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The Candid Daddy // Alan Chan - General Counsel + Family Life Blogger

Episode Summary

I caught up with friend and former colleague, Alan Chan, who is 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. Alan candidly 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.

Episode Notes

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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Thanks for tuning in!

Lauren