For many working dads, the challenge isn’t a lack of ambition. It’s the feeling that no matter how hard they work, there’s always another responsibility competing for their time, attention, and energy.

After decades in leadership roles, including serving as a Global VP of Talent and Leadership, Carol Enneking noticed a pattern: many of the most successful people she worked with were also some of the most exhausted.

Carol shares how to:

• Recognize the difference between a demanding season and a misaligned life
• Create margin for the unexpected instead of operating at full capacity
• Think about sequencing goals instead of stacking everything at once
• Build stronger relationships through presence and attention

Carol offers practical wisdom for working dads trying to navigate fatherhood, meaningful work, and the tension between professional ambition and personal priorities.

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What would your life look like if fear stopped making your decisions?

Chris Woods spent decades building a successful career, including leadership roles at Google. From the outside, everything looked like it was working. But underneath the success was a constant fear of failure, loss, and not measuring up.

Everything changed when Chris flatlined in a hospital bed at age 40. The experience forced him to take a hard look at what was driving his choices and whether the life he was building was actually connected to what mattered most.

Chris shares how to:

• Recognize when fear is driving your decisions at work and at home
• Stop catastrophizing worst-case scenarios
• Build confidence by bringing fears into the open instead of avoiding them
• Use gratitude to become more present in everyday life

Chris offers a practical perspective for working dads trying to balance fatherhood, career growth and the pressure that comes with providing for a family. You don’t need a life-altering event to start asking better questions about your work, your priorities, and the life you want to build.

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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 emotional avoidance, resentment, shame, and overwork quietly shape fatherhood, parenting, relationships, and work life balance.

Mylena shares how to:

• Handle difficult conversations before they explode into conflict
• Build healthier communication patterns inside relationships and parenting
• Create alignment between career, family, and personal values
• Stop using work as an escape from unresolved problems at home
• Address shame honestly instead of carrying it silently
• Create healthier boundaries that support long term work life balance
• Stay grounded in your values during stressful seasons of fatherhood and work

Mylena’s perspective is direct, thoughtful, and deeply practical. She challenges the idea that dads should simply carry everything silently and instead encourages more honesty, more intentionality, and more alignment between the life you want and the life you are actively building.

This conversation offers meaningful insight for working dads navigating parenting, leadership, relationships, and the emotional realities that often go unspoken.

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