How Patrick Brammall Dads - An atypical path to dadding, and all the typical ups and downs!

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   S3 · E8 · 31 Oct 2024 · 47 min

   How Luke Carroll Dads - The “beautiful challenge” of parenting in a blended family and what Play School has taught him about kids

   As a long time host of Play School, Luke’s probably spent more time entertaining kids than any of us ever will! But beyond that, he’s an amazingly accomplished actor… from getting his start on the kids show Lift Off! back in the early 90s, to being a regular on the awesome Redfern Now and more recently in the big budget adaption of The Artful Dodger on Disney+, not to mention a tonne of amazing theatre over the years. Luke is super generous and frank in this chat, talking openly about what it was like to have a kid really young, the powerful role his mum played in his life, and also talking…

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   S3 · E7 · 24 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 3 min

   How Nathan Fa’avae Dads - Creating the ultimate team… your family!

   When you push your limits and things get a little uncomfortable, you often learn something about yourself. When you repeatedly do it for years, we reckon you must learn some universal truths about humans and how we tick. As a professional adventure racer , Nathan has spent much of his adult life pushing his physical and mental boundaries and helping those in his racing team do the same. Hame came across Nathan watching World’s Toughest Race on Amazon , which Nathan and the Kiwi team won by some margin. But it was the fact they did it with so little fuss that struck Hame and made him want to…

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   S3 · E6 · 17 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 12 min

   How Bret McKenzie Dads - A creative play masterclass from a master of creativity

   HODD overseas adventure time! We headed to Wellington to chat with Kiwi comedy and music legend, and one half of Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie and he gave us a masterclass on playing with our kids. Bret makes up silly stuff for a day job (he even won an Oscar for it!) and as a dad he’s focused his gift for absurdity and daftness into creating pro level games for his kids, and he gives us some of his best hits. They’re awesome! Seriously, you’re gonna want to write them down. Bret also has some great insights about why putting in the time is so powerful, why connecting with community…

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   S3 · E4 · 3 Oct 2024 · 1 hr 5 min

   How Dr Richard “Harry” Harris Dads - teaching kids to be good risk managers, not risk takers + lots more!

   “I wasn’t going to miss the podcast just because I was slightly paralysed” - It’s one of the better quotes we’ve had on the show! But it neatly sums up the unassuming yet unflappable nature of Dr Harry, who unless you were on a 12 month silent retreat in 2018, you’d know was the cave diving anaesthetist who helped in the against all odds rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team trapped in a flooded Thai cave. Dr Harry is in a unique position to talk about the art of risk taking, and it’s something he’s taken a keen interest in since that phenomenal rescue, especially how it relates to kids. In…

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   S3 · E3 · 26 Sep 2024 · 56 min

   How Santo Cilauro Dads - Provide Consistency, Variation… Oh, and strap yourself in!

   He’s helped create some of Australia’s most memorable comedic characters, battled tirelessly to elevate Football (the proper round ball kind!) to the upper echelons of Australian sport, and most importantly, he’s the father to 2 (now adult) sons. But before looking at his own dadding, Santo takes us back to Melbourne in the 1960s and 70s, painting a vivid picture of the multi-generational approach to parenting that he experienced growing up in a migrant family, especially the huge role his grandfather played. Things were a touch looser back then! With his own kids now young adults, Santo is…

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   S3 · E2 · 19 Sep 2024 · 1 hr

   How Ben Quilty Dads - Drawing lessons from life and a life drawing lesson!

   As one of Australia’s great contemporary artists, Ben’s compassion and humanity is evident in all his work, and so is his willingness to self-examine. So perhaps unsurprisingly in his chat with Hamish, Ben opens up about what shaped him in his own childhood, his thoughts on masculinity, the shockwave of sadness that hit him recently when his adult son moved out of home, and the unwelcome thoughts of mortality that followed. Ben also gives us some fantastic practical hacks on how to encourage creativity in our kids, why it’s so important to keep doing it beyond just the cute years, and some…

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   S3 · E12 · 28 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 12 min

   Wild Rule Breaking Season 3 Finale with Dr Billy Garvey

   Behavioural Paediatrician Dr Billy Garvey returns to tell us about the science behind the stories of Season 3. Dr Billy has picked some moments where our generous guests have touched on areas on which there is lots of evidenced based research, and then he breaks it down to some super simple stuff that we can all put into practice. In this stacked episode we look at… Improving self esteem through kids developing mastery of something ( Bret McKenzie Ep ), how to be an authoritative parent, not an authoritarian and how there is a big difference! ( Wippa’s Ep ), talk about composure and how…

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   S3 · E11 · 21 Nov 2024 · 58 min

   How Michael “Wippa” Wipfli Dads - Nothing is impossible, (Except, maybe a serious conversation with Hame)

   One of Hamish’s oldest and dearest friends finally sits down on the HODD couch for a well overdue chat. Wippa and Hame talk all the time, but not often about the deep stuff that drives them to be better dads. In a conversation that is equal parts serious and silly, Hame and Wip discuss the formative impact of Wip’s own dad, dealing with big questions children unexpectedly ask, how Wip tries to show his kids that nothing is impossible, and why setting out to build a birdhouse that ultimately becomes home to a rare rat is still a massive win for the family. Oh, and they laugh a lot. At times…

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   S3 · E10 · 14 Nov 2024 · 59 min

   How Andy Griffiths Dads - Bum jokes, imagination and loving what is

   Andy is responsible for igniting a love of reading in millions of kids. It’s a complex alchemy, but bum jokes have played a large part in it. From The Day My Bum Went Psycho to the hugely popular Treehouse series (which he created with longtime collaborator Terry Denton and which was edited by his wife Jill), Andy has written wild, boundless and very funny adventures that have drawn many kids into the beautiful escapism of books who otherwise may have missed out. With more than 30 books to his name (and as an ex-school teacher), Andy has become an expert in delving into young minds, and…

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    S3 · E9 · 7 Nov 2024 · 58 min

    How Rick J Petersen Dads - Survival tips for living a life connected (not Alone)

    An awesome outdoorsy special, with inspirational outdoor specialist, Rick Petersen. Rick featured in Season 2 of Alone Australia , and quickly became a fan fave (especially for Hame), with his unwavering positivity in the face of huge adversity and very little food! Beyond trying to stay alive on Alone, using his skills as an ex-soldier and expedition leader in the NT, Rick currently runs weekend camps for people looking to reconnect with the outdoors, including a special focus on dads and sons. As you’ll find out, the deeper purpose beyond learning to build shelters and start a fire is…

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