Why is Everyone Yelling?

Andrea Davis is back on the show today! Andrea is the founder of Better Screen Time and is the mom of 5. She has been researching screen time and the effects that it has on families for years. She has just relaunched and added so many great things to her tech healthy family plan. It is a course to prepare kids to use tech as a tool. In this episode, we talk about modeling healthy tech habits,...

Chelsea Skaggs is the founder of The WTF Trimester. She is a certified professional life coach, intimacy expert, and communication trainer for parents. Chelsea has relationship tips for overwhelmed parents, helping you and your significant other with fewer arguments and more intimacy. In this conversation, we talk about what happens after the baby is born and what happens after that 6 week checkup...

Torre Sommers is the founder of Chadwick Home. If you do Elf on the Shelf, she has a solution for you so you don’t have to think about where you are going to put the elf every year! Torre’s elf box exists to empower and support families to keep the magic alive but not boggle you down or stress you out. In this episode, we also talk about her husband’s journey being a three time kidney transplant r...

Wendy Snyder is a returning guest of the show! She is on today to talk about sibling rivalry. Wendy is a parenting coach. She inspires parents to learn and grow and she leads with connection based strategies. She is the creator of the Firm and Kind Parenting Blueprint. She has an amazing online community called the Bonfire Membership Program.  In this episode, Wendy gives strategies that we c...

Taria Butler is the mother of 2. She is the co-author with her husband, Tyrece, of the book 2am Parenting: The Highs and Lows of an Unexpected Diagnosis. Their son has Type 1 Diabetes and he was diagnosed at 18 months. Taria shares her story of walking through that and shares what this process has been like and how she leans on her faith when things feels hard. Taria also opens up about her own an...

Shelby Gil is my sister and she is on the podcast today! Shelby teaches survival swim and is a PediaSwim instructor. We talk about what she does with kids and teaching them how to float and survive in the water and reasons why you might want to consider doing this with your own kids. I hope that this episode gives you some knowledge about water safety and makes you feel a bit better about keeping...

Ash Brandin is a middle school social studies teacher who thinks that school should feel as motivating as a game. Ash creates lessons and structures that motivate like games. I have already learned so much from their Instagram page around the topic of video games and I feel a lot of relief because video games have been a bit of a struggle in our household and I know that I have not always reacted...

Amy Mockbee is with the individualized early childhood consulting company, Work and Play. We had her confounder, Emily Boucher, on the show on episode 45 talking about fostering independence in your children. Amy has been teaching preschool for over 23 years and has a lot of experience! Amy and I talk about partnering with teachers, screen time, and giving yourself grace as a parent.   What we tal...

Lisa Chan is on the show today! Lisa is an Occupational Therapist for children. On her Instagram, she gives simple, practical and fun ideas for families. In this episode, we talk about some basic occupational therapy tactics that Lisa uses in her own practice. She gives us some really good ideas about helping children learn to tie their shoes and other things that we can be working on with our kid...

Lindsay is a licensed clinical social worker and writer. She has worked with parents and pre-parents in the world of adoption for the past 10 years focusing on preparing parents to be ready to have kids. In this episode, we focus on methods of discipline for your family, choosing your family mission statement and values, and creating a plan for your own family that is unique and that works for you...

Sarah Boyd is the founder of Resilient Little Hearts which is a children’s book series that teaches resilience and emotional health. Their bestselling book is called The Boy Who Stood Up Tall. Sarah has tons of parenting resources. She is a psychologist and works in neuro leadership.  In this episode, we talk about teaching kids to navigate difficult emotions, raising sensitive kids, what courage...

Megan Michelson & Mary Flo Ridley are on the podcast today! They teach us through a simple online course that give parents the tools and confidence to talk to their young kids about sex. Mary Flo has been doing this for over 30 years and Megan joined her team just a few years ago. They teach us to educate and empower our kids through building a foundation for future conversations to protect th...

Cali Werner is a family and behavioral therapist. She focuses on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, athletes and repetitive and ritualistic performance inhibiting behaviors, anxiety, mental health stigmas and more. Cali also recently wrote a book and it’s called Anxious Annie. In this episode, she gives us really thoughtful ways to evaluate and decide if our kids might need to see a behavioral therapi...

Today’s episode is a lighthearted conversation with my friend Bri Cook! She is a nurse practitioner turned stay at home mom. She is a Beautycounter consultant and we dive into some of our favorite Beautycounter products in this episode! For the first time both of her kids are in school full time so we talk about what that transition is like for her. We share some of our favorite book suggestions a...

Shannon is an inspiring mom of 5. All 5 of her kids came into her life through IVF. Shannon is an ARNP but recently resigned to stay at home with her kids. She’s also a Virtual Health Coach and Business Mentor. In this episode, we talk about the IVF process, battling anxiety and talking to a therapist, the crazy everyday life struggles of simply being a mom, and so much more! What we talked...

Melani Rayen is the mother of two and is Montessori Certified and shares all about gentle parenting and raising readers over on her Instagram. In this episode, we talk about what Montessori schooling environments look like and why she thinks they are a great decision for her family. In this episode we also talk about giving our kids the freedom to choose and what her idea of coding is and how to i...

Emily Boucher has taught both preschool and kindergarten in NYC, including at The Brearley School and The Buckley School. She later served as the Director of Beginnings Nursery School and as the Associate Director at the Brick Church School. Emily and her friend and fellow teacher, Amy, started a company called Work and Play where they provide individualized early childhood consulting.  Emily live...

Kristen is a gardener. She has a beautiful cut flower garden and she also grows vegetables. She helps new gardeners learn to grow vegetables and beautify their yard. She shares recipes that you can make from the vegetables that you grow in your backyard.  Kristen lives with her family in Canada with her husband and 3 kids. In this episode, she shares all about starting both a vegetable and flower...

Suzanne and Kim Wade are on the show today! Their daughter, Becky Wade, was on my running podcast, I’ll Have Another, a few years ago. Becky is a professional marathon runner and she wrote a book called Run the World where she wrote about her experience traveling around the world running with different cultures. Suzanne and Kim had two sets of twins within 20 months of one another. They are both l...

David Thomas is the director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. He is the co-author of 8 books including the bestselling books Wild Things and Are My Kids on Track . As a licensed therapist, he works with kids and parents on all kinds of different topics.  He is a frequent guest on national television and podcasts and has been featured in publications including The Washin...

Staci Drovdahl is the mom of 7 children and is on a mission to ditch the grocery store and improve the health of their family. Their family packed up and moved across the country and built their own home. One of the things that I love about this is that they had a bunch of projects along the way that their kids helped do.  She calls herself the homesteading mama and they grow much of the food that...

Kate Borsato is on the show today! Kate is a therapist and an educator for pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood. She has virtual therapy clinics for Canadian moms and she also has anxiety courses online for moms. The mission of her work is to support moms to live the best life that they possibly can. In this episode, we talk about how things change when we become parents, intrusive thoughts...

Rachael Amarante is on the podcast today! Rachael is the mother of 4 boys and she has recently started The Awakening Motherhood Project. She created The Awakening Motherhood Project when she looked at social media and saw that we are all filled with noise, expectations, perfection and anxiety. She wanted to talk about motherhood in a way that felt real so through her newsletter and social media sh...

Kevin Wolma recently retired as the Athletic Director at Hudsonville High School. During his tenure in the district, he also taught physical education and health and coached over 30 seasons of tennis, basketball, and golf. Kevin recently published the book 30 Second Timeout about navigating through the challenges of youth sports. What I love about this book is that Kevin is a parent himself, he ha...

Stacey Heiny is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who helps women increase their return on investment through lifestyle wellness. She’s a clean beauty advocate, abundance mindset mentor, and plant based eating inspirer who wants to show women that creating lifelong holistic habits is what will help them create their ultimate life. Owner of her brand called The Herban Farmacy, Stacey believes...