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Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman
by Jon Vroman
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
Episodes
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Faith, Family, and Work Without the Mask w/ Rudi Riekstins
For years Rudi Riekstins left his faith, his marriage, and his two babies at the office door, and walked in every morning pretending to be a company man. Then he stopped pretending. Ali Jafarian sits down with Rudi, a leadership coach, father of two, and one of our guest leaders at FRD Live 2026....
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Is It Ever Okay to Put Work Before Family?
Jon has spent ten years telling men to put family first. For the last two months he's worked dawn to dinner, some weeks seven days straight, and he thinks that's okay. This is Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no editing. Just Jon on an early morning walk by a pond in his neighborhood, talking...
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The 7-Part Family Meeting Built on Business Principles w/ Ryan Levesque
Our biggest event of the year is now open to the public. Find out more and experience the best of FRD. Https://frontrowdads.com/live Ryan Levesque runs meeting rhythms for a living. So he installed one at home, and he knew that if he walked in announcing it, it would go badly. He rolled it out…
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Your Influence as a Dad Doesn't Expire with Mark Groves
Mark Groves is 46 years old, and the conversation he keeps coming back to happened in a car when he was in his twenties with his father. He had gone to his father complaining about a girlfriend, and he had said something to her he is not proud of. His dad told him that a relationship is a…
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The Dad's Formula for Influence w/ Dr. Meg Meeker
Jon asked a pediatrician of thirty-five years for the formula for influencing your kids. She gave him three words. Dr. Meg Meeker, author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, says her job is to speak to dads on behalf of their children. So Jon asked the question every man here eventually asks,...
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Why You Keep Having the Same Fight with Your Wife/ Mark Groves
Every couple has a dance, and most men have never seen the steps written down. One of you closes the distance and gets louder. The other creates distance and shuts down. What makes it a loop rather than an argument is that each one's way of coping is precisely the thing the other cannot tolerate....
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Reveal Your Truth, Ask for Help, Do The One Thing
Jon walked into a band meeting with seven things to do and walked out with one. Episode 4 of Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no guest, no editing. Jon Vroman walking the lake in downtown Austin on a Wednesday afternoon, thinking out loud. The audio is rough on purpose: traffic, wind, and...
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The Husband's Guide to Perimenopause and Menopause w/ Dr. Heather Hirsch
She calls it puberty in reverse. It can last a decade. And most husbands have no idea it's happening. LIVE WITH DR. HIRSCH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH. She is joining the Front Row Dads community for a live session with Q&A on how men can support the women in their lives through menopause. Free for...
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Most Couples Fix Their Marriage Backwards
Most of us don't have a plan for our marriage. We have a repair schedule. Something breaks, we patch it, things are fine for a while, and then we sit there quietly waiting for it to break again. Lance Salazar lived in that loop. He describes a defeatist stretch where even when things were okay…
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Why Your Kid's Anxiety Might Be Yours
Jon's eleven-year-old had been more anxious than usual, and his wife told him why. You have been more stressed at work. He is a reflector. He picks up on your energy. Bryan Post takes that and does something more useful than reassurance. Your son has his own part, formed long before this week.…
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Stop Working on Your Marriage. Switch to This.
Nobody got married hoping to work on it. That is where Ted Lowe starts. After a long day of working hard, the last thing anybody wants is to work some more, so telling a man his marriage needs more work tends to land like a chore. His alternative is a habit he calls serious fun, built on simple...
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What Does Your Marriage Look Like Twenty Years From Now?
Geoff Woods set a goal of thirty-six date nights with his wife, tracked it all year, and then had to admit it wasn't working. What he found instead was the idea he spent years teaching at The ONE Thing: find the one domino that makes everything else easier or unnecessary, and knock that one over...
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Do You Have a Board of Directors for Your Life?
Nobody claws their way out of rock bottom alone. Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find out whether a room like this is for you. You don't…
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The Five Versions of You (And the Sixth One You Need) w/ Dr. Kelly Flanagan
Five versions of you are already running your marriage. The work is building the sixth. Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find out whether a...
