REBL Dad Reviewed by Publishers Weekly's BookLife

REBL Dad — the book behind everything we do here — just picked up a formal review from BookLife, Publishers Weekly's platform for independent authors. It's the kind of third-party read we don't get to control, which is exactly what makes it worth sharing.

"Practical counsel draws parallels between professional success and fatherhood." — BookLife, Publishers Weekly

The reviewer picked up on the exact tension we built REBL Dads around: the habits that make you good at running a company can quietly work against the patience and openness a family needs. In their words:

"Fathers balancing demanding careers and family life will find generous, experience-driven guidance for bringing greater purpose to both."

A few of the specific stories from the book got called out directly — Chris Fischer's account of staying present through a divorce, and how Daniel Himel and Mark Schwaiger think about carrying family values into everyday language. That's the part of REBL Dad that doesn't show up in a book description: it's not theory, it's 100+ men naming exactly what they got wrong and what actually changed.

BookLife also placed REBL Dad alongside Jim Sheils and Jamie Sheils's The Family Board Meeting and Steve Biddulph's The New Manhood — good company, and a useful signal for who this book is actually for.

If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can grab it on the book page. And if the review's language about "parallels between professional success and fatherhood" sounds familiar, that's because it's the same tension the Responsible, Entrepreneur, Balanced, and Leader pillars are built around.

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Derek Notman, CFP®, is co-founder of REBL Dads and co-author of the REBL Dad book. He writes about building REBL Dads into a global, application-only brotherhood for founders and operators who refuse to coast through fatherhood or leadership.