Many dads are feeling stretched trying to juggle their careers, their relationships, and their role of father. Is it even possible to find a balance in today's always-on and always-connected career landscape? What negative impacts to their careers can they expect if they decide to put more focus on their [...]
As the fourth Dad 2.0 Summit ended Saturday at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, founders Doug French and John Pacini broke with precedent by announcing the city and venue for the next annual get-together of fathers and brands: Washington, D.C., at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Feb. 18-20, 2016. [...]
Pixie dust ain't got nothing on Dad 2.0. The annual summit of digital daddyhood is a mystical bottle of potion enabling men to do remarkable things. For example, certain Amateur Idiots summon the power to rise on 3 hours of sleep for an intense yoga session one morning and a [...]
George Lucas modeled the forest moon of Endor in “The Return of the Jedi” from the Redwood Forest in California. A few years back my wife and I went to San Francisco to celebrate our wedding anniversary. One of our stops was to check out the redwood trees on the [...]
So you are attending a blogger conference like say, the Dad 2.0 Summit.... What should you bring... What should you wear... Where should you eat... In general what should you expect, well we have the answers. We'll be bringing on John Pacini (@superjohn) and Doug French (@mrdougfrench) the Co-Founders of [...]
The glitz! The glamor! The manscaping! In less than three weeks time, the dad stars of the blogosphere will gather in San Francisco to read aloud, listen intently, chat lovingly, hug tightly, and consume passionately great quantities of adult beverages. But what will these fanciful men of poetry, prose, and [...]
We are back after our Holiday break and ready to rock 2015! In this episode, Mike and I catch up on everything that happened during our break, including the fact that Mike (Santa) bought his daughter a new drum kit! Parents will understand the problem with this. Because of the [...]
In this episode we chat with the co-founder of XY Media and the Dad 2.0 Summit, Doug French, about how to silence your inner editor. Doug talks about how he turned his blog into a growing media company, started the biggest fatherhood conference in North America and even started a [...]
With Mike in the sick bay I speak to creative writer, Carter Gaddis, about his time as a Major League Baseball writer, as well as his blog, DadScribe.com and his creative writing process. We also talk about the death of newspapers and how his writing has gone full circle from [...]
Welcome to the first week of Movember (the month formerly known as November) , This is our first Monday and we realize that some of you might be coming out of a Halloween candy induced coma that has been exasperated by a sudden shift in the fabric of time itself [...]
