In this episode I welcome Bryce Kenny. Bryce is a father of 3, and a professional Monster Jam driver as the Great Clips Mohawk Warrior. He shares his experience raising kids, what he’s learned from raising daughters, and advice from his new book Geared for Life: Making the Shift Into Your Full Potential.
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In this episode I welcome Bryce Kenny. Bryce is a father of 3, and a professional Monster Jam driver as the Great Clips Mohawk Warrior. He shares his experience raising kids, what he’s learned from raising daughters, and advice from his new book Geared for Life: Making the Shift Into Your Full Potential.
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Thank you to Bryce for sharing his journey and for being part of Girl Dad Nation.
If you've enjoyed this podcast, please let me know by leaving a review. I’ve made it even easier! Just go to my website http://girldadnation.org and click on the Reviews tab.
Girl Dad Nation is on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and YouTube.
You can also email me at girldadnationpodcast@gmail.com
Thank you for journeying with me.
There is no greater joy than being a dad!
IG: @girldadnation
Twitter: @girldadnation
GirlDadNationPodcast@gmail.com
Girl Dad Nation is made possible by the generous support of our listeners and my wife, Executive Producer of my daughters and this podcast.
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00:00:00:08 - 00:00:18:11
Matthew Krekeler
Welcome to Girl Dad Nation. In this episode, I welcome Monster Truck Driver, Bryce Kenny. This episode is fueled with tons of great content as we get geared for life.
00:00:23:04 - 00:00:24:09
Matthew Krekeler
Bryce, welcome to the show.
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Bryce Kenny
Hey, thanks, Matthew. I'm excited. I'm a big fan. Pumped to be on today.
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Matthew Krekeler
It's awesome to have you. I follow you on Instagram and see your videos on YouTube. You are a monster truck driver, which sounds like a monster of a job title.
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Bryce Kenny
Yes, that's right. Yeah. And sometimes when I tell people that's what I do for a living, I think they wonder, like, am I saying I'm like a big rig driver, you know, like a long haul, you know, driver or something like that, Peterbilt or something. It's like, no, no, no. The actual monster jam trucks, the £12,000 trucks that do backflips, that's what I get to do for work, which is kind of crazy to say.
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Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, they do backflips. And you also hold a world record for the fastest time in a monster truck, I believe.
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Bryce Kenny
Yeah, that's the fastest.
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Matthew Krekeler
The fastest?
00:01:11:00 - 00:01:25:16
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, we were the first truck, first monster truck in the world to hit triple digits. And that's what I kept telling people. I said, Yeah, no monster truck has ever gone 100 miles an hour, but no trucks ever crashed at a hundred miles an hour either. So we've got to make sure that we we go about this the right way.
00:01:25:16 - 00:01:45:10
Bryce Kenny
And yeah, thankfully, we were able to pull that off. It was crazy to see myself in the Guinness World Record book. That was a that was one of the most surreal moments of my life because that wasn't something I had ever imagined would be something in the cards for my career. And I was on page one of the three of the I think it a 2022 Guinness World Record book.
00:01:45:10 - 00:01:49:08
Bryce Kenny
It was so called fun for my kids to all sit there too and be like, Look, there's Dad.
00:01:50:20 - 00:01:58:16
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, that's amazing. Such a great story. And tell people about your truck and how long have you been a monster truck driver?
00:01:59:09 - 00:02:25:12
Bryce Kenny
So I drive the great clips, Mohawk Warrior Truck, and it's the only monster jam truck, monster truck in the world with a with a hairstyle on it and it's got a mohawk on top. And so that's kind of what happened when Mohawk Warrior, it used to just be Mohawk Warrior came around 2010. They in great clips when they came around 2016, they weren't really sure what they wanted to do, like they just wanted to do the great clips, monster jam Truck or what have you.
00:02:25:23 - 00:02:45:06
Bryce Kenny
And Monster Jam was like, Hey, look, we cannot we've got this truck that's being sidelined. We don't really have any plans for it. It's got a mohawk on top. Like what if we just attach great clips to the Mohawk Warrior truck and combine it? And it was the best decision. And because after that first year is kind of a part time sponsorship.
00:02:45:06 - 00:03:05:15
Bryce Kenny
That was back in 2017. That was my first season in the Great Clips Mohawk Warrior Truck. And that was supposed to be just like a small deal, almost like a part time sponsorship. It was so well-received. Everyone loved it so much. Great clubs ripped up the contract and said, Let's do a full time deal, a two, three year contract after that.
00:03:05:21 - 00:03:18:16
Bryce Kenny
And and, you know, basically bought the whole truck, so to speak. So, yeah, this is my seventh year full time with Monster Jam Driver of the Great Claws, Mohawk Warrior truck, traveling the country, doing backflips and jumping at 45 feet in the air for a living.
00:03:19:08 - 00:03:28:15
Matthew Krekeler
That's amazing. And then you're also sporting a mohawk signature to the brand, which is great. So the folks listening on YouTube, watching on YouTube can see that.
00:03:29:07 - 00:03:50:11
Bryce Kenny
Yeah. For commitment, right? I mean, and I get plenty of looks going through airports and stuff like that. And Matthew, sometimes in different parts of my career, I'll color it. So the last color was purple because my truck is black, purple and silver. Well, my hair is already black. So is black. Sometimes I don't want to do silver, which is going to make me look like I'm ten years older than I am.
00:03:50:15 - 00:04:13:02
Bryce Kenny
So I did purple and it was a huge hit. And the other cool thing is at a Monster Jam event, we have the pit party right before every event. And so we that's where fans can come and meet the drivers, see the trucks up close. It's really cool, but we always have great clips come out and the stylists are there and they gel up people's hair in a mohawk and they spray them different colors, right?
00:04:13:02 - 00:04:28:20
Bryce Kenny
They cause crazy hair. And so they've got green and purple and red and all that stuff. So I another reason why I had colored it was because it was going to drive more people over to the great clubs because, hey, you do anything for a sponsor, make sure they're happy, and I get as many people under their tent as possible.
00:04:29:10 - 00:04:46:09
Bryce Kenny
And so it really stuck. It kind of became a little bit of a schtick for me. And to have a purple mohawk, I took a break from a year ago and I think I might go back, though. I don't know. You got any color recommendations? I, I feel like red. I feel like maybe I've been flirting with the idea of going red hour.
00:04:46:11 - 00:04:48:18
Bryce Kenny
Don't even know why I can't figure that out.
00:04:49:02 - 00:04:51:23
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, maybe you need some red flags on the side of the track.
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Bryce Kenny
Maybe that's not a bad idea. Now, your.
