Blog Category: The Good Enough Dad Podcast

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S2 – 2025’s Australian Father of the Year — Dr Arne Rubinstein (re-release)

Updated September 2025:  Former medical doctor and now CEO of The Rites of Passage Institute, ...

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S2 E 12 The Good Enough Dad with Trent Dalton – Rewriting a fractured childhood through beauty, love and hope

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalist and internationally bestselling author whose work has ...

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S2 E 11 The Good Enough Dad with Sean Abbott – Managing fatherhood when your career takes you overseas

Sean Abbott is part of Australia’s cricket team, which means he spends a LOT of ...

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S2 E 10 The Good Enough Dad with Tim Curtis – What surviving a battle zone can teach you about fatherhood

It was three weeks before Tim Curtis met his first-born child, emerging from the jungle ...

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S2 E 8 The Good Enough Dad with Glenn Hall & Ace Buchan – How surfing can build strong family bonds

Professional surfing legends Adrian “Ace” Buchan and Glenn “Micro” Hall join Maggie Dent to reflect ...

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S2 E 7 The Good Enough Dad with Billy Garvey – When being an expert doesn’t give you all the answers

Dr Billy Garvey is an expert in children, working as a specialist in one of ...

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S2 E 6 The Good Enough Dad with Brendan Hodges – Managing fatherhood when you’re a FIFO worker

Raising kids can be hard enough, but how do you manage it when you spend ...

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Meet The Podcaster: The Good Enough Dad with Maggie Dent

This month, our ‘Meet the Podcaster’ series continues with the wise Maggie Dent – host ...

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S2 E 5 The Good Enough Dad with Jamie Durie – Building a family home with solid foundations

Australians might know Jamie Durie best for his incredible backyard makeovers and landscaping artistry, but ...

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S2 E 4 The Good Enough Dad with Cameron Daddo – Keep it simple, put your family first

Cameron Daddo’s career has spanned everything from hosting Perfect Match, to acting and working with directors like ...

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S2 E 3 The Good Enough Dad with Guy Sebastian – Finding common ground for connection

Guy Sebastian’s accolades have only grown since he exploded onto our screens after 2003, winning ...

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S2 E 2 The Good Enough Dad with Josh Cunningham – Surprised by fatherhood in his 40s

In his 40s, musician and member of beloved Aussie band The Waifs, Josh Cunningham thought ...

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S2 E 1 The Good Enough Dad with with Larry Emdur – Nice guys finish last, or do they?

Despite being the ‘most axed man on TV’ Larry Emdur is still winning Logies and ...

S2 E 2 – The Good Enough Dad with Josh Cunningham

  The unicorn cake Josh made for a recent birthday…   And the dollhouse he ...

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S1 E 30 The Good Enough Dad with Prof Bruce Robinson – Fatherhood has changed, but there’s still a way to go

In this final episode for Season One of The Good Enough Dad, Maggie is joined ...

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S1 E 29 The Good Enough Dad with Chadden Hunter – New dads can grieve the loss of their old life

For many years, documentary filmmaker Chadden Hunter’s work life consisted of travelling the world doing ...

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S1 E 28 The Good Enough Dad with Graham Long – Finding solace for grief in the most unlikely place

Rev Graham Long served an eclectic flock as the pastor at the Wayside Chapel in ...

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S1 E 27 The Good Enough Dad with Jeremy Hutchings – How Kids Can Learn True Grit

Farmer Jeremy Hutchings grew up on a farm and has carried the lessons he learnt ...