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I Gave Birth During the Pandemic Sep 29, 2020

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Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe-winning co-creator/star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, reveals what it was like giving birth during the pandemic at the same moment her friend and music collaborator, Adam Schlesinger, was losing his battle with the virus. With COVID-19 as a humbling denominator, she confronts mortality with the same out-of-body clarity in a way that she hasn’t since that one time she took way too many mushrooms in Amsterdam. “There's nothing more on the nose about as one person enters, one person is leaving,” she reflects. “Ten minutes after he died, I was breastfeeding because she needed food. So there's something very egoless about, like, I can only grieve for so long.”

You can follow Rachel Bloom on Instagram and Twitter @Racheldoesstuff.

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Interested in learning more about Rachel and what she does? Check out the links below:

Listen to the full version of “The Miracle of Birth” from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIXduEbLz0.
You can stream all 4 seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix now: https://www.netflix.com/title/80116748
Learn more about Rachel Bloom’s latest project, ‘I’m in Love With the Dancer From My Bat Mitzvah:’ https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/rachel-bloom-eps-in-love-with-the-dancer-from-my-bat-mitzvah.html

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Introducing Good Kids Season 2 Sep 22, 2020

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We could all use a little more goodness in our lives right now. That’s why Good Kids is back for Season 2, bringing you 10-minute audio delights on how we can all raise better humans, together. This season, we talk to parents, experts, and good kids themselves about everything from climate change and mental health to race and mentoring. Launches Tuesday, September 29th.

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How To Unlock Grit in an Unpredictable World (with Angela Duckworth) Jul 07, 2020

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If you’ve ever sat through professional development as an educator, you’ve heard of Angela Duckworth. Both her research and personal experience in the classroom suggests that IQ isn’t always helpful in determining successful outcomes for students. Rather, a more important predictor of success is “grit,” a growth mindset, and feeling like you have a purpose that’s bigger than yourself. So how do we unlock grit and resilience in our kids, especially when the world is so uncertain and unpredictable? And what kind of impact will this period in our history have on our kids in the longterm? “Both the very recent events of the last few weeks and the still recent events of the last few months in the pandemic are all exactly what I study...this is historic.”

Want to hear more from Angela Duckworth?

You can follow her on Twitter at @angeladuckw and @TheCharacterLab
Read Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance to learn why some people succeed and others fail. Sharing new insights from her landmark research, Angela explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Visit angeladuckworth.com/grit-book to learn more.
Check out Angela Duckworth’s podcast No Stupid Questions at freakonomics.com/nsq

Thanks for listening to Season 1 of Good Kids! Here are some things to do while you wait for Season 2:

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How To Embrace The Moment, Especially When It’s Uncomfortable (with Briony May Williams) Jun 30, 2020

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Great British Bake Off and Food Unwrapped star Briony May Williams reflects on the COVID19 pandemic and recent Black Lives Matter uprising, and what she can do as the parent of a young child to have these uncomfortable conversations in a way that feels safe and loving. Also, baking! She talks about baking. “It's uncomfortable and it's awkward, but it's so important...and I think it's finding that moment where it's appropriate to have that conversation. It’s so important to have it because we can't just sit in our bubble anymore and say, ‘It's fine, nothing's going on.’”

You can follow Briony May Williams on Instagram and Twitter at @brionymaybakes

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Claudia Reuter, a former stay-at-home mom who went on to be a venture-backed CEO, is the host of The 43 Percent, a podcast from Wonder Media Network that talks to women about their journeys towards creating lives that include both family and career. Listen at the43percent.com

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How To Talk About Your Unique Family (with Peter Rider) Jun 23, 2020

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Stay-at-home dad Peter Rider shares his experience--the good, the bad, and the funny--with being detailed and clear when talking to his kids about all sorts of things. From having two gay dads to contracting head lice and more, he believes being explicit is the way to go. “One thing that I've been thinking about a lot over the past year, especially as my kids get a little older, is the balance between modeling behaviors vs. being really explicit and explaining things. I think I started out thinking that when it comes to values, kids really learn by seeing. But I think increasingly I've thought...about how you actually have to be really explicit about some things.”

