The Talk

The season finale of "The Talk" is all about family. Part season retrospective, part celebration, part reflection on the good, the bad, the ugly, the messy, the chaotic, the joyful, the tearful, the …

In this episode I chat with Dr. Nadine Thornhill, a Toronto-based sex and sexuality educator, about reasons sex can be so hard for us to talk about, the difference between sex and sexuality, and how …

This is a conversation with Yolanda Williams, founder of Parenting Decolonized, a podcast and educational platform that focuses on the ways that racist structures and white supremacy impact the black…

This is the full version of our conversation with actor, singer, educator, entertainer, parent, and human Justin Guarini. A portion of this interview appeared as part of our episode, RACE (Part 1).
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In part one of our exploration of communication with kids about race and skin color, we hear from Sarah Henson-Darko and Kwame Darko, a multiracial couple about the ways they engage on the subject of…

When we talk about communication most of us default to the assumption that we're talking about...talking. But in this episode we start exploring the importance of non-verbal communication, and especi…

Leo Wolters-Tejera is the creator of Conversations Official, an interfaith, intersectional, multi-platform community group that facilitates spiritually-minded conversations about life, belief, and th…

Parenting Forward’s Cindy Wang Brandt is a writer, podcaster, speaker, and conference host who has built a valuable community around the concept of parenting with a focus on spirituality but absent o…

For centuries gender roles and allowable expressions of gender have been dictated for boys and girls, men and women, by a rigid binary system of cultural expectations. Now, more than ever, the bounda…

Why is it so hard for us to talk about money? There's a real cultural taboo when it comes to how much money people make, and how they use it. And family units are hardly exempt from the serious lack …

In this episode we explore the ways that our culture has created a view of death that is often confusing, shrouded in secrecy, and downright dishonest, and the reasons it's important to talk with our…

This bonus episode is an extended conversation with Atlanta-based playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and educator Topher Payne. We talk about his childhood in suburban-rural Mississippi, putt…

In part two of this episode, sex educator Julia Feldman joins me for a round of rapid-fire questions about bodily autonomy, exploration, boundaries, language, and about pushing back against cultural …

In the first of a two-part episode, I have a conversation with actress, dancer, and social activist Dr. Shakina Nayfack about understanding, loving, and advocating for our bodies. And about giving ch…

School is a place where we don’t all fit in. On this episode I speak with alternative-education administrator Pam Hogan-Charron, parents of 5 kids Darcy & Kyle Morehouse, and public school social wor…

Our culture often equates leadership with power, strength, and infallibility. On this episode we discuss talking to our kids about leading with kindness, compassion, and about ways of looking for lea…

On this episode I talk with Dr. Sara Heron about attachment, non-verbal communication, and representation within the mental health community. I also talk with my parents about their own parents and t…

Whatever the context, "The Talk" is awkward, painful, too serious, and usually botched. And I don’t want to have it any more. On this podcast I talk to parents and experts about flipping the very ide…