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Why Your Kids Talk Back and How to Eliminate It Feb 24, 2015

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If you’re reading these words, you’re probably a parent.

If you’re a parent of children that can speak, you’ve probably experienced the topic of today’s episode – and that’s back talk. Rude, snarky comments in response to your authority as a parent. It’s maddening!

Luckily for us, we have a parenting expert to help us address this dynamic in our homes. Dr. Becca is a child psychologist and host of the blog, Parenting the Modern Family.

Tune in to hear Dr. Becca’s wisdom!

Parenting: All Joy and No Fun with Jennifer Senior Feb 17, 2015

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Waking up to realize that you are a parent…in charge of another human being’s life…is typically a pretty life-altering experience. And while our Facebook feeds show much of the joyful, silly, happy and proud sides of being a parent, what we seldom admit to ourselves, let alone to our social circles is that parenting is hard and not always a lot of fun.

My guest today is Jennifer Senior, author of the much acclaimed book All Joy and No Fun, named one of Slate’s Top 10 Books of the Year which I can almost guarantee will make you feel about 6 degrees closer to sanity because it is such an honest, fascinating look at modern parenting.

Keep Your Kid Safe Online with Internet Safety Expert Larry Magid Feb 09, 2015

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It’s a brave new parenting world out there, fraught with all sorts of parenting conundrums that our parents never had to deal with. So many of us feel like we can’t keep up with our kids and their love of technology. The thought of them venturing into an unknown cyberworld fills us with both excitement as well as great fear.

In this episode, I’m joined by an expert on keeping kids safe online. Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an internet safety advocate and serves as on-air technology analyst for CBS News is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and founder of SafeKids.com.

If you’ve got a technology-aged kid, these 22 minutes are well worth your time to provide some perspective on this issue of internet safety, as well as some general reassurance that you already have everything you need to parent a child in this digital world.

Get More Sleep Tonight with Tips from Terry Cralle Feb 02, 2015

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How’d you sleep last night?

Sometimes if we don’t sleep well, it’s a function of our environment: you’re up with a kiddo, the cat’s crying to be fed or that cough kept you up all night.

But so often sleep is elusive because of our poor sleep habits, the biggest being our own attitude toward sleep.

In this episode you’ll hear from a sleep expert named Terry Cralle – she’s a registered nurse and certified clinical sleep educator and spokesperson for the Better Sleep Council. And she’s got some great back-to-basics about why you need to be sleeping fully each night and how to improve your own sleep habits including the ideal temperatures for falling asleep, how much sleep your kids need each night and much more!

The #1 Thing Missing From A Busy Mom’s To-Do List with Julie Jeske Jan 26, 2015

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If you’re reading these words, my guess is that you’re a loving person. You probably spend an awful lot of time loving the other people in your life, whether that’s a partner, your kiddos or even your pets. But are you taking the time to spread that love to yourself? If you’re like most busy women, you may fall a little short in that department.
In this episode I’m joined by the lovely Julie Jeske, an individual and couples counselor who is going to give us a 20-minute look into why we should think just a little bit more about loving ourselves and how to do that in a way that’s practical and simple to fit into your busy schedule. YOU are the #1 thing that’s missing from your own to-do list.
I love Julie’s down-to-earth approach to all of this. She’s not pushing some agenda that’s hard to achieve, just small mindset shifts and the recommendation that we add ourselves to our to-do lists each day.

Tune in to this fantastic, nourishing episode now by clicking the player bar above or by listening in iTunes or Stitcher.

The Amazingly Simple Way to Up Your Energy Level Jan 20, 2015

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What if I told you that there was a simple way you could have more energy each day without increasing your caffeine levels? Not the hyper kind of energy fueled by caffeine and sugar where you know a crash is just around the corner, but the kind of energy that just makes you feel more like you.

The good news is that getting more energy is simple.

The bad news is that it’s not easy.

In this episode, I’m joined by Marcelle Pick, Founder of Women to Women. She knows a thing about increasing your energy levels naturally and simply because she works with busy women with full lives just like you every day. This episode is chock full of useful advice…things to move away from and things to consider to live your life with the highest energy level possible.

