Fatherhood Podcasts

The most structured shows build fatherhood on Christian belief. In The Fatherhood Challenge Podcast & Radio Program's 7 Traits of Effective Parenting, a guest who spent 11 years as a family-focused therapist turns God's question in Genesis, "where are you?", into a prompt that helps children look at what is going on inside them. The same show takes on custody in The Mother of All Advocates, where a mother who campaigns for fathers argues that rulings can turn on which judge you draw. It covers school meetings in Strength and Strategy for Special Needs Dads, whose guest urges preparation and humility at a first IEP meeting, "not going in with guns loaded." The Special Needs Parenting page picks up that thread.

DadAwesome, hosted by Jeff Zogg, turns inward. In DA430 | Core Memories, Unhealed Wounds, and What It Looks Like When a Dad Does the Inner Work (Mark Odland), Odland, a therapist, describes a shoulder-tapping exercise that he calls a mini intervention for a child stuck on a guilty memory. Near the end, Zogg prays that listeners will try one session with a Christian counselor. DA429 | Loaded Guns, Unprocessed Grief, and the Dad Who Can't Regulate His Own Emotions with Seth Dahl travels from teenagers' phones to a blunt line: "we as dads typically tend to control other people instead of controlling ourselves."

Against those longer interviews, The Daily Dad, read by Ryan Holiday, fits a short drive. First Camping Trip With Kids (What Could Go Wrong?) runs 14 minutes, with a sponsor read near the start. Its payoff is small and exact: Holiday's son, snuggled up one morning, calls it the "best camping trip ever." Weekend editions go deeper and sometimes bring in Holiday's wife, Samantha. Parenting Reminders You'll Need in 2026 takes in co-regulation: the idea that whatever an adult's nervous system is doing lends itself to a child's.

Dads With Daughters w/ Dr. Christopher Lewis narrows the lens. In Empowering Daughters Through Consent and Communication with Katie Koestner, Koestner, director of the Take Back the Night Foundation, gives fathers three sentences for a daughter who discloses an assault. The first is "I'm so glad you trusted me enough to tell me." She then covers medical care and evidence collection in frank detail. Near the end, a theme song admits: "We're all in the same boat, and it's full of tiny screaming passengers."

Dadcast - Misadventures in parenting puts a group of dads around listener questions. In The Dadcast S3 Ep.12 | Friendship fallouts, posting your kids & new dad essentials! they weigh rough play, a four-year-old's hunger for jerseys and a 10-year-old's lost friend, insisting that "the heartbreak they feel is real." Another episode wrestles with bedtime on bright summer evenings, so the Baby & Child Sleep page sits close by.

Dads Friends and Tequila is looser. A Serious Conversation on Masculinity and Emotion in Parenting runs 89 minutes, with a game, basketball tangents and plenty of swearing around talk of confidence and sons. Call of Duty Black Dads Podcast is just as unfiltered. In Dads Mental Health, one host recalls his father saying God was his therapist, then argues for professional help, in a conversation that touches on suicide. Near the end comes the sign-off: "Be responsible. Raise your damn kids."

World's Greatest Dad with Ali & Neil, hosted by Ali Khan and Neil Padover, wanders on purpose. Early in Ernest Servantes: From Teenage Dad to Texas BBQ Legend, talk of barbecue pits gets reeled in with "we're here to talk about parenting." The episode later weighs the backlash to gentle parenting, a subject the Gentle & Positive Parenting page also covers. It carries an ad for cannabis delivery, which is worth knowing before a family car ride. Dave Berry's Dadpod trades on famous guests. In Jack Dee, the advice that has stuck with the guest is to keep communication with your kids open.

Two Dud Dads is built for the expectant father, with Bex, a women's health expert and doula, alongside the hosts. In Two Dud Dads - Episode Four - Preparing For Splashdown she describes a class she ran for partners over a beer, where the dumb questions come first and everyone is reminded to pack their own toothbrush. In Two Dud Dads - Episode Six - Splashdown, the guest gives the partner at the birth a simple job: hold her hand and tell her she is doing an amazing job.