Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings brings together over 40 of today’s most beloved kids’ podcasts in a unique collaboration for families, teachers, and caregivers. Each episode blends imaginative stories, music, and voices from across the Kids Listen community with reflection questions and hands-on activities, transforming feelings like fear & bravery, anger & forgiveness, and love & sadness into opportunities for meaningful conversations, learning, and growth. A celebration of creativity and connection, this series helps kids explore emotions, build empathy, and strengthen social-emotional skills in fun and memorable ways.

The series is structured around seven emotional themes, with each theme explored through two engaging episodes, released weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays:

Fear & Bravery (Sept 16 & 18) – Host: Eric O’Keefe (What If World) Smash Boom Best! | Koala Moon | What’s Poppin Penny | Forever Ago | April Eight | Afternoons with Mimi

Jealousy & Openness (Sept 23 & 25) – Host: Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore (Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic) Girl Tales | Sleep Tight Stories | ChopChop | Wanderous | Peace Out | Koala Tots

Anger & Forgiveness (Sept 30 & Oct 2) – Host: Melissa Victor (Stoopkid Stories)  Time Storm | Little Kids, Big Hearts | KidLit Radio | Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic | The Ten News | Lingokids

Belonging & Independence (Oct 7 & 9) – Hosts: Abbe Opher & Kelly MacBride (Koala Kids) Noodle Loaf | Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic | Power Dog Adventures | Culture Kids | Stoopkid Stories | Dorktales Storytime

Embarrassment & Pride (Oct 14 & 16) – Host: Molly Bloom (Smash Boom Best & Brains On!) At Your Level | Koala Shine | Unspookable | The Good Words Podcast | The Story Seeds Podcast | Like You: Mindfulness for Kids

Love & Sadness (Oct 21 & 23) – Host: Jerry Kolber (Who Smarted?) But Why | Newsy Pooloozy | The Past and The Curious | AI for Kids | Reading with Rella B | Tumble

Endings & Beginnings (Oct 28 & 30) – Host: Tal Kelly (Series Producer) Six Minutes | Storypillar | Mary Farfisa’s | Kitten & Clucky | The Show About Science | What If World

Produced by Tal Kelly Executive Writer Jenna Clark In consultation with Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore Music credits: https://tinyurl.com/2cbce2nf Intro by Dan Sacks of Noodles Loaf

Ready to find your new favorite podcasts? It’s a Summer Sampler time! MASHUPS is a proud member of Kids Listen, a non-profit organization advocating for great children’s podcasts. Because summer is a great time to try out new things, we thought you might enjoy trying out a selection of different Kids Listen member podcasts. This episode features small tastes of shows to pique your curiosity, stretch your imagination, tickle your funny bone, and help you find calm.

Learn more about Kids Listen at https://www.kidslisten.org/

Girl Tales: www.girltalespodcast.com Book Club for Kids: http://www.bookclubforkids.org Like You: www.likeyoupodcast.com Power Dog Adventures: https://www.powerdogadventures.com/ Unspookable: www.soundsingtonmedia.com Stoopkid Stories: https://stoopkidstories.com/ Peace Out: www.peaceoutpodcast.com What If World: http://www.whatifworldpodcast.com/ Newsy Pooloozi: https://www.newsypooloozi.com/ Dorktales Storytime Podcast: http://dorktalesstorytime.com Fina Mendoza Mysteries: http://finamendozamysteries.com

Kids Listen audio transitions by Dan Saks of www.noodleloafshow.com Summer Sampler artwork by Jodi Murphy of http://dorktalesstorytime.com KL Summer Sampler 2023 produced by Lynn Hickernell of http://goodwordspodcast.com

This season finale has a few games for you to play along with, and they are all about ears. That’s because our Kids Listen friends are none other than Ear Snack’s Andrew & Polly mashed up with Little News Ears’ Dan Buck, Genesis and little Addie. Ears - a perfectly sound season finale topic with lots of fun gunk to explore. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for your listening ears. 

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Ear Snacks

Little News Ears

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

These two storytellers turned this episode of Mashups into a spontaneous spectacle. Dorktales Storytime voice actor Jonathan Cormur joins forces with Stories for Wonderful Children’s Dan Wendelin. Together they improv their way to a wonderfully dorky story made just for you. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners. 

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Dorktales Storytime

Stories for Wonderful Children

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

On this episode of Mashups you will meet two podcasts that are passionate about our kids’ future. Join Kids Pod’s Aimee Chan and Jack to the future’s Jack as we play a game of scattergories. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners.

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Kids Pod

Jack To The Future

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

Meet two engaging podcasts that invite you to be on their shows. Join us for a sound guessing game with Mystery Recipe’s Molly Birnbaum and Chad Chenail and At Your Level’s Ari Kelly, Chloe Wesson, Swara Viswanath and our Mashups host (and Ari's mom), Tal Kelly. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners. 

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Mystery Recipe

At Your Level

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

These two podcasts teach us a lot about ourselves, through our past and through the foods we eat. The Past and the Curious’ Mick Sullivan joins us for a mashup game of ‘fun facts’ along with Hannah Fordin and Harry Rosenblum of Time for Lunch. Harry’s kids Moxie and Frank join in the fun; we hope you will too. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners.  Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

The Past and The Curious

Time For Lunch

Mick's new book I See Lincoln's Underpants

& of course The Meatshower book

Fun episode with Mick & WIW's Mr. Eric

The Heritage Network

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly

 

Meet two mindfulness podcasts. Our friends Noah of Like You and Marjorie of Best Day Yet, along with her kids North and Amelie join us. What kind of game do you think we could play with two mindfulness podcasts? We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners.  Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Like You

Best Day Yet

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

It’s time to have more kids on our show! Katie Stone, Executive Producer of The Children’s Hour brings some of her crew to join Emma and Xavier of Curious Conversations. We had a lot of fun playing together, we hope you’ll join us and play along. We start off with a highlight they each share showcasing their mash-up partner’s pod, and end with a personal contribution created just for you listeners. 

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

The Children's Hour

Curious Conversations

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly 

 

Do you love stories? In this episode you meet two inspiring tale tellers. Our friends Rebecca Cunnigham Executive Producer and Host of Girl Tales and Kathleen Pelley - Author, Scottish Storyteller and Speaker are challenged in a storytelling game of idioms. Would you like to take a turn of phrase yourself? See if you can try out this challenging mashup game with your family.

Here's a list of idioms in case you'd like to play too.

Mashups is a podcast that introduces you to some of our talented Kids Listen friends:

Girl Tales

Journey with Story

Music: Melly & Miss Lynn

Produced & hosted by Tal Kelly