We're not your average parenting podcast. And we don't have your average guests. We interview zookeepers (because talking to our teens sometimes feels like trying to wrestle a lion in its habitat), ringside announcers (aren’t parents everywhere taking one on the chin?), FBI hostage negotiators (to help us successfully negotiate a clean room), and many more. Because parenting is hard, and we want to make it easier with any advice we can get.
How to Support our LGBTQ+ Kids: A Conversation with Youth Outlook's Carolyn Wahlskog
We celebrate pride month with a conversation with Carolyn Wahlskog, LCSW (she/her), the Director of Operations and Programming at Youth Outlook, a nonprofit working to meet the ever-evolving needs of LGBTQ+ youth, families and communities. We ask her how to support our LGBTQ+ kids, how we, as parents, can best handle conversations around LGBTQ+ issues, and how best to address the delicate moment when a teen or tween decides to come out. Find out more about Youth Outlook and Carolyn Wa...
12 Apr 2023
How to Improve Collaboration at Home with Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate
Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. Her new book, Collabor(h)ate*: Everything you need to know to build healthy and productive collaborative relationships at work *(even if you'd rather work alone), is out now. Mashek was named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and has been featured in media outlets including MIT Sloan Management Review...
6 Apr 2023
Viorica Marian Talks About Her Book, The Power of Language, and Why We (and our Kids) Should Learn Another Language
On the premiere episode of Season 3, we talk to Viorica Marian, a Psycholinguist, Cognitive Scientist, Psychologist, and author of the new book (out this week): The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds. Marian, who's known for her research on language, bilingualism, and multilingualism, tells us how being multi-lingual might just be our super power and why it's never too late to learn another language. Marian is the Ralph and Jean Sundin En...
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