The Nuclear Families Evangelist
Unlock your hidden superpower of being blended! Traci Dority-Shanklin is a wife, a stepmom through marriage, a mom again through adoption, and a daughter from an eccentric family with multiple marriages, multiple divorces, and multiple blended families. Each episode debunks the mythologies of biology and explores the unique dynamics and relationships of blended families with experts and humor -- one conversation at a time.
Episodes
14 episodes
Learning2Step with Heather Hetchler
Don’t be a wrecking ball. Pour into your marriage and learn to separate feelings from truth. Heather Hetchler is a monthly columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a thought leader, and co-founder of Learning2Step, an online educational and empo...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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39:17
Tips for the Smart Stepmom with Laura Petherbridge
The bond is different. Stepparents and parents see their children through different lenses and that’s perfectly normal. Laura Petherbridge, life coach and author of several books including 101 Tips for the Smart Stepmom, shares her no-...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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34:32
The Blended Family: Born Out of Loss
Blended families are born out of loss. A stepfamily would not exist if there hadn’t been a death, a divorce, or a break-up of a previous relationship. Laura Petherbridge, a wife, stepmother, life coach, and published author of several books inc...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:15
Understanding Interpersonal Neurobiology
Our children's nervous systems are a carbon copy of ours. Understanding interpersonal neurobiology means what's going on inside the parents is also going on inside the child. If we want to calm our children, then we must first learn to calm our...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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38:04
Parenting That Heals Spirit, Body and Brain
By 2020, 5.6 million children had been diagnosed with anxiety problems and 2.4 million had been diagnosed with depression. Many children are over-medicated, over-diagnosed and generally misunderstood. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman o...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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30:17
Blended Families and Financial Infidelity
In this episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sis...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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27:36
The "F" Word: Finance in The Blended Family
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:01
Advice For (Step) Parenting a Special Needs Child
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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32:22
Going Through The Heart to Teach the Brain
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:03
Blending Families: The Second Marriage Struggle
In today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin continues the discussion ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:48
