Once Upon A Feeling is a storytelling and parenting podcast that honors children’s emotions and the complexity of caregiving. Through thoughtful conversations and developmentally informed insights, it helps parents create emotional space—so guidance comes from presence, not pressure.
Leadership at Home: Trust, Competence & Raising Kids Who Can Handle Hard Things — with Cristina Barvo
Cristina Barvo spent a decade in Hispanic marketing before she asked herself a question most of us postpone until midlife: is this how I want to spend my days? What followed was early childhood education at UCLA, six years teaching preschool, and eventually two things she built herself — Empower Kids for Life and Leadership at Home, a program that brings early childhood expertise to working parents who can never make the 10am meeting at school. Her insight is simple and it reframes everything...
29 Sept 2026
Screens, Friction & the Village We Lost: Raising Connected Kids with Jillian Harris, LCSW
"Kids never have to be uncomfortable. And grown-ups don't either. That's a huge problem." Jillian Harris has spent fifteen years working with children and families — first in a residential center, now as a clinical social worker at a school in New York City where every student has a language-based learning disability, and in her own private practice. Her days are spent doing something most of us never think about as a job: helping kids repair connection after it breaks. This week Rita asks ...
15 Sept 2026
Grief Is Love After Loss: Talking to Kids About Death, Change & Legacy with Mindy Brodsky, LCSW
Season 2 of Once Upon a Feeling is about connection — and it opens with the place where connection shows its truest shape: loss. Rita sits down with Mindy Brodsky, a licensed clinical social worker who works in grief, death and non-death loss, and legacy writing. The conversation starts at a memorial for a friend's husband, gone at 52, and the realization that we spend our lives planning a future we forget to inhabit. From there it opens into the questions most of us were raised to avoid: Ho...
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