About this conversation
What happens when a world-traveling seminar leader becomes a stay-at-home dad? In the 1990s, Michael Connor helped open Russia and Eastern Europe to personal growth seminars, leading trainings on five continents and once defending his work in a Siberian courtroom. Then at 41, his first daughter was born, and he came home. Six years with his girls became more than 1,000 recorded lessons, and 60 favorites became his book "Insights of a Father: Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life." Today he coaches executive teams at global companies with Bridge Partnership. A conversation about teddy bears and diamonds, the wife who loved him enough to let him go, and seeing the world through a child's eyes again.
In this conversation
- 00:00Introduction and welcome
- 00:20Teddy bears and the lessons children teach
- 02:36Santa Claus and diamonds
- 03:55The choice at 41
- 06:06What six years at home taught him
- 10:59Worlds seen through the eyes of innocence
- 13:20The red thread: purpose and the big questions
- 14:51The leap: leaving healthcare for Bulgaria in winter
- 20:21Post-Soviet Russia and a Siberian courtroom
- 25:27Many lamps, one light
- 26:24She loved him enough to let him go
- 29:50How fatherhood changed his executive coaching
- 33:19Compassion, filters, and what leaders miss
- 38:46Terry Tillman and believing in miracles
- 40:37His daughters, young adults now
- 43:42Unconditional love and the safe harbor
- 48:49What actually changes people
- 50:42Lightning round: inner work, miracles, and deep listening
