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How to Become a Bigger Influence in Your Kids’ Lives? | Podcast with lamont lomax

Lamont Lomax talks about raising three children, navigating co-parenting, and using curiosity and consistency to stay influential in his kids’ lives.

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How to Become a Bigger Influence in Your Kids’ Lives? | Podcast with lamont lomax

Lamont Lomax talks about raising three children, navigating co-parenting, and using curiosity and consistency to stay influential in his kids’ lives.

Only Smart Men Will Need This Video

Pat examines what to do when your behavior contradicts your values and introduces a small daily action for closing that gap.

The Difference Between Controlling Your Child and Teaching Them | Podcast with Brennan Falks

Pat and Brennan Falks discuss teaching through principles, regulating your tone, and using humility and repair to help children learn.

The Tools Real Men Collect

Pat uses the tools in his workshop to explain how to pick a personal development tool, practice with it, and apply it to a real problem.

Helicopter parents won't like these, but good parents will

Pat uses child-friendly kitchen knives to show how involving kids in real household tasks can build skill, confidence, and a sense of contribution.

Parenting strategies for emotional resilience | Podcast with Michael Mahoney

Michael Mahoney shares a technique for coming back to the present when triggered and discusses how parents can model emotional regulation for their kids.

do this if you have failed to quit the big 3 before

Pat explores what drives compulsive drinking, porn use, and scrolling and offers questions for identifying the need or feeling behind the urge.

Is the supplement you are taking a waste of money?

Pat walks through how he checks supplement marketing against the evidence for the ingredients and the claims made about a specific product.

A Reckoning Is Coming..

Pat reflects on the distance between the character men admire and the habits they live by, and on the effort it takes to bring those together.

How to Not Hate Reading to Your Kids

Pat shares ways to make reading aloud more enjoyable for both parent and child so it becomes time they look forward to together.

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