Jessica Joelle Alexander is the creator of Raising Digital Citizens, which is designed to "help families foster more meaningful relationships based on what researchers clearly confirm is the very best protection for children in the digital world: conversations." Talking together about values in the online world and making a bond based on trust, not fear, is one of the best long term investments in a child’s safety a family can make. Most parents have no idea how to even begin to cover everything...
Apr 01, 2025•32 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Best-selling Author and Educational Consultant, Craig A. Knippenberg, has developed effective parenting strategies to help "imperfect" parents build resilient kids and families. His highly popular books and podcast support people all over the world discover how their children's brains work so they can foster both deeper connection and independence without guilt or shame. In his newest book Shame Free Parenting, Craig demystifies the challenges of over-protective parenting and offers a thoughtful...
Mar 18, 2025•33 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Dr. Bonnie Mitchell is the Clinical Director at Healthy Life Recovery , a rehab center in San Diego that offers education and treatment to help their patients' journey to sobriety. Whether transitioning out of a residential setting or starting recovery, Healthy Life Recovery outpatient rehab and sober living can help achieve lasting sobriety. Their addiction treatment program is designed by clinical professionals to provide individualized levels of care. On this episode of Dr. Sheryl's PodCouch,...
Mar 04, 2025•35 min•Season 9Ep. 4
New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, Samantha Rose, steps out of the shadows to unravel the mystery surrounding her mother’s suicide. What begins as a solitary journey of grief shifts form when her mother slips back from the darkness beyond to reconcile her irreversible choice. Raw, deeply revealing, and with resilient humor throughout, Giving Up the Ghost explores the layered complexity of mental health, the love between mothers and daughters, and how, in the aftermath of inconceivable loss,...
Feb 18, 2025•32 min•Season 9Ep. 3
As a ghostwriter, Emily once lived in the shadows of other people's stories. While she loved the work, over time, she realized something was missing—a deeper connection to her own voice and purpose. Through her studies with Human Design and Gene Keys, Emily discovered a more expansive way to share her gifts: helping others not only find the words to tell their stories but also to craft the next chapter of their lives. Today, Emily works with women who are ready to align who they are with what th...
Jan 21, 2025•40 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Neha Ruch is the founder of Mother Untitled , the leading platform for ambitious women leaning into family life. A thought leader, influencer, and sought-after speaker focusing on women, work, parenting and identity, Neha's transformative insights and reframes resonate with the hundreds of thousands of women in the Mother Untitled community and beyond. Her book, The Power Pause is a first-of-its-kind, interactive guide to approaching stay-at-home motherhood or a downshifted career as an enrichin...
Jan 14, 2025•31 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Kristi Rible is founder and CEO of The Huuman Group™ where she is dedicated to “humanizing the workplace” by developing caring leaders for a future of work that will depend upon workplace equity, psychological safety, and whole well-being. She also created a course for Stanford University called "Motherhood & Work: Challenges & Opportunities for Positive Change" starting on February 5th! This course discusses topics that some often feel can be taboo, but puts the data behind what mothers...
Aug 20, 2024•28 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Kailan Carr is on a mission to prioritize play for kids living in this screen saturated world. She is a former teacher with a masters degree in Literacy and founded Quiet Book Queen and Crafts in Between to make it easy for caregivers to use screen-free activities and more play in their day to day. Limiting screen time was (and still is) so important to her. It wasn't easy, but it is SO worth it. Her book Screens Away, Time To Play! is an award-winning children’s book inspiring screen-free activ...
Aug 06, 2024•27 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Alyssa Blask Campbell is a teacher, parent, and an emotional development expert with a masters degree in early childhood education. She co-created the Collaborative Emotion Processing method, and researched it across the country. Their revolutionary, research-backed Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide. Tiny Humans, Big Emotions provides the tools to tackle every sort ...
Jul 23, 2024•32 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC is an author, licensed therapist, and expert on relationship systems. She helps individuals and organizations learn to think differently about their relationship challenges and begin to operate more thoughtfully and less anxiously. Her book True To You: A Therapist’s Guide to Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself is a relatable self-help guide for people who want to learn to live less focused on others’ reactions and more confidently by their own principles. Read...
