The Parent Track

Charlie O'Donnell, Aja Singer
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A podcast from two premmie parents trying to figure out how parenting will reshape their careers and about how founders and innovators bring balance to their life as a parent.

Episodes

  1. 2022-12-12

    Noelle Sadler, CMO of ThredUP - Special Needs Parent and a C-Level Exec

    Noelle Sadler is the CMO of ThredUP and the mom of two very special kids. She talks about the challenges of having a C-level marketing job while having kids of different abilities. Her son Stellan has Cerebral Palsy. She shares how she might be the only person in the middle of the Venn diagram of violent video game makers and people who have sold lipstick. She's an avid runner and Aja and I very deeply appreciated this very honest and positive conversation.

    53 min

  2. 2022-11-21

    Meghan & Brian Fitzgerald, Co-Founders of Tinkergarten

    Brian and Meghan Fitzgerald are the founders of Tinkergarten. Not only are they co-founders, but they're parents of three. Meghan spent 18 years as an educator, curriculum developer and school principal. Brian is a product leader that was on the start-up team that developed Rocketmail (acquired by Yahoo), and he later launched 50+ Yahoo consumer apps in leadership roles at the Silicon Valley HQ and London. They're literally experts in making the most enriching experience out of time spend with kids.

    41 min

  3. 2022-11-14

    Hitha Palepu, CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals

    Hitha is a consummate multi-hyphenate - an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. As CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals, she oversees financing, partnerships, and strategy for the company. She led the raise of a $5M seed round and a licensing agreement with Hyloris Pharmaceuticals for the company's lead product. Hitha is the author of WE'RE SPEAKING: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris and How to Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip, which have collectively sold over 50,000 copies. Her longtime blog, Hitha On The Go, established her as an authority on lifestyle topics and gave way to her book (How To Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip), collaborations with leading brands (Delta, Headspace, and Google), and a highly engaged Instagram following and newsletter. She curates the Webby-honored #5SmartReads every weekday, which reaches nearly 100,000 accounts. She is a sought-after speaker on investing, entrepreneurship, work-life juggle, and motherhood. We talk about how she balances all of these roles and life in her household in an enjoyable chat to the soothing sounds of a Spectra pump.

    52 min

  4. 2022-07-25

    Liz Turrigiano from Esembly - The Repeat Founder Parent

    Liz Turrigiano is the co-founder of both Diaperkind and Esembly, two important companies in the sustainable diapering space. She talks about why she wanted to start a company as a new parent and what it's been like doing it the second time around--especially as her kids are a few years older. She also talks about finding ways to connect as a partner in the middle of being both a founder and a parent.

    42 min

  5. 2022-07-18

    Brian and Meghan Fitzgerald of Tinkergarten - Building Together

    Brian and Meghan Fitzgerald aren't just husband and wife, they're co-founders. They created Tinkergarten as a way to promote outdoor learning. It was an idea they couldn't put down and so they had to figure out how they could get it into the world everywhere it was possible. Learn how they did it and what it meant for them as parents and partners.

    41 min

  6. 2022-07-11

    Amanda Goetz from House of Wise on Being Intentional

    Amanda Goetz is the founder of House of Wise, which makes luxury CBD products for sleep, stress, sex + strength. She's also a divorced single mom of three who somehow finds enough time for a rigorous wellness routine. She attributes being able to make time for it all to being super intentional about the design of her parenting partnership, her team collaboration and how she blocks her calendar.

    45 min

  7. 2022-06-30

    Aja is Exploring a New Career

    Aja is exploring a very dramatic career change--and Mirren has so much to say about it.

    27 min

  8. 2022-06-15

    Surprise!

    Aja and Charlie share Mirren's unexpected birth story, their career backgrounds and how they've been managing work with an infant at home.

    1h 10m

  9. 2022-06-07

    Hello World

    Welcome to our podcast about parenting, careers, and the balance between the two! Subscribe and share!

    2 min

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A podcast from two premmie parents trying to figure out how parenting will reshape their careers and about how founders and innovators bring balance to their life as a parent.

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  • Creator
    Charlie O'Donnell, Aja Singer
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    The Parent Track