Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman

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Since 2016, Front Row Dads has been the community for "family men with businesses, not businessmen with families". Weekly interviews on marriage, parenting, health, emotional intelligence, business and legacy. Learn about the brotherhood at FrontRowDads.com

  1. 6 hr ago

    Take Away Dad, Husband, Business Owner. Who's Left? | Walk With Jon

    The greatest gift you can give your kids has nothing to do with them. Episode 2 of Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no guest, no editing. Jon Vroman on a walking trail near his house, thinking out loud, this time with his dog Davy along for the walk. The audio is rough on purpose: wind, footsteps, and a dog on a leash are part of the deal. Jon has been doing interviews for the Front Row Dads book, due out late 2026 or early 2027, and two of those conversations ended up in the same place. The first was about the tagline, family men with businesses, not businessmen with families, and where it came from. In Jon's words, it was born out of failure: first he needed the $5,000 speech to take care of his family, then how could he say no to $10,000, then $30,000, because he was doing it for his family. The question he asks now: do our kids need that extra income, or do they need dad at home? The second was with a member whose daughter is about to leave home. Her advice to her dad: figure out who you are, and go do those things. That line is the seed of the whole walk, and where it lands is where Jon suspects the book lands too: "The greatest gift that you can give is self-love and self-respect." Not something you tell your kids. Something you model.   IN THIS WALK:   The Front Row Dads book: interviews underway, out late 2026 or early 2027 The $5,000 to $30,000 speaking fee trap, and hiding behind "I'm doing it for my family" A member's daughter with the best advice on the walk: figure out who you are, and go do those things James Van Der Beek, and the identity that survives when illness strips the others away Who is Jon without Tatiana? Why every unenforced boundary traces back to the same root: self-respect   Jon reads every reply. Send your thoughts to team@frontrowdads.com. And if this one hit home, share it with another brother and start the conversation. Front Row Dads is a brotherhood of family men with businesses, not businessmen with families. To learn more, go to frontrowdads.com.

  2. 1 day ago

    4 Dads Explain What They Wish They'd Known Before Their First Kid

    Fatherhood is a series of windows that open and close. The one you're leaving usually never opens again. For years we've been asking guests on this show some version of the same question: what do you wish you knew before your first kid? For the last day of NEW DAD WEEK, we pulled four of the best answers and put them back to back. No commentary, just four dads who've been through it telling you what they'd want you to know. You'll hear from Ryan Levesque, Michael Dietrich-Chastain, Farhan Rizvi, and Matt Baudro. Free field guide for the whole week at frontrowdads.com/newdad.   IN THIS EPISODE: Ryan Levesque: fatherhood is forever, and it's a series of windows that close. Remember to remember. Michael Dietrich-Chastain: expect reactivity from everyone, don't take it as an attack, and the hard roads are temporary. Stay in the "wow." Farhan Rizvi: have grace on yourself. Being a dad is like baseball, where a great batting average is in the .200s. Matt Baudro: step back and figure out who your kid actually is, then come alongside them, instead of trying to raise a smaller version of yourself.   THE FULL NEW DAD WEEK: Part 1: Listen, don't fix (Jason Kreidman) Part 2: What no one tells dads about postpartum (Suzanne Yatim Aslam) Part 3: Put your wife first (Steve Olsher) Part 4: Sleep survival (Mollie Eastman) Part 5: This one.

  3. 2 days ago

    How to Get Kids Sleepy Without Saying a Word

    You're exhausted, so we made this one short. Two things worth your tired attention. First, a nearly free trick for kids' bedtime that works with their biology instead of against it: no arguing, no negotiating, just light. And second, a genuinely kind word for couples who've been short with each other lately: sleep-deprived people are not their best selves, and that's not a character flaw. This is part of NEW DAD WEEK, five short episodes for expecting dads and dads in the first year. Free field guide for the whole week at frontrowdads.com/newdad. IN THIS EPISODE: The light trick: dim the house an hour before bed and watch your kids drift upstairs on their own Why light placement signals a child's body that it's time to sleep The 90-minute wind-down: big lights off, low lamps on Grace for the sleep-deprived marriage, and why weathering the season is the actual strategy This one came from a longer conversation about sleep, circadian rhythms, and why sleep is a skill you can build. Hear the full episode: frontrowdads.com/431   This is part of NEW DAD WEEK, five short episodes for expecting dads and dads in the first year. Free field guide for the whole week at frontrowdads.com/newdad.

