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EP105 - Laura Reardon - Responding To Your Kids’ Big Emotions

This week’s guest Laura Reardon teaches parents about how to respond to their kids' big emotions and challenging behaviors in a way that creates more peace rather than more conflict in their homes.She was graced with 2 children, a boy, and a girl, although not a single parent...and yet…In their growing-up years, she felt frustrated, worried, and unsure how to respond to their big emotions and challenging behaviors – one would lash out while the other would shut down.
She tried many things like counting to 3, consequences, rewards, and ignoring unwanted behaviors but none of it helped. And in the end, she found herself yelling…and worrying… and felt alone in this whole parenting thing.Motivated to grow into her best self and help her kids grow into their best selves, she earned a certification as a Child Behaviour Specialist from The Early Years, completed Parent Coach training from Happily Family, and completed Emotion Coach training with the Gottman Institute in addition to her degree in psychology from Northeastern University.And based on that training she created a 3-step plan for how to respond to the big emotions and challenging behaviors in her home in a way that supported her in managing her own emotions and behavior…and supported her kids’ in managing theirs.
Where to find Laura
www.laurareardoncoaching.com
 
www.instagram.com/laurareardoncoaching
www.facebook.com/laurareardoncoaching
 

EP104 - Brendan Kumarasamy - Mastertalk

This week’s guest believes the next Elon Musk is a 7-year-old girl who can't afford a communication coach, so it's his duty to help her succeed with his free resources.
Brenden Kumarasamy is the founder of MasterTalk, a coaching business he started when he was in college to help ambitious executives & business owners become the TOP 1% of communicators in their industries so that they can accelerate their success in the workplace & companies.
He also hosts a successful YouTube channel by the same name with over 28,500 subscribers.
He wanted to come on the podcast to help parents understand and master their communication skills, so as to improve future relationships and hopefully be able to master communication in their co-parenting situation
Where to find Brendan
https://www.facebook.com/mastertalkyt
https://www.instagram.com/masteryourtalk/
https://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalks
https://www.rockstarcommunicator.com/
 
 

EP103 - Dr Joe Garcia - Baby Sign Language in 14 Days

This week’s guest I have interviewed before and is the grandfather of Baby Sign Language, one of the world’s leading experts in the baby sign language revolution.
In his highly acclaimed books Toddler Talk (1994) and SIGN with your BABY (1999), Dr. Garcia explores the miracle of how young babies are able to communicate with their parents using signing, sometimes before 6 months of age. He’s worked with more than 5,000 babies and their families through community, hospital, and national education programs. help parents and caregivers find it easy to learn and use more signs than they thought possible (while still having fun).
He has come back to tell us about a new program for parents called "Baby Sign Language in 14 Days"
Where to find Joe
www.drjosephgarcia.com
www.instagram.com/drjosephgarcia
www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ZRXx1TeQzeoDFeNR-WjSQ
www.facebook.com/signingwithbaby
His new course is at
www.drjosephgarcia.com/products/baby-sign-language-in-14-days
 

EP102 - Elaine Belson - It’s More Complicated Than You Think

This week’s guest obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1987 from the University of Maryland and her master’s degree in Social Work in 1993 and has been a clinical social worker for 30 years
In addition to this, she decided to join the Army at the age of 42 because she wanted to be part of something bigger than herself and have a bigger impact and during her time served in Afghanistan, from 2008-2010.
She is an expertise in the following topics: anger management, anxiety, coping with chronic pain, depression, domestic violence, eating disorders, grief/loss, low self-esteem, parenting, relationships, stress, substance abuse, trauma, women's issues, and work issues and she has provided trauma services for Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, bank robberies, military deployment and has helped children and teens cope with academic challenges, bullying, divorce, peer pressure, and low self-esteem.
Where to find Elaine
www.itscomplicated.blog
www.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-more-complicated-than-you-think/id1660506679
 

EP101 - Elizabeth Louis - Surviving Family Trauma

This week's guest since she was 8 years old, has studied people’s behaviors.  
It was not intentional but necessary for her survival.  
She lived in a warzone. Of course, you wouldn’t necessarily know that by walking past her house, but you did if you knew her family. She also never knew when the war battles would occur. Therefore, she always had to be prepared. One way she prepared was by studying the behavior of those in her family which would mean she had a leg up and always be one step ahead of her abusers and homes toxicity. 
The bottom line is her life was full of … ABUSE…VIOLENCE…FEAR! Today, she is grateful for her extremely traumatic childhood because it had a significant impact on her to be the therapist and coach who easily “gets it.”  
Elizabeth Louis is a personal and professional development coach who focuses on the significance of mindset and perception. Her witty, direct, and transparent communication style educates individuals by showing them life is a choice. We can either choose to allow our brain and emotions to control us by reacting or we can choose to take control and respond, as we consciously desire. 
Where to find Elizabeth
www.elizabethlouis.com
www.youtube.com/c/elizabethlouis
www.facebook.com/ElizabethLouisCoaching/
www.instagram.com/elizabethlouiscoaching/

EP100 - Jim White - Be The Parent Your Teen Needs

This week's guest is Jim White. He is an author, coach, podcaster, and founder of the Family Enrichment Academy.
He has spent the last 40 years studying the topics of personal development, marriage, and parenting. More importantly, he has also spent those 40 years applying these lessons as a father to 6 children and a grandfather to 12.
Where to find Jim
https://www.familyenrichmentacademy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/388019799778445

E99 - G Scott Graham - I Think My Kid Is Gay- What Do I Do?

Scott Graham is an author of 15 books and counting, a career coach, and a business coach in Boston, Massachusetts.
Scott coaches clients to identify the true focus of their life — something that speaks individually to them. It means recognizing the forces that push their lives off course and adjusting to them, so you get where you want to go. It means that when you are 90 years old and you look back on your life you have a sense of pride, accomplishment, and meaning — with no regrets.
This guy can talk on just about anything from gardening (I wrote a book on Good King Henry) to running a 501c3 Farm Animal Rescue to cannabis to long-distance hiking to grieving to meditation and everything in between!
Where to find G Scott Graham
www.gscottgraham.com
www.facebook.com/author.gscottgraham
www.youtube.com/c/TrueazimuthBiz-BusinessCoach

E98 - Magic Barclay - Life with an Eating Disorder and How To Help Your Child

This week's guest survived a rough childhood, torn between a narcissist of a father and an unfeeling and emotionally neglectful mother, she learned that she was the only one she could depend on and always felt like 'the black sheep' and found it hard to trust anyone. In her teens, her lack of control led to anorexia and binge eating disorders. her weight was about all she could truly take charge of and by the age of 17, she had also become a binge drinker- leading to becoming an alcoholic by age 21.After transferring this lack of self-relationship to relationships with others, She found herself at the end of a string of emotionally vacuous and harmful relationships- culminating in a marriage to a narcissist and her self-esteem issues came back and again via her weight- she protected herself by becoming morbidly obese. That was the only way her body could physically be off-limits to an abusive husband (or so she thought).After 14 years of being told she was ugly, worth nothing, a horrible mother, and much more- she left!  packing the kids, dogs, and cats into the car, loading a truck, and leaving town.The next 4 years saw a drawn-out legal battle which saw her lose everything except her babies. And she had to start again but the toll of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences (ACREs) and her adult relationship disasters (including the one with herself), years of stress, and physical trauma to her body culminated in multiple conditions that threatened to end her life.She threw herself into study, learning about the systems of the body and how they each worked in harmony with each other, she sought help with her trauma and became truly well, truly loved
She continued her study continuing to become stronger, more able to handle anything in life, and free from the past both physically and emotionally.She is now an instructor of PNEI of Trauma, the lead practitioner at Wholistic Natural Health Australia, and the host of her own podcast A Magical Life- health, wealth, and weight loss"
Find Magic here
www.magicbarclay.com
 

E97 - Kasey Edwards - Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

This week’s guest Kasey Edwards spent over a decade climbing the corporate ladder as a management consultant until she woke up one morning and realized she didn’t want to go to work. Ever again. This inspired her to write her first book Thirty Something and Over It. After it become an international bestseller she decided to continue writing. She has now published seven books. She mixes humor, irreverence, and credible research to write about issues such as parenting, work satisfaction, motherhood, IVF, body image, and the diet and beauty industries. 
She has also written columns for Daily Life, and for other publications in Australia, the UK, and the US such as the Huffington Post, The Age, The Herald Sun, The Sydney Morning Herald, Grazia, The Guardian, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Girlfriend Magazine and Best Magazine. She was the most-read columnist for Fairfax in 2017. 
She has a wide international reach, with articles going viral such as When Your Mother Says She’s Fat and A Plea To Fathers To Take More Photos Of The Mother Of Their Children. 
Find Kasey here 
www.kaseyedwards.com
 

E96 - Diane Windsor - How to Parent as a Solo Mum

This week’s guest Diane Windsor has been a single mom twice and has been thru 2 divorces… she has been in marriage counseling for more years than she was married 
She is passionate about helping mothers (especially single mothers) tell their stories. She was a leader of the single-parent support group for 8 years until covid and during her journey, she has become an accomplished author; her work focuses on topics that are important to single moms. Diane has published the following books:
Stuck
Smoke Screen
How to Relationship – A Relationship Guide for Teens with Divorced Parents
Find Diane here