The Workaholic Dad | A Sales Pro on Paternity Leave, Presence, and Redirecting Your Drive

Sam is a loving husband, father of a three-year-old, and expecting baby number two this July. He's a self proclaim workaholic  who has spent his career in sales and never really knew how to turn it off.So what happens when someone like that gets four months of paternity leave?In this episode of the Soul Sessions Fatherhood Series, Sam shares one of the most vivid descriptions of entering paternity leave I've heard (using a scene from The Matrix to explain the mental shift from constant noise to a blank slate). We talk about how he redirected his high-achiever energy into fatherhood, the question he used to snap himself back to presence, what it really felt like returning to work as a new dad, and why the second leave is going to be a whole different challenge.This one is for every high-performing dad or soon-to-be dad wrestling with the tension between ambition and being present. Sam doesn't have it all figured out  but he shows up honestly, and that's exactly what this series is about.