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Matthew Krekeler
Two daughters, I asked my four year old, like, what's her favorite color? And she just says Rainbow, like, yeah, it's all the colors. Like shopping. Yeah, she'll color like the dog on the coloring. She it's just rainbow. It's every rainbow.
00:05:07:03 - 00:05:13:08
Bryce Kenny
And sounds like she maybe a politician, you know, she doesn't have that. She why why do I have to choose one dad. I can choose them all.
00:05:14:13 - 00:05:21:17
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah. And then we're always doing like crazy hair with the girls. They love putting their hair and crazy ponies and all that.
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Bryce Kenny
So they done the dyno braid. So the dyno braid is like the ah, the bubble braid that goes down the middle. It kind of looks like a mohawk, you know. Okay, well.
00:05:31:05 - 00:05:33:08
Matthew Krekeler
Now I'm not sure I'll have to look that up. Yeah, yeah.
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Bryce Kenny
Google, I think they keep I feel like they keep changing names, but I think the last name I heard was a bubble braid. And it looks like a, you know, like a like a mohawk down the middle. But that one I just had the great clips. Girls put that on my eight year old daughter's head and, you know, did her hair up and both braids.
00:05:52:14 - 00:06:11:15
Bryce Kenny
Eliza loved it. She would not take it out for days. She was very proud of it, probably because Dad has more tools. That kind of helps. Yeah, but it was really cool and it stuck and. And I tried to get Monster Jam and great clips to think about doing a second truck and then having the Mohawk on the truck be that bubble braid.
00:06:11:15 - 00:06:28:19
Bryce Kenny
And then we need one of our female drivers in Monster Jam. Yeah, to be the driver of it. I know the great club stylist would love it. The fact that a girl is in there piloting the the Mohawk Warrior truck. But anyway, just food for thought. Yeah. Great, great clips of Mohawk or monster jam didn't jump on the idea, so that's okay.
00:06:28:19 - 00:06:49:02
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah. Well, I love ways, you know, to get more girls involved in Monster Jam and stuff like that. My daughters love playing with their cars and they've got some monster trucks at home and things that they play with. So yeah. What's it like as a dad to have your kids come along? And I'm sure they've watched you like at some of these events.
00:06:49:20 - 00:07:10:15
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, the first, their very first time I got a call from Monster Jam to go test for at Monster Jam University, which is a real place, by the way. They gave me a diploma and everything, which I thought was a little bit of a stretch. But the first time I got that call, I actually had to reschedule the very first trip because my daughter was born and it was our very it was our first child.
00:07:10:23 - 00:07:32:10
Bryce Kenny
And and so everything she's only known me in Monster Jam, right? She she didn't know me before that. She certainly wasn't alive when I was I was chasing my professional top fuel drag racing dream back in 2010 and 11. And so it's been so much fun because they don't know any different. They just know that dad travels a lot.
00:07:32:10 - 00:07:50:21
Bryce Kenny
And so when my daughter was about five, she actually came to me and said, Dad, I don't want you to do Monster Jam anymore. And I Oh, honey, what? What's why? What's wrong? Just cause you're gone all the time, and I don't get to see you enough and stuff like that. And of course, that's heartbreaking. As a dad, you're like, Look, you're not in love.
00:07:50:21 - 00:08:19:00
Bryce Kenny
There's nothing more important than you, honey. Like, I just want you to know that my job in my career. Yes, that's how I provide for our family. Yes. That's what I feel like I've been called to do and to impact the world through that. But nothing none of that is more important than you guys and so anyway, fast forward about a year from then and I remember she said something, I told her maybe I was after COVID and stuff and I was thinking about walking away and kind of being done just because of all the chaos of every everything else.
00:08:19:00 - 00:08:36:20
Bryce Kenny
And I mean, I was kind of getting tired of traveling as well. Aaron We're looking at my daughter and I said, What do you think if I wasn't Mohawk Warrior Warrior anymore? Like, what if I did walk away? Oh, no, no, no, Dad, you can't do that. No, no, no, you can't do that. I said, oh, what that's a wasn't that long ago you were telling me that that I should quit?
00:08:37:07 - 00:08:51:21
Bryce Kenny
No, no, no, you shouldn't quit. No, no, no. I like you being Mohawk Warrior. And then, like, a day or two later, I realized I went to go pick her up from school, and I had a hat on. And, you know, I don't always gel at my hair and stuff like that every day. And so but she got mad at me.
00:08:52:03 - 00:09:11:01
Bryce Kenny
She's like, Dad, why did you wear a hat, honey? What's the big difference? What's the big deal? She said, You know, I just really like it when you have your Mohawk up, okay. And that kind of thought about I went, is it because you you like it when I get recognized? And she started laughing. She said, Yes, I do.
00:09:11:01 - 00:09:23:02
Bryce Kenny
I like it when people recognize you and call you Mohawk Warrior. So I like that that attitude has changed for her. You know, here she's eight years old now and and she thinks dad is cool and I'm soaking up those years, right?
00:09:23:04 - 00:09:24:21
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah. Well, they last, I'm sure.
00:09:25:04 - 00:09:51:00
Bryce Kenny
Yeah. I don't know how long that is going to last. And so I'm like, man, if I don't know if she'll be 13 and want her dad to be wearing a mohawk. And so I'm just soaking that up that she wants me to get recognized still. But it is tough because, you know, the kids, they feel it. She didn't know what it was like when I was in a corporate job, you know, working I was working 8 to 6:00, plugging back in at 9:00, you know, plugging back in on Sunday evenings, you know, work in 80 plus hours a week.
00:09:51:07 - 00:10:05:05
Bryce Kenny
She didn't know what that was like either. And to be honest with you, Matthew, I don't think she would have enjoyed that more than the travel. It's tough because, you know, I'm sleeping in a hotel room and stuff four and five days out of the week when I'm in the middle of the season. But when I'm home, I'm home.
00:10:05:08 - 00:10:24:19
Bryce Kenny
I'm all there's, you know, our summers I pretty much have off. So the fact that I get that much time to just go to the lake with them and do stuff, you know, it's it's a give and take. And sometimes they just don't know any better. They don't know any different. So whatever your situation is and what you know the most, that you always think the grass is always greener.
00:10:24:19 - 00:10:36:19
Bryce Kenny
So we've kind of that's been probably the biggest battle over the last probably couple of years of us just trying to settle in as a family, as our kids are getting older now, they're aware of what dad does and what that has to do to pull this all off.
00:10:38:03 - 00:11:03:14
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, that's cool. And yeah, those opportunities where like you involve them in what you do and what you're passionate about and your craft. And yeah, that's amazing to hear when your kids are proud of you for what you're doing to provide for your family. And then like I try as much as I can to reciprocate that. Like anytime they come home from preschool and they've got something like their craft of the day or they've learned something new, like, amazing, dad, so proud of you.
