The Daily Dad Podcast provides one lesson a day to help you with your most important job being a parent. Ryan Holiday draws these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom and insights from parents just like you all over the world. July 4th, Don't Tie Down Your Eagle: When Florence Nightingale began making moves towards volunteering in hospitals, her aristocratic parents were horrified. They thought her choices rebuked theirs. It was not a swan they had hatched but an eagle.