Why is Everyone Yelling?

Tritika Sharda Bhanot is passionate about the minimalist lifestyle. She is a working Southasian mom on her journey to the minimalist lifestyle and her mantra is “each inch of your house is gold, use it wisely.” I love that she shares in this episode that her mother is who actually planted the seeds of minimalism growing up. She also shares 5 tips for taking the first step to decluttering, organizing, and simplifying.

Tritika works full time outside of the home as a senior consultant for an IT company. Along with this passion of hers for helping others simplify their life, she also has a side gig where she cooks delicious Southasian food and she also has a passion for helping other women create their own businesses as well.

What we talked about:

3:05- Introduction to Tritika

4:55- Living a minimalist lifestyle
12:20- The two-year rule to help you simplify your home

18:40- Organization tips

22:00- 5 tips for organizing and decluttering

30:45- Gifting experiences

33:00- Her side hustle of cooking

39:15- End of podcast questions

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Cali Werner is a family and behavioral therapist. She focuses on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, athletes and repetitive and ritualistic performance inhibiting behaviors, anxiety, mental health stigmas and more. Cali also recently wrote a book and it’s called Anxious Annie.

In this episode, she gives us really thoughtful ways to evaluate and decide if our kids might need to see a behavioral therapist, ways to think about anxiety with our kids, how to handle certain situations, anxiety with sports, and more. 

I took a lot from this conversation and I hope that you all with too!

What we talked about:

4:05- The book that Cali wrote

5:15- Her work as a therapist

6:45- Cali’s own story with OCD and working with your child on their own OCD

20:15- Bringing siblings to therapy

21:50- When to get help for your child with OCD

24:35- Symptoms of panic attacks

25:30- How to help your child through a panic attack

28:55- Anxiety with sports 

34:35- Writing Anxious Annie

36:10- Anxiety vs OCD and how they intertwine

37:30- How to communicate with teachers and others about your child’s anxiety

49:10- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

What Happened to You? By Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry

The Whole-Brained Child by Daniel Siegel

Anxious Annie

Peace of Mind Foundation

International OCD Foundation

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David Thomas is the director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. He is the co-author of 8 books including the bestselling books Wild Things and Are My Kids on Track. As a licensed therapist, he works with kids and parents on all kinds of different topics. 

He is a frequent guest on national television and podcasts and has been featured in publications including The Washington Post and USA Today.. He also has his own podcast, Raising Boys and Girls. He speaks around the county on these topics. He has 2 sons that are twins and a daughter.

In this episode, we focus specifically on raising boys. As a mom of 4 boys myself, this topic is extra interesting to me and I am excited to bring you this conversation today!

What we talked about:

4:20- Introduction to David’s work at Daystar Counseling and his family

11:10- The difference of raising boys and girls

15:45- Engaging, discipling, and encouraging boys that is in tandem with the way that they are hard wired

28:35- Rough play and wrestling 

37:15- Communicating with your boys

43:35- Parenting teenage girls vs teenage boys

47:00- Talking with our boys about rough play with their friends

50:55- Advice for talking with boys about their emotions

52:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Raising Boys and Girls Podcast

Raising Boys and Girls on Instagram

Raising Boys and Girls on Facebook

Wild Things

Are My Kids on Track?

The Addiction Inoculation by Jessica Lahey

Daystar Counseling

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Ali Flynn is a writer and supporter specifically for moms of teens. She provides encouragement and inspiration for them. She has four daughters, two who are in college and two which are at home.

We talk about adjusting our expectations when our kids are home from college, transitioning to raising older kids, parenting teenage girls, and more!

Photo credit: Amy Drucker Photography 

What we talked about:

4:45- Introduction to Ali and her family

7:20- Showing our kids who we are outside of being their mom

11:10- Transitioning to raising older kids

16:30- Letting go of expectations when your kids come home from college

20:15- Being a welcoming house for your kids and their friends

26:40- Her online presence

33:05- Looking ahead to being an empty nester

38:45- Advice to moms with girls entering the teenage years

42:55- Social media with her kids

52:35- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Ali on Instagram
Verity

I Like Myself

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Ali on Facebook

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Bre Pearl is a respiratory therapist and also is a content creator for @sarcastic_mommy. She has her own page called @fullofmomsense where she shares about humor based parenting, just giving light hearted energy to parenting because it can be really hard.

In this episode, she shares what it was like being a respiratory therapist during the peak of COVID. She also walked through some health struggles that really made life challenging and she talks about walking through that.

