Twin Dad Magician Performs 400 Shows a Year While Raising Young Twins with Wes Iseli – Podcast 293
Episode 293 of the Dad’s Guide to Twins Podcast Show Notes Today we continue our father of twins interview series with professional magician Wes Iseli, father of identical twin boys. Listen as we explore his twin parenting journey, including: Juggling family while performing 400 shows a year as a magician Finding out about expecting twins at the 5 month checkup Healthy birth and home soon there after Twins not talking yet Getting to the twins to sleep at night Take turns with different behavior Homeschooling because they want to see kids Don’t worry about all the negative things and more… Connect with Wes on his website . Podcast Transcript This is transcript auto-generated so please forgive any mistakes. Joe Today we continue our father twins interview series with a professional magician, who is a father of identical twin boys, who talks about how he juggles the responsibilities of fatherhood, while traveling on the road for all the shows, and how he and his wife manage that, while taking the whole family from show to show, plus the benefits that they’ve seen from homeschooling, their children and some key fatherhood insights that give us some good perspective along your twin parenting journey, All that and much more today on the show. Intro Welcome to the Dad’s Guide to Twins Podcast the podcast that will help you survive and thrive as a father of twins Now here’s your host, the author of the book, the Dad’s Guide to Twins , Joe Rawlinson. Joe Hey everybody. This is Joe Rawlinson. Welcome to the dads twins podcast. As always, you can find me on the web at dads guide twins.com. Today we’re chatting with another father of twins about his experience raising twins. Before we jump into that interview, I want to let you know that today’s show is brought to you by my first book for dads it’s called Dad’s Guide to Twins . If you’re listening to podcast, I know you love enjoying audio. You can get a free audiobook version of my first book by visiting freetwinbook.com . Today I would like to welcome to the show father of twins Wes Iseli. Welcome to the show, Wes. Wes What’s up, man? How are you? I’m excited. I can’t wait to get into this. Joe Fantastic. glad that you’re here. So what’s How old are your twins right now? And what’s something exciting about this age? Wes There’ll be three in September. And they are at a fantastic age man. I’m a magician. So we’re on the road all the time . We homeschool our 11 year old daughter and then we have two and a half year old twin boys. And we travel around as a family of six doing show to show so they come with us they get to experience different things. In the wintertime it was we’re doing a show and the babysitter just hanging out with the twins in the RV while my daughter does magic and then she’ll go back in the RV and then we all go out to dinner afterwards and then go home. Now that it’s springtime, and we’re doing you know, the most recent show we did was a school fundraiser. They had a gym, like a gym I guess in the backyard. What do you call it a playground area. So the babysitter just took the kids in the playground area wore them out they had a blast. They come up on stage they take a final bow one really likes the wave one really likes to blow kisses they own have their own little personality. And they did the audience. I can’t think of a better way to in the show. They get so excited they run across the stage they jump in my arms my wife holds the other baby. I introduce Julian Julian always runs to me I introduce him and then I tickle Lex and he’s bunching up ready for it. And take a Final Bout and then run it back to the babysitter we pack it up and go. It’s just a fantastic age. We have five acres here on a property. I have hiking trails that I love. And my little boys are just following me around like little little helpers. We had fire pits and I was breaking out the fire pits from the winter. And they were helping me I pretended to strain with the wheelbarrow and they pretende