Stop Raising Einstein

Karen Steele is a Mom, Entrepreneur, Founder of The Passion Shift and avid rule-breaker in how she lives her life. In 2008 she experienced her own Passion Shift when she held her daughter in her arms for the first time and life as she knew it dramatically changed. This experience lead Karen to create her powerful 7-step program to help other women navigate the Passion Shift they experience when they transform from working women to working mom. Karen shares her expertise and life-changing tools, tips and strategies to teach busy, overwhelmed working moms how to change the rules they live by so they can free their time and energy, find their passion and revolutionize their work life to create the fun, freedom and financial security they dream of for their families. Karen brings to her work over a decade of experience empowering women to build the confidence, courage and belief to create the lives they truly want.

Sean Smith is completely obsessed with figuring out this game of life, how the mind works, why we hold ourselves back, and teaching anyone who will listen what he learns along the way. At the age of 13, he was almost killed by his next-door neighbor, which taught him that none of us, no matter what our circumstances, is promised our next breath. He vowed to himself to live a life of greatness and never settling for mediocrity. However, despite that promise, he still struggled for the next 20 years. Until he learned about the power of the unconscious mind...

Sean is now a Certified Master Results Coach and founder of RaisingEmpoweredKids.com where he helps parents raise happy, healthy, confident children.

Chrissy Harmon, M.Ed. is an author, game designer and expert in teaching social emotional intelligence to children ages 8 to 14. After seeing a critical need for an emotional intelligence curriculum in the public schools, she left her 7th grade English classroom to form her company Clueberry World, Inc. She is the author of The Clueberry Book, a book of activities and lessons that engages educators and students to understand abstract concepts through cartoon characters, game play and following a map of their Train of Thought. Her book has been implemented internationally by parents, teacher, guidance counselors, a wide variety of at risk youth programs and family centers and embraced by the spirituality field. Recently she was invited to speak at the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles for Michael Bernard Beckwith's Youth Ministry. She works individually with groups of teens, parents of middle school and high school youth empowering them with tools to impart life altering principles to their children such as how to teach the power of positive thinking, affirmations, ego consciousness, meditation, the creative process and critical thinking processes. Her program has been accredited by school psychologists in Massachusetts and is being distributed through the public school system in the fall of 2013. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Language Arts and Creative Writing from Boston College and her Masters in Middle School English from Lesley University.

Hal Runkel is a world-renowned expert on helping families face conflict and create great relationships. A licensed therapist, relationship coach, international speaker, and organizational consultant, Hal is the bestselling author of ScreamFree Parenting and ScreamFree Marriage. Hal is a former minister and holds two seminar degrees. He is Founder and President of The ScreamFree Institute, an international training organization that ignites hope in parents, spouses and leaders to strengthen their own relationships through the power of calm.

Hal has presented the ScreamFree relationship programs to tens of thousands worldwide, including more than 5,000 US military families. In addition, he has actively trained and supervised more than 1,000 family professionals working to further the ScreamFree movement. Hal and his message have been featured on over a thousand media outlets, including serving as a regular expert on NBC's Today Show, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and The 700 Club.

LISA GOLDBAUM is the co-founder and CEO of YummyHealth®. After years of watching her two children become junk food addicts, Lisa started searching for healthier snack options that her kids would actually enjoy eating without a fight. She was disappointed to find that most so-called "healthy" snacks on the market contain as much sugar and processed starch as the regular commercial varieties, while the truly healthy snacks weren't appetizing to kids. This inspired Lisa, a former financial and technology journalist for organizations including Forbes, Barron's and Institutional Investor, to investigate creating what would eventually become YummySwapsTM-snacks made with real-food ingredients that are better for kids but still taste great and can be swapped in for their favorite junk

How many men does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one, if that light bulb is the idea behind Fodder 4 Fathers, one dad's search for online equality in parenting. It's a simple story really: it's about a father trying to make sense of his new role as a parent and finding himself shut out again and again by Internet parenting forums that catered almost exclusively to moms. So what's a man to do when he wants to learn more about raising happy and healthy kids, but all he finds is opposition and ridicule?--- He creates a place he can call his own.

