Moms of Tweens and Teens

Send a text Hi friend, Welcome to the show today!  Before we launch into our awesome episode today, I want to make sure that you have signed up for our FREE 3-Day Workshop that kicks off next Tuesday, September 27th. The topic is - Escaping Entitlement : Raising Responsible , Respectful and Kind Teens in an Entitled Generation. Moms have been begging me to talk about this topic. If you have a twee...

Send a text Drs. Emily Weinstein and Carrie James are Principal Investigators at Harvard Project Zero, where for over a decade, they’ve researched youth and technology. They chase answers to questions like How do today’s technologies shape teens’ lives and development? What’s hard for them and why? How can adults better support kids who are growing up with unprecedented connectivity?  Drs. Weinste...

Send a text Lauren Cikara of Active Minds joins me today for an important conversation about supporting our teens in the area of mental health. Active Minds is the nation’s premier nonprofit organization supporting mental health awareness and education for our teens and young adults. Through education, research, advocacy, and a focus on young adults ages 14–25, Active Minds opens up the conversati...

Send a text Dr. Charlotte Markey is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied all things body image, eating behavior, and weight management for her entire adult life. She is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping people to develop a healthy body image. Charlotte loves to share her body image wisdom with others and is an experienced b...

Send a text Who here wishes that they were better at knowing how to teach their kids how to manage their money? Maybe you never learned how to budget your own money growing up and had to learn when you hit adulthood.  If you’re like me, you weren’t all that good at budgeting and often had to learn the hard way. I remember signing up for a credit card in college and having no idea about being charg...

Send a text What is life like for women who get diagnosed as adults? How does a diagnosis affect your children and family? What is it like when both mom and child have ADHD? Katy Weber is an ADHD coach, author, speaker, and founder of Women & ADHD, LLC. She is an outspoken advocate for neurodiverse women, and the host of the weekly Women & ADHD podcast, currently ranked among the top 1% of...

Send a text Elise Knox is a former middle school teacher turned life and wellness coach. Mama to 2 and step-mom to 1, her passion is helping moms and preteen/teen girls get through challenging times with more connection and ease. Elise is a Certified Trauma-Informed Life Coach. She knows that if we do not heal our own wounds, we bring them into our parenting as a means of protection. You’re gonna...

Send a text Sarah Johnston has been a mom and coach for over 20 years. She coaches teens and athletes to find their confidence through mental strength coaching. Through her 5-point mindset coaching, she helps teens and athletes shift their perspective, understanding, success, beliefs, and power.  Today, she walks us through how to help our teens shift their mindset to harness the power of their co...

Send a text Many parents avoid the topic of suicide with their tweens and teens until something happens. But true suicide prevention begins now. My guest today helps parents ask the right questions about suicide to rewire our tweens' and teens' brain to be positive. What you will learn: What happens when we don't bring up the topic of suicide with our teens/tweens. How our brains ar...

Send a text What if I told you that you didn't have to dread your period each month? What if there was a way to work with your body's cycle so you could have more energy, be more productive, and avoid PMS? My guest today is here to explain cycle syncing and teach us the four phases of our cycle and how to work with your body in each phase.  Megan Remple is a mom of four, a Registered Nur...

Send a text When kids leave the nest, go off to college or move out of the house, many parents are having sleepless nights thinking about their baby leaving home. On one hand, it’s exciting for your child to experience new things and discover their passions. But the news reports full of burglaries and scams sure aren’t making it easy for you to drop your teenager off at college.  Before you try co...

Send a text Teens and tweens with strong emotional intelligence are more self-aware, good communicators, and have strong relationships with others. We all want this for our children, but how do we help them when many of us have never been taught? Parents can learn how to cultivate social and emotional intelligence in their teens and tweens in many ways. Jennifer Miller, M.Ed. has twenty-five years...

Send a text If you could protect your child from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their lives, wouldn’t you?  In the book, Generation Sleepless, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright, authors of the bestseller, The Happy Sleeper, uncover one of the greatest threats to our teenagers’ physical and mental health: sleep deprivati...

