The Whining Family Podcast

You can’t experience joy when you’re in pain. One year ago we released the audiobook of The Winning Family: Where No One Has to Lose, and had a wonderful interview with Educator, Entrepreneur, Mentor, and Coach Dr. Deborah “Dee” Livingston, author of Everlasting Joy, and host of House of Joy on the Clubhouse app. She chose to focus on Chapter One, starting at the beginning and busting the secret w...

Something we wish every parent and every leader knew is getting good behavior is easier and more effective without punishment. Thank goodness Tim Campbell, Ph. D. retired from his work alleviating worldwide poverty so he could get his story out. Holding Up the Sky is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to be a father when life doesn’t go as planned. The moment he learned that his infant...

This is a conversation with Steve Zolno, a social sciences graduate of Shimer College who holds an M.A. in Educational Psychology and works as a Management and Educational Consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. Zolno is the author of eight books including The Future of Democracy, and has been leading groups about democracy for twenty years. We discussed “Dinner Table Democracy” with his group o...

My first guest is my very own son, who was our family’s pioneer podcaster when he was in college. Donald Caven, who I called "Enzo" in my blog for ​ADDitude Magazine​ , brings an interesting perspective to the work of his mother and grandmother. We talk about wine and whining, our house’s No Whining zone, his frustration with passive, manipulative asking, healthy communication cultures, our twiste...