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Chances are you've seen Laura Danger chat about some hard-hitting topics: domestic labor is labor, weaponized incompetence, naming the issues, using data to point to injustices, and community care. Laura has 17.5 million likes on her videos on TikTok—and there's a reason why! Laura, through her work as a certified Fair Play facilitator, educates and advocates for active and engaged partnerships, self-love and the dismantling of the systems that keep us from thriving. She's giving couples and household partners the exact tools and language they need to negotiate care, mental load, emotional labor, and everything else that tends to split us apart and keep us fighting or sulking. Her wisdom could save any of your struggling relationships!

Laura Danger is an educator, community advocate, and millennial parent using her platform to empower overwhelmed caregivers to value their own time and the priceless care labor they provide. She's impassioned, silly, and sincere and she brings equal doses of ambition and realism to her work. She believes we can build a better future...together.

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We interview Harriet Shearsmith, author, podcast, and award-winning UK blogger on motherhood, self-love, estrangement, and fashion. We were inspired to interview Harriet after reading and seeing the popularity of Jennette McCurdy's book I'm Glad My Mom Died. Harriet shares why she thinks Jennette's story is resonating with so many right now and shares her own story of recovering from narcissistic parental abuse and her journey to parental estrangement. She shares how she's creating a better parenting world through her inspirational online content.

Topics include: enmeshment, emotional eating, narcissism, mental illness, covert narcissism, parental alienation, British attitudes about therapy, healthy parenting, breaking the cycles of trauma

Harriet Shearsmith is the author of Mommin’ It; podcaster, award winning UK blogger and content creator. Much more importantly, she’s a mum to three wonderful kiddos. Harriet shares her family life, fashion finds and works to break down generational trauma and end the stigma around estrangement across her platforms, you can find her via @tobyandroo on instagram and TikTok, Harriet Shearsmith on YouTube.

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Anne and Alison check-in:

• what's fun right now (spoiler alert: not much)
• what we're reading, watching, and listening to
• Struggle Party: what we're struggling with right now

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Anne and Alison interview Cynthia Perez, LCSW, a Chicana therapist, author, public speaker, and Inner Child Hype Woman. We learn how she came to do this work of hyping up our inner child, how to do the work, and why acknowledging our inner child is so important (the pain is not too great! We can do it!). We discuss social justice-informed therapy and healing, the work of feeling self and historical pain, and Cynthia’s Chicana identity.

Cynthia Perez, is a Chicana therapist and Self Proclaimed "Inner Child Hype Woman". Upon entering motherhood she realized she had a lot of Re-Parenting of herself to do. Cynthia created Rooted in Reflection, a mental health meets social justice space. Cynthia enjoys curating inner child workshops that are creative and joyful! Cynthia is a 1st generation latchkey kid to immigrant parents and a storyteller for the family.

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Our World Mental Health Day episode is a conversation with Philip Butler, Ph.D., about the future of mental health care: one that puts healing in each person's own hands. We talk about the barriers to accessing healing and mental health care, especially for Black people.

Dr. Butler's solution is to put the Internal Family Systems therapy methodology in everyone's hands through his Seekr Bot app so that we can access healing anytime anywhere. "The Seekr Project is part of a larger plan to bring culturally relevant artificial intelligence to smart devices. " Since Black people in the United States have historically been oppressed economically, Dr. Butler went out to create a way for folks to access care no matter their budget.

Tune in to hear how artificial intelligence therapy can help us all heal on a massive scale, eliminating gatekeepers, stigma, and labels.

Dr. Philip Butler is an interdisciplinary scholar in neuroscience, technology, spirituality, and Blackness. He writes on artificial intelligence, disruptive ethical models, and constructive speculative Black futurisms.

His first book, Black Transhuman Liberation theology explores the potential for Black people to integrate technology and spirituality for liberation. He is the editor of the forthcoming volume Critical Black Futures which takes a critical and speculative approach to wildly imagined and critically examined future worlds yet to exist.

His interdisciplinary work, deep love for Black communities, and desire to construct digital consciousnesses associated with racial and cultural identities are directed towards making difference normative in emergent technologies and future realities.

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We interview Susan Linn about her new book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. It turns out we've all been indoctrinated from a young age to value buying things due to the United States' lax child protection policies for advertising. 

Susan Linn is a psychologist, award-winning ventriloquist, and world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of media and commercial marketing on children. She was the Founding  Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (now called Fairplay) and is currently a research associate at Boston Children's Hospital and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The author of Consuming Kids, The Case for Make Believe, and Who's Raising the Kids?  

Susan and her work have been featured on the stage of  TED, as well as on “TODAY”, “Good Morning America,” “60 Minutes,” “The Colbert Report,”  “Dateline,” NPR’s “Marketplace,” The New York Times, The Washington Post, POLITICO, TIME, The  Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Find her at consumingkids.com or on twitter at @drsusanlinn.

00:00 Intro

Anne and Alison talk about kids and tech these days including Ryan Kaji, "The Boy King of YouTube," and the Wren Eleanor controversy. We talk about "the Britney Spears effect," in which kids are growing up thinking they have to be successful at a very young age. We compare and contrast Madonna's 80's fame with Britney's 90s fame.

11:37 Interview with Dr. Susan Linn

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Music by Próxima Parada.

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Welcome to Latchkey Urchins & Friends podcast!

Hosted by Alison Cebulla, who works in child trauma prevention, and Anne Sherry, therapist.

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Anne and Alison look back on Season 1 of Latchkey Urchins & Friends. 

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We talk with the hosts of The Neurodivergent Woman podcast, Dr. Michelle Livock and Monique Mitchelson.

• What is neurodivergence? 
• How the needs of neurodivergent children can be neglected and the long-term impacts.

As always we end with the "Feelings Wheel Game" where we practice naming feelings and feeling them in our bodies. This is a great practice for healing trauma, mindfulness, and body presence.

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Anne and Alison talk with Kay Gardner, LCPC about her work helping people hand back their legacy burdens to their ancestors where they belong. Not all of the trauma we carry around is ours to carry. Learn about Kay's healing work helping us unburden our trauma. Kay Gardner has over 40 years of clinical experience and 30 years in private practice. She is a senior Lead Trainer for Internal Family Systems (IFS) and has been involved with IFS since 1991.  Prior to her work with IFS, she was a therapist and a teacher of Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy.

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