Chris Coker’s Private Education and Leadership Academy
Most ambitious dads fall into the same trap.
They say they’re grinding for their kids
…but their kids are locked out of the process.
Chris put it bluntly: So many people get caught up working on their business and they tell themselves that they're doing it for their kids. When they're really doing it for themselves!
That sentence reframed everything.
The real problem
Working harder doesn’t make you a better provider.
Presence does.
Not presence after success.
Presence during the build.
The simple fix (that most dads avoid)
Bring your kids into the process.
Not as helpers.
As observers.
Chris did this by:
letting his kids sit in on business conversations
bringing them to buildouts, meetings, and banks
talking openly about money, decisions, and mistakes
That was their education.
They didn’t need to understand everything.
They just needed exposure.
The rule going forward
If you’re building something and your kids never see it:
You’re not building for them.
You’re building away from them.
One action to take this week
Pick one thing you normally hide from your kids:
a work call
reviewing numbers
planning next steps
…and let them sit in for 5 minutes.
Let them ask questions.
Let them interrupt.
Let it be messy.
That’s how self-reliance starts. I did it not as bad as I thought and my fuse has been very short as of late so you are probably going to crush it.
Freedom isn’t a finish line.
It’s building a life your kids don’t need to recover from.
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— George
P.S. If a 5-year-old can ask “why” 37 times in a row, he can qualify a lead.