Things New Dads Should Know, with Anton Marinovich

Things Every Father Should Know or Think About

In this episode of the Learn With Less podcast, Ayelet chats with Anton Marinovich, her very own partner in parenting.

We cover:

* Anton’s own challenges as a new dad* The journey into his self-identity as a father* His own perspective on the first few years of fatherhood (and his concept of “the tunnel”)* How he started noticing his baby’s behavior* What led to him understanding his babies

Join us for this special episode by listening on your favorite podcast player or reading the transcript below.

Ayelet: Welcome to episode 77 of the Learn With Less podcast. It’s nearly Father’s Day, and I wanted to take a moment to recognize my parenting partner. I also thought it might be a nice way for you guys to get a sense of the other half of my team in real life… because, as you know, when I’m not creating podcast episodes and working, I’m momming two young children.

This episode is dedicated to celebrate the role of your co-parent or co-caregiver. Because whether you are parenting with or without a partner, whether you are a dad, have a dad (or have three), or whether your children have no dads… whether you lost your dad, have a complicated relationship with your dad, or have the best dad in the world, none of us is raising children in isolation. So I hope you’ll take this opportunity, as I have, to thank the person or people who are helping you get through the day.

Today, I’m speaking with my husband, Anton Marinovich. I’d love to introduce him to you, and let him tell you his story. He’ll share a few of his own words of wisdom, things he’s learned along the way, his own challenges, and the way he has learned to understand his young children.

Ayelet: Hi Husband.

Anton: Hi, Wife.

Ayelet: So I’m sitting here with my husband, Anton Marinovich, and usually on the Learn With Less podcast, we start by giving a little bit of background information about who my guest is and how they came into doing what they’re doing, or being who they are, in all their fabulousness.

So, because this is a feature on fathers and partners, I’d love to just sort of chat with you today about how that all came to be, and your experience as a father thus far in our parenting journey together. So, will you tell the listeners a little bit about, you know, who you are and what you came into fatherhood with. What were your sort of initial… Right before everything went down, what were some of the things that you were excited about and what were the, if you can recall, the hopes and dreams that you had coming into fatherhood.

Anton: Okay. That’s quite a bit. Let’s start from the top a little bit about myself. So, I’m your husband and my, I guess professional career, has been in sales, primarily sales management and leadership roles in tech companies. I think if I was to start with, like, fatherhood, I would say that probably the, maybe it’s the first time or your first child was pretty nerve wracking.

I mean we had a lot going on in a lot of big changes. We had just gotten married and then we moved and I switched jobs, and all of those things. And then here was like that you’re going to become a dad and all that was kind of converging all at once.

Ayelet: Right. I mean we, we moved not only like to the next town over, we moved across the pond from California to the UK. Right.

Anton: Right. And switching jobs and so all that dramatic change.