Within the confines of misery lies the strength that break free and embrace your true potential.

Choose courage over comfort, liberation over stagnation, and unleash your wings to soar beyond the workplace that bind you.

That is a quote from my guest today, and today we are talking about the corporate cage and how it's a mental state,

how we can design our nine to five to fit our terms and not their terms, and how you can become your highest self by creating an entrepreneurial future.

Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge Movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families, and leaders of communities.

We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well.

The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them.

We are here to change the world. We are here to change relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets.

We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose, and direction.

We are the Dad Edge, and we're here to change the game.

What's going on, gentlemen? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast, this show and movement.

Interesting statistic to get us started with. 82% of men who are going to their place of work, whether it's in a commute or whether it's just walking into your home office on Zoom or whatever it is.

82% of men actually dislike or despise what they do for a living, which truly means only about 18% of us out there actually enjoy what we do or we love what we do.

That's really sad when you really think about it. When we think about the amount of hours that we spend every single day, every single week, the hours of our lives that just take away going to a job that we hate. That's really unfortunate.

Who do I have on for you guys today? I have on Matt Dillon. He is the founder and CEO of Uncaged Life Design. I love the name, by the way.

Inspired by 15 demanding informative years and management and consulting and cybersecurity, he now helps high achieving professionals escape the corporate cage to build careers and lives on their terms, not on the company's terms.

He is written for such publications like Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic MIT Sloan Management Review, and many, many more.

He's a husband. He's a father. He's a transformational coach. He is also the host of the Uncaged Yourself podcast and a frequent speaker.

He's got three kids from a previous marriage, not divorced, but remarried to what he, who he calls his soulmate and now has a two year old.

Today, Matt and I talk about several different topics of just symptoms and traits of if you hate what you do for a living, what you're probably feeling, what you might be feeling when you wake up,

doing your job, also how it impacts your relationships as well. But Matt really breaks this up into what he calls three different steps in his own life, which is when he was quote unquote caged.

Then when he became uncaged and now being mission focused, he and I share several stories going back and forth around our own experiences, working in corporate and then now making the leap into the entrepreneurial space.

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