Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman

Gents, not sure if any of you have seen it, but Aubrey Marcus just released his film, Awake In The Darkness, which documents his week-long journey in the pitch black. No lights, just his mind, and the darkness.

How the story is told is truly remarkable. I was so moved by the artistic approach to this film that I decided to reach out to the director, Ben Stewart, to invite him on the show.

In addition to being a film director, Ben is also a musician, artist, professional health coach, and dad of three.

Ben and I explore a lot in this episode. We talk about how our behavior impacts our children (and vice versa), the benefits of meditating with your kids, a healthy approach to fighting with your spouse, and much more.

We also discuss the filming/editing of the documentary and Ben's creative process for bringing an unconventional story to life, despite shooting in utter darkness.

Ben Stewart Podcast Highlights

• Ben talks about life growing up all over the world and how Kwajalein Island in Hawaii influenced his art.
• Do you shape your kids, or do they shape you?
• Meditating with your kids—an alternative to punishment.
• Understanding when and why your kids are seeking attention.
• Reflecting on traumatic moments in life.
• How do you deal with parental guilt?
• Why it's so important for your kids to see you and your spouse makeup after a fight.
• How to blow up in a civilized way—and why it's important to show that side of yourself at times.
• Honoring frameworks, but knowing when to break them.
• The making of Awake the Darkness.
• Seeing the hidden gift in life's difficult moments.

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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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Enjoy this clip from our most recent Online Summit. In this clip, we dig into how you can help your kids identify their feelings, especially in those tense moments when they're playing sports and things aren't going so well.

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!

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Enjoy this clip from our most recent Online Summit where we dig into the topic of emotions and how we can tap into our feelings and understand what our bodies are trying to tell us.

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!

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In the second half of our two-part series, we're talking about mega successes, mega failures, and the formula of luck with Mark Lachance.

⎯ Did I mention he talks about all these things with his own kids?

Mark teaches us how to create our own luck by looking at our internal and external conditions, and explains that taking action in our lives will lead to the positive change we want as dads.

I hope you'll enjoy this insightful conversation to learn how to create an environment that let's you and your family thrive. And if you haven't checked out the first half of this conversation, you can listen to it here!

Mark Lachance Podcast Highlights Part 2

• How to turn failures and successes into learning opportunities that attract more luck.
• The Lucky Formula—stack the odds in your favor and cash in on success.
• Why attracting luck requires a bigger WHY.
• Mastering the narrative in your head by practicing positive affirmation.
• How to deal with loss that knocks you off kilter.
• Who you hang around with and how you speak to people will greatly affect your life.
• Practicing meditation and controlling your mind.
• How to take action by teaching yourself, learning leadership, and practicing personal development.
• Creating an environment for your kids to thrive.

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/305

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!

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My 12 year old son, Tiger, is starring as Daddy Warbucks in his school's production of Annie. He's learning all about how to use his diaphragm to project his voice, so he can perform in front of a room full of 1,000 people.

Not only is he figuring out how to sing, but he's consciously creating a winning environment—a topic I discuss with today's guest, Mark Lachance.

Mark is the author of The Lucky Formula: How to Stack the Odds in Your Favor and Cash in on Success, which is his proven process for engineering a high performance life.

In our discussion, we talk about manifesting luck, taking advantage of life's opportunities, and cultivating an environment for our kids to be in the proximity of success.

Check out this episode if you want to learn about how to attract luck and fortune in your family's life. Mark has also graciously gifted our listeners with an extra surprise, which you can find here!

Mark Lachance Podcast Highlights Part 1

• Can you teach leadership or are you born into it?
• How do you get your kids to listen?
• How to command respect from others without draining yourself.
• A simple tactic for manifesting your own luck.
• Practicing affirmation formulas as a family and letting your kids share their gratitude/wins with you.
• Acknowledging your successes of being a dad.
• Let your kids come alive and feel passionate.
• Wrestling with the ideas we have for our kids vs. what they actually want to do.
• How are you creating an environment to put your family in proximity to become lucky?

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/304

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

About 6 years ago, there was this piercing moment when my wife told me that I'm more of a moment maker for other people than I am for my own family—a wake up call for a drastic change... and the birth of this podcast.

As someone who's struggled with vanishing into my pursuits, a compulsion that can swallow you whole, I know how important it is to reassess where you're at for yourself and your family.

Which leads me to today's part 2 conversation with Jonathan fields…

He's talking to us about how knowing our deeper self can change our approach to parenting, and help us become aware of the impulses that drive us.

Check out this amazing episode, as it will teach you a lot about yourself, trust me. And If you've missed out on part one of this episode, check it out here.