Send a text My guest today is Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe. Dr. Robyne is a psychology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress, and change. Today, we talk about how to help foster resiliency in our teens and tweens. So many teens are hurting and this interview will help you meet your tweens and teens where they are. You’ll find this interview very powerful. Let’s dive...

Send a text Does talking about sex with your kids make you uncomfortable? Do you know what to do if you find out your tween or teen has been looking at porn? You’re not alone. My guest today, Amy Lang, is ready to help! Amy has been a sexual health educator for over 25 years. Amy’s books, website, and podcast show parents that talking about sexuality doesn’t need to be totally uncomfortable and ca...

Send a text If you have an ADHD kid you understand the frustration, arguing and misunderstanding this can cause for parents and their kids.  My special guest today is Dr. Norrine Russell, she is an Executive Functioning & ADHD Expert who founded Russell Coaching for Students in 2009. She is also the mother of two atypical children, Dr. Russell knows firsthand that being a parent of a strugglin...

Send a text Have you ever laid awake at night and asked yourself, “Why do other moms seem to have it all together when I’m over here exhausted and overwhelmed? Will I ever figure this mom thing out and feel like I’m enough for my kids? When does the worry end?” If you have, you're not alone. We all struggle with feeling this way. Today my special guests  are Shelby Spear and Lisa La/shaw who...

Send a text Parenting tweens and teens can be so challenging in so many ways.  Our tweens and teens are pulling away, they tend to think they know everything, we have less control over the choices and decisions they make,  It’s hard to not react and feel resentful, frustrated and angry. Today, I have the honor of having Becky Kopitzke on the show, Becky is the author of three books including her l...

Send a text Hi Friend, Welcome to the podcast today and I'm so glad that you're here joining me. We all know how crazy expensive college can be these days. I had no idea but the research shows, the majority of college dropouts leave because of financial pressure .  Today I am talking with Brad Baldridge , and he is an experienced College Funding Specialist who has worked with thousands o...

Send a text Hey Friend, Have you signed up yet for our Valentine Challenge?! In this episode I chat with you about how to affirm our kids and build them up. What we focus on grows.  I share the Valentine Challenge with you - the specific affirmations and adjective printables I made for you to use with your kid(s). I talk about in this episode: The 5 to 1 Rule The importance of focusing more on the...

Send a text Hey Mamas - I'm doing something a little different in this episode. I'm sharing a replay of a workshop I lead in our Inner Circle membership group last week called 7 Things You Can Do To Support Your Tween or Teen's Mental and Emotional Health (and your own!). So many of you have reached out to me and shared how your kids are struggling right now. Many of our kids are st...

Send a text Have you ever felt a surge of anxiety or fear or anger that feels out of balance with whatever just happened? Do you  feel things you don’t want to feel? Or do things you don’t want to do?  Do you struggle with critical self talk that take overs and no matter what you do you can't seem to break free of them?  Jenna Riemersma shares how to move towards healing and wellness and begi...

Send a text Hi Friend, I’m so happy that you’re joining me today.  I once heard a saying that really resonated with me - tweens and teens are like cats. They can hide in their rooms and if you try to go in there and force them out it doesn’t work. Trying to communicate with our tweens and teens can be challenging. AND, there is good news. How you communicate with your kids makes all the difference...

Send a text Are you craving more connection with your daughter? Today I'm interviewing Amy Miller, the founder of the Mother Daughter Art Project.  Amy is warm and inspiring and has such a passion to support mothers and daughters to connect in fun and meaningful ways that will lay a strong foundation for years to come.  Amy created the Mother Daughter Art Project - a monthly subscription box...

Send a text It's so easy to get caught up during the holidays in the hustle and bustle, the tasks and to-do lists , the overspending, overcommitting, and overwhelming stress and chaos of the season. Some of us are experiencing the loss of loved ones, strained family relationships and feelings of loneliness, sadness or fear that once again our expectations of what the "perfect" holid...