Parenting for the Future
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Parenting for the Future helps parents understand - the phenomena that will shape the world in which their children will come of age and the science and strategies for raising their children to find their own voices so that they can thrive and shape that world in their unique way.
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Apr 25, 2023
How a Cup of Coffee and a Caring Heart can Make the World Better: A Conversation With Jonathan Rubenstein
Jonathan Rubenstein is father to one daughter and the founder and CEO of Joe Coffee, New York City’s original specialty coffee company and a pioneer of the Third Wave Coffee Movement.
The award-winning collection of cafes is best known for brewing the highest quality coffee and serving its community of customers with warm, authentic hospitality.
Jonathan is here to talk about how cup of coffee and a lot of care can make the world a better place
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Apr 18, 2023
How to not be a “Hot Mess”: A Conversation With Laurie Palau
Laurie Palau is a mom two almost grown-up daughters, host of the super popular weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life, and founder of Simply B Organized, a lifestyle company helping people declutter their lives so they could live simply and more meaningfully.
Laurie’s advice has been featured in national publications including Real Simple and The New York Times and she speaks frequently on clutter, parenting, and entrepreneurship.
She is the author of the best-selling book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized. This book is the topic of our conversation today.
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Apr 11, 2023
The Power of Being Kind to Yourself: A Conversation With Susan Verde
New York Times bestselling author, Susan Verde is mom to three teenagers, two cats a dog and a tarantula. She is also a yogi and a mindful human who teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids of all ages.
Susan has written more than twenty picture books for children, in which she captures and celebrates the unique experience of being a child. Her books are used around the world to support mindfulness, yoga and social-emotional learning programs in schools and libraries.
Today, Susan is here to talk about her latest book and her first book for adults: Say one Kind Thing: Lessons in Acceptance, Love, and Letting Go.
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Apr 4, 2023
The Future Of Opera: A Conversation with Marcia Sells
The Metropolitan Opera (the Met) is the largest performing arts institution in the United States. Each season, the Met stages more than 200 opera performances in New York with over 800,000 people in attendance. Millions more experience the Met through its 90-year-old radio broadcast series, its new media partnerships and state-of-the-art technology, including Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Met Opera on Demand and free live audio streaming of performances on its website during the opera season.
Yet for all of its acclaim and reputation for being innovative and forward thinking, true inclusion has not been part of the Met’s story.
Enter Marcia Sells, the first Chief Diversity Officer for the Metropolitan Opera and a phenomenal mom to her daughter and step-son.
Marcia joined the Met Opera after serving as Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Harvard Law School. Her storied career includes positions in academia, the private sector and public service. She is here to talk today about her work to make opera inclusive and ready to thrive in an increasingly diverse world
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Mar 28, 2023
Brain/Body Parenting: A Conversation With Dr. Mona Delahooke
Dr. Mona Delahooke is mother to three adult children, and grandmother to one grand-daughter. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than thirty years of experience and serves as senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults.
Her latest book, Brain-Body Parenting builds on the lessons of Beyond Behaviors and offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experiences as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. This book is the topic of our conversation today.
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Mar 21, 2023
The Work Of World Reader: A Conversation With Rebecca Chandler-Leege
Rebecca Chandler Leege is a mother and the Chief Impact Officer at Worldreader, a US based global technology non-profit that expands vulnerable children's access to books. Worldreader was born out of the belief that inexpensive technology and local content could help millions of children learn to read and ultimately create a better future for themselves. Since 2010, the company and its partners have distributed over 58 million digital books in 52 languages, to children and young adults in 100 countries.
Rebecca has more than 20 years of leadership experience and a proven track record of growing innovative organizations through creative collaborations, cross-sector partnerships, and strategic vision. She is here today to discuss the work of Worldreader and the positive impact it is having on the lives of millions of children.
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Mar 14, 2023
Sleep and your Teen: A Conversation with Lisa L. Lewis
Lisa L. Lewis is mother to two children and a freelance journalist who covers the intersection of parenting, public health, and education. She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and Your Teen, among others.
Her new book, The Sleep-Deprived Teen: Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive is an outgrowth of her previous work on teens and sleep, including her role in helping get California’s landmark legislation on healthy school start times passed.
This book is the topic of our conversation today.
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Mar 7, 2023
The Work Of Teaching Matters: A Conversation With LaMonica Williams
LaMonica Williams is mother to two children and the Director of Program, Pre K - 2 Division at Teaching Matters, a national professional learning organization dedicated to helping teachers and school leaders develop the skills they need to close the gaps created by a radically unequal education system.
La Monica’s expertise is in elementary literacy and she also manages the work of Teaching Matters to support educators and train them to use data to advance students’ reading and writing abilities.
She joins us to discuss how Teaching Matters is creating a more equitable education landscape.
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Feb 28, 2023
Parenting And Privilege: A Conversation with Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is mother to one daughter. She began her career as an attorney for children in the foster care system, advocating for some of the most vulnerable children in our nation, but it was not until she became a mother, that she took real stock of, and became deeply troubled by, the stark differences between the lives of the children she met at work and the lives of the children she met in her parenting life. She began to question whether her only duty as a parent was to get “the best” for her own child or whether she had an obligation to make decisions that would help create a more equitable society for all children.
Her questions led her to write her first book, Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World. This book is the topic of this episode.
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Feb 21, 2023
The Future of Money: A conversation with Alkesh Shah
Alkesh Shah is a Managing Director and Head of Web3, Crypto and Digital Assets Strategy at Bank of America Global Research. He drives thought leadership in the digital asset space and his research covers crypto-assets, including tokens and infrastructure companies, and applications, such as Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs).
He joins us today to discuss the digital asset economy and the future of money
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Nov 11, 2022
Economic Justice: A conversation with Pamela Capalad
Pamela Capalad is mother to one son, a certified financial planner, and an accredited financial counselor, who has been in the financial services industry since 2008. She is the founder of Brunch and Budget, a financial planning company with a bold mission, to create a revolutionary shift in the lives and prospects of marginalized communities by teaching them financial literacy and helping them understand and practice building generational wealth.
She joins us today today to help us learn how to raise our children to have a healthy relationship with money, and to inspire all of us to do our part to bring about true economic inclusion. Welcome Pamela to Parenting for the Future.
