Reena loves a story, and she‘s fascinated by the people behind them. She loves to bring stories to life. Her appetite for storytelling has taken her from the Jerry Springer Show to the legal drama of the courtroom. From influential players to reality stars, nothing is censored here. Reena interviews people whose stories haven‘t been told, at least not through her unique lens, and then gets daddy‘s advice afterward like a good daughter does. Whether you have daddy issues or a father who‘s inspired your path, you will be able to tap into my daddy‘s wisdom, wit, and humor at the end of every episode. My daddy has been a guiding light my whole life and there‘s not much he doesn‘t know, as an entrepreneur for forty-plus years, a husband, a loyal son, and my number one supporter. He has learned lots of life lessons along the way and is here to share them with you. It‘s time to reminisce and reflect on the conversations you‘d like to have with your daddy and learn from mine. Come share in some good old-fashioned family bonding and help us up our wisdom rating. There is wisdom from four generations and I’m addressing what happens from childhood to adulthood!
Episodes
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Today’s guest Tim Gillette spoke at Zig Ziglar’s Headquarters on his father’s birthday! What is father’s love? His dad met his mom when she was single, already had Tim, and adopted him! They were a packaged deal! How did Tim meet Zig Ziglar?
How did he start blogging and reaching out to celebrities? What’s the greatest joke he’s ever pulled off? What made him cut his long hair and change his image? What is real hope and change?
Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Tim Gillette is the creator and founder of Simple Easy Marketing and Blog and Video Con. Tim has been hosting events, education and mentorship on the online marketing space using blogs, Vlogs, and Podcasting since 2010.
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Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
“Do as much as you can, for as many people as you can, without expecting anything in return.” That’s easier said than done! The more often you do that, the more you’ll get what you deserve. Jordan Mendoza helps people see things in themselves they don’t often see! His goal as a mentor is to encourage and inspire!
He didn’t meet his own dad until he was 12! Find out what lessons he learned from his parents!
Some of Jordan’s many gifts include basketball, breakdancing, beat making, and putting himself out there for collaboration purposes! He’s teaching people how to Blaze Their Own Trail with his talents! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Jordan Mendoza is the Founder & CEO of Blaze Your Own Trail Consulting, LLC where he helps entrepreneurs grow their business through strategic marketing, sales & leadership consulting.
In April of 2019 Jordan started creating content on Linkedin and quickly
realized the power of the organic reach. By December, he had amassed 20k followers using the strategy he now teaches his clients in his 12 Week Program.
In 2020 alone Jordan's content reached over 3 Million content views and his audience has expanded to 61K plus followers.
Jordan's goal is to help over 1000 entrepreneurs grow their brands to increase their impact and income each year.
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https://blazeyourowntrailconsulting.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanjmendoza
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Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Today’s guest, Eli Erlanger, is a 10th grader, who is a truth seeker and wanted to do some investigative journalism of his own! He sent me a message on Instagram about the Oscar Stewart, the Protector of Poway Chabad episode 193 I did and I loved his approach! Read his message below.
Hello Mrs.Watts,
I am Eli Erlanger and I am a student from the Wellington School in Columbus Ohio. I am doing a social history project on the Poway Synagogue Shooting. I would love to get your insights as I need one more interview and I think you are the perfect person after listening to your podcast. It’s a short interview only 10-15 minutes max. I could send you the completed interview when the project is done.
Thank you,
Eli
Oscar Stewart Episode was a re-broadcast of the live interview I did with army veteran Oscar Stewart, the Protector of Poway Chabad at a Shul Safety Team Officer event in Chicago sponsored by the Concerned Citizen's League.
When the shooting started in Poway that Passover, chaos erupted, and human instincts kicked in. As an army veteran, he knew what he had to do, and didn't think twice. Oscar did two tours during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and his training prepared him as he ran into the line of fire.
Stewart emphasized the importance of training repeatedly until the responses to a situation become instinctual.
"Whatever it was that moved through him at that moment, it propelled Stewart into the lobby. He saw the young man — who authorities say was 19-year-old John T. Earnest — in a military-style vest wielding a semiautomatic rifle."
“Get down!” Stewart yelled in the loudest tenor he could muster.
The gunman fired two more rounds in response.
“I’m going to kill you,” Stewart boomed. This seemed to rattle Earnest, who began to flee. Fight like you train today of the Better Call Daddy Show: The Safe Space For Controversy! Violence and anti-semitism is unacceptable and effects the entire community!
Link to Oscar Stewart episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-call-daddy/id1525296416?i=1000547178342
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TFdFhpuCHSR6wx8jE0rQk?si=e-w1INV2SFax0GRzyC5VCA
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Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Izolda Trakhtenberg believes when art, music, and creativity are shared it enriches all our lives and helps us heal!
Izolda comes from a singing culture, Russian was her first language and now she can sing in twenty. She got a really good base for languages when she was young! She’s a mythology fan, a podcaster, a performer, a black belt in martial arts, and operates from a beginner’s mind! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Izolda Trakhtenberg believes innovation isn’t just about the latest fad, it’s about creative problem-solving and mindful, ethical actions. This refreshing approach has made her a sought-after speaker, educator, and coach for creatives and business leaders.
For years, Izolda traveled the world as a NASA Master Trainer transforming people’s perspectives on planet Earth via creative teaching methods. She’s released four books on communication and self-improvement. Nowadays you’ll find her speaking at conferences, looking for the next great ocean beach, or singing for hundreds of people — all while interviewing peak performers on creative leadership, ethical innovation, and mindfulness on her hit podcast, The Innovative Mindset.
(Recently featured in the fourth edition of Podcasting For Dummies).
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/IzoldaT/
https://www.instagram.com/izoldat/
https://www.tiktok.com/@izoldat
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Resources
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Today I’m speaking to Riley Gaines who’s speaking up for the injustices in sports! It’s not just about politics, it’s about fairness! She has athleticism in her blood and real role model parents! Her dad was even an NFL player!
You may recognize Riley’s name from the news, she’s recently made headlines for speaking out against injustices in the athletic world against women. This was sparked at a recent NCAA swimming competition where Riley tied for fifth place with a transgender women who is biologically male, Lia Thomas. Riley was told the trophy would be given to her opponent and she would wait for hers in the mail. What infuriated her was not the trophy or lack thereof but the fact that she as a woman at a woman’s competition was pushed aside and disregarded. Today we find out what issues she is facing and why she is speaking up. Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
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https://instagram.com/riley.gaines?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
Love is in the air today on the Better Call Daddy Show! I interview Evan Rabin days after he proposed to his fiancé! Shout out to Stacey Ehrlick! Mazal tov! He’s a true New Yorker, a National chess master, podcaster, host of Premier Chess Podcast, and fabulous Shaily Hakimian connected us! Developing a chess mindset can be a competitive sport! Chess has been in my family for years and today Daddy’s giving some advice to the newly engaged couple! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Premier Chess CEO Evan Rabin fell in love with chess at a young age. When he was 7 his brother and father taught him how to play. Two months later he was playing in school. Two months after that, he went to his first tournament. One month later he went to Nationals. He never looked back.
After graduating from Brandeis University Evan started teaching chess full-time, but eventually decided to set his sights on the corporate world, working at Oracle and Rapid7 and briefly running his own sales company, Pillar Sales.
However, Evan became disillusioned with corporate life. Emphasis on golf and commission did not match the reward that he felt from making a difference in students’ lives. So one night, at the wedding of one of his old chess buddies, Evan had the realization that chess was where he wanted to be full-time.
Evan left Pillar Sales, in July of 2017 and founded Premier Chess. Utilizing the chess network that he had built throughout his life and his sales experience, Evan started programs in 14 schools within 2 months. From there he started offering corporate classes, working with clients like Kramer-Levin, a top New York City law firm, and Movable Inc.
Premier Chess became about creating access. Everyone has a lot to gain from chess and deserves the opportunity to give it a shot regardless of geography. So Evan started taking on students in remote areas through Skype, expanding to 5 states, and even teaching as far as Tanzania.
Now, partnering with vendors like the National Scholastic Chess Foundation, National Education Chess Association, and Top Level Chess, Premier Chess is expanding to Florida, Massachusetts, Washington, Colorado, while international efforts are continuing in Myanmar.
One day, Evan hopes that any student anywhere in the world who wants to play chess will be able to.
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Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
Lena Cebula never would have imagined sharing her miraculous story. She felt like there was no hope for someone like her growing up in Ukraine. She was human trafficked to Israel, addicted to drugs, found God, and had her prayers answered. Today she’s a Christian, an author, motivational speaker, podcaster, host of Love & Bloved, and social justice advocate. Her podcast was created to encourage, inspire and to give hope. If you have pain, keep trying! Have faith!
Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Comtroversy.
Are you struggling to believe there is a purpose for your life, that you can make
sense of what seems like a mess? Struggling to believe that there is someone -anyone - who cares about you? Struggling to believe that after all you've been through, seen, or done that there is a chance you'll ever find peace and wholeness again? As a little girl growing up in a post-USSR Ukrainian iron mining town, Lena spent her life grappling with these same questions. This raw, transparent account of her life chronicles the years she spent running -
running from a broken family, broken country, and broken dreams - in pursuit of something or someone who could calm the hopeless nightmare that her life had become. Drug addicted, alcohol dependent, and twice trafficked to foreign countries, she still had glimpses of what her life could be and kept chasing the elusive peace she constantly craved. However, on the other side of each empty promise of fulfillment she only ever found more pain until one day, one promise checked out. Lena met someone who showed her she didn't have to run anymore. Miraculous is a story of the storm before the calm, a journey from pain to healing. It is Lena's story, but it could be yours, too.
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
What responsibility do parents have if Cyberbullying leads to suicide? Today I’m talking to the parents of Nate Bronstein, Rose and Rob Bronstein. On January 13, 2022 Nate Bronstein passed after being bullied at the Latin School of Chicago. What does accountability look like? Bullying is happening every day and it’s starting early. After reading Nate Bronstein’s story online I was horrified as a mother and found it so hard to understand how this could happen! What lessons can we all learn? Are other kids safe there? Does social media need to be better controlled? How about legislative change? Tune in. Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
ORIGINAL FILING FROM LATE APRIL:
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/15-year-old-boy-cyberbullying-suicide-latin-school-chicago-lawsuit/
https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-strong-anti-bullying-law-ignored-at-latin-school-according-to-parents-of-teen-who-took-his-life/c006b46d-aebf-4c40-b45c-b3bdbde51b17
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-latin-lawsuit-bullying-suicide-20220426-rwimefdvajbnjiv6hjzor5t24a-story.html
ANTI-BULLYING INITIATIVE FROM THIS WEEK
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/social-media-influencer-holds-anti-bullying-rally-in-memory-of-lincoln-park-teen/2829400/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/social-media-star-pushes-to-put-stop-to-bullying-after-nate-bronstein-takes-his-own-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h#x
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1068050
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Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Which is a dirtier word financial services or senior care? What are your goals in setting up a trust and long term care? What is a trust? Can the government come after assets? How can you work well with your spouse? How can the care industry be improved? How do we pay for it? What’s residents’ choice? How do you feel about nursing homes if something happens? How are you going to care for yourself when you are older?
Today we are talking to Thomas Macdonald about legacy planning and healthcare. You better make sure things are clearly spelled out and everyone knows who’s getting what! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Prior to the founding of Axis Healthcare Consulting, Tom was the Chief Operating Officer of a contract therapy company serving the skilled nursing industry. Tom led the efforts in becoming an early adopter of clinical protocols and programs to meet the goals and objectives of value based purchasing programs. Prior to healthcare, Tom spent 25 years in executive level positions in the investment and banking industry. Tom holds a masters in leadership and organizational change and has extensive experience in the delivery of leadership training, management development and team development.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasjmacdonald
https://axishealthconsult.com/
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Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
Whatever it takes, Edward Purmalis is going to do it and document the journey along the way. Edward has seen both sides of having money the good and the bad. He went into the workforce at nineteen because he had to. How does emotional growth come into play? How do you treat someone like a sale? How do you find sales opportunities? How do you perform well on social media? How do you grow a successful podcast?
What is it like being raised by a single mom? He became a de facto chef for one and knows how to take care of and believe in himself two!
What does family mean to you? Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Edward Purmalis wants to raise a new generation of revenue generators and aspiring sales leaders reach out to him on Linkedin he’s building a community!
Check out Edward Purmalis on his Level Up Show to hear the stories of successful, driven individuals and their path to Level Up their personal and professional lives. Edward Purmalis, will be asking the easy and the difficult questions, taking a dive into both the journey of his guests, and the compressed value they can bring to your own growth. Hear their uncensored path to victory, struggles, defeats, and their up to date advice to help you Level Up!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-purmalis
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