Gap to Gig
Gap to Gig is for working dads navigating the life in between who we are, what we do, and the life we want to build. Through honest conversations, practical ideas, and grounded perspective, we help dads build meaningful work, stay present for the people who matter most, and make more intentional choices about the life they’re building.
You’re not stuck. You’re in between.
Gap to Gig explores the life in between who we are, what we do, and the life we want to build as working dads. Through honest conversations, practical ideas, and grounded perspective, we navigate fatherhood, work-life balance, meaningful work, identity, relationships, and what actually matters most.
Recent Episodes
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July 14, 2026
Mylena Sutton on the Conversations Working Dads Keep Avoiding
What happens when the conversations working dads avoid at home start affecting every other part of their lives?
Mylena Sutton believes leadership is not something you turn on at work and leave behind at home. The way you handle conflict, stress, shame, communication, and emotional pressure follows you everywhere. For working dads trying to balance career demands, parenting, relationships, and personal identity, that truth can be uncomfortable, but necessary.
This conversation explores how emot
Mylena Sutton believes leadership is not something you turn on at work and leave behind at home. The way you handle conflict, stress, shame, communication, and emotional pressure follows you everywhere. For working dads trying to balance career demands, parenting, relationships, and personal identity, that truth can be uncomfortable, but necessary.
This conversation explores how emot
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July 7, 2026
Jason VanDevere on Building Generational Habits Through Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship
What if success is not about building generational wealth, but building generational habits? Jason VanDevere walked away from a future most people would never leave behind. Instead of taking over his family’s successful auto dealership business, he chose to build his own path through entrepreneurship, real estate investing, and coaching. Becoming a father changed how he thinks about ambition, work life balance, and what success is actually supposed to lead to. Jason shares how to: Define suc
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June 30, 2026
Colin C. Thompson on Mental Fitness for Working Dads
How do you stay calm, present, and emotionally available when life keeps pulling you in every direction at once? Colin C. Thompson believes the answer starts with mental fitness. As a coach, speaker, and certified Positive Intelligence practitioner, Colin works with people who feel stuck between pressure, responsibility, and the constant demands of work and family life. His approach focuses on helping dads recognize the thought patterns, habits, and emotional reactions that quietly shape how th
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June 23, 2026
Matt Campbell on Rebuilding Energy, Presence, and Work Life Balance in Fatherhood
Why do so many working dads feel exhausted even when they’re doing everything "right"? Dr. Matt Campbell believes the problem is not that most people are broken. It’s that they’re depleted. Matt is a clinical psychologist and creator of the Primal Five Framework, which focuses on five foundational areas that shape how we show up every day: sleep, sunlight, movement, connection, and consumption. His work explores how modern life quietly pulls us away from the things our minds and bodies were bu
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June 16, 2026
Mike Weyandt on Presence, Identity, and Navigating Fatherhood Through Uncertainty
What happens when your life changes faster than you can process it? For Mike Weyandt, the shift into fatherhood came all at once. A long, uncertain adoption process suddenly turned into bringing home a newborn in a matter of weeks. At the same time, his career path was in flux, and shortly after, the world shut down. What followed was a season filled with constant change, new responsibilities, and very little time to step back and make sense of it all. Mike brings a rare combination of perspe
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June 9, 2026
Rob Capili on Rebuilding Life After Divorce and Raising Resilient Kids
What does it actually look like to rebuild your life after everything falls apart? Rob Capili has lived through it. Divorce, career pivots, identity shifts, and the long process of starting over while still showing up as a father. His path has never been linear. From tech to filmmaking to music to entrepreneurship, he has followed curiosity, taken risks, and learned the hard way what matters and what doesn’t. But some of his most important lessons didn't come from success. They came from failu
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