“One sees the world totally differently again” – from top banker to involved fatherhood

This chapter demonstrates how childcare practices can transform masculine self-relations within finance’s hypermasculine culture. Through close analysis of men who left leadership positions to become involved fathers, it identifies five key transformation mechanisms: dropping authoritative attitudes, slowing down and adopting children’s perspectives, de-centring the self to enable others’ growth and experiencing awe at children’s unconditional trust. These transformations challenge the fiction of masculine autonomy and create embodied experiences of care that empirically demonstrate possibilities for different social arrangements, functioning as “eutopian” practices pointing towards caring futures.