The Real Dad Podcast

Sometimes all we need is that “heart feeling” to push us in the right direction. Where to direct our time and energy, and even our finances.  Do you wait for the opportunity? Or do you create it?

Tis the season! What are your Christmas traditions? Is it something you celebrate? In the second half Joey let’s us into his very new therapy journey and what he’s learning right off the hop. 

First off this episode starts with a BIG congratulations to Mark and the successful release of his new Children's Book  "Princess Peonie". Super proud of this dude. Somewhere along the line we get into the topic of failure. This topic comes up every frequently but this time in regards to what our personal relationship is with the word. 

With Movember upon us, we take some time to talk about how we're doing, struggles we may be having, and the things we can do to help get us through difficult seasons in our lives. 

October is a big month in the Kenney household. Dave shares his and his wife's tips on how to get through the busy birthday season in one piece... mostly. 

Back to find out how Joey made out? If you haven’t been scared away by this point, you’ll really enjoy Part 2. 

Let's make this perfectly clear, there's a whole lot of conversation about male genitalia in this episode. The four of us, plus our #1 listener Brent Walker, have reached a point in our lives where the vasectomy conversation has become about as common as talking about the latest devastating Toronto (enter team here) loss. Some have had the procedure already and felt it was extremely impo...

Have you had the pleasure of travelling with young children? All we'll say is, think long and hard about how badly  you want to go on this trip, and set your expectations real low. One more thing, visit us on instagram, @brolawsrus and tell us who your favourite TV dad is. 

How do you and your partner team up as parents? Do your kids change their behaviour depending on which parent is home? Are you the Dad that throws schedule and routine out the window when you're solo parenting, or do you try to step into the role of the Primary caregiver? Can we all just agree that raising kids is hard?

That was quite the summer. Mark has finally returned to us and has some wisdom to share about his experience.  

We didn't enjoy it, but we recorded this episode without our guy Mark. Naturally, this brought up some discussion about the fear of missing out (FOMO) As an adult, is this still a thing for you? Let us know if it's something you struggle with and how you deal with it. 

We all get it. We've all been there. How do you handle the cold? And if you have a partner, how has their support for this very difficult time changed if you now have children? 

We like to talk a lot about the importance of self talk/personal affirmation.  We encourage people to tell themselves that they are "enough", but what do this actually mean? What does being enough mean to you?

We thought it was time to call in an expert to talk about what healthy eating actually looks like. We discuss some common misconceptions about what is healthy, what isn't healthy, and how to figure out what is best for you. 

2022 is off to a pretty crazy start for the BroLaws. We collectively avoided Covid for over 2 years, but we were finally hit. Joey takes us through their experience.

It's the truth you want to know, but is it worth the loss of trust from one child to another? How to handle the tattletale, and handle tough/awkward questions from our kids. 

Is it possible to find middle ground anymore? We seem to be moving from one polarized issue to the next these days. How do we talk  about it? 

A fun new tradition has started. Every year we gather for our BroLaws Christmas party with whoever is part of the crew at the time and record an episode during the festivities. The first one was a bit of a gong show. Tune in to see how it all went this year. 

NFT's are very new to us, and so is Cryptocurrency. What are they? And does any of it really matter?  Or is it only a matter of time before the world is uninhabitable? We'd recommend staying away from Youtube if you don't want to know the answer.  

It's a new year! What could be more cliche than starting off the year with a new health plan? Nothing! And who loves a good cliche? We do! Come find out why we're calling it our "health challenge" and how we plan to go about it without becoming yet another cliche. 

Let's celebrate our successes, discuss our hardships and have a good laugh as we discuss what we've been through as a company this year and what's to come. 

The four of us grew up in a time where sharing how you're feeling emotionally, mentally, and physically wasn't really encouraged to say the least. Here we discuss a little bit about how we were brought up, what we're struggling with, and how we would like to change the conversation going forward

Just having a little fun this episode talking about our love for Golf and pretty much every sport. At some point we steer the conversation to parenting and what we look forward to with our own kids getting into sports. 

As the years go by, so much about our lives is changing. Whether it's our bodies, our beliefs, or our relationships, all of these things can change drastically over time through struggle, or simply learning more about the world and ourselves. Learn about how these changes are impacting our lives in this episode. 

As our good friend Brent Walker would say, “you gotta take care of the temple”. So, we did it. We put a gym in the shop and the training begins. BrOlympics here we come.