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Oct 26, 2022
Educating Immigrant Children: The Work of Fugees Family: A conversation with Luma Mufleh
Luma Mufleh is mother to two daughters and one son. She is a Syrian/Jordanian entrepreneur, a coach, and a thought leader in refugee and English Language Learner education. The daughter and granddaughter of Syrian refugees, Luma grew up in Amman, Jordan, where she was one of the only Arab students in her class at an American School and one of the only girls who played on her soccer team. As a young adult in a country where being gay was considered a crime, Luma came out to her parents and was disowned. Granted asylum in the US, Luma navigated the broken immigration system to build a life for herself, opening a coffee shop and coaching soccer.
She joins us today to discuss Fugees Family, the first accredited school for refugees in the United States, which she founded in 2006. The school has grown into a nationally acclaimed network of academies bringing educational equity to refugee resettlement communities across America.
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Sep 27, 2022
Move the Body, Heal the Mind: A conversation with Jennifer Heisz
Dr. Jennifer Heisz is a mother to one daughter and an expert in brain health. She is associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab which focuses on the effects of exercise on brain health. Jennifer received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from McMaster and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Health and Aging at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital. Her research examines the effects of physical activity on mental health and cognition in young adults, older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
She joins us today to discuss her first book, Move The Body, Heal The Mind, which explores her groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and dementia, as well as improve our focus, creativity and sleep.
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Sep 20, 2022
Baby Unplugged: Parenting in the Digital Age: A conversation with Sophie Brickman
Sophie Brickman is mother to two children, she's also a writer, reporter, and editor. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, as well as the Wall Street Journal. She wrote a monthly column for Elle, interviewing influential women, including Nancy Pelosi and Joyce Carol Oates about their paths to success and is currently a columnist at The Guardian. Sophie graduated with honors from Harvard College, studying social theory and philosophy.
She joins us today to discuss her first book, Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age. It is about the intersection of parenting and technology.
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Sep 13, 2022
Success Strategies for your Elementary -and- Middle-School Student: A conversation with Dr. Todd Jason Feltman
For over two decades, Dr. Todd Jason Feltman has been working in the New York City public school system and in local independent schools. He has been a classroom teacher, mentor, literacy coach, citywide literacy achievement coach, and assistant principal. Todd has master's degrees in childhood education, literary education, and school supervision and administration. He received his doctorate in urban education from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
During Todd's career, he has come to understand exactly why some students succeed and why others fail. And he has written two wonderful interactive handbooks to help all elementary and middle school students succeed. His first handbook is for students and it is called a Student-Friendly Handbook for Navigating Success: You Need to Take Charge of Your Education! The second is for teachers of students in grades two through eight, and is called Mentoring My Elementary-and Middle-School Students to Become Powerful Navigat…
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Aug 30, 2022
Troomi: A Smart Phone Just for Kids - A conversation with Bill Brady
Bill Brady is father to five children and the co-founder and CEO of Troomi Wireless, a cellular network, specifically designed for kids to give them a safe introduction to apps and the internet. In partnership with Samsung, Troomi has released two smartphones for kids, the Samsung Galaxy A12 and Samsung Galaxy A32, both come preloaded with Troomi's kids smart operating system. The system has built-in parental controls and empowers parents with kids ages seven and up to choose the websites their kids can access, set limits on activities like gaming and restrict access to inappropriate and dangerous content like pornography and apps which attract bullies and predators.
Bill joins us today to talk about his work to keep our kids safe on their smartphones and to help them engage with technology in healthy, productive ways.
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Aug 23, 2022
Life After High School: Designing your Child’s Perfect Experience: A conversation with Stephanie Haynes
Stephanie Haynes is a mother, a veteran educator, and an education coach and consultant. Her expertise is in providing custom consulting and coaching to high school students and their parents, with an emphasis on post-high school pathway development, goal setting and time management. Stephanie's goal is to motivate her clients to create a compelling vision for their future, and develop actionable steps to build it into a reality.
She joins us today to discuss her thought-provoking new book, College is Not Mandatory: A Parent's Guide to Navigating all the Options Available to Our Kids After High School.
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Aug 9, 2022
The Competencies of the Future (Part 2): A conversation with Stephanie Malia Krauss
Stephanie Malia Krauss is mother to two children. She has an extensive background in education, youth development, and social work, and has been a teacher, coach, school leader, and nonprofit executive. Today, she works at the intersection of education, human services, and workforce development with a relentless focus on what young people need to be ready for the world and what the world needs to be ready for them.
She joins us today to continue our conversation discussing her fascinating new book called Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World.
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Aug 2, 2022
The Competencies of the Future (Part 1): A conversation with Stephanie Malia Krauss
Stephanie Malia Krauss is mother to two children. She has an extensive background in education, youth development, and social work, and has been a teacher, coach, school leader, and nonprofit executive. Today, she works at the intersection of education, human services, and workforce development with a relentless focus on what young people need to be ready for the world and what the world needs to be ready for them.
She joins us today to discuss her fascinating new book called Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World. The book goes beyond the question of what young people need to succeed in school, to ask what they need to be ready for life. Making It is the essential reading for anyone who wants to ensure that young people are prepared to thrive and make their unique contribution in the challenging and ever-changing world in which they will come of age.
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Jul 26, 2022
Parenting Children with ADHD: A conversation with Dr. Rakesh Jain
Dr. Rakesh Jain is stepfather to one son, a clinical professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University School of Medicine, and also has a private practice in Austin, Texas. Dr. Jain attended medical school at the University of Calcutta, India, and graduate school at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. He served a three year residency in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, a two year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry, and completed a post doctoral fellowship in research psychiatry at the University of Texas Mental Science Institute.
Dr. Jain has been involved in well over 100 research projects studying the effects of medications on short-term and longterm treatment of depression, anxiety, pain, mood overlap disorders, ADHD and psychosis in adult and child populations. He has co-authored six books that range from patient education to cutting edge neuro biological findings in psychiatry and mental health.
He joins us today to ta…
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Jul 19, 2022
Being and Raising LGBTQ+ Allies: A conversation with Chris Tompkins
Chris Tomkins is uncle to five children, a TEDx speaker, spiritual life coach, and LGBTQ inner advocate. Chris has been staunched LGBTQ+ advocate for over 15 years working organizations like the gay and lesbian Alliance against defamation or GLAAD.
What began as a letter, he wrote to his family to address a conversation that was not taking place, became an article, a TEDx talk, and is now a new book called Raising LGBTQ Allies. A Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground. It is the first parenting book to focus on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying, before they even begin.
He joins us today to shed light on on the deeper multifaceted layers of homophobia and his book that encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way.
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Jul 12, 2022
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids: A conversation with Roni Nocon and Amy Sage
Roni Nocon and Amy Sage each have two children and are co-founders of ParentingEQ, a new subscription service for parents of children ages four to 11, designed to help parents nurture emotional intelligence in their children by creating a culture of emotional wellbeing in their homes.
Over the course of their careers as school counselors, they observed a decrease in children's overall wellbeing and an increase in depression, anxiety, self-harm, and negative self-worth. They found that a child's emotional health is greatly impacted by something over which schools have little influence, the family environment.
They join us today to discuss ParentingEQ's mission to bridge this gap through parent-led social-emotional activities, which focuses on the emotional intelligence skills children need to lead happy and successful lives.
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Jul 5, 2022
Grooming Life-long Learners – The Homer App: A conversation with Stephanie Dua
Stephanie Dua is mother to three kind and brilliant daughters. She is an education entrepreneur and the co-founder and president of HOMER, the only early learning program proven to increase reading scores with just 15 minutes a day.
Stephanie launched HOMER after struggling to find tools to help her own daughter learn to read despite being surrounded by some of the leading minds in education. HOMER raised $50 million from the biggest names in education and entertainment, including Sesame Workshop, LEGO Ventures and Gymboree Music and Play.
Before HOMER, Stephanie served as CEO for the New York City Education Department's Fund for Public Schools, a senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She's a graduate of UCLA and the Harvard Kennedy School.
She joins us today to share her journey to launching HOMER and her love of bringing learning to others.
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Jun 16, 2022
Reconstruction: Why all our Children Need to Learn our History: A conversation with Kaya Henderson
Kaya Henderson is a force of nature. She has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children. She is the CEO of Reconstruction, a technology company delivering a K-12 supplemental curriculum that situates Black people, culture, and contributions in an authentic identity affirming way, so that students of all backgrounds benefit from a complete understanding of our shared history and society.
Kaya is also the host of the uber popular podcast Pod Save the People. From 2010 to 2016, Kaya served as chancellor of DC Public Schools. Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, increased graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
She joins us today to talk about Reconstruction, and the impact it is designed to have.
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Jun 7, 2022
Reflections on COVID and our Kids: A conversation with Jennifer Grant
Jennifer Grant is mother to four children and an author. She has written six books for adults and several books for children including the picture book, Maybe God is Like That Too, Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too, and also A Little Blue Bottle.
Jennifer has written for several publications, including Woman's Day, Chicago Parent, and Patheos. For more than a decade, she wrote features for Sun-Times Media newspapers and was also a health and family columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She has a BA from Wheaton College and an MA in English and creative writing from Southern Methodist University.
She joins us today to talk about her latest book for children, Once Upon a Time Not So Long Ago, which is a picture book about the COVID pandemic.
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Feb 8, 2022
The Thrive Guide for Working Moms: A conversation with Whitnee Hawthorne
On this final episode of Season 4, we are joined by Whitnee Hawthorne is mom to two phenomenal sons and the founder of the very popular Savvy Working Mom web platform, which is dedicated to helping working mothers thrive in every arena of their lives.
Whitnee is certified in goal setting, project management, strategy performance and life coaching. She is also a professional speaker, a time management and productivity expert and widely known as a self-care guru.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to share some of her proven strategies for thriving at life and at work, strategies that allow her to live her personal credo, that working mothers don't have to choose between personal and professional success.
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Jan 25, 2022
Art, Race and the Future: A conversation with LaNitra Berger
Dr. LaNitra Berger is a mother to two sons and associate director of the African and African American Studies program at George Mason University, as well as the senior director of fellowships in the office of undergraduate education at George Mason University. As an art historian, LaNitra's research focuses on the intersections of art and social activism in the Black and Jewish diasporas. She has taught art of the African diaspora, African American art history, South African modern art, intersections of African and Jewish diasporas, art and social activism, and racial justice and public monuments, among other courses.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to discuss her first phonograph, Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color, and how lessons of Irma Stern's life can help our children become agents of change.
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Jan 18, 2022
The New Pregnancy Science: A conversation with Dr. Susan Fisher
Dr. Susan Fisher is mother to two daughters, a researcher, and professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For decades, she has been at the forefront of research on prenatal development. She has always been struck by the fact that while we parents teach our children about a lot of things, pregnancy is seldom one of those things. So, many of us grow into adulthood not fully understanding this most natural and consequential biological phenomena.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to help break the pattern of secrecy and guesswork that surround pregnancy and birth, and to share the new trailblazing science and advice for safe births and healthy babies. She also discusses her new book called, Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy. This book is an indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in the understanding of pregnancy and birth, and it is the topic of our conversation today.
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Jan 11, 2022
Nurturing the Kindness Superpower: A conversation with Nadine Fonseca
Nadine Fonseca is mother to four children and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mighty Kind Kids which publishes the amazing Mighty Kind Magazine. The magazine is a quarterly, anti-biased children's series that celebrates the role of kindness and compassion as the foundation for anti-biased learning and in bringing the human family closer together. Each issue is based on the premise that kindness, empathy, and compassion are teachable skills and readers learn fun facts about the world we share, read stories about kids doing good, and get actionable ideas for service and volunteer work. Mighty Kind has reached almost all 50 US states, as well as Mexico, Canada, Sri Lanka, France, Egypt, England, Ireland, Slovenia, Japan, and Finland.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to talk about how Mighty Kind is building a global community of kids who care and serving as an indispensable resource to the parents and adults who mentor and raise them.
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Dec 14, 2021
Throw out those Button Batteries! A conversation with Melissa Fensterstock
Melissa Fensterstock is mother to two wonderful children and a seasoned biotech, medtech and consumer product executive. She is the co-founder and CEO of Landsdowne Labs. The company's first product is ChildLok, a technology designed to deactivate button batteries following accidental ingestion. Button batteries are the small, round batteries found in mostly portable electronics coming in all of our homes like remote controls, thermometers, games and toys, watches, cameras, and musical greeting cards. Button batteries are tiny, they're shiny, and they are so appealing to children that over 35,000 children accidentally ingest them every year.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to discuss the button battery crisis and what she, through her work at Landsdowne Labs, is trying to do about it.
