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Transformation is needed when circumstances and results suck. But how do you achieve transformation when the who, when, where, and why of change have not been defined, agreed to, or believed? In this podcast, I want to discuss the qualities of a genuine transformation, the distinction between primary and secondary transformation, and the three immediate steps necessary to bring a lasting transformation into focus and into practice.

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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This podcast is a review of a show I just did with James Moffitt of the “ABCs of Parenting Adult Children” Podcast. James is a good friend who is doing magnificent work. I am proud to sponsor his show and his work. I'd like to take a few minutes to discuss my mission, my 'why,' and illustrate some of the basic tenets of Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management.

ATTENTION:  FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 at risk, in trouble, or in transition into adulthood.

“You’ve Tried Everything… But He’s Still Slipping. Here’s What You Haven’t Been Told.”

🚨 Substance use ?, trouble with the law ?, lost potential?

 You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working.

But what if:

✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"…

✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan

🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now!

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com

 📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

 📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up

You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions.

🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting.

🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program:

🧭 Reinforces clinical goals

📦 Equips the home system

👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan

🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689 

📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below)

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery?

2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement.

 We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed.

📌 Who we help

🎯 What we teach

✅ How we track success

🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us"

🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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Give your Young Adult A Competitive Edge
Providing your young adult with a competitive edge should be your top priority. 
The first step is to set aside your negative perceptions, prejudices, and past injuries and focus on providing the Tools, weapons, knowledge, and Support necessary to ensure the best possible future.
Anything else is a roadblock

ATTENTION:  FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 at risk, in trouble, or in transition into adulthood.

🚨 Substance use ?, trouble with the law ?, lost potential?

 You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working.

But what if:

✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"…

✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan

🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now!

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com

 📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

 📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up

You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions.

🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting.

🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program:

🧭 Reinforces clinical goals

📦 Equips the home system

👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan

🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689 

📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below)

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery?

2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement.

 We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed.

📌 Who we help

🎯 What we teach

✅ How we track success

🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us"

🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

Parenting Your Child in Recovery

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Your Pain Point!. The goal is not to upset you any more than you already are. The goal is to make your solution aware of the issue. The goal is to let you know that you can fix this problem, but unfortunately, we sometimes agitate feelings of guilt, shame, and blame. There is a mindset that allows you to understand this dynamic and still not waste precious moments recovering, fixing, and eliminating the source of pain. 

Keep reading below.

Section 2: FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 in Crisis

🚨 Substance use, trouble with the law, lost potential?

You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working.

But what if:

✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"…

✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan

🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now!

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com

📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up

You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions.

🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting.

🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program:

• 🧭 Reinforces clinical goals
• 📦 Equips the home system
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan

🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients

https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689 

📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below)

https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/

🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery?

2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement.

We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed.

📌 Who we help

🎯 What we teach

✅ How we track success

🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us"

🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program

https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

Parenting Your Child in Recovery

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When the mission is unclear, the work is that much harder. To use a football analogy, Our current system wants to teach our young adults how to do a great endzone dance and spike the ball, but we don't want to teach the basics of blocking and tackling.
Blocking is recognizing and blocking out distractions. Blocking out those who have doubtful words and actions against Your child's recovery efforts. 
Tackling involves aggressively taking actions that change habits, which in turn change outcomes. 
It's all about coming together as a team and knowing what your true vision of a championship is.

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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Preparing Your Young Adult to Handle Hidden Resistance

One of the most overlooked but critical parts of preparing a young adult for lasting recovery—or any serious self-improvement—is helping them understand how people around them might react when they start to change.

We expect enemies and strangers to doubt them.
We don't always expect that some of the toughest resistance will come from people who love them.

Sometimes, when a young adult starts showing real growth—building better habits, setting clearer boundaries, standing stronger—people close to them feel unsettled. It’s not necessarily malice or cruelty. It’s fear. It’s sadness. It’s a sense of being left behind.
The important thing to prepare them for is this: Not every negative reaction they get is a sign they’re doing something wrong. More often, it's a sign they're doing something right.

When growth exposes old wounds in others, the easiest thing for a young adult to do is to shrink themselves back down to fit. To stop growing so fast. To apologize for wanting better.
But the truth is: they’re not responsible for making everyone else comfortable with their progress.

Here’s what you can do to prepare them:

1. Normalize It Early:
Let them know it’s normal if a friend or family member seems irritated, distant, or critical. Change creates waves.

2. Frame It as a Positive Indicator:
Help them reframe emotional distance or minor pushback as evidence that they’re growing—and that growth is often contagious, even if it’s uncomfortable at first.

