Are you a father or family provider who feels stuck between wanting to work to support your family, and wanting to actually be at home with your family? What can you do to take a step away from work expectations? How can providers in families build strong relationships with their partners? In this podcast episode, Billy and Brandy Eldridge speak with Jon Vroman who is an alpha male getting it right. Meet Jon Vroman Jon Vroman has been married for 10-years to the beautiful Tatyana, proudly served as father for his two energetic boys, Tiger and Ocean, and founder of FrontRowDads.com, a brotherhood that helps men become better family men. He hosts the Front Row Dad podcast, which focuses on thriving marriages, empowered parenting, emotional mastery, optimal health and integrated living. Front Row Dads is designed for high-performing entrepreneurial men who believe in being a family men with business, not businessmen with families. Jon has been featured on Today Show and Inc.com for his work in helping others “Live Life In The Front Row™”. He’s been requested to speak for the US Navy, Vitamix, Dove, Keller Williams Realty, Entrepreneurs Organization and many others. As the author of #1 bestselling author of The Front Row Factor, he shares inspiring stories, compelling science, and life strategies that challenge you to explore your values, establish priorities and reconnect to a higher purpose and deeper meaning within your life. In 2005, Jon founded FrontRowFoundation.org, a charity that helps individuals who are braving life-threatening illnesses, to experience the event of their dreams, from the front row. Visit his website, listen to the Front Row Dad podcast, and the Facing Life podcast. Connect on Facebook and Instagram. In This Podcast Summary * How do you scale back? * 18 Summers * How can entrepreneurs make time for this? How do you scale back? Figuring out how to serve the families, live out their passion, and give back to the world without putting out the family is a big challenge that many providers and fathers face. Some of the ways that Jon Vroman addresses these challenges in his work through Front Row Dads is creating programs throughout the year that call in men’s attention to checking in with where they are at. If you want to change the heart of a man, you want to change the direction of their life, you have to change the conversations they are having. Which, to change the conversation we’re having, we need to change the questions we’re asking. They call up the men of asking big questions to make them really think about their lives, and that they are doing. The important conversation is thinking about how to get out of the intensity of working continually to get back in touch with the family. Another big conversation is thinking about what the biggest focus is, the lead domino. What does my family look like on the calendar, what does my health and what will my vacation look like in the calendar and afterward working the business around these non-negotiables. 18 Summers What this concept revolves around is the idea that we only have a finite amount of time, and a finite amount within each season – like with children, a couple of seasons with your child as a baby, as a toddler, as a child, and as a teenager and so forth.