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Dad Monk: New Podcast About Using Catholic Productivity Hacks and Lifestyle Design to Create the Domestic Monastery

Scott Smith September 24, 2024

Hey, everybody! I'm been sitting on this one for a while. I just finally launched a new podcast called "Dad Monk"  

I've written and published over 30 books in the last few years while maintaining this blog, my law practice, and helping raise six kids. I could NOT have done this without grace, my wife, and a TON of productivity tips and lifestyle design. 

That's what this podcast is about adapting secular tips and best practices to Catholicism ... and building, not just the Domestic Church, but the Domestic Monastery!  

Check out Dad Monk episodes below on Spotify:  



This has been my project for the last decade-plus. I wanted to be able to work from home, work from anywhere, with my family. I did this by becoming an author and an attorney and developing multiple passive revenue streams.

I want to red pill dads. Help dads break out of the 8-5 wage slavery. Give ideas to restructure family life around prayer and service to the Church.

This podcast will include ideas from the Rule of St. Benedict and monasticism. How to make your home into, not just a domestic church, but a domestic monastery.

I'll will use ideas from modern, secular writers to adapt St. Benedict to our lives. Writers like:

  • Tim Ferris, Four Hour Workweek, here’s your Catholic Four-Hour Workweek
  • Pareto’s 80/20 rule
  • Charlie Mounger, Warren Buffet’s business partner
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen – here’s your Catholic Getting Things Done
  • The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, 
  • Start with Why by Simon Sinek, 
  • I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi
  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  • Others: Peter Diamandis, Jocko Willink, etc. 

Enjoy! And let me know what you think :) 

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