For many working dads, ambition can create an uncomfortable tension. You may believe you’re working hard for your family while the people at home experience that same work as something pulling you away from them.
Jay Bourgana has spent more than 25 years building, operating, and acquiring businesses, including helping scale a real estate services platform to roughly $350 million in revenue. After exiting, he found himself confronting a different question: what makes a life meaningful once achievement alone is no longer enough?
Jay shares how to:
- Pursue ambition without losing connection at home
- Create rituals that protect presence at home
- Help your kids understand why your work matters
- Communicate through busy seasons instead of leaving your family to interpret your absence
- Apply strong leadership principles to fatherhood and family life
- Raise kids with greater responsibility, resilience, and agency
- Move from achievement driven by status toward meaningful work built around growth and - contribution
Jay offers a thoughtful perspective on fatherhood, work life balance, parenting and ambition, meaningful work, and the challenges working dads face when success begins competing with connection. His approach centers on making your family part of the story you are building, so they understand the purpose behind the work and still feel connected to you while you pursue it.
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Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
Drive by Daniel Pink: https://link.amazon/B0dYdPnBH
Garfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQllBwL8gZc
Odie: https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Odie
Losing My Religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtdhWltSIg
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