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
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Simon Lader’s parents are real heroes! They were very approachable and open communicators that he models today! His dad dreamed of living in Israel and his mom made that dream happen! What a woman! Simon’s dad was the moral center of his universe! They had many shared passions and were incredibly close! The connection between a parent and a child is a very special one and the theme of the show. Today we are talking about his origin story, his parents’ influence, and lessons learned!
Today Simon gets to talk to fascinating people everyday as a recruiter, improve peoples’ lives, and in cybersecurity it’s literally a fight for good vs. evil! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy! Trigger warning mentions of suicide.
Simon Lader began his career as a headhunter in 1997 and co-founded Salisi Human Capital in his home town of Manchester in 2005. He moved to Las Vegas in 2013 to open Salisi’s US office and the company continued to enjoy steady year on year growth. In 2020 Simon started The Conference Room Podcast where he interviews experts about all facets of business success, which is now in the top 1% of podcasts globally. When he’s not working, Simon is a keen single malt whiskey collector and a fan of the soccer team Manchester United, whose failure to win the English Premier League since he left Manchester is something for which he takes full responsibility.
Simon’s Conference Room podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conference-room-with-simon-lader/id1517671682
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Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
What makes a parent great? What’s the secret to happiness? How do you turn anger into a good fuel source? How do you start a podcast? What is it really like to work in the film industry? Chaz Volk got to work on sets with Gordon Ramsey, Tony Hawk, and Howie Mandel to name a few before turning his passion into an podcast agency!
“It is a life that I have desired and I will thrive.” and “Attitude is aptitude.”
Gratitude and Masochism are the two things you need to be happy in life, you need to be able to appreciate the pain!
Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Charles Volk is a Los Angeles native that is incredibly aware of entertainment industry culture and its rising stars! Having been around talent his entire life, it’s no surprise that his early upbringings began in the makings of backyard-movies and high school theater productions.
At San Francisco State University’s film school, he had the privilege of studying a wide approach to film taking on Directing, Screenwriting, and Audio Production as the foundation of his craft. He’d later become a thesis student allowing him to produce The Painter (2017).
Check out Chaz’s filmography HERE!
Today, Charles Volk is the Founder and Producer of Mr. Thrive Media whose goal is to generate engaging media while connecting artists around the world. He also is working on his screenwriting and directing portfolio.
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Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Entrepreneurs are not the only people in the world although sometimes we think we are! We have the tendency to overwork! We have a warped view of the world, thinking that everyone is probably starting a business.
Work is not as important as family and entrepreneurs need to remember that! How about taking the family along for the ride? How can we get creative when obstacles arise? Should you leave your high paying job for no paycheck? What does that conversation look like with your spouse? Showing your kids examples of what works and what doesn’t is really important to Vince Warnock! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Vince Warnock is an award-winning Marketing and Visibility coach, author and host of the Chasing the Insights podcast.
An ex-radio announcer with 20+ years in marketing. Vince has been presented with numerous awards including being included in the Fearless50, a program designed by Adobe to recognize the top 50 marketers in the world who drive bold, fearless marketing and digital transformation.
Previously the CMO at Cigna, Vince has founded multiple companies including the Chasing the Insights Academy where he empowers entrepreneurs and business owners to get seen and grow an impactful and profitable business they can be proud of.
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Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Today we are talking to the son of a minister who never doubted if his parents loved him! As a kid, he moved around a lot. This was before cellphones and the ability to keep in touch! Life transitions can be hard! Today we are talking about how Joshua Crisp’s childhood played into what he’s doing now in the Senior Living community! What are your thoughts about retirement and the titles you’ve had that define your purpose for living? Why does the nursing home industry get a bad rap? The values Joshua’s parents instilled he’s drawing from today as a father and business leader! You never know if the path you are on is preparing you for tomorrow! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Josh Crisp is a senior living executive with more than 16 years of experience in development, construction, and management of senior living communities across the southeast. Josh is the Founder and CEO of Solinity, a senior living development, management and marketing company designed to reshape the senior living industry to better meet the needs of the aging and create intergenerational communities. He has been a nationally certified senior living administrator (CALA) for 15 years.
Prior to the inception of Solinity, Josh founded TLC Senior Living Management and Consulting which led to his leadership in directing multiple clients. Under Josh’s leadership, multiple client’s visions became reality as his teams directed the design, build, opening, and management of multiple communities in the southeast.
A nationally certified Assisted Living Administrator, Crisp was first appointed by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to the Board for Licensing Health Care Facilities beginning January 2014. He now is serving in his eighth year and chairs the Assisted Care Living Facility standing committee and serves as the Board’s Chair Pro Tem. Crisp’s committee promulgates all rules and regulations for licensed assisted living and residential homes for the aged in Tennessee.
The Board is empowered to license and regulate all hospitals, recuperation centers, nursing homes, homes for the aged, home care organizations, assisted living facilities, birthing centers, residential hospices, and ambulatory surgical treatment facilities. The Board is required to promulgate all fire and life safety code regulations and standards for resident and patient care in all licensed healthcare facilities in the state of Tennessee.
Crisp is known as an influencer and thought leader in the industry and has spoken at multiple national senior housing conferences such as HealthTAC, InterFace Senior Housing and has been a partner to Argentum, National Investment Centers for Senior Housing (NIC), American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), Environments for Aging (EFA) and Senior Living Innovation Forum (SLIF).
He has served on a number of civic & professional boards including a strategic committee for the College of Public Health at East Tennessee State University, steering committee member for HealthTAC, & Secretary for the Board’s Executive Committee & chaired the Public Policy Committee LeadingAge Tennessee. Currently he serves on the board for TSOLife which is a technology based senior living online platform that preserves seniors’ stories.
In 2018, Crisp launched a podcast specifically designed to inform, educate, and influence the senior housing industry. The passion project is a partnership of several like-minded influencers that formed the brand: Bridge the GapTM. The weekly show launched in March of 2018 on a host of audio and video platforms including iTunes and YouTube. The media network has a tremendous following & contains the largest library of senior-living specific content and has an international reach. The platform produces content 365 days a year for the senior housing industry on multiple channels and now creates experiences events for the industry. The media company is produced and managed by Solinity Marketing.
For fun, Josh enjoys working out & preparing for obstacle course races. In the fall of 2016, Crisp formed what would eventually become the 501c3 non-profit Pedal for Alzheimer’s, Ltd. Pedal for Alzheimer’s is the umbrella organization that creates and manages charity cycling events to benefit organizations that are involved in Alzheimer’s research, care, and education. The first event, Pedal for Pat, created in 2017, was a 1,098-mile bike ride covering three states in just eleven days. The event was featured in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, ESPN, and multiple other regional and national media outlets. The charity event raised over $100,000 for the Pat Summitt Foundation in honor of late-legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt’s 1,098 career NCAA wins. The passion project has received national and international recognition and support.
Crisp will celebrate his fifth anniversary of serving as President of the Board of the nationally-recognized charitable organization. Pedal for Alzheimer’s has hosted multiple cycling events, launched a national Ambassador program, and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to further the mission of the organization.
Josh resides in Fountain City with his wife, Lauren, and their three children.
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
How do you pitch the media strategically? How do you build relationships that feel genuine? How do you write in your clients’ voice?
Today’s guest has quite the unique love story and she learned to be a strategic communicator advocating for her children! No fluff needed! She’s a coffee-drinking, intuitive, and analytical, slightly dry host of the Connections, Coffee & Confidence podcast and the daughter of a Mountie! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Janice Fogarty is a communications strategist who specializes in crafting messaging and creating purposeful content for brilliant women; she helps women who have something to say, say it clearly and confidently. Janice is also a mom to three boys, a wife, a traveler, and a community builder.
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https://www.janicefogarty.com/
https://shows.acast.com/connections-coffee-confidence
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IG: @janiceefogarty
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Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Today we are are breaking the silence and addressing abuse! Trigger warning advised mentions of suicide, sexual abuse, rape and perpetrators! Trauma comes in many shapes and forms. Your experience is a big deal! Your feelings don’t lie! Our bodies don’t lie! We don’t make up what we feel in our body! Today we are talking about Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, PTSD, and healing! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Shari Botwin, LCSW opened her Cherry Hill private practice in 1996. Prior to starting her own practice, Shari worked at the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia. She provides individual, group, and family therapy with a specialization in treating trauma, abuse, eating disorders, anxiety and depression. Shari also provides virtual individual and family teletherapy using a HIPPA approved telemedicine platform. Shari holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Rutgers University. Her second book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing, released worldwide November 4, 2019. The updated paperback edition released on October 11, 2021. (Rowman and Littlefield) rowman.com/ISBN/9781538125601/Thriving-After-Trauma-Stories-of-Living-and-Healing
She is also a featured blogger for Psychology Today. To read her latest contributions go to her profile verified by Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/shari-botwin-lcsw
Botwin has been called upon to comment on COVID and PTSD for a variety of international media outlets. Botwin has been featured on various podcasts, webinars and live zoom outreach for the public addressing how to manage with all the challenges during the pandemic.
Botwin has presented several professional CE workshops for Stockton University on trauma and eating disorders recovery. On March 9, 2018, Shari presented a Keynote Presentation to a sold-out house for Monte Nido on the connection between eating disorders and abuse. In 2017 Shari conducted a Keynote workshop for The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals on the role of an eating disorder in staying stuck in trauma.
She has been featured to offer commentary on a variety of national media outlets; such as Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, NBC News Now, MSNBC, CBS News, CTV Radio Europe, and CP24. The New York Times, Prevention Magazine, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Associated Press, have quoted Shari on breaking stories related to trauma and abuse. She has also published several feature op-eds in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Ever wanted to learn more about a breaking news story, that you recognized parts of yourself in, and felt connected to? Unni Turrettini loves research and is a truth seeker! She says when you dare to ask, people are happy to share! She became friends with an FBI profiler who ended up writing the forward to her book! Are there warning signs to prevent lone wolf killers? What do lone wolf killers have in common with loneliness? We have to go beyond our superficial differences! How am I not tolerating the other? How can I love myself more? Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Author, speaker, facilitator, and LONELINESS EXPERT helping individuals increase relational energy and organizations cultivate a culture of belonging.
Norwegian-born Unni Turrettini is the author of Betraying the Nobel: The Secrets and Corruption behind the Nobel Peace Prize (Pegasus Books, 2020), and The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer (Pegasus Books, 2015), which examines Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik from both a psychological and sociological perspective and focuses on what we can learn from that tragedy to prevent rampage killings spurred by loneliness. The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer won the 2016 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion award (Best Nonfiction).
She has appeared on ABC's The List, TRT World, Ticker News, Fox, CSPAN, The Tedx Stage, The James Altucher Show, BBC World Podcast, and in Authority Magazine, Voice of America, The New York Post, The Spectator, LittleThings, and WWD.
Unni grew up as a global citizen, spending half her life abroad, including the United States, France, and Switzerland before returning to Oslo in 2016. With law degrees from Norway, France, and the United States, Unni is a member of the New York Bar, and worked in law and finance for nearly a decade before becoming a full-time author, speaker and facilitator.
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Landscape video links:
Short video on loneliness:
TEDx Youngstown 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFmuci6TJ0
TEDx Institut Le Rosey, Switzerland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13h9zB2ja5U
FREE Guide:
3 Tools To Battle Loneliness (pdf): https://courses.unniturrettini.com/loneliness-pdf
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Season 3!!! Today’s special guest is a husband, father, grandfather, pastor and former professional wrestler, Chris Whaley! He’s lived his dream and his calling. It was even turned into a movie! What’s it like to see your story told? What’s it like to be on set with a director’s chair?
Chris Whaley is a modern day vigilante who believes in good triumphing evil. He combats it and practices what he preaches!