00:11:03:22 - 00:11:05:08
Matthew Krekeler
You're just encouraging that.
00:11:06:20 - 00:11:28:09
Bryce Kenny
Absolutely. Yeah, I agree because I think that whenever they it's interesting. I had a dad that was always, you know, he worked incredibly long hours. So he was not really we didn't see him much during the week and it was really on the weekends. But man, he he never really missed a game on the weekends. And he would always say to me, you know, Bryce, I'm proud of you, buddy.
00:11:28:09 - 00:11:42:19
Bryce Kenny
You know, great job day. I'm so proud of you, man. That's pretty much from a father to a child. That's really what I know for at least as a boy. Right? That's what I need. I needed that affirmation from my dad that he was proud of me. I could have run through a brick wall for something like that.
00:11:42:23 - 00:12:02:21
Bryce Kenny
And I know a lot of a lot of people don't have that relationship with their father didn't. But you can change that. Like you can still have that relationship with your kid. But I've learned and I stole this from someone, Matthew, but I take it one step further and I'll, I'll, I'll have Keegan come off the soccer field or Eliza, you know, gets done with her horseback riding lesson or something.
00:12:03:09 - 00:12:27:15
Bryce Kenny
And I'll say, you know, Eliza, I am so proud of you, honey. Daddy is so proud of you. Are you proud of yourself? Like, there's always that second question because I heard someone say, look, they're not you're not always going to be around them to tell them you're proud of them. And now is the time that you can build in them, that self-image and that sell, that sense of self pride to know, yes, I'm proud of my effort.
00:12:28:00 - 00:12:49:10
Bryce Kenny
Yes, I'm proud of this result. Yes, I'm proud that I helped a teammate score a goal today. Those things or or will enable them to say it's not just because dad says I did well, it's because I now know at 13 or whatever or whatever that that point is where we go. I know what a good effort and a bad effort is.
00:12:49:10 - 00:13:15:17
Bryce Kenny
And today I'm proud of my or or today I'm not proud enough of my effort. I could have done better. That is everything for a child by the time they get out of the house and they're 19, they go out in the real world. If they can understand what a good effort versus bad effort, what self-pride is and all that stuff, may I know that they're going to be ahead of the game and I can't like I say, I can't remember who I stole that from, but it's already my kids being eight, six and my maybe not a two year old is not paying off.
00:13:15:17 - 00:13:22:20
Bryce Kenny
But that eight and six I can tell you they're some of the most confident kids in their class. And I think that's a big reason why.
00:13:23:16 - 00:13:46:18
Matthew Krekeler
I love that that self-confidence that you're building in them is so important. And that's going to carry on as their young adults, as they're in the workforce, as a home life, all those different things like when you can be proud of yourself, like it motivates you in all these different areas. And I love being a dad to daughters and one of my guests, I asked him like, Yeah, what do you love about being a girl, dad?
00:13:46:18 - 00:14:08:02
Matthew Krekeler
And one of the things he said, he was like, it's kind of like the the ultimate like underdog story in a lot of ways. He's like, I love rooting for the underdog and was like sometimes like, there's all this, like, emphasis on sons and like we have sort of a male dominated workforce and things. But yeah, it's you empower strong female leaders.
00:14:08:11 - 00:14:36:04
Matthew Krekeler
He was like, Yeah, I love that. And and that self-confidence is amazing too. And I know like, yeah, hopefully when my daughters grow up, they'll have the confidence to go out and do all these different things or like, you know, anything that they're interested in, even if it's primarily like kind of male dominated realm. Like I know there's many male monster truck drivers, but yeah, you just mentioned there's female monster truck drivers.
00:14:36:12 - 00:14:59:13
Matthew Krekeler
So I just I love pointing out those opportunities that like, especially now that they're young, like the sky's the limit for them, like anything that they want to do and their interest. I love as a dad being able to just encourage that and point out all these amazing people going after what they're passionate about and not letting anyone or especially themselves say that they can't.
00:15:00:00 - 00:15:21:08
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny, too. So I grew up. I was one of four boys. All right, excuse me. So I had three brothers growing up, and my my wife was one of four girls. So, you know, to your point, my son will walk in and he'll be doing something. And my wife is like, is that normal for, like, normal boy behavior?
00:15:21:08 - 00:15:42:08
Bryce Kenny
And I just start laughing. I'm like, honey, yes, I'm sorry, but he's fine. He's good. And then my but my daughter will walk in. She'll do something or or have some reaction to something. I want to be like, what the heck? You know, is it maybe a lot of times it's it's conflict that throws me in the way that my daughters deal with conflict versus my son, you know?
00:15:42:17 - 00:15:58:02
Bryce Kenny
And so it'll throw me and I'll look at my wife all the time, like, is that normal? Or do we need to, like, step in on that or watch like, no, no, no. She's like, that's totally normal for a girl. So anyway, that has been fun. That kind of have each other to, to help each other kind of get in the minds of, of the other gender.
00:15:58:08 - 00:16:27:08
Bryce Kenny
But man, I wouldn't trade any of that for the world. And to your point, man, a strong female presence changes everything. I'm a product of a very strong mother. Like my mom was incredibly gifted as a mother. And so I was raised by a strong female presence. And even though I had I had the the so important male influences and mentorship in my life, too, I really had the best of both worlds.
00:16:27:17 - 00:16:43:00
Bryce Kenny
But I look at my daughters and she's you know, she's a rule follower. She is honest as the day is long, but man, she is tough, too. And so if you're a you know, if you're going to question her, you're going to walk into it. She like she told us one day, my wife just stared at me when my daughter said this.
00:16:43:00 - 00:17:04:14
Bryce Kenny
She goes, I like to debate. Well, that's something I would say, because I do. I enjoy a good, good, healthy discussion in a debate. But those are the things that keep us as parents on our toes. And but it should excite us. It should. It should we should welcome the differences. And it's not about you know, there's a big push lately about equality.
00:17:04:14 - 00:17:26:06
Bryce Kenny
And I get it right. I get it. Yeah. But I want my kids to understand more than that. They are as good as or can do that as well. I am very passionate, regardless if it's my daughters or my son, to know what they are gifted at, what are they get, what makes them unique, not better than everybody else, but different.
00:17:26:06 - 00:17:50:17
Bryce Kenny
They are different. So what makes them different than anyone else on the planet? And we've lost touch with that in society. Society is trying to make my daughter think a certain way and think in terms of of what they want her to do. I want her to think in terms of what she needs to do, what she wants to do, ultimately, what she's gifted in doing, and then go out there and know that she can do hard things.
00:17:50:17 - 00:17:53:09
Bryce Kenny
I think that's my job as her dad.