What we talked about:

3:00- Introduction to Bre

7:30- Mental health struggles and teaching your kids coping strategies

11:00- Her content creation

15:00- The health setbacks that she had and a discussion on mental health

37:50- Her work as a respiratory therapist

39:00- The pandemic and its effects on our kids

44:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

@fullofmomsense on Instagram

@fullofmomsense on Twitter

@sarcastic_mommy on Instagram

The Last Mrs. Parrish

The Stranger in the Mirror

The Book With No Pictures

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Yael is a returning guest on the show. She was on the show back in August on episode 99. In that episode, we talked about what it is like to thrive in work, parenting, relationships, stress management, and how we can plan to focus on the things that really matter to us.

Today, we dive deep into relationships and how we can learn to parent with our significant other and still enjoy being around them. In this conversation, Yael breaks down how we can grow in the connect in the good, the bad, and the downright infuriating.

Yael Schonbrun, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, assistant professor at Brown University, co-host of Psychologists Off the Clock: A podcast about the science and practice of living well, and mother of three. Yael’s work draws on scientific research, her clinical experience, ancient wisdom, and her own personal experience with her three little boys. 

Yael is the author of the new book called Work, Parent, Thrive. It has twelve science backed strategies to ditch guilt, manage overwhelm, and grow connection (when everything feels like too much).

What we talked about:

3:50- Pouring into your relationships at home amidst the busy

5:50- Balancing her work with what she has going on in her own life 

8:00- Appreciating the differences between you and your partner

10:15- Scheduling in time for you and your partner

14:35- Talking about marital problems with your friend groups

17:30- Toxic positivity

26:40- Communicating about mortality with kids

28:35- Struggles in relationships with kids

32:05- Division of responsibilities with kids

45:00- Managing flexible schedules

53:20- Last message 

Show notes:

Toxic Positivity

Four Thousand Weeks

The Fair Play Deck

Love Your Enemies

Work, Parent, Thrive

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Hi friends! Happy Thanksgiving week. We have decided to take a down week here on Why is Everyone Yelling? but I wanted to connect and say hi. Thinking of each of you this holiday season!

XO!

Lindsey

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Amanda Parrish Morgan is a writing instructor, a marathon runner, and the mother of two. She has a new book out called Stroller.

In this conversation, we talk a lot about consumerism in parenting and how the world has led us to believe that we need all these things that we don’t really need. We also talk about fear based parenting and how our society also puts ideas in our heads that maybe we should be fearful of things that we shouldn’t actually be fearful of. Lastly, we talk a lot about raising independent kids, which is something that I really love talking about!

What we talked about:

3:00- Stroller running

7:35- Marathon training

9:15- Her book, Stroller

15:00- Consumerism in parenting

24:05- Pressure on kids

27:00- Fear-based parenting

43:45- Raising independent kids

1:00:55- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Amanda’s Website

Stroller

Flight

Foster

Signal Fires

The Vanderbeekers

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Lauren Krasnodembski is a privacy attorney and the founder of the Mind Muscle Motivator, LLC. She helps high achieving women get off the hamster wheel and find their purpose and passion in life. She went through this herself in 2017 when she realized that outside of work and motherhood, she didn’t know what she was passionate about and wanted to change that. She helps other women do the same. 

I love that in this conversation, Lauren helps us to rethink how we are living our day to day lives.

What we talked about:

2:15- Introduction to Lauren

3:55- Lauren’s career and the business that she has started

6:00- Finding passion in your life

14:05- Making time for things that are important to you

16:55- How to make the mundane, everyday activities more fun

21:30- Her book

24:05- Her husband’s role in her transformation in finding her life purpose

29:30- Main message about finding your purpose

30:40- Allowing herself to take breaks

36:15- Message to working parents on balancing everything

36:50- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Lauren’s Website 

Lauren on LinkedIn

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Reclaim Your Power

Insights

Sound Bath

I Think I Am!

I Am Beautiful

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Brighton Peachy is the mother of 3 and she loves to adventure outdoors with her children. She is passionate about wilderness safety and first aid. Her husband is in his medical residency so she spends a lot of time with her kids on her own and is very passionate about still getting outdoors and adventuring and doing hard things with her kids solo.

They have converted a van into a mini camper that they take with them all around the country. She shares about that in this episode!

She has walked through a very traumatic experience with her own kids due to an accident from a distracted driver. She shares about this story in the episode. Her kids are all okay but it really changed how she looks at life.

We also chat about minimalism for families. I am also so passionate about it so it was really fun to talk to Brighton about this.

What we talked about:

4:40- Introduction to Brighton

6:10- Prioritizing being outdoors with her family

8:05- Being a minimalist

10:15- Where her passion for minimalism and the outdoors came from

13:55- Minimalism for families

23:05- The accident she was in with her kids and how it impacted her life

38:20- Her outdoor adventures with her family

39:55- Teaching her kids about first aid

46:30- Van life

49:35- Tips for camping with kids

50:50- Tips for minimalism

53:50- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Dyrt

Campendium

EltaMD Sunscreen

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