Episode 55: Caring for a dying parent & finding strength in stoicism with Dr. Dave Dickey

Episode 55 of Breaking Through, I’m sitting down with someone I not only admire professionally, but care for personally — my friend Dr. Dave Dickie. Dave works in national security as a Senior Intelligence Analyst for Peraton, where he helps guide teams operating in high-stakes, high-pressure environments. He’s a father, a husband, a coach, and someone who understands what it means to carry a lot at once — emotionally, mentally, and operationally. But the reason he’s here today is because of the journey that shaped his new book, The Stoic Cheat Sheet — a book he wrote while navigating more than two years of caregiving and hospice for his father. In that season of intense responsibility — balancing family, work, caregiving, and personal resilience — Dave turned to Stoicism not as a philosophy to study, but as a toolkit to survive. And eventually, to transform. Today we’re talking about strength, presence, pressure, caregiving, grief, and the kind of inner steadiness that can carry us through our hardest chapters.   Sponsor Sponsored by Keosian Law, LLP Office in Sherman Oaks, CA Website: https://keosianlaw.com/ Phone:Dr. Dave Dickie | Social   Host: Ellina Abovian | KTLA 5 News reporter, Armenian American storyteller, and proud single mom