"I would say to my wife, I need to get to the coffee shop by seven, because I couldn't be hassled by the kids in the morning."
For ten years, Jon Vroman has asked the questions on this show. To close the first week of Good Questions, he answers them. This is Jon in the hot seat: how the man who founded Front Row Dads would have introduced himself before it existed (speaker, charity founder, ultramarathoner... and, toward the end of the list, a husband and dad), what he believed fatherhood was in the early years, and what he would do differently if he could start over.
He is honest about the survival seasons, six figures in the bank to six figures in debt, and about the beliefs underneath his choices. Then he lays out what changed: a calendar that puts his kids first, the shift from providing for his boys to nurturing them, the rite of passage he is building through their 10-to-20 decade, and the one invitation he would give every father listening.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- "What do you do?" answered by the old Jon and the new one
- What he valued before: achievement, progress, significance, and a calendar that proved it
- The coffee-shop-by-seven confession, and the belief about fatherhood hiding underneath it
- Six figures in the bank to six figures in debt: the survival season nobody romanticizes
- The 7-to-9am block on his calendar that just says "kids"
- Nurturing the spirit of the child in front of you, and the 10-to-20 rite of passage decade
- The invitation: find your crew and lean in all the way
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This conversation comes from "Fatherhood Before and After FRD: Jon Vroman." Hear the whole thing.
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