00:17:53:09 - 00:18:15:21
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, I think that's such a key thing to learn in life is find out what you're gifted at and then marry that with what you're passionate about. And when those two things come together like your natural talents, but then also your natural like desires to do or achieve different things and how that can contribute in such positive ways.
00:18:16:16 - 00:18:27:05
Matthew Krekeler
And yeah, when you as a parent see those things in your kids and give them every opportunity to excel and to grow in those things, it's such an amazing gift.
00:18:27:18 - 00:18:44:12
Bryce Kenny
Yeah. Yeah. And when you get it right as a dad, you're like, Holy smokes, Dad, did I do that right? Was that something I did? Well, because. Because I don't think we trust ourselves. And I think we'd question ourselves quite a bit, too, because here's a little human lives. And while we think that they're just going to be carbon copies of us, they're not.
00:18:44:12 - 00:18:47:12
Bryce Kenny
And they're so different. You said you had three. Are all three of your daughters?
00:18:48:02 - 00:18:49:15
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, I have three girls. Yeah.
00:18:49:15 - 00:18:49:23
Bryce Kenny
Yeah.
00:18:50:06 - 00:18:52:15
Matthew Krekeler
So staying on brand for a girl that day? Yeah.
00:18:52:23 - 00:19:01:01
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, yeah. Exactly. That's what I was expecting as well, if you're gonna have a podcast of that. But I can't wait for you all to get pregnant again with a boy. That's going to be funny.
00:19:01:01 - 00:19:11:09
Matthew Krekeler
So now I don't exclude like I. Yeah, I knew going into this, I'm still a young dad. There's always that possibility. So I don't exclude dads who also have sons. But yeah, you'll be.
00:19:11:12 - 00:19:32:13
Bryce Kenny
You'll be good and bad podcast plus. Plus a boy or something. Yeah. You have to rebrand. Yeah. But no it's so cool. It's, it's challenging, it's scary. But man, it is so rewarding that these people are so different, right? These kids are so different. The personality traits, you don't know that they can be so different, but it is truly amazing.
00:19:32:13 - 00:19:53:00
Bryce Kenny
And then you do you find that love for them in such different ways and you see them do and find the things that they love to do in their passion. But yeah, that's an I'm big. I'm big on finding their passion and then my job is to help equip that passion. That's it. That's my job is their dad to be their leader, to help them equip their passion and let them know that they can pull it off.
00:19:53:22 - 00:20:08:12
Matthew Krekeler
Looks great 100%. And yeah, having your daughter becoming a dad for the first time. How has being a girl dad just like, changed the way you think? Maybe challenged you?
00:20:08:12 - 00:20:38:08
Bryce Kenny
Well, yeah, my wife would say it soften me up. She. She said that. And it does, you know, the first time you have a child, regardless if it's a girl or boy, like when you become a dad and you see that child for the first time, it is everything in life changes. Your priorities change. But but because there is something about her being a my daughter and still to this day like I have a special relationship with my eight year old and she just gets it like and I feel like I get her a little bit better too.
00:20:39:01 - 00:21:03:13
Bryce Kenny
And we just seem to be on, on such a similar like mental wavelength. But I was very just like, I don't want to say I was a hardened individual back then, but I mean, I was a go getter. I've always been a high performer. I'm like a lion out there in the world looking for the next hunt. And a lot of times that that that affects the way you see people and influence people.
00:21:03:13 - 00:21:22:10
Bryce Kenny
And what I mean by that is, you know, no one gave me a book of how to win friends and influence people in high school. And they should have because I needed to understand that everyone's wired differently. That's not I was, man. I was just all over the map. And, you know, I'd ripped the door from the frame if I had to, to get into a building, kind of a kind of an an analogy.
00:21:22:22 - 00:21:43:08
Bryce Kenny
When I had my daughter, it soften me up because I realized that the things that I was wanting to accomplish and things and going and doing that, none of it. None of it even compared to the weight of this responsibility, I now had to lead this little girl and to turn and to help do everything I can to let her feel loved.
00:21:44:02 - 00:22:10:16
Bryce Kenny
And then to again, to to lead her in a direction to let her know that, look, the things that you're best at, you're skilled at and you're passionate about doing, like it's going to be hard work. It's not going to be easy. I'm going to be proud of you. What however all of this turns out. But I'm also going to let you I'm going to push you every step of the way and put you out of your comfort zone, because everything good in my life, Matthew, has been on the other side of my comfort zone, everything.
00:22:11:07 - 00:22:33:01
Bryce Kenny
So when I'm questioning some things about my ability as a dad or where I'm taking my kids, that's one of the things I'm doing. I'm like, Am I am I getting my allowing them to be uncomfortable enough that presses them? Right. It doesn't. I think there's a detrimental aspect of that. There's a protecting aspect that sometimes we don't need to let them allow them to be so uncomfortable.
00:22:33:09 - 00:22:51:00
Bryce Kenny
But it's our job to push them out of their comfort zone. And that's where they grow. That's where they stretch. That's where they find new things and new passions because they're like, Oh, I can do this right? I do have what it takes to, you know, pursue a professional horseback riding career or whatever it might be. I've got all of them in Junior Dragster right now.
00:22:51:01 - 00:23:08:22
Bryce Kenny
My wife was freaking out because they would go, you know, they're going 45 miles an hour down a racetrack at eight and six years old and they're all buckled in and have a helmet and all that stuff. And she's terrified and I'm just cheering my face off on the starting line and of course, bawling like a baby the first time I sent them down the racetrack.
00:23:09:01 - 00:23:24:00
Bryce Kenny
But that's what I grew up doing. So first of all, I knew was safe. And then second of all, I knew that they could do it. And now all of a sudden, they they don't understand that they're their friends. In third grade, in kindergarten. They've never had total control over a machine like that. So those are those elements where.
00:23:24:00 - 00:23:39:17
Bryce Kenny
Yeah. Was the first time uncomfortable for them. Absolutely. But getting them out of that comfort zone, you know, they won't have any trouble getting their driver's license, let's put it that way. If they do it because they sped on the driving test course or whatever, you know, they went a little too fast or they were a little bit too egregious.
00:23:39:19 - 00:23:44:12
Bryce Kenny
It wasn't because they weren't comfortable behind the wheel, but that's our job as dads, right? Yeah.
00:23:44:20 - 00:24:07:17
Matthew Krekeler
That's such a great point. I love just what you said about pushing them and even ourselves beyond our comfort zone, where we get that opportunity to grow and to learn. And I think so oftentimes, like us as dads, we want to be protective. I think especially dads of daughters. Like there's this overemphasis, I think, on being the protector.
