Ranked #1
Parenting is the Art of Poorly Calculating Risk: Can We Keep Kids Safe and Should We Try?
Parenting is the Art of Poorly Calculating Risk: Can We Keep Kids Safe and Should We Try?
Joshua David Stein and Jason Gay discuss their different approaches to managing risks and danger. Eager to hear from an ... Read more
3 Jan 2019
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #2
Chef Massimo Bottura, the visionary chef, is as creative as a dad as he is in his kitchen. He has to be.
Chef Massimo Bottura, the visionary chef, is as creative as a dad as he is in his kitchen. He has to be.
In the final episode of the first season, Joshua David Stein sits down with Massimo Bottura, who runs one of the best re... Read more
12 Dec 2017
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35mins
Ranked #3
Tom Colicchio on Wrestling with the Past Plus A Conversation with a 7-Year-Old Bowhunting Beauty Queen
Tom Colicchio on Wrestling with the Past Plus A Conversation with a 7-Year-Old Bowhunting Beauty Queen
This week Joshua David Stein is joined with chef Tom Colicchio (Top Chef) to discuss hunger in America, and the struggle... Read more
7 Nov 2017
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #4
Children Have Horrible Taste in Music: Can They Rise Above Baby Shark?
Children Have Horrible Taste in Music: Can They Rise Above Baby Shark?
There is a world of incredible music out there, most of which we can access through our phones, and yet our kids are obs... Read more
31 Jan 2019
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41mins
Ranked #5
Searching for Peace and Quiet: Can We Support Our Kids If We're Stuck in Our Monkey Minds?
Searching for Peace and Quiet: Can We Support Our Kids If We're Stuck in Our Monkey Minds?
It's hard enough to feel centered in the dumpster fire that is modern life, but being a parent can make it even harder. ... Read more
28 Feb 2019
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51mins
Ranked #6
You Still Gotta Live With You: How Can Fathers Living With Mental Illness Prioritize Their Kids?
You Still Gotta Live With You: How Can Fathers Living With Mental Illness Prioritize Their Kids?
In an intensely personal episode, Fatherly Podcast host Joshua David Stein speaks with his co-host, Jason Gay, and found... Read more
21 Feb 2019
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1hr
Ranked #7
At Home with Gay Talese
At Home with Gay Talese
This week, Joshua David Stein visits the legendary writer Gay Talese in his home to discuss famous fathers, famous sons ... Read more
28 Nov 2017
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45mins
Ranked #8
A Father Remembers: Mark Barden of Sandy Hook Promise on his Son, Daniel Barden
A Father Remembers: Mark Barden of Sandy Hook Promise on his Son, Daniel Barden
This week we mark the fifth anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School by listening to one father, Mark... Read more
5 Dec 2017
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18mins
Ranked #9
Life on the Wire: A conversation with Nik Wallenda, plus revisiting the Marshmallow Experiment
Life on the Wire: A conversation with Nik Wallenda, plus revisiting the Marshmallow Experiment
In this episode Joshua David Stein is joined by Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation highwire walker. Wallenda opens up ab... Read more
14 Nov 2017
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #10
The Planet Is a Literal Hot Mess: How Bad Is It, and How Do We Help Our Kids Deal?
The Planet Is a Literal Hot Mess: How Bad Is It, and How Do We Help Our Kids Deal?
Joshua David Stein and Jason Gay try to wrap their heads around the horror movie that is climate change with help from D... Read more
24 Jan 2019
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38mins
Ranked #11
Singing the Screentime Blues: Is the Internet Doing a Good Job Raising Our Kids?
Singing the Screentime Blues: Is the Internet Doing a Good Job Raising Our Kids?
All modern parents worry about screen time and internet exposure. Should they? On a search for answers, Joshua David Ste... Read more
17 Jan 2019
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40mins
Ranked #12
Chefs: Talking to Two Cooks about the Kitchen
Chefs: Talking to Two Cooks about the Kitchen
Josh and Jason talk to two of the most famous chefs of today, Daniel Boloud and the international superstar Jamie Oliver... Read more
7 Feb 2019
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50mins
Ranked #13
Catching up with Antonio Cromartie. Father of Fourteen
Catching up with Antonio Cromartie. Father of Fourteen
Antonio Cromartie, the NFL great and father of 14 — yes, 14 — on going from cornerback to stay-at-home dad and becoming ... Read more
20 Feb 2018
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40mins
Ranked #14
Luke Cage is Bulletproof and Weepy: Can We Be Superheroes to Our Kids?
Luke Cage is Bulletproof and Weepy: Can We Be Superheroes to Our Kids?
Joshua David Stein and new co-host (and "Wall Street Journal" columnist) Jason Gay speak to Mike Colter, the actor Ameri... Read more
27 Dec 2018
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40mins
Ranked #15
Parenting Costs Too Much: Why Are Family Finances So Hard to Manage?
Parenting Costs Too Much: Why Are Family Finances So Hard to Manage?
Being a parent is costly. And that's just the money.... This week, Fatherly Podcast host Joshua David Stein and co-host ... Read more
14 Mar 2019
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #16
The Best Children's Book Ever Hasn't Been Written: What Makes Great Literature for Kids?
The Best Children's Book Ever Hasn't Been Written: What Makes Great Literature for Kids?
Children's books are part of the fabric of parenthood. We read them. Then we read them again. We come to know them as we... Read more
26 Mar 2019
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58mins
Ranked #17
John Legend Is Our Father Award Honoree
John Legend Is Our Father Award Honoree
This episode we visit John Legend, producer, musician, activist, father of Luna and husband of Chrissy. Legend opens up ... Read more
8 Dec 2017
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30mins
Ranked #18
Choosing Your Battles: Do Parents Need to Fight for the World, Their Families, or Both?
Choosing Your Battles: Do Parents Need to Fight for the World, Their Families, or Both?
A peaceful gardener from the Lower East Side determined to make the world a better place left his newborn child to go fi... Read more
14 Feb 2019
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48mins
Ranked #19
Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?
Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?
New babies don't come with tons of injection-modeled nonsense, but it tends to wash up in their wake. But why is the inf... Read more
7 Mar 2019
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43mins
Ranked #20
Don't Trust the Sports Industrial Complex: Can Kids Live Fulfilling Lives Without Soccer?
Don't Trust the Sports Industrial Complex: Can Kids Live Fulfilling Lives Without Soccer?
Joshua David Stein, a physical education philistine, gets schooled on the social, emotional, and educational benefits of... Read more
10 Jan 2019
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42mins