2 Cent Dad Podcast

Luke Richey has a long history of founding companies in the gaming industry. He has pioneered augmented reality technology and worked with cutting edge virtual reality scientists. Today he talks about his journey to God and the miraculous path that brought him there. 

Jamie Exodus is the founder of Exodus 90 which is a fraternity for men to grow spiritually.  Jamie on LinkedIn Exodus website

Joel Lopez works with men to help them build strong marriages. https://twitter.com/TheeJoelLopez

Ross Simmonds is a father of 3 kids. He is a marketing mastermind in the areas of SaaS and all things digital creation. He hails from Nova Scotia.  Where to Find Ross https://rosssimmonds.com/ https://twitter.com/thecoolestcool/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosssimmonds/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3xtAETor7wKlNEVrH8OPAF?si=1a4bc39873a74481

Nate is the founder of New Founding , a venture firm in Dallas Texas. The mission of NF is to "Build the America you want to live in", and branded as "A venture firm for American vitality". He is also a father of 4 (soon to be 5). Where To Find Nate Nate on Twitter Nate on LinkedIn Nate's Venture Firm

Blake Smith - Founder of Allsmith and father of 6 talks about founding companies and families and the overlap between the two. We discuss what it means to be a team and focus less on the individual. Blake on twitter  

Bart Szaniewski is one of the founders and the current head of DadGang . HE shares the story of taking it from a side hustle fun idea to his current full-time gig. 

Brent Beshore runs a PE firm in Columbia Missouri named Permanent Equity with 9 portfolio companies and a current capital base in excess of $300 million. Brent is also a father and also an ex-atheist turned Christ follower. Where To Find Brent Brent's Twitter Brent's LinkedIn Permanent Equity website

Coach Lantz Howard joins the podcast. https://www.lantzhoward.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lantzhoward/

Chris is a 10X Ironman race finisher. He talked about fitness and the healthcare system. Chris is also a former Physical Therapist. He is really good at what he does and wants to spread his knowledge to the most people he can. Throughout the years, he has developed different techniques to incentivize and motivate people to care for their health and work on their fitness. Where to find Chris Chris...

Joe runs a company called Boxcar ( boxcar.com ), he is also a father of 5. We talked about trends in the world today, navigating business shifts, and raising our kids in a changing culture. There are many things we can talk about, like the environments where we live and how we feel comfortable managing time and resources to engage in life properly. However, filling the gaps in his company when it...

It's all about attachment. At least that's what Adam Lane Smith would say, who is a master psychologist, retired psychotherapist, and now an attachment specialist. He joins the 2 Cent Dad podcast today to talk about how a lot of issues that we face in our marriages, in our relationships, and even with our kids stem from our own attachment issues, often attachment issues that have come up from our...

You probably contribute to a 401K or an IRA or some other investment account to save for your retirement. That's normal. Well, today's guest, Nate Dean, is gonna talk about a concept called the infinite banking concept, and it flips things kind of on its head. When you talk about retirement, when you talk about saving, when you talk about financing, vehicles, cars, that sort of thing, and super in...

When you think about families, do you think about a nest? Or do you think about a multi-generational family that you're contributing to a legacy? Most Western families think about a nest and they think about getting the kids out of the nest. My guest today, Jeremy Pryor, who runs familyteams.com really flips that on its head and instead talks about a multi-generational family and how we should vie...

Nathan is the founder of HealthBar ( https://healthbar.com/ ) and is working to provide an alternative to the current system by streamlining it and removing waste in the system. Where To Find Nathan Nathan Baar on LinkedIn Health Bar Website

Classical Education, what is it? Maybe you have heard some about it or you have been following the complete disruption of the education system in the USA. I talk with Jeremy Tate, the founder of CLT about the history of education and what is happening in K-12 as well as higher ed right now. Where To Find Jeremy Jeremy on Twitter CLT Website Anchored podcast Links Mention Battle for the American Mi...

Tex joins us to talk about re-igniting his marriage through a return to more "traditional" roles. Hitting on the "dom/sub" relationship he has with his wife and his journey to help young men lead better. Where to find Tex? Twitter https://twitter.com/TexasDom1 Blog Link https://texasdom.com/bio/ Transcription below (May contain typos...): Mike: [00:00:00] [00:00:00] today we got texts on the show....

"In other discipline, at some point you have someone working with you to take you to the next level. Every single professional athlete has a coach because they reached the limit of what they can do on their own." -Ryan Vaughn If one of your employees or team members came to you and said they were feeling overwhelmed and overworked, needing a break, what would you do? Like any great leader you woul...

"I completely numbed myself out because it's like, you know, what do you do if your kid's stuck under the car? Like. You lift up the car, you find a way, and if it feels like your, your arms are going to come out of their sockets, will you keep holding until they crawl out from underneath the car? You don't know where you find the energy you just, you just do. Right. It was like that, you know, yo...

Summary High education is in crisis. Student debt in the USA is now past $1.6 Trillion and many students are coming out ill-equipped as well as disillusioned. Josh Sabo is trying to help students caught up in this. He is the founder of a non-profit called "The Industry". They help people sort out their careers and life, to develop a plan that sets them up for success in each area. Where to Find Jo...

Ryan Seamons is a father of 5, the founder or Groove , and also a friend. They make physical products to help people have meaningful conversations about work and their careers. So much of that carries over to life at home and how we think about the paths that we are on. A great conversation about making time to have conversations with each other and ourselves to craft the best future. Where To Fin...

As a father of four children with an entrepreneurial wife who worked almost every Saturday, Justin quickly found himself alone, overwhelmed and outnumbered on Saturdays. He woke up one Saturday ready to make a change and armed with a game plan to engage my children in an intentional way.  A trampoline, a GoPro, and 500 water balloons resulted in an incredible day with my children and he knew he wa...

Tyler is a ball of energy and has a ton of wisdom to shore through struggles in his marriage and life. A "normal guy" in many way which makes him approachable but very abnormal in the way he approaches life and the energy that he brings. Find Tyler on twitter ( https://twitter.com/tyromper ) Where to find Tyler: https://twitter.com/jerryteixeira https://twitter.com/jackdcoulson Nail in the head vi...

Zac Small runs a mastermind group for men called Fraternity of Excellence. He is helping men become the best versions of themselves and lead their family well. He shares a bit about what the group is and why it is needed. Where To Find Zac Fraternity of Excellence - https://fraternityofexcellence.com/ Blog - https://thefamilyalpha.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ZacSmall_ Zac: [00:00:00]  [00:0...

Struggling is essential to learning. We know this intuitively but it’s easy to forget with kids. It’s also a careful balance of letting our kids struggle while offering them just enough guidance in the process. The topic of struggling moments is what today’s guest specializes in. He helps companies with innovation by identifying these moments. He’s also a father of 4 and we talk about some of the...