One Man. One Engine.

In this week’s essay, I’m a Leadership Expert Who Interviewed 200+ Fathers. Here’s What We’re Getting Wrong About Leadership, I wrote about the 7 mistakes we make when we treat leadership and fatherhood as separate worlds.

Because home is the ultimate leadership lab.

It forces us to practice emotional regulation, connection, repair, role clarity, values, patience, presence, and the ability to lead when nobody is impressed by our title.

It reveals the patterns we need to master to lead anywhere.

That’s also the heart of my June 17th workshop, Become a Better Leader by Becoming a Better Dad: using the tests of fatherhood to become steadier at home and stronger everywhere else.

One of the 7 mistakes I wrote about this week is avoiding repair.

In this week’s clip, Edward Rivera shares how he and his wife try to apologize in front of their kids after arguments or mistakes.

Check out Edward’s full Ambitious Dads Podcast interview here.

This week, try noticing where you are treating work and home like two different realms.

Work / Leadership:
Where am I using leadership skills at work that I abandon at home: listening, repair, emotional steadiness, role clarity, or patience?

Choose one skill you already use professionally and practice it deliberately at home.

Fatherhood:
Where am I treating a parenting moment as “just home stuff” when it is actually revealing a leadership pattern?

Pick one recurring moment this week and ask: What is this teaching me about how I lead under pressure?

If you’re reading this thinking, “I can lead well at work, but home still exposes parts of me I don’t fully understand,” you’re not alone.

On June 17th, I’m hosting a free, 60-minute live workshop: Become a Better Leader by Becoming a Better Dad.

We’ll explore how to catch your Default Dad patterns earlier, define the questions that guide how you show up, and use fatherhood as a leadership lab for becoming less divided everywhere.

Register here.