Trailer - Welcome to the Ambitious Dads Podcast!

I didn’t start the Ambitious Dads Podcast because I had all the answers. I started it because I was asking the same questions most dads are. How do I show up better at home when work pulls me in a thousand directions? How do I break cycles I swore I wouldn’t repeat? How do I stay patient when I feel anything but? After a surprising infertility journey into fatherhood — and a lot of late-night doubts — I realized I couldn’t figure this out alone. So I started having conversations with other dads who were trying to live, lead, and love more intentionally. This podcast is an extension of those real talks. No posturing. No pretending. Just honest stories, lessons, struggles, and maybe a little hope that we’re all doing better than we think.

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What is Ambitious Dads?

Fatherhood cracked me open in ways I never expected — and showed me how unprepared most of us are for the emotional work it demands. After learning I couldn’t be a biological father, I wrestled early with the fear that I might screw up my kids before they even existed — a feeling every dad, in one way or another, eventually comes to know. The Ambitious Dads Podcast is where we stop winging it and start talking — about balancing endless competing priorities like work, kids, partners (sex — yeah, right!), self-care, and finances; about the emotions that hit daily — guilt, stress, fear, fatigue, love — and about the quiet doubts that keep us up at night. We’ll get vulnerable. We’ll get honest. And yes, we’ll end every episode with a ridiculous poop story, because if fatherhood teaches you anything, it’s how to laugh while cleaning up disasters.

Hosted by Jeff Hittner. Email Jeff with ideas for future episodes: [e-mail]