About this episode

Joe Stopulos interviews his father, Mike Stopulos, about the lessons of fatherhood and family life.

In the second and final part of the Heroic Fatherhood series on Man Up, host Joe Stopulos sits down with his father, Mike Stopulos, to talk about raising six children, leading a family through faith, and the one early sacrifice that shaped them all. Mike shares hard-won fatherhood lessons on loving your spouse first, giving kids plenty of rope to explore and even fail, and building a moral compass that carries from childhood into adulthood and grandparenthood. Recorded a couple of years ago and aired in his memory, this heartfelt Iowa Catholic Radio conversation is an honest look at what it means to be a heroic Catholic father.

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