The Talk
The Talk is a podcast where we explore ways of including our young children in big conversations. We'll be having conversations with parents and other guests about the importance of being honest, open, and candid with our kids about subjects that are often seen as inappropriate, unnecessary, or just plain uncomfortable for young people. By setting the groundwork for this kind of dialogue early on, we can build mutual trust between our kids and us, and set the stage for the kind of communication environment that all parents hope for as their kids grow into adolescence and beyond. We'll also hear from listeners about the talks their parents had (or didn't have!) with them growing up, and the impact those conversations have had on them as adults. You can find The Talk on the web at TheTalkThePodcast.com, on Instagram and Facebook at @thetalkthepodcast, and on Twitter at @thetalkthepod.
Episodes
18 episodes
FAMILY
The season finale of "The Talk" is all about family. Part season retrospective, part celebration, part reflection on the good, the bad, the ugly, the messy, the chaotic, the joyful, the tearful, the hopeful, and the redemptive aspects of family...
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Season 1
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48:40
SEX (w/Dr. Nadine Thornhill & Julia Feldman)
In this episode I chat with Dr. Nadine Thornhill, a Toronto-based sex and sexuality educator, about reasons sex can be so hard for us to talk about, the difference between sex and sexuality, and how ...
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Season 1
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51:47
RACE (Part 2 - Parenting Decolonized with Yolanda Williams)
This is a conversation with Yolanda Williams, founder of Parenting Decolonized, a podcast and educational platform that focuses on the ways that racist structures and white suprema...
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Season 1
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46:55
Bonus: Justin Guarini Full Interview
This is the full version of our conversation with actor, singer, educator, entertainer, parent, and human Justin Guarini. A portion of this interview appeared as part of our episode, RACE (Part 1). In this conversation Justin and I chat abo...
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50:19
RACE (Part 1 - w/Sarah & Kwame, and Justin Guarini)
In part one of our exploration of communication with kids about race and skin color, we hear from Sarah Henson-Darko and Kwame Darko, a multiracial couple about the ways they engage on the subject of race with their kids: From being aware of wh...
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Season 1
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32:02
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
When we talk about communication most of us default to the assumption that we're talking about...talking. But in this episode we start exploring the importance of non-verbal communication, and especially the ways that relates to our communicati...
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Season 1
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41:07
GENDER (Part 2 - Leo WT - Gender, Culture, & The Church)
Leo Wolters-Tejera is the creator of Conversations Official, an interfaith, intersectional, multi-platform community group that facilitates spiritually-minded conversations about life, belief, and the intersection of the two. In this episod...
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Season 1
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35:05
A Conversation With Cindy Wang Brandt
Parenting Forward’s Cindy Wang Brandt is a writer, podcaster, speaker, and conference host who has built a valuable community around the concept of parenting with a focus on spirituality but absent of religious dogma. Cindy and I s...
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Season 1
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44:32
GENDER (Part 1 - Dr. Emer O'Toole)
For centuries gender roles and allowable expressions of gender have been dictated for boys and girls, men and women, by a rigid binary system of cultural expectations. Now, more than ever, the boundaries of gender are being flexed, experimented...
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Season 1
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45:56
MONEY
Why is it so hard for us to talk about money? There's a real cultural taboo when it comes to how much money people make, and how they use it. And family units are hardly exempt from the serious lack of communication and openness in this arena, ...
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Season 1
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47:10
DEATH
In this episode we explore the ways that our culture has created a view of death that is often confusing, shrouded in secrecy, and downright dishonest, and the reasons it's important to talk with our kids about death from a young age. I cha...
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Season 1
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55:34
Bonus: Topher Payne Full Interview
This bonus episode is an extended conversation with Atlanta-based playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and educator Topher Payne. We talk about his childhood in suburban-rural Mississippi, putting down roots and becoming a full-time write...
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Season 1
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52:26
BODIES (Part 2)
In part two of this episode, sex educator Julia Feldman joins me for a round of rapid-fire questions about bodily autonomy, exploration, boundaries, language, and about pushing back against cultural ex...
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Season 1
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56:24
BODIES (Part 1 - Dr. Shakina Nayfack)
In the first of a two-part episode, I have a conversation with actress, dancer, and social activist Dr. Shakina Nayfack about understanding, loving, and advocating for our bodies. And about giving children freedom and language at early ages to ...
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Season 1
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32:01
SCHOOL
School is a place where we don’t all fit in. On this episode I speak with alternative-education administrator Pam Hogan-Charron, parents of 5 kids Darcy & Kyle Morehouse, and public school social worker and mental health provider Poonam Dha...
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Season 1
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50:17
LEADERS
Our culture often equates leadership with power, strength, and infallibility. On this episode we discuss talking to our kids about leading with kindness, compassion, and about ways of looking for leadership in unexpected places. This ep...
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Season 1
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38:44