Introduction

This week I am sitting down with Brandon Burns from Geelong, south of Melbourne where he lives with his wife Kristy and oldest son Baxter (7.5 y.o.) and 3 daughters Sadie, Pippa (2.¾ y.o.) and Lucy (9 m.o.). Brandon is also Head of Community at RunWay HQ incubator and a singer for a wedding band!

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Resources:

• 1,000 True Fans
• • Youtube summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ4u8IK_McQ
  • Kevin Kelly's full article https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
• The business of being you by Fleur Brown: https://www.amazon.com.au/Business-Being-YOU-Personal-Celebrities/dp/1922309079

Connect with the guest:

Twitter: runwayvirtual

Facebook URL: runayvirtual

Public email: [email protected]

Website: www.runwayvirtual.co

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-burns-44423748/

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

Introduction

This is part 2 of this special face-to-face interview from my living room in Sydney with the person who had the most impact in my life: Sachiko Marchand. She is the mother of my two kids, Taiyo (10 y.o.) and Saya (7 y.o.) and the woman I married 11 times (so far!). She is also a holistic coach who helps Japanese mums start a business in harmony with their family.

In this second part of our chat, we touch what is working for us as parents in Corona Times.

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Connect with the guest:

• Website: http://holisticfoodjourney.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachikomarchand/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sachiko.marchand

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

Introduction

Such a special face-to-face interview from my living room in Sydney with the person who had the most impact in my life: Sachiko Marchand. She is the mother of my two kids, Taiyo (10 y.o.) and Saya (7 y.o.) and the woman I married 11 times (so far!). She is also a holistic coach who helps Japanese mums start a business in harmony with their family.

It ended up being a passionating but long interview so I decided to split it in 2 with:

• the first part focusing on what got us ready for Corona Times in the past 3-5 years
• and then part 2 where we discuss what worked and didn't in the first 2 weeks of our self-isolation with our 2 kids!

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• Apply for a Future Proof You scholarship to get a free coaching session with me to get you to bounce back: https://julienmarchand.typeform.com/to/eypIoe

Connect with the guest:

• Website: http://holisticfoodjourney.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachikomarchand/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sachiko.marchand

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

Introduction:

In this episode, I am chatting with Simon Drew. Simon is an Australian alignment coach and also the host of the Practical Stoic Podcast, a show that has helped thousands of people around the world to improve their lives using ancient philosophical principles taught by the Stoics.

Simon is not a Dad yet but some of the working dads I have interviewed, including myself, see stoicism as a great philosophy for parenting! Simon is really good at clarifying stoicism, so there are plenty of gold nuggets here!

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Connect with the guest:

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/simonjedrew
• Website: simonjedrew.com
• Facebook URL: Facebook.com/simonjedrew
• Instagram: @simonjedrew
• Twitter: @simonjedrew
• Public email: [email protected]

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words, he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

Intro:

In this episode, I am sharing my regular walk and talk with my accountability buddy Maher Itani. We walk in Darling Harbour in Sydney every Tuesday. This is a sneak peek into what a typical accountability meeting sounds like during an extraordinary situation such as the one we are living through right now.

This was recorded 12 days ago on the 10th of March

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Intro

In this episode, I am chatting with Martin Wells, who spends his life between San Francisco and Sydney with his wife and toddler. He runs his own business as a consultant helping other entrepreneurs scale

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You can connect with Marting here:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/martinjwells
• Email: [email protected]

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words, he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

Intro

In this episode, I am chatting with Michael Poon who at the time of the recording was in Vietnam with his 4-year-old son Teddy and his wife Ruby Lee. Michael is a digital nomad and runs his own business… with his wife! Michael also has a 12-year-old son, Henry, who stayed in Australia with his mum but joins him around the world for each school holiday. Are you ready for an epic episode? This has all the right ingredients;)

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• Put your name on the waiting list for the upcoming masterclass on Accountability Partnership: https://futureproofyou.kartra.com/page/Accountability

• Continue the conversation from this podcast episode in the Future Proof You Facebook Group for working dads.

You can connect with Michael here:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poon/
• https://www.instagram.com/_michaelpoon_/
• https://www.ownyourhustle.co/About

Inspiring soundtrack:

My 10-year old Taiyo is the one in charge of the soundtrack. In his own words he is a 'musical entrepreneur'. Every week he plays covers and his own compositions for the pleasure of the tourists in Manly, Sydney Australia. Check out his YouTube channel and share it with your kids to inspire them: http://www.TaiyoMarchand.com/

In this episode I am sharing a Facebook live I did 3 weeks after coming back from my solo retreat in Bali. It was the opportunity to reflect on it and answer the questions from the Future Proof You tribe.... all of this on my bike!

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In this episode, I seat down with Diane Kalendra. Diane is the mother of 2 kids and has 4 grand-children now (3 girls and 1 boy between 2 and 13). Diane has been in the corporate environment but has also owned and managed businesses. She is now an academic with the goal to help mature students get ready for a management position with the help of an MBA. That's in that position that I met Diane. Diane is also a business coach.

One of the reasons for bringing Diane to the podcast was to discuss Human development psychology, one of the key topics from her PhD. This lead to the following points in our discussion:

• To achieve your own balance between work and fatherhood, you need to travel from your head to your heart through experience
• Solutions to your balance is different for one person to another
• You need to be fully present in the moment to hear/know at a deep level what you need to do
• To be present you need to remove yourself from distraction and engage in meditation
• Meditation or a sense of flow can take on different formats: running, surfing, swimming, walking in the bush,
• Meditation leads to clarity and creativity
• Being fully present is a muscle that requires daily practice

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You can connect with Dr Diane Kalendra on LinkedIn and ask her about coaching: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-diane-kalendra-2b281911/

In this episode, I am introducing you to Pedro Paquemar who runs his own business remotely from Morocco where he lives with his wife and his 2-year old daughter Hozumi. I met Pedro last year when I was doing research on working dads. My wife Sachiko runs a blog and coaching business for Japanese mums and she put a message out there so I could find dads who were working on balancing work and fatherhood.

In our chat we touch on the following topics:

• How he was a corporate career man who didn't expect to have kids
• Quitting his job and starting his business to be present for his wife when she was pregnant
• How his life and business coach was key in future-proofing himself and prioritising his daughter and wife over his career
• And finally how working on your own business is actually investing in your own future.

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• Sign up to the Future Proof You Tribe to received tips from working dads for working dads. I also share my journey on building my business in harmony with my family https://www.microskills.academy/workingdads
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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

• Zapier: https://zapier.com/
• Help Scout: https://www.helpscout.com/
• The Nomadic Mindset by Kevin Cottam (Pedro's coach): https://www.thenomadicmindset.com/product/the-nomadic-mindset-never-settlefor-too-long-e-book-paperback/

You can connect with Pedro on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paquemar-pedro-26953b/