The Holy Grail of Work-Life Balance with James Sudakow
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Is work-life balance an unattainable myth? Most of us have tried everything to find out a way to evenly distribute our time and energy across work, life, and family. Many of us may have also discovered that this is one of the most difficult things to achieve. It almost seems impossible. But it's not.
Today's guest is James Sudakow. He is the father of four kids and the author of Out of the Blur: A Delirious Dad's Search for the Holy Grail of Work-Life Balance. He used to suffer from superhero syndrome, trying to be everything to everyone all the time. Eventually, he realized that he wasn't showing up in the way that he wanted to at home or at work and came up with his own plan to analyze his behavior and change his ways.
In this episode, James Sudakow talks about the superhero syndrome and outlines the common traps we fall into when it comes to prioritizing our to do list. He gives practical solutions for breaking common habits that suck our time and energy and shows us that a sane, productive, fulfilling life is not as mysterious as we think. Behold, the holy grail of work life balance!
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:15.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:27.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? Gentlemen, what's going on? |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host and founder of the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I'm your host and founder of the Dad Edge |
| 0:34.7 | podcast, also the Good Dad Project. Hey, if this is your first time here, welcome to |
| 0:41.0 | the show. Today what we are doing as well as on every single show what we are doing |
| 0:45.9 | is we are helping men optimize what we call the five dimensions of being a husband, being a man, being a father in today's society and |
| 0:55.8 | overcoming a lot of the obstacles that men are faced with today that in years past |
| 1:02.0 | men have not been faced with. Some of the things are the same. |
| 1:06.0 | Some very, very different. So if this is your first time here, this is the Monday show. |
| 1:11.0 | We kind of call this every now and again, the big show. We kind of call this every now and again the big show. This is where |
| 1:15.2 | I'm usually interviewing some sort of elite guest, somebody who's maybe written a |
| 1:19.8 | book like former |
| 1:24.0 | former former former NFL player Anthony Trucks or former MLB player Todd Stottlemyer. |
| 1:30.2 | We've had an arsenal of U.S.C. fighters as well as Navy SEALs as well as DDP and all kinds of just other |
| 1:36.9 | amazing guests have been blessed with hearing and connecting to some of the most elite men on the planet. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm just, I'm overwhelmed by it at times. |
| 1:47.0 | But today, my guest, everyone in our society |
| 1:50.4 | always talks about ways we can optimize work life balance. |
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