

Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens
Casey O'Roarty
Welcome to the Joyful Courage Podcast - a place where parents of tweens and teens come to find inspiration, information and encouragement in the messy terrain of adolescenceThis season of parenting is no joke - and while the details of what we are all moving through might be slightly different, we are having a collective experience.This is a space where we center building relationship, nurturing life skills, and leaning into our own personal growth.My name is Casey O’Roarty, I am a parent coach, Positive Discipline LEad Trainer, and captain of the adolescent ship over at Sproutable. I am also a speaker and published author. I have been working with parents and families for over 20 years and continue to navigate being a mom with my own two young adult kids.I am honored that you are here… Please give back to the pod by sharing it with friends, or on social media, and rate and review on Apple or Spotify - work of mouth is how we grow!Thanks - enjoy the show!
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Aug 15, 2022 • 53min
Summer Throwback: Eps 293 Doing It Differently With DJ Johnson
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.I am bringing back my interview with DJ Johnson today because… Well, because i just loved this interview. I loved this interview, I love DJs energy and I love his message. Dj shows us that we all have the choice to parent better, no matter the background we come from. He is a fierce advocate for kids and invites us all to rise to our best selves FOR THEM. It's such a treat to revisit this conversation.Listen to it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aug 8, 2022 • 48min
Summer Throwback: Eps 264 Talking Middle Schoolers with Michelle Icard
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.I am really excited to revisit this interview I did with Michelle Icard. We dig into the middle school years, and the WHAT and HOW of crucial conversations you should be having with them. Michelle is brilliant and I know you will be taking away a ton from our convo.Listen to it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aug 1, 2022 • 48min
Summer Throwback: Eps 230 Kids and Food with Bracha Kopstick
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.This week on the show I am offering up my conversation with Bracha Kopstick, adolescent nutritionist and grounded voice in the conversation of our kids and food. I have so many clients who are worried about their child's diet, their weight, their body image. This conversation with Bracha breaks it all down and will leave you feeling confident in having empowering conversations with your kids about how they are feeding themselves.Find it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 6min
Summer Throwback: PDTV with Aisha Pope Positive Discipline for Social Justice
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.This week on the show is super special because it isn’t a podcast that I am sharing, but a PDTV episode. January - June of 2022, my partner, Julietta Skoog and I did a monthly event that we called PDTV where we interviewed some outstanding Positive Discipline Educators and Trainers about the work they are doing in the communities they serve. The resulting conversations were fascinating!Today I am sharing our conversation with Aisha Pope and we go deep into the team that put together PD Tools for kids and how Positive Discipline and Adlerian theory(I the foundation that PD stands on) are the way to world peace . Aisha is candid and brilliant and I know you are going to love this interview!Find it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxuJg18JCdc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 18, 2022 • 57min
Summer Throwback: Eps 143 making mistakes with Mary Nelsen Tamborski
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.This week on the show I am sharing a conversation with one of my favorite PD colleagues - Mary Nelsen Taborski. There is SO MUCH PD goodness packed into this episode, including what it was like for Mary to grow up with a mom who was seen as a parenting guru. I know you will fall love her - just like I do!Find it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 11, 2022 • 46min
Summer Throwback: Eps 178 beyond the birds and bees with Bonnie Rough
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.This week on the show you are in for it - Bonnie Rough is on and we are talking about our tweens and teens and their sexual development - cue the emoji with the big eyes - we gotta talk about it people. Believe me, you think you know how you are going to handle things and then your kids enter into intimate relationships and wowzer - thighs get real. I love this conversation with Bonnie, it’s helpful!Find it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 6min
Summer Throwback: Eps 215 on Showing Up with Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Bryson
Hi Listeners! Welcome to the Joyful courage 2022 Summer Throwback series! We are all busy enjoying the long days of sunshine, and I wanted to be sure that you have some useful listening material to enjoy - so I will be sharing some of my favorite shows from the past with you weekly through July and August.I am kicking things off by returning to a show that had me fan girling all over the place… Not one, but TWO of my fave voices in parent education made time to talk with me - it was amazing. Episode 215 with Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Bryson. We talk all about the book they co-authored, The Power of Showing up.Find it on the website at besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 27, 2022 • 31min
Eps 332: Solo Show- The Challenges of Giving Up Control with Our Teens
In this episode, Casey breaks down what “getting out of your kid’s way” looks like and the challenges of giving up control.For access to the show notes, go to besproutable.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 23, 2022 • 55min
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Eps 276 with Rae McDaniel
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Jun 20, 2022 • 53min
Eps 331: Raising Allies with Traci Baxley
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