This Is So Awkward

By Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward

This is so awkward…but it doesn’t have to be. These days, puberty starts earlier, lasts longer, and happens with a cellphone in hand. The most trusted voices on puberty, Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa... more

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April 22, 2025 ADHD, Hormones + the Adolescent Brain
Thanks to hormones and rapid brain development, tweens and teens can be explosive, make impulsive decisions, or struggle to get organized. Layer on top of that a brain with ADHD and the picture looks even more complex. To illuminate the interplay of the neurobiological factors of ADHD and puberty is clinical neuropsychologist Karen Wilson, PhD.

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53min
April 18, 2025 The Far-Reaching Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
A set of challenges called ACEs – short for Adverse Childhood Experiences – tether directly to all sorts of physical and emotional consequences. These stressors range from violence to food insecurity to natural disasters, outcomes backed by 30 years of research. We’ll explain how, even though the ACEs create their own downstream issues, these aren’t inevitable.

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CDC on ACES
Cleveland Clinic on ACES

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45min
April 15, 2025 ADHD + Teen Relationships with Dr. Ari Tuckman
At long last! An episode dedicated to how ADHD can impact tweens + teens relationships, romantic lives, and sexual behaviors. Dr. Ari Tuckman 25 years’ working with kids and adults who have ADHD provides a deep understanding of the ways their social interactions can be affected by their differently wired brains.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD ESSENTIALS

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

Head to phyla.com and use code PUBERTY for 25% off your first order

Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip

understood.org

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Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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56min
April 11, 2025 How to Talk About How Babies are Made
When it comes to educating kids about sex, reproduction, and all the rest, there’s lots of information out there. What there doesn’t seem to be is a wealth of information about – at least for younger kids on the front end of this learning curve – is a ton of accessible information about the different ways babies can be made. A mom reached out after we spoke at her school, explaining that she used an egg donor and hasn’t talked to her kid about it yet. She’s searched for resources, but can’t find any age-appropriate ones. So, voila! We did a podcast about it.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD ESSENTIALS

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

Head to phyla.com and use code PUBERTY for 25% off your first order

Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip

Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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53min
April 08, 2025 Future Fertility
Answers to so many questions about fertility incoming! How do female and male fertility cycles work? What’s the long-term impact of contraception on fertility? How about STIs? Or autoimmune disease? And what are the arguments for and against freezing eggs at increasingly young ages? We cover it all (and so much more) with reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Jaime Knopman.

Show Notes:

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55min
April 04, 2025 Netflix’s Adolescence Forces Us to Talk About Hard Things
There is so much buzz (and fear) springing from Netflix’s Adolescence. Many are trying to make sense of the heady topics it covers… others have opted to avoid watching altogether. Our advice: It’s must see TV. While its premise is extreme, its themes – social media + tech use, toxic masculinity, bullying, loneliness and more – are universal to today’s youth. There’s no turning a blind eye.

Show Notes:

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Understanding Boys with Ruth Whippman
Raising a Healthy Gamer with Alok Kanojia

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49min
April 01, 2025 Tovah Klein on Raising Resilience
Resilience is a buzzy word in the world of “good parenting,” but what does resilience even mean and how do adults help kids get there? Psychologist, researcher, and professor Tovah Klein unpacks what resilience truly is and the critical role parents and trusted adults play in building this skill.

Show Notes:

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Raising Resilience

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53min
March 28, 2025 We Can't Force Our Kids
The list of things we want or need or hope our kids will do is long and ever-growing. It might start with brushing their teeth twice a day and making their beds, but it inevitably expands to include things like getting themselves out of toxic friendships and calling us when they’re in trouble. Much to our frustration (and even though we know better), we cannot force them to do any of these things. We can nudge, bribe, ask, beg, even yell… this episode covers these and other ways we try to point them in the right direction and eventually empower them to make good choices on their own.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD ESSENTIALS

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Head to phyla.com and use code PUBERTY for 25% off your first order

Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip

Download the FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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57min
March 25, 2025 Nutrition as Disease Prevention with Maya Feller RD
Nutrition is the first line of disease prevention. And yet, words like “diet” and even “nutrition” itself are laden, suggesting concerns about body image or eating issues. How to thread the needle? We can teach kids – and re-teach ourselves – the short and long term impacts of what we eat and drink. Maya Feller, registered dietician and nutritionist, shares her strategies, including why teaching this to kids matters for longevity… theirs and ours!

Show Notes:

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Maya Feller Nutrition

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55min
March 21, 2025 Long Distance Healthcare
There are 3 main reasons why someone might travel to get healthcare: (1) there’s no one local who can help, (2) after some sleuthing and you think you’ve found the very best person but they’re located somewhere else, or (3) you’re not even home when you get sick or injured. Whatever the reason, navigating long distance healthcare comes with very predictable pros and cons that most people haven’t thought through.

Show Notes:

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46min

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How many episodes does This Is So Awkward have?

The podcast currently has 340 episodes available.

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