FULL INTERVIEW: Louis Davis's new book The Modern Dad
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
ZM's Brie and Clint podcast.
It's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat little package just for you.
It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast.
We've had our next guest in studio as a content creator. We've had him in here as a Celebrity Treasure Island contestant, but never before as a published author until now. Welcome to the show, Louis Davis. We've got to find our next guest. A published author.
That's perfect for a haute to Māori kid always getting kicked out of English, ADHD, no ears, there's a book.
Are you good at spelling? Have you got good handwriting?
Did you ever think you'd write a book? No. It's a crazy, crazy thing to hold it in my hands and it exists. I'm actually really proud of it, which didn't actually come when I wrote it. It came when I read the audio book and I said my words and said that was really special. Yeah. Yeah, I cried a lot. That was a buzz experience because the soundies didn't really care. Like I'd be like real emotional and be like, oh, hey, can you just say that again?
It was wrong. Louis, it reads really, really well. I've only managed to read a couple of the first chapters, but I didn't want to put it down. So congratulations. Appreciate it.
author how cold the book is called the modern dad um i haven't read it because i'm still reading i am pilgrim it's taken me 12 months so far but your book is next okay tell me is it a guide to parenting or is it your experience as a dad where does this book sit yeah so it's it's first of all it's like a story of my experience growing up with the most incredible parents you know i had a dad who never had a dad but was incredible for me my mother my
What inspired Louis Davis to write The Modern Dad and how did the book come together?
And all the things that I learned from them. It explores some of the most tough stuff that I've gone through in my life and stuff I've never talked about and I never had the courage or the kaha to express because they never felt like things I was on the other side of or I've overcome or there's some kind of lesson. I just felt scared to share it online and it's in the book so I'm really nervous for people to read it. It's a really raw human exploration of, I guess, the brokenness in me. And then it also offers us some really hopeful thoughts around what the future could be like for our kids. And then the thing I'm most proud about is a love letter to my wife and my kids and my mokopono one day.
That's beautiful. I always wonder when you are writing a book like this, do you have to have a story that you haven't told yet? Like if you're going to get a book deal, does they have to, because you share a lot about your life on social media and you say there's things in this book that you've never spoken about before. Is that part of the deal? Do you have to have something that people haven't heard?
I honestly went into this thinking there's nothing new. I'm just going to reach a new audience in a new way, but it's stories I've already told, but there's so many things that came out of me through this experience. Again, Even as recently as yesterday, I was still feeling nervous and fearful for people to read. Whakamā to be that honest. But also very grateful for anyone that takes the time to read it.
But I think it's something that is so valuable in today and in Aotearoa and that we need. I mean, I'm not a parent yet and I'm not a man, but I was like looking at some stuff that you were writing, being like, okay, this is things that I need to look at following if and when I have tamariki. And I think I really like how you go into talk about the things that you were worried about raising your kids in today's society and Yeah. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Because that's something that I'm terrified about.
I think it's just like a scary, scary time. There's so many things that can touch our kids, you know, in this era of the Internet, you know, the idea about who they are and what they should be in their identity and how they feel about themselves and others and relationships and like Our worlds used to be so small. Our worlds were so much smaller when we were growing up in our neighborhood and our neighbors and our father and our grandparents and stuff.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:36
2
What inspired Louis Davis to write The Modern Dad and how did the book come together?
1:36–7:38
3
How does Louis describe the personal stories and raw honesty shared in his book?
7:38–8:22
4
What lessons from Louis's upbringing shaped his approach to fatherhood?
8:22–9:26
Speakers
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