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Nov 30, 2021
How Foreign Language Fluency will Shape the Future: A conversation with Michelle Glorieux
Michelle Glorieux is mother to one phenomenal son and is the co-founder of the ed-tech startup, TA-DA! TA-DA!'s first products are beautifully bound interactive books which marry paper technology, gorgeous art, and a symphony of original music for an unrivaled magical language learning experience. All children have to do is simply touch the images on the paper and the books come to life with real native speakers from around the globe and ambient sound effects.
To produce these books, she joins forces with, among others, Grammy Award winning music producer Jesse Lewis, highly trained linguists, talented artists, engineers, students and other teachers from around the world to help children learn languages and the cultures around those languages.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to explore the magical world of TA-DA!
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Nov 16, 2021
Raising Future Females Part III: Wealth Generators: A conversation with Jennifer Openshaw
Jennifer Ann Openshaw is a mother to two amazing daughters, a financial innovator and the founder and CEO of Girls with Impact, the nation’s only live online mini MBA for young women, ages 12 to 18. Jennifer has an extensive background in financial innovation and wealth management, has shared her financial expertise on CNN, Oprah, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNBC and is the author of three books.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to discuss this life-changing program that equips girls with the entrepreneurship skills, confidence and business knowledge to set them apart and set them up for future success.
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Nov 9, 2021
Raising Future Females Part II: Movers and Shakers: A conversation with Marisa Porges
Dr. Marisa Porges is mother to one fantastic son and is the eighth head of the 130-year-old, all-girls Baldwin School, outside of Philadelphia. The school is renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and change-makers. This puts her in charge of helping to raise 600 girls, ages four to 18. Marisa attended the Baldwin School herself and after graduating from Harvard University, she fulfilled her childhood dream of flying jets for the U.S Navy as one of eight female aviators in an Air Wing of 200.
Marisa served in the Obama White House as a cybersecurity advisor and was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and the Council of Foreign Relations where her research focused on worldwide counter terrorism efforts.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to discuss her new book, "What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous and Resilient Women”, which was inspired by the young woman at Baldwin. The book explores the old and new challenges girls face in…
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Nov 2, 2021
Raising Future Females Part I: Females of Color: A conversation with Elisse Battle
Elisse Battle has been a special educator for 18 years, working to empower students and ensure they feel seen, find their own voices, and thrive in and out of school. She's also dedicated to the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and supports students of color, particularly women students of color as they navigate structural barriers.
She joins us on Parenting for the Future to talk about the importance of supporting students, their schools, and their parents if we want to create a brighter future for all of our children.
Elisse also serves as an upper school learning specialist at the Trinity School in New York, a college preparatory co-educational independent school renowned for providing a world-class education to its students through rigorous academics, outstanding programs in athletics, the arts, peer leadership, and global travel. Elisse also serves as an upper school equity and inclusion coordinator, sits on the school's anti-racism task force, and is the teacher adviso…
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Oct 26, 2021
College Admission Season – No-Stress Success Guide: A conversation with Shirag Shammessian
Dr. Shirag Shemmassian is father to one son, the founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting, and one of the world's foremost experts on admissions to highly selective colleges, graduate programs, and medical schools. For nearly 20 years, he and his team have helped thousands of students overcome obstacles and gain admission to these schools using his proprietary approach. Shirag was born in Los Angeles to Armenian parents who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon. As a high school student, he navigated the admissions process with limited college counseling. He received a BS in human development from Cornell University and a PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA. Shirag's expertise has been featured in various media outlets, including the Washington Post and Business Insider.
He joins us on Parenting for the Future to share his wisdom on how we parents can help our children hone their unique voices so that they can achieve their educational and career goals.
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Oct 19, 2021
Awe, Wonder and your Child’s Voice: A conversation with Dr. Albert Lin
Dr. Albert Lin is father to two wonderful children and an internationally renowned scientist, innovator, technologist, and entrepreneur. He's the director of the Center for Human Frontiers at Qualcomm Institute, University of California, San Diego, and an award-winning National Geographic explorer and host of the fascinating uber popular show, Lost Cities with Albert Lin on National Geographic.
Albert received his PhD in material science and engineering from University of California, San Diego. He has founded and directed numerous programs, including the UC San Diego National Geographic Engineers for Exploration Program, the Exploration Lab, the Distributed Health Labs, and the international effort known as the Valley of the Khans Project in collaboration with National Geographic.
He joins us on Parenting for the Future to share his advice on how we parents can HELP children cultivate a sense of adventure and wonder and ignite a thirst for discovery and a love of learning.
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Oct 12, 2021
A Future without Sexual Harassment: A conversation with Gretchen Carlson
Gretchen Carlson is mother to two children, a journalist, author, Ted Talk alum, and a fierce, fearless internationally recognized advocate for women's rights. She started her journalism career as a political reporter in Richmond, Virginia and worked her way up through local newsrooms in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Dallas before moving to national news in 2000 as co-host and corespondent for CBS's The Saturday Early Show. In 2005, Gretchen joined Fox News, where she co-hosted the number one cable morning news show, Fox and Friends, for more than seven years.
Gretchen's catalog of interviews included every US president, vice president, and presidential candidate, as well as hundreds of leaders in business entertainment and politics. Yet, it was her groundbreaking 2016 sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, Chairman of Fox News, alleging she had been fired from her show for refusing his sexual advances that made Gretchen the face of workplace harassment, inaugurated her work to s…
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Oct 5, 2021
Effortless Success – It’s Real and We Can Have It: A conversation with Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown is a husband and a father to four amazing children. He is the host of the super popular podcast, What's Essential, which helps high-achieving driven productive people become successful at success and make a higher contribution effortlessly. Greg is also the author of The New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide. And the recently released, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. He joins us on Parenting for the Future to share his advice on how we parents can de-clutter our lives by doing the things we have to do without strain and stress, which will free us to be more present for ourselves, our children, and for our world.
Greg is among the most popular bloggers for LinkedIn and is a young global leader for the World Economic Forum. His work has been covered by the New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico and Inc,. He has been interviewed on NPR, NBC, Fox, and the Steve…
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Apr 27, 2021
The Life-saving Power of Self-acceptance: A conversation with Melissa Bernstein
Melissa Bernstein is mother to six amazing children, wife to her best friend and business partner, Doug, and co-founder of the successful toy company, Melissa & Doug. Melissa, whose mind, heart and hands create joy, has for all her life lived under a heavy cloud of despair. It was not until her 50th year that she discovered that she suffered from existential depression. This discovery saved her life and spurred her to write LifeLines an inspirational journey from profound darkness to radiant light.
