Just My Baby Daddy Podcast

Every man in Kelin Mark Sr.'s family died too young. His grandfather, his uncles, his dad. He knew he was next in line, and he decided it wouldn't be him. Kelin has spent over 20 years in education and has been the first Black male principal at two different schools. We get into what he took from his father, what kids with present dads walk into school with, why middle school is the time to lock in, and The Dad Difference Playbook: 100 plays a dad can actually run. 📘 The Dad Difference Pla...

Before the summer started, the kids sat down with me and we made a promise: we'd come back at the end and talk about it. This is that conversation. For the first time, it was all of us, every day, the whole summer. No handoffs, no countdown. I said it out loud back in June — I'd love to have everybody live with me all the time — and this summer was the test of whether that was a wish or a plan. We talk about what stood out and what didn't (teenagers are not generous with details), what they'l...

Daniel's back — and this time he's carrying something different. Since the last time we talked, he went from splitting custody two weeks on, two weeks off to becoming the primary custodial parent for his twelve-year-old daughter. He held it through a serious accident. He held it through the dance runs, the school schedule, the sixteen-year-old closed door and the headphones. Then he made the decision to send her back to her mother. This one goes somewhere neither of us planned. It starts as a...

The JMBD Foundation is officially a 501(c)(3). AJ breaks down the two programs it launches with — the HBCU Legacy Scholarship and Ari's Angels — and why a microphone was never going to be enough.

Last week we had one half — this week we run it back with the other. Kelly Burgess, co-host of The Better Baby Daddy Club, pulls up and gives us one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on this show. Ten kids. Three marriages. And a story most men would never tell on record: walking away from five children, choosing what he calls "the easy wrong instead of the hard right" — and the twenty years of trench work it took to repair it. His daughter once told him she saw him as nothing m...