Oh, oh, it's a beautiful world.

Ain't nothing on a screen that's ever gonna beat this view.

Oh, oh, it's a beautiful world.

And I just wanna share it with, I just want to share with you this beautiful world such a beautiful world

who's welcome to the 1000 hours outside podcast my name is j is Ginny Urge. I'm the founder of 1000

Hours Outside. And you'll never guess who's here today if you're a huge Stuart Brown fan, Dr.

Stewart Brown fan like I am. It is his daughter and granddaughter, Lauren and Mia. Welcome.

Thank you. Thanks so much for having us, Ginny. We're so excited to be here. Yeah, it's a total pleasure. Thank you. I love this story. And you know, I think we've gotten away from like a family business and like the family economy. It's something we've talked about on our show here and there. And I just think it's such a wonderful thing when there's like this legacy and you've got this book that your dad wrote and your grandpa wrote and like um you've got all these words about his grandpa and his experiences growing up and now mea you are the CEO of the national

institute for play i would love if the two of you would take just a moment to to share your story

share your story about how you got from uh you know being a kid growing up being a grand

kid growing up to where you're at at this moment i love it i'm going to let my mom start because you know

that's the chronological order right in the story of dr brown so it's nice of me to say since i actually

work for me i really i'm the ceo and me as the boss, as it should be, you know, we all learned from

our kids best, right? So I grew up in San Diego and Dr. Brown, my dad has been obviously a massive

influence for many, for a lifetime. He's now 93, which is just remarkable, still loves to talk

about play.

And I would say that the thread of play for me started in childhood and kind of continued, again, largely based on what he was doing. But his play, although he was studying play, sometimes it wasn't as obvious in our lives as it became later.

So for me, it was a thread as a child, as a student, as a competitive athlete, and then as a

professional and then as a parent, and now as someone who's really just trying to preserve

his legacy, which is so, he's kind of had play locked in his brain. He's very much of an

academic. He loves to talk about it. And he's been really happy to do that for a number of years.

The book is obviously fantastic. And over the last several years, I kind of came in and thought,

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