The Girl Dad Show: A Professional Parenting Podcast

Justin Wolff on Just Do It. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Justin dive into topics such as taking advantage of life and living it to the fullest, showing up for your kids, deciding what matters, teamwork with your partner, and business building. 

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About Guest: Justin is the CEO and Co-Founder of JunkTheory, an upcoming skin care line that is taking a 360 approach to sustainability by responsibly sourcing its formulas while virtually eliminating plastic in its packaging. Prior to founding JunkTheory, Justin co-founded and was the Chief Giving Officer at Yoobi, a school supply brand that donates a school supply item for every item it sells. Over the past 7 years, Yoobi has donated more than 70 million essential school supplies to over 5 million students, and has stocked 150k+ classrooms in the most impoverished elementary schools across the U.S.

Born in South Africa, Justin was raised in Los Angeles, attended U.C. Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in Political Economics, with a focus on China. Following his graduation, Justin moved to Israel where he served in an elite paratrooper regiment, and later worked in the media technology space. In 2005, Justin returned to the U.S. to pursue his Juris Doctorate degree at Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Justin spent almost 5 years as a project finance attorney, specializing in the clean energy sector. His practice took him from New York to Hong Kong, and eventually back to Los Angeles. Justin worked on over $4B in clean energy projects worldwide (primarily utility-scale wind and solar developments). In his final year of practicing law, Justin did extensive pro-bono work in the education space, which helped inspire his decision to co-found Yoobi. Justin is an avid scuba diver, mountain climber, and father to two little sea huggers.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Robbin McManne on Accepting Challenges. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Robbin dive into topics such as expectations on kids, gentle parenting, patience and grace with yourself, the influence your parents can have on your parenting style, and involving your children in your career. 

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About Guest: Robbin is a Certified Parent Coach, author, podcaster and speaker. Robbin is a parenting expert and consultant for the international, personal development app, LiveMore. Robbin also sits on the Expert Panel for Newsweek Magazine where she contributes to and writes articles related to parenting for the publication. In her work with parents from all over the world, She helps them build more connection and find more joy and cooperation to their parenting. Robbin’s work focuses on building and strengthening the parent child relationship so that children grow up with resilience, confidence and strong emotional intelligence. She works with parents to help them understand their own emotions and frustrations in parenting, so they can help build their children’s sense of self without losing themselves in the process!

Find out more about Robbin’s work at www.yellingcurebook.com

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About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Robert White on Proactive Presence. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Robert dive into topics such as how your childhood impacts how you raise your kids, how age gaps between children affect their relationships, the challenges of blending business and parenting, the definition of success in both business and family, as well as parallels in goal-setting for business and with parenting.

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About Robert: A 7th generation Texan, and raised by parents who were small business owners, Robert gravitated towards the business world and learned the importance of a strong work ethic from his mother and father. 

Following graduation from Texas A&M with a degree in economics, Robert began his insurance career in 2007 in Houston working at Unum, the nation’s largest disability & leave management carrier.  After building a strong reputation as a consultative resource and subject-matter expert, Robert was recruited to join Marsh McLennan Agency, one of his brokers who he had supported since moving to Austin. Since joining MMA Austin in 2018 as an Employee Benefits Consultant, he has leveraged his experience and expertise to develop a unique process delivering proactive and innovative solutions aligned with his clients’ culture and objectives.  

In his free time, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and two children playing football, baseball, golf, snow skiing, hiking, and boating on Lake Travis.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Rajesh Gopi on Planning Ahead. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Rajesh dive into topics such as time allocation, fostering an environment for your kids to develop, the importance of failure in life, staying connected to your partner, as well as taking a deep dive into the technicalities of best business practices.

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About Rajesh: Rajesh enjoys breaking down complex problems, building simple theories, and running tests to validate his understanding. His interests range from startups to the big bang. When he's not working with the founder ecosystem, Rajesh goes whiskey shopping across Texas Hill Country distilleries on his motorcycle. Rajesh & his wife Rashmi live in Austin with their three children.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Victoria Ransom on Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Victoria dive into topics such as a big picture perspective, education for children, prioritizing quality time with kids, the increase of entrepreneurial parents, and how your kids can influence your business and career choices. 

