EPISODE · May 7, 2025 · 48 MIN
What Happens to Fatherhood When Your Career Demands Everything - Matt Korn
from The Mature Male · host Wes Lambert
Matt Korn is an attorney, father, and advocate for men navigating the collision between high-demand careers and the kind of present, engaged fatherhood they actually want to provide.Most men who work demanding careers don't feel like bad fathers. They feel like men doing what men are supposed to do — provide, perform, deliver. But there's a specific kind of grief that accumulates in the years when your kids needed you present and your career needed you elsewhere. Matt Korn is candid about what that looks like from the inside, and what it takes to stop choosing between the two.Expect to learn how high-demand careers rewire a man's relationship to presence and availability, the specific ways lawyer culture — and professional culture generally — rewards absence from family, what the internal experience of a high-achieving father who feels disconnected from his kids actually looks like, how to begin rebuilding relational presence when you've been on autopilot, why many men can't access fatherhood fully until they've examined their relationship to work and worth, the practical changes that make the most difference without requiring a career change, what it means to be genuinely available to your children and not just physically present and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833
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Matt Korn is an attorney, father, and advocate for men navigating the collision between high-demand careers and the kind of present, engaged fatherhood they actually want to provide.Most men who work demanding careers don't feel like bad fathers. They feel like men doing what men are supposed to do — provide, perform, deliver. But there's a specific kind of grief that accumulates in the years when your kids needed you present and your career needed you elsewhere. Matt Korn is candid about what that looks like from the inside, and what it takes to stop choosing between the two.Expect to learn how high-demand careers rewire a man's relationship to presence and availability, the specific ways lawyer culture — and professional culture generally — rewards absence from family, what the internal experience of a high-achieving father who feels disconnected from his kids actually looks like, how to begin rebuilding relational presence when you've been on autopilot, why many men can't access fatherhood fully until they've examined their relationship to work and worth, the practical changes that make the most difference without requiring a career change, what it means to be genuinely available to your children and not just physically present and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833
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