What does true calmness look like in the middle of a parenting storm? How can fathers rewrite the patterns they inherited and still lead with strength? What happens when parenting becomes less about control and more about connection?

In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok discusses calm parenting and masculinity today with Kirk and Casey Martin.

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Meet Kirk & Casey Martin















Kirk and Casey Martin are the father-and-son team behind Celebrate Calm, a movement helping parents of strong-willed kids build connection instead of control. Through their workshops, podcast, and coaching, they teach families how to replace yelling and power struggles with calm leadership, responsibility, and respect. Kirk draws on his own journey of unlearning harsh parenting patterns, while Casey brings the perspective of a son who witnessed—and lived—the transformation firsthand. Together, they model how strength and calm can coexist in modern fatherhood.

Visit Celebrate Calm, listen to their podcast and connect on Facebook.

In This Podcast



* Model taking responsibility for your kids 

* How to parent a strong-willed child 

* A son’s lesson from watching his father’s journey 

* What calmness can look like

* Kirk and Casey’s advice to private practitioners 



Model taking responsibility for your kids 

Kirk and Casey, the father-and-son duo, have come together to educate and share their lessons with other families on how to parent kids with real love and respect. 

One of the big lessons that Kirk shares is how he personally relearned what it means to be a “good” parent, changing and reshaping what he was taught by his father when he became one himself to Casey. 



I thought, “Oh, I’ll just do what my dad did with me, I’ll shut that down”, and the strong-willed kids just fight twice as hard, and so what I learned was that it wasn’t about changing Casey’s behavior, it was learning how to control my own. That’s what ultimately changed our relationship … There’s one person in life that I can control, and that’s myself, and it’s also the quickest way to change your child’s behavior. (Kirk Martin) 



Kirk shares how the real lesson came from learning how to regulate and take responsibility for his own actions, words, and behaviors, and that his modeling these skills is what strengthened his relationship with Casey, his son. 



Parenting, for me,