00:24:07:17 - 00:24:34:23
Matthew Krekeler
And then you get into like the mediums about like, oh, you have a daughter, like dad needs a gun and all these other, these other like kind of tropes about like just being there as this, like defender of this protector. And while being a protector is important, I think that that can overlook, like what we're also trying to do is push them to be self-reliant and to stretch beyond like what we even think that they're capable of.
00:24:34:23 - 00:25:05:15
Matthew Krekeler
And oftentimes, my daughters will even surprise me about what they're capable of. And and that's also like one of the greatest feelings is seeing in them those opportunities to surprise me and and celebrate those things too. But yeah, you mentioned just getting them into your junior drag racing, getting them around vehicles, machines and everything. What kind of lessons, how has that given your kids or those kinds of skills that you've seen?
00:25:06:09 - 00:25:26:06
Bryce Kenny
Well, the biggest thing I've seen for my eight year old is that she keeps the car clean. Right. And I've explained it to her like, look, your job is to make sure this car stays clean. And so she does. Sure, she'll go out there randomly do that. We had it out of the car show one day just showing it off because it's called the Warrior Wagon and kind of a play off of my monster jam truck and all that stuff.
00:25:26:06 - 00:25:44:22
Bryce Kenny
But she loves it. And and some kids are like trying to get it, get in the car, which between you and I is totally fine. And that's one thing I want to ultimately one day use through my foundation that I do is called Live Like Warriors. But I want to teach kids that wouldn't have the opportunity to to learn how to drive, put them in the car and do all that stuff.
00:25:45:01 - 00:26:00:10
Bryce Kenny
So anyway, I was kind of enjoying it. My daughter did not like that because it was hers, right? And not that she didn't want to share or anything like that, but she she had pride in the fact that she took care of it. She wanted it to stay clean. She'd been the one that cleaned it. And that's probably the biggest one.
00:26:00:17 - 00:26:17:09
Bryce Kenny
And then my six year old son, he's just the wild man. He's the cowboy. And I think for him, it's been more around, you know, the idea that I remember the first time that he drove and it was dark out, so the lights on the track were on. He did not want to do it. He did not want to do it.
00:26:17:20 - 00:26:30:17
Bryce Kenny
And I kept looking at him and I got him out of the car. And because he told me, he said, Dad, I don't want drive like Eliza to do it. It's dark, too dark. And I'm kind of scared. And I didn't know that was one of those dad moments where I was like, Do I make him do it?
00:26:31:05 - 00:26:47:18
Bryce Kenny
You know, do I say, Look, son, you're going to do this? And then him get to the end of the track and realize, Oh, I did it, or, you know, it's not like this is the army, do I? And I actually made this other decision. Normally I'm more of the dad that would be like, look, get your butt in the car.
00:26:47:19 - 00:27:12:09
Bryce Kenny
You're going down the racetrack, you'll be fine. But I pulled him out of the car and I said, Look, I want you to know something that I believe you can do it. I there's no question in my mind that you you can go down the track. You're going to be totally safe. And I would never allow you to go down that track if I didn't have 100% confidence that you'd be able to see every step of the way and and that you'd be all right.
00:27:12:18 - 00:27:32:18
Bryce Kenny
So I believe in you, son. I want you to know that. However, if you really don't want to do it right now, it's okay. We can do it the next time we can do it, the next time is dark. And you better believe that's the only caveat I'll give you is you better believe that I'm going to make sure and take them another time when it is dark and the lights are up on the track and stuff.
00:27:32:23 - 00:27:49:10
Bryce Kenny
Because even though I let him out of that situation and I think there's a time and place to do all that, because he did say he said that I really just don't want to do it. Let's let Eliza get on the track. And I even though I let him out of that situation, I have got to revisit it.
00:27:49:10 - 00:28:13:03
Bryce Kenny
I've got to get him back out on the track in that same environment, because whether he knows he is or not, in the back of his mind, he was questioning himself and it was good that he heard me give that affirmation to him. But he also has got to at some point actually go down the track when the lights are up and it's dark out so that he can know, Oh, I do have what it takes, because that is what a son is always asking, do I have what it takes?
00:28:13:11 - 00:28:32:06
Bryce Kenny
Whereas Eliza, you know her as a she, she wants to know she has what it takes. But the question is just so different for her and it is more about safety and things like that. But she's out there and has this you know, it's more about how she's going to look. You know, she'd be more afraid that if she if she didn't go down, that she going to look silly.
00:28:32:13 - 00:28:44:09
Bryce Kenny
You know, you can think, am I going to run it against the wall? Eliza's worried that she's going to look stupid if she does it wrong. So there's just, you know, and there's two different ways to to parent that situation, I think.
00:28:45:05 - 00:29:05:15
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, even with my kids, they're a little bit younger than yours, but like similar kind of thing. Like it's mostly like getting up to the tall slide at the playground. It's like the oldest will go and then the second is like, I don't know just yet and I never try to force it. I wouldn't ever like try to do something that they are first comfortable doing.
00:29:05:23 - 00:29:28:06
Matthew Krekeler
But yeah, just encouraging that, try to get them to go a little bit farther, a little bit past their comfort zone, knowing that it's safe, of course. But then yeah, once, once they do that, like it's the repetition it's seeing. And then I remember like when my oldest went down the slide for the very first time, it was like such a proud moment and that it was such a proud moment for them to do.
00:29:28:07 - 00:29:40:08
Matthew Krekeler
And then immediately, you know, we were probably at the playground for half an hour before she gained the courage to actually go down the slide. And then right when she went down the slide, you want to go again and again and again. And we're like, okay, now we have to go.
00:29:40:21 - 00:29:45:11
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Enjoy this book, honey.
00:29:45:11 - 00:29:45:19
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah.
00:29:46:19 - 00:29:47:08
Bryce Kenny
That's awesome.
00:29:47:09 - 00:30:06:08
Matthew Krekeler
Then you mentioned before that people don't often get a book on like how to be a good dad. Once you become a father or different things like that. But you did write a book. Yeah. And so you have geared for life. What inspired you to write your book?
00:30:07:03 - 00:30:41:21
Bryce Kenny
Well, one of the things one of the biggest reasons I wrote this book was because I had always told my grandfather before he died how important and awesome it would be if he could get his wisdom down on paper. And I missed that. And because I spent years in a race rig with my grandfather getting to hear him talk about life, hear him talk about truth, and and then I would go and watch him do really hard things at the racetrack and the platform that he had, the disappointments, the highs and the lows.
00:30:42:04 - 00:31:05:14
Bryce Kenny
I watched him come through all of it. And so that gave me a lot of a lot of belief that I could go do hard things and I'd be okay. Like none of those hard things are going to kill me, right? I'd be able to push through well, because he didn't write a book. I've always said that even if I wrote a book for my kids to be able to reference, regardless if I'm still alive or not, when they need it, that's what I wanted to do.
