Mosaic of Dads Podcast #modpod

Jordan Peterson's 42 rules for life. Are we seeing the end of the COVID restrictions? Is this about the best summer ever? ModPod sports. Matt rants about being a dad of twins

Trading theories on when does a child need a phone?

Deathbed conversation 

ModPod sports on European super league.

ModPod sports for the weekend of Easter weekend 2021. 

Miscarriage is a taboo subject. Today we share some difficult memories in an effort to normalize conversations about miscarriages. These words from Leila Neverland. Miscarriage is defined as a mistake, a defeat, a failed attempt, a spontaneous abortion, a loss, an unsuccessful pregnancy. The woman can be left feeling quite literally empty, as though she did something wrong. She might feel ashamed of sharing her experience, and in this shame she might keep it a secret, she might do up her jeans and go to work like she is not giving birth to death. What is wrong with us? How can we let women drown and hide away what is truly a birthing process and a dying process all at once? Is it just too confusing, too hard to embrace the dualism? Is it that we weigh our values so heavily on life? Are we that afraid of death??Totally intense, yes, but nobody ever told me that a miscarriage was a birth, contractions and all. So I wonder... is death so "wrong" in this culture, that our journey not be celebrated? Can we reclaim our rights to the validity and worthiness of this kind of path even when no living baby lies at the end? Why is this kind of death so hidden away and never talked about here in our culture? When I travelled to Morocco and lived with the Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains of North Western Africa, the village where I stayed gathered and mourned the stillborn birth of a neighbouring womban. I remember feeling ashamed of baring witness, even though I was openly invited to join in the ceremony.Squatting around the interior perimeter of the guest room were all the village people. Chittering quietly. The air was filled with the wailing cries of the mother, poised beautifully on a bed with her elders holding her as she screamed, showering her with love and affection. All those squatting and squished in like sardines received ceremonial decoration, perfume squirts, herbal rubs, bites of food. We had to bring rice and coins. Surprisingly, this ceremony did not differ much from the one issued forth for a live birth a few weeks later. I had the honour of attending both and will never forget the fluidity of that village, weaving life and death together so smoothly, as a community, as family. A miscarriage is not a carrying gone wrong. It is it's own complete journey of pregnancy, birth, and post-partum. Some of us humans have just forgotten how to embrace this biological animal truth. I write today, that "miscarriage" is a misnomer. It should be called a deadbirth or something like that, because we give birth to death in this process. And it is not wrong. It is not shameful. It is not a mistake. It is stunning. And beautiful. And glorious. And don't you forget it. Pregnancy and birth offer us lessons, growth, and depth for ourselves as women, for the men who support us, for our communities as a whole... even when (and might I say especially when) the result is death instead of life. No more hiding. All the love, Leila 

A conversation about consent with Matt, Jeremy and Jo2

Matt and Jo2 talk Race. Current events & ModPod sports looking at the EPL schedule for the weekend

Matt shares his powerful story 6:30ModPod sports 22:40 

The lads ponder what happens in your mind? Do you also have an internal monologue or something vastly different?

A modpod Christmas conversation with the lads chatting about traditions and their fatherhood journeys to this point of the year.

The good, bad and ferocious pressure that dad's deal with.

HowWhat did your parents brainwash you with? A bit of modpod sports chatter. And pride, does it ever hold you back from capitalizing on situations that benefit you or family?

Answering questions we've received on our podcasting journey thus far

What you wish someone told you before you reached the milestone of Fatherhood.

A group of father's learning from each other by sharing truth about