Ryan, the Blended Family & ADHD Dad

This episode with Ryan is a banger! His family is as blended as you can get -- Ryan had a son in a previous relationship, met & married a woman with 2 children from a prior relationship, and then they came together and had their own. That's something!

🚀In this episode of the Rise and Dad Podcast, we sit down with Ryan, a two-time WNBA champion (assistant coach), former college basketball player, and father of four. Ryan opens up about his unique fatherhood journey, navigating a blended family, the challenges of parenting through ADHD, and the importance of consistency and communication.

Key topics in this episode:

✅Building a blended family: Ryan shares how he navigated fatherhood in a family with kids from different relationships and the importance of co-parenting. ✅Basketball & leadership: Ryan talks about how his coaching background as a point guard influenced his approach to parenting, from teaching consistency to balancing feedback with love.

✅ADHD in the family: Ryan discusses how ADHD impacts his wife and stepson and how understanding neurodivergence has shaped his parenting style.

✅Fatherhood lessons: From coping with a miscarriage to raising teenagers and a rainbow baby, Ryan talks about the hard moments that shaped him into the father he is today.

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