Since its inception, Melissa and Doug has focused on creating authentic, innovative, high quality toys at assessable prices, toys which promotes open-ended, creative free play for new generations of children. The company's mission is to ignite imagination and a sense of wonder in children so they can discover themselves, their passions and their purpose in space.
Creating gave meaning and purpose to Melissa's existence and by channeling her pain into tangible forms, she could, for a time e…
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Apr 22, 2021
Preserving our Planet: A Legacy Continues: A conversation with Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Ashlan Gorse-Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau Jr. and his wife, Ashlan Gorse-Cousteau, are parents to one wonderful daughter and are expecting a second. Phillipe is the grandson of renowned French explorer, conservationist inventor, and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, and is himself an environmentalist. Ashlan is a journalist and the couple work closely on a number of projects to bring attention to the beauty and wonder of our world and the importance of preserving it for our children and the generations to come after them.
Much of their work is done through EarthEcho International, a nonprofit organization founded by Phillip and his sister on the belief that young people have the power to change our planet. It is dedicated to supporting youth around the world who are taking action to protect natural resources in their local communities and solve environmental problems. EarthEcho International has programs in over 140 countries.
https://www.earthecho.org
https://www.earthecho.org/youth
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Apr 15, 2021
Financially Literate Kids: A conversation with Benny Nachman
Benny Nachman is father to two sons. He is the founder, president, and CEO of Jassby, a popular money app and virtual debit card for kids and teens that allows them to earn, save, donate, spend, and learn to manage their own finances. On this episode he shares his thoughts on why it is so important for all of us to raise financially literate children.
Although Benny trained as an attorney and practiced corporate law for some time, he is a serial entrepreneur at heart. In addition to Jassby, and earlier ventures, he also founded and is the chairman of the board of Credorax, a global e-commerce payment cards acquirer and processor which is licensed in over 34 countries and allows merchants to process billions of dollars in online and mobile payments.
https://jassby.com
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Apr 8, 2021
Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children: A conversation with Michael V. Kaplen
Michael V. Kaplen is father to Alexander and Dianna. He is a senior partner at the law firm of De Caro & Kaplen, and professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches traumatic brain injury law. He is an advocate for children, particularly children who sustain traumatic brain injuries, often due to their participation in sports. On this episode, Michael helps us better understand these injuries and how we can protect our children from them.
Michael is the chair person of the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council, which was created to advise and consult with the New York State Department of Health on issues pertaining to traumatic brain injury. He served three terms as president of the Brain Injury Association of New York State.
He is a frequent lecturer on brain injury. His views and opinions are frequently sought after by major news networks and publications, like the New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, NBC…
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Mar 30, 2021
Parenting Lessons from The C-Suite: A conversation with Mia Mends
Mia Mends is mom to 13-year-old Jacob who is a super athlete, entrepreneurial, and very sweet. She is also mom to 10-year-old Laila who is also entrepreneurial, artistic, and spicy. She is the Chief Administrative Officer of Sodexo North America and a member of the company's North America regional leadership committee. Mia also leads SodexoMAGIC a joint venture between Sodexo and Magic Johnson Enterprises. Last year, she was named one of the most powerful women in corporate America by Black Enterprise.
On this episode, she talks about changing the world through her parenting and from her position in the C-suite.
In her executive level role at Sodexo, whose annual revenue in the United States and Canada alone exceeds 10.7 billion dollars, Mia is responsible for driving the critical strategic initiatives in support of growth goals.
She has founded her own nonprofit, Seven Sisters to Sisters and serves on the boards of several impactful organizations including Girls Inc. and Catalyst.…
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Mar 16, 2021
Our Children, Lent and Love: A conversation with Michelle Triant
Michelle Triant is a mom to two energetic and curious daughters, a Presbytera, a writer, an editor and a book publicist. She is a member of the Greek Orthodox faith and is dedicated to promoting health, wellness, and connection in Orthodox Christian families. She recently released Love at Lent, a beautiful colorful box of activity cards designed to be drawn at random each day of lent to encourage mindfulness, humility, kindness for the whole family.
This year lent runs from February 17th to April 3rd. And although it is an important period of renewal and awareness for Christian families, parents sometimes are challenged to find positive, meaningful ways to help their children understand and be inspired by some of the key tenants of lent like love, generosity, forgiveness and empathy. So Love at Lent is right on time. To learn more, visit:
https://www.loveatlent.com
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Mar 4, 2021
Finding and Using Your Voice: A conversation with Alison Stewart
Alison Stewart is a mom to 12 year old Isaac, who is obsessed with sports. She is the host of the exceptionally insightful and super popular radio show on WNYC, called All of It. She has been a journalist for more than two decades and has reported for, or anchored her own ground-breaking news programs on all the major national news networks. On this episode, she talks about shaping the future through her parenting and her journalism.
She has also authored two books. First Class, The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School, named one of the best books of 2013 by Essence and Mother Jones magazines and Junk, Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff. Alison is a Brown University graduate and was awarded a doctor of fine arts degree from Bloomfield College. She has been active in various charities, including, Dress for Success, The Lighthouse and Chess in Schools.
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Feb 17, 2021
The Power of Curiosity: A conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is mom to three wonderful children — James Wilkie, Loretta, and Tabitha. She is wife to Matthew Broderick, an actor, producer, entrepreneur, and an icon. Sarah owns or controls several successful business ventures, including Pretty Matches, her film and television production with HBO. In this conversation, she talks about shaping the future through her parenting, her platform, and by practicing curiosity.
Sarah made her debut at the tender age of 11 in the revival of The Innocents and Broadway. By 12, she was starring on Annie, also on Broadway, and has never looked back. She has starred in several critically acclaimed movies and TV shows, including Square Pegs, Glee, and Divorce, but she is probably best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City.
For Sex and the City, Sarah has won two Emmy awards, four Golden Globe awards for best actress in a comedy series, and three Screen Actor Guild awards.
Although Sex and the C…
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Feb 2, 2021
Resilient Parenting: A conversation with J.R. Martinez
J.R. Martinez is father to a vivacious, beautiful, curious daughter. He is an actor, a New York Times best-selling writer, an ABC's Dancing with the Stars winner, a motivational speaker, an advocate, and a wounded US army veteran. He is the personification of optimism, courage, and resilience. On this episode, J.R. shares with us what it means to be a resilient parent.
J.R.'s catalogue of work includes playing Brot Monroe, an injured combat veteran trying to re enter civilian life on ABC's Emmy award winning television drama, All My Children. He has also written the New York Times best seller, Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength, and Spirit.
He is one of People Magazine's annual sexiest man alive and is known for his moving, speeches to US troops around the world, or at some of the world's leading companies.
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Jan 15, 2021
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain: A conversation with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett
Neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is mother to one daughter. She is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. She is the author of the newly released book called, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University with appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barrett was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Neuroscience in 2019, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Royal Society of Canada.
She is the author of two books, How Emotions are Made, the Secret Life of the Brain. On this episode, she discusses her fascinating, newly released book called, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/books/seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain/
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Dec 22, 2020
The Power of Toys to Change the World: A conversation with Dr. Lisa Williams
Dr. Lisa Williams is internationally recognized as an academic trailblazer, founder of a multi-million dollar company, and an award winning speaker and author. Dr. Lisa attained unprecedented success by becoming the first female professor to receive a multi-million dollar endowed chair, the first African American professor to earn tenure at Penn State University, and the first African American to receive a doctorate in Logistics from The Ohio State.
At the height of her career, Dr. Lisa did the unthinkable when she left the academic life to blaze a new trail as an entrepreneur. In 2003, she founded the World of Entertainment, Publishing and Inspiration (World of EPI), LLC. EPI is the classic Cinderella story. Dr. Lisa grew the company from negative revenues into a multi-million dollar powerhouse. EPI is now a leading multi-cultural toy manufacturing and design firm with a global supply chain that crisscrosses the world from the US to China and other worldwide destinations. EPI…
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Dec 17, 2020
Parenting Social Media and Screen Savvy Kids (Part 2): A conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh
In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh. In this conversation, we turn to COVID-19 and explore the roles technology and digital media play and will continue to play in our lives. We examine how we as parents can maintain our sanity and the wellbeing of our children and our families in this challenging screen-filled time, as well as the role we can play in addressing the serious structural inequities that the pandemic highlighted.
Our complex relationship with digital technology and social media has only been exacerbated with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. Technology became our savior, allowing schools to teach, allowing parents to work, and allowing all of us kids and adults to maintain social and familial ties.
Dr. Jill Walsh is a researcher and lecturer at Boston University and an advocate for children. She is the founder of Digital Aged, a consultancy which re-frames the role of technology in the lives of children to promote health…
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Dec 10, 2020
Parenting Social Media & Screen Savvy Kids (Part 1): A conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh
Dr. Jill Walsh is a researcher and lecturer at Boston University and the founder of Digital Aged, a consultancy which re-frames the role of technology in the lives of children to promote healthier relationships between them and the adults in their lives. In this episode, we explore our children's relationship with digital technology and social media and how parents can best guide them, protect them, and help them use these tools to elevate their unique voices and connect to the world in a healthy way.
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Nov 24, 2020
Real American: A conversation with Julie Lythcott Haims
More about Julie Lythcott-Haims:
Julie Lythcott-Haims is a seventh generation real American. Her American ancestors were kidnapped from Africa, sold at auction like common animals and enslaved. As slaves, they were tortured and raped repeatedly by their white masters to produce children for slave labor. Their labor built America and made thousands of white Americans, as well as our entire country wealthy. When they were finally emancipated, they were freed, but not free. Not only were they never compensated for the theft of their labor, dignity, or lives, but federal, State, and local governments, under color of law, intentionally reinforced old and created new structures to subjugate them. These structures still plague the lives of all their descendants today.
Julie is also the author of the New York Times bestselling anti-helicopter parenting manifesto, How To Raise An Adult.
Petal's key takeaways:
Children as young as five to seven, if you talk to them explicitly about interraci…
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Nov 10, 2020
Kids respond: What would they do if they were President of the United States
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Oct 27, 2020
Before You Vote: What to know about climate change with Jeffrey Sachs
No one is more knowledgeable about the scope of the SDGs than world-renowned economist, global leader in sustainable development and Columbia University Professor, Jeffrey Sachs. Professor Sachs is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and has served as Special Advisor to every UN Secretary General appointed between 2001 and 2018.
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Oct 27, 2020
Before You Vote: What to know about climate change with Michael Gerrard
Michael Gerrard, grandfather to a curious, vivacious granddaughter, is one of the world’s leading environmental lawyers and Climate Change experts. Michael is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law. He is also the faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law which develops legal techniques to fight climate change, trains students and lawyers in the use of these techniques and provides up-to-date resources and thought leadership on key topics in Climate Change law and regulation. To date, Michael has authored or edited 13 books on Climate Change and Environmental Law, including a thought-provoking and inspiring new book called: Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States. He has also traversed the globe – from Malta to Chile to Taiwan to the Marshall Islands to lecture and advise leaders on Climate Change and Environmental Law.
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Oct 27, 2020
2020 Election Special: Climate Change
To learn more about the impacts of climate change, please listen to Parenting for the Future's conversations with climate change experts Michael Gerrard (episode #5) and Jeffery Sachs (episode #13). You can find each within your podcast feed, or through the links below.
https://www.petalmodeste.com/episode-five-michael-gerard/
https://www.petalmodeste.com/episode-3-jeffrey-sachs/
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Oct 21, 2020
Welcome to Season 3
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Sep 4, 2020
Back to School in a COVID-19 World - Advice for Parents
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Jul 21, 2020
Grit, Grace and Great Chocolate: A conversation with Jacques Torres
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Jul 9, 2020
Parenting Gay Sons: A Conversation with "Gay Like Me" Author, Richie Jackson
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Jun 24, 2020
Parenting Transgender Children: A conversation with Mimi Lemay
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Jun 6, 2020
Empowering Black Women: The Work of She ROARs: A conversation with Chidiogo Akunyili
In 1995, a visionary agenda for the Parliament of Women and Girls, called the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, was adopted at the fourth World Conference on Women. The action was adopted by 198 countries, all of whom were committed to taking strategic, bold action to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. 2020 marks 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, and yet today not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality. Goal number 5 of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Multiple obstacles remain unchanged, however, in law and in culture, and as a result, women remain undervalued, they continue to work more, earn less, have fewer choices, and experience multiple forms of violence at home and in public spaces. Chidiogo Akunyili, is working to fulfill the promises of the Beijing Declaration and goal number five of the UN sustai…
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May 20, 2020
Self Care for Parents - A conversation with Meghan Leahy
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May 5, 2020
Racial Segregation in US Housing: It's History and Consequences - A conversation with Richard Rothstein
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Apr 14, 2020
How to Raise a Reader: A conversation with Maria Russo
Maria Russo is a mother to three curious and engaging children. She is the children's book editor of the New York Times Book Review, so it is no surprise that she has long loved the written word. She earned her PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University where she has also taught. And before joining the New York Times, she served as a Writer and Editor for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer and salon.com. Maria is the co-author of, How to Raise a Reader, which provides masterful guidance to parents, teachers, and others with children in their lives on how to cultivate a lifelong love of books within them. This book is the subject of our episode.
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Apr 2, 2020
Overcoming Racial Bias: A conversation with Vernã Meyers
Vernã Myers is a mother to one phenomenal son. She is a cultural change catalyst, influencer, and thought leader who is known for her captivating insights and ability to help people bridge differences and connect more meaningfully. She is a Harvard trained lawyer and founded the Vernã Myers company, which for over two decades, has helped organizations eradicate barriers based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences. She is also the Vice President of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix where she helps devise and implement strategies that integrate cultural diversity, inclusion, and equity into all aspects of Netflix's operations worldwide. Her inspiring TED Talk, How to Overcome Our Biases: Walk Boldly Toward Them, offers ways any person can become an active participant in countering bias in themselves and in others to create a better world.
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Mar 17, 2020
Can College Create Equitable Societies? A conversation with Paul Tough
Enshrined in the very preamble to the United States constitution, in the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is a powerful idea that has come to define the United States. That anyone who lives here, regardless of the station into which they were born, has the right to and can pursue and attain their version of a full free and happy life. That ability to move from the station into which one was born to another is otherwise known as social mobility. And in America a college education has long been deemed the chief vehicle through which that mobility is attained. But does college work? Does it truly provide real opportunity for young people, who want to improve themselves and their prospects? Or is it simply a rigged game designed to protect the elites who have power and exclude everyone else.
On this episode, we explore these questions with Paul Tough. Paul is a father of two sons and a New York Times bestselling author. In his new book, The Years That Matter Most: How Coll…
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Mar 3, 2020
Educating all Our Children - The Work of Harlem Children's Zone - A conversation with Anne Williams-Isom
With a Gross Domestic Product of over $21 trillion, the United States is one of the richest nations on earth. Yet, to our eternal shame, more that 13 million children in the United States - nearly 1 in every 5 children – live in poverty. Living in poverty means that regardless of their intelligence, aptitudes and talents, 13 million children are unlikely to have a sound education or adequate healthcare. 13 million children, will more than likely be exposed to violence, and the gravitational pull of powerful negative influences, to which many unfortunately will fall prey. 13 million children who will ultimately be unprepared and unable to thrive, to help themselves, their country, and the world. Using a model that focuses intensely on the health, social and educational development of children, including wrap-around programs that improve the family life and community of those children, Harlem Children’s Zone, in the words of President Obama “is an all-encompassing anti-poverty, eff…
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Feb 18, 2020
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls - A conversation with Lisa Damour
Dr. Lisa Damour is a proud mother of two engaging girls and Yale educated psychotherapist who writes the monthly adolescent's column for the New York Times. She serves as a regular contributor to CBS news, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, is a senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western University, and the executive director of Laurel's School Center for Research on Girls. She is also the author of two New York times best-selling books, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls. Not surprisingly, she is affectionately sometimes called the teen whisperer.
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Feb 11, 2020
UN Sustainable Development Goals - Our Path to an Equitable World - A conversation with Jeffery Sachs
At an historic 2015 United Nations Summit, all 192 UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which sets out a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for all people and for the preservation of our planet. At its heart, are 17 Sustainable Development Goals which, when taken together, aim to: end poverty and hunger, combat inequality, protect human rights and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources. No one is more knowledgeable about the scope of the SDGs than world-renowned economist, global leader in sustainable development and Columbia University Professor, Jeffrey Sachs. Professor Sachs is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and has served as Special Advisor to every UN Secretary General appointed between 2001 and 2018. Professor Sachs has worked closely w…
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Feb 4, 2020
Personal Leadership & Success - A conversation with Hitendra Wadhwa
Hitendra is a father to a brilliant teenage daughter who is already positively impacting her world. He is a Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School where he teaches the business school’s most popular MBA leadership class on Personal Leadership & Success, along with classes Driving Strategic Impact and Leading from the Inside Out. Hitendra is also the founder of the Mentora Institute (formerly the Institute of Personal Leadership) which is at the forefront of the new science of Personal Leadership. By integrating the latest findings about human nature from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, sociology, psychotherapy and behavioral economics with the lessons learned from the lives of great leaders in human history, the Institute teaches leaders how to achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through ever-deepening Inner Mastery. Hitendra’s widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership have been covered by Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Inc. Magazine, The Financial T…
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Jan 28, 2020
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - A conversation with Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth is a mother to two spirited daughters, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance". She is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a MacArthur Fellow, and the CEO of The Character Lab, an organization whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development.
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Dec 17, 2019
Building Cross-Cultural Competencies in our Children through Books - A conversation with Mijha Godfrey of Jambo Book Club
Mijha Godfrey, is mother to two vivacious girls. She is a Yale Law graduate, social justice lawyer and founder of Jambo Book Club! Jambo, which means both “hello” and “welcome” in Swahili, is the only book subscription service for children aged 0 – 13 where all the books feature lead characters who are children of color. The stories in Jambo books do not contain the tired, stereotypical portrayals we too often find about children of color in literature. They focus instead on the beauty of childhood; the joys of friendship and family; the thrill of new adventures; the wonderful tapestry that is the life of a child of color. Mijha is passionate about helping parents raise children who won’t need to be taught how to tolerate people who are different from themselves; children who embrace traditions, backgrounds and perspectives that differ from their own, as natural components of a rich and sophisticated life; children who recognize the same humanity in those who may not sha…
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Dec 10, 2019
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed - A Conversation with Jessica Lahey
Jessica Lahey is a mother to two children and has been a middle and high school teacher for over twenty years. A few years ago, she began to notice an obvious and startling fear of failure in both her own children and her students - a fear, that had the potential to undermine their autonomy, competence, motivation and their relationships with the adults in their lives. She suspected that that fear of failure was directly related to the way we parent. A deep dive into the research bore her hypothesis out, and resulted in her New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Since the book’s publication, Jessica has been traveling across the US and around the world helping parents and teachers learn how to foster deep, meaningful learning by offering kids more autonomy at home and in school.
