{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworking-dads.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fdoug-wenz-gxMAlWIC","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Homeless Shelter at 24. Now He's Building a Company and the Family He Always Wanted","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3aad4fc2-632f-44cb-ada3-a37fa1729d6c/1b729694-c47b-4d24-9407-eea7e6d34fc9/working_dads_podcast_cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Show Notes:\n\nAt 24, Doug Wenz was in a homeless shelter.\n\nHis son had just been born while he was in rehab. His daughter was on the way in Florida. The life he wanted felt impossibly far from the one he was living.\n\nThen one night, standing outside a dirty apartment in Florida, everything in his head went quiet. And he heard one thing: go home.\n\nThat moment saved his life.\n\nIn this episode Doug — commercial insurance veteran, new company founder, husband, and father of four — gets rawer than most guests ever do. The addiction. The relapse in 2020. The affair he found out about while in treatment. The dad who locked him out of the house at 11:30 at night and booked him a flight the next morning. And how all of it — every single painful piece of it — led him to the family he has now and the father he's becoming.\n\nThis one is different. And it might be the most important episode we've released."}