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The 5 Levels of Every Marriage (And How to Move Up)
Every marriage is sitting on one of five levels right now. Here is how to find yours and how to climb. Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find...
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The 3 Rules That Make Date Night Actually Happen
Most date nights quietly die for the same reason, and it isn't love. Nobody scheduled it. Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find out whether a...
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Stop Telling Your Kids to Stop. Then Let Them Teach You
The thing you keep telling your kid to stop doing might be exactly what they're built for. (Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find out whether…
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How Four Men Deal With the Hard Stuff
Four men. Same question. Two completely different answers: is it powering through strength, or is it avoidance? Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way...
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The Three Emotions That Sink Good Men
Quick test: how do you deal with your neediness? If you just cringed, you found your enemy emotion. (Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the easiest way to find…
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You're the Bow, Not the Arrow: How He Sees His Job as a Dad
Ask young fathers how to raise great kids and you get 72 steps. Ask the old guys and you get two words: just love them. (Want a taste of what Front Row Dads is actually like? Come sit in on a live Brotherhood Experience. It's 60 minutes on Zoom with Jon and a few other dads, free, and it's the...
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Stop Waiting for Your Son to Grow Up (here's your role)
"If we do not initiate our sons, they will burn down the village just to feel the heat." That African proverb is where this one starts, and Chris Bruno, counsellor, author of The Man Maker Project, and a dad who built a year-long rite of passage for his own son, spends the next twenty minutes...
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Why You Keep Learning the Same Lesson Over and Over | Walk With Jon
Having the same realization five times doesn't mean you failed the first four. Episode 3 of Walk With Jon. No studio, no script, no guest, no editing. Jon Vroman on a walking trail near his house, thinking out loud. The audio is rough on purpose. He even fumbles an old saying mid-walk and leaves…
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How I'd Do Early Fatherhood (If I Could Start Over)
"I would say to my wife, I need to get to the coffee shop by seven, because I couldn't be hassled by the kids in the morning." For ten years, Jon Vroman has asked the questions on this show. To close the first week of Good Questions, he answers them. This is Jon in the hot seat: how the man who...
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How Three Men Deal With Their Anger
"Do you ever lose your cool? Do you ever just yell?" It gets asked point-blank in this one, and the three answers could not be more different. Ryan Deiss, founder of DigitalMarketer, says he is not a yeller, then tells you exactly where his line is and what happened the one time somebody made his...
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How Three Dads Deal With Apologies, Wounds, and Forgiveness
"Every decision I've ever made in my life, good and bad, has been in an effort to get my father to tell me he loved me." This one moves in three parts: the apology you owe your kids, the dance you are still in with your own dad, and the forgiveness that sets you free. It starts at a kitchen…
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How Successful Dads Deal With the Spoiled-Kid Problem
Give your kids enough that they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing. That Warren Buffett line is where this one starts. You worked hard so your family could have a good life. So how do you keep the life you built from softening the kids you love? This is the first episode of...
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You Can't Force Your Kid to Follow You: Why Correcting Costs Influence
You can't force a child to make you their mentor. They choose. And most of us are quietly spending that choice on being right. That's the argument in Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate, and it's the book two dads in this community keep coming back to. In this Bookshelf, they…
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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Why You Have All the Information and Still Never Act - Dr. Robert Glover
Everyone is talking about the male loneliness epidemic. Here's the less comfortable version: a lot of it is self-inflicted. Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, gets into what actually keeps men isolated, and he doesn't let anyone off the hook, including himself. He…
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Do NOT Argue the Facts With Your Wife (here's why) - Dr. Robert Glover
His wife said he hadn't told her he loved her all day. He had screenshots proving he'd said it five times. He kept them to himself, and that was the whole lesson. Part three of our five-part week with Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and probably the most…
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Boundaries 101 for Men: The String on the Ground - Dr. Robert Glover
You think boundaries keep people out. They're actually what lets people get close to you. Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, runs a full crash course here, and it starts somewhere unexpected: how a lack of boundaries quietly wrecks a man's friendships with other men,...
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The Ugly Truth About Being the Nice Guy - Dr. Robert Glover
The Nice Guy and the jerk are doing the exact same thing. Same shame, different mask. This is part one of a five-part week with Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and we start at the root. Glover argues nice guy syndrome has almost nothing to do with being polite. It...
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Learn the Dad Ritual That Will Build Your Kid's Confidence in Only 6 Minutes
Most of us tell our kids they did great. Almost none of us tell them what we actually saw. It's one of the practices Jon Vroman is best known for around here, and the whole thing fits in a sentence: catch them doing the right thing, then make a record of it. The reasoning is solid. Peter Drucker...
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How to Raise Unspoiled Kids: 3 Principles and 3 Warning Signs
The more you can give your kids, the easier it is to spoil them. That's the quiet worry of every dad working hard to provide, so we went into the vault for this Deep Cut and pulled a teaching that's stuck with our members for years. In a member-only Front Row Dads workshop, financial planners...
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Work-Life Balance Is a Myth: 4 Dads Agree
On a topic dads argue about constantly, we found near-total agreement. In this Dads Agree episode we play four takes from past Front Row Dads guests who — without ever comparing notes — all landed in the same place: work-life balance is a myth. Chris Ducker calls it a myth outright. Tucker Max…
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The One Word That Made My Son "Shy" — And How Your Words Build (or Break) a Kid
The words you repeat about your kids become the story they believe about themselves. In this Deep Cut we share a summit teaching from Chris and Melissa Smith of Family Brand. They tells the story of how they accidentally made thier own son "shy" , just by repeating the word, and then shows how to...
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From the First Mountain to the Second: Rethinking Success as a Dad
Nick Foster has been a Front Row Dads member since 2021. He's also the founder of Foster Financial, a husband to his high school sweetheart Carrie, and a dad to three kids. This week, Nick sits down with Jon to talk about what happens after you build the business. Nick spent 10 years building his...
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What Richard Branson Taught Two Dads About Brotherhood, Self-Love, and Legacy
What can a few days on Richard Branson's private island teach you about being a better father, husband, and man? In this episode, Jon sits down with Adam Holt and Derek Notman, the founders of Rebl Dads. Rebl is a community a lot like Front Row Dads, built to serve high-performing entrepreneurial...
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Lessons That Made Me a Better Father (After 10 Years of Front Row Dads)
This week on the show, All-In Front Row Dads member Dave Powders pulls out a decade of notes and shares the 5 best lessons he's learned in 10 years of brotherhood. These are the tips that have made him a better father, a better husband, and a more present man at home. Short, practical, and worth...
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The Day a Father Realized His Non-Speaking Son Had Been Listening All Along
Before we get into it, a quick favor. We're working on making the podcast better for you and we'd love your feedback. If you have 2 minutes, please fill out our podcast survey: forms.gle/JnJQUZR9Pt7d7fvG7 What if your child has been listening, understanding, and forming thoughts the whole time…
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A Father's Day Roundtable: 4 Dads on Self-Love, Brotherhood, and the Inner Work of Being a Great Dad
Today's episode is a Father's Day roundtable. Jon sits down with three Front Row Dads, Mike Chu, Scott Seymour, and Austin Distel, for an honest conversation about what it actually means to be a great dad. Before we get into it, we have a quick favor. We're working on making the podcast better…
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Why You're Tired All the Time: Mold, Metals, and the Hidden Drivers of Chronic Fatigue
What if the reason you're tired, foggy, and burned out has nothing to do with stress or sleep? Most high-performing men assume their fatigue, brain fog, and inflammation come from doing too much. But there's another conversation happening in functional medicine that most doctors miss completely....
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Ben and Jessa Greenfield on Games, Music, and Building Nightly Family Traditions
Ben & Jessa Greenfield have been playing card games and board games with their family almost every night for years. Their twin sons River and Taryn just turned 18 and are now designing and selling their own card games as a business. That didn't happen by accident. In this conversation with Jon…
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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
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