with a PhD in organizational psychology and a peer-reviewed author who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. In his new book, The Fun Habit, Mike distills decades of life experience and academic research into a practical roadmap for bringing more fun into your life.

One thing I took away from our epic conversation is that, as high achievers, we need to stop trying to "hack" our way to happiness and start doing more things that make us happy.

Today, we discuss how play improves our relationships and how we sabotage our happiness and feel powerless to change that. We also dig into Mike’s tried and tested strategies for finding adult ways to be playful so that you can be happier and a more mindful parent and husband.

Mike Rucker Podcast Highlights

• The importance of play - with your spouse, kids, friends and other loved ones.
• Happiness is not a sprint. It’s a lifetime journey.
• Becoming aware of how you spend your time is the first step toward a joyful life.
• Experiences will always make you happier than material possessions.
• The importance of working through trauma to make way for joy.
• How to push back against the systems that destroy our attention and mindfulness.
• The “24/7 hustle and grind” mindset will make you richer while making you miserable.
• Don’t just tell your kids what to do. Lead through your actions.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

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The truth is, if we’re crushing it at work but not doing the same at home with our spouse/partner, eventually, it’ll catch up with you, and everything (and everyone) suffers the consequences.

Men have been taught that showing vulnerability in relationships is a sign of weakness. So we build walls to shield ourselves from the hurt and pain that can come with opening up to our partner. And when those walls come crashing down, we’re often confused about how to handle the situation.

On the flip side, men who acknowledge their vulnerability can foster a deep sense of connection and intimacy with their spouse. That’s why I’m pumped to have Bryan Reeves on the show today.

Bryan is an author and relationship coach who helps men, women, and couples create thriving lives and intimate relationships. His Men, This Way blog has been read by over 30 million people worldwide, and his work has been featured in The Good Men Project, Buzzfeed, Allure, Medium, Playboy, and others.

In this conversation, we dig into Bryan’s tools for communicating clearly and with love and respect for your partner and the importance of establishing boundaries as early as possible.

Bryan also shares three principles for showing up at your best in your relationship and the transformational power of intentionally choosing your partner every day instead of leaving your relationship on auto-pilot.

Bryan Reeves Podcast Highlights

• You miss countless opportunities for an intimate connection with your partner every day.
• How people are afraid to set boundaries in their relationship and how to overcome this challenge.
• How to reconcile the different masculine and feminine core values.
• Daily connection practices of thriving couples.
• Ego doesn’t belong in a relationship. It’s better to be kind than to be right.
• How to ask what we want without blaming the other person.
• The difference between being empathetic to her needs and doing what she wants you to do.
• Learning to speak each other’s love languages brings out the best in the relationship.
• The best relationships aren’t born. They’re cultivated for years.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

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Have you ever thought about writing a book?  I believe every dad should at least consider putting their knowledge, stories, and strategies on paper. 

YOU have wisdom, and yes…you should model that for your family and business, AND consider the impact you’d have if you put all this on paper, in an organized way, that could live on forever. 

In 2017, I self-published The Front Row Factor for several reasons. First,  I wanted to document some of the most important life lessons for my kids. For my business, I wanted to scale impact.  For our charity Front Row Foundation, I wanted to help more people. 

In the FRD community, we have guys like Hal Elrod, Author of The Miracle Morning, Justin Donald Author of The Lifestyle Investor, Ned Schaut Author of The Adventure of Fatherhood – and we have dozens of other examples.

I’m blown away by some of our members who’ve written books that are changing the world while creating a legacy for their kids. 

My interview today is with Chandler Bolt. He is the founder and CEO of Self-Publishing School, which has helped over 7000 authors write and publish their books. He was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, and Self-Publishing School got into the INC 5000 four years in a row.

We discuss why you should start writing a book and why you don’t need to be a great writer to be a published author.

One last thing. If you go to Publishedbook.com/FrontRowDads, you can get a FREE printed copy of Published, Chandler’s latest book. (Printed copy for US residents only, digital copies are available for non-US residents)

Chandler Bolt Podcast Highlights

• Why you should encourage your kids to experiment and figure out life on their own.
• Why Chandler and his brother chose to write a book as a legacy for their parents.
• What we can learn from our failures and what others can learn by sharing those lessons.
• How do you keep your kids grounded when you’re super successful?
• Whatever you do in life, give it your all.
• Why books are an incredible legacy for our children.
• Chandler explains how you can write a book by simply devoting 30 minutes a day.
• Your kids are always watching you so lead by example.
• Your confidence and self-worth shouldn’t be tied to how your business is doing.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

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“The great plague of the modern man is numbness.” - John Wineland

It’s natural for men to be in tune with their masculine energy because we’re wired to win and to provide for our family. But if we’re not integrating our feminine energy, we’re not healing our mind, body, or heart.

