Mylena Sutton on the Conversations Working Dads Keep Avoiding

July 14

50 mins

Episode Description

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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