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Dec 3, 2019
A Call to Men - A conversation with Ted Bunch
Ted Bunch is a father to six wonderful children. He is the Chief Development Officer of A Call to Men, a global organization with a unique and powerful mission: prevent violence against women, in all its forms, by educating and training men and boys to embrace and promote a new definition of manhood – one that is healthy and respectful and venerates rather than violates women. Before joining A Call to Men, Ted co-created the largest program for domestic violence offenders in America, a program which led to the development best practices for engaging men to end violence against women. He is also the co-author of the LIVERESPECT™ Coaching Healthy & Respectful Manhood Curriculum, designed to prevent violence and bullying in school and sports. He is an adviser to the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball and has developed and implemented model response programs for police and fire departments, an…
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Nov 19, 2019
Growing up Mindful - A conversation with Christopher Willard
Christopher Willard is father to two wonderful children. He is a clinical psychologist and consultant who teaches at Harvard Medical School. He has been a mindfulness meditation practitioner for over two decades and specializes in integrating mindfulness into education and psychotherapy. He is a thought leader who has authored more than 11 books including the bestsellers, Child’s Mind (2010), Growing Up Mindful (2016) and Raising Resilience (2017). He has presented at TEDx conferences and several news organizations including CNN and ABC. His thoughts have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Parents Magazine, among many other publications. Christopher's therapeutic games and card sets for children and adults are available in more than ten languages and he has traversed the globe, from Australia to Bhutan to Uruguay and just about every country in between, to speak and teach on Mindfulness. He currently serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation a…
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Nov 12, 2019
Life Admin: How to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More - A conversation with Elizabeth Emens
Elizabeth Emens is a mother to two spirited, curious children and the author of a new, thought-provoking book called, Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More. She is a devoted practitioner of Mindfulness Meditation and yoga. She is also a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Her principal areas of publishing and teaching include disability law, family, anti-discrimination and contracts law, and law and sexuality.
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Nov 5, 2019
Phenomena Shaping the Future: Climate Change - A conversation with Michael Gerrard
Michael Gerrard, grandfather to a curious, vivacious granddaughter, is one of the world’s leading environmental lawyers and Climate Change experts. Michael is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law. He is also the faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law which develops legal techniques to fight climate change, trains students and lawyers in the use of these techniques and provides up-to-date resources and thought leadership on key topics in Climate Change law and regulation. To date, Michael has authored or edited 13 books on Climate Change and Environmental Law, including a thought-provoking and inspiring new book called: Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States. He has also traversed the globe - from Malta to Chile to Taiwan to the Marshall Islands to lecture and advise leaders on Climate Change and Environmental Law.
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Oct 29, 2019
How to Raise an Adult - A conversation with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, roots for humans. Humans need agency in order to make their way forward and Julie is deeply interested in what impedes us. She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, an anti-helicopter parenting manifesto which gave rise to one of the top TED Talks of 2016.
Julie’s work has appeared throughout the media including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Parents, the PBS News Hour, National Public Radio and its affiliates and C-SPAN. She serves on several boards including, Common Sense Media, in San Francisco, and the advisory board of Lean In in Menlo Park, CA. She also sings with the Peninsula chapter of Threshold Choir and volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.
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Oct 22, 2019
The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children - A conversation with Ronald Ferguson and Tatsha Robertson
Ronald Ferguson is a Harvard Kennedy School professor. Tatsha Robertson is an award-winning journalist. Together, they have found the answer to a pivotal question every parent asks: "How can I raise my children to be, not just successful people, but extraordinarily successful human beings?" In 2009, Ronald, a father of three who is also the faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, started the “How I was Parented Project” in which Harvard students interviewed one another in an effort to understand how parenting got them to where they were. Four years before Ronald started his project, Tasha Robertson, who was then the New York City Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe, begun interviewing high-achieving people (including eventually, President Obama) about how thy raised their own children and how they were raised. The purpose? She wondered if mothers and fathers of very successful people were knowingly or unknowingly following patterns in their pare…
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Oct 15, 2019
How Toddlers Thrive: Planting the Seeds for Lifelong Success - A conversation with Tovah Klein
Tovah Klein is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Barnard College and Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development, where she and her team study, among other topics, children's social and emotional development, the influence of parents on children's development, sleep and separation, and the role of play in development. Tovah Klein is a thought leader who has worked with Sesame Street, serves on the advisory boards for the Ubuntu Pathways in South Africa, Room to Grow, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the board of Hypothekids in Harlem. She often appears, and her work is frequently quoted, in the media and some call her the “Toddler Whisperer”. Her bestselling book, “How Toddlers Thrive” is a must read for parents who want to learn what they can do today with their 2-5 year olds to plant the seeds of lifelong success. Tovah Klein is also a mother to three amazing young men and has transformed for the better (I might add) my parenting.
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Oct 8, 2019
How to Raise Successful People: A conversation with Esther Wojcicki
Esther Wojcicki has been an educational pioneer and journalist for nearly 40 years. She is the founder of the famed Media Arts programs at Palo Alto High School. She is also the founder of Global Moonshots in Education, an organization with the goal of bringing to every classroom, Blended Learning – a new model of teaching that incorporates technology, enabling students to be so fully engaged and inspired in their learning, that they reach their fullest potential and readiness for thriving in the 21st century and beyond. She helped to form GoogleEdu - a teacher-student resource platform and consulted for many years with the U.S. Department of Education, the Hewlett Foundation and Time Magazine Education. She has worked across the globe with innovative educators, is Vice Chair of the Creative Commons Advisory Counsel and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Newseum. It is no surprise that Esther has positively imprinted the lives of the thousands of students she has taught, many…
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Sep 28, 2019
Welcome to Parenting for the Future
Welcome to Parenting for the Future! On this podcast, we talk to parents, children, thought leaders, and experts across a broad range of disciplines to learn how to raise our children to find their unique voices so that they can thrive and lead positive change in the rapidly evolving world in which they will come of age.
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