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Oct. 10, 2024

Leveraging FOMO to be Present and Purposeful | Michael Perry (Dad of …

Michael Perry is a serial founder and entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of Maple, an all-in-one app that helps parents get and stay organized. Prior to Maple he founded Live For Fame, Giving and Kit which he …

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Oct. 3, 2024

Don’t Wait Until It’s Convenient | Sean Ellis (Dad of 2, Author, Advi…

Sean Ellis is a growth legend and the creator of the term “growth hacker.” He has built a legendary framework (the “Sean Ellis test”) for determining product/market fit, wrote the original book on Growth (“Hacking Growth), an...

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Sept. 26, 2024

The Historical Changes Happening To Fatherhood Right Now | Dan Doty (…

Dan Doty is the founder of Fatherhood Unlocked – a company that is helping Dads win at work, build deeper family connections and thrive in relationships. He’s also a writer, wilderness guide and has been an inner city high sc...

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Sept. 19, 2024

How To Stop Freaking Out | Carla Naumburg, PhD (Mom of 2, Best-sellin…

Carla Naumburg, PhD is a clinical social worker and the best-selling author of five parenting books. These include her international bestseller, How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids (Workman, 2019), as well as You Are ...

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Sept. 12, 2024

What's So Great About The 'Pee Pee Tee Pee' (and other important advi…

Kyle Lacy is the Chief Marketing Officer of Jellyfish—a platform that helps developers make data-backed decisions on resource investments. Across two decades he has built companies like Lessonly, Openview, Salesforce and Exac...

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Sept. 5, 2024

Safety & Security On The Internet As Parents | Kevin Hanaford (Dad of…

Kevin Hanaford is an engineering leader at popular chat application, Discord where he oversees security, safety, privacy and platform teams. His career has included companies like Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon, Salesforce, and au...

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Aug. 29, 2024

Multicultural Families and Avoiding Over-Optimization of Parenting | …

Martin Pannier is a French entrepreneur who started the company Primo to help small and medium-sized businesses get their IT work right for new employees. He’s worked as a product leader at iziwork, Gusto and several others. ...

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Aug. 22, 2024

Money And Mania Are Ruining Kids Sports - And What To Do About It | L…

Linda Flanagan is a freelance journalist, researcher, and former cross-country and track coach. She is the author of numerous articles on youth sports and the book Take Back The Game - How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids Spo...

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Aug. 15, 2024

Setting A Good Example For Your Kids | Rob Schutz (Dad of 2, co-found…

Rob Schutz is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of multi-billion-dollar online health company, Ro. He has also founded the domain name service company, Snagged. He invests alongside me in the 20Growth fund. In addition...

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Aug. 8, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Finance for Parents | Adam Nash (Dad of 4, Daff…

Adam Nash is a long-time Silicon Valley executive, investor and advisor. He was the President and CEO of Wealthfront, a Product executive at Dropbox and LinkedIn, and teaches a course on personal finance for engineers at Stan...

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Aug. 1, 2024

Bottle Washing Hacks, Solopreneurship and Newborn Babies | Andrew Cap…

Andrew Capland is the founder of Growth coaching and advisory, Delivering Value. He’s also been the Head of Growth at Postscript and Wistia and was an early employee at Hubspot. He’s a loving husband and the father of two kid...

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July 25, 2024

Diaper Changes On Investor Calls | Jordane Giuly (Dad of 2, co-founde…

Jordane Giuly is a 3x co-founder having started French Fintech unicorn Spendesk and most recently SMB financing company Defacto. As a French entrepreneur he brings an interesting, international perspective to parenting and co...

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July 18, 2024

It's Not All About Getting The 'A' | Dave Boyce (Dad of 6, 5x founder…

Dave Boyce is a successful five-time exited founder, a GTM expert and owner of the newsletter ProductLedGTM.com. He sits on the board of Forrester and has just completed the final manuscript for his book on GTM strategy which...

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July 11, 2024

The Science of 'Dad Brain' | Darby Saxbe (Mom of 2, USC Professor & R…

Darby Saxbe is a professor at USC and holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Her research includes studying the effects of stress hormones in couples and most importantly the changes that the male brain undergoes after becoming ...

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June 27, 2024

Integration over Balance and What It Means to Hustle with Kids | Eric…

Eric Bahn is the co-founder and a GP at Hustle Fund—a pre-seed venture fund that invests in very early stage founders. He has also been a founder himself as well as a product leader at companies like Intuit and Instagram. …

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June 20, 2024

A Modern Day Commune | Yousuf Bhaijee & Chris Lloyd (Dads of 3 and 2 …

Yousuf Bhaijee is a Growth Gdvisor and interim Head of Growth to companies like Brightwheel, HP, Evernow and Blackbird. Chris Lloyd is an engineer who most recently worked at AI company, Humane, and also Pinterest, Assembly a...

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June 13, 2024

Creativity, Artificial Intelligence and Time | Scott Belsky (Dad of 3…

Scott Belsky is the Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Design and Emerging Products at Adobe. He took on this role after being Chief Product Officer for their flagship Creative Cloud products. In 2006 Scott founded a company f...

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June 6, 2024

Managing Weekends as a Founder & Dad and 'First Team' Parenting | Pat…

Patrick Thompson is a three-time founder, starting a company right after college and then founding and selling his second company, Iteratively, to Amplitude in 2019. He stayed on as a Director of Product until leaving recentl...

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May 30, 2024

Finding Fun in the Mundane Aspects of Parenting | Ethan Austin (Fathe…

Ethan Austin is the founder of OutsideVC, where he invests in founders building a more equitable and just financial system. He was the Chief Strategy Officer of Gig Wag, Managing Director of Techstars Denver, and was co-found...

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May 23, 2024

Does Parenting Have To Be So High Stakes? | Lane Shackleton (father o…

Lane Shackleton is the Chief Product Officer of Coda, where he has worked for over 8 years. Prior to that he had a 9+ year career at Google and Youtube as a product manager and leader. He’s a loving husband …

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May 16, 2024

Teaching Dads How To Cook | David Haddad (father of 1, founder of Mr.…

David Haddad is a health-tech founder and product manager turned creator. He's now on a mission to teach Dads how to cook with his new company Mister Branzino and the Meal Machine operating system. He runs a newsletter and th...

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May 9, 2024

Having Your First Kid At 22 And A Portfolio Management Approach To Pa…

Matt Wensing is the founder and CEO of Summit, a no-code platform for building tools and workflow automation. For nearly 20 years he has been a founder and CEO--starting with a company called Riskpulse which became Everstream...

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May 2, 2024

Male Fertility and the Fleeting Nature of Time | Linus Ekenstam (fath…

Linus Ekenstam is a designer and serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold several companies. He has also been a design leader at Typeform, Bamboo Blockchain and Flodesk. He's currently building an AI-powered children's st...

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April 25, 2024

Work-life Balance Is Overrated | Siqi Chen (father of 2, co-founder/C…

Siqi Chen is co-founder and CEO of Runway, the finance platform you don't hate. He was also the president, chief product officer and CEO of Sandbox VR, the VP of Growth at Postmates and he sold his first company to …

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