Parenting Teens with Dr. Cam

Helping teens choose a career path with Heather Glenn

In this episode, Dr. Cam talks with Heather Glenn, founder of Aligned Ambition and a self-proclaimed HR mom.
Heather spent much of her adult life struggling to choose and pursue a meaningful career. After finding clarity, an immense desire to share her knowledge and research grew into helping others by aligning their personality, interests, and values with meaningful careers.
Dr. Cam and Heather talk about:
How we can help support our teen’s dreams by helping them uncover their strengths, aptitudes, values, and interests
How to help our teens prepare for the future by giving them ownership of their learning and growth
A career choice has to be owned by the person making the choice (aka our teen!)
Heather offers a free class for teens called “What Nobody Told Me About College”
If you enjoyed this episode and all the amazing nuggets that Heather shared with us, please take a moment to rate, review, and share with a friend.
 
Connect with Heather Glenn:
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Don't forget to grab Dr. Cam's FREE guide: 7 Secrets to Motivating Teens 

Blended families with Lesa Forrest

In this episode, Dr. Cam talks with Lesa Forrest, a Certified Family and Life Coach who is passionate about helping others build relationships, marriages, and harmonized families.
Lesa is a devoted wife of 27 years, mother of six and a grandma of twelve. Over the last few years, she has used her incredible marital experience and life teachings to help blended families successfully restructure their lives by setting boundaries, establishing realistic expectations and improving their communication.
She founded First Step Family LLC, platform designed to help blended families rise above the societal stigmas and build awesome lives for themselves.
Lesa and Dr. Cam talk about:
How to create more harmony in blended families
How to engage our teens by asking them for their input and feelings.
How to teach our teens to be thinkers and problem solvers.
Connect with Lesa Forrest
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
 
Download Dr. Cam's free guide: 7 Secrets to Motivating Teens
 
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Managing grief and loss with Judy Thureson

In June of 2019, Judy Thureson experienced the tragic loss of her eighteen-year-old son, Jacob (aka Hella Sketchy)  to an opioid overdose. In her #1 Bestselling book, Beautiful Tragedy, she chronicles her harrowing experience and introduces the GIVE Principle.
 
Through her growth and transformation coaching, Judy helps people navigate grief, loss, and uncertainty by applying mindfulness and meditation techniques.
 
In this episode Judy and Dr. Cam talk about:
What grief is and how it shows up.
How to navigate grief?
How to help our teens through their own grief.
You can purchase a signed copy of her book here.
 
Connect with Judy:
 
Website | Facebook | Instagram
 
If you want to learn even more about how to connect with your teen and calm the drama, be sure to join me on Tuesday evenings for the Parenting Teens Power Hour. I have a bunch of amazing experts lined up to share their best tips and secrets with you—and it’s free. You can register at AskDrCam.com/powerhour. 
Also, if you enjoyed this episode and all the amazing nuggets that Leigh shared with us, please rate, review, and share with a friend!
 

Helping teens make healthy choices with Leigh Schoener

In this episode Dr. Cam is joined by Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Leigh Schoener, who has always had a deep innate passion for natural health and wellness for the mind and body. She has blended this passion with her professional knowledge of psychology, early childhood education, holistic health practices and most importantly, her experience of being a mom for 18 years to two teenage daughters. Leigh works with families, teens and children to implement proactive and integrative approaches for those who have learning, social-emotional, behavioral and /or physical health challenges or simply desire better wellness for their family.  
 
Leigh and Dr. Cam talk about
+ Lifestyle and holistic methods that can help a teen who is suffering to manage emotional, learning, behavioral and physical health challenges.  
+ The importance of teaching our teens coping methods for stress as soon as possible.
+ How the gut-brain connection impacts our overall mind and body health.
For all of Dr. Cam's Guests, Leigh is offering a Buy 6 Weekly Session Package, Get 1 Session Free! Anyone interested in setting up a complimentary Wellness Discovery Session can fill out this form. Sign up here.
 
Connect with Leigh Schoener
Website | Facebook | Instagram          
 
If you want to learn even more about how to connect with your teen and calm the drama, be sure to join me on Tuesday evenings for the Parenting Teens Power Hour. I have a bunch of amazing experts lined up to share their best tips and secrets with you—and it’s free. You can register at AskDrCam.com/powerhour. 
Also, if you enjoyed this episode and all the amazing nuggets that Leigh shared with us, please rate, review, and share with a friend!
 

