The Gentle Year

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. When the System Isn’t Built for Mothers: Birth, Power, and Voice with Suzzie Vehrs In this episode of The Gentle Year , Knikki sits down with doula and childbirth educator Suzzie Vehrs for a deeply human conversation about birth, rel...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year , I sit down with James Moffitt, a husband, father, and man of Christian faith who has buried two children. One after a long battle with childhood cancer. One after weeks in the ICU as an adult. Thi...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with Dara Wax—global health expert, founder of SAM+LEO, and mom of two teenage boys—for an unfiltered conversation about what teen mental health actually looks like. This isn’t a c...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. Stop Trying to Make Them Feel Better When your child is overwhelmed, your instincts probably tell you to fix it, explain it, or shut it down. But what if those responses are actually making things worse? In this episode of The Gentle...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What if the biggest problem in education today isn’t failing schools—but a system that no longer teaches kids how to think? In this episode of The Gentle Year , Knikki sits down with veteran educator, former school board member, and...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. Money isn’t just about numbers—it’s about fear, identity, habits, family, and the stories we inherit. In this episode of The Gentle Year , Knikki sits down with Albert Butler, CPA, for a deeply human conversation about finances, fami...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What does it really mean to provide for a family, and who gets to define that? In this episode of The Gentle Year , host Knikki Hernandez sits down with Tony Berardo, a father, entrepreneur, and creator who made the unconventional de...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year , Knikki Hernandez sits down with Terry Bean —children’s book author, life & executive coach, and caregiver to her 91-year-old mother—for a candid conversation about positivity, power, and emoti...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year , Kimberly Lechnick joins Knikki Hernandez to talk about one of the hardest lessons in parenting: letting go. From quitting baseball to giving up swimming, Kimberly shares how she learned to stop co...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What happens when the person who gave you life never really wanted you? In this raw and unflinching conversation, we talk about what it means to grow up unwanted — and how that pain echoes into adulthood, parenting, and love itself. ...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What does it really mean to stay committed — to your marriage, your kids, your faith, and your purpose — even when life gets hard? In this powerful episode of The Gentle Year , I sit down with Albert Smith , a husband of 23 years, fa...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this moving conversation, host Knikki Hernandez sits down with David Fowler , a teacher, father of three, and husband in a biracial marriage, to talk about the beauty and challenges of raising a child with autism. David opens up a...

In this thoughtful episode of The Gentle Year , I sit down with Amber Trivedi — a parent, leader, and lifelong learner — to talk about parenting in a world where screens dominate so much of our children’s lives. Amber shares how the skills she’s honed as an employer and manager — listening deeply, allowing space to process emotions, and seeking to understand before inserting her own perspective —...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this heartfelt episode of The Gentle Year , I sit down with Shara Ruffin — an African American parent, LinkedIn consultant, and entrepreneur — for a candid conversation about parenting, healing, and the power of emotional work. Sh...

Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this first episode of Turning The Tide Tutoring Podcast , host Knikki Hernandez sits down with Rebecca L. Norrington — parent, writer, and self-proclaimed “happiness specialist.” Together, they explore some of the most challenging...