"My kids are having a hard time adjusting to _______ (moving, traveling, homeschooling, divorce, death, etc). How can I help them?" We've received a question like this dozens of times over the years. Parents the world over wo...
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#235 Creating a Family Culture of Stability, Safety, Trust, & Well-Adjusted Family Members
After posting reels on Instagram about our most recent 6-month trip to 17 countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, I've had many people ask: "How do you even BEGIN planning a trip like that?" "What was your budget for this expe...
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#229 How to Plan BIG Adventures for Your Family (+ Budget & Costs)
Greg received an email from a friend who said, " My son needs a life coach :) " His response was, " EVERYONE needs a life coach." The stigma is that only people with problems or those who 'can't figure it out' need a life coa...
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#226 Please Don't Be Offended That I Shared This Episode With You -- Here's Why YOU (and I) Need a Coach
No matter if you homeschool or send your kids to public or private school, YOU are responsible for the outcomes of their education. The first step is for YOU to define what EDUCATION means to you . Is it academic learning? Gr...
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#225 How to Help Your (Public or Homeschool) Kids Get a World-Class Education
As part of the 28-Day Challenge we ask participants to choose one food to give up. Some choose sugar. But it’s not always easy to give it up. As one mom said: “…the sweet tooth got the best of me. I don’t drink soda and have...
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#222 How Sugar Contributes to Disease & How to Give it Up FOR GOOD
At work, home, family life, and marriage, it’s easy to blame the circumstances of life or to say ‘That’s just the way things are’ … But the reality is that we’re often participating in, perpetuating, or creating our own chaos...
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#221 Specific Strategies & Tools to Make Your Marriage Good, Better, Great & EXTRAORDINARY
Every year on our birthdays and anniversaries we love to reminisce and ask ourselves, " Where were we celebrating last year? I wonder where we'll be next year?" Last year we celebrated in Portugal while we were scouting out t...
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#214 Where We've Been and How We've Made it Extra Special -- Celebrating 22 Years of Marriage
After episode #211 about What to Eat we received a lot of follow-up questions (thank you!) and were asked to do a follow up episode to clarify some things, such as: What if I'm lactose intolerant? What do you recommend to rep...
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#213 What to Eat Part 2 -- Snacks, Recipes, Rules, & When to Break Them
Thanks for all of the questions! They help us to have relevant conversations in these podcast episodes. If you have a question about anything in life or family, send them to support@extraordinaryfamilylife.com This week’s que...
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#212 True Balance Looks Like Yin & Yang and Walking 'The Labyrinth'
In many of our episodes, we often reference food and its connection to behavior and emotion. So it’s not surprising that we received this request: “I would LOVE to hear an episode on food! YES it is confusing and hard to navi...
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#211 What to Eat & How -- What's ACTUALLY Healthy? Our Food Journey
We received another question from a mom who was interested in joining my Family Charts & Systems course and community . In an email I sent out, it said: As a mother of seven children, my life seriously changed forever once I ...
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#209 How to Get Your Kids (& Spouse) on Board with Charts & Systems (+ Why You NEED Them Even if You Think You Don't)
We’re coming to you today from the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. We have loved traveling through the Baltic States. Today we’re going to continue answering some questions (since we were accidentally cut short in the last episod...
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#205 The Price of Mastery -- Is It Worth the Cost?
Welcome to a New Year! We’re keeping the Denning family dream alive with family adventures . In December, we traveled through NYC, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, & Estonia. We’ve had some questions about the logistics of t...
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#204 Family Travel is an Investment in the Development of Yourself & Your Children + Logistics, Tips & FAQs
We like to get our podcast topics from issues that really ‘fire us up’ (it makes for better discussions). This week, I was fired up by some comments left on an Instagram Reel I created about allowing ‘boys to be boys’ with au...
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#201 Toxic Masculinity & the Epidemic of Gaming Addictions & Unmotivated, Underachieving Boys & Young Men
I remember the first time I realized that humanity’s desire for luxury was actually a driving force for improving the world. Previous to that I often felt that wanting luxury and comfort was wrong or bad… perhaps from generat...
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#199 The Rewards (& Risks) of Pursuing a Life of Comfort & Luxury
