Dad Up Podcast

Ep. 315 - The Evolution Of Dad Up | Ron Haywood & Bryan Ward

🎙️ Welcome to the 6th Year Anniversary Special of the Dad Up Podcast! 🟫 The Evolution Of Dad Up | Ron Haywood & Bryan Ward | Ep. 315 👉 Welcome to a very special milestone episode of the Dad Up Podcast — our 6-Year Anniversary! 👉 To celebrate, I brought back Ron Haywood, the man who kicked it all off as my very first guest on the show. 👉 Ron isn’t just a returning guest — he’s a championship basketball coach, husband, and father who continues to lead both on and off the court. 👉 In this episode, we reflect on how far the show and fatherhood have come over the last six years. 👉 We also talk about our time coaching together and how successful the team was and how fun it was to coach together. 👉 Ron shares his wisdom on leadership, family, and building a championship mindset at home and in life. 👉 This one is filled with reflection, laughs, and powerful lessons every dad needs to hear. 👉 Join us as we celebrate 6 incredible years of helping fathers grow, lead, and break cycles. 👉 Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with your friends and families you know that may be trying to successfully coparent. 👉 Links are in my bio or in the show notes! Dad Up! Where Fathers Break Cycles & Build Legacies. 📞 Contact with Bryan Ward: ✅ Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast ✅ Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast ✅ Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 ✅ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe 📞 Contact with Ron Haywood: ✅ Ron Haywood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doowyah2?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== ✅ Ron Haywood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.haywood2?mibextid=wwXIfr

Ep. 314 - Building A Life Of Purpose With Campire Gentleman | Clay Garrett and Bryan Ward

🎙️ Welcome to a new episode of the Dad Up Podcast! 🟫 Building A Life Of Purpose With Campire Gentleman | Clay Garrett & Bryan Ward | Ep. 314 👉 In this powerful episode of the Dad Up Podcast, host Bryan Ward sits down with Clay Garrett, husband, father of two, and creator of Campfire Gentleman a movement built to help men lead meaningful, grounded lives centered around what truly matters: Family, Purpose, Growth, Health, and Simplicity. 👉 Clay shares his personal story of transformation, from a 20-year career in corporate graphic design, to a complete reset during COVID that redefined his views on success, fatherhood, and living intentionally. 👉 Through his platform and weekly newsletter (now reaching over 3,000 subscribers and 1,200 engaged readers), Clay provides honest reflections and practical tools for men who want to show up fully at home and in life. 👉 In this conversation, Bryan and Clay discuss: 👉 How men can redefine success beyond career titles. 👉 Small daily habits that strengthen family connection. 👉 Why being a dad who continues to grow is one of the greatest gifts to your kids. 👉 The five pillars of the Campfire Gentleman: Family, Purpose, Growth, Health, and Simplicity. 👉 How to slow down, show up, and lead intentionally in a distracted world. 👉 If you’re a dad who’s ready to lead with purpose, this episode will light a fire within you to live intentionally and build a life that truly matters. 👉 Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with your friends and families you know that may be trying to successfully coparent. 👉 Links are in my bio or in the show notes! Dad Up! Where Fathers Break Cycles & Build Legacies. 📞 Contact with Bryan Ward: ✅ Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast ✅ Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast ✅ Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 ✅ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe 📞 Contact with Clay Garrett: ✅ Clay Garrett Website: Campfire Gentleman ✅ Clay Garrett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/campfiregentleman ✅ Clay Garrett Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campfiregentleman?mibextid=wwXIfr ✅ Clay Garrett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clay-garrett

Ep. 313 - Making It Up - Christopher Mannino and Bryan Ward

🎙️ Welcome to a new episode of the Dad Up Podcast! 🟫 Making It Up | Christopher Mannino & Bryan Ward | Ep. 313 👉 Christopher Mannino's writing journey began when he was stranded on the Cornish coast at the supposed birthplace of King Arthur. The experience inspired The Scythe Wielder's Secret. 👉 He studied mythology, theatre, and literature both in the US and at Oxford. 👉 A former theatre teacher, he is a digital nomad currently residing in Malta with his wife and two inspiring children. 👉 He continues to write both fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. In addition, as a freelancer he is most known for his work with Business Insider where he has amassed over 4.5 million readers. 👉 Christopher Mannino is an expert at helping parents and kids connect better. You can learn more through his most recent book called Making It Up. 👉 Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with your friends and families you know that may be trying to successfully coparent. 👉 Links are in my bio or in the show notes! Dad Up! Where Fathers Break Cycles & Build Legacies. 📞 Contact with Bryan Ward: ✅ Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast ✅ Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast ✅ Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 ✅ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe 📞 Contact with Christopher Mannino: ✅ Christopher Mannino Website: http://www.christophermannino.com/ ✅ Christopher Mannino Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christophermannino/ ✅ Christopher Mannino Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CTMannino ✅ Preorder Link for Making It Up https://www.amazon.com/Making-Up-Revolutionary-Bond-Through-ebook/dp/

