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June 6: Inside Surrogacy
with Adrienne Black of www.HeartToHandsSurrogacy.com Adrienne Black, owner and Agency Director of Heart to Hands Surrogacy, a surrogacy agency. She is a 4 time gestational surrogate, and former midwife. Adrienne is a popular speaker and offers workshops for the medical community on topics about providing competent care for surrogacy clients. |
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May 2 - Supporting Gender Expansive Kids
with Mere Abrams www.GenderSpectrum.org Mere began working with Gender Spectrum in 2012, completing the first evaluative study to measure the impact of Gender Spectrum’s Education & Training Programs in schools. Prior to Gender Spectrum, Mere received their Masters in Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, MA. While in graduate school, Mere worked as a school social work intern, serving as an advocate and offering mental health services to underserved students as well as gender-expansive youth. Mere previously worked as a community organizer, community-based researcher, program director, and evaluator with communities throughout the greater Los Angeles area. |
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April 4: Motherhood and Menopause
with Pat Duckworth www.HotWomenCoolSolutions.com Pat Duckworth is a menopause expert, author and inspirational public speaker. After working many years in the public sector, Pat re-trained as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist in her mid-50s. Since then has written three books including the award-winning, ‘Hot Women, Cool Solutions’. She is passionate about inspiring other women to get the best from their lives, no matter what their age. |
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March 25: Surrogacy
with Adrienne Black of www.HeartToHandsSurrogacy.com Adrienne Black, owner and Agency Director of Heart to Hands Surrogacy, a surrogacy agency. She is a 4 time gestational surrogate, and former midwife. Adrienne is a popular speaker and offers workshops for the medical community on topics about providing competent care for surrogacy clients. |
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March 18: Talking to Kids about Money
with Ellen Rogin from www.EllenRogin.com Ellen Rogin is a CPA, Certified Financial Planner™ and New York Times bestselling author of Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Realty. Ellen recently presented a TEDx talk on The Surprising Way to Teach Your Kids about Money. Chockfull of “left brain” credentials – she is an MBA, CPA, and Certified Financial PlannerTM -- Ellen also walks on the “right” side, balancing values, big picture ideas, meditation and humor with all her professional training. She is as comfortable talking about the power of compound interest as she is talking about the power of belief. The founder and president of a wealth management firm north of Chicago, Ellen presents to corporate audiences, associations and women’s initiatives across the country, her counterintuitive methods for reaching lasting success and achieving both business and personal goals. Ellen is also founder of the Abundance Activist® movement whose mission it is to help the world think and act more prosperously. Elle's TEDx talk about teaching kids about money : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9hcBHN77g |
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March 11: Gender and Inclusion
with Mere Abrams from The Gender Spectrum Mere began working with Gender Spectrum in 2012, completing the first evaluative study to measure the impact of Gender Spectrum’s Education & Training Programs in schools. Prior to Gender Spectrum, Mere received their Masters in Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, MA. While in graduate school, Mere worked as a school social work intern, serving as an advocate and offering mental health services to underserved students as well as gender-expansive youth. Mere previously worked as a community organizer, community-based researcher, program director, and evaluator with communities throughout the greater Los Angeles area. |
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March 4: the Canadian Centre for Men and Families
(www.menandfamilies.org) with Justin Trottier Justin Trottier is Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Men and Families, a unique new Toronto facility. The Centre is an open, inclusive and space space serving as a hub for services focused on the health and well-being of boys, men, fathers and families. Services include therapy, peer support, legal assistance, employment counselling, fathering programs and support for male victims of trauma, abuse and domestic violence. |
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February 26: Thriving after Divorce
