Unlock your hidden superpower of being blended! Traci Dority-Shanklin is a wife, a stepmom through marriage, a mom again through adoption, and a daughter from an eccentric family with multiple marriages, multiple divorces, and multiple blended families. Each episode debunks the mythologies of biology and explores the unique dynamics and relationships of blended families with experts and humor -- one conversation at a time.
Don’t be a wrecking ball. Pour into your marriage and learn to separate feelings from truth. Heather Hetchler is a monthly columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a thought leader, and co-founder of Learning2Step, an online educational and empowerment program for blended families. Heather shares her blended family experiences and the advice that she’s learned along the way while reminding us to always be kind to ourselves. Three Key Points 1. Give everyone time to adjust. Just beca...
27 Jul 2023
Tips for the Smart Stepmom with Laura Petherbridge
The bond is different. Stepparents and parents see their children through different lenses and that’s perfectly normal. Laura Petherbridge, life coach and author of several books including 101 Tips for the Smart Stepmom, shares her no-nonsense tips for the smart stepmom and the hardest things she had to overcome when she became a stepmother. Three Key Points 1. Laura explains that what she perceived as disrespectful behavior from her stepchildren towards their father trigg...
13 Jun 2023
The Blended Family: Born Out of Loss
Blended families are born out of loss. A stepfamily would not exist if there hadn’t been a death, a divorce, or a break-up of a previous relationship. Laura Petherbridge, a wife, stepmother, life coach, and published author of several books including The Smart Stepmom, joins Traci on the podcast. Laura explains how loss influences the stepfamily dynamic and the importance of addressing this loss in your own blended family. Three Key Points: 1. Laura highlights the importan...
18 May 2023
Understanding Interpersonal Neurobiology
Our children's nervous systems are a carbon copy of ours. Understanding interpersonal neurobiology means what's going on inside the parents is also going on inside the child. If we want to calm our children, then we must first learn to calm our own nervous systems. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman shares tools with parents to heal themselves and their children of trauma, calm their nervous systems and reduce cortisol levels in order to de-flame the brain and rewire the belief system....
27 Apr 2023
Parenting That Heals Spirit, Body and Brain
By 2020, 5.6 million children had been diagnosed with anxiety problems and 2.4 million had been diagnosed with depression. Many children are over-medicated, over-diagnosed and generally misunderstood. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman offers a medication-free option to help families heal from learning, behavioral and mood problems through her private coaching program, Parenting That Heals. Three Key Points · Dr. Sandy shares her personal experience growing u...
25 Jan 2023
Blended Families and Financial Infidelity
In this episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guests Heather Hetchler, a columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a wife, a mom, stepmom, a thought leader and a coach for blended families with learning to step at e-learning platform for blended families. The second guest is Ed Vargo, who has over 20 years ...
12 Jan 2023
The "F" Word: Finance in The Blended Family
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guests Heather Hetchler, a columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a wife, a mom, stepmom, a thought leader and a coach for blended families with learning to step at e-learning platform for blended families. The second guest is Ed Vargo, who has over 2...
15 Dec 2022
Advice For (Step) Parenting a Special Needs Child
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) once more talks with guest Natalie Hale, parent of an adult son with Down syndrome, an advocate and an award-winning author who writes books for children with Down syndrome, ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder or ODDS. She is also a national and internatio...
1 Dec 2022
Going Through The Heart to Teach the Brain
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guest Natalie Hale, parent of an adult son with Down syndrome, an advocate and an award-winning author who writes books for children with Down syndrome, ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder or ODDS. She is also a national and international speake...
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guest Marni Rosenthal-Chaikin, An Entrepreneur in Health and Wellness industry (Pure Barre Studio Owner). Marni shares her professional journey as well as her thoughts about blending families with her fiancé. Three Key Points 1. &nbs...
10 Nov 2022
Blending Families: The Second Marriage Struggle
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin continues the discussion with guest Marni Rosenthal-Chaikin, Business Development Manager in Pharmaceuticals and an Entrepreneur in the Health and Wellness industry. Marni talks about the struggles of second marriage. Three Key Points 1. Marni reveals that while she was going ...
8 Nov 2022
Introducing The Nuclear Families Evangelist Podcast
Traci Dority-Shanklin shares her story of growing up blended in this episode of The Nuclear Families Evangelist. The Nuclear Families Evangelist is a podcast that debunks the mythologies of biology by exploring the unique dynamics and relationships of blended families. We enlist experts and humor to help unlock the hidden superpower of being blended. Contact: Traci Dority-Shanklin: LinkedIn Twitter Facebook traci@sisupartnersllc.com website: www.nuclear-families.com
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