Episode 28: Raising Mike Watts: An Interview With Bill and Michele

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Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is extra special as we welcome Mike’s parents, Bill and Michele Watts, to the podcast. Having this discussion is something Mike has always wanted to do, and in it we discuss how his parents themselves were raised, the approach they took to parenting Mike and his siblings (the good and the bad times), and what it’s like for them to be grandparents now. They share their thoughts on their own careers, retirement, death and a whole lot more in this one. The main reason we wanted to do this podcast with the Watts is to gain perspective now, because you never know what the future will hold. We also hope it encourages you to have similar discussions with your own loved ones before it’s too late. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.
0:03.3	And I'm Mike Watts.
0:04.8	And we're partners in life, love, and business.
0:07.7	Welcome to the Kate and Mike show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship,
0:12.5	relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.
0:21.8	Welcome to the Kate and Mike show.
0:23.9	This is Mike Watts.
0:24.7	I'm doing the intro for the episode today because it had a lot to do with my parents.
0:30.6	Kate and I interviewed my parents for the Kate and Mike show, and we called it Raising Mike Watts.
0:39.2	And that was something I've always wanted to ask my folks, as well as Kate was very
0:44.0	interested in it.
0:45.4	And we ended up talking a lot of different things about, like, how they were raised.
0:52.2	Because as I grew up in my house in my life, you know, as a kid,
0:56.9	etc., we were a pretty standard middle class household.
0:59.7	And both of my parents had, you know, graduate degrees as good jobs, et cetera.
1:04.3	And that's what the mentality they taught us as I was growing up as well.
1:08.1	And I wanted to know where they came from because both of them have
1:12.2	made more money than their parents made. Both of them didn't come from a lot of money. And they've done
1:18.8	really, really well for themselves. So I wanted to kind of just get their perspective on that.
1:23.2	We've also talked about in this episode, just it was pretty healing, I would say, is a good way to put it for myself and maybe for my mom and dad. I'm not 100% sure. But I know it was great for Kate. All of us cried like we sat around my kitchen table in my house in Valprazum Indiana where I grew up, or my parents' house, I should say, the house that I grew up in. And we just, it was a lot, like, it was just shedding tears and a great place to be.
1:49.0	And one of the biggest things for myself about this episode, it was just cool to hear
1:53.7	my parents' upbringing and their experience as well, because even when they met and when
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