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Fatherhood, daughters, and practical growth.
Dads With Daughters pairs fatherhood stories with practical guidance from dads and resource-focused guests. Episodes move from everyday family moments to bigger questions about resilience, confidence, consent, adoption, relationships, and staying present as daughters grow.
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Dads With Daughters is a parenting interview show about the ongoing work of fathering girls. It has a clear center. The show returns again and again to active presence, emotional steadiness, and the hope that daughters grow into strong, independent women. Its conversations are practical rather than glossy, with guests sharing lived experience, parenting tools, and moments when fatherhood forced them to adjust. Some episodes start with ordinary family pressure. A baby monitor app crashes, a parent panics, and a larger conversation opens about technology, trust, and what families actually need at night. Other episodes focus on emotional growth, asking how fathers can respond when a daughter struggles with a test, fights with a friend, or has to learn from disappointment. The show makes room for tenderness. It also talks about hard skills: listening without rushing to fix, letting children face manageable conflict, and adapting a parenting style to each child. Recent guests bring a wide range of stories. Kevin Lavelle connects entrepreneurship, family life, and sleep innovation. Dr. Tovah Klein offers language for resilience and emotional development. Vincent Micelli and daughters talk about shared stories becoming books and family memories. Katie Koestner discusses consent, communication, and healthier relationships. Travis Hawkley reflects on change, limiting beliefs, and tailoring fatherhood. Nick Adams brings tools for authentic manhood. Rodney White speaks from family experience about confidence during the middle-school years and beyond. Dr. Ryan Senters brings adoption, foster care, and fatherhood strategy into the frame. The result is earnest, repetitive in its mission, and grounded in fathers trying to do better with the information they have.
Made for: For fathers of daughters who want thoughtful, experience-based guidance on staying present, communicating well, and raising confident children. It especially suits listeners who prefer earnest interviews over quick parenting hacks.
What sets it apart: The show keeps its focus tightly on father-daughter relationships while drawing from dads and resource-focused guests with very different family histories. Its strength is the mix of everyday parenting details and bigger developmental themes.
Dads with Daughters strives to create a supportive online community that highlights promising practices for fathers to better understand themselves and their daughters while encouraging and helping fathers be active participants in their daughters lives raising them to be strong independent women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations turn the broad work of raising daughters into specific questions about presence, resilience, relationships, technology, and shared family life.
Dads With Daughters w/ Dr. Christopher Lewis treats fatherhood as a practice that keeps changing with the child. Dr. Christopher Lewis builds guest conversations around a practical question: how can a father become more present, thoughtful, and useful in his daughter's life?
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A founder's fatherhood story shaped by practical baby-monitor decisions.
Kevin Lavelle's conversation treats fatherhood as a practical systems problem, moving from the aim of being present for daughters to the overnight scramble when a baby monitor app crashes.
A calm, practical conversation about helping daughters handle disappointment and build resilience.
Dr. Tova Klein's conversation on Dads With Daughters keeps its focus on resilient children, especially daughters, and on the small moments that shape everyday parenting.
Vincent Maselli turns a family make-believe into books, with real fish, years of resistance, and a lively page-count debate.
Vincent Maselli comes across as warm, grounded, and quietly persistent as he traces how the Zuko stories moved from family improvisation to printed books.
A relationship discussion that links daughter safety, equity, and independence to how couples handle disagreement.
Katie Kessner and Chris keep the focus on relationships, equity, and the habits that help daughters grow into strong, independent women. The conversation stays grounded in everyday judgment: how a daughter can tell whether a partner values what she brings, how to think about…
A reflective fatherhood conversation about learning, change, and dads showing up together.
Dads With Daughters keeps its focus on a familiar pressure point: fathers have to keep learning as their daughters grow, and that work is easier when dads do not try to do it alone.
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
A podcast for fathers raising daughters, featuring interviews and advice to help dads be active participants in their daughters' lives.
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Kevin Lavelle, co-founder and CEO of Harbor, links his fatherhood philosophy to a sleep-tech company built after a Nanit app crash and years of parent feedback.
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Lawyer Vincent Maselli appears on Dads with Daughters alongside his daughters Matea, 18, and Luciana, 15, to discuss 'The Last Triceracorn,' a two-book fantasy series he wrote based on bedtime stories he improvised for the girls starting when Matea was three or four years old.
Katie Kessner tells Dads With Daughters w/ Dr.
A podcast for fathers raising daughters, offering advice, resources, and interviews to help dads be active and present in their daughters' lives.
A podcast helping fathers raise strong, independent daughters through interviews and resources.