Ep. 63: How Parents Are Fighting Anti-LGBTQ Policies in Florida with Nadine Smith
In this episode Diana talks to Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida, about everyone should be paying attention to what is ha...
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Ep. 62: Birth Control Without a Prescription: Is the Opill Safe and Affordable? with Victoria Nichols
In this episode, Diana chats with Victoria Nichols, the project director of Free the Pill to discuss the Opill, which is the first-ever over...
Ep. 61 Why Centering Our Youth's Wellbeing is a Win for Our Society with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
In this episode, Diana talks to Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, the Executive Director of the Children's Defense Fund, an organization which focuse...
Ep. 60: Why Mom Power Is More Important than Ever with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
What happens when your infant child has medical needs you need to tend to, but there is no paid family medical leave in place? You get pushe...
Ep. 59: Why Prioritizing Children's Rights Benefits Us All with Adam Benforado
What would happen if we put children first in our country? What would happen if we empowered children at all ages and centered the law to pr...
Ep. 58: How Do We Parent Boys to Combat Man Box Culture? with Mark Greene
In this episode, Diana talks to Mark Greene, an expert on healthy masculinity and author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men, and founder of a...
Ep. 57: The Youth Vote and Disinformation in the Latinx Community with Maria Teresa Kumar
Why are Latinx voters being targeted with disinformation? What does young Latinx Voting Power in 2024 look like? In this episode Diana talks...
Ep. 56: Why Abortion Bans Affect Latinas the Most with Lupe Rodriguez
In this conversation, Diana talks to Lupe Rodriguez, the Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, about...
Ep. 55: La Marea Verde and What We Can Learn from the Abortion Rights Fight in Latin America
At a time when the USA has struck down Roe v. Wade and there are attacks on women's reproductive freedoms, the opposite has been happening i...
Ep. 54: Latinas' Access to Reproductive Care in a Post-Roe World with Lupe Rodriguez
"The decision to become a parent is one of the most life decision that anybody can make." In this episode Diana has a candid conversation wi...
Ep. 53: Abortion Rights Victory in Kansas with Kansas Abortion Fund
Earlier this week, the people of Kansas went out to the polls and had their voice heard… coming out in record numbers to say they want abort...
Ep. 52: Parents Must Rise Against Mass Shootings with Sarah Montoya
In this episode, recorded a day after the Uvalde mass shooting where elementary school children and teachers were murdered, Diana talks to S...
Ep. 51: Why We Should Build a Parent Nation with Dr. Dana Suskind
In this episode, Diana talks to Dr. Dana Suskind, the author of Parent Nation, Unlocking Evey Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promis...
Ep. 50: God, Abortions and Kids
We are kicking off Season 2 with Rev. Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft from Raising Imagination and we're chatting about abortion rights, how we can...
Ep. 49: Parenting During a Global Pandemic: Let's Check In
As we're getting close to the second anniversary of the pandemic, we wanted to talk about how parents and children are feeling-- what's norm...
Ep. 48: What Happens When You Deny Women Abortions with Dr. Diana Foster
What happens when a woman is denied an abortion? That's exactly what Dr. Foster set out to find out in the groundbreaking Turnaway Study. wh...
Ep. 47: Paid Leave, Child Tax Credit, Affordable Childcare, and UPK - Why Families Need Them All
In this episode Diana talks to Julie Kashen, Director of Economic Justice at the Century Foundation, about the family friendly policies that...
Ep. 46: Why the Time to #SolveChildcare is Now with Nina Perez
In this episode, Diana is talking to Nina Perez, the National Director of Early Childhood at MomsRising.org about why this is the moment to...
Ep. 45: The American Families Plan: A Big, Bold Investment in our Children with Katie Hamm
In this episode Diana talks to Katie Hamm, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development, at the Office of Early Childhood...
Ep. 44: How This Mom Reimagines Education and Runs for City Council with Evie Hantzopoulos
"Education funding should be non-negotiable... We are already not getting what we deserve-- how can we possibly cut any more? It's such an i...