Jul 09, 2024•27 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Dr. Jody Carrington is a psychologist, best-selling author, and public speaker with an affinity for helping teams and organizations overcome their most complex, human-centred problems. Her glowing energy and incomparable ability to connect with audiences result in compelling keynotes and life-changing workshops. Her book Feeling Seen examines how and why humans are so disconnected right now, worse than we have been in the history of the free world. Dr. Jody looks at how we got so lost, and all t...
Jun 25, 2024•28 min•Ep. 17
Eric Tipler has spent the past twenty years working with teenagers as a teacher, writing coach, and college admissions counselor. His students have attended the country’s top colleges and universities, including all eight Ivy League schools. Eric holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, and he is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. With admission rates at an all-time low, getting into a competitive college is tougher than ever. At the top schools, a strong transcri...
Jun 11, 2024•40 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Phyllis Fagell has worked in both public and private schools with students in grades K-12. She currently works as the school counselor for Sheridan School in Washington, D.C. and provides therapy to children, teens and adults in private practice. She also was a previous guest on Dr. Sheryl's Podcouch, appearing in Episode 050: Middle School Matters . Her newest book Middle School Superpowers: Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times discusses how to bolster any middle schooler’s resilience by...
Dec 05, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 7
For more than two decades, Rebecca Rosen has served as an ambassador between the spirit world and our day-to-day world—relaying wisdom and insight from angels, guides, and those who have passed on to people seeking answers in the here and now. You can visit her YouTube FAQs playlist to get the answers to some of the most common questions she is asked. She has written four books : international bestsellers Spirited and Awaken the Spirit Within, What the Dead Have Taught Me About Living Well, and ...
Nov 21, 2023•35 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Jessica Speer is the highly acclaimed author of books for kids and teens, including The Phone Book - Stay Safe, Be Smart, and Make the World Better with the Powerful Device in Your Hand. She is also the author of the award-winning, BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)? A Girls Guide to Happy Friendships and Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised, both of which grew out of her work with kids. Blending social science, stories, and fun activities, her writing unpacks tricky stuff that surfaces during ch...
Oct 24, 2023•31 min•Season 7Ep. 5
In 2008, Rebecca Fogg walked away from her New York life and successful career in financial services to move to London, where she co-founded the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance and continues to work, write and learn Scottish fiddle. BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA: An Explosion, An Obsession and a New Lease on Life (Penguin Random House/Avery Books), is her first book. You can find all of Rebecca's links here . Hosted by Dr. Sheryl Ziegler....
Oct 10, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Rachel is the CEO of Gaia Scholastic and the PK-8 Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Garrison School District. For both of these roles, her mission is to cultivate a generation of environmentally-literate global citizens by integrating nature and environmental concepts into the learning experiences of students of all ages and abilities. She builds interdisciplinary content in a way that challenges students to make connections - with themselves, with each other, and with nature, acros...
Sep 26, 2023•24 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Cynthia (Cindy) Muchnick, a graduate of Stanford University, is an expert in the college admission process. She got her start in admission offices before opening a private study skills and college counseling business in Southern California, which she ran for over fifteen years. As an Assistant Director of Admission for the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, she screened and reviewed over three thousand applications, interviewed prospective students, and served on the...
Sep 12, 2023•35 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, and longtime ASJA member and an adjunct instructor at New York University and for Writer's Digest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, WIRED, Huffington Post Personal, AARP the Magazine, Vox,Insider, Next Avenue, GH, Marie Claire and more. Estelle's articles for the New York Times and Washington Post have gone globally viral. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News with Ernie ...
Aug 29, 2023•29 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Elizabeth Pearson is the author of Career Confinement: How to Free Yourself, Find Your Guides and Seize the Fire of Inspired Work . Elizabeth is an executive coach who helps high-achieving women break out of their cages. She teaches practical steps to shift your mindset, unshackle yourself from your limiting beliefs, and helps you seize the fire of inspired work. In career confinement, she provides real-life client stories featuring women who broke free and are living fulfilled and abundant live...