00:31:05:18 - 00:31:25:03
Bryce Kenny
So I wrote this book truly because I wanted to get some of the stuff that's been imparted to me. I want to get on paper because I know it'll help them. And the whole idea behind the book is, you know, it's called Geared for Life Making the Shift into Your Full Potential because we all our head hits the pillow at some point in our life and we go, Is this it?
00:31:26:04 - 00:31:43:22
Bryce Kenny
Like, is this really all there is? Like, I just thought life would be better by now. Maybe it's that sophomore in college that's freaking out that they don't know what to major in, you know? And they feel like they're making too big of a decision for their life and they can't commit to it. Or the 35 year old that's like, you know, he's knee deep in his career.
00:31:44:02 - 00:32:01:09
Bryce Kenny
He's too far down the road. He can't really change now. Maybe he's a director and then thinking, you know, now is all of a sudden getting good pay, but he's unfulfilled, you know, that kind of thing. He's just going like me and I just I feel like I feel like I'm drowning or the 65 year old that just retired and is like, man, I thought retirement would be way better than this.
00:32:01:09 - 00:32:21:18
Bryce Kenny
I've got nothing to do, you know. I don't know what to do with my days. Those types of individuals, we all hit something like that at some point. And in my opinion, I have become an expert in finding my next gear, like leveraging one situation to the next. I don't have all the answers to life. I don't have the secret to life.
00:32:21:18 - 00:32:40:03
Bryce Kenny
Mathew Any book that claims to have the ultimate formula or something like that is just rubbish. They're just doing it. They're just trying to sell books. I am a firm believer that just like a car, just like my monster jam truck when I expire one year, I have got to shift into the next one or I'm on blow the motor.
00:32:40:16 - 00:33:01:10
Bryce Kenny
And so some people have been in the same gear doing the same thing for 35 years and they wonder why they're exhausted. They wonder why they feel like they're engine's about to blow up. It's because they're at 7500 rpm in life and they need to shift they need to shift into that next gear that they may not even know that they have.
00:33:01:10 - 00:33:23:19
Bryce Kenny
And so this this book I outline my seven years and what I believe a gear is ultimately is our foundational beliefs. So seven things that you couldn't shake me from these seven beliefs if you tried. No one can these things and the things like being purpose driven, there's times and I've got a shift into a purpose driven decision, not a monetary decision.
00:33:23:23 - 00:33:45:03
Bryce Kenny
Case in point when I left corporate America full time to go into Monster Jam, I took a 30% pay cut. The reason I did that was because it wasn't because it was a monetary decision or a or even a career decision. It was because I believe that was going to put me back into my purpose in life, which was to impact the world through the platform motorsports right side to shift into that purpose gear.
00:33:45:08 - 00:34:08:07
Bryce Kenny
Another gear of mine in the book I talk about is make memories, not egos. There's times I need to get my butt off the couch, go make a memory with my son or my daughter, not, you know, go and check my Instagram account in that last post I just made to to go and maximize that sometimes I need to not do what my ego wants and I go and make a memory because those are the real trophies we want to make or or another gears becoming built for other people.
00:34:08:10 - 00:34:25:12
Bryce Kenny
But the point is, I constantly am shifting in and out of these gears, just like a car going down the highway that takes a an off ramp, right? The exit ramp. And all of a sudden you come up to stop sign. Guess what? You're not still in fifth gear, going 75 miles an hour. Your car shifted down into first.
00:34:26:00 - 00:34:49:18
Bryce Kenny
Right. So you're going to use different gears for different situations. The key to everything is knowing what you believe and then knowing how and when to shift into the right gear at the right time, right the right gear for the right life situation. And so slogging it to the end of my book, geared for life and they're going to steal a few of my gears, like they're going to realize that they believe in my fail faster gear, right?
00:34:49:22 - 00:35:16:07
Bryce Kenny
Get through the failures as quickly as you can so the successes will come sooner. You know, your issue is you're trying to negotiate. You're you know, you're worried about the failures. Now get through a fail as fast as you can so that you can learn the lessons and start succeeding. Right. That's a gear I find. And whether it's been in a sales job, whether it's been in learning a new monster jam trick in front of 50,000 fans, when you're either a hero or a zero, I go into that fail faster gear lot, but they're going to steal some of my gears.
00:35:16:07 - 00:35:38:23
Bryce Kenny
But my hope is that they uncover some of their own by the end of my book. It helps them realize what they believe that maybe they forgot about, and it becomes a foundational principle for them and that belief that gear will drive your action, it will change your action one action at a time. And then all of a sudden, a year from today, your life can look a lot different, right?
00:35:39:02 - 00:36:04:21
Matthew Krekeler
So it's such a great way of looking at it. Just great principles for life, too. I love that idea of just like getting to that next gear and not letting yourself get burned out. And I think that's true to like as I'm kind of in the early stages of fatherhood, I'm like, okay, these are the challenges I'm dealing with right now when my oldest is only four and we're going through potty training and like be friends at preschool and stuff.
00:36:05:08 - 00:36:31:10
Matthew Krekeler
And then I know like once they get a little bit older and I've got three kids in school and then I've got teenagers and then like as they're preparing for college and all these other gears, but like focusing on the gears now but also like anticipate those next shifts and like as our family dynamics change and my wife and I are still navigating like our different career paths and things like how can we like best optimized for as those gears kind of shift.
00:36:32:00 - 00:36:33:22
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah. How can we best prepare for this.
00:36:34:19 - 00:36:55:13
Bryce Kenny
Yeah. And those beliefs as a parent, you know, maybe that's what it is. Maybe someone's like me. I just. I feel like I struggle understanding how to parent my kid. Well, why don't you go back to the what you believe a parent should do, right? That's going to guide their action. You also got to work backwards a little bit because we were like, I want my I want my son to start obeying or my daughter to start obeying or whatever, right?
00:36:55:18 - 00:37:14:17
Bryce Kenny
Insert whatever action or change that you want to create. Well, chances are your actions are allowing it or creating that situation. Well, don't beat yourself up. We all, you know, this book is not a book written to encourage people to do more. Right. Who be more like me. I'm I'm at capacity now. I can't do more. It's not about that.
00:37:14:20 - 00:37:37:00
Bryce Kenny
It's about when you understand your beliefs, it'll fix the action. So maybe change what you believe in or realize. Go back and realize what you believe. A father's role is for his daughter. You talked about it earlier. Like a lot of people, they only think about protecting, which is a very important role. Right? It's a very important role.
00:37:37:00 - 00:38:03:03
Bryce Kenny
Well, protecting the evils, protecting my kids from the evilness of our world is one thing. Protecting Them from doing anything that's hard is not the right way. Right. But we just we don't we don't think and try to understand what we believe in. That certain topic as a parent enough. And then we wonder why our actions are allowing this kind of behavior or building that kind of behavior in our children.
