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Man of Many’s Staff Favourites is back to brighten up your weekend, as we celebrate the products, services, entertainment, and experiences that have caught our eye over the week.
We get to try so much of the cool, novel, and curious on a daily basis, but these encounters don’t always result in full write-ups or reviews. So we collect them here in the hope you’ll find something new and exciting to give your week a lift.
This week features, a sneak peek at Man of Many’s new parenting podcast, Daddies, as well as a slightly bonkers new shoe, the perfect Hyrox training partner, and a perfect last-minute gift for Father’s Day.
1. Daddies, the Podcast by Man of Many
Hannah Maher – Sales & Partnerships Coordinator
My staff favourite this week is the Daddies podcast trailer. After months of work behind the scenes, we’re very excited to finally share what’s coming.
Launching Father’s Day weekend, Daddies is a brand-new Man of Many podcast exploring what modern fatherhood really looks like. Inspired by our Male Confidence Index Research, the series moves beyond the outdated “bumbling dad” stereotype to explore the realities of being a father in 2026.
Hosted by Marcus Hurley and Rob Stott, the series dives into themes including modern fatherhood, emotional availability, confidence, identity, intentional parenting and the challenge of navigating fatherhood without a clear cultural playbook. Drawing on their own experiences – from single co-parenting to surrogacy and same-sex parenting – Marcus and Rob will be joined by high-profile fathers and experts for honest conversations, personal stories and insights into what it means to be a good dad in 2026.
We’ve just dropped the trailer, so you can get a first taste of the conversations and guests coming to the series. Check it out here. Episode 1 of Daddies drops Father’s Day, September 6, 2026.
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2. Adidas Climacool 3D: My Next Summer Slide
Rob Stott – Editor in Chief
At first glance, the photo at the top of this article might look like an alien concept shoe straight out of a sci-fi movie, and in many ways that’s exactly what they are. Printed entirely as a single piece using 3D Digital Light Synthesis, the laceless adidas Climacool features a fully open lattice structure that delivers 360-degree ventilation. Adidas designed them as the ultimate high-tech answer to the traditional summer slide: all the breathability and ease of a slip-on, but with targeted underfoot cushioning and a wild architectural silhouette.
There’s no doubt they take some getting used to, and given it’s still Winter in Sydney I haven’t been able to put them through their paces properly, but the early signs are that these will be a perfect post-workout shoe, something to wear while walking the dog on a hot summer’s day, or slip on to pop up the road for a coffee. If the attention grabbing bright orange option that I’ve been wearing is a bit much for your tastes, they also come in more subtle grey and off-white shades.
My previous (and much-loved) pair of slides went into the bin at the end of last summer, and I already know I’ve got my 2026/27 summer slides locked and loaded for when the weather heats up.
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2. Amazfit Balance 3: My New Hyrox Training Partner
Harry Parsons – Head of Branded Content
I recently attended an event announcing the release of the Amazfit Balance 3, and I wish I had this watch before I did my Hyrox in Sydney. Tracking your Hyrox training as well as your race has been a bit difficult, having to use third-party apps and manually inputting data or creating manual workouts in your other wearables. After running through a Hyrox sim at the event, it quickly became clear that this issue has been completely resolved with the Balance 3. Hyrox workouts and pre-race preparation have been built natively into the watch, allowing for simplistic tracking of each station and forecast pace times.
Gone are the days of guesswork; you can input the city in which you are racing, the native OS recognises that specific track and will provide a training program as well as a race day plan, providing you with times and pace recommendations tailored to the specific nature of that city’s track. Given that each track has different distances in the Rox Zone and the surrounding run, this sort of information is invaluable.
Having sponsored a number of Hyrox athletes with glowing reviews of its impact on their training, it’s easy to see how this could be your next best Hyrox training partner.
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3. Darling Glebe: Five Father’s Day Services, Because One is Never Enough
I had a catch up with a friend earlier today and somewhere in the middle of talking shop she described a Father’s Day campaign as “a long weekend of joyful disobedience”. I made her explain it, because that is not a phrase you hear in a meeting and let go.
What it means is that Darling Glebe has stopped pretending Father’s Day is one lunch. From Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September, the Glebe Point Road brasserie is running five separate services and they have named all of them. Friday lunch is The Alibi. Friday evening is The Early Edition. Saturday night is Father’s Day Eve. Then Sunday gets a special lunch opening, plus a dinner called The Afterword. Their own pitch line is that a father, a grandfather and a father-in-law walk into a family group chat and nobody can do Sunday at one, which is the most accurate description of Father’s Day logistics I have read.
We covered the venue when it opened back in December. It sits underneath the old Darling Mills site, all sandstone arches and vaulted ceilings, about as far from a normal Glebe Point Road frontage as you can get while still being on Glebe Point Road. Chef Jeff Schroeter has spent four decades in kitchens including The Savoy in London and the Royalton in New York, and the idea here is that he has cooked the menu he would order himself rather than the one he would sell you. It is $96 for three courses with a choice at every course, and it is prepaid.
Then it gets silly in the way I quite like. You can swap your main for a 500g MB10+ Wagyu scotch fillet at $380, grilled over charcoal, sized for one or two depending on how much you love your father. And they’re opening two 1997 Australian iconic wines out of a private family collection, a Henschke Hill of Grace and a Wendouree Malbec Pressings, from $85 for a 75ml pour. Strictly limited, which I assume means until the first table orders four.
If you want the Sunday sitting, that is the one that will go first.
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