"Literally everything in life is hard. The question is, what cost are you willing to pay? And you pay that willingly and happily because you value it." - Mitchell Osmond
In this episode of Curated Questions, Ken Woodward sits down with Mitchell Osmond, founder of Dad Nation Co., and host of the Dad Nation Podcast (Top 5% globally), to explore a hard but liberating truth: everything in life is difficult; the question is which difficulty we choose.
Mitchell shares the moment a single question at a funeral, “Are you living a life worthy of imitation?” forced him to confront his health, marriage, finances, and legacy. From that reckoning emerged a framework for growth rooted in discomfort, integrity, and honest self-inquiry.
Together, Ken and Mitchell examine why confidence is built through keeping promises, how avoiding hard questions quietly shapes our futures, and why legacy is forged at home as much as at work.
The conversation challenges the myth of ease, reframes struggle as a signal of alignment, and invites listeners to define success on their own terms. Ultimately, this episode is a call to stop outsourcing meaning, and to choose the hard that leads to a life worth living.
Mitchell is launching a new group coaching program, the High Performance Husband Accelerator! All the details can be found at https://www.dadnationco.com/accelerator
Mitchell is offering The Connection Code as a gift. 50 questions to spark the fun and get the fire back is available at https://www.dadnationco.com/code
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Resources Mentioned
Dad Nation Co website
The Dad Nation Podcast
Dad Nation Co Instagram
Mitchell Osmond on LinkedIn
Josh Waitzkin
Tim Ferriss
Albert Einstein
Seth Godin
Virginia Satir
The Gap in the Gain by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan
Ed Mylett
John Gray author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
The High Performance Husband
Raymond Coates
Spark Starter Kit
Producer Ben Ford
Beauty Pill
