Welcome back everyone! Who is ready for another great season of BBG?!?! We will be releasing episodes every Friday morning at 7am MST. Make sure to go and follow me @bulliesbe.gone for your daily dose of positivity To get me in your school/church/event, email me at bullies.speaker@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bullies-be-gone/support
In this season finale I reflect of the things that I learned this past year through doing the podcast and speaking in school I reveal the basic truths that I feel like kids are missing out on right now. Merch- https://linktr.ee/bulliesbe.gone Go hit me up on Instagram for your daily dose of positivity @bulliesbe.gone Make sure to email me if you want to get me and speak in your school bullies.speaker@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bullies-be-gone/supp...
We all have trials. We all have parts of life that bring us to our knees. How we handle those hardships helps to define who we are for the rest of our lives. We can be a victim, or we can be a victor. Today, I talk with a collegiate and world wrestler, Ben Kjar. He’s had his fair share of challenges growing up with a deformity and then turning around and becoming one of the best wrestlers UVU has ever seen. This episode is going to motivate the crap out of you! @benkjar Follow me @bulliesbe.gone...
The conversation around mental health needs to change. It's time get just as serious about our mental health as we are about our physical health. Our kids are suffering and we are brushing it off. They need to be heard. They need to be loved. And we ALL need to take our mental health more seriously. Today I talk with Dr Julie Hanks about how we can change the conversation around mental health. Go check her out! @drjuiliejanks drjuliehanks.com Go follow me @bulliesbe.gone and for speaking inquiri...
When is the last time that you've talked about sexual predators with your kids? Are you having age appropriate conversations to help keep your kids safe? Too many of us are turning a blind eye to this topic and something NEEDS to change. Today I talk with Mallory Tingey, who is a survivor of child sexual abuse. It has taken her 20 YEARS to heal from her traumas, and she continues to share and give hope to so many. This is going to be heavy, but we need to talk about this. If you were sexually ab...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG. I don’t know if yall have noticed, but teens have big emotions! And it can be really difficult as a parent to not get burnt out while trying to help them process these emotions and attitudes in a healthy way. Well, my guest, Rachel Bailey is here to talk to me about all of this and more! Podcast (Your Parenting Long Game): https://rachel-bailey.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RachelBailey/ Instagram: https://ww...
I have spoken to a lot of people about addiction, and have brought several onto the show who have shared their struggles with addiciton. Seldom do we get to hear from those directly effected. Today, I talk with Toni Ludlow. She's a mom of 3, and a wife to a strong recovering addict. She shares her story and let me tell you, she is so full of hope! Yall are going to love it insta: toni_ludlow If you want me to speak at your school, email bullies.speaker@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https:/...
What is up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG. The emotional development of our kids is incredibly important. And right now, it is suffering due to excess screen time and lack of connections! I talk with my guest today, Dr Alisa Van Langeveld on some simple things we can do to help our kids out @10minutestogether Go follow me @bulliesbe.gone. For speaking inquiries, email me at bullies.speaker@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bullies-b...
- What’s up everybody and welcome back, it is great to be at BBG! Teen years are tough. Kids are tough. Being a parent is tough! Our kids make decisions that infuriate and disappoint us. We still want to love them admist their struggles, but sometimes it can be hard to not act out of anger. My guest today, Heather Frazier, is a health coach who helps parents and teens in their relationships. One of her big things is helping us love our kids even when we don’t love the choices they make. Parents ...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG. Teens and parents, you both know how ADDICTING screens and phones can be for all of us. So many of us already have screen stories of how bad we were addicted to our phones. Well today, my guest is a mom with a screen story who did something about it! Mandee Hamann is a mom of 3, and the marketing director of Screen Strong. We talk about screen addiction and how we as parents can protect our kids from falling to that addiction. scree...
What is up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! Parents, do you ever feel that parenting is just so dang complicated? Do you ever wish it would just simplify? Well you certainly are not alone. My guest today, Marielle Melling, is all about simplifying parenting and helping us to love our lives with our kids. Check her out at www.lovinlifewithlittles.com and @lovinlifewithlittles If you want your dose of daily positivity, go and follow me @bulliesbe.gone, for speaking inquiries s...
There are so many people out there struggling right now. So much depression, anxiety, and suicidality running rampant amongst our kids. So you can imagine how happy I was when I found this clothing line, StayWear, that is dedicated to suicide awareness and helping people with this growing issue. Today I sit down with their founder, shane ball, and we dive into this hard topic. It’s heavy, but we need to talk about it more. staywear.com. @staywear promo code bulliesbegone for 15% off! follow me @...
What is up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! What does resiliency mean for you? What does empathy mean to you? Especially in the mental health field, experts are feeling like these two things are what is missing and what is wrong with society right now. But don’t just take my word for it. MY guest today, Sarah McNaughton is a school counselor, and has a PASSION for empathy and resiliency. Imma nerd out big time, yall are gonna love this episode. Go check sarah out on instagra...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! How has this school year been for your students? I mean parenting is hard all on it’s own. And then helping your kid navigate school is a whole other game. Put covid and smart phones and who knows what else on top of it…it can be super overwhelming. My guest today, Jethro Jones, is a former principal who focused on improving school culture to help students. He trains schools all over to be trauma informed AND he runs the transformat...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! What do we waste our attention on? I have found as a school counselor that so many kids are focusing on all the wrong things! Stuff they have absolutely no control over! My guest today, tanner clark, is all about fixing your focus. He’s also a parent of a teenager, and brings some unique perspectives to the table. I think you all are going to love this episode Check him out @realtannerclark on insta! For your daily dose of positivit...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! In this day and age, there are so many things vying for our attention. So many distractions. And it’s so easy to become passive parents and accidentally raise passive kids. Kids aren’t bored anymore! They aren’t imaginative playing like they used to! I mean I remember when wrapping paper rolls became my lightsaber and I was a Jedi knight! But now kids are just kind of in front of their screens. My guest today, Adrian Thompson is a p...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! Parents, do you struggle with kids who have big feelings? Don’t lie, we all do! This whole last year has been a pressure cooker of emotions, and our kids are now struggling to process those emotions. This issue needs to be addressed, so I reached out to my friend Maylin on Instagram to see if she can talk. She is clinical psychologist and specializes in this exact topic. So buckle up, this is going to be great! Make sure to go follo...
