The Parenting Coach Podcast

Malva is a trained and born teacher passionate about teaching others, young and old(er). She is a family coach working with families to bring and maintain a harmonious balance between all elements of life we are currently juggling. Malva is a strong-willed child (turned adult) who is raising strong-willed children while helping other parents understand them through her 1:1 sessions, communities, s...

Cristy has been a high school teacher, app creator, yoga teacher, barrel racer and has taught high school in the jungle in Ecuador. Now she teaches and facilitates women’s group in combining both the feminine and masculine in growth and expansion. What we discuss: What feminine and masculine energy are How we can lose connection with our feminine energy in motherhood How to start tapping back into...

Deborah is a dynamic teacher and experienced counsellor with over 20 years experience in educational and mental health settings. The underlying purpose of her work is to  put adults in the driver’s seat  by making sense of kids from the inside out. She is passionate in taking developmental science and making it applicable to everyday life in the home and classroom. From everyday questions to compl...

Deborah is a dynamic teacher and experienced counsellor with over 20 years experience in educational and mental health settings. The underlying purpose of her work is to  put adults in the driver’s seat  by making sense of kids from the inside out. She is passionate in taking developmental science and making it applicable to everyday life in the home and classroom. From everyday questions to compl...

Joey Mascio is a Certified Life Coach who helps high achieving teens and young adults stop letting self-doubt, procrastination, and stress suck all the fun out of being successful. Before he started his coaching business, Joey was a public-school teacher and counselor. Before that he appeared on hundreds of stages in front of thousands of people as a performer. His biggest claim to fame is being t...

Lauren is a mom of 3 kids, 6 dogs, a few chickens & 500+ pheasants. She’s a former preschool teacher who’s always working on a big project. Lauren has an MS in Child Development and is working as a behaviour coach to support parents in understanding challenging behaviour. What we dig into in this episode: What emotional intelligence is and why it’s so important How we can support our children in b...

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is an LDS relationship and sexuality coach as well as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois.  She has a Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology. Her teaching and coaching focus on helping LDS individuals and couples achieve greater satisfaction and passion in their emotional and sexual relationships. What we discuss in this episode: How our persona...

I am SUCH a resource person, so I’m using this last episode in Season 2 to share some of my fave resources. See below for direct links to all the amazing-ness and be sure to check out my course! I truly believe that we are all our own parenting experts. That once we can unpack years of baggage and stuck thoughts, that we can step into that unique power that each of us has… and that the core of tha...

Do you find yourself saying yes when you want to say no? Trying to keep the peace and make everyone happy? You might be a people-pleaser too… let’s drop the heavy weight of people-pleasing and teach our children a new way of being. A lot of us were raised in homes where “big” emotions were shunned. If you felt sad, mad, angry… that was a problem. Children should be happy. Children should be seen a...

Do you see your kids losing it when you take away the iPad or Xbox? Do they sneak around trying to get more time on their phone? Tune in as I uncover what might really be going on behind that behaviour. Screens are a relatively new phenomena, and little to no research has been done on its adverse effects, especially long-term. Despite this, we can uncover how it is affecting our own kids through o...

Do you ever feel like no one cares about what you do all day? Even when you do a great job, it just goes unnoticed? This is common for us as mothers. How do we get over this frustration and find validation? Tune in to find out. Cooking, cleaning, managing kids, snuggling kiddos, putting kiddos to bed 1000x times every night, wiping boogers and bums, keeping everyone fed and well hydrated. Parentin...

Do you often find yourself at odds in your parenting style with your partner? Do you wish that you both parented in the exact same way? There may be a benefit in parenting differently, let’s dig into it today.  It sounds like a nice ideal… 2 parents parenting in the same way, encouraging each other, and supporting each other in their struggles. The problem is that this usually isn’t the case. This...

We often think that the only way to get our kids to listen is to use threats, bribes or punishments. Those actually decrease natural obedience over time. There is another way to do it, tune in to find out how. Yelling, threats and bribes really do seem to work in a pinch- kids typically respond and listen. Over time though, you may have noticed that you have to up the ante: yell more, bribe more,...

How do you know when therapy is needed and how do you know when life coaching is helpful? When is it appropriate to find a coach for your kids/teens/yourself? I’ll also give you the details on where you can find some amazing coaches online. Life Coaching and therapy are both so needed in our world today. There are several medical experts that can help when the need arises: psychiatrists, psycholog...

Lots of blogs/experts will tell you what NOT to do during a tantrum… but what do you actually DO? Sit there? Phone a friend? Close your eyes really tight and pretend it’s not happening? Let’s figure out what we CAN DO to help during these times. We all know that frustration and anger just escalate the situation, but it can be tough not to move into that energy. Even when we don’t let our temperatu...

Now that we know all about growth and fixed mindsets, how do we foster this in our children? Let’s learn several steps that help us to grow this mindset within them naturally and raise emotionally intelligent children. We all want our children to grow into capable, kind, and caring human beings. We want them to build resilience and know how to handle situations that will arise for them. All of thi...

This is more than just a hot button word, it’s a new way of being. Growth mindset doesn’t happen overnight, but it can be fostered. Join me as we dig into what it is and how to shift it. Mindset is something we talk about allll of the time, as Life Coaches… but growth and fixed mindset are common terms to hear in schools, workplaces and everywhere else now. It’s easier to define and discuss these...

Do you feel like you lost yourself to your motherhood? Like you don’t know what lights you up anymore or who you truly are? This episode is for you. Join me as I share my journey of self-discovery, and how it’s taken me right to where I needed to be. I always truly enjoyed going to school, getting good grades and pleasing my teachers… but somehow, I wasn’t ever fully immersed in a true “love of le...

Your brain loves all or nothing thinking. The primitive brain is the source behind this thinking, because these thoughts often keep you stuck in a safe place and out of growth. Learn this quick hack that can shift your thinking and unlock your potential. Your primitive brain is a lot like a toddler, whiny, loud and usually totally unrealistic too. It’s not a problem that your brain is like this, b...

Do you struggle with perfectionism in parenting, always thinking thoughts like “I’m a terrible mom”? We all deal with this. Let’s learn more about shame and a hack to help us through. We all want to be “supermom”. The problem is that being “superhuman” in any area of our lives is just that, superhuman… aka, unrealistic, and impossible. Doing this over time gets us really stuck in the shame-cycle....

I LOVE talking about “my why” and I don’t do it nearly enough… I felt inspired to add this bonus episode to season 2, to share all about why I do what I do. It’s not just to help the moms… but to help the future generation of humans in a fuller, richer way. To do my part creating more a emotionally intelligent, empathetic and resilient future. These tools and philosophies that I use in my coaching...

Have you ever thought about scientists and their process? I think it’s a lot like what we do in parenting. Hypothesize, test, observe, test again, change things, fail. I think scientists can teach us a lot about parenting. Failure is at the core of what a scientist does… but instead of feeling shame and discouragement, they use it to learn, grow and create new ideas to test. We can become the pare...

Have you ever heard of what “radical” actually means? It might not be what you think! Let’s uncover its basic meaning and how it relates to our natural parenting styles. Once we can unpack our own emotional and mindset baggage, connection is at our core. As humans, we are naturally wired for connection. As we age, limiting beliefs, others opinions, and situations around us arise that cloud our nat...

Your thoughts affect everything… especially Your relationships. We often feel like our children are disrespectful and rude, that they are unkind on purpose, or that they should be… fill in the blank here with all the “shoulds” for you.  These hidden stories in your mind have a huge impact on your interactions with your children, huge. This is major. If you want to start healing your relationships...

This might seem counter intuitive, but the most impactful way to change your relationships with others is by changing your relationship with yourself. Your position on you is determined by a few things… your commitment, your thoughts, and your beliefs. When these things change, your relationship with you changes. When that changes, everything else in your life changes. Do you want a better relatio...