Children Episodes

Sandy Ciaramitaro on Raising a Generation to Kindness and Purpose | 1,562 Sandy Ciaramitaro believes the values that shape a child's future are planted long before adulthood. An educator, author, and founder of The Good Eggs Foundation, Sandy has devoted her career to helping young people develop the character, compassion, and sense of purpose that create meaningful lives. With a background teaching morality, ethics, and social justice, she understands that academic success alone is not enough. Children also need to learn empathy, kindness, service, and respect for others. That mission inspired The Good Eggs series, a collection of stories designed to help children embrace virtues, celebrate diversity, and discover the joy of making a positive difference in the lives of others. More than books, they are invitations for families, educators, and communities to raise the next generation with character at the center. Through The Good Eggs Foundation, Sandy extends that mission…

Jennifer Ballow on Why Stories Shape a Child’s Mind | 1,556 Jennifer Ballow believes some of life's most important conversations begin with a story. A licensed master level social worker, children's author, and advocate, Jennifer has dedicated her career to supporting children, families, individuals with disabilities, and older adults through compassion, connection, and meaningful engagement. Drawing from her professional background and personal experience as a mother of twin daughters, she understands the powerful role that stories play in helping children make sense of the world around them. Through her books, she creates opportunities for families to connect, spark imagination, and encourage conversations that foster confidence, creativity, and emotional growth. Jennifer's work is rooted in a simple but profound belief: when children feel seen, heard, and understood, they develop the foundation to thrive. By combining her expertise in social work with her passion for st…

Cathy Gagliardi on Helping Kids Handle Anxiety | 1,510 Cathy Gagliardi is a children’s author whose stories are rooted in compassion, emotional wellness, and helping children navigate the challenges of growing up in today’s fast paced world. Based in Ontario, Canada, Cathy discovered writing as a deeply therapeutic outlet and soon recognized how many children silently struggle with anxiety, bullying, self doubt, and feelings of not belonging. That realization inspired the creation of her beloved YumYum series. Her book Bellyflies was born from a night of grief after learning a friend had lost her teenage son to suicide. The story gently explores childhood anxiety through the eyes of a young boy named Billy and his comforting stuffed animal YumYum, helping children understand emotions and develop healthy coping strategies. The book has since been embraced by families and even used in therapeutic settings. In Gonna Build A Boat, Cathy continues that mission by encouraging co…

1,472 | Dr Stephen Mateka on Supporting Youth Mental Health Dr. Stephen Mateka is a double board certified psychiatrist specializing in both General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and currently serves as Medical Director of Psychiatry and Co Chair at Inspira Health System. His work sits at the intersection of clinical care, leadership, and advocacy. He plays an active role in shaping mental health systems across New Jersey, serving as Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and advising the state’s Children’s System of Care. He also contributes at a national level through leadership roles with organizations focused on advancing child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Mateka’s expertise extends beyond practice into thought leadership. As Section Editor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Psychiatric Times, he helps bring forward critical insights and developments in the field. Trained at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and th…

1,430 | Dr Jerry Woodbridge on Helping Children Through Grief Dr. Jerry Woodbridge is an educator, author, and speaker with more than 40 years of experience supporting children and families through life’s most difficult moments. Throughout her career, she often found herself on the front lines helping students navigate grief and loss, shaping her passion for emotional healing and storytelling. Her latest book, Joy Overcame Sorrow, was inspired by both her professional work and personal journey through loss. Written from the perspective of a young girl coping with the death of her father, the story reflects Dr. Woodbridge’s belief that children need resources that speak to them in their own voice, especially when facing grief. A lifelong writer, Dr. Woodbridge has expressed her experiences through poetry, journaling, and previous works, including her devotional Trading My Sorrows for the Joy of the Lord. After losing her husband and experiencing other profound losses, writing …

1,399 | Seyti Sidibay on Leadership Lessons From the Soccer Field Seyti Sidibay was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1986 and moved with his family to Queens, New York at age 11. After spending his middle school years in New York, his family relocated to Delaware. A decade later, Seyti moved to Seattle, Washington, where he has now lived for nearly 16 years. His calling is coaching, teaching, leading, and inspiring. Since March 2013, Seyti has dedicated himself to coaching the beautiful game of soccer, a sport that has been part of his life since birth. For him, soccer is more than a game. It is a vehicle for mentorship, character development, and empowering others to believe in themselves both on and off the field. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.youtube.com/@thepeoplescoach10 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier qu…

