No More Ghosting: Building Trust, Community, and Confident Dads
What if the secret to strong parent communities isn’t perfection, but integrity, vulnerability, and follow-through? David Homan is the author of Orchestrating Connection and founder of a decade-old community built on one rule: only surround yourself wi …
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Why My Greatest Accomplishment of the Past Year Isn’t What You’d Think
After six months of weekly vision therapy and consistent practice at home, my daughter improved her vision tracking from the 3rd to 77th percentile. The real win? Sharing that time together as a Lead Dad.
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Three Lessons from Sing-A-Longs To Tate McRae
There’s an eight-year gap between my youngest and oldest. I’m still doing elementary school parenting, while thinking about college for my oldest. I think about it often as I try to plan my work around what needs to be done for them – and my wife, who has always had far less control of her […]
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How Divorce Made This Man a Better Lead Dad – Elijah Mattox
Here’s one thing Elijah Mattox, a single Lead Dad of two from Orange County, Calif. who works in business operations, has learned: He’s a better dad today for having gone through a tough divorce when his daughters were young. “I had to step up,” he said. “I was scared to take them places when they […]
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Craig Coupe – How To Be a Team Player
A standout basketball player in college, Craig Coupe understands the importance of being a team player. It served him well on the court and in his career as a commercial real estate broker in Chicago. That team mindset helped him see a play many men miss: his skills could be better utilized if he helped […]
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Breaking the Masculine Myth
Men want to grow, but too often feel like they can’t without losing a part of themselves. Jim Chastain is a father of two, founder of the market research firm Reality Check, and now a researcher of men and modern masculinity. He discusses the five core …
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Slowing Down to Go Forward – Will Greenblatt
Sometimes pulling back is what you need to move forward as a father, a husband and a man. Will Greenblatt, our Lead Dad of the Week from Toronto, had been speeding ahead for much of his life – as a successful child actor, as an entrepreneur running a language school in China, and after he […]
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How To Make Two Things True At Once for Fathers
A phrase I say often is: Two things can be true at the same time – even if people don’t always believe that to be the case. Like, companies can support working parents and be profitable. Or, HR departments can have programs for both Working Moms and Lead Dads and supporting one doesn’t mean the […]
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What’s Scarier at a Beach? Sharks or Bad HR Policies?
Every time my daughter asked if there were sharks in the water, if jelly fish were going to sting her, if there were fish biting her toes, I said no. At this beach, I said she needed to worry about angry, mini-Bernadoodles running along the bottom of the ocean floor and nipping at her! When […]
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Scottie Scheffler: What The Son of A Lead Dad Knows
Scottie Scheffler, the best golfer in the world, said something ahead of this week’s British Open that made headlines in the sports world: he’d rather be a great father than a great golfer, and if being a father ever interfered with playing golf, he’d chose his family over the sport. Now he said he loved […]
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The Power of Preemptive Communication – Jay Lee
Here’s a story many couples know: Two careers on the fast track and then there’s a child. There’s some logistics with pick up and drop off but it all seems manageable, if expensive, and life keeps moving along. Then another child comes along and managing two kids and two careers becomes a juggle. Bigger opportunities […]
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Why Should You Be Proud to be a Lead Dad?
What does it mean to be a Lead Dad—and why is it time to proudly claim that role? On the Hello Monday podcast with Jessi Hempel, I break down why Lead Dads matter, what companies can do to support them (and working moms), and how rethinking gender roles at work drives retention and results.
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