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I was sitting in a car in front of the ballet studio

because I was interviewing a former White House cabinet official.

So now all of a sudden I see the number for the pediatrician pop up.

Now what am I going to do? Because as every parent in the world knows,

if you don't take that call in that moment from the pediatrician, the pediatrician disappears.

I was like, I have to know if my daughter is okay.

And I said, I can't lie, I can't do this.

What do it? It's okay. Third ring.

I say, you know, that's a really great point you just made.

And it reminds me, what do you think?

In mid-sentence, I hang up on her. I hang up on her and I take the pediatrician's call.

Now, she's calling me back because nobody hangs up on a former White House cabinet official.

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday. It's our show about

the changing nature of work and how that work is changing all of us.

When we talk about parenting on the show, often we talk about moms and work. And there's a

good reason for that. Everyone knows that so many women carry so much of the invisible labor

and the emotional labor of a household. But that's not the whole story.

Today's episode is really something special. It's a conversation I've been wanting to have for a

very long time. We're going to talk about fatherhood. And specifically, we're going to talk about

what it means to be a lead father in a household, a man who is leaning

into the work of caregiving.

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