Nov 22, 2022•36 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Dr. Sarabeth Berk is the leading expert on hybrid professional identity, and a hybrid professional herself. She was featured in Forbes, and is a TEDx speaker, author of More Than My Title . Her hybrid title is Creative Disruptor because she works at the intersection of being an artist, researcher, educator, and designer. It took an identity crisis for her to realize she actually integrates these identities together. Through groundbreaking research, Dr. Berk developed a one-of-a-kind approach tha...
Nov 08, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Stacey Delo is the CEO of Après , which acquired her website, Maybrooks, in 2017. Stacey spent eight years as a journalist with the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, where she was a multimedia reporter, producer, and the host of Digits, a live video program about technology, before founding her own business focused on flexibility in the workplace. Her book YOUR TURN: Careers, Kids, and Comebacks – A Working Mother’s Guide , written along with Jennifer Gefsky, was published by Harper Business ...
Oct 25, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 7
On Our Sleeves is a national movement to break stigmas around children’s mental health. No family should struggle alone on their journey. Their mission is to provide free mental health educational resources to every community in America to educate families and empower advocates. They also support access to services by connecting families to trusted local resources. Today we have Marti Bledsoe Post , executive director of On Our Sleeves and Dr. Ariana Hoet , who is the clinical director of On Our...
Oct 11, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Corinne Crossley, LMHC received her masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. After years of working with women in practice and becoming a mom (twice over) she started the blog and podcast Momma Bites where she regularly interviews experts in various fields of self-care including intuitive eating, mindfulness, yoga, complementary & alternative healing, sleep, sexual health, and many other areas. Corinne is now the author of the book Self-care for New ...
Sep 27, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Lisa González has been passionate about supporting entrepreneurial leaders and their teams since she was a young adult. Lisa grew up in an entrepreneurial family that was pursuing the American Dream in southern California. She often jumped in to help their many businesses run more efficiently. Lisa graduated from UCLA and attended law school at University of Texas - Austin. After practicing law for several years in Denver, Colorado, she missed the world of entrepreneurs and joined the operations...
Sep 13, 2022•22 min•Season 6Ep. 4
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management professor Cassie Holmes is the world’s leading authority on time and happiness. In her ground-breaking new book, HAPPIER HOUR: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most —a Forbes 2022 “Must Read”—she shares her cutting-edge research guiding readers how to immediately enrich their lives by better investing the time they have, no matter how “time poor” they feel. Hosted by Dr. Sheryl Ziegler....
Aug 16, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Katherine Wintsch dedicates her life to making the lives of women easier. In her role as founder and CEO of The Mom Complex , she helps the largest companies in the world such as Walmart, Johnson & Johnson and Wells Fargo better understand and support their mom customers and employees. In her latest venture, Katherine combines 10+ years of groundbreaking research on motherhood with her own personal journey in her book Slay Like a Mother. Parade magazine recently named Slay Like a Mother , on...
Aug 02, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Natalie Silverstein, MPH, is an author, speaker, consultant, and passionate advocate for family and youth service. Her first book, Simple Acts: The Busy Family's Guide to Giving Back , was published by Gryphon House in 2019 and was named one of the “10 Books for Parents Who Want to Raise Kind Kids” by HuffPost. Now, she is out with her second book Simple Acts: The Busy Teen’s Guide to Making a Difference . Hosted by Dr. Sheryl Ziegler....
Jul 19, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In her acclaimed New York Times bestseller (and Reese’s Book Club pick) Fair Play , Eve Rodsky urged women to rebalance their domestic responsibilities and reclaim time for themselves. Her book started a national conversation and launched a movement toward greater equality on the home front…and then quarantine hit, and life as we knew it was upended. Now all of us are faced with an even more pressing question: how can we carve out a little time for ourselves? This personal time–what Rodsky calls...
Dec 29, 2021•32 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Paris Rosenthal is an author whose works include #1 New York Times Best Seller, Dear Girl , co-written with her late mother, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and #1 New York Times Best Seller, Dear Boy , co-written with her father, Jason B. Rosenthal. She also wrote the New York Times Best Seller Dear Teacher , as well as Dear Baby , Project 1,2,3 , and her latest book, Uni the Unicorn in the Real World . Uni the Unicorn is the third book in a series that her mother started. She says she wrote this book as ...
Dec 21, 2021•24 min•Season 5Ep. 7