00:38:03:06 - 00:38:21:06
Bryce Kenny
And so that's exactly what it is. People cannot claim that they have a way to do things if they don't know why they're doing them. And our gears and our dad gears that we find that we've got to shift into because it's it's that same situation. You get off of work, you come home and you walk through that door.
00:38:21:11 - 00:38:41:11
Bryce Kenny
We are so reactive most times when as soon as our hand hits the door and turns that doorknob, that needs to be us shifting into that dad gear. Right. That's like a shift into that dad gear and it pulls out those beliefs. And then we walk in the way we interact, the way we act to our kids and get our kids active.
00:38:41:17 - 00:38:47:10
Bryce Kenny
That's where all of a sudden now, again, a year from today, the results look a lot different if someone wants some change.
00:38:48:10 - 00:39:07:11
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, absolutely. And you also mentioned failing faster, too, and not being afraid of failure. But can you think back to like one instance that may have been like at the time a major failure, but how you grew from that?
00:39:08:02 - 00:39:35:22
Bryce Kenny
Both Yeah. I mean, I think my mind was strong. My mind went straight to as a, as a parent. So I'll, I'll talk about that because I think that I can give a million of those on my career, but my wife just brought this up to me and people are going to have different opinions, right? Same thing your beliefs right around like spanking these spank or do you don't spank or you know spare the rod spoil the child type of family?
00:39:36:08 - 00:39:58:16
Bryce Kenny
We do spank. However, I think there's the right way to and wrong way to do that. And my wife just reminded me of this the other day because you said potty training, my two year old is in the middle of potty training, kind of. But my wife is more of has takes more of the approach of like, hey, when they're ready, it'll it'll happen.
00:39:58:16 - 00:40:24:00
Bryce Kenny
And I'm kind of like, no, we reward them when she does a right and we punish her when she does it wrong. Like she needs to know that there's consequences doing wrong. And I forgot I did this and I have backed off completely in the last couple of days from pushing my wife to do this way. She said, Don't you remember with our oldest kid who you know, her name is Eliza, my eight year old, that our first child.
00:40:24:00 - 00:40:46:07
Bryce Kenny
Right. That she said she said, you know, we were struggling getting her to not, you know, go number two in a diaper does not prove in a diaper. And so and I just finally was like, no, we need to start we need to kind of popper a little bit when she poops in her diaper. And so she knows that there's a consequence to the wrong decision because it was going on weeks and months of this.
00:40:46:07 - 00:41:07:23
Bryce Kenny
Right. So I did it. All right. Matthew Potter, we went to a monster jam event that weekend and we were staying in a hotel room. And all of a sudden we looked around and we couldn't find Eliza. And and all of a sudden we heard her. But she was it's like we lost her, but we were like, where did she just go?
00:41:07:23 - 00:41:29:23
Bryce Kenny
We know she didn't leave the room. She was hiding in the closet because she had just pooped in a diaper and she got that bad consequence. And in that moment I went, okay, so it didn't fix the behavior. It just made her scared of the situation to where she didn't feel like she could come to us and say that she messed up.
00:41:30:10 - 00:41:51:22
Bryce Kenny
Right. And I never spanked her again or popped her for four for going number two in her diaper. And guess what she learned pretty quickly after that anyway, my son learned pretty quickly through without having to to pop her. But I was I forgot about that story and to my wife reminded me that the other day because I was kind of like buying start doing that with my two year old and I just stopped.
00:41:51:22 - 00:42:14:22
Bryce Kenny
I went, Oh yeah, wow, let's not do that with my two year old. Like let's not a spanking for going in in her diaper. So yeah. I mean, you failed, right? I failed in that moment because that wasn't the emotional response that I wanted. My my dog, my first daughter to have. And thankfully, my wife reminded me of that lesson today and have to learn it twice.
00:42:15:02 - 00:42:37:03
Bryce Kenny
But that's exactly what it is. It's like fail faster. You know how quickly can you get through the failures and know we're not going to do everything right as a dad and as a parent? But if you just know that, you know, if it was if this was sales and you had to fail 90, you had to get 99 no's to get for every sale that you made in your job.
00:42:37:13 - 00:42:59:00
Bryce Kenny
All it is a meal. Most people go through 25 no's and like, Oh my gosh, this is terrible. It's like, if your mindset is, man, how fast can you power through the 99? Because then you'll get to the one you got. I got so passion because I had a sales job one time. I was I didn't want people to say yes because they were messing up my string and those I was trying to get so many nos that I could just get that many yeses down the road.
00:42:59:00 - 00:43:15:18
Bryce Kenny
The yeses will take care of itself. But I wanted nos. That's a whole different perspective shift and that's that's a gear. And as a parent just like that, the diaper scenario but you got to make the failures you get through the failures and they're going to make you better. And it's going to help the wins and the successes as a as a dad.
00:43:16:00 - 00:43:28:08
Bryce Kenny
And so thankfully. Yes. I'm sorry, Eliza, that you had to endure dad's failures for the lesson, but it saved your your sister, Ava, from probably getting a couple spankings already, as we're potty trained.
00:43:28:08 - 00:43:52:21
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, I think you, like, learned as a parent. There's been many things that I'm not proud of. As a parent, I don't think there's a perfect parent, but, you know, each time, like our kids challenge us to be better, we have to reflect on those things. And I wanted to ask, too, because you talk about this, but how has vulnerability been a key tool for you?
00:43:54:08 - 00:44:18:09
Bryce Kenny
Well, I think vulnerability with our children is key. Right. And I don't know if that's what you're asking, but I. I am you know, when I mess up, I am not afraid to go to my daughter and say, honey, I'm sorry about that. Like, dads aren't perfect. I don't get everything right now. You were wrong. And what you did, Eliza, like, I don't regret correcting you, and you need to understand that.
00:44:18:18 - 00:44:41:09
Bryce Kenny
But, you know, I'm sorry that I said this. That was wrong of me, those vulnerability things. And if we're able to do that and be willing to apologize when we do get things wrong, or sometimes you misunderstand your kid, you know, and you just you quickly just write off the situation. And that's where if you can come back and say, look, I'm sorry because I didn't listen to you well enough and that's my fault, right?
00:44:41:16 - 00:45:08:10
Bryce Kenny
But what happens is it teaches our kids that being sorry is okay, like meaning it's okay to when you get it wrong. And then, but it's also you need to go and correct it. So my kids my kids have learned how to be vulnerable because I've been vulnerable to them. That's the only way that they learn. They've learned how to apologize, not because we are berating them, saying, you must apologize for stealing that toy, blah, blah, blah.
