Your Teen Mag Podcast

Dr. Nanika Coor, psychologist and “respectful parenting enthusiast,” joins Sue and Steph to talk about how parents can work through their histories with their own former caregivers to create a more positive, less power-wielding approach to parenting.  Resources mentioned by Nanika: livesinthebalance.org and https://lauralreagan.com/ More about Dr. Coor Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph her...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Nancy Davis Kho of The Thank You Project joins Sue and Steph to talk about her quest to make handwritten thank-you notes more than just something you send after a special event.  Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Linkedin Twitter Instagram

Sue and Steph’s podcast producer Hannah Rae Leach joins the ladies on-mic for the VERY FIRST TIME to ask them all the questions she’s always been curious about.  Listen to Hannah’s podcasts Sleepover Cinema and Wholehearted here! Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Linkedin Twitter Instagram

Grieving all the priceless events and personal milestones that were altered (or missed completely) due to nationwide lockdown over the past year and a half is a doozy, especially for teens and their parents. Dr. Karen Moon, grief and loss therapist, joins us to work through this challenging topic.  Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Linkedin Twitt...

Our kids are part of a generation determined to create social, political, and ecological change. In fact, they’re so determined, it can be hard to feel like you’re keeping up. Diversity and equity educator Eva Vega-Olds joins Sue and Steph to talk parenting our teens through challenging conversations, both in-person and online. Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on...

Taking your teen’s mental health temperature is one of the most crucial (and challenging) parts of living separately. How do we give them space in all the right ways? Resilience expert Dr. Debi Gilboa joins Sue and Steph to discuss how best to handle your teen’s transition into college life, boundaries and all.  Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here!...

Our all-time most popular episode is getting a second run this week. We'll be back in two weeks with a new episode! Screentime and teenagers... does one pick the battle or just let it be? AND in a global pandemic? Delaney Ruston, the filmmaker and physician behing the award-winning documentaries "Screenagers" and "Screenagers: Next Chapter" joins Sue and Steph to share her thoughts on approaching...

It’s not every day that you get to hear candid conversation between a father and his teenage son. In this admittedly very heartwarming episode, Ash and Aidan, co-hosts of the father-son podcast Hold Me Back, join Sue and Steph to talk about their work together and how they’ve helped each other to grow.  You can check out more of Hold Me Back here! Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Ch...

Learning how to independently process and regulate stressors is an integral part of becoming a happy, confident, and functioning adult— but where exactly is the line for parents who want to help? Dr. William Stixrud joins Sue and Steph to discuss.  Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Linkedin Twitter Instagram  

Starting high school is overwhelming... and not just for your the incoming freshman in your life! But you can be chill, right? That's what Sue, Steph, and guest Betsy Jewell of the High School Hamster Wheel podcast are advising. In this episode, they share their top twenty tips of what to do with your soon-to-be-high-schooler. Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on...

Wearable technology has helped hundreds of thousands of people increase their quality of life through physical activity— but what if the same could be said with their psychological health? Dr. David Rabin of Apollo Neuroscience, a wearable that does just that, joins Sue and Steph to discuss trauma recovery, different types of stress, and how we can best rebuild your nervous systems in challenging...

There’s nothing quite as irritating as being the parent of a “lazy” teenager— nagging, micromanaging and all. But is your teen really lazy? Dr. Adam Price, author of He’s Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son To Believe in Himself, joins Sue and Steph to explain how we can most effectively (and non-annoyingly!) encourage our teens to do their best. Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out...

Enough about the teens... today, it's all about us: women in midlife, experiencing ALL the ups and downs. Colleen Rosenblum, co-host of the podcast Hot Flashes & Cool Topics, joins Sue and Steph to talk about the less-discussed aspects of empty-nest, post-teen life. Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue and Steph here! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Linkedin Twitter Instagram

While emergence into adulthood is a time that some of us relished, "adulting" has become a profoundly stressful experience for many people, and not necessarily just millennials. Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How To Raise an Adult, is back to discuss her new book Your Turn: How To Be An Adult, a guide for adults of all ages to leading their most authentic lives. Subscribe to Your Teen with Sue an...

There is no Single Right Way to do the high school or college experience. Betsy Jewell, host of the High School Hamster Wheel podcast— our new Best Friend of the pod— knows that extremely well, and in fact, has made a career of helping teens (and their parents) find their ideal path as they emerge into post-high school life. We are so excited to have found one another through our shared podcast fa...

There’s nothing that stings quite as bitterly as being on the receiving end of your teen’s brutal attitude. How are you supposed to react when your kid tells you that they hate you? Dr. Suzanne Schneps joins us to explore how we can work through these ultra-challenging moments. Check out Your Teen on Facebook here!

Being a working parent is hard— between negotiating work/life boundaries, mitigating feelings of guilt, and wanting to excel as both a parent and a professional, things can get overwhelming. Daisy Dowling, author of Workparent: Thrive in Your Career While Raising Happy Children, is here to share her advice on how to do just that. Check out Your Teen on Facebook here!

Isn't there some sort of lifehack for better sleep yet? Well, Dr. Patrick Porter of BrainTap thinks so, and he has the technology to prove it. You could even win a chance to try it out yourself when you email editor@yourteenmag.com to enter the raffle for a BrainTap Headset! Check out Your Teen on Facebook here!

Ever-evolving rules, shifting friend groups, and unclear guidelines about what's to come next are just a few of the elements that can lead anxious teens to a crisis point in this late-pandemic landscape. Dr. Abi Stark is here to share her thoughts on how we can support our teens through this time. Make sure to check out Your Teen's upcoming Destination→ College: A Comprehensive Course for Navigati...

Friend of the pod Michele Borba returns to share the seven traits that make for unshakeable kids in the 21st century, as discussed in her new book "Thrivers: The Surprising Reason Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine." Make sure to check out Your Teen's upcoming Destination→ College: A Comprehensive Course for Navigating the College Process, an 8-week virtual series running throughout the month...

Do you have a teen who's getting curious about trying substances? Are you lost about how to proceed? Jessica Lahey is here to share what she's learned through her experience with alcohol and raising teens through living and writing her new book "The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence." Make sure to check out Your Teen's upcoming Destination→ College: A Comprehen...

Sue and Steph are thrilled to present their conversation with Kelly Corrigan this week. Kelly Corrigan has written four New York Times bestselling memoirs in the last fifteen years, including The Middle Place, Lift, Glitter and Glue, and Tell Me More. She is the host of PBS’s Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan, where she’s talked with guests including the likes of James Corden and Jennifer Garner. S...

Today, we have a very special episode featuring some the experts that will be joining us for Destination→ College: A Comprehensive Course for Navigating the College Process, a summit of at Your Teen Media. It’s an 8-week virtual series starting on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST and you are cordially invited to attend! Find out more details about panelists and registration details here: http...

Feeling competent in supporting your transgender child through their coming out or transition is deeply uncharted territory for most parents. For today’s guest, Dr. Paria Hassouri, the experience of her daughter’s transition was a revelation, and inspired her memoir, “Found In Transition: A Mother’s Evolution during Her Child’s Gender Change.”  Check out Your Teen on Facebook here! Make sure to ch...

This week we’re re-airing our episode with Dr. Michele Borba all about the importance of empathy in the lives of young people. We thank you for your patience as we get into this new year! Next week we’ll have brand new episode for you, a conversation with Paria Hassouri, author of “FOUND IN TRANSITION: A Mother's Evolution through Her Child's Gender Change.” It’s gonna be incredible. We’ll see you...