with Carolyn Ellis - www.BrillianceMastery.com and www.ThriveAfterDivorce.com Carolyn Ellis of BRILLIANCE MASTERY is a visual facilitator, leadership trainer and organizational consultant. Carolyn works as a strategic, visual consultant with her clients to help them create a strategic plans, improve team performance or capture the essential points of key events and her doodling literally helps get everyone on the same page. Combining her deep intuitive abilities with her Harvard-trained brain and a life-long love of colorful markers, Carolyn specializes in helping decision-makers, speakers and businesses stand out and deliver powerful experiences to their clients through captivating infodoodles, sketch notes and large-scale visual murals. Carolyn is also the founder of ThriveAfterDivorce.com and is an award-winning author of “The 7 Pitfalls of Single Parenting: What to Avoid to Help Your Children Thrive After Divorce” and the creator of several award-winning programs designed to help separated and divorced families overcome some of the difficult challenges divorce creates. As promised on the show, here are the THRIVE principles Carolyn shared: Trust, Honesty, Responsibility, Integrity, Vision and Expression. |
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February 19: A Youth Perspective on Adoption
with Tabitha McDonald Tabitha McDonald is a young adult from Ottawa, who transitioned out of care without a permanent family. Tabitha now coordinates the Adoption Council of Canada’s Youth Speak Out Program, so that youth in and from government care can share their stories, as experts, and bring about a call to action on a national scale. She speaks to the importance of siblings and education, as well as the belief that permanency is a protective factor against homelessness, human trafficking, mental health issues and other adverse effects. |
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February 12: MAIA Midwifery and Fertility Services
with Kristin Kali Kristin Kali is a talented and insightful guide for those who are in the process of welcoming a baby. She is the owner of MAIA Midwifery & Fertility Services, internationally renowned for its queer family-building expertise and midwifery model approach to fertility. Kristin provides preconception care, home insemination, and midwifery services in Seattle, Washington, as well as fertility consultations via internet. Over the course of her career, Kristin has assisted nearly one thousand people on their way to becoming parents. She is an authoritative resource on LGBTQ conception and pregnancy, single parenting by choice, functional fertility and a variety of topics related to insemination, intentional family-building, LGBTQ cultural sensitivity and midwifery model preconception care. |
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February 5: Living a mobile lifestyle - with kids!
with Tina Dietz Tina Dietz is the owner of Start Something Creative Business Solutions where she coaches business owners to create Oasis bases businesses. She has been living a mobile lifestyle (with 2 kids) for the past few years, spending months at a time in Costa Rica with her whole family. We spoke about the joys and challenges of that opportunity. You can also find Tina on Facebook at The Start Something Movement. and Twitter @TheSuperStarter. |
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January 29: Support for Families with Children with Special Needs and Disabilites
with Juno Duenas Juno Duenas is the ED of Support For Families - a resource and support organization for families with children with special needs and disabilities in San Francisco. It's simply amazing what they have to offer - all for FREE!! You can find them at: www.supportforfamilies.org, and if you don't live in San Francisco and want to find a similar organization near you in the USA, you can find a list at: www.parentcenterhub.org |
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January 22: Parenting kids with Tough Starts
with Judy Stigger Loads of information about the impact of tough starts on any child and what we can do to help (as parents) and how to take care of ourselves. Learn more at: www.AdoptionLearningPartners.org |
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January 15: Raising good communicators with
Maribeth Kuzmeski Maribeth is a marketing expert and she has written a book with her teenage daughter called The Engaging Child - Raising Children to speak, write and have relationships beyond technology. Great nuggets of information as well as easy things you can start doing at home today! You can find Maribeth at: www.RedZoneMarketing.com |
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January 8: Natural remedies for pregnancy
with Demetria Clark Demetria has just written a new book called Aromatherapy and Herbal Remedies for Pregnancy, Birth and Breastfeeding. You can see what Demetria is up to at: www.HeartofHerbs.com & www.BirthArts.com |
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January 1: Diblings!
