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December 26, 2025 50 mins

Patrick Whalen is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Iliad Athletics. He has over a decade of service in the United States Marine Corps.

 

Episode Guide

  • Childhood development – building our children’s foundation (4:05)
  • The role of screens in our lives and the limits of the body (12:53)
  • Normative behavior that children need to experience from infancy on (27:36)
  • The changing landscape of physical fitness and the need to do hard things that have limits (41:33)

Resources mentioned: 

 

Iliad Athletics 

https://iliadathletics.com/ 

Glow Kids

https://www.amazon.com/Glow-Kids-Screen-Addiction-Hijacking/

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