The Dude Therapist

Vanessa Quigley is the mother of 7 and co-founder of Chatbooks, a software company with a mission to strengthen families. She holds a degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Brigham Young University and worked as a professional singer and actress before becoming an entrepreneur. She was named Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017, authored Real Moms, Real Hacks, and hosts The MomForce Podcast.

Website: Chatbooks.com 

Social Media Handles: You can find her just about everywhere @chatbooks and @vanessaquigley

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Amanda Booth is an actress, model, and mama based in Los Angeles. She has appeared on network television shows such as Hot In Cleveland, Maron, and Community. Her campaign work includes advertisements for Lancome, Fiat, Hersheys, Target, and Old Navy. Her focus has broadened since becoming a mother in 2014 to a son with Down Syndrome. Amanda is now an ambassador for Changing The Face Of Beauty and Global Down Syndrome Foundation as well as a social media advocate.

@Amanda_booth

@LifewithMicah 

If you were moved by this episode and want to give back, below is an amazing charity changing lives of so many families and individuals living  with Down Syndrome, please donate today!
https://www.globaldownsyndrome.org/

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Leah Katz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist practicing in Portland, Oregon. Originally from New York, she completed her doctorate training at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. While living in New York, Dr. Katz worked at a community clinic where she led several groups, treated individuals and couples in therapy, and taught at Stern College for Women. 

She currently works in a group practice where she specializes in working with teenagers and women, with a focus on treating anxiety and depression, amongst other things. She utilizes a hybrid of cognitive-behavioral, ACT, and mindfulness techniques in her therapy work. She incorporates mindfulness concepts into the therapeutic work she does. She also facilitates mindfulness groups for the broader community and gives talks related to mental health and wellness.

Dr. Katz is passionate about girls’ and women’s mental health, and helping women navigate challenges to live deeply connected and fulfilled lives. She frequently writes for Psychology Today and has her first book coming out in May 2022.
You can find her on Instagram @dr.leahkatz
Twitter @drleahkatz, and her website, drleahkatz.com where she shares mental health-related tips and insights. 

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Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.
Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.

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Dr. Laura Froyen has her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialization in Couple and Family Therapy. Laura combines trauma-informed practices with the latest in child development research to help families find more peace, calm, & connection. She teaches conscious parenting & communication with heaping doses of grace and compassion through her podcast, The Balanced Parent, & her courses and programs.

[email protected]
www.laurafroyen.com
www.instagram.com/laurafroyenphd
www.facebook.com/laurafroyen

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Esther Boykin is a psychotherapist who wants to live in a world where everyone believes that Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word.  As the CEO of Group Therapy Associates, a private practice in the DC metro area, she works every day to make mental health accessible, innovative, and culturally relevant for all people.

In 2017 Esther launched Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word, a brand new division of GTA designed to bring mental health conversation outside the traditional office setting and into the community through media, webinars, social events, and retreats. 

In addition to her role as  a licensed marriage & family therapist and CEO, Esther is also an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech teaching the business of therapy, author of The Date Deck, and a sought-after relationship and mental health expert.  She was recently named a top 21 relationship expert to follow by Cosmopolitan magazine and has appeared on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac, HuffPost, Good Morning Washington, the Wall Street Journal, Refinery 29, and a myriad of other media outlets.

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In this weeks episode with Dr. Zoe Shaw we dive into some of these amazing and important topics:
- Your not broken, just bent 
- The connection between strength, intelligence and anxiety
- An inside look into mental health for women 
- How to honor your anxiety 
- The pro and cons of the superwomen syndrome
- How to be in the now 

Dr. Zoe Shaw is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker, radio show
host, life coach, and fitness fanatic. She is a mom to 5 and a wife. She is
passionate about helping women who struggle in difficult relationships,
especially that sometimes difficult relationships with themselves.
After 15 years in traditional psychotherapy practice, Dr. Zoe jumped off the
couch and now helps women using a different modality with a mix of virtual
therapy, coaching services and programs, through a lens of faith and
feminism, designed specifically for women trying to have it all, helping
women show up stronger in their lives and relationships.
Dr. Zoe is the author of the Ask Dr. Zoe Column in the Grit and Grace
Project women’s magazine, She has been published in Oprahmag.com,
Recovery Today magazine and is a frequent contributor to Your Tango. She
writes about helping women redefine their Strength. 
You can find her in the media on Instagram: @Drzoeshaw and in most social places at the handle DrZoeShaw

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In honor of Suicide Awareness Month, I have an open and real conversation with Kristina on her journey through depression, suicidal thoughts and her tips and ways to pick yourself up through the darkness.

Within the conversation we touch on:
- Parenting  when you struggle
- Not to carry others suitcases 
- Starting with something small to make a massive difference 

Kristina Kuzmic is a cheerleader for her fellow humans. It’s not something she ever anticipated doing, but after immigrating to America from Croatia during the war in her homeland and later facing more challenges (divorce, single parenting, poverty, depression…), Kristina wanted to be for others what she wished someone had been for her during her darkest hours.

Now, with well over one billion video views, Kristina is providing her audience with encouragement, hope and humor in a role she never expected to fill.

 In 2011, when Oprah crowned Kristina the winner of Mark Burnett’s reality TV competition “Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star,” Oprah said, “What is that THING?…That’s so charming and charismatic and connected to the audience that makes you feel like, ‘I know her, I want to be her, I’m like her’… Kristina has all of that. She is an ‘IT PLUS’ girl… I wanna watch her!” 

 Since working with Oprah, Kristina has branched out on her own, creating parent-centric videos about raising children and juggling all of life’s challenges. Her messages resonate with moms, dads, and even those who don’t have children. She has quickly become a viral sensation with well over 2.8 million Facebook followers and over 1 billion video views. Kristina has a voice and personality that has proven to be a hit with a massive audience.

 The Huffington Post referred to Kristina’s videos as “Parenting comedy at its finest,” and The Inquisitr has praised her “witty charm.” People, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly, Parents, and many more have posted articles on her creative parenting advice and unique humor, and media outlets across the country are picking up her videos and re-posting them. Kristina has quickly made a name for herself as a creative, yet unpretentious parent, as well as a world-renowned motivational speaker and comedian. She is currently touring the country with her “Hope & Humor” tour. Her first book, Hold On But Don’t Hold Still, was released through Penguin Random House in February 2020 and made the Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers list. 

 Kristina and her husband live in Southern California, where her most important, rewarding, and exhausting roles include being a sanitation engineer, chef, chauffer, conflict resolution guru, and cheerleader for her three (mostly satisfied) clients – her children. 

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