Eps 675: When Your Teens Grades Start Slipping
It's that time of year... The grade portal shows a pile of missing assignments, and taking the phone away feels like the only leverage you h...
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Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast
Joyful Courage is a Conscious Parenting Podcast. Be inspired, entertained and educated as we navigate the challenges and celebrations of choosing to be a conscious parent. Interviews and sol...
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20 of 772 episodesEps 674: Co-Parenting Boundaries with Amy Armstrong
You can do everything right and someone in your life can still make it hard. In this episode, I talk with Amy Armstrong, LISW-S, founder of...
Eps 673: Stuart Slavin on Teen Pressure
Dr. Stuart Slavin has spent decades studying what pressure does to young people, and what he found flips the usual conversation. When he cut...
Eps 672: Letting Go of the Story
Three weeks ago I told you about the text I got in an Atlanta hotel room. Today I share what happened after I got home, what I tried, and wh...
Eps 671: "Is This Normal? Teenage Behavior and What's Underneath It
Every parent of a teen has asked some version of this: Is this normal teenage behavior, or is something actually wrong? This week I go under...
Eps 670: Knowing Better Isn't Enough
I thought I knew everything about co-regulation and the nervous system when my daughter texted me from across the country to say she was dro...
Eps 669: Margot Bisnow on Raising Entrepreneurs
This week I'm sharing a conversation I had with Margot Bisnow, who interviewed more than 70 families raising wildly self-driven kids. She we...
Eps 668: Your 2026 Back To School Reset
I'm back from a couple weeks off and I'm fired up about the intentional ecosystem, the model I've been carrying around all summer. It's four...
Eps 667: Trish Gower on Regulated Leadership
Even if you don't run a business, you're running something. In this conversation with business coach Trish Gower, we talk about what happens...
Eps 666: Robynn Powers - Food Without Rules
Our kids are watching how we talk about our bodies, and they're deciding what that means about theirs. In this episode I sit down with healt...
Eps 665: Marriage and the teen years with Shilo Minor
Parenting teens has a way of surfacing everything we've been avoiding in our marriage. This week I'm talking with Shilo Minor about what hap...
Eps 664: Parenting and launching your teen
In this solo episode, I answer a question from a mom whose oldest is heading off to college across the country. How do you show up for your...
Eps 663: Moving through crisis without losing yourself
This week I'm getting honest about being in my own season of crisis and what it's teaching me about the fawn response, that fourth survival...
Eps 662: PART TWO of Teen Cannabin Use with Susan Notis
In part two of my conversation with parent coach Susan Notis, we move past the information about teen cannabis use and into what you can act...
Eps 661: Diane Sorensen on Lifelong Motherhood
I loved this convo! My guest, Diane Sorenson shares what shifts when you stop performing motherhood and start treating it as a lifelong rela...
Eps 660: Lori Petro on Obedience Culture
What if the way we treat our babies and teenagers could actually predict whether they grow up peaceful or violent? In this episode, I welcom...
Eps 659: Free-Range Teens with Lenore Skenazy
What if our teens are far more capable than our anxious culture lets us believe? (spoiler: they are) In this episode, I sit down with Lenore...
Eps 658: Lisa Woodruff helps us tame home chaos
We don't parent in a vacuum, my friend. Midlife and the teen years pile on the paperwork, the appointments, the mental load—and so many of u...
Eps 657: Attia Qureshi and negotiating with teens
Negotiation isn't a boardroom skill—it's a parenting skill, and every hard conversation with our teens is a training ground. In this episode...
Eps 656: What if your teen is having a problem, not being one?
If your teen's disrespect, eye rolls, and slammed doors have you feeling stuck, this solo episode is for you. I'm unpacking a game-changing...