Parenting Tips: Young Dad Podcast · Jey Young

257: Dad Grind > 9-5 Grind- Jake S.

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Jake comes on to talk about the grind of building businesses while still showing up at home. The conversation starts with marketing and entrepreneurship, then quickly opens into fatherhood and the everyday balancing act underneath it. The host keeps circling back to the real question of how to grow without letting work take over everything. Jake is a marketing agency founder, a B2B and healthcare marketing expert, and a startup veteran who has spent the last 15 years helping businesses scale. That background gives the episode its practical edge. He talks about learning to automate and delegate so life does not get swallowed by constant pressure. The tone stays loose and conversational. It feels like two people thinking out loud instead of delivering a polished lesson. The episode also goes deeper into the mental side of ambition. Jake speaks candidly about self-doubt, anxiety, fear, and the ways people talk themselves out of trying. He brings up a speech impediment and the way it has shaped confidence and action. That thread gives the conversation a raw, human center. The host keeps returning the discussion to responsibility, fatherhood, and the cost of staying stuck. The two of them spend time on the idea that perception can become a trap. They talk about how people build stories about not being good enough and then live inside those stories. Jake connects that to the reality of building a company. If you want to start something serious, he says, you have to expect imposter syndrome and the noise that comes with it. The episode does not try to dress that up. It treats the struggle as normal and worth facing directly. There is also real interest in tools like DBT and CBT, not as buzzwords, but as ways to understand triggers and emotional habits. That gives the show a reflective edge without making it feel clinical. The fatherhood lens never drops out for long. Even when the discussion is about business, the question underneath stays the same: how do you keep your family and your values in view while you build? By the end, the episode feels like a grounded conversation about effort, doubt, and what it takes to keep going.

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A grounded conversation about business, fatherhood, and staying steady under pressure.

This episode sits at the overlap of business, marketing, entrepreneurship, and fatherhood, while keeping one eye on the mental load behind building something real.

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For dads building a business without losing the home front.

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