These were the shouts from my daughter in November 2021!! She wanted me to play with her, and I took three shouts with increasing volume to get my attention.

Wow, if my head, I said to myself, “this is not what I signed up for when starting a business”. I knew it would be hard work, but I had lost focus on what was truly driving me.

Having spent the last six years in corporate coaching, listening to senior executives and business owners talk about their lack of relationship with their families affected them.

From the outside, these guys had it all; houses, cars, children in private schools and all the trimmings of success (or what we think success looks like).

For the last 20 years, I have been coaching people to improve their performance. I understood the challenge and developed how to get them to their outcome. My question was:

Can I build, run a business and be the best dad possible?

I needed to step back, reassess and understand the challenge. I did that; I interviewed 65-plus business dads to understand what was happening. I developed the business Dads pathway from research using my experience and knowledge of elite-level performance and business.

My question to you is, have you had a 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy' moment?

What happens if you ignore it?