The New Fatherhood with Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire writes "The New Fatherhood" a weekly newsletter dedicated to "Helping dads be better dads."

Kevin is also a former Google employee and the founder of QuickHatch (https://quickhatch.xyz/) where he uses Design Sprint thinking to help bold companies solve complex problems in record time.

In this episode we discuss:

• The three phases of scarcity that we experience throughout our lives
• What's missing from the existing advice for dads that prompted Kevin to start The New Fatherhood
• Writing a book one week at a time
• Putting the "dominoes" in the right order for your business to grow and succeed
• Struggling with screen time as a parent
• The training we get for becoming dads. What advice do new dads need to hear?
• Fatherhood lessons from Bandit the Dog and setting the bar higher for dads
• That hardest thing for me about being a parent
• Why did Kevin leave Google, one of the best companies in the world to work for?
• Moving away from San Francisco and the USA to optimize for family life
• Advantages of living in Barcelona and attitudes towards children in Spain
• There's more to life than "What's your name, what do you do?"
• The power of vulnerability, especially for men
• Should we encourage kids to play video games?
• How to approach choosing where to live with a family

Links:

• The New Fatherhood on Substack (TheNewFatherhood.org)
• The New Fatherhood on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/newfatherhood/)
• Selected issues from the New Fatherhood
  • How to choose where to live (https://www.thenewfatherhood.org/p/how-to-choose-where-to-live)
  • You are not your job (https://www.thenewfatherhood.org/p/you-are-not-your-job)
• Brene Brown on the Power of Vulnerability (https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability/transcript?language=en)
• David Brooks' book, The Second Mountain (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MC94WDB/)