Ep. 312 - Work From Home Dads | Thom Gibson & Bryan Ward

🎙️ Welcome to a new episode of the Dad Up Podcast! 🟫 Work From Home Dads | Thom Gibson & Bryan Ward | Ep. 312 👉 Thom Gibson – Founder of WFH Dads & Creator of the 6-Hour Workday Playbook 👉 Thom Gibson is on a mission to help work-from-home dads reclaim their time, refocus their energy, and redefine what fatherhood and productivity can look like. 👉 As the founder of WFH Dads, Thom creates actionable tools and strategies specifically designed for fathers balancing the demands of career and family life without sacrificing either. 👉 In this episode, Thom shares powerful insights from his 6-Hour Workday Playbook, a proven framework that helps dads build more time, focus on what matters most, and create deeper connections at home. Together, we explore: • The Time Freedom Framework – How to audit and reclaim hours each week using automation, delegation, elimination, and renegotiation. • Weekly Partner Conversations – Real scripts and examples for aligning with your spouse and preventing work from invading family time. • The Weekly Map & Daily MITs – A practical planning system to prioritize your most important tasks and eliminate wasted effort. 👉 Thom’s mission is simple but life-changing: help dads design work lives that serve their families, not steal from them. 👉 And as a special bonus, Thom is sharing his 6-Hour Workday Playbook FREE for all listeners. 👉 Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with your friends and families you know that may be trying to successfully coparent. 👉 Links are in my bio or in the show notes! Dad Up! Where Fathers Break Cycles & Build Legacies. 📞 Contact with Bryan Ward: ✅ Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast ✅ Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast ✅ Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 ✅ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe 📞 Contact with Thom Gibson: ✅ Work From Home Website: Posts | Work-From-Home Dads ✅ Thom Gibson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wfh.dads?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== ✅ Thom Gibson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomgibson?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Ep. 311 - The Preparation: Building Competence, Confidence & Real-World Skills | Matt Smith & Bryan

🎙️ Welcome to a new episode of the Dad Up Podcast! 🟫 The Preparation: Building Competence, Confidence & Real-World Skills | Matt Smith & Bryan Ward | Ep. 311 👉 In this episode of The Dad Up Podcast, I’m joined by Matt Smith, an American entrepreneur, economic commentator, and co-author of The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous. 👉 After relocating to Uruguay in 2021, Matt now operates a regenerative cattle ranch while co-hosting Doug Casey’s Take, a top podcast offering deep insights into global markets, monetary policy, and geopolitical trends. 👉 Together with legendary investor Doug Casey and his 20-year-old son Maxim, Matt co-authored The Preparation, a groundbreaking roadmap for young men that replaces the broken college system with 16 real-world “cycles” of growth, skill-building, and philosophy. 👉 From EMT training and firefighting to entrepreneurship, welding, and aviation, this book gives the next generation the blueprint to build competence, confidence, and independence, without student debt. 👉 You’ll hear how The Preparation is reshaping what it means to grow into manhood, why traditional education fails to equip young adults for life, and how fathers can guide their sons to become capable, self-reliant men ready to take on the world. 👉 What We Talk About: * The truth about college and modern education * What it really means to be “competent, confident, and dangerous” * Building real-world skills that create freedom and purpose * How fathers can mentor their sons through The Preparation model 👉 Featured Book: The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous by Doug Casey, Matt Smith, and Maxim Smith, available now on Amazon. 👉 Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with your friends and families you know that may be trying to successfully coparent. 👉 Links are in my bio or in the show notes! Dad Up! Where Fathers Break Cycles & Build Legacies. 📞 Contact with Bryan Ward: ✅ Dad Up Instagram: https://instagram.com/daduppodcast ✅ Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast ✅ Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 ✅ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe 📞 Contact with Matt Smith: ✅ The Preparation Book: https://a.co/d/36Bv27H ✅ The Preparation Website: The Preparation is not just a book ✅ Matt Smith Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingstoic?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==