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Since 2016, Front Row Dads has been the community for "family men with businesses, not businessmen with families". Weekly interviews on marriage, parenting, health, emotional intelligence, business and legacy. Learn about the brotherhood at FrontRowDads.com
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- 2 days ago15 min
How a Child Actually Sees Their Dad (and how to have more impact) w/ Dr. Meg Meeker
FRD Live 2026 is December 2 to 4 in Austin, Texas. Stay to the end to hear a member describe what happens in that room, then grab your spot: https://frontrowdads.com/live _____________________________________________ Your kid figures out in about fifteen seconds whether you see them, and what they decide shapes the rest of their day. Dr. Meg Meeker, pediatrician and best-selling author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, doesn't tell dads what to do. She shows them how their kids see them, and it is not how we see ourselves. This is part two of the conversation Jon had with her in 2024, the piece that comes right before The Dad's Formula for Influence. Whether you have a daughter or a son, this one is for you. In this one: What your kid is looking for the moment you walk in the door Why, in a child's eyes, mom has to pay attention and dad chooses The one sentence Meg overheard her father say that got her into medical school, and why it mattered that he didn't remember saying it The small things that change how your kid sees you: stop at the table, take them with you, say what you believe about them out loud What she tells divorced dads who think it's too late Hear the full conversation with Meg: https://frontrowdads.com/459 The book list that's changed how our guys show up at home, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, is included: https://frontrowdads.com/podcast-books
- 6 days ago50 min
How to Stay Real in an Age of AI w/ Ryan Levesque
How to Stay Real in an Age of AI w/ Ryan Levesque Ryan Levesque's new book, Return to Real, is about getting back to what is real in an age of artificial everything. This conversation is where that book meets fatherhood. Ryan is the author of The Ask Method and the new book Return to Real: The Last Human Advantage in an Age of Artificial Everything. He is also a Front Row Dads member, and this episode is the one he recorded with Jon about the part of the book nobody put on the cover: being a better father. In this episode: Touch earth before you touch a screen, the 60-second morning habit Ryan credits to Ali Jafarian True self vs strategic self, and why "There is no third path." The Levesque family mantra: be curious, ask questions, seek truth Scars vs wounds, and the difference between sharing and bleeding on people The words Ryan yelled at his younger son, and what he did 12 days later "We're all just boys trying to raise men." Why Ryan's 15-year-old reading his newsletter keeps him honest Category of One: "nobody can out-compete you at being you" Ryan is leading the Category of One workshop on the VIP day at Front Row Dads Live in Austin. Details and tickets at https://frontrowdads.com/live Links: Return to Real by Ryan Levesque: https://ryanlevesque.net/return-to-real/ The Digital Contrarian, Ryan's weekly newsletter: https://ryanlevesque.net/join-the-digital-contrarian/ Front Row Dads Live: https://frontrowdads.com/live The Front Row Dads book list: https://frontrowdads.com/podcast-books Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is all about? The Brotherhood Experience is a free, one-hour online session where you meet other like-minded men who are committed to being family men with businesses, not businessmen with families. You will hear the core ethos and values behind the community, and why this brotherhood is a strategy for connecting with your kids, building a thriving marriage, and winning in business. It runs every month. Pick a time that works for you at https://frontrowdads.com/experience
- 1 weeks ago16 min
Anger 101 for Men: The 4-Step Reset w/ Connor Beaton
Most men only know two things to do with anger: stuff it down or blow up. Connor Beaton has a third way. This is 15 minutes of pure gold from the conversation Jon had with Connor back in 2023. Connor is the founder of ManTalks and author of Men's Work, and here he walks through the four steps he uses the moment he feels it rising, starting with what 3 a.m. and a son who wouldn't sleep did to him. The four steps: 1. Know the signs in your body 2. Name it out loud 3. Say what you're actually feeling underneath it 4. Get out of your head and into your body, with your breath Hear the full conversation with Connor: https://frontrowdads.com/378 FRD Live 2026 is December 2 to 4 in Austin, Texas. Stay to the end to hear a member describe his first one, then grab your spot: https://frontrowdads.com/live The book list that's changed how our guys show up at home: https://frontrowdads.com/podcast-books
- 1 weeks ago26 min
Stop Trying to Balance Work and Family w/ Kevin Walton
There is no greater leadership than the example of a life lived, says Kevin Walton. He is a father, a spiritual guide, and one of our guest leaders at FRD Live 2026. Ali Jafarian talks with Kevin about what embodiment means, the book his mom gave him that made him say "I'm not crazy," and the dream that gave him the name Creatorhood. Then they get to how Kevin fits being a man, a father, and a teacher into one life. He looks for harmony instead of balance, and when he is away teaching for days he says he is dedicating himself to the work, not sacrificing time with his son. Coming to FRD Live 2026 Kevin will be with us in person at FRD Live 2026, December 2 to 4 in Austin, Texas. Three days for family men with businesses, built around the man, the family, and the business. Find out more at https://frontrowdads.com/live Follow Kevin: @sourceradiance on Instagram.