3. Teach Steadiness, Not War:
The goal isn’t to fight back or "prove" anything. It's to stay steady, kind, and focused. Model how to keep moving without resentment or bitterness.

4. Encourage Self-Validation:
Recovery and growth are already hard enough without waiting for applause. Teach them how to validate themselves internally so they aren’t dependent on outside approval to stay on course.

Remember:
You can't clear every obstacle for them.
But you can plant truths in them now that will carry them through the tougher moments later.
Prepare them for the unexpected emotional storms—and they’ll learn to sail right through them.

Your love, your words, and your preparation can give your young adult the confidence to keep growing, even when it's hard.

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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In today's podcast, I will discuss the third vital part of communication: Creativity. 
Communication is not limited to what you take in, hear, see, and feel, and what you put out in the form of speaking, writing, and expressions but what you put out for the work to consume. 
Without the ability to determine and execute your creative expression, your young adult is doomed to frustration.  

This seminar series is not about traditional rehab models. Instead, it’s about Leveraged-Based Tapered Life Management—a proven system that turns external accountability into internal habit and sets young adults up for sustainable success.

Parents and mentors, you deserve a clear, actionable path to support your young adult’s transformation. You’ll learn how to:
✔ Build an effective support network without feeling overwhelmed.
✔ Help your young adult make an immediate 180-degree turn toward success.
✔ Eliminate the guilt, shame, and blame that often stall progress.
✔ Equip them with a Maximum Achievement Mentality for lifelong success.

📞 Book a Call Today
📖 Get the Quick Book

🔹 Your child’s recovery is possible.
🔹 Your role is essential.
🔹 Let’s build a plan for long-term success together.

📍 Stay Tuned for Official Seminar Dates & Locations!

For more details, visit:
 🌐 2ndStarts.com
🌐 ParentingYourChildInRecovery.com
📧 [email protected]

#ParentingYourChildInRecovery #2ndStarts #YoungAdultRecovery #BreakTheCycle #ParentingSupport #FromPainToProgressToPride #RecoveryTransformation

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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In today's episode, I want to throw it back to my first full podcast. I talked about the five things I wanted you to know about the show. At the start of this journey, which commences on September 14th, 2020, I didn't know what I was doing, much like now, but I was optimistic, much like now. It was always about making a team of people and doing tasks to help the families of young adults in trouble. I wanted to emphasize TEAM. I wanted to talk about PREVENTION. I wanted to join everyone who had the same mission as I did. Nothing has changed, but this is a fun recap and trip down memory lane.

This seminar series is not about traditional rehab models. Instead, it’s about Leveraged-Based Tapered Life Management—a proven system that turns external accountability into internal habit and sets young adults up for sustainable success.

Parents and mentors, you deserve a clear, actionable path to support your young adult’s transformation. You’ll learn how to:
✔ Build an effective support network without feeling overwhelmed.
✔ Help your young adult make an immediate 180-degree turn toward success.
✔ Eliminate the guilt, shame, and blame that often stall progress.
✔ Equip them with a Maximum Achievement Mentality for lifelong success.

📞 Book a Call Today
📖 Get the Quick Book

🔹 Your child’s recovery is possible.
🔹 Your role is essential.
🔹 Let’s build a plan for long-term success together.

📍 Stay Tuned for Official Seminar Dates & Locations!

For more details, visit:
 🌐 2ndStarts.com
🌐 ParentingYourChildInRecovery.com
📧 [email protected]

#ParentingYourChildInRecovery #2ndStarts #YoungAdultRecovery #BreakTheCycle #ParentingSupport #FromPainToProgressToPride #RecoveryTransformation

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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Guilt, Shame, and Blame are the cancers of the family of young adults in trouble. These three cancers inhibit forgiveness and progress. Trouble in a family is no respecter of persons or positions, and it can and will strike the best and worst of us. All three, as a team, will destroy futures and destroy happiness. They ( Guilt, Shame, and Blame) are used as weapons to mask perceived weaknesses and provide a false sense of defense. Until we learn to acknowledge these cancers, we can never move on toward healing and, ultimately, prosperity.

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

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Moving forward when the way is unclear requires the right motivation and a leap of faith. Turning the lights on is not always as easy as flipping a switch. In today's Podcast we talk about initiating essential change when 
the people we need to help don't hear the message.
This thought was born from a conversation with friends in my podcast mastermind group. Meaningful conversation for situations when failure is not an option but you don't feel heard.

Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program, 

Parenting Your Child in Recovery