A weekly podcast on presence, responsibility, play, and the conversations men weren't taught to have.
Daddy Ops is a weekly conversation for dads doing the work. Figuring out how to be present, how to communicate, how to keep the play in it, how to stay curious instead of clenched.
We talk about the stuff our fathers couldn't — in the language men actually use. No gurus. No scripts. No life-coach voice.
Just two friends starting a dialogue on fatherhood, comparing notes on a craft nobody handed us a manual for.
Showing up isn't a metaphor. It's the work — the boring, daily, on-the-floor-with-Legos work.
Stay a student. Of your kids, your partner, yourself. Certainty is where dads go to disappear.
Carrying the weight without becoming the weight. The difference is everything.
If they're not laughing with you, you're missing the point. Fun is part of the assignment.
Hank's the dad in the field. Mileen's the friend asking the questions worth answering. They've been having this conversation for years over coffee, beers, and the occasional 4 a.m. text. The podcast is what happens when you press record.
[Two-to-three line bio. What Hank brings to the show — his angle, his background, the lens he sees through. Lives in [city].]
[Two-to-three line bio. What Mileen brings — his angle, his background, why he's at the table. Lives in [city].]
One email a week. Episode notes, the topic we couldn't fit on tape, and the question we want you sitting with.