🎙️ Welcome to a new episode of the Dad Up Podcast!
🟫 The Preparation: Building Competence, Confidence & Real-World Skills | Matt Smith & Bryan Ward | Ep. 311
👉 In this episode of The Dad Up Podcast, I’m joined by Matt Smith, an American entrepreneur, economic commentator, and co-author of The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous.
👉 After relocating to Uruguay in 2021, Matt now operates a regenerative cattle ranch while co-hosting Doug Casey’s Take, a top podcast offering deep insights into global markets, monetary policy, and geopolitical trends.
👉 Together with legendary investor Doug Casey and his 20-year-old son Maxim, Matt co-authored The Preparation, a groundbreaking roadmap for young men that replaces the broken college system with 16 real-world “cycles” of growth, skill-building, and philosophy.
👉 From EMT training and firefighting to entrepreneurship, welding, and aviation, this book gives the next generation the blueprint to build competence, confidence, and independence, without student debt.
👉 You’ll hear how The Preparation is reshaping what it means to grow into manhood, why traditional education fails to equip young adults for life, and how fathers can guide their sons to become capable, self-reliant men ready to take on the world.
👉 What We Talk About:
- The truth about college and modern education
- What it really means to be “competent, confident, and dangerous”
- Building real-world skills that create freedom and purpose
- How fathers can mentor their sons through The Preparation model
👉 Featured Book: The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous by Doug Casey, Matt Smith, and Maxim Smith, available now on Amazon.
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📞 Contact with Matt Smith:
✅ The Preparation Book:
https://a.co/d/36Bv27H
✅ The Preparation Website:
The Preparation is not just a book
✅ Matt Smith Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/livingstoic?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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