And so the seeds for Fodder 4 Fathers were planted; a place where moms and dads could meet as equals, and talk about that which is most important to us- our kids. So they created a blog (not having a clue what one was) and called it The Evil That You Know (@blogpot.com), because, well, it's better than the evil that you don't know. And they just started writing about their experiences as a new dad. And, oddly enough, people started to like it and relate to it and talk about it. The website has quickly become THE place for moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, parenting professionals, non-parents, and expectant parents alike to come together and share their experiences about the trials and tribulations of raising amazing kids.

Maybe you already know that 90% of early brain development happens before children are 5 years old? Early positive experiences and supportive, healthy environments in the critical early years are vital.

As an Early Brain Development Specialist and founder of Brain Insights, DeborahMcNelis is the award winning author of, The Brain Development Series. The series has sold all over the world and is available in English and Spanish at www.BrainInsightsonline.com. She has been seen in several publications, heard on numerous radio shows, and receives rave reviews for her enlightening and engaging presentations. Deborah is overjoyed with the response to all that her company provides due to her passion to create awareness of the critical importance of the early years.

In addition to the brain series, she has also contributed to several books, and created a brain packet called, Naturally Developing Young Brains. Deborah has additionally created the Love Your Baby App, the valuable Creating Great Connections newsletter, and the Early Childhood Brain Insights blog http://braininsights.blogspot.com and the second largest parenting group on Linkedin called, Brain Insights and positive parenting Her newest initiative helps entire communities, "Create Great Connections" and has also recently created a new exciting site dedicated to promoting the brilliance within every child at www.BrainInsightsNow.com

Statistics show that one in every two marriages end in divorce. Do kids have Rightz when their parents are divorcing? My guest, this week, says yes. Jontie Hays is the award winning author of a book series called, Monkey in the Middle, which focuses on divorce from the kids point of view of the 12 Kidz Rightz with each book addressing a specific issue. Join us as we talk about this very common issues facing many children and families.

Internationally recognized as an expert on the subject of Anti-Bullying, Dr. Claudio Cerullo has provided many workshops on issues regarding Classroom Management, Student Behavior Modification, Character Education, and School Violence Prevention programs K-12. He is interviewed regularly by media outlets on the subject of Bullying and Anti-Bullying, and is a gifted public speaker on this topic of extreme interest to parents, educators and legislators. He has written numerous articles and books on the subject, and has lectured at many local, state, and regional education forums and conferences. Dr. Cerullo delivered the keynote address at the State of Louisiana's first Anti-Bullying Conference in 2012.

He brings over 20 years of professional experience in education to Teach Anti-Bullying. He has been extremely active in addressing the great need for anti-bullying awareness, and prevention, nationwide, as a result of parents asking him to help students that are being impacted academically, socially and emotionally by this silent threat. Cerullo founded Teach Anti-Bullying with $10,000 of his own personal funds, in an effort to further help raise awareness about what bullying really is, and how it can be prevented.

As a conscientious parent you want your kids to eat less processed foods, more veggies, less sugar as well as a nice variety of healthy foods. Our guest is here to you us that it's do-able. What's the disconnect between what we want for our kids, what we know, and making it happen.

It's lack of support. Our culture doesn't support it, our lifestyle doesn't support it and to be totally honest, sometimes our own eating habits aren't the best role models for our kids.

So let's make the shift that changes the culture. And, let's start with the culture at home. For sure we want to change the way society feeds kids, but let's focus with your own dinner table first.

Our first step is about shifting our children's thoughts about their diet. You can't force your kids on this journey of healthy eating, you have to make it a trip they won't want to miss.

We can have the intention, the desire and even the tools to feed our kids healthy food, but if they are not "bought in" to the idea of eating healthy, we won't get far.

Instead of being the food police, be an advocate for your families wellness.

Nina Manolson is a Family Wellness Expert, is a Certified Psychology of Eating Coach, Holistic Health Coach, and the author of "Feed Your Kids Well In A World That Doesn't: An Everyday Guide to Make Healthy Food Happen in your Home and Beyond." Nina has over 20 years experience in the Health & Wellness field and is the recipient of the prestigious Integrative Nutrition Health Leadership Award. She holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher.