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April 19, 2022

#175 Q&A Sneaky Teens, Forbidden Apps, Pornography, Masturbation, Device Usage, Teen Sex and More! Oh My.

We received some great questions about parenting that we’re addressing today. We love it receiving questions so if you have one please don’t hesitate to ask us. You can leave a voice message for us on our podcast page, or yo…
March 1, 2022

#171 Force Your Kids to Finish? Or Let Them Quit? Our Surprising Answer

Welcome to the podcast! We’re discussing something today that is crucially important to raising healthy, well-adjusted kids . We want to teach them to NOT be quitters, to follow through , and to have grit and perseverance . …
Dec. 28, 2021

#165 Exposing Your Kids to the Dark Side -- WHY and HOW

Welcome to this episode where we will be discussing a sensitive and sometimes frightening topic to many parents — and that’s WHY and HOW to expose your children to the darkness in order to help them be stronger and more prep…
Dec. 21, 2021

#164 Teen Mental Health Strategies That WORK! Pattern Interrupts & State Changes

In this episode, we’re discussing teen mental health and strategies for helping them not only overcome mental health challenges but to learn to thrive despite their difficult circumstances. We’re empathetic to the real strug…
Dec. 14, 2021

#163 The Failure to Launch Epidemic and How to Prevent It In YOUR Children & Teens

In this episode, we’re talking about Failure to Launch syndrome — a significant growing phenomenon among young adults who are not successfully making the transition to adulthood . Its symptoms include young adults who contin…
Nov. 3, 2021

#159 Teenage Rebellion & "Restaurant Parenting"

"Rebellion of basically any kind stems from needs that are not being met." "Which needs are commonly not met that are likely to lead to rebellion?" Is there a difference between healthy and unhealthy rebellion ? Do you consi…
March 5, 2020

#95 What it means to be a REAL man

With so many misconceptions about what it means to be a man, and so many men living far below the standard, we all need to put forth the greatest effort to help boys and men be real men! "At each moment in man's life, he is …
Dec. 25, 2019

#80 The BEST Thing You Can Do For Those You Love

I love giving gifts and doing things for the people I love most of my life! I’m sure you do too. We spend a lot of time and effort thinking about gifts that we can give and about ways we can serve the people we love. But we…
Dec. 15, 2019

#78 Putting Family First ... For Real

We often say that our family is the most important thing in our lives, but we don’t always show it. The reality is that we prove our priorities with our actions. I want to invite and challenge all of us to put our families…
Nov. 14, 2019

#70 How to Build or Rebuild Trust

Trust is one of the most important things in all of our relationships and therefore in every part of our lives. We work with people and in order to work well with people whether in family or in business we have to trust. W…
Oct. 26, 2019

#64 Transform Insecurities Into Strengths

Do you have an insecurity that is holding you back from who you want to be and how you want to live? I used to have loads of them, and they were preventing me from progressing. So I learned how to lean into them and transfor…
Sept. 14, 2019

#56 Watch Your Words—Understanding the true effects of sarcasm, mockery and jest.

Your words are more powerful than you realize they are! But most of us have been trained and conditioned -- through society and other people -- to use sarcasm and mockery all the time. We’re so used to it that we unconscious…
March 13, 2019

#21 Never treat people this way, especially when you’re in a leadership position!

Seems to be that going through security into any country can be a nightmare the U.S., the UK, Hungry you name it. Something that seems to be a common thread between all these stories is that once someone has a little bit of …