The Girl Dad Show: A Professional Parenting Podcast

Dennis Carlson on TITLE. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

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Young & Dennis discuss his mission-focused career supporting the end of forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking around the globe, how his medical journey impacted the rest of his life, and putting your "money where your mouth is" when it comes to your values. 

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About Dennis Carlson: Dennis and his wife of 21 years Steph, a school counselor, live in Davis, CA with their three children, the soon-to-be UCSC Banana Slug Cassidy (18), field hockey champ Sweden (15), and aspiring trampoline gymnast Finn (12). Dennis serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships for International Justice MIssion (IJM), where he engages mission-minded leaders to invest in a proven and scalable solution to end forced labor, slavery, and human-trafficking.  

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.

Jeevan Balani on Generational Growth. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

Young & Jeevan dive into topics such as nature versus nurture, the sacrifices Jeevan's parents made for his future, how he "over-invests" time in his children, his time as a stay-at-home dad, and finding patience within parenting.

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About Jeevan Balani: Jeevan is a Growth Marketing Executive and Entrepreneur.  Most recently, he has served as a fractional head of growth for Masterclass, Outschool, and Emeritus.  Prior to that he worked at McKinsey and Company focusing on high tech.  He loves being a Dad, playing basketball, and coaching people in their careers.

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.

Candace Fleming on Consciously Creating Harmony. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

This episode is sponsored by Monti Kids, premium Montessori toys delivered directly to your door. 

Young & Candace speak on the importance of spending time with your kids after a long day at work, watching your children take on both your strengths and flaws, as well as the importance of being creative when it comes to fitting everything into your busy schedule.

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About Candace Fleming: Candace brings 20+ years of experience building, growing, and transforming businesses as an operating executive in software and consumer products companies, with particular expertise in strategy, cross-functional operations, supply chain, growth, and e-commerce. She is currently CEO of Monti Kids, a pioneer in the early child development space, providing patent-pending, authentic Montessori toys for children, and educating millennial parents through an innovative e-curriculum. Her track record also includes reinventing the electrolyte drink market as co-founder of H2ORS, where she personally led product and supply chain development, selling drink powder as effective as IV therapy to athletes, hospitals, oncology patients, and leisure segments. She also pioneered the social media analytics movement, founding Crimson Hexagon with Harvard professor Gary King. Crimson was a SAAS provider of data-based insights from Twitter, Facebook, and other social data sources on a massive scale, and completed a very successful exit via Brandwatch/Cision. Prior to her years as an entrepreneur, Candace began her career as a management consultant and then at HP, where she was part of a groundbreaking analytics and modeling team, which optimized the way consumer and industrial HP divisions worldwide managed their supply chains.

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.

Weston Woodward on Connectivity that Counts. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han.

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Young & Weston dive into his career as a connector, nomad life, sharing your passions with your children, how connecting like-minded people can impact the greater good, and how life constraints promote creativity. 

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About Weston Woodward: Weston Woodward is a professional connector, community builder, and producer based in Austin, Texas. Weston is focused on facilitating warm introductions, strategic partnerships, and harnessing a powerful community that actively changes the world through execution and impact.

 He has worked with notable brands such as Aston Martin, Whole Foods, and Mercer. Whether it's assembling freelancers/partners for a big brand or building out technology teams near shore, he always makes sure that the human connection is at the forefront. For the past two years, Weston has produced premiere events during Sundance, SXSW, and hosts a monthly event series in Austin. He is a member of Summit/Summit Institute, Misfits, EPX, and an advisor to Serial Marketers. He now currently acts as Chief Impact Officer for IronLightLabs.org and working on several deals around real estate, esports, and motor sports. 

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.

Jenn Cole, . Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

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About Jenn Cole: When Jenn’s husband, Chad told her they were uprooting their life in Florida to move to Austin, Texas she was not happy! His corporate relocation moving two sets of parents, a child, and three fur babies was not on her list of things to do. Three years later she could not imagine herself living anywhere else! Jenn graduated from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Services, and worked as a social worker for over a decade. Her keen eye and love of design then led her to open her own Interior Design Firm. Those two diverse paths naturally evolved into her to becoming a Real Estate Agent with the ability to help clients navigate through the tough process of moving and the roller coaster of selling and purchasing a home. 