00:45:08:10 - 00:45:22:19
Bryce Kenny
This is why this is why you should do it. No, no, no. They learned how to apologize because mom and Dad are willing to go to them and say, hey, we messed that up. We're we're really sorry. Can you forgive us? Yeah, we forgive you, Dad, and then we can move on from it.
00:45:24:05 - 00:45:36:15
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I think, like, just as much as we want our kids to be able to come to us to admit that they're wrong, I think as parents like, that's such an important thing for us to do to.
00:45:36:15 - 00:45:39:10
Bryce Kenny
Yes.
00:45:39:10 - 00:46:00:07
Matthew Krekeler
So we're almost out of time. But I wanted to give you an opportunity. I like to this is kind of a new segment to the podcast. Before I get to my final question, but I wanted to give you an opportunity. I call it Proud Dad moment, but think about your kids and is there anything that you want to share?
00:46:00:07 - 00:46:03:04
Matthew Krekeler
Just an opportunity as a dad to brag on your kids.
00:46:04:11 - 00:46:30:08
Bryce Kenny
It's well, I've already bragged on on the junior dragster, but one of the things that I've been blown away by them lately is just their generosity. You know, here we're kind of getting into the Christmas environment. I've heard them talk more about other people than ever before. You know, one of my daughter's friends at school, her dad tragically passed away in his sleep like a week and a half ago.
00:46:31:01 - 00:46:52:20
Bryce Kenny
My daughter was so distraught for her. And not just because, you know, she can't hardly comprehend death. She's eight right now. But she knew her friend woke up and would never see her dad again. And the compassion and empathy she felt in that situation was immense for me. Like it was it took me back, you know, she went, she wrote a letter and all this stuff.
00:46:53:01 - 00:47:09:18
Bryce Kenny
But the thing that got me is she said she said Kaylee's coming back to school today. And this was that following Monday. Is supposed to be back in school, I hope. Okay. What are you going to do? Like, how are you going to. Well, I want to make sure that she's taken care of on the playground. So what's that going to look like at recess?
00:47:09:18 - 00:47:26:04
Bryce Kenny
You know, she said, well, whenever I'm out there, I'm going to stay with Kaylee. I'm a make sure she knows iCarly. I'm here for you, you know, and then I'll make sure that she just has fun. So whenever we do, she has fun. And if anyone tries to mess with her, I'm going to make sure they don't mess with her, you know?
00:47:26:04 - 00:47:48:00
Bryce Kenny
And it's like that was that was one of those moments is like, you're eight and you're already mom mama bearing these these friends of yours. Yeah, but that took me back just because of the sweet hearted, like the innocence, but also the the that's leadership. That's leadership through and through. And it made me a better human being after I heard her talk through what she wanted to do for her friend.
00:47:48:00 - 00:47:49:05
Bryce Kenny
It was really, really sweet.
00:47:50:18 - 00:47:55:17
Matthew Krekeler
Yeah, that's super nice. That's amazing that she's thinking that way. And yeah, being a friend.
00:47:56:06 - 00:47:56:14
Bryce Kenny
Yeah.
00:47:58:09 - 00:48:16:08
Matthew Krekeler
And then for my final question and I ask all of the dads on the podcast this, but want to give you an opportunity to just give a special direct message to your kids. So something from Dad, what would you tell them directly? And feel free to address each one.
00:48:16:18 - 00:48:43:00
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, no, I can I can actually do it as a group. Eliza, Keegan and Ava, I can tell you the dad is incredibly proud of you. And as I've seen each of you come into your own strengths and the things that you understand about life and the things that change, I can say confidently that that the human beings and the men and women that you're going to become are world changers.
00:48:43:00 - 00:49:06:07
Bryce Kenny
The impact that you're going to have, the natural leadership that you already possess, and the passion for life. I can tell you that you've got what it takes. I'm incredibly proud of everything that you've already accomplished at a young age and the things that that you're going to go and do. Your mother and I are just so incredibly proud of you, and we can't wait to see the ripple effects of your life and keep up the great work.
00:49:06:14 - 00:49:15:11
Bryce Kenny
And and when in doubt, you know, sit back in your bed and say and know that your dad loves you.
00:49:15:11 - 00:49:16:19
Matthew Krekeler
Right. Thank you so much.
00:49:17:17 - 00:49:19:20
Bryce Kenny
Absolutely. Yeah.
00:49:20:11 - 00:49:29:13
Matthew Krekeler
It was awesome having you on the podcast. I really appreciate the time, your wisdom. Yeah. Good to talk to a monster truck driver, which is super cool. That's definitely a first for me.
00:49:29:23 - 00:49:38:05
Bryce Kenny
We'll have to have you out of the monster jam and some time down the road and and I get girls out there and and I will make them all Mohawk Warrior fans, though. That's what we got to do.
00:49:38:15 - 00:49:42:00
Matthew Krekeler
Oh, yeah. We got to get their hairstyle on point for the show.
00:49:42:00 - 00:49:45:21
Bryce Kenny
Yes, yeah. Try that bubble braid. Oh, yeah. Uh huh.
00:49:45:21 - 00:49:51:03
Matthew Krekeler
Oh, they'd love that. Oh, thank you so much. Please tell people where they can connect with you.
00:49:51:13 - 00:50:12:11
Bryce Kenny
Yeah, Instagram's probably the best as far as. Especially with, like, direct messages and stuff like that. I'd love to hear what people think about the book, go on and read Amazon reviews of Geared for Life. By the way, it's it's helping a lot of people and it's going to help you, too. But my Instagram is at Warrior Bryce, so I do a lot on Instagram.
00:50:12:11 - 00:50:32:11
Bryce Kenny
Tik Tok as well, and then YouTube. I've started doing quite a bit more on YouTube as well. But yeah, come on to social media and in the book you can find it anywhere. Books are sold. Amazon Barnes Noble Books-A-Million Audible if you're an audio book individual and I actually voiced over the whole book as well, which I was pretty stoked about, but I had a great time doing that.
00:50:32:11 - 00:50:36:19
Bryce Kenny
So go on audible. It's on there and yeah, go find that next year you never knew you had.
00:50:37:19 - 00:50:57:06
Matthew Krekeler
Awesome and yeah for all my listeners and Girl Dad Nation thank you so much for following along with me. It's been an amazing journey. I hope this has helped you and inspired you as it has me and yeah, you feel free to connect with me on Instagram. I'm also on Twitter. Slash X and we're starting to put some episodes on YouTube, so go check it out.
00:50:57:06 - 00:51:18:23
Matthew Krekeler
Girl Dad Nation On all the platforms, you can also email me directly at Girl Dad Nation podcast at gmail.com and until next time go be a dad.