The Candid Daddy // Alan Chan - General Counsel + Family Life Blogger
Legally Different®
English - December 16, 2020 16:27 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCareers Business Entrepreneurship digital nomad working with purpose law lawyer leadership legal life changes living differently passion soulfulness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Meet Alan Chan, the General Counsel of a large investment company, a talented blog writer and a loving family guy. The aptly named “Candid Daddy” is Alan’s real, educational, hilarious and deep blog about family life.
In this conversation, Alan shares about his path to becoming a GC and a number of personal life matters. We have frank chats about Alan’s working class beginnings from brave + hardworking immigrant Chinese parents to fatherhood, including balancing work + family life and the differing characters of his children (nicknamed The Pioneer, The Wrecking Ball + the Allergy Baby – say no more), plus deep discussions around the grief process following the recent loss of Alan’s father.
In this episode we cover:-
The beginnings - coming from hardworking, Chinese immigrant parents.Path into law – from University “through the usual sausage machine” and qualifying into corporate.Alan’s pivot period and his thought process which led him into an in-house role with a PLC.Further changes leading to his General Counsel role at a large investment company.The birth of the Candid Daddy blog - no pun intended ;-)Balancing a busy family life with being a General Counsel.Dealing with food intolerances in a young child.The uniqueness of childrens' characters and nurturing appreciation + non-materialism.Travelling to Hong Kong April 2020 – experience in 2 week quarantine.The death of Alan’s father and the grief process.Chinese New Year – what 2021 holds!......What advice Alan would give to the mini Alan Chan if he could turn back the clock.CONTACT INFO + LINKS
Candid Daddy:-
Make sure you check out the Candid Daddy blog here. It’s definitely worth a read – be ready and laugh out loud, cry and anything in between! The instagram page can be found here.
Legally Different:-
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Lauren