49db3bda-4b54-4a69-a7b9-b39a00977424 e24ca8a2-0482-4dfe-b692-b3da004d5589 09e91079-a5f1-4e87-88c9-b4ac003afe8f 194f2f9c-59f0-41d4-94df-b4ac003b029b en-AU Daddies by Man of Many https://manofmany.com/ Two dads. Two completely different paths to fatherhood. And all the stuff nobody warns you about. Daddies is a new podcast from Man of Many, hosted by Rob Stott, Editor-in-Chief of Man of Many, raising a daughter with his husband via surrogacy, and Marcus Hurley, a single dad navigating co-parenting. This isn't a tips-and-tricks parenting show. Nobody here is going to tell you how to raise your kids. Each episode takes a piece of modern life; fitness, friendships, work, money, identity, guilt, and asks what actually happens to it once a kid is in the picture. Daddies launches Sunday 6 September.

]]> episodic Two dads. Two completely different paths to fatherhood. And all the stuff nobody warns you about. Daddies is a new podcast from Man of Many, hosted by Rob Stott, Editor-in-Chief of Man of Many, raising a daughter with his husband via surrogacy, and Marcus Hurley, a single dad navigating co-parenting. This isn't a tips-and-tricks parenting show. Nobody here is going to tell you how to raise your kids. Each episode takes a piece of modern life; fitness, friendships, work, money, identity, guilt, and asks what actually happens to it once a kid is in the picture. Daddies launches Sunday 6 September. Man of Many contact@manofmany.com Man of Many 2026 © 2026 Man of Many Pty Ltd no https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/49db3bda-4b54-4a69-a7b9-b39a00977424/09e91079-a5f1-4e87-88c9-b4ac003afe8f/image.jpg?t=1787198242&size=Large Daddies by Man of Many https://manofmany.com/ S1E1: How Your Brain Changes When You Become A Dad How Your Brain Changes When You Become A Dad Rob swore at a driver in Newtown. Then he heard a small voice repeat it, word for word, from the back seat. That is roughly where this show begins.

In the first episode of Daddies, Rob Stott and Marcus Hurley take a BBC piece on "dad brain" and test it against their own experience. The research says fatherhood physically rewires you: testosterone drops, and drops further in dads doing more of the caring. Oxytocin rises, especially through play and physical contact.

Rob's daughter Billie was born via surrogacy in Canada during COVID, which meant meeting their surrogate over Zoom and watching every scan from the other side of the world. He then took eighteen months off work as the primary carer. The research says gay dads doing primary care show the same brain activation as mothers, and Rob has thoughts on whether that matches what he actually felt, and when.

Marcus co-parents on a fifty-fifty split and describes the weekly switch between being a dad and being a single man, the morning his ex-wife held an engagement ring up to the camera while he was camping, and the mate who asked him how it made him feel.

Plus the change nobody warns you about, which is not the nappies. It is your friendships.

Chapters

  • 00:00 The word Billie wouldn't stop saying
  • 00:12 Meet Rob and Marcus
  • 01:12 TMI: Rob swears, Billie repeats it
  • 04:39 How a 50/50 fortnight actually works
  • 05:16 An engagement ring over FaceTime
  • 06:45 Meeting your daughter's stepdad
  • 08:04 Change: the BBC 'Dad Brain' article
  • 09:20 Testosterone drops, oxytocin spikes
  • 10:54 Surrogacy in Canada, over Zoom
  • 11:48 Gay dads and 18 months of primary care
  • 13:13 The change nobody warns you about
  • 15:56 What do you miss from before?
  • 18:24 What did you just say?
  • 20:23 The secret candle

References
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind, BBC Future, 18 April 2026

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Credits
Hosts: Rob Stott and Marcus Hurley
Videographer: Jordan Yankov
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]]> Rob swore at a driver in Newtown. Then he heard a small voice repeat it, word for word, from the back seat. That is roughly where this show begins.

In the first episode of Daddies, Rob Stott and Marcus Hurley take a BBC piece on "dad brain" and test it against their own experience. The research says fatherhood physically rewires you: testosterone drops, and drops further in dads doing more of the caring. Oxytocin rises, especially through play and physical contact.

Rob's daughter Billie was born via surrogacy in Canada during COVID, which meant meeting their surrogate over Zoom and watching every scan from the other side of the world. He then took eighteen months off work as the primary carer. The research says gay dads doing primary care show the same brain activation as mothers, and Rob has thoughts on whether that matches what he actually felt, and when.

Marcus co-parents on a fifty-fifty split and describes the weekly switch between being a dad and being a single man, the morning his ex-wife held an engagement ring up to the camera while he was camping, and the mate who asked him how it made him feel.

Plus the change nobody warns you about, which is not the nappies. It is your friendships.

Chapters

  • 00:00 The word Billie wouldn't stop saying
  • 00:12 Meet Rob and Marcus
  • 01:12 TMI: Rob swears, Billie repeats it
  • 04:39 How a 50/50 fortnight actually works
  • 05:16 An engagement ring over FaceTime
  • 06:45 Meeting your daughter's stepdad
  • 08:04 Change: the BBC 'Dad Brain' article
  • 09:20 Testosterone drops, oxytocin spikes
  • 10:54 Surrogacy in Canada, over Zoom
  • 11:48 Gay dads and 18 months of primary care
  • 13:13 The change nobody warns you about
  • 15:56 What do you miss from before?
  • 18:24 What did you just say?
  • 20:23 The secret candle

References
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind, BBC Future, 18 April 2026

Enjoying Daddies? Follow the show in your podcast app so every new episode lands automatically, and leave a rating and a review. It is the difference between someone scrolling past and pressing play.

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Credits
Hosts: Rob Stott and Marcus Hurley
Videographer: Jordan Yankov
A Man of Many production. New episodes every Thursday.

Join the newsletter.: https://manofmany.com/newsletter

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nobody here is going to tell you how to raise your kids. Each episode takes a piece of modern life; fitness, friendships, work, money, identity, guilt, and asks what actually happens to it once a kid is in the picture.

Daddies launches Sunday 6 September.

Join the newsletter.: https://manofmany.com/newsletter

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]]> Two dads. Two completely different paths to fatherhood. And all the stuff nobody warns you about. Daddies is a new podcast from Man of Many, hosted by Rob Stott, Editor-in-Chief of Man of Many, raising a daughter with his husband via surrogacy, and Marcus Hurley, a single dad navigating co-parenting. This isn't a tips-and-tricks parenting show. 

Nobody here is going to tell you how to raise your kids. Each episode takes a piece of modern life; fitness, friendships, work, money, identity, guilt, and asks what actually happens to it once a kid is in the picture.

Daddies launches Sunday 6 September.

Join the newsletter.: https://manofmany.com/newsletter

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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