1,378 | Terry Bean Reveals the Magic That Lives Inside Us All Terry Bean has always believed in magic, long before she ever wrote a book about it. Her optimistic outlook began in fourth grade when she played Mother Nature in a school play, walking on stage to a dark, messy world and walking off transformed, wearing a beautiful gown and rose-colored glasses. Those glasses never really came off. She has spent her life seeing the world through compassion, curiosity, and a belief that anything can become beautiful with the right perspective. That outlook guided her through every chapter of her journey. After studying Communications and Marketing at the University of Hartford, Terry began her career in Manhattan before helping launch a property management company in Connecticut. She later earned her Broker’s License in Florida, purchased a real estate company, and built it through years of growth and challenge. Following the 2007 market crash, Terry reinvented herself more than…

1,356 | Dawn Stephens on Serving, Pouring Out, and Staying Fruitful Dawn Stephens is a self-proclaimed Fruit Pot! Like the main character in her award-winning picture book The Little Pot, Dawn is a vessel created by the Potter. As she allows her Creator to produce the fruit of the Spirit through her, Dawn loves helping others discover how they too can be “fruit pots” growing love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Like Little Pot, Dawn’s journey to discovering her true identity and purpose took time. She sought fulfillment as an educator, wife, mother, fundraising director, sales manager, business owner, and school principal. It was only when she learned to focus on what God could grow through her—not just what she held—that her true purpose became clear. Her beloved series of books reflects this spiritual growth: The Little Pot teaches that being filled and emptied is part of God’s plan to make us fruitful. The Tea Pot show…

1,331 | Dr. Jack Stoltzfus on Helping Adult Children Launch With Confidence Dr. Jack Stoltzfus is a clinical psychologist and America’s Launch Coach™. With decades of experience guiding parents and families, his mission is to help parents support their adult child’s transition to independence while maintaining a strong, caring bond. As both a professional and a parent of adult children himself, Dr. Stoltzfus understands the real-life challenges of “letting go” with love. Through counseling, writing, and speaking, he empowers parents to find the balance between compassion and boundaries as their children navigate adulthood. He is the author of The Parent’s Launch Code: Loving and Letting Go of Our Adult Children and the creator of ParentsLettingGo.com, a trusted resource for tools, insights, and encouragement to help families thrive through life’s transitions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.parentslettingg…

1,329 | Tewabech Genet Stewart Shares a Hopeful Framework for Child Welfare Reform Tewabech Genet Stewart is a visionary leader, abolitionist, and advocate dedicated to reimagining child welfare and creating a world where families are strengthened, not separated. After spending 22 years inside Florida’s child welfare system—and later adopting her son from foster care—Genet saw the system from every side. Motherhood deepened her conviction to speak boldly about the harm children endure and to champion a model rooted in truth, dignity, and love. Her seven-step framework for transforming child welfare replaces punishment with support, surveillance with community, and fear with belonging. Grounded in Biblical principles and compassion, her approach offers a hopeful and practical path toward healing and restoration. Recognized nationally for her leadership, Genet is a recipient of the Association of Junior Leagues International’s 40 Over 40 Award, APSHA’s Distinguished EDIB Lea…

1,327 | How to Keep Kids Safe Online in a Digital World with Nathan LaChine Nathan LaChine is a longtime foster parent, educator, and advocate with over two decades of experience supporting Washington State’s most vulnerable youth. A third-generation foster parent, he has provided therapeutic foster care for more than 20 years and is the founder of Evergreen Caregiver Support, an organization dedicated to empowering caregivers through training, resources, and community connection. He is the author of The Internet Safety Workbook for Tweens: With Olivia and Friends, an interactive guide that helps kids and families learn digital safety through storytelling, real-life scenarios, and engaging activities. The workbook features reflection exercises, “Chat Starters,” and a family internet safety agreement to promote healthy online habits. As a trainer and speaker, Nathan’s expertise spans internet safety, online grooming prevention, CSEC education, LGBTQIA+ youth support, harm redu…

1,322 | Cornelia Hansen on Understanding Child Development Through Astrology Cornelia Hansen is an author, educator, and astrologer whose lifelong passion for understanding human development has guided her through a remarkable career in both psychology and early childhood education. Born in New York City and later settling in California, Cornelia devoted 20 years to raising her four children before returning to school to earn master’s degrees in Early Childhood Education and Clinical Psychology. Her groundbreaking research at an LAUSD Early Childhood Learning Center became the foundation for her book Kidwheels, which explores the intersection of child development and astrology. For 17 years, she worked as a licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist, and also taught psychology, English, and humanities at the high school level. Now retired from clinical practice, Cornelia teaches at Kepler College, an online astrology school, where she offers a course based on her book Kid…

