AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Parenting Struggles and Playful Tactics
Exploring the challenges of children's entertainment, assembling toys, fixing household issues, and avoiding paperwork, the speaker shares humorous anecdotes about parenting and their playful approach to raising children.
Lloyed Lobo is the co-founder of Boast.ai and the author of Wall Street Journal best-selling book From Grassroots to Greatness. After escaping the Gulf War as a child and seeing the power of community in helping navigate impossible situations he ended up on a path of entrepreneurship and community building. He is a husband and the father of three kids.
In this episode we discuss:
* His childhood as a Gulf War refugee
* His mother's influence on his entrepreneurship
* Losing one of his twins
* The power of community in raising a family
* Positive discipline and other parenting frameworks
* How his daughter helped him overcome depression
* Mistakes and sacrifices as a Dad
* Rapid fire!
Listen, watch and subscribe: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Overcast.
—
Where to find Lloyed Lobo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyedlobo/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lloyedlobo
- His Book: https://FromGrassrootstoGreatness.com
Where to find Adam Fishman
- Newsletter: http://www.startupdadpod.substack.com
- Newsletter: http://fishmanafnewsletter.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/
- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/
—
In this episode, we cover:
[1:30] Welcome and Introduction
[1:59] Professional background
[5:34] Childhood as a refugee
[12:23] Current family
[22:35] Decision to start a family
[31:32] Losing a twin child
[37:29] Most surprising thing about being a Dad?
[41:00] Which kid is like which parent?
[42:54] Most frustrating thing about being a Dad?
[43:43] Parenting Frameworks
[49:57] An area where Lloyed and his wife don’t align
[52:36] What is something you had to give up to be a Dad?
[54:35] What is one mistake you made as a Dad?
[1:00:11] Follow along with Lloyed
[1:02:38] Rapid fire round
—
Show references:
Lloyed’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lloyedlobo/
Task Rabbit: https://www.taskrabbit.com/
Lloyed’s book, From Grassroots to Greatness: https://FromGrassrootstoGreatness.com
Melatonin gummies: https://www.amazon.com/OLLY-Occasional-Melatonin-L-Theanine-Blackberry/dp/B07H8NZZJB/
Boast: https://boast.ai/
Traction: https://www.tractionconf.io/
Highway of death (Kuwait): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
Gulf War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Rambo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462499/
Sylvester Stallone: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/
Arnold Schwarzenegger: https://www.schwarzenegger.com/
Cocomelon: https://cocomelon.com/
RRR soundtrack: https://music.apple.com/us/album/rrr-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1619745392
Tesla Model x: https://www.tesla.com/modelx
My Wife and Kids: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273855/
CCRM: https://www.ccrmivf.com/colorado/ccrm-colorado-denver-office/
The Score Takes Care of Itself: https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472
—
Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at
http://www.armaziproductions.com/
Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode