{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dad Manual","title":"Ep 44: Healing The Boy So The Dad Can Show Up, with Jon Vroman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3527,"description":"Tony Cooper sits down with the founder of a brotherhood built to help dads stop hiding at work and start showing up at home. This conversation with Jon Vroman, founder of Front Row Dads, is one of the most honest looks at modern fatherhood this parenting podcast has done yet. Jon shares how a comment from his wife, that he was more of a moment maker for everyone else than for his own family, led him to build a community of hundreds of dads across ten countries.\nWe get into why most men never study fatherhood the way they study business, why marriage keeps resurfacing as the hardest pillar even for successful men, and why healing childhood wounds together, as fathers, might be the real work of raising strong kids.\nKey takeaways:\nWhy Jon built Front Row Dads around relationships first, resources second, results third\nThe six pillars of Front Row Dads: intentional parenting, thriving marriage, vibrant health, emotional intelligence, business evolution, wealth and legacy\nWhy most marriages hit a wall around the time a kid turns seven\nHow inadequacy and abandonment wounds tend to marry each other\nWhy loneliness, not inadequacy or abandonment, is the original childhood wound\nHow modeling family values matters more than writing them on a wall\nWhy kids respond instantly to a dad who has done his own inner work\nThe difference between venting and actually healing\nIf you enjoyed The Dad Manual, leave us a rating on your podcast app! If you loved it, share this episode with a Dad! Send your questions to dadmanualpodcast@gmail.com. Connect with Tony Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetonycooper/\nTimestamps:\n00:00 Intro to Jon Vroman\n00:56 Meet Ocean and Tiger\n04:27 Choosing unique education paths\n08:49 What matters more than curriculum\n13:00 Jon's upbringing and early wounds\n17:04 Why healing starts at eighteen\n19:41 Modeling family values at home\n24:27 Why Front Row Dads began\n29:47 Relationships, resources, results\n34:12 Why marriage became the real focus\n37:05 Jon's...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RhesufeLfq-KH7W3Ni1tcYfxGDlnUQ1BXbcDk7-CgJk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMWVh/NTk0NDViNmUyYWZl/Zjk4NDk3NWVjMWEy/NWYxYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}