KarateBuilt Martial Arts

About KarateBuilt Martial Arts

Welcome to KarateBuilt Martial Arts Podcasts! We will be covering critical information for families, kids, and adults on: • Building self-esteem not just for our students but in the community • Building self-discipline... because this is the key to future success • Increasing safety and personal fitness KarateBuilt... Building Students Future! Building Success for Life!

Publisher

Greg Moody

Category

education · health & fitness · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Mar 2020

Latest episode

6 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

149 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Aug 2026

   The Good-Parent Illusion! Why “Keeping Them Safe” Was Never the Job! with Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D. and Senior Master Laura Sanborn (Audio)

   Every parent wants a safe child. The trouble starts when safety becomes the whole job instead of the floor the rest of the job gets built on. In this audio episode, Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D., founder of KarateBuilt Martial Arts and a licensed psychotherapist at Integrated Mental Health Associates, joins Senior Master Laura Sanborn to take apart the belief that keeping a child safe from everything is what good parenting looks like. The conversation maps where the real risk lives: not the rare emergency every parent pictures, but the everyday conflict, exclusion, and small failure that happen constantly. Greg and Laura draw on martial arts classes, school, and family life to explain why the target is an adult who is safe, capable, connected, and still growing. Topics covered include: • Why violence and abduction are real risks but rarely what a child actually meets • How everyday conflict and small failures add up to more damage than the rare emergency • The four levels of a launched adult: safe, capable, connected, and still growing • Why safety is the minimum requirement and was never the goal • The test for any skill: if you stopped providing it, could they do it themselves? • How a dropped ice cream cone at Disneyland taught a six-year-old to solve his own problem • Why authority drops as a child grows while responsibility still feels like yours • The phrase that settles it: am I protecting my kid, or protecting myself? This episode is for parents, grandparents, educators, coaches, and martial arts instructors raising capable, connected young adults, and especially for parents who want to know when helping has turned into rescuing. For more information visit KarateBuilt.com and DrGregMoody.com.

2. 

   5 Aug 2026

   The Good-Parent Illusion! Why “Keeping Them Safe” Was Never the Job! with Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D. and Senior Master Laura Sanborn

   Every parent wants a safe child. The trouble starts when safety becomes the whole job instead of the floor the rest of the job gets built on. In this audio episode, Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D., founder of KarateBuilt Martial Arts and a licensed psychotherapist at Integrated Mental Health Associates, joins Senior Master Laura Sanborn to take apart the belief that keeping a child safe from everything is what good parenting looks like. The conversation maps where the real risk lives: not the rare emergency every parent pictures, but the everyday conflict, exclusion, and small failure that happen constantly. Greg and Laura draw on martial arts classes, school, and family life to explain why the target is an adult who is safe, capable, connected, and still growing. Topics covered include: • Why violence and abduction are real risks but rarely what a child actually meets • How everyday conflict and small failures add up to more damage than the rare emergency • The four levels of a launched adult: safe, capable, connected, and still growing • Why safety is the minimum requirement and was never the goal • The test for any skill: if you stopped providing it, could they do it themselves? • How a dropped ice cream cone at Disneyland taught a six-year-old to solve his own problem • Why authority drops as a child grows while responsibility still feels like yours • The phrase that settles it: am I protecting my kid, or protecting myself? This episode is for parents, grandparents, educators, coaches, and martial arts instructors raising capable, connected young adults, and especially for parents who want to know when helping has turned into rescuing. For more information visit KarateBuilt.com and DrGregMoody.com.

3. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Teens: Trading Rules for Boundaries! With Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D. and Senior Master Laura Sanborn – AUDIO

   Every parent wants to raise a capable, independent teenager. The challenge is that the tools that worked when they were little stop working the moment a teen can drive, refuse, and decide things for themselves. In this episode, Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D., founder of KarateBuilt Martial Arts and a licensed psychotherapist at Integrated Mental Health Associates, joins Senior Master Laura Sanborn to take on the stage most parents find the most frightening: the teenage years, ages 12 to 17, when a parent's authority falls fast while the responsibility to provide stays high. The conversation explores why the teenage brain runs a strong gas pedal and unfinished brakes, how the rules you used to enforce give way to boundaries you hold, and why tolerating the natural consequences you can no longer prevent is the real work of this stage. Through real-life examples from martial arts classes, school, first jobs, and family life, Greg and Laura explain why strong teenagers are built by handing independence over on purpose, not by controlling every outcome. Topics covered include: • Why a parent's authority drops faster than their responsibility during the teen years • The teenage brain: a strong "gas pedal" for exploration and unfinished "brakes" for judgment and impulse control • The difference between rules you can enforce and boundaries about your own availability • Why most of what used to be a rule now has to become a boundary • How to set a boundary without trying to control or manipulate a teenager • Why tolerating natural consequences, like a lower grade, teaches responsibility better than rescuing • The hidden trap of nagging and rescuing, and how it quietly trains dependence • Helicopter and lawnmower parenting, and the obstacles teenagers actually need in order to grow • The leadership rule of emotion: the emotions you show are the ones they need, not the ones you feel • Why calm and consistent beats loud and harsh, backed by the American Academy of Pediatrics • Why a first job is one of the best gifts you can give a teenager • The three critical moves of effective boundaries: setting, holding, and tolerating • How the whole arc trades rules for boundaries as a child grows into an adult • Why your restraint, not your control, is what gets a teenager ready to launch This episode is for parents of teenagers, grandparents, educators, therapists, coaches, and martial arts instructors who want to raise capable, confident, and independent young adults. It is especially valuable for parents feeling the anxiety of the teen years and struggling to know when to step in and when to let go.

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