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Dr. Dan interviews Professor Dána-Ain Davis about reproductive racism and injustice as well as her recent book reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth  on today’s important episode.  Today’s conversation sheds much-needed light on one of today’s most important cultural, social, and political issues - obstetric racism.  It is a must-listen to episode for everyone. Dr. Davis specializes in black studies, family/sexual violence, reproductive rights, poverty/welfare policy, and women’s studies. She has authors or co-authored Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform, Feminist Activist Ethnography, Black Genders and Sexuality as well as a number of articles on women and welfare policy.   Dána-Ain Davis MPH, Ph.D. received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in anthropology in 2001. Before joining Queens College in 2007, she was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Global Black Studies Program at SUNY/Purchase. Dr. Davis is also the co editor of TransformingAnthropology, the journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists and a doula. Follow Professor Davis on Instagram @danaindavis and on Twitter @drdanaaindavis. Her academic website is: http://qcurban.org/faculty/dana-ain-davis/ and an important hashtag is #endobstetricracism. Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch   www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Dan talks to yogi, mindfulness guru, and New York Times bestselling author Susan Verde about her book I AM COURAGE: A Book of Resilience.  I AM COURAGE isa triumphant celebration of everyday courage, perseverance, and bouncing back from our setbacks with bravery and optimism—it is the perfect companion for our present moment, for children and grown-ups alike. Susan Verde believes every child's experience is valid and unique and every child should be seen and celebrated. Her books help readers cultivate empathy and compassion towards themselves and others. Today Dr. Dan and Susan talk about self-regulation and self-care as well as mindfulness, kids yoga, resilience, and the importance of loving yourself in order to care for others. Dr. Dan and Susan’s conversation today will empower kids and their parents and remind us all that we can conquer anything. For more information about Susan please go to www.susanverde.com.  Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch   www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today Dr. Dan welcomes author, expert, and family/school counselor Lynne Reeves Griffin RN, MEd to the episode to discuss addiction, sober curious, and mental health. Lynne is a nationally recognized expert on relationships and family life. As a result of working with families for decades, Lynne has witnessed the ripple effects of addiction on partners and children. She explores this devastating reality through a fictional lens in her book The Dangers of an Ordinary Night in hopes that the characters’ struggles will resonate with readers who may be going through similar experiences in their own lives. This episode sensitively discusses some of the many challenges related to addictive behaviors including the impact of addiction on romantic partners and on the children of addicts. Dr. Dan and Lynne also explore women and addiction including the mom culture that encourages using alcohol to ease the stress of daily living.   Lynne lives outside Boston with her family. For more information on her parent/family coaching, mental health work, and her books visit www.lynnegriffin.com.  Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch   www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Parent Footprint’s Stitcher Premium Episode number 5! Once again, Dr. Dan talks to podcast producer Laura Rossi and this month he answers new listener questions about the holidays and more.   Every month, Dr. Dan answers your questions about parenting (and adulting!) on our exclusive “Sitting Down With Dr. Dan” Stitcher premium bonus episodes.  Please submit your parenting questions by emailing podcast@drdanpeters.com or sending them to Dr. Dan via social media.  We love hearing from you and might feature your question on a future bonus episode. Thanks for listening! Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review. For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com https://www.stitcher.com/show/parent-footprint-with-dr-dan For podcast merch and holiday gifts visit: www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Thanksgiving! Today we re-release the episode Reparenting with Georgia Hardstark which originally aired as our Exactly Right/Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan debut.  Guest Georgia Hardstark is co-host of the true crime and comedy podcast My Favorite Murder and co-founder of the Exactly Right network.  On Reparenting with Georgia Hardstark, Dr. Dan and Georgia, who are also cousins, give insight into their family and beloved grandmother and discuss Georgia's openness about her mental health, including her addiction and recovery. The underlying theme of the episode is how to re-parent yourself in a loving and compassionate way. In addition to My Favorite Murder and Exactly Right, Georgia Hardstark is the co-author of the bestselling memoirStay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered. She lives in California with her husband and pets.  