Warm parenting talk for hard family moments.
Parenting Collective treats parenting as emotional work as much as practical care. Its conversations move between teen mental health, little-kid behaviour, burnout, diagnosis, family patterns, and safety conversations that many parents find hard to begin.
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Parenting Collective is a parenting conversation show about what happens when ordinary family life becomes emotionally charged. Its recent episodes sit close to the hard parts: a teenager in distress, a child with overwhelming behaviour, a parent caught in burnout, a diagnosis that changes how a family understands a child, or a safety conversation no one wants to have but should. The show’s lane is connection, not control. It repeatedly frames parenting as a practice of slowing down, noticing triggers, repairing missteps, and choosing language that helps a child feel safer. That gives the series a clear emotional center. It is warm. It is also willing to talk about fear. Katie May’s episode brings teen depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and parental helplessness into a steadier conversation about safety and connection. The conversation with Eloise makes the material more intimate, using a mother-daughter exchange to look at ADD, medication fears, school pressure, and what it feels like to be understood through strengths rather than deficits. Dr. Shefali’s appearance draws the show toward conscious parenting, generational patterns, and the idea that behaviour can signal an unmet need. Anne’s conversation shifts attention to burnout, rest, boundaries, sleep, nutrition, and movement. Ashley’s episode focuses on little children, sibling dynamics, aggression, and modelling the words children do not yet have. Christy McVie’s episode brings child abuse prevention, body boundaries, predatory behaviour, and online safety into the same calm but serious register. Across those subjects, the show does not sell neat fixes. It favours honest reflection, practical language, and the belief that parents can hold boundaries while staying emotionally available. The result is a parenting show for listeners who want support that feels human, specific, and unafraid of uncomfortable topics.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants emotionally literate parenting guidance around behaviour, burnout, teen struggles, ADD, and child safety. Best fit for someone open to connection-based parenting without needing every answer reduced to a quick tip.
What sets it apart: Parenting Collective blends expert conversations with unusually personal family reflection, including a mother-daughter discussion of ADD, school pressure, medication fears, and repair. Its strongest distinction is the way it keeps serious topics gentle without making them soft.
Hey beautiful parents, welcome to the Parenting Collective Podcast! I am your host, Donna Moala and around here we believe it takes a village, so I have brought to you a village of experts who give you all the tools around anything parenting and beyond. Each episode, I invite brilliant minds in parenting, health, relationships, and beyond to share their knowledge and support you in creating calmer homes, stronger connections and more rested nights. Think of this as your weekly coffee date with people who really get it and who can give you the tools to thrive, not just survive. I am Certified Secure Sleep and Conscious Parenting Coach, certified with the incredible Dr Shefali Institute, wife…
Donna asks her grown daughter what childhood felt like from the other side; you hear both perspectives.
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A steady conversation about shifting from fear and control toward connection with a struggling teen.
Parenting a teen through depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or overwhelming emotions asks more of parents than staying calm. Parenting Collective centers that emotional strain as Katie May, owner and executive director of Creative Healing, talks through the shift from…
A candid mother-daughter reflection on ADD, medication, and keeping connection ahead of expectations.
Parenting Collective Podcast returns to a defining stretch in one mother-daughter relationship, with Eloise, now 20, reflecting on growing up with an ADD diagnosis and taking medication.
Dr. Shefali urges parents to look beneath a child's behavior and into their own childhood history.
Parenting Collective's conversation with Dr. Shefali turns on a simple but demanding shift: pause before disciplining the behavior everyone can see, and ask what might be underneath it.
A grounded reminder that rest can be part of care when pressure has become routine.
Burnout comes through as a learned rhythm of self-pressure: a coach and consultant worries about everything, keeps going past exhaustion, and cannot even take a nap when a life coach tells her to rest.
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
["Katie May tells Parenting Collective host Dana that teens with depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or fast-moving 'fire feeler' emotions often need validation and repair more than punishment.", "Katie says she is a licensed therapist in Pennsylvania, runs Creative Healing, and wrote 'You're On Fire, It's Fine' after surviving her own teen self-harm and a single father's steep learning curve.", "The conversation centers on how parents can decode behavior under the tantrum, separate emotion from action, and set boundaries without abandoning connection.", "Dana and Katie land on the 'good enough' parent idea, including the claim that getting it right 20% of the time and repairing the other 80% can break generational patterns."]
Donna and Eloise use Parenting Collective to revisit a childhood that included a June-baby start at 3.5 years old, a repeat pre-primary year, ADHD testing, and camp-related emetophobia.
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Parenting Collective's Donna hosts Anne, a coach, consultant, and speaker who works with female founders and women in the workplace who are overwhelmed, burnt out, stressed, or lacking direction.
On Parenting Collective, Donna and family psychologist Ashley of Raising Humans Kind examine anxiety, aggression, sleep, screens, and emotionally healthy parenting.
Host Donna Moala interviews child safety expert Christy McVie about educating parents on protecting children from abuse and predatory behavior.