Developing Dads Podcast

In this episode, we explore where you spend more of your time and how it's so important to choose a suitable partner, cherish the early days of your kids growing up and deal with being alone for a lot of that time.

In this episode, we explore Neil's new moustache. We also discuss the idea of what it means to give to charity. Is it something that is stoking the status game or purely because people are selfless? Do we need to complete a challenge to ask people to donate to charity?

In this episode, we have another random dad chat. Covering a number of things but more notably how we discipline our kids. Do we take the talking route where we negotiate or do we just lay down the law?

In this episode, we explore how we navigate and 'get over' the hard times we've experienced in our lives.

In this episode, we discuss how we protect our kids from lots of different dangers that are out there. From the physical to the mental. We also explore how we balance this with ensuring our kids aren't 'wrapped in cotton wool'.

In this episode, we explore whether or not you should have kids. Considering things like time, money, sleep and even discussing the transformation you need, as a man, in your ego.

In this episode, we reveal everything that happened on Neil's stag do.

In this episode, we explore how we set out our priorities.

In this episode, we go into how we struggle with time as dads. What kind of commitments we make, how they serve us and how we ultimately choose. Apart from that, it's also full of random dad chat and an invasion from Neils kids lol

In this episode, we explore how having kids changes the way you think. The decisions you make in your twenties can be so much freer and even wasteful. As a dad, there's a clear choice. You either spend your time with your kids and partner or you don't. When you don't it better be worth it.

In this episode, we discuss what our retirement looks like. What do we dream about it and what are we practically doing to get there? We also discuss a number of other aspects of dad life with Olivia taking her first steps and Neil managing to party until 1 am.

In this episode we discover Neil manage to save BrewDog James's life. Well not quite but he certainly helped him when he had a pretty awful accident. We also run through a bunch of random dad chats we have been thinking about recently. From never setting goals to the crazy thing that is Tik Tok and how it compares to YouTube.

In this episode we discuss whether or not we are ok putting our kids out on the internet. From the risks to the benefits. We even stretch into the idea that kids in the future might end up sueing their parents.

In this episode, we explore how we've assessed risk before kids vs now having a family. Looking at things like buying your first house, living with more pressure and tips for breaking things down.

In this episode we explore the first year as a dad. Olivia (Gordon's daughter) has turned 1 so we go through how things have been. From intial shock through to stuff we've prioritised in the first year.

In this episode we explore mental health. After Paddy 'the baddy' Pimblett heart warming speech following his UFC win about his friend committing suicide. Mental health is something we've both never knowingly suffered with. That being said we go into our history with mental health and when we, perhaps have suffered with our own mental health. From Neil going from 1 to 3 kids in one swoop and how G...

In this episode we discuss Neils journey losing his job in 2013 after the oil crash in Aberdeen. From having 30-days to figure out what he was going to do to what it feels like being a dad and facing this kind of adversity.

In this episode we explore what we think our current purpose is, how we've defined it and what we are doing to work toward it. We also try to help understand how purpose has changed throughout our lives from unencumbered 20 somethings to now dads.

In this episode, we go through the ins and outs of how we travel with our family. From things we've bought to how to entertain them on a long flight.

In this episode, we run through how the first 6-months of the year have gone. Review the goals we set in episode one and how much progress we have made on them.

In this episode, I ask Neil loads of questions that he doesn't know are coming. We talk about how he wanted to move to Orkney and not tell me about it to his fondest childhood memories.

In this episode, we catch up after taking a week off podcasting. This one is in person for a change so we cover all kinds of topics from fathers rights to is there a God.

In this episode, we run through a few tips and tricks to help dads stay fit, and healthy and solutions to switching off from a hectic life. We cover everything from time auditing, nap times and how to destress.

In this episode, we delve into part 2 of the birth stories from a dad's perspective. We go into Neil having his second round in a birthing suite. This time with twins on the way. I try to delve into things a little deeper and expand on some of what we went through in part 1.

In this episode, we explore some hard moments of being dads. From Neil surviving having twins after already having one to Gordon helping his wife through the tough 2-4 weeks post birth and worrying about the baby blues.