1,260 | Maryanne Wood on Adaptability, Growth, and Following Your Calling Maryanne Wood is a retired professional dog trainer. She trained dogs for 15 years before deciding to move on to her next life adventure, becoming a children's book author. The Randall and Hunter Go with the Flow series invite children to become open, adaptable and resilent in the face of change and new situations. These are important life lessons for not only children but adults as well. Now in her 60's Maryanne sees clearly that it is never too late to begin a new career, hobby or whatever your heart is calling you to do or become. When she is not writing or promoting her books Maryanne enjoys spending time in the Vermont countryside with her faithful companion Willow, the chocolate lab. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.maryannewood.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at…

1,236 | Stacy Schaffer on Helping Children Heal from Grief and Anxiety Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC, a dedicated children’s therapist in Arvada, Colorado, has more than twenty years of experience. Specializing in grief and anxiety, she creates a safe space for healing. She loves surfing, kickboxing, reading, and quality time with friends and her golden retriever/ therapy dog, Willow. With Love from a Children's Therapist is her first book, and she hopes people feel both seen and heard in the pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://authorstacyschaffer.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Friday! …

1,229 | Stories That Spark Wonder in Nature With Karen B. Shea Karen B. Shea is a best-selling author and passionate speaker dedicated to connecting the young and young at heart with the wonders of nature. With her deep love for the natural world, Karen brings the magic of nature to every story. As a dedicated advocate for nature, Karen emphasizes the importance of inviting nature into our daily lives and fostering a strong connection between children and the environment. Through vibrant characters and engaging adventures, her stories encourage both the young and young at heart to explore, appreciate, and protect the world around them. Karen’s love for nature began as a child growing up outside Chicago when there were still open fields and muddy marshes to explore. As a teen, her family bought a cabin in the wilds of Wyoming which opened her world up to endless mountains and a vast array of wildlife. As an adult, her love for nature drew her to the PNW where its lush landscape …

Giorgio Michailidis is a mystic, visionary, travel connoisseur, philanthropist, and storyteller devoted to inspiring change and improving the lives of others. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.facebook.com/giorgos.michaelides 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Friday! #PositiveTalkRadio #Inspiration #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1,086 | Balancing Medicine & Motherhood: Dr. Susan Landers on Burnout, Parenting, and Perseverance Dr. Susan Landers is a neonatologist who worked full-time in the NICU for over thirty years and raised three children to young adulthood. She achieved many academic and professional accomplishments, and she encountered challenges along the way, both in her career and in her mothering. Her children presented her with common problems and some not so common ones, such as dyslexia, ADHD, and an adolescent eating disorder. Susan suffered through one particularly difficult period during her midlife when she developed post-partum depression. That propelled her to make better lifestyle choices and to pivot in her career. She loves to tell stories that reassure younger mothers to know that they, too, can become a “good enough mother” even if they work full-time. She supports mothers with her social media posts, her blog, and her newsletter, "MomsMatter." Her recent memoir is “So Many Babies: M…

1,067 | From Farm Boy to Air Force Vet to Author: Douglas Berry’s Incredible Journey of Inspiration Douglas Berry’s life story reads like a tale from one of his children’s books—a mix of adventure, perseverance, and heartwarming lessons. Born in Washington, NJ, Doug enjoyed a carefree childhood filled with outdoor adventures. He developed an early love for nature and animals, a passion that would later become a cornerstone of his literary works. In 1979, at the age of 15, his family relocated to Maryland to start a new chapter as poultry farmers. The move marked a significant change for young Douglas, who spent his teenage years helping his parents build a thriving farm business. These formative experiences with farm life would later inspire one of his most anticipated books, Farmer Jasper. After graduating from high school, Doug sought a different kind of adventure and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1985. As an Armament System Specialist, he served his country for 20 ye…

Hi, I'm M. Aurelius Higgs. I work with Certain Future to support parents of preteens (10-14 y.o.) so they can show up and maintain a meaningful relationship with their child during these natural 'identity breaking' years. We work with parents who know the value of doing hard things and want to be present with their son/daughter before it's too late to bridge the gap. Support our podcast show by: https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/ https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lang=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/positivetradio