Married for 47 years he sees Gd in all parts of his life including wrestling! What’s wrestling really like? Is it staged? Are the matches predetermined? What influenced Chris to become a pastor? Better Call Daddy behind the scenes of the Masked Saint!!!
Chris Whaley wrestled professionally from 1978 to 1988 as the Saint. He became a pastor in 1978 after graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. After he had been a pastor he approached ministry in a different way than most pastors. It inspired him to write his first book, The Mask Saint! A must read book!
In 2015, The Masked Saint was adapted as a feature film and released in January 2016. It received four nominations at the 2015 International Christian Film Festival (Best Actor, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Musical Score) and was chosen as Best Picture.
He says his girls are his biggest blessings! Find out what parenting lessons he taught and followed through on! He even got to meet my son Lazer!
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http://www.themaskedsaint.com/
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Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Arsiak Vartenian and I met at a Broad Shoulders women’s networking event in Chicago! She’s an open book, a role model for women, and had quite the emotional journey to becoming a mother. Multiple miscarriages, IVF doctors, pregnancies, embryos, and surrogacy, is becoming a mom instinctual? Did you make plans to become a parent? Did you talk to medical professionals to find out what to expect when you’re expecting? What kind of mother will you be? What do you wish you knew before embarking on the parenthood adventure? Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.
Arsiak Vartenian, is a builder of women, the community, and the host of Smart is the New Sexy, an uplifting talk show, and online platform. She aims to highlight the power of dreaming big through storytelling, connection, community, and heart.
Arsiak grew up in Arkansas, where she never truly fit in. Her dreams often felt “too big” for her surroundings. With extended roots in Chicago, she knew that like the skyscrapers, the sky was the limit -- as soon as she could spread her wings, she moved north and signed up for college in the Windy City.
College came to a close just shy of completing her senior year when Luxury Real Estate became the apple of her eye. She took a leap of faith and dove headfirst into her raw excitement. She was ready to learn and face all of the challenges the career could provide. She just wasn’t prepared for opposition from those she hoped would be her mentors. Yet again, faced with remarks that her dreams were beyond what she could produce. Even to this day, she’s felt the eye roll of doubt around Smart is the New Sexy.
Even through years of self-doubt and the doubt of others, a complicated divorce from her first husband, momentous financial failures, and the death of close family members, she’s chosen to push through and prove them all wrong.
Her divorce clouded her identity for a while and she needed to rediscover who she was. She put real estate on hold and returned to school to study Fine Arts & TV Production with a minor in journalism. Flash forward and you’ll see the direct correlation to Smart is the New Sexy. It just took her a decade to really find her confidence and be in front of the camera.
This confidence was shaped from active self-discovery but also listening and connecting with others' stories of challenge and triumph. Their stories enabled her to take steps to truly change course and subsequently experience real love and build upon a successful career.
Today, at the helm of Smart is the New Sexy, she feels more empowered now than ever before. Empowered Women Empower Women.
Smart Is The New Sexy has also been recognized by local Chicago and national broadcasts. You can watch these features on WGN, Fox 32, CBS Chicago, Ivanhoe Broadcasting, and more by visiting https://www.arsiak.com/
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Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
A lot of kids getting ready to attend college could use a guide! There’s a lot to figure out and you need a plan! Where are all the college scholarships hiding? What will payments look like for a hundred thousand dollars in debt for a masters degree? There are opportunities available to fund college instead of sleeping in. Today we talk to Rob McGraw, Global Talent Leader, Author of 12 Lies About College, and my toastmaster mentor about what to consider before attending university! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy!
Robert McGraw was born in the humble south suburbs of Chicago. His childhood solidified a character defining independence and fearlessness that have proven to be his greatest assets. After serving five years in the Marine Corps, he returned to Illinois and began working full time. Once again stable, he leveraged the Illinois Veterans Grant and Montgomery GI Bill to complete a B.S. and MBA in five years, at a profit of more than $ 24,000.
After experiencing professional success, helping friends and family, and recalling lessons learned along the way, he decided to give back by helping those at this critical juncture in their lives.
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Rob’s book
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