Send us Fan Mail You can feel it the moment someone finally says, âOh, thatâs why.â Amy Jones joins us for a candid, funny, and deeply human talk about living most of her life without an ADHD diagnosis, getting labeled with everything but the real answer, and how that one missing piece rewrote her entire story. We sit with the grief of âwhat could have been,â but we spend even more time on what relief can look like when you stop treating yourself like the problem and start understanding how y...
Aug 4
54 min
Send us Fan Mail Theo spent years pushing away his autism diagnosis, and the cost was steep: mental health spirals, substance abuse, and the constant pressure to act ânormalâ in a world that rarely makes space for sensory needs. When he later works with autistic kids and recognizes himself in them, something shifts. We talk about what it means to accept autism as an identity and a nervous system reality, not a problem to be fixed, and why that acceptance can arrive late but still change every...
Jul 28
48 min
Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of caregiving is not the hard day, itâs the day youâre not there to explain what only you know. When a loved one is non-speaking, has epilepsy, needs sensory supports, or relies on a specific routine, the difference between âtheyâll figure it outâ and âtheyâll care for them wellâ comes down to details. Joel and Debbie Pearlman built DaniPlan after facing that exact reality with their daughter Dani and realizing that the traditional special needs binder is to...
Jul 21
26 min
Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of âhelpingâ a family after an autism diagnosis can be admitting that your old playbook no longer fits. Jennifer Kaufman knows that tension from both angles: she spent years as a principal at a school for children with autism through age 21, and sheâs also the grandmother of an autistic eight-year-old. When her grandson was diagnosed, expertise wasnât the missing piece. The missing piece was learning how to shift expectations, step back from the expert role, ...
Jul 14
34 min
Send us Fan Mail Your teenâs behavior makes more sense when you stop treating it like a moral failing and start treating it like communication. We sit down with Dr. Carla Cataria, an educator turned family support specialist, to talk about what actually helps teens thrive, especially neurodiverse kids who are too often stereotyped, mislabeled, or underestimated by the adults around them. We dig into the difference between teaching responsibility and teaching conditional worth. If kids ...
Jul 7
39 min
Send us Fan Mail A diagnosis can feel like it writes your childâs future in ink, but that story is usually wrong. We sit down with Sean Adelman, an orthopedic trauma surgeon and dad to a daughter with Down syndrome, to talk about what heâs learned outside the textbooks: people are not their worst day, and kids are not their labels. The big throughline is raising expectations, not as pressure, but as possibility. We get personal about how exposure changes fear into understanding. I share how ...
Jun 30
36 min
Send us Fan Mail One sentence from a professional can steal your breath for years, and one unexpected win can finally give it back. We sit down with Dr. Norinne Russell, educator, advocate, and founder of Russell Coaching for Students, to talk about the part of parenting neurodiverse kids that rarely gets said out loud: the seasons when you never fully exhale, the loneliness behind the logistics, and the way ânormalâ expectations can quietly become a trap. We get real about autism, ADHD, anx...
Jun 23
43 min
Send us Fan Mail Parenting gets loud when youâre stuck in the day to day. This conversation gets quiet in the best way and asks the bigger question: what do we want our kids to carry when our titles and paychecks are long forgotten? Weâre joined by Nathaniel Turner, co-founder of the League of Extraordinary Parents, who opens with a powerful reminder that legacy is measured in character and relationships. That grounding turns âsuccessâ into something you can actually practice at home. ...
Jun 16
33 min
Send us Fan Mail Your kid says they want to start a business, become a YouTuber, or make money from gaming and youâre left thinking, âGreat⌠but how?â We sit down with Jessie Dennerline, founder of KidPitchBiz, to talk about what kids actually need before they ever âlaunchâ anything: a simple way to think through ideas, practice public speaking, learn how money works, and get comfortable adjusting after mistakes. Jessie shares her own path from childhood mini-hustles to the reality of runnin...
Jun 9
32 min
Send us Fan Mail The worst part of an autism diagnosis is not the word itself. It is the silence that can follow when you do not know where to go, what to trust, or who will truly understand your day to day life. We talk with Karen Simmons about that exact moment and the long road after it, from early parenting chaos to building reliable autism resources that help families feel less alone. We get into why âfuture tellersâ can be so damaging, how a strengths based approach changes everything,...
Jun 2
32 min
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