For more information:  www.myfavoritemurder.com www.exactlyrightmedia.com Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch   www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Dan welcomes Maya Shanbhag Lang to the podcast today to discuss the beauty and complexity of motherhood and daughterhood. Maya’s memoir What We Carry is inspired by caring for her aging mother while raising her own young daughter. Dr. Dan and Maya explore the mother-daughter dynamic, family secrets, motherhood, confronting the past, aging parents, illness, abuse, and much more.  In this episode, Maya talks honestly and openly to Dr. Dan about her complicated love for her mother and father, the eye-opening experience of dealing with her mom’s unexpected illness, and her family stories -- true and untrue. Maya’s warmth and eloquence will resonate with listeners long after this episode ends. Maya Shanbhag Lang is Vice President of Strategy & Editorial at Zibby Books. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and others. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, received the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction, and is the daughter of South Asian immigrants.   For more information visit www.mayalang.com.  Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Dan welcomes one of Oprah’s favorite authors Jenna Blum to discuss unconditional love, grief, and her memoir WOODROW ON THE BENCH: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog. Jenna and Dr. Dan discuss how WOODROW ON THE BENCH offers a universal message about loss, love, and how to live—whether we love a furry friend or another human. Jenna beautifully explains how the last months of her dog’s life taught her a new way to live.  Today’s interview will help listeners of all ages live better, connect more, ask for help, and ease the transitions of grief, animal or human.  For more information about Jenna and Woodrow (and her new dog Henry) please go to www.jennablum.com. Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Dan and journalist/author Nancy Johnson have an important, must-listen-to conversation about race, President Obama, Black Lives Matter, family, friendship, motherhood, The Kindest Lie, and much more on this new episode. A native of Chicago’s South Side and the only child of parents who met during the civil rights movement, Nancy Johnson writes at the intersection of race and class. She worked for more than a decade as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates nationwide. Her debut novel The Kindest Lie (named one of the most anticipated books of 2021 by the Chicago Tribune,Newsweek, Oprah Magazine, Shondaland, Parade) tackles essential and timely issues including "The Talk" that Black parents have with their children, expectations for success when growing up Black, when do children begin to understand the concept of race, is racism a learned behavior, and what inspired Nancy to write this book (plus what she hopes readers will gain from reading it). A graduate of Northwestern University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nancy lives in downtown Chicago and manages brand communications for a large health care nonprofit. For more information about Nancy and her novel visit her author website www.nancyjohnson.net . Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the episode you have all been waiting for and asking about since our Exactly Right debut episode with Georgia Hardstark. Today’s guest is the one and only Karen Kilgariff co-host of the true crime and comedy podcast My Favorite Murder and co-founder of the Exactly Right network. Dr. Dan and Karen discuss Karen’s childhood, her parenting advice for non-parents, her career, her family, and much more. In addition to My Favorite Murder and Exactly Right, Karen co-hosts the podcast Do You Need A Ride? with comedian Chris Fairbanks. Karen Kilgariff is the co-author of the bestselling memoir Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered written with Georgia Hardstark. She lives in southern California. For more information:  www.myfavoritemurder.com www.exactlyrightmedia.com Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode) Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you like to listen For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com For podcast merch www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Parent Footprint’s newest Stitcher Premium Episode. In Episode 4, Dr. Dan talks to the podcast’s audio engineer Phil Rossi and answers all new listener questions about foster parenting, giftedness, and Dr. Dan’s newest book..  Please submit your parenting questions by emailing podcast@drdanpeters.com and we might feature your question on a future bonus episode. Every month, Dr. Dan answers listener questions about parenting (and adulting!) on our exclusive “Sitting Down With Dr. Dan” Stitcher bonus episodes.  Thanks for listening. Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter) Listen, subscribe, rate, review. For more information  www.exactlyrightmedia.com  www.drdanpeters.com https://www.stitcher.com/show/parent-footprint-with-dr-dan For podcast merch www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices