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Dan's just landed back in Salt Lake after a trip to San Francisco, and what's on his mind isn't the meetings he just came from. It's the question he gets asked all the time by executives who are also parents, partners, and people trying to hold it all together: how do you actually do all of it without shortchanging any of it?

Dan doesn't frame this as balance. He frames it as integration. In this episode he gets specific about what that looks like in practice, from bringing kids to business dinners to the 30-second video message that changed his relationship with his oldest daughter. This one is for single parents, recently remarried parents, blended family parents, and anyone trying to be fully present at work and at home.

Chapters:

00:00 | Intro: the question every executive parent is sitting with

00:53 | Strategy one: bring them with you, at least 70% of the time if you can

01:37 | Why clients don't just accept your kids at business dinners, they actually love it

02:23 | Strategy two: connect throughout the day, even if it's just 30 seconds from a restroom break

02:44 | What a therapist told Dan about his oldest daughter and what changed when he listened

03:28 | The lesson Dan learned the hard way about going silent during a work trip

04:11 | Strategy three: no matter how late it is, end the night with a real conversation

05:08 | Strategy four: let them into your world and get into theirs

Integration over balance.

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