Parenting Tips: Young Dad Podcast
Aug 3, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
Many dads are winning at work — and quietly losing at home. In this episode, **Jon Hord** joins **Jey Young** for a raw conversation about modern fatherhood, identity, and the pressure men feel to…
I saw I saw when I looked at my dad when I was young and I think about the career that he took and all that stuff.
He would tell you today that he put too much focus on work and he carries regret with him to this day.
And to answer your question, what was I afraid of if I would slow down? Well, I had connected my value as a dad.
And so if I slow down and I am not doing as good of a job of providing, it means I'm not doing as good of a job of being a dad.
So slowing down meant like going backwards, going in reverse and not being the dad that I was supposed to be.
Yeah.
And I think that's so common for like, like all dads, right? Like, because that's what we're taught as men.
We're literally taught like pretty much out the womb, like your value is directly tied to what you provide, what you make, what you can, what you can, what you have in your account, right? That's where your value comes from.
Not so much that it's, you know, the actual presence of you being there, the intentionality when that's in reality what it is.
But what we're taught is, you know, it's based on how much you can provide.
And that's how we measure our value, how well we do at work, how successfully we are in business, how successful we are at our job.
how many promotions we get, where we're at at, you know, 21, 25, 30, right? We're supposed to be at all these milestones.
And I think that's just so common for us.
And we don't think about slowing down because we're just told to hustle, hustle, hustle, make money, make money, make money, provide, provide, provide, provide, provide.
And as you were saying that, I had this thought and I I had like an internal struggle on like whether or not I wanted to say this or not.
I saw I saw when I looked at my dad when I was young and I think about the career that he took and all that stuff.
He would tell you today that he put too much focus on work and he carries regret with him to this day.
And to answer your question, what was I afraid of if I would slow down? Well, I had connected my value as a dad.
And so if I slow down and I am not doing as good of a job of providing, it means I'm not doing as good of a job of being a dad.
So slowing down meant like going backwards, going in reverse and not being the dad that I was supposed to be.
Yeah.
And I think that's so common for like, like all dads, right? Like, because that's what we're taught as men.
We're literally taught like pretty much out the womb, like your value is directly tied to what you provide, what you make, what you can, what you can, what you have in your account, right? That's where your value comes from.
Not so much that it's, you know, the actual presence of you being there, the intentionality when that's in reality what it is.
But what we're taught is, you know, it's based on how much you can provide.
And that's how we measure our value, how well we do at work, how successfully we are in business, how successful we are at our job.
how many promotions we get, where we're at at, you know, 21, 25, 30, right? We're supposed to be at all these milestones.
And I think that's just so common for us.
And we don't think about slowing down because we're just told to hustle, hustle, hustle, make money, make money, make money, provide, provide, provide, provide, provide.
And as you were saying that, I had this thought and I I had like an internal struggle on like whether or not I wanted to say this or not.
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