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How To Grow Your Family Through Fostering and Adoption (with Brit Prawat) Jun 16, 2020

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Brit Prawat, host of Crime Junkie podcast, talks candidly about being adopted and how the emotions and even loss around that never really goes away. However, she had an incredibly positive experience as a child and always felt loved, supported, and chosen. Ultimately, the experience influenced her to adopt and foster children of her own when it came time to build her own family. For those who may be interested in doing the same, she pulls the curtain back and gives listeners tons of good information about the process.

You can follow Brit Prawat on Instagram and Twitter at @britprawat and listen to her podcast, Crime Junkie at crimejunkiepodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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How To Make Peace with TV (with Rebecca Carroll) Jun 09, 2020

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Rebecca Carroll is a cultural critic, host of WYNC’s Come Through podcast, and critic at large for the Los Angeles Times. TL;DR: She is qualified to talk about television. But during quarantine, she’s found herself reexamining the role TV plays in her own family and how it’s actually a pretty good thing when times are particularly tough. “I just don't think that this whole screen time thing is as negative as a lot of folks do. So long as I can have a conversation with my kid about what he is consuming, so long as I can have a conversation with him about what he is thinking, I am pretty lax about screentime.”

Follow Rebecca Carroll on Instagram at @rebeljunemarie and on Twitter at @rebel19

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Want more from Rebecca?

Listen to her podcast, Come Through, to hear 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal year for America. Visit wnycstudios.org/podcasts/come-through
Find more of her work, articles, and books at rebeccasimonecarroll.com

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How To Raise Anti-Racist Kids (with Dr. Nzinga Harrison) Jun 02, 2020

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In this critical episode, Dr. Nzinga Harrison outlines ways to talk with kids of all ages about racism and shares ten action steps on raising kids who are anti-racist. “Anti-racist kids are kids that don't have to pretend to be free of racism, but kids who make the commitment to fight racism wherever they see it, including when they see it in themselves.”

You can follow Dr. Nzinga Harrison on Twitter at @naharrisonmd

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Plus, here are some the references mentioned in this episode of Good Kids:

The Children's Alliance resource for talking with your kids about racism and bias can be found here, childrensalliance.org/resource/talking-about-racism-resources-parents-and-caregivers
For treatment for opioid, alcohol, Nicotine, and other substance use, visit eleanorhealth.com
To hear more from Dr. Nzinga Harrison be sure to listen to her podcast “In Recovery”, check it out at lemonadamedia.com/show/in-recovery

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How To Practice Mindfulness at Every Age (with Niall Breslin) May 26, 2020

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Practical tips abound in this phenomenal episode for kids and parents alike! Bestselling author, podcaster, and mental health advocate Niall Breslin strips away the woo-woo-ness of mindfulness and teaches us how we can actually use it to improve quality of life for ourselves and our kids, especially in today’s world. Niall draws from practical, scientific, and spiritual methods to explain that we can’t keep going at the pace we’ve been going because we've got “an old brain for a new world and our brain is consistently overwhelmed.” What’s the greatest defense mechanism for that? Mindfulness.

You can follow Niall Breslin on Instagram at @bressie and on Twitter at @nbrez.

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Want to listen to another great Lemonada podcast? Of course you do! Check out the hilarious and *very* unfiltered show, Mouthpeace with Michael & Pele Bennett at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/mouthpeace-with-michael-pele-bennett/

Here are some of the things Niall mentions in the show:

To get a copy of his mindfulness books for kids and more, visit https://www.niallbreslin.com/books
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How To Find Your Happy Place When Things Feel Sad (with JoAnna García Swisher) May 19, 2020

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JoAnna García Swisher (Sweet Magnolias) is a mother, actor, and founder of The Happy Place, a website dedicated to design and self-care. Her philosophy of “creating and celebrating the spaces, places, and moments that bring the greatest joy” has actually helped her navigate the difficult moments of her life, most recently the loss of her father, with whom she was incredibly close. This profound loss was a primer for the world we’re living in today, as we all learn to cope with feeling utterly out of control, providing as stable an environment as we can for our children, and trying our best to have faith that there will be a new story to write on the other side.

You can follow JoAnna García Swisher on Instagram and Twitter and at The Happy Place.

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