  4. 3 days ago

    Want a Strong Family? DON'T Put the Kids First.

    We asked what advice he'd give a new dad. His answer had nothing to do with the baby.   Steve Olsher's advice for men entering fatherhood is to prioritize your wife, above the kids. It sounds backwards, especially when there's a newborn in the house who genuinely needs everything. But his reasoning is hard to argue with: the most important relationship in a family is the one between mom and dad, and when the two of you are off, the whole house feels it. He also makes an uncomfortable case that nearly every conflict traces back to one thing.   This is part of NEW DAD WEEK, five short episodes for expecting dads and dads in the first year. Free field guide for the whole week at frontrowdads.com/newdad.   IN THIS EPISODE: Why the strongest thing in your family is the relationship between the two of you What happens to couples who let the whole dynamic become about the kids The long view: one day they leave, and you're either with your best friend or a stranger Why 99 times out of 100 the fight was your fault How selfishness quietly runs most conflict, and what to do about it   Hear Steve's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/199.

  5. 4 days ago

    7 Signs Your Wife Is Struggling (That She'll Never Say Out Loud)

    Suzanne Yatim Aslam had postpartum depression after her son was born, and in this conversation she tells dads exactly what it looked like from the inside, including the part almost nobody says out loud: for a while, she blamed her baby for ruining her life. Her husband didn't know. She never asked for help. She just kept saying she was fine.   This is part of NEW DAD WEEK, five short episodes for expecting dads and dads in the first year. We built a free field guide to go with it: the main points from every episode plus prompts you can actually use. Grab it at frontrowdads.com/newdad.   IN THIS EPISODE: "Depression is its own character in your brain, and it tells you lies" What it feels like to blame your own child, and why that's the illness talking Why "I'm fine" is the most dangerous sentence in your house right now Why she needed her husband to advocate for her when she couldn't advocate for herself What NOT to say: "enjoy it, it goes so fast" and "at least he's healthy," and why they make a drowning mom feel worse The systems that actually helped her recover: solo days, therapy, and a daily mid-day break Fix it or feel it: the four-word question that tells you what she actually needs A note: this episode discusses depression and mental health honestly. If you or your partner are struggling, please talk to a doctor or a therapist. In the US, you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and Postpartum Support International is at 1-800-944-4773. Hear Suzanne's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/341

  6. 5 days ago

    Do NOT Ask Your Wife "What Can I Do?" (here's why)

    Your wife is struggling, and everything in you wants to solve it. That instinct is the problem. Welcome to NEW DAD WEEK. Five short episodes for guys who are expecting or in the thick of the first year. We're starting with Jason Kreidman on the skill that matters most early on, and it isn't tactical. It's empathy, which he calls the single biggest game changer in how he parents and how he loves his wife. He also lands on four words that will save you an enormous amount of grief: do you want me to fix it, or feel it?   We built a free field guide for the whole week: the main points from every episode plus prompts you can actually use. Grab it at frontrowdads.com/newdad.   IN THIS EPISODE: Why the number one thing a new dad needs to hear isn't tactical, it's "you're not alone" Everyone feels like they're the only one who doesn't get it. Everyone. Empathy as the game changer, and what it actually looks like in practice "Do you want me to fix it, or feel it?" and why asking beats guessing Why "what can I do?" often doesn't help, and what to do instead The neighbour rule: don't ask what food they want, just bring food Meeting your wife's love language at a higher level than you think is reasonable Hear Jason's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/101.