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About Victoria: Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed four companies, including Wildfire, which was acquired by Google in 2012 for $450M. Her current venture, Prisma, is pioneering a new approach to K-12 education that turns the current rigid, ‘one size fits few’ model of education on its head.

Victoria was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and recognized by KEA in their annual World Class New Zealander awards. She was named to Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 list and was recognized by President Obama in 2013 for her contributions to entrepreneurship. In addition, she was named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2012 and one of the '25 Women to Watch in Tech' for 2011 & 2010. She is on the board of Trustees at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In her spare time she is an avid snowboarder and surfer and a passionate adventure traveler who once spent six weeks living with a remote Amazonian tribe and five months living in a favela in Brazil! 

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Ahmend Abdelaal on Prepared for Success. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Ahmend dive into topics such as qualifying success in personal and professional life, Providing your kids with options, the balance of preparing your kids and giving them space to develop and learn, transitioning into parenthood, and professional life during Covid. 

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About Guest: Ahmed is a father, mixed martial arts enthusiast, and an operations guy with a flare for strategy and technology.  He started off his career as an offshore oil driller and transitioned to tech after accidentally developing a piece of software to make his life easier and people got interested in his problem solving.  Today, he's a high growth tech operator.  His paths has been filled with adventure, challenges, and achievement.  After transitioning to tech, he took a four year stint at McKinsey to hone his strategy thinking and become more well rounded before returning to tech.  After working at Oracle and Amazon, he decided to join the high growth start up world where he built operations for Scale AI and helped them go from $100M to a $7.3B valuation.  He is described as a field general and war time leader who repeatedly achieved the impossible by attempting the absurd.  He also travelled all over the world and lived in several countries before transitioning to the US 9 years ago.  In his spare time, he spends time with his daughters, travels, and trains and competes in Brazilian Jujitsu.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small to big, early to late stage, and across many different industries.

Eric Wong on  Expect the Unexpected. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young and Eric explore topics such as the joy kids bring, societal expectations and pressures, the changes and season of life, self discovery, and defining success.

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About Eric Wong: Eric is an entrepreneurial leader at people-focused ventures. Most recently, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Impro.AI, a Canadian HR Tech startup. Prior to that, he co-founded and led Exember, an SF-based firm focused on executive meetings. After getting his MBA at Stanford, and spending 13 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, he decided to come back home to Vancouver in late-2019, prioritize family, and design his ideal work and family life with his wife and two young daughters in Canada.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small too big, early too late stage, and across many different industries.

Joanne Pasternack on Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young and Joanne explore topics such as the decision-making process, intentionality in parenting and using everything in life as learning opportunities, the team aspects of a family unit,  bring your children into your professional life and not separating the two.


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About Joanne Pasternack: 
Joanne Pasternack is a dynamic and visionary philanthropic impact strategist who, over the past two decades, has galvanized community engagement with internationally recognized brands including the Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers, ServiceNow, City of Mountain View, and Special Olympics. 
As the President + Chief Impact Officer of Oliver+Rose, Joanne works with professional athletes, legends, entertainers, philanthropists, corporate executives and high net worth individuals to amplify their impact to inspire change around their areas of passion, commitment and expertise. Through this role, she co-founded and serves as the chief strategist for Athletes’ Voices, launched in collaboration with Harvard University and co-facilitated by The Doug Williams Center and a consortium of the athletic conferences comprising 45 HBCUs.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small too big, early too late stage, and across many different industries.

Jacob Beemer on Moving to the Next Level. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young and Jacob explore topics such as moving with kids, being a new parent, kids in the world of covid, the role of nurturing in social adaptation, and the realities of aging. 

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About Jacob Beemer: In 2020 I was nomadic, working remotely in the French alps. I have over 12 years of professional experience as a video producer and podcast director. Because most of us had been at home, I focused primarily on post-production work while riding out the pandemic. Now living in Miami permanently, I have a fiber internet connection at my home studio along with a robust personal editing server environment.

About Young Han: I’m all about operations. I have started companies, scaled hyper-growth startups, and understand a variety of industries. As a fractional COO, I guide companies through myriad challenges, from exponential growth to adapting to market shifts. I've experienced an incredible range of business journeys from small too big, early too late stage, and across many different industries.