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Amy Morin is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and a lecturer at Northeastern University. She’s been dubbed the “self-help guru of the moment,” by The Guardian and Forbes refers to her as a “thought leadership star.”

You can still be mentally strong and have a mental illness, it's like working out to get strong while having diabetes, you still have diabetes. - Amy Morin

Three Things We Learned

It can be tempting to make your life revolve around your child. But kids who think they’re the center of the universe grow up to be self-absorbed and entitled. Mentally strong parents teach their kids to focus on what they have to offer the world — rather than what they’re owed and it's ok to let your child make mistakes. Running to the rescue of forgotten soccer cleats or a gym bag isn't the parent's responsibility. Children need to realize there are consequences to their actions, good and bad. 

 

We could all easily could be diagnosed with something in our lives, some sort of disorder or a mental health issue. Statistics from the CDC say that 17% of us are functioning at optimal mental health at any given time. We look at people and say either you're mentally healthy or you're mentally ill instead of realizing there is a spectrum and we're all at different points in our lives at different points in that spectrum. You can build mental muscle and you can prevent some illnesses - you can't prevent it all - just like physical strength, working out is good for your body and working out is good for your mind, too. 

Today we hear a lot that we don't punish our kids enough. You have to realize the difference between discipline - encouraging our kids to want to do better versus punishment which is shaming our kids to do better. Parents post pics or videos of their kids behaving badly in an attempt to shame them into behaving better. Shaming most likely makes kids feel like losers versus kids that have healthy consequences can say 'yeah I've made some mistakes but my parents have taught me how to behave better'. 

 
Bio:

Amy’s advice has been featured by a number of media outlets, including Parenting, Time, Fast Company, Good Housekeeping, Elle, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Success, Oprah.com, Health, Fox News, US News & World Report, and The Washington Post. She has also provided on-camera interviews for Fox Business, Forbes, TheBlaze TV and an upcoming documentary with Red Bull. She’s a frequent guest on a variety of radio shows as well. 

 

Amy serves as Verywell’s Parenting Teens Expert and Child Discipline Expert. She’s a regular contributor to Forbes, Inc., and Psychology Today. 

 

A sought-after speaker, Amy loves to share the latest research on resilience and the best strategies for overcoming adversity and building mental muscle.

 

https://amymorinlcsw.com 

Apart from being successful professionals, Mike Bloch, Jon Diller and Ben Rewis are legendary fathers to young boys and loving partners to their legendary wives. In this episode, we get to hear about how they play these roles with a lot more enjoyment than expected.

"I've come to a conclusion that there's really no such thing as being balanced, but you strive for it," - Mike Bloch on being a dad in 2018

Three Things We Learned

To be a full-time career man and father means a hundred-percent commitment to both jobs. This means that setting aside time to spend with family when it's family day is just as important as focusing on work to pay the bills. Making an effort to show how devoted you are in their respective turns is a great way to be a role model to your children.

Forget about the age-old adage that behind every successful man is a woman. Having a partner who's as goal-minded and committed as you are will guarantee a joyful adventure.

Communication, compromise, and coupling are important aspects of being a partner and a parent. Communication is probably the most important tool to ensure lasting and enduring relationships, and technology can be a significant part of it. This isn't always true, though, because there are nuances to being a partner and a parent that communication through a screen can't touch and can only be resolved by sharing popcorn in the couch.

Being a father in this fast-changing world can be difficult. Maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner is another struggle. But being with the right people and having the commitment to succeed at it make all the difference.


BIO:

Mike Bloch is a long time resident of Santa Cruz and is “living the dream” with his wife Alissa and two boys in the Pleasure Point Neighborhood. Mike has over 15 years’ experience as a local Realtor specializing in Santa Cruz County Real Estate. And he’s grateful for being able to live  a good life! 

 

Jon Diller is first and foremost a husband to a beautiful wife of 12 years and dad to two incredibly fun 9 and 10 year old boys. He has balanced his family life in Santa Cruz with a 19 year career as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley building several companies that continue to reshape how businesses find, hire and engage with skilled talent from around the world. 

 

Ben Rewis is a FinTech executive with decades of experience. He and his wife are empty nesters inOakland. His son attends college on the east coast. When he isn’t working on payments security and innovation, he’s in his beloved VAN DZL in search of surf, or volunteering to Save The Waves. 

 

Links: 

 

http://www.mikebloch.com 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebloch/ 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diller/ 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrewis/ 

Paul Holland is a partner at Foundation Capital and an expert in venture capital, taking startups from zero to $110M. He's also the producer of a critically acclaimed documentary and a champion of living a 'green' lifestyle.

Three Things We Learned

About the time Paul was preparing to build a new home, he attended a TED Talk by Bill McDonough, a leader in LEED design, technology and construction. His focus became environmentally regenerative design LEED for Home. His home "Tah.Mah.La" is the greenest home in America. Paul sees the future of green and how the current mindset of water and conservation has to change to save the land as we know it. 

Paul is lucky enough to own a part of Netflix. Around 2003 his buddy, one of the sharpest software minds of our generation was mailing DVD's from him home. He wanted a business he could easily run from his house in Santa Cruz. Many of the smart minds around him considered it a hokey business but we all know now what Reed Hastings built and 'the rest is history'.

Paul says it's important to associate with really successful people. But it's not always easy. A lot of the time, those people are not the ones you are socially comfortable with. He was fortunate and smart enough himself to associate with successful people and those early connections led him to his current place in life. Now where he's at, the Silicon Valley, it's a way of life and people are very comfortable combing social and commerce. It's become the way of life there.

Paul Holland is a partner at Foundation Capital where he invests in IT, consumer, and digital energy sectors.

 

Paul currently serves on the boards of Homesuite, Peerspace, SkyCure, Dreambox Learning, KiK and InsideView.

Past investments include Chegg (CHGG), MobileIron (MOBL), Coverity (acquired by Synopsys), Averail (acquired by MobileIron), Conformia (acquired by Oracle), Ketera (acquired by Rearden Commerce), RouteScience (acquired by Avaya), Talking Blocks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), and TuVox (acquired by West).

Before Foundation Capital, he worked at -- and helped take public -- two software start-ups, Kana Communications with Mark Gainey, and Pure Software with Reed Hastings.
 

His two start-ups ended up being worth over $13 billion in aggregate.

He’s also the past president of the Western Association of Venture Capital.

 

Paul is co-executive producer of Something Ventured, a critically acclaimed documentary on the origins of the venture capital industry.

 

http://foundationcapital.com

http://www.tahmahlah.com/

Will retail continue to be disrupted as long as online trading is a booming industry? Ann Morhauser, founder of the table glassware line Annieglass, tells us about the phenomenon that is experiential retail and how she manages to be both an artist and entrepreneur.

Since the concept of online shopping took root in our everyday lives, independent retailers have had a rough time selling their products. Millennials have a huge part to play in all this. But the good news is, eleven million or so of them are getting married, and that means lots of orders for Annieglass and other retailers.

In order to boost the otherwise curtailed retail chain, many retailers have begun to adopt the marketing tool that is called experiential retailing. This is done by drawing in potential customers through offers of experiencing products firsthand. The interactive vibe of this strategy has even startlingly resulted to millennials wanting to get wed in shops—a major win, really.

Annie says that on top of being business-minded, she’s both an artist and a manufacturer. Always wanting to be occupied, she highly enjoys her work, even when it’s difficult to thrive.

No business line is going to stay on top forever. What’s important is that entrepreneurs can find better ways to market their products and services. Annie has this basic step down, and she’s masterfully crafted a method to keep her business running.

BIO

Ann Morhauser is the founder of Annieglass,  a highly successful line of glass tableware sold through the finest luxury stores and resorts in the nation. Handcrafting her products in Northern California since 1983, Ann developed her company throughout the years to become one of the largest and most successful American glass studios.  By combining skills as a designer,  artisan, and businesswoman, Ann has been able to build a highly regarded brand as well as a successful company.  Ann ’s work is in the collections of such noted museums as the  Smithsonian  American  Art Museum and the  Luce  Foundation Center for American Art in Washington,  DC;  the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow,  Scotland; and the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning,  New  York.  Ann has accomplished something rare:  crossing over into the commercial world while tenaciously retaining her fine art approach. In  2003 she celebrated twenty years as a mass producer — by hand — of sculptural glassware.

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