  7. 8 Aug

    When to Get Tougher, and When to Walk Away | Walk With Jon

    There are two lessons available when something in your life keeps hurting. One is to get tougher. The other is to walk away. Most men only ever get coached on the first one.   WHAT THIS IS This is the first episode of something new we're calling Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no guest, no editing. Just Jon Vroman on a walking trail near his house, thinking out loud. In his words: "What I don't want to do is stand at my desk anymore at my expensive microphone and try to record the highest quality show. I thought, if we were friends and on the phone and talking to each other, it would sound like this. You'd hear the wind in the background, the crunch of the rocks under my feet. It wouldn't be the highest quality audio, but it would be authentic. It would be real. You would be with me." So yes, the audio is rougher than what you're used to from us. That's the point. No edits, no stops, no re-records. His words again: "just mistakes, back steps, corrections throughout." In a world where you can't always tell what's real and what came out of a machine, these are his unfiltered thoughts as he walks. He also asks for two things up front. That you send feedback and tell him what you'd want him to think through out loud, because he's a verbal processor and this helps him as much as it helps you. And that you allow him to change his mind later, because that's what growth looks like.   WHAT HE'S THINKING ABOUT THIS MORNING He calls it the nut-kicking line. Picture standing in a line where you keep getting kicked, and a coach beside you saying the lesson is resilience. Toughen up. Build grit. Focus your attention somewhere else. Sometimes that's exactly right. But Jon's point is that there's a second lesson almost nobody coaches, which is that you're allowed to step out of the line. Learning to let go, to say no, to move on, is also a lesson. He works it through his own three ultramarathons, one of which he thinks genuinely hurt him, and then through marriages, business partners, employees, and kids of divorce who say they wish their parents had separated sooner. Both paths have beautiful stories. Both have regrets. As he puts it: "All of it's true." The question he lands on isn't which one is right. It's what you'd hear if you got quiet and honest enough to ask yourself.   IN THIS WALK: Why he's recording on a trail instead of at his desk, and what unfiltered is worth right now Why he reserves the right to change his mind, and why that's growth and not flip-flopping The nut kicking line, and the two very different lessons hiding inside it His 52-mile walk-run in 2006, doing it again in 2007, and the anniversary run ten years later that cost him Whether ultra-endurance events serve your body or only your mindset, and where David Goggins fits Ben Greenfield trading hard training for long walks, and what shifting seasons looks like Where this shows up for real: marriages, business partners, employees, and children of divorce Why he believes there are no bad decisions, only decisions, and that even the hard ones come with blessings It's okay to not be okay, and even indecision is a decision The Hoffman Institute method his friend David uses: asking your emotional body, mind, heart, and spirit separately, then integrating the answers Jon's four core values: truth, love, respect, responsibility Front Row Dads turning 10, and heading back to Philadelphia where it started in 2016 Jon reads every reply. If something here landed, or if you think he's wrong about it, tell him. He'd say the disagreement is as useful as the agreement, because it shows you what you actually believe. _________________________________________________________ Front Row Dads is a brotherhood of family men with businesses, not businessmen with families. Nearly a thousand men have come through the community in our first ten years. To learn more, go to frontrowdads.com.

  8. 7 Aug

    What Actually Makes You Attractive to Your Wife - Dr Robert Glover

    Most men think attraction is something you do. It's something you are. Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, gives about as direct an answer as you'll get: the feminine is highly attracted to a man who's comfortable in his own skin and knows where he's going. From there he gets into why your own thinking is the thing sabotaging you, why time away with other men comes home as attraction, and why a marriage with no tension or space in it slowly goes flat.   FREE THIS WEEK: We built a companion field guide for the whole series. It's the main points from every episode plus copy-and-paste prompts you can drop into ChatGPT or your journal to actually do the work. Grab it at frontrowdads.com/niceguy.   IN THIS EPISODE: The one-line answer to what actually attracts the feminine Why your thinker is your biggest enemy, and the practice of being where your feet are Why time with other men is wired into you, and how it makes you more attractive at home Emotional tension, space, and keeping desire alive in a long marriage Scheduling sex and what really happened to spontaneity Filling your bucket by getting away, and coming home as someone she's curious about This is part 5 and the last of a 5-part week with Dr. Robert Glover. Also this week: Nice Guy Syndrome and shame, boundaries for men, decoding your wife, and brotherhood and male isolation. Hear Glover's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/464. His book is No More Mr. Nice Guy.

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