What happens when the conversations working dads avoid at home start affecting every other part of their lives?Mylena Sutton believes leadership is not something you turn on at work and leave behind at home. The way you handle conflict, stress, shame, communication, and emotional pressure follows you everywhere. For working dads trying to balance career demands, parenting, relationships, and personal identity, that truth can be uncomfortable, but necessary.This conversation explores how emotional avoidance, resentment, shame, and overwork quietly shape fatherhood, parenting, relationships, and work life balance.Mylena shares how to:Handle difficult conversations before they explode into conflictBuild healthier communication patterns inside relationships and parentingCreate alignment between career, family, and personal valuesStop using work as an escape from unresolved problems at homeAddress shame honestly instead of carrying it silentlyCreate healthier boundaries that support long term work life balanceStay grounded in your values during stressful seasons of fatherhood and workMylena’s perspective is direct, thoughtful, and deeply practical. She challenges the idea that dads should simply carry everything silently and instead encourages more honesty, more intentionality, and more alignment between the life you want and the life you are actively building.This conversation offers meaningful insight for working dads navigating parenting, leadership, relationships, and the emotional realities that often go unspoken.Dig DeeperUnoPink PantherFederal Aviation AdministrationRock Steady by Aretha FranklinFollow MylenaOn her website: mylenasutton.com/invitationsOn Instagram: instagram.com/mylenasuttonOn LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mylenasuttonOn her podcast, The Leadership Drives: theleadershipdrives.com/Follow Gap to GigOn Instagram: instagram.com/gaptogigOn TikTok: tiktok.com/@gaptogigOn X: x.com/gaptogigOn YouTube: youtube.com/@gaptogigOn your podcast player of choice: rss.com/podcasts/gaptogig/Sign up for the Gap to Gig newsletter: gaptogig.comFollow MichaelOn LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themichaeljacobs/