CEOs and ABCs
CEOs and ABCs
Podcast Description
CEOs & ABCs is the podcast for high performers who lead at work and show up at home.
Hosted by Kevin Rice, this show features candid conversations with executives, founders, and rising leaders about how they’ve advanced their careers while staying present for the moments that matter most... raising kids, building strong partnerships, and prioritizing their health.
Each episode dives into executive career advice, leadership development, work-life balance, and the realities of parenting while managing demanding professional lives. Whether you’re navigating promotions, team growth, toddler tantrums, or time management, you’ll find insights and inspiration to lead with intention - both at work and at home.
️ New episodes weekly
Topics: Career growth, executive mindset, parenting, burnout prevention, productivity, and more
For working parents, driven professionals, and leaders building meaningful lives
Subscribe now and join the journey from "boardrooms to bedtime stories."
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of themes including career growth, executive mindset, parenting, burnout prevention, and productivity, with specific episode examples addressing topics like emotional storytelling in marketing and balancing work and family life.
CEOs & ABCs is the podcast for high performers who lead at work and show up at home.
Hosted by Kevin Rice, this show features candid conversations with executives, founders, and rising leaders about how they’ve advanced their careers while staying present for the moments that matter most… raising kids, building strong partnerships, and prioritizing their health.
Each episode dives into executive career advice, leadership development, work-life balance, and the realities of parenting while managing demanding professional lives. Whether you’re navigating promotions, team growth, toddler tantrums, or time management, you’ll find insights and inspiration to lead with intention – both at work and at home.
️ New episodes weekly
Topics: Career growth, executive mindset, parenting, burnout prevention, productivity, and more
For working parents, driven professionals, and leaders building meaningful lives
Subscribe now and join the journey from “boardrooms to bedtime stories.”
In this episode of CEOs & ABCs, Kevin pulls together seven conversations with executives who learned what it costs to expect perfection from yourself at work and at home at the same time. It starts with a phrase most leaders grew up on, good is the enemy of great, and asks what happens when a high-pressure job and kids flip it around, so that chasing great becomes the thing that keeps you from being good at either.
The first half is the cost. Anncy Rowe, Chief Commercial Officer at Rodan + Fields, looks back on flying red-eyes between London and Paris to be home for her son’s birthday, and what she’d tell herself now. Jeff Jenkins was leading a private equity turnaround as a CMO when his five-year-old assumed Dad would just work all weekend. Cameron Herold, founder of COO Alliance, describes breaking down in an elevator and going back to work the next morning, still convinced he was fine.
The second half is what changed. Jennie Magiera of Google explains how accepting that she couldn’t be 100% everywhere made her better in every arena. Melissa Grady Dias, former CMO of Cadillac, trades a rigid plan for a clear outcome and one question: how much do you care? Doug Zarkin, former CMO of Pearle Vision and Take 5 Oil Change, shares the 80/20 rule he uses for creative work and for his kids. And Brent Cooke, CMO of Driven Brands, recalls the question his therapist asked about his daughter that changed how he talks to himself.
Kevin closes with a challenge for the week: pick one thing at work and one thing at home where you’re asking yourself to get everything right. What would actually be enough?
Chapters
00:00 Great can become the enemy of good
01:01 Anncy Rowe: carrying every role at once
03:14 Jeff Jenkins: the question from his five-year-old
04:24 Cameron Herold: “In my head, I thought I was fine”
05:47 Jennie Magiera: why letting go made her better at both
07:40 Melissa Grady Dias: focus on the outcome, not the process
09:29 Doug Zarkin: the 80/20 rule at work and at home
11:09 Brent Cooke: the compassion you’d give your kids
12:22 What would be enough?
Full episoded features:
Anncy Rowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anncy-rowe?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Jeff Jenkins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmjenkins?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios Cameron Herold: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronherold?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Jennie Magiera: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magiera?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Melissa Grady Dias: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradymelissa?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Doug Zarkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougzarkin?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Brent Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-cooke-mktg?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
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