What does it really take to be present as a dad while juggling work, pressure, and your own mental health?

Kristian Leavell, a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and dad, brings both clinical insight and lived experience to this honest conversation about the weight many fathers carry and how to navigate it with clarity and compassion.

Kristian shares how to:

• Be truthful about what you feel and what you need

• Understand the voice behind internal pressure and self doubt

• Redefine what it means to provide for your family

• Manage guilt around work, parenting, and expectations

• Let go of perfectionism and the anxiety under it

• Reset when you feel disconnected from yourself or your family

• Build routines that protect your mental health

• Model emotional honesty for your kids w ...