Take even some of Marcelle’s advice in this episode and this may just be the most important 25 minutes of 2015 so far.

Tune in now!

Eat This, Not That: Foods That Impact Your Sleep with Lissa Coffey Jan 13, 2015

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We’re all well aware that we should be getting a good night’s sleep every night but sometimes that seems impossible. Or worse…even if we’ve allocated the time for a solid night of dreamland, we find ourselves unable to fall asleep or stay asleep. I don’t know about any of you, but this stresses me out!

Well, it turns out that, with sleep, like pretty much everything having to do with being healthy, we probably need to take more of a holistic approach. In this episode, Lifestyle and Wellness expert Lissa Coffey dives into how the food we eat impacts our sleep. We even get a mini-lesson in ayurveda to frame the whole conversation. Lissa is a spokesperson for the Better Sleep Council, so she knows a bit about this subject and is generous in sharing her knowledge.

Clone Yourself with a Virtual You with FancyHand's Josh Boltuch Jan 06, 2015

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Want to make 2015 the year of being more intentional and more productive? Then you must tune into today’s episode.

Ever thought about cloning yourself to squeak out just a few more things each day? I know I have. In today’s episode I discuss the next best thing: hiring a virtual assistant with Josh Boltuch, CEO of Fancy Hands, the fastest growing virtual assistant service out there. With monthly subscription plans starting at only $30, it’s affordable to boot!

Beware: hiring a virtual assistant like Fancy Hands may also make you focus on (gasp!) more important things in your life, instead of those time sucks you’re accustomed to. Not to worry, you’ll soon get used to the new, intentional you who no longer wastes needless time.

Planning the New Year? Start Here with Sabrina Walters Dec 23, 2014

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I'll admit it. I have a love/hate relationship with the looming end-of-year, goal setting process. I honestly do really love the reflective process of intentionally setting the tone for the coming year. But I've done it so many times only to have it forgotten by February that I've become a teeny bit cynical about the whole deal.

But that doesn't mean I've given up entirely! In this episode, I'm doubling down by calling in the reinforcements and explore a framework for all this end-of-year nonsense with Marriage and Family Therapist Sabrina Walters.

Sabrina has some new ways of looking at the goal setting process and part of it centers around a tool I've never heard of called the Core Values Index. Designed to optimize employee effectiveness in the workplace, this index very quickly gives you a snapshot at what's most important for you. It's pretty powerful and I hope you found it as useful as I did.

This is the last episode of 2014 so dig in, put on your 'intentional planning' hat and enjoy!

Trick Yourself (And Your Family) Into Eating Less This Holiday Season with Dr. Brian Wansink Dec 16, 2014

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Did you know that you make 25-30 food-related decisions by the end of breakfast each day? What?!

It’s not just about the type of cereal you choose for breakfast, it’s how much you serve yourself, whether to add milk, how much milk, whether to finish the first bowl, if you go back for seconds, what you do with the extra milk and on…and on…and on…And that’s just in your kitchen! You do this all. day. long.

Which, it turns out, is why we end up mindlessly overeating. We don’t realize we’re making hundreds of little micro decisions each day.

I’m here to tell you the good news about all of this mindless eating. The same things that make you overeat can help you engineer your environment and your food choices so that you mindlessly eat less. Without going on some crazy diet. Without depriving yourself of the stuff you love. You can eat up to 20% less each day without even realizing it. You just need to implement a few simple, scientifically-proven tools (sounds like an infomercial, right?).

Sound good? I thought so too!

Which is why I’m super excited to share today’s episode with you. Dr. Brian Wansink is Director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab and this is the type of stuff he studies each and every day. He’s written an awesome book that you should absolutely read called Slim by Design. It will literally rock your world.

Dr. Wansink can look at your kitchen and predict how much you weigh with a surprising degree of accuracy. Why? Because it turns out that your kitchen and how you have it structured can either make you (and your family) slim by design or heavy by design.

In this episode Dr. Wansink shares tools for tricking yourself into eating less, both in this busy holiday season and at home year round.

I can’t wait to hear your favorite parts of this episode. And get the book. Seriously. It’s that useful.

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