What is up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG. So I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but our youth are in crisis. The numbers of kids who suffer from depression and anxiety continue to rise, and suicide rates continue to climb year after year. Kids need our help. It is time to change the way we talk about mental health. Someone who has been fighting hard to raise a big voice to all of this is my guest today, Tessa Stuckey. She’s a licensed counselor who sees firsthand with ...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! Our youth feel immense pressure to be perfect and not make mistakes. And they naturally feel immense guilt when they make a mistake. One thing that most of our youth struggle with to some degree is pornography. Smart phones and social media have made it ever more accessible. It’s no longer if you see it, but when you see it. There is a misconception that this is only a boys problem when all kids struggle with it. Because of that, a ...
What’s up everybody and welcome back! It is great to be at BBG! Lets be honest guys, parenting is hard. Every kid is so different and it’s hard for us to understand our roles as parents as they change with each kid. It’s super important that we can be there for our kids though. That’s why I am super happy that my guests today, Kami and Larry Kirby, are here. They are trained facilitators of the love and logic curricula and help parents create joy as they understand their roles with their childre...
I’ve been tooting my horn about how bad social media is for kids for quite a while. And I thought yall would be interested to hear what our educators have to say about it. My guest today is Stefan Jolly, a principal in California. He’s been doing some amazing things for the kids at his schools, and he brings some shocking evidence and opinions to the table. You will want to hear this one. Go check Mr Joly out on insta! @oakridgeprincipal Make sure to follow me @bulliesbe.gone for your daily dose...
Do you feel like your life is a low key dumpster fire? Has being kind bitten you in the butt and you are ready to give up? You definitely don’t want to miss todays episode with Al Fox Carraway. She’s gone through so much. Her story of trucking through adversity has turned her into a writer, international speaker, and just an incredible person. She’s published 3 books now, and has spent the last 11 years traveling world wide to inspire others to move forward in the unwanted, the unexpected, and t...
Every day, kids are trafficked through social media. Every day, kids have their choices taken away from them. And we need to stop living in denial. My guest today, Elizabeth Frazier, is a sex traffic survivor. She was trafficked by her parents for nearly 20 years. After she was safe enough to break those ties, and to heal, she found power in words. She started a company called Hero Bands where she gives bracelets with words on them to survivors to help with their healing. She is AMAZING and we a...
If you are a human being on this earth, you know that technology isn’t going anywhere. Learning how to have a healthy relationship with your technology is impertivie to our health. Technology and social media can be the biggest bullies, so we need to control what we consume. My guest today is Tracy Foster, founder of START (Stand Together And Rethink Technology), and she does exactly that! If you are wanting to have ahealthy relationship with your tech, you gotta give this a listen! Go check her...
So last year, 2020, we all felt pretty helpless. And there were SO MANY of you who felt hopeless as well. We all let things that didn’t matter define who we were. My guest today was right there with us. Anthony Trucks is a former NFL player who lost it all. His career, his job, his marriage….and almost his life. Today we talk all about what we need to do to live with that confidence so we can know that we are enough! Check him out on insta @anthonytrucks Make sure to go follow me @bulliesbe.gone...
The season finale! Thank you so much for all your support! Today, we wrap up our season with a good ole episode of just me. I felt it would be rude if I wasn't the one to send us on our break lol. Today I talk about the two things that will help us heal the most and end our 2020 on a positive note: Love and gratitude. My speaking schedule for 2020 is wide open y'all! book me at www.bulliesbgone.com. Follow me on instagram @bulliesbe.gone. Love you all! --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster...
- Do you feel the influence of social media slowly pulling the humanity out of your heart? Have you felt the effects of addiction and porn in your life because of that nifty little phone you have? You are not alone. My guest today Luke Petrey shares his inspirational story about he overcame it and is now sharing his light with all Follow Luke @lukepeachtree and @lightbreaksforth on youtube. He’ll have a special project coming out first week of December called @shareyourstruggles on Instagram. Yo...
Do you wish your relationship was better with your kid? Do you care a bit too much about what the neighborhood moms think about your kids? Do you want to improve? Today I had the pleasure with speaking with Brooke Romney. As a speaker and educator, and a mom of 3 teenagers, she's learned some things along the way and we dive into how we can better connect with our kids. You can find brooke at @brookeromnetwrites on instagram as well as her website brookeromney.com For your daily dose of positivi...
Do you have teens who have had cell phones for years and are super addicted? Do you wish you had some sort of a pledge or agreement on technology that all members of your family follows? Look no more! Andrea Davis, my latest guest, and founder of Better Screen Time, is an educator who teaches parents who they can develop a better relationship with tech and their famikly. You can find her at betterscreentime.com and on insta @betterscreentime. For your daily dose of positivity, go follow me @bull...
Do you feel your kid slipping away? Do you feel the technology slowly consuming them? My guest today, April Whiting, had those same feelings, and acted on them to save her family from a tech addiciotn. Her passion has lead her to give a TedX talk, and now her living is to help parents create a tech healthy environment. We deep dive on what parents can do to save their kids from the bully of an addictive piece of tech. You can find her at www.thescreenfreeproject.com and on insta @thescreenfreepr...
