We love a good podcast here at The Second Shift and one of our favorites is Start-Up. Alex Blumberg started his podcast about starting a podcast media company around the same time as we started The Second Shift; in fact it wouldn’t be too far fetched to say that in many ways it functioned as a roadmap for us. To this day we often refer to lessons learned from Start-Up about raising money, time management, communication and growth strategies.
Start Up is now in its 5th season and they recently aired an episode (May 12th Episode 4) titled Running a Family and a Business that we cannot recommend enough. In it Alex’s executive coach Jerry Colonna speaks with Cisse Cocoa founder Diana Lovett about her issues with working parent guilt. We are huge fans of Jerry’s work on the show and in this episode he masterfully frames the inner dialogue of many working parents in a truly thoughtful manner. They talk a lot about time away from kids and feeling like you are failing at both family and work– it hit home in a very personal and emotional way. Run, don’t walk, to the Apple Store and download it now—you won’t regret it.