Simple Families

Latest Episodes:

All is Calm(ish) ft. Niro Feliciano Dec 01, 2025

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And we're back! After a six-month hiatus, the podcast is back. Today I'm welcoming back, Niro Feliciano. Niro and I discuss finding peace and calm during the holiday season--managing the stress around 'making magic', buying gifts, decorating, and coping with challenging relationships.

LINKS:

Niro's Book: All Is Calmish: How to Feel Less Frantic and More Festive During the Holidays
Niro's Website

Unfit Parent ft. Jessica Slice Apr 25, 2025

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In today's episode, I'm speaking with Jessica Slice. Jessica is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist. In her 20s, Jessica fell ill on a hike in Greece and has since been slowing learning to navigate life as a disabled person. In her work, she shines a light on the amazing ways that disabled parents navigate and innovate in the world.

I appreciate the way that she opened my eyes to this journey that so many parents are on across the globe. Jessica's new book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World, hits the shelves this month.

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Moral Development Mar 28, 2025

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In this episode, I'm chatting with you about moral development. The study of moral development helps us to understand how humans learn right from wrong, make decisions, and internalize a value set. I'll share about the typical developmental stages and how this topic can help us to better understand parenting strategies and child behavior.

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First Love ft. Lisa Phillips Feb 28, 2025

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Love is love. But in today's world our growing children are experiencing rapidly shifting messages about identity and commitment. Sometimes our own life experiences around first love can help us to guide our children. Yet often, as parents, we can feel confusion around processing this new milestone in our ever-changing world. In this episode I'm chatting with Lisa Phillips, the author of First Love: Guiding Teens through Relationships and Heartbreak.

Lisa's New Book: First Love

Lisa's Website: LisaAmyPhillips.com

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Delegating ft. Emily King Jan 24, 2025

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I don't know about you, but I find it difficult to delegate tasks in both my work and family life. Often, I find myself deciding that it's easier to do things myself rather than enlist the help of supportive people. In this episode, I'm excited to chat with Emily King, CEO and co-founder of Faye. Emily experienced the overwhelm that comes with balancing parenthood and a demanding job, and she created a whole business dedicated to help parents delegate.

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Inspire ft. Adam Galinsky Ph.D. Dec 13, 2024

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Leadership is built into parenthood. In today's episode I welcome Adam Galinsky, a renowned social psychologist and Columbia Business School professor. Adam is the author of the brand new book, Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others.He has more than 300 scientific publications and a TED Talk viewed 7.5 million times.

Although he may never have set out to speak to an audience of parents, Adam naturally made the connection between his research on leadership and his experience as a parent of two young boys. Inspire reveals the spectrum that we function on as parents and leaders--often landing somewhere between inspiring and infuriating.

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Raising Securely Attached Kids ft. Eli Hardwood MA, LPC Nov 22, 2024

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In today's episode, author Eli Harwood joins us to explain what it means to be securely attached and why it matters. Eli is a mother and therapist known widely on the internet as the Attachment Nerd. She shares her own experiences as well as tools to build the connection we need to help our children thrive.

LINKS:

Eli's Website

Eli's New Book: Raising Securely Attached Kids

Eli on Instagram

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Simplifying Routines Oct 25, 2024

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Many of us (myself included) strive to develop more effective and efficient routines. Sometimes, we fail to realize that we have more functional systems in place than we realize. Personally, I've set lofty goals for improving routines in cleaning, homework, exercise, the morning hustle, etc. Those systems generally fail. What I have found does work is to do what I call, "obstacle-identification-and-removal". I'm sharing a little about that and some examples of how it has been useful for my home.

LINKS:

Zoe's Custom Ikea Closet

Zoe's Book, The Minimalist Family

Zoe's Website, Raising Simple

Zoe on Instagram

Zoe and Matt's Weekend Workshop: Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff

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Raising Resilience ft. Tovah Klein Ph.D. Aug 30, 2024

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"Resilience is being able to handle the bad stuff over time and to know you are not doing it alone." - Tovah Klein Ph.D., author of Raising Resilience

In today's world of uncertainty, resilience is an indispensable trait that our children will need as they grow. In this episode, I'm chatting with Dr. Tovah Klein, the bestselling author of the brand new book Raising Resilience. Tovah talks me through my own recent resilience-building experiences and together we reflect on what it looks like to help our children thrive.