15 Minutes with Dad: Emotional Presence, Co-Parenting for Father's Growth
Hosted by Lirec Williams, 15 Minutes with Dad is a dynamic podcast focused on fatherhood, co-parenting, and personal growth. Each episode gives modern dads the tools and insights to create healthier families through emotional healing, parenting resilience, and intentional leadership.
In just 15 minutes (well, sometimes a bit more), we explore the real stories that shape modern fatherhood—from breaking generational cycles and healing childhood trauma to building emotional presence, developing self-awareness in parenting, and crafting a legacy-driven fatherhood journey.
This isn’t just a parenting podcast. It’s a healing space for fathers navigating mental health, emotional connection, and parenting challenges with honesty and strength. Whether you’re working through child-centered co-parenting, strengthening the father-daughter bond, or redefining masculinity through vulnerability, each episode equips you with practical, research-based parenting frameworks and growth insights that work in real life.
💬 Topics We Explore
- Co-parenting tips and communication
- Growth mindset and personal development for dads
- Parenting teens with empathy and consistency
- Fatherhood challenges and family empowerment
- Childhood trauma recovery and emotional egression
- Self-awareness and mindful parenting
- Daily parenting support and guidance
- Navigating hard conversations with kids
- Presence over perfection
- Generational and emotional healing
Join a movement of fathers, brothers, and men choosing to show up with purpose, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
Together, we’re reshaping what it means to lead, love, and raise the next generation.
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Episodes
71 episodes
Blind Patriarchy is Killing our Families
In this powerful episode of The Aligned Father, host Lirec Williams breaks down how blind patriarchy has shaped modern fatherhood and why it continues to hold men, partners, and children back. Many fathers were raised to hide emotions, a...
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14:50
Healing the Core Wound: How My Childhood Shaped Me as a Son, Brother, Partner, and Father
This deeply personal episode of The Aligned Father takes you inside the core wound that shaped host Lirec Williams through childhood, adulthood, and fatherhood. After years of shadow work, Lirec uncovered a belief born from hars...
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15:43
The Core Wound Fathers Carry: Healing the Fear of Getting It All Wrong
Many fathers grow up believing that mistakes mean failure and discipline means punishment. In this special episode of The Aligned Father, host Lirec Williams opens up about a core wound uncovered during shadow work, the belief that he cannot do...
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14:56
When “Helping Out” Isn’t Enough: The Myth of the Supportive Husband
In this episode of The Aligned Father, host Lirec Williams challenges the modern myth of the “supportive husband.” Many men believe that helping out around the house is enough—but true partnership requires ownership...
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20:06
Provider or Partner? The Real Reason Your Spouse Wants a Divorce
In this eye-opening episode of The Aligned Father, host Lirec Williams challenges one of the oldest myths in manhood — that being a good father means being a provider above all else.Titled “Provider or Partner? How Men...
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18:41
The Invisible Load: What Women Wish Men Understood About Emotional Labor
In this powerful episode of The Aligned Father, host Lirec Williams breaks down one of the most overlooked truths in relationships — the invisible load of emotional labor that women carry every day.Men are taught t...
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17:58
The Death of the Martyr Dad: Why Sacrifice Isn’t the Same as Love
The Aligned Father, hosted by Lirec Williams, author of Man Up: From Our Trauma to Being Impactful Fathers, is a bold fatherhood and men’s growth series challenging outdated ideas of manhood, sacrifice, and success.
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21:53
Teaching Your Children Emotional Intelligence | Legacy, Emotional Resilience & Modern Fatherhood
Emotional skills aren’t soft—they’re survival tools.In this heartfelt episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams dives into how fathers can raise emotionally intelligent children through empathy, connec...
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14:42
Who Are You Outside of Being a Dad? | Fatherhood, Mental Health & Self-Mastery for Modern Fathers
Who are you—outside of being a dad?In this powerful episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams explores how fathers can rediscover their personal identity and purpose beyond parenthood. Because when you lose your...
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18:28
Parenting from a Distance: Emotional Presence, Co Parenting Strength, and Fatherhood Resilience
Parenting from a distance tests emotional presence and connection. Many fathers work through separation, travel, or shifting co parenting routines. This episode of 15 Minutes with Dad focuses on parenting awareness, emotional healing, relations...