Pushing aside our ego with Kamladevi Sharma

In this episode, Dr. Cam is joined by Kamladevi Sharma, an international speaker on work-life balance. . Sharma has been featured on several podcasts and magazines internationally and, she is passionate about growth mindset coaching for the working parent and teen.
As a certified professional life coach and a qualified business consultant, Sharma also helps entrepreneurs and people in management to eliminate burnout and achieve balance in their personal and professional lives.
In this episode we talk about:
1. How parents can create who they want to be in the roles they play by guiding their subconscious behaviors and reactions.
2. How relationships with our teens can improve by bringing peace to the ego and opening the channel of communication. This includes seeing our teen as an individual we are programming for young adulthood.
3. How making balance a priority helps to bring fulfilment in both our personal and professional life.
 
Sharma is also offering a free Wheel of Life download to all listeners. Download here.
 
Connect with Kamladevi Sharma
Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
 
Connect with Dr. Cam
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Helping teens through their loneliness with Vanita O'Neal

In this episode, Dr. Cam is joined by the founder of DreamWell Coaching, Vanita O'Neal.
We're talking about how to help our kids with feeling socially isolated and alone.
Vanita teaches parents and children how to manage problematic behavior. She has been studying human behavior as a licensed social worker and life coach. Her company, DreamWell, was birthed in 2011 out of a stressful time in her life when her plate was overflowing and she needed to make a change or risk her own mental health decline. She identified her biggest stressors and put to work everything she knew to improve her life and the lives of the parents and children she worked with. She also recognized that God was at the center of her transformation and wants to share it with other people.
 
Connect with Vanita O'Neal
Website | Instagram  
 
Connect with Dr. Cam
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Cultivating joy with Beth Swiger

In this episode, Dr. Cam talks to Beth Swiger, founder of SHAPE Your Family, about how to cultivate more joy in our family--something we can never have enough of.
 
But let's be real...
 
Many of us fall into habits of taking each other for granted.
 
We can get so focused on the daily irritations that we forget why we even liked each other in the first place— especially when we’ve been quarantined together for MONTHS!
 
Beth provides solutions for getting past the irritation learn to appreciate and honor our loved ones again.
 
Want to learn more strategies for connecting with your teen? Join us Tuesday nights at 7PM for the PARENTING TEENS POWER HOUR.
 
Connect with Beth Swiger
Website | Facebook | Instagram
 
Connect with Dr. Cam
www.askdrcam.com | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube | iTunes
 
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The power of touch with Wendy Kowallis

Wendy Kowallis has helped thousands of people, just like you find more meaning in their relationships, find relief from pain, and live a more fulfilled life.
Fun fact: Wendy is the 10th of 11 children!
In this episode Dr. Cam and Wendy discuss:1. How your touch is more powerful than you realize, especially if that is your child's love language.2. How you can make an impact on your children starting right now.3. The fact that your kids WANT to connect with you, they just don't know how. 
 
Connect with Wendy on Facebook | YouTube
 
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No judgment. Just love with ShaRon Rea

In this episode ShaRon Rea, a Certified Family Communication and Relationships Coach, shares a wealth of solutions to help address the challenges we face raising teens.
We also dig into navigating the complexities of co-parenting after divorce.
ShaRon also founded the global movement No Judgment. Just Love.® inviting people to “Choose to move beyond judgments that divide to consciously lead with LOVE in your thoughts, words and actions. 
If you need some encouragement in your parenting journey, you'll appreciate what ShaRon has to say.
 

Supporting our teens "outlandish" dreams with Wim and Cherry Tapley

In this episode, Dr. Cam is joined by Wim Tapley and his mom Cherry to talk about supporting our teen's “outlandish” dreams and how it strengthens motivation, resilience, and strong family connection.
At the age of 18, Wim is one of the most ambitious artists in the D.C. area. After growing up as a musician and songwriter, he honed his craft by playing live at all of the bars, restaurants, and small venues in his hometown of South Riding, VA, leading worship at his church, and producing his own music. 
After the coronavirus stifled his plans to pursue music as a street performer in Dublin, Ireland, Wim graduated high school early in order to record his first full-length LP while under quarantine. 
Wim's debut album "The Woodlands" is available now.
Learn more about Dr. Cam at www.askdrcam.com.
Music clip: Peace Of Mind by Wim Tapley (https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-ep/1431072322)