This Is So Awkward
Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward
- 52 minutes 36 secondsNetflix’s Adolescence Forces Us to Talk About Hard Things
There is so much buzz (and fear) springing from Netflix’s Adolescence. Many are trying to make sense of the heady topics it covers… others have opted to avoid watching altogether. Our advice: It’s must see TV. While its premise is extreme, its themes – social media + tech use, toxic masculinity, bullying, loneliness and more – are universal to today’s youth. There’s no turning a blind eye.
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Understanding Boys with Ruth Whippman
Raising a Healthy Gamer with Alok Kanojia
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4 April 2025, 7:00 am - 56 minutes 35 secondsTovah Klein on Raising Resilience
Resilience is a buzzy word in the world of “good parenting,” but what does resilience even mean and how do adults help kids get there? Psychologist, researcher, and professor Tovah Klein unpacks what resilience truly is and the critical role parents and trusted adults play in building this skill.
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1 April 2025, 7:00 am - 1 hour 17 secondsWe Can't Force Our Kids
The list of things we want or need or hope our kids will do is long and ever-growing. It might start with brushing their teeth twice a day and making their beds, but it inevitably expands to include things like getting themselves out of toxic friendships and calling us when they’re in trouble. Much to our frustration (and even though we know better), we cannot force them to do any of these things. We can nudge, bribe, ask, beg, even yell… this episode covers these and other ways we try to point them in the right direction and eventually empower them to make good choices on their own.
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Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
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28 March 2025, 7:00 am - 58 minutes 45 secondsNutrition as Disease Prevention with Maya Feller RD
Nutrition is the first line of disease prevention. And yet, words like “diet” and even “nutrition” itself are laden, suggesting concerns about body image or eating issues. How to thread the needle? We can teach kids – and re-teach ourselves – the short and long term impacts of what we eat and drink. Maya Feller, registered dietician and nutritionist, shares her strategies, including why teaching this to kids matters for longevity… theirs and ours!
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Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
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25 March 2025, 7:01 am - 49 minutes 39 secondsLong Distance Healthcare
There are 3 main reasons why someone might travel to get healthcare: (1) there’s no one local who can help, (2) after some sleuthing and you think you’ve found the very best person but they’re located somewhere else, or (3) you’re not even home when you get sick or injured. Whatever the reason, navigating long distance healthcare comes with very predictable pros and cons that most people haven’t thought through.
Show Notes:
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Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
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21 March 2025, 7:01 am - 56 minutes 29 secondsRaising Calm Kids in a World of Worry
The list of things adults are *supposed* to do in order to support kids can feel overwhelmingly massive. It turns out, a small handful of them help address kids’ worries while quieting our own. And because these steps turn out to be fairly simple, they feel achievable. Ashley Graber and Maria Evans, psychotherapists and authors of Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry, share this actionable, science-based guidance.
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Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm
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18 March 2025, 7:00 am - 52 minutes 34 secondsTeaching a Kid to Drive
Getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage for generations. Now, though, fewer kids are opting in. This episode looks at the reasons why so many teens are skipping over this life skill. And for the ones who do still get behind the wheel, we get into all of the hilarious missteps and critical learnings for their parents.There’s beauty in all the unvarnished failures, useful guidance, and heartfelt realizations we experience during this symbolic – and very real – step towards adulthood.
Show Notes:
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14 March 2025, 7:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutesNavigating Trauma as Parents
Choices about sex education, information, and communication can be deeply affected by trauma, especially sexual trauma. And vice versa. This episode explores why the two are connected, and how to break the cycle. We’re in conversation with Melissa Kilbride, an LCSW and certified sex therapist who works with adults and couples to address their own trauma and advocates for sexual health education for kids.
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Melissa L. Kilbride & Associates
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11 March 2025, 7:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutesTesticles are not just a punchline
Everything you ever needed to know about testicular emergencies in one episode! Beyond the basics about how they grow and change, it’s important to know when a lump, bump, or complaint warrants a visit to the doctor. We cover it all, from the benign to the worrisome, like cancer. Learn about scrotal rashes, hernias, epididymitis, torsion, and more.
Show Notes:
Join our LESS AWKWARD ESSENTIALS
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Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
To submit listener questions email podcast@lessawkward.com
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7 March 2025, 8:00 am - 59 minutes 3 secondsOvercoming Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs
It’s easy to connect a headache with a hard day or stomach pain after a fight with a friend. But it is more complicated to grasp the relationship between chronic pain and our reservoir of repressed emotions and traumas. Licensed Clinical Social Worker and author of Mind the Body, Nicole Sachs, joins us to make sense of the connections between physical and emotional pain.
Show Notes:
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Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip
Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
To submit listener questions email podcast@lessawkward.com
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4 March 2025, 8:00 am - 51 minutes 26 secondsHow to Parent without Judgment
Judging ourselves, judging other parents, judging our partners and judging our kids… none of these feels good, and all clog lines of communication. But this is a really tough habit to kick. The first step is owning our judgment, so in this episode we share a bunch of our own parenting fails and then (try to) forgive ourselves.
Show Notes:
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Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
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