- 2 weeks ago32 min
Faith, Family, and Work Without the Mask w/ Rudi Riekstins
For years Rudi Riekstins left his faith, his marriage, and his two babies at the office door, and walked in every morning pretending to be a company man. Then he stopped pretending. Ali Jafarian sits down with Rudi, a leadership coach, father of two, and one of our guest leaders at FRD Live 2026. They get into what your family feels when you walk in the door, the day someone wrecked his wife's car in the middle of his son's big flag football day, what his father-in-law told him before he could ask to marry his daughter, the afternoon he came downstairs and told his kids he just needed a hug, and why the whole family voted on the move to Montana. COMING TO FRD LIVE 2026 Rudi will be with us in person at FRD Live 2026, December 2 to 4 in Austin, Texas. Three days for family men with businesses, built around the man, the family, and the business. Find out more at https://frontrowdads.com/live Follow Rudi: @rudiriekstins on Instagram, rudiriekstins.com, and the InPowered Life Podcast.
- 3 weeks ago13 min
Is It Ever Okay to Put Work Before Family?
Jon has spent ten years telling men to put family first. For the last two months he's worked dawn to dinner, some weeks seven days straight, and he thinks that's okay. This is Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no editing. Just Jon on an early morning walk by a pond in his neighborhood, talking to you the way he would if you were buddies and you asked him, "What's real in your world?" You'll hear wind and a few geese. That's part of it. His answer this morning: there are seasons when a man should go all in. When the bison come through, you go hunt. Tell your family it's coming, give it an end date, and keep brothers around who will bring you home when it's over. He also thinks your kids should see it: "I think it's great for the kids to see dad go do something, to go climb that mountain." Front Row Dads is a brotherhood of family men with businesses, not businessmen with families. Learn more at frontrowdads.com
- 3 weeks ago18 min
The 7-Part Family Meeting Built on Business Principles w/ Ryan Levesque
Our biggest event of the year is now open to the public. Find out more and experience the best of FRD. Https://frontrowdads.com/live Ryan Levesque runs meeting rhythms for a living. So he installed one at home, and he knew that if he walked in announcing it, it would go badly. He rolled it out the way he rolls out anything at the company. One piece a week for six or seven weeks, with his kids at four and seven and his wife the skeptic. What they ended up with is seven parts, every Sunday morning after breakfast, thirty to forty-five minutes. The date. Wins. Gratitude that has to be specific. A weekly challenge, which is how a seven-day vegan week happened at his son's suggestion. Family values the kids wrote, nineteen of them, cut down to five. Family goals that cannot come top down. And the week ahead. Stay for the last three minutes. He and Jon trade the dinner-table games their families use, question of the day and happy-crappy-healthy, and he finishes on the question that decides whether a ritual stays: but is it serving? IN THIS EPISODE Rolling it out with micro-commitments so nobody revolts All seven parts, named and walked through one at a time The weekly challenge, and the seven-day vegan week his son proposed Letting the kids write the family values, and cutting nineteen down to five Family goals distilled from an annual vision down to pages read this week Why none of it works if it comes top down Structure as the banks of a river Question of the day, and "happy crappy healthy" Knowing when to add something, and when to stop it FULL EPISODE https://frontrowdads.com/143 Looking for something to do as a family tonight? We crowdsourced a list of the best board games, card games, and everything in between from our own community — games that get the screens down and the family playing, laughing, and talking trash together after dinner or on a rainy Saturday. Some you can knock out in ten minutes. Some are a two-hour epic. Get the list at https://frontrowdads.com/games
- Oct 7, 20269 min
Your Influence as a Dad Doesn't Expire with Mark Groves
Mark Groves is 46 years old, and the conversation he keeps coming back to happened in a car when he was in his twenties with his father. He had gone to his father complaining about a girlfriend, and he had said something to her he is not proud of. His dad told him that a relationship is a separate entity. There is you, there is her, and there is the thing between you, and that third thing has to be cared for. Mark still remembers exactly where he was sitting. That is the point of this one. A father's influence does not switch off when his kids leave the house. IN THIS EPISODE The car conversation: a relationship is a separate entity Why a father's influence does not stop at eighteen "Nothing will ever divide this family," and what it did to hear it Learning to drive, the standard lines, and the egg under the gas pedal The construction site rule, and what happened when mom found out His father's first marriage, and "that's what I learned from it" Getting caught, and the grace his dad offered on the drive home Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is all about? The Brotherhood Experience is a free, one-hour online session where you meet other like-minded men who are committed to being family men with businesses, not businessmen with families. You will hear the core ethos and values behind the community, and why this brotherhood is a strategy for connecting with your kids, building a thriving marriage, and winning in business. It runs every month. Pick a time that works for you: https://frontrowdads.com/experience
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