Young & Jenn explore her role in building a business in real estate, setting your children up for financial success, starting a new career later in life, the many phases of parenting, and balancing what your kids want with what you want for them. 

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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.

Brandon Blahnik, Raising Emotional Health. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han. 

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Brandon Blahnik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonblahnik/) is the Director of Customer Experience at Made In, where we collaborate with the world's best chefs and partner with centuries-old cookware manufacturers to craft restaurant-quality kitchen tools for both home and professional cooks. Outside of work, he loves exploring the incredible culinary scene in Austin with his wife and 2 young daughters, chasing a little white ball around the golf course, and will travel any chance he gets.

Young & Brandon explore being the only man in the house full of girls, setting and modeling expectations as parents, identifying parental strengths and weaknesses as a couple, how to set your children up for long-term success, "back-seat cooking", and more.

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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.

Matt Kreutz, Life on Firebrand. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han.

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In 2007, Matt Kreutz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-kreutz-15933118a/) started Firebrand Artisan Breads in a small West Oakland warehouse, moving to a larger retail and wholesale shop in Uptown Oakland in 2015. Their focus is on making the best breads and pastries while providing excellent service to their staff, customers, and community. They provide high quality jobs with a focus on hiring people with barriers to employment.

Young & Matt jump into Matt's impressive business Firebrand bakery, why he helps people in need, how living through "some shit" has shaped his life, Matt's dramatic childhood, discovering punk rock as a kid,  why he's so disciplined, how to tailor your lifestyle to match your desires, and how everything ties into parenting.

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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.

Steve Cecil on the Power of Words. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han.

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Steve Cecil (https://linkedin.com/in/stevececil) is a verbal branding professional and short-form copywriter, specializing in 9-letter novels (product names, corporate identities, and other registered trademarks) as well as 6-syllable sagas (taglines, slogans, servi marks, and category descriptors).

Young & Steve dive into how Steve broke into a Name Job and amazing stories of what it takes, coming up with the name Subaru CrossTrek, an exercise in naming, coming up with the name Coursera, the hardest part in naming & how it is extremely relevant to parenting, stories of how Steve's adult children found love in completely different ways, about why your kids' lives won't always revolve around you, the advantages of growing up with dyslexia, and more engrossing stories on how to achieve happiness & solve problems in general.

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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.

Michael Vermillion on Only One Shot. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han.

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Michael Vermillion, Senior Managing Director at J.D. Power Global Business Intelligence, is an experienced leader in organizations from the four-person startup to the world's largest maker of consumer products. Passionate about technology, brand, and innovation. 

Young & Michael dig into topics like nuclear engineering & the future of nuclear tech, on having a daughter navigating the job market as an engineer, whether or not there is room for creativity in business, the parallels between good parenting and business, and how to balance pushing your kids to excel versus going overboard.

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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.

Jay Williams on How to Thrive. Brought to you by The Girl Dad Show with Young Han.

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Jay Williams (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayw329) is a leader on the Enterprise Sales team at Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global, on a mission to end the collective delusion that stress & burnout are the prices you must pay for success. Thrive is helping the world's largest companies empower their people to build healthier habits, which in turn activates stronger work cultures with sustained well-being, improved resilience, and higher performance.  

As the father of two resilient teenagers,  Jay is a mindful father passionate about the power of meditation, traveling the world, and chicory coffee from New Orleans - a passion introduced to him during his college years at Tulane University.  After initially kicking off his career in the entertainment industry, Jay has spent the past 15+ years in sales leadership roles at both large organizations and fast-growing startups.

Young and Jay talk about how the struggles of the first 18 months of the pandemic have caused parents to take on extra roles like counselors, teachers, administrators, etc, about how Thrive (the company) is helping parents regain balance in their lives, how to instill yourself in your kids' lives by sharing what you love, how his parents were a catalyst in his own life, about the hardest things about being a parent, and how Jay helped his kinds find the things that have meaning to them.

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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.