#145 Chris Jones: Love, Loss, and the Healing Power of English Soccer
When do we get to the point in life when we begin to lose just as often as we win? Career restarts, divorces, the death of a parent, the los...
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Paternal
Paternal is a show about the brotherhood of fatherhood. Created and hosted by Nick Firchau, a longtime journalist and podcast producer, Paternal offers candid and in-depth conversations with...
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20 of 103 episodes#144 Chuck Park: Can a Normal Dad From Queens Win a Seat in the U.S Congress?
By his own admission, Chuck Park lives in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment in Queens with his kids' drawings on the wall, a stroller by the...
#143 Kevin Maguire: Building The Ultimate Group Text for Dads
Just a few months after the birth of his son in 2019, Kevin Maguire noticed he wasn't feeling quite right. At times he resented his newborn...
#142 Jordan Ritter Conn: Why Do Men Feel So Alone?
When Jordan Ritter Conn was a teenager growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, he met with a half dozen male friends every Saturday n...
#141 Daniel Smith: The Episode that Might Make You a Better Father
Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Smith has a motto: Feel everything, don't look away. But how exa...
#140 Tom Junod: All My Father's Secrets
Tom Junod spent more than two decades as one the most celebrated writers in the men's magazine game, winning two National Magazine Awards an...
#139 Seth Wickersham: The Fathers Behind the NFL's Best Quarterbacks
John Elway. Joe Namath. Johnny Unitas. Peyton Manning. Look into the backstory of just about any star quarterback you've ever heard of, and...
#138 Julian Brave Noisecat: Ghost Stories, Coyote Dads, and The Survival Story of "Baby X"
As a teenager, Julian Brave Noisecat often heard ghost stories about the history of the Canim Lake Indian Reserve. He considered them simply...
#137 Robert Gallery: Football, Rage, and Recovery
When Robert Gallery was a senior at the University of Iowa, he was one of the most respected and feared college football players in the coun...
#136 Aymann Ismail: Three Generations of Men in the Mosque
What were the first words you said to your child when you became a parent? Was there something you needed to say to officially welcome him o...
#135 Jonathan Malesic: Dads, Work, And Burnout (2023)
Jonathan Malesic spent more than a decade in what he thought was his dream job as a college professor. But after years on the clock he found...
#134 Jayson Greene: Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Cope With Grief?
Proponents of Artificial Intelligence assure us that everything in life is about to change: Work, education, healthcare, art, and even how w...
#133 Augustine Sedgewick: A History of Fatherhood, From Thomas Jefferson to Bob Dylan
How did Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on fatherhood influence the American Revolution? What did Charles Darwin learn about evolution from watc...
#132 Sam Graham-Felsen: Where Have All My Male Friendships Gone?
In the final scene of the 1986 coming-of-age film Stand By Me , the film's narrator sums up boyhood friendship with the simple line, "I neve...
#131 James Patterson: The King of Paperback Fiction Tackles Fatherhood
James Patterson has sold more than 425 million books over the past 30 years, making him one of the richest and most successful authors in th...
#130 Paternal Workshop: Your Tween's Mind, Explained
You could fill an entire bookshelf with guides on babies and toddlers, or the best strategies for dealing with teenagers. But for Dr. Kennet...
#129 Christopher Blackwell: How A Prison 'Heal Circle' Helps Incarcerated Men
Christopher Blackwell has been a lot of things in his life. As a young boy he was a son longing to connect with his father over classic cars...
#128 Austin Davis: A Young Father Forges the Future of Pennsylvania Politics
Austin Davis was just a teenager when the trajectory of his life changed forever. A fatal shooting rattled his neighborhood in the working c...
#127 Jake Tapper: Leadership and Vulnerability (2023)
Jake Tapper has been a leading figure in American media for more than a decade, serving as the chief DC anchor at CNN, the host of the netwo...
#126 Paternal Workshop: Why It's Hard For Men To Say "I'm Sorry"
Award-winning research psychologist and professor Dr. Michael Addis returns to Paternal for the latest in a series of special episodes, this...