Diblings is the new name for siblings that share the same sperm donor. I spoke with three parents in the same dibling group about their experiences getting to know each other and their children. |
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December 25: Enlightened Kids
with Christy Witman Raising kids with healthy minds, happy hearts and joyful souls! www.enlightenedkid.com |
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December 18: Creating a Legacy with your grandchildren
with Stephen Hobbs If you're interested in the environment and in creating a project with your grandchild, this could be for you! www.wellthmovement.com |
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Dec. 11: Personality and Relationships
with Eileen Head Eileen Head is a Personality & Relationship Expert, International Bestselling Author, Coach, Speaker, and Workshop facilitator. Through her coaching and workshops, she supports people to "figure themselves out". Then she empowers them through powerful tools such as the Enneagram Personalities to find their Relationship Answers. Take the free personality quiz at www.eileenhead.com and you can also find Eileen on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/EileenHeadConsultant/?fref=ts |
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Dec 4: Disruptive Youth
with Helen Jones Helen Jones is the founder of the Association of Parent Support Groups in Ontario www.APSGO.org. If you have a disruptive youth, there is a wealth of information on the website, no matter where you live. The work is based on Change Theory - through the William Glasser Institute (internationational). If you live in Ontario, check out the site for a support group near you. Helen gave us many tips for healthy child-parent relationships including acknowledgment over praise. You can also find APSGO on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/The-Association-of-Parent-Support-Groups-in-Ontario-Inc-APSGO-167169006665189/?fref=ts |
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Nov. 27: Stress and Parenting
with Dr. Ganz Ferrance For over 20 years Dr. Ganz Ferrance has been helping people and organizations reduce their stress, improve their relationships and enjoy more success. Check out the Parenting resources on his website: ww.DoctorGanz.com and you can find him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/GanzFerrance/?ref=hl |
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Nov. 20: Transracial Adoption
with Judy Stigger Judy is an Adoption Therapist at The Cradle, and the Clinical Director of Adoption Learning Partners - an online resource for people who are considering adoption, who have adopted or who have been adopted. Adoption Learning Partners has a Facebook page: facebook.com/Adoption.Learning and you can follow them on twitter: @adoptiontweets. |
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Nov. 13: Parenting...and Your Second 50
with Frank Moffatt Forgive Me - a pocketbook for positive productive parenting is the book we spoke about. Very powerful. You can find it at www.YSFmarket.com. Be the first to see Frank's documentary about aging - Your Second Fifty. Go to www.YSFdocumentary.com and sign up to receive an email when it is released in late December. You're going to want to see it, it's amazing! It's so powerful to challenge the ideas we have about aging. Your Second Fifty has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/YourSecondFifty/?fref=ts |
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Nov. 6: LGBTQ Parenting Network
with Andy Inkster The LGBTQ Parenting Network is in Toronto, Ontario but there are many resources on the site that will be of use no matter where you live. In addition, here are the other resources Andy mentioned during the show. Canada: Familles LGBT in Montreal (Formerly Familles Homoparentales) - http://www.familleslgbt.org Ten Oaks Project (Ottawa) - http://www.tenoaksproject.org/ Europe: NELFA - Network of European LGBTI Families Associations - http://nelfa.org/ U.S.: Family Equality Council - http://www.familyequality.org/ COLAGE - www.colage.org Local U.S. organizations: SF - Our Families Coalition - http://www.ourfamily.org/ Binghampton/Syracuse, NY - http://www.binghamton.edu/prideandjoyfamilies/ Philadelphia - http://philadelphiafamilypride.org/ |
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Oct. 30: Simplicity Parenting
with Kim John Payne Kim John Payne is a the author of the #1 bestselling book: Simplicity Parenting. A consultant and trainer to over 200 North American independent and public schools, Kim has been a school counsellor, an adult educator, consultant, researcher, educator and a private family counsellor for 27 years. You can find out more at: www.simplicityparenting.com |
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Oct 23: Dykes Planning Tykes
with Rachel Epstein Rachel co-founded the first queer family planning course in Toronto in 1997, called Dykes Planning Tykes. There are now two others: Daddies and Papas 2B (for gay and bi men) and Queer and Trans Family Planning (for genderqueer and trans folks). Find out more at the LGBTQ Parenting Network: www.lgbtqpn.ca |
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Oct. 16: "I don't look like that!" Being Biracial and representation in books
with Cassandra Thompson from A Different Booklist The list of books Cassandra shared can be found here. A Different Booklist ships all over the world: www.adifferentbooklist.com. Stay tuned for a possible support group Cassandra and I are hoping to organize for biracial kids/parents of biracial kids. |
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Oct. 9: Adoption
with Laura Eggerston from the Adoption Council of Canada The Adoption Council of Canada has a photo gallery of children available for adoption, you can become a member, they have a Youth Speak Out program where kids who have aged out of the system share their stories. Did you know you can adopt a young adult who may not need a place to live, but does need a "home base"? Check it out! www.adoption.ca |
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Oct. 2: Fertility with Jan Silverman, Fertility Counsellor and Reproductive Health Educator here in Toronto.
If you're looking for a fertility counsellor or a support group for Endometriosis or parenting on your own (by choice) or fertility issues, you can find Jan at [email protected]