15 Minutes with Dad: Emotional Presence, Co-Parenting for Father's Growth
Lirec Williams | Parenting, Growth & Leadership Expert
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Send us a text 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, avoid vulnerability, and lead through control. These patterns limit emotional healing, damage parent-child relationships, and place an unhealthy burden on caregiving mothers. Drawing from research based insights, fatherhood experiences, and real ...
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Send us a text 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, avoid vulnerability, and lead through control. These patterns limit emotional healing, damage parent-child relationships, and place an unhealthy burden on caregiving mothers. Drawing from research based insights, fatherhood experiences, and real ...
Send us a text 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, avoid vulnerability, and lead through control. These patterns limit emotional healing, damage parent-child relationships, and place an unhealthy burden on caregiving mothers. Drawing from research based insights, fatherhood experiences, and real ...
Send us a text 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 harsh discipline and constant correction, the belief that he cannot do anything right. This episode breaks down how that wound shaped him as a son, big brother, uncle, father, and partner. Lirec opens up about taking on his family’s problems as a child, beco...
Send us a text 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 anything right. This wound formed in childhood through harsh discipline, constant correction, and fear-based parenting. It now affects fatherhood, parenting choices, communication, mental healing, and the ability to let go. Lirec explain...
Send us a text 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, awareness, and emotional leadership. Drawing on research from the Pew Research Center, Dr. Darcy Lockman (All the Rage), Dr. John Gottman, and Dr. Brené Brown, this conversation breaks down why equality at home still feels unequal and how men can evolve from helpe...
Send us a text 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 Miss the Mark on True Partnership,” this 20-minute deep dive explores how traditional definitions of masculinity have left many men exhausted, disconnected, and unaware of the imbalance they’ve created at home. Drawing from Pew Research Center data, Gallup studi...
Send us a text 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 to provide, protect, and perform, but few are taught how to truly partner. Drawing from sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s work on emotional labor and Dr. Darcy Lockman’s book All the Rage, this episode uncovers how modern relationships often fall into imbalance—whe...
Send us a text 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. The opening episode, “The Death of the Martyr Dad: Why Sacrifice Isn’t the Same as Love,” sets the tone for everything that follows—dismantling the myth that good fathers must suffer in silence to prove their love. Through honest storytelling, verified research, an...
Send us a text 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, connection, and legacy-driven parenting. Using insights from Dr. John Gottman (Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child), Dr. Dan Siegel (The Whole-Brain Child), Brené Brown, and Marc Brackett (Permission to Feel), this episode explores how emotional regulation, validation, a...
Send us a text 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 yourself in the process of providing and protecting, you risk showing up emotionally empty. Through reflection, growth insights, and references to Brené Brown’s work on authenticity and Dr. Carl Rogers’ theories on self-acceptance, Lirec unpacks why self-discovery...
Send us a text 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, relationship communication, and family empowerment. Lirec Williams shares personal insights and research from the American Psychological Association and Dr. John Gottman to help fathers create steady connection, trust building habits, and mental p...
Send us a text 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 into daily action—and create homes filled with safety, peace, and connection. Drawing on research from Dr. Dan Siegel (The Whole-Brain Child), Dr. John Gottman (Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child), and Brené Brown’s work on vulnerability, this episode offers a real-wo...
Send us a text 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, attachment wounds, personal insights, and parenting resilience. Lirec Williams uses research from Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk to show how unhealed trauma becomes anger, withdrawal, or emotional distance. You learn how chil...
Send us a text 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 fatherhood isn’t built on money or status—it’s built on emotional inheritance: peace instead of pressure, love instead of fear, and honesty instead of silence. Drawing from growth insights and parenting frameworks, Lirec explores how fathers raised in homes marked by ...
Send us a text 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. As men and fathers evolve, they face difficult choices: Do I protect my peace or preserve the family dynamic? Do I stay in what’s familiar, or step into what’s healthy? Through raw storytelling and grounded growth insights, Lirec explores how to pursue emotional hea...
Send us a text 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 fatherhood, communication, and partnership dynamics. You get clear examples of how emotional distance forms, why it repeats, and how fathers build new habits rooted in emotional healing and steady presence. The focus is on parenting awaren...
Send us a text 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 addiction, untreated mental health issues, or generational trauma in the 1950s–80s, many fathers inherited patterns of emotional distance, physical punishment, and survival-based parenting. These unhealed experiences often lead to anxious, avoidant, or dismissive-avo...
Send us a text 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, how “what once served you may no longer align,” and why many men struggle to balance growth with family responsibilities. Using a three-story-above perspective, Lirec invites listeners to reflect honestly on their lives, decisions, and the generational cycles shapi...
Send us a text 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 real stories, he unpacks how fatherhood challenges and small, everyday choices create a lasting parenting framework—a blueprint for how daughters will expect to be treated as women. You’ll hear growth insights on how consistent love, respect, and emotiona...
Send us a text 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, growth insights, and real-life fatherhood challenges, Lirec reveals how early father-son relationships influence emotional regulation, self-worth, and future relationships. He also examines how insecure attachment and outdated views of masculinity lead to emotional detac...
Send us a text 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 many fathers carry silent burdens: unresolved trauma, relationship stress, and the pressure to be everything to everyone. This episode unpacks those struggles with emotional healing, self-awareness, and practical growth insights drawn from Jim Murphy’s Inner Excellence...
15 Minutes with Dad: Emotional Presence, Co-Parenting for Father's Growth
Send us a text 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, avoid vulnerability, and lead through control. These patterns limit emotional healing, damage parent-child relationships, and place an unhealthy burden on caregiving mothers. Drawing from research based insights, fatherhood experiences, and real ...
