Episodes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What if the life you’re building is the very thing draining you?Faisal Ensaun’s journey spans survival, addiction, reinvention, and ultimately building a life rooted in purpose, ownership, and alignment. From immigrating out of a war-torn country to hitting personal rock bottom, he rebuilt his life by asking harder questions than most people are willing to face.Today, as a coach, entrepreneur, and father, Faisal works with high performers who look successful on the outside but feel disconnec...

What happens when you do everything right on paper… and still feel like something is off?Anthony Kuo knows that feeling firsthand. From performing at Carnegie Hall at 17 to climbing the corporate ladder after graduating from NYU Stern, he checked every box most people chase. But underneath the external success, something never quite clicked.Now a career satisfaction coach and founder of Untamed Career, Anthony helps high achievers untangle the gap between success and satisfaction and build c...

What does it really mean to succeed as a dad when work, ambition, and identity are all pulling in different directions?Shaun Dawson, tech leader, father of two, and host of the Raising Men podcast, challenges the idea that success is defined by output alone. He shares a more grounded perspective on fatherhood, work life balance, and what working dads often get wrong when they focus too heavily on providing financially while overlooking emotional presence.Shaun shares how to:Redefine succes...

What if the reason work feels off is not the job itself, but a lack of clarity about what you are actually built to do?Paul Comfort has spent decades helping people identify their strengths, align their careers with purpose, and build lives that feel both successful and meaningful. His work centers on the idea that most people never take the time to understand what they are uniquely wired to do.For dads trying to navigate fatherhood, career decisions, meaningful work, and work-life balance, ...

What if the way you show up after the game matters more than the game itself?After more than three decades coaching and mentoring young people, Antwaun Thompson has seen a clear shift. Kids today are facing more pressure, less confidence, and more noise than ever before. And for many parents, especially working dads trying to navigate fatherhood and work-life balance, it's not always clear how to support them the right way.This conversation focuses on what kids actually need from their paren...

Why does work that once energized you start to feel like something you can’t turn off?Dr. David Shar studies what happens when people fall out of love with their work and why that shift often happens long before anyone notices. His research shows that for working dads, the challenge is not just workload. It is how work connects to identity, purpose, and the life you are trying to build at home.This conversation reframes passion in a way most people never consider. Not all passion is healthy....