Most podcasts for dads sound like a parenting seminar. Experts with credentials. Frameworks with acronyms. Advice delivered from somewhere above you, not next to you.

That’s not what Guys Being Dads is. And that’s kind of the whole point.

How It Started

Two best friends. Post-college guys who never really stopped talking. Adam Kunes and Ben Petchel go back. Way back. These are guys who ran a travel company together called Have Fun Do Good. They’ve been stuck on mountains in Costa Rica together. They pulled someone out of the water at Lake Powell. They’ve guided groups through Zion, Bryce, and Yosemite.

When you’ve navigated that kind of stuff with someone, conversation comes pretty naturally.

The First ‘Have Fun Do Good’ Experience

When they finally started recording, Ben was a dad-to-be. Adam was expecting his third kid. No agenda. No content calendar. No vision document. Just: we already have this conversation every week anyway. What if we hit record?

Worst case, nobody listens and they still got to catch up. Best case, something comes from it. Never know. That’s the whole origin story. There isn’t a more complicated version.

What It Actually Sounds Like

Raw. Not raw in a produced, aesthetically-intentional way. Actually raw. The kind of conversation that happens in a car on the way somewhere, or at the end of a long week when you finally have a minute to breathe and call your friend.

They talk about what they’re going through. Business. Fatherhood. Trying to be present when your head is somewhere else. Trying to show up for your family when you’re also trying to build something. The tension between the two. The moments when you get it right. The moments when you don’t.

No filters. No scripts. No expert panel. Just two guys being dads.

Why We Think There’s a Gap Here

Most content for dads is aimed at the problem. Here’s how to be more patient. Here’s how to be more present. Here’s a five-step framework for a better morning routine.

That’s all fine. We do some of that too.

But Guys Being Dads is aimed at something different. It’s aimed at the feeling of being a dad right now, in real time, while you’re also a person with a career and friendships and ambitions and a brain that doesn’t stop running just because you walked in the front door.

That version of fatherhood doesn’t get a lot of airtime. The messy, unresolved, still-figuring-it-out version. The one that doesn’t have a neat takeaway at the end of each episode.

We think a lot of dads live in that version. We know we do.

We’re 13 Episodes In

Thirteen episodes. Over 6,000 plays across Spotify and Apple Podcasts. For a show that started with zero marketing budget, zero audience, and nothing more sophisticated than two friends and a record button, we’ll take it.

More importantly, the feedback from the guys listening has been consistent. It feels like a conversation they want to be part of. It sounds like something real. It doesn’t feel like content.

That’s what we were going for.

Who It’s For

If you’re a dad who’s also trying to build something, whether that’s a business, a career, a body, a marriage, a life worth being proud of, this one is for you. If you want polished production and expert interviews, there are plenty of good options out there for that.

If you want two real guys talking honestly about what it’s actually like to be a dad and a person at the same time, come hang out with us. New episodes are on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Search Guys Being Dads and you’ll find us.

Drop us a review if you like what you hear. It helps more than you know.