Jonathan Fields Podcast Highlights Part 2

• How is the algorithm shifting around the questions you ask and how do you ask them in unique and different ways.
• What are the 10 Sparketypes and what is your anti sparketype?
• How do you access all of your potential?
• What are you working towards in life?
• What are the trip wires set up for your personality and how can you avoid that?
• Ask yourself what is filling your time with the people you want to spend the most time with, and how

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Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/303

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

As I get older there's a lot less fear around being myself. I've become conscious of my truest nature and don't feel the need to seek approval from others. This has allowed me to feed my curiosity for learning while also being present for my kids, Tiger and Ocean.

My guest, the very humble Jonathan Fields, is talking about this exact change in self-perception, something he refers to as your Sparketype.

He believes that we change in depth, quality, and self-awareness as we get older—a shift that he talks about in his new book, SPARKED: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive.

Jonathan is a speaker, award-winning author, and creator of multiple businesses. Today he takes a deep dive into our states of mind and shows us how we can come alive at work and at home.

Jonathan shares his thoughts on identity, his organic life lessons, and helps us balance the spectrum of fulfillment—something that we all struggle with as entrepreneurial dads.

Tune in to this amazing conversation that I know will spark your inspiration.

Jonathan Fields Podcast Highlights Part 1

• Does the context matter in how you're seen or witnessed?
• What's the identity you wear versus the identity that you are?
• Can it be bad to feel centered?
• How do we create ideas, practices, and tools around the context of work?
• How to become intentional in all the roles in your life.
• The dark side to figuring out what you're supposed to do, and getting absorbed with the work that you're doing.
• What is the spectrum of fulfillment?
• Having the conversation with your partner to make sure you have a circuit breaker in place from your pursuits.

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/302

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

So much of our progress is based on our time to think. It's built in the recovery process and the time your body has to reflect.

I think these trends of excellence and patterns of progress are foundations to our success as dads.

On today's part 2 of a 2-part episode, we've got Andrew Kuhn and Matt Drinkhahn talking about effective implementation on the boundaries we make.

How do we learn new things and implement them into our calendars for our families and businesses?

Check out today's episode to find out! And if you missed out on part 1, click here to listen to the rest of the discussion.

Andrew Khun & Matt Drinkhahn Part 2 Highlights

• What's the strategy/process to learning information, deciding what's important and implementing change in your life?
• How does journaling and The Miracle Morning help you to achieve your goals?
• Growth comes from consuming knowledge and information and process decisions quickly.
• Learn to consume information with intent.
• What is the Slight Edge strategy?
• Be intentional in how you use your battery.
• How do you know when to stop consuming information and how do you know what to consume?
• Who are you being better for?

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/301

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

A friend of mine reached out to chat the other day. And as much as I love to chat, I really just wanted to tell them that I had no time. Absolutely none. And that's hard for me.

I don't know about you, but time management and scheduling in my calendar really kicks my ass sometimes.

How do we actually get everything done in our schedules and then have time to be dads? How do we learn to set boundaries around saying no to certain things?

Luckily, we have Andrew Kuhn and 'Coach' Matt Drinkhahn on today's two part episode talking to us about what's proven to be effective in our calendars, where we fail, and how we learn from that.

These two family men are successful business owners, and members of Front Row Dads. Matt is a coach for recovering perfectionists and highly functioning workaholics, while Andrew is the owner of a real estate investment company—and they're absolutely killing it.

They teach us about integrity in keeping our commitments, and knowing when to break the rules surrounding the boundaries you've made for yourself if something just isn't working.You can't buy time and what takes up that time is important. If you've ever struggled with figuring out the ebb and flow of work-life integration, you won't want to miss today's episode!

Andrew Khun & Matt Drinkhahn Part 1 Highlights

• How do you learn to say no effectively?
• Tactics that work for your calendar.
• How do you have integrity and respect for yourself simultaneously?
• Practice what you preach!
• Boundaries that set yourself up to be a successful dad.
• Be at peace with conflicts, they come up everyday.
• How getting a cellphone jail can change your life.
• Figure out how to make time to think and reflect.
• Fundamentals of being a great business man and fantastic dad.
• Gain the confidence to accelerate in all avenues of your life and make your actions congruent with your priorities.

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/300

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

Hey guys. Hope you enjoyed part 1 of my interview with Philip Mott. In Part 2, we dig into different perspectives of unschooling, practicing patience and dealing with frustration. If you haven't listened to part 1, you can find that interview along with all of the show notes at FrontRowDads.com/298. Enjoy!

Philip Mott Podcast Part 2 Highlights

• What's a typical day look like with unschooling?
• How can things like Climb Night and Pokémon teach your kids?
• How to deal with the frustration of your own patience.
• What are the most asked questions about homeschooling?
• How do you manage your own voice around your beliefs, and how do you navigate the space of other people's judgments?
• Surround yourself with people who challenge your thoughts, and teach you to recognize the context from where you speak.
• What should they be doing vs. what are they doing.
• Learn the importance of your child's enjoyment and letting your kids be kids.
• Don't compare your children to each other.

Get the Full Show Notes

Want access to the full show notes, including links to all resources mentioned during today's conversation? Visit FrontRowDads.com/299

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