Why having kids might be the greatest advantage you never expected. A platform for parents who refuse to believe ambition and family are a trade-off.
Charlie, Jake & the Youngest
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Raising for Success
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Most people assume that having children slows you down. That ambition and parenthood are a trade-off. My experience has been the opposite. Becoming a father sharpened my focus, deepened my discipline, and gave me a clarity about what actually matters that I couldn’t have found any other way.
Raising for Success is built around a simple idea: the things that make you a great parent are often the same things that make you successful in life, leadership, and business.
Everything on this platform traces back to one of these three ideas.
Most people think becoming a parent means putting yourself second. In my experience, it means becoming a better version of yourself — whether you’re ready for it or not.
Before kids, I said yes to almost everything. Every coffee, every intro call, every maybe-opportunity. I mistook movement for progress and busyness for ambition.
Success means something different when you have kids watching you.
It’s not just about what you build or what you earn.
Everything on this platform traces back to one of these three ideas.
We had no plans to go away. Like most families, our Christmas holidays were busy. Work was ramping back up, the kids were settling back into routines, and life was moving forward exactly the way it always does. Then my wife injured her hand…
Before kids, I thought I had productivity figured out. My calendar was packed. My phone was always buzzing. I said yes to almost everything: meetings, coffees, flights, networking events…
There’s something magical about the way kids approach the world. They ask a lot of questions. They touch every rock, jump in every puddle, push every boundary (and every button). They don’t care if they’re good at something before they try it. They just dive in, mess and all…
How Raising Kids Raises Everything Else
A book for parents who refuse to believe that ambition and family are a trade-off. Drawing on real stories from business, development, and raising three boys, Raising for Success explores how the skills parenthood demands discipline, patience, long-term thinking, resilience are exactly the skills that build extraordinary careers and lives. This isn’t a parenting book. And it isn’t a business book. It’s an honest look at why having kids might be the best thing that ever happened to your career — if you’re paying attention.
