Logan has five children ranging from one to eleven years old. His mother-in-law lives with them. His family of eight goes everywhere together. He founded a charter school in Philadelphia, navigated COVID as a first-year school leader, worked two jobs simultaneously for a period of time, and recently transitioned to independent contract work alongside his full-time job to make ends meet.
And somehow, Sunday is protected.
Not sometimes. Every Sunday. No work. Sabbath. Family time that nobody — not a client, not a deadline, not a school emergency — is allowed to interrupt.
On the Working Dads Podcast with host Johnathan Grzybowski, Logan shares the financial and time management systems that keep a family of eight functional, the word that defines his entire approach to hard seasons, and why he believes time is the most undervalued currency working dads possess.
Budget Your Time the Same Way You Budget Your Money
This is the central insight of Logan’s episode. And it is one of the most useful frameworks any working dad can adopt.
“You can always earn more money. You can work harder to earn more money. But there are only twenty-four hours in the day. Everyone only has twenty-four hours in the day. So why don’t we budget our time the same way that we budget our finances?”
Logan and his wife used Dave Ramsey’s Every Dollar budgeting program for six months and the discipline they developed tracking every financial transaction gave them a new lens. Every dollar had a job. Every dollar was allocated intentionally rather than spent reactively.
Logan applied the same logic to time. Every hour has a job. Family dinner is not optional. Sunday Sabbath is not negotiable. His children’s school events are blocked before client calls. Time is the currency he refuses to let leak.
For working dads who feel like they are always running out of both: the same discipline you bring to a financial budget belongs on your calendar. Start by identifying your non-negotiables — the time commitments that are not up for debate — and protect them the way you protect your mortgage payment.
Call It a Season Before It Starts — So You Know When to End It
When Logan’s workload became unsustainable — two jobs, twelve-plus hour days, weeks away from his family — he and his wife did something most couples don’t do: they named it before it started.
“This is a season. It isn’t permanent. And we need to make sure it doesn’t become permanent.”
That framing — season, not lifestyle — gave them both a framework for enduring the hard stretch without letting it define them. And when Logan started burning out near the end of the second job contract, the decision to stop was clear.
“We had said on the front end: this isn’t gonna be permanent. It made that decision really clear.”
For working dads who are in a season of heavy work — a launch, a transition, a financial sprint — name it with your partner before it starts. Set the parameters. Define what done looks like. Give yourselves a check-in date. A season without an end date becomes a lifestyle. And the lifestyle you build under maximum stress is not the one you actually want.
The Calendar Is the Most Honest Communication Tool in Your Marriage
Logan and his wife share every calendar. All of them. His work calendar. Her personal calendar. The kids’ school events. The sports schedule. Everything in one place with full visibility to both of them.
The result: she can see when he is overcommitting and call it before it becomes a problem. He can see when she is stretched and cover without being asked.
“My wife and I are very clear: if it’s not on the calendar, it’s not happening.”
She even has veto power. If he over-schedules himself, she steps in. Not as a controller — as a partner who has agreed to help him stay accountable to the life they are trying to build together.
For working dads who are bad at saying no to commitments: give your partner visibility and veto power. The calendar is not just a scheduling tool. It is a communication device that shows both of you whether you are actually living according to your stated priorities.
What Working Dads Can Take From Logan
Logan founded a charter school in one of Philadelphia’s most underserved communities. He navigated COVID as a first-year school leader. He worked two jobs to provide for a family of seven. He made the call to stop before the season became permanent. And every Sunday, no matter what is happening in his professional life, the family rests.
His advice to working dads: budget your time. Name your seasons. Share your calendar and give your partner veto power. And find something every week that fills your cup back up — because you cannot give what you don’t have.
On the Working Dads Podcast, Logan proves that the most important resource a working dad manages is not money. It is time. And the dads who treat it accordingly are the ones who look back with no regret.
Working Dads is the podcast for fathers figuring out work, family, and everything in between. Hosted by Johnathan Grzybowski, co-founder of Penji. New episodes every week.
