Are you a supervising dad or a lead dad? If we’re honest, a lot of us think that provision, protection, and logistics (cutting the grass, checking homework) count as great fatherhood. But supervision keeps the house functioning; leadership shapes the people inside it.

In this episode, Michael Dorsey tackles the critical shift from managing your children to leading them. Successful professionally, many fathers default to their careers because work offers a clear scoreboard and a performance review. Fatherhood doesn’t have quarterly evaluations—just thousands of moments that quietly shape identity.

Michael shares the raw, life-changing moments with his son Mikey—from a crushingly honest critique about his health that made him confront his mortality, to a humbling reversed-role scenario where Mikey called out his integrity during a call  ...