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14:05
Rebuilding After Healing: How Fathers Create Emotional Safety at Home
Healing is only the beginning. What you build afterward is what defines your legacy.In this powerful follow-up to Healing the Inner Child, host Lirec Williams explores how fathers can turn emotional healing ...
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17:49
Healing the Inner Child for Stronger Fatherhood and Emotional Presence
Many fathers carry childhood pain into adulthood. Some grew up with silence, fear, or harsh discipline. Those early wounds shape reactions, relationships, and parenting patterns. This episode of 15 Minutes with Dad focuses on emotional healing,...
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16:53
Legacy of Healing: Rewriting the Script for Your Children | Modern Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Generational Growth
In this powerful closing episode of the What It Truly Means to Heal as a Man series, host Lirec Williams shares how a father’s personal healing becomes the foundation for generational change. True legacy in modern fath...
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13:27
Sacrifice, Alignment, and Hard Choices: Healing When Kids Are Involved | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Modern Parenting
In this powerful episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams unpacks one of the hardest truths about personal growth—how healing and alignment often require sacrifice, especially when children are involved....
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13:39
Breaking the Cycle: Avoidant Attachment in Love, Fatherhood, and Emotional Healing
Avoidant attachment looks like control and distance. Many fathers grow up in environments shaped by trauma, silence, or harsh discipline, then carry those patterns into adulthood. This episode of 15 Minutes with Dad shows how avoidance shapes f...
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16:18
The Attachment Mirror: How Childhood Scripts Shape Men, Fathers, and Partners | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Attachment Theory
In this revealing episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams breaks down how attachment theory explains the hidden emotional scripts that shape men, fathers, and partners in adulthood.From homes marked by ...
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18:46
What It Truly Means to Heal as a Man: Sacrifice, Perspective, and New Love Skills | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Growth
In this powerful opening episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams offers raw and personal insights into what true healing requires from men and fathers.Learn why emotional healing often demands sacrifice...
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16:16
The Father-Daughter Blueprint: Showing Her How She Deserves to Be Treated | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Parenting Frameworks
In this heartfelt episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams shares personal insights on the role fathers play in shaping their daughters’ self-worth, relationships, and view of love. Using evidence-based research and r...
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17:01
The Father-Son Mirror: Teaching Healthy Manhood Through Presence | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Modern Masculinity
In this powerful episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams explores how fathers shape their sons’ emotional, mental, and masculine identities through presence—not performance.Using attachment theory
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21:42
Fatherhood and Mental Health: Permission to Heal | Emotional Healing, Self-Awareness & Personal Growth for Dads
In this powerful episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams opens up an honest conversation about fatherhood, mental health, and personal development—topics many men experience but rarely talk about.Too ma...
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25:38
The Provider Myth: How to Show Up as a Father Without Chasing Money | Emotional Healing, Presence & Modern Fatherhood
Is your pursuit of provision costing you the connection your kids truly need?In this honest and empowering episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams explores how financial pressure can quietly steal the emotiona...
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14:55
Fatherhood Is Now: Growth Insights for All Dads | Emotional Healing, Parenting Resilience & Modern Fatherhood
This powerful Father’s Day Special of 15 Minutes with Dad is more than a celebration—it’s a call to action for every kind of father.Whether you’re a new dad, raising toddlers, navigating early fatherhood, grieving ...
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19:07
7 Questions for Dads: Insights on Family Empowerment, Emotional Presence & Modern Fatherhood
What happens when a child takes control of the podcast mic?In this special and heartfelt episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams hands the mic to his bonus son, Abe—aka “The Positive Kid”—who interviews...
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25:13
Finding Your Purpose: Empowering Fathers to Lead with Intention | Fatherhood, Emotional Healing & Personal Growth
What if discipline wasn’t about control—but about connection, healing, and emotional growth?In this transformative episode of 15 Minutes with Dad, host Lirec Williams challenges the outdated discipline methods many of us ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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21:42
Finding Your Purpose: 5 Easy Steps for Fathers | Leadership, Personal Growth & Modern Fatherhood
What gives meaning to every struggle and triumph as a dad? Purpose.Without it, fatherhood becomes reactive. But with it, you lead with intention, clarity, and heart.In this powerful finale of the You 2.0 s...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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