Lots of people have something that they struggle with. Whether it’s insecurities, anxiety, a fear of failure, or all of the things. And if we’re numbing and distracting ourselves, we’re not healing or improving.

So let’s talk about true masculine energy, living your truth, and not just healing ourselves but everyone in our orbit and beyond. And I’m thrilled to be joined by someone with over 30 years of experience to share some of their knowledge with us today.

John Wineland is a speaker and teacher who leads men and women in the practices of embodied masculine leadership, spiritual intimacy, and sexual polarity. In his new book, From The Core, he shares a practical guide to redefine, heal and re-embrace masculinity in our world.

In this conversation, we discuss how spending time in solitude can improve your relationships, the importance of being vulnerable with other men, and why true masculinity embraces the feminine instead of rejecting it.

John also shares how he coped with the devastating loss of his daughter Claire and how he honors her legacy years after her passing. He encourages us to lean into our emotions, break through the false stories we tell ourselves, and open ourselves up to authentic connections with others.

Lastly, don’t forget that our Front Row Dads Wealth and Legacy Online Summit is coming up in January 2023. Save your spot right now by visiting FrontRowDads.com/Summit.

John Wineland Podcast Highlights

• How being aware of the body’s sensations can quiet our monkey minds.
• Your masculine presence is the greatest gift you can give to those around you.
• Instead of running away from difficult emotions, bring your full awareness to them. It’ll change how you experience those emotions.
• How to reverse social media's damage on our minds and attention.
• Consciously allowing yourself to relax instead of distracting yourself mindlessly.
• Life is a practice of failure and recommitment.
• Find your tribe of men before whom you won’t be afraid to share your deepest weakness and insecurities.
• Being a fully embodied man is a lifetime commitment. You’ll fail along the road, and that’s OK.

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We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

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Gentlemen, we’re changing things up a bit on the podcast today and having a little bit of, shall we say… family fun.

Today’s guests are Alyce Dailey, her husband and fellow FRD brother Seth Dailey and their daughter Karissa. We probably could have had all four of their girls for this chat if they weren’t in school… or in Nepal with my son Tiger bungee jumping off a 500-foot bridge! It’s still crazy to think about it.

In fact, when Tatyana and I realized that their daughter, Laura, was also going on this youth trip to Nepal, we both breathed a sigh of relief because that’s how awesome these kids are. But that’s a story for another time.

Today, we’re talking about entrepreneurs who are raising entrepreneurial daughters. As I mentioned, Alyce and Seth Dailey have four wonderful girls, and I’m thrilled that Karissa could join us for this chat to share her perspective on what it’s been like growing up in the Dailey household with highly motivated and successful parents.

We also talked about Alyce’s new book called, The Magic Mom: 5 Principles to Unlock Your Natural Gifts to Raise Entrepreneurial Daughters. While it might seem like it’s geared toward Moms, there really is something in it for everyone, especially entrepreneurs.

And while there have been successes, like most families, there have been challenges too. You’ll hear Karissa talk about what it was like when things weren’t going very well and how her parents were transparent with their kids about it.

Alyce opens up to talk about feeling burnt out from building a business, not being happy to go home at the end of the day, and how self-care was the spark that helped her break out of that period and ultimately led her to write the book.

We’ll also talk about how they taught their kids to interact with adults, which set the stage for their entrepreneurial mindset. Enjoy!

Alyce & Seth Dailey Podcast Highlights

• Introduction to the Dailey family.
• Alyce and Seth’s incredible love story about how they met.
• The spark that led Alyce to write The MAGIC Mom.
• The 5 principles for being a MAGIC Mom which applies to any parent.
• Some of the Dailey family’s core values: Connection and making people feel like family.
• If Mom’s aren’t living a full life, it can actually be a burden on your kids.
• Teaching your kids how to interact with adults.
• Being transparent with your kids when dealing with challenges.
• Similarities between entrepreneurship and parenthood.

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Want to learn more about Front Row Dads?

We are in the business of building better families.

While most dads would say that family matters most, the challenge is they feel guilty knowing their careers get the best of them, and their family seems to get the rest of them.

We help Dads become family men with businesses, not businessmen who have families, so they can thrive personally AND professionally.

Subscribe to the Front Row Dad podcast to learn about fatherhood, marriage and how to level up your game at home, or if you’re ready for the best coaching and true brothers to grow with, Join The Brotherhood!

Are you getting all the shows? Subscribe today! Want to leave a review? THANK YOU! http://FrontRowDads.com/review