Parenting with Impact

Shannon Sedlacek is a performance coach. As a former litigation attorney, Shannon traded wearing her pumps at the Courthouse for steel toed and steel shanked boots at the firehouse (at age 39) where she lead teams of firefighters as the first female officer in the history of her Department.

For over three decades, Shannon has performed in intense, often life or death situations, where it was essential that she perform at her best with the additional pressure of being the “first” and the “only”.

Listen to this motivating Parenting With Impact episode with Shannon Sedlacek about applying the tactics learned as a fire fighter to maintain a level head and be better equipped to help your complex child through difficulties while growing up.

Parenting is Leadership

Parenting is a leadership opportunity. With the “Parenting is Leadership” Guide from ImpactParents, two frameworks and a dozen core competencies will guide you to up-level your parenting… and improve the most important relationships of your life.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Mastering the art of staying grounded when faced with high-pressure situations
• Utilizing the head, the heart, and the hara (flow and action) to deal with stress
• Collaboration through the coach approach to help your child work on problem solving

Related Links:

• Keeping Cool: Don’t Take It Personally
• Plan Important Conversations 
• Handling Conflict 
• Slow down 
• They’re So Slow – How Can I Speed My Kids Up? 

Connect with Shannon:

• shannon@insightfulfirefighter.com
• https://www.shannonsaid.com/
• The Beauty of Authenticity

Eric Tivers is a licensed clinical social worker, coach, podcaster, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur. He specializes in ADHD and has worked extensively with individuals on the Autism Spectrum.

Eric is also the host of the ADHD reWired podcast, a weekly podcast where he talks about his own experiences living with ADHD and invites guests and experts to share their stories, science and strategies. 

After getting fired from one internship and barely scraping by on a 2.2 GPA, Eric Tivers discovers his undiagnosed ADHD and embarks on a passionate journey of self-discovery, challenging himself to do hard things and never give up.

Listen to this inspiring Parenting With Impact episode with Eric Tivers about his personal experiences with challenges of education for children with ADHD and other neurodivergence, and how you can step up as a parent to be their biggest supporter.

Ten Tips for Calm and Confident Parenting of Complex Kids

Parenting complex kids can be difficult, even mind-numbing at times. In this FREE Guide you’ll find clear, quick guidance to help you calm the chaos and more confidently prepare your child for greater independence and success! Learn techniques parents all over the world are using to reduce friction and (believe it!) rediscover the joy of parenting.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• How school system can make an ADHD diagnosis difficult to succeed
• What to do when you child’s hard work in school is ineffective and inefficient
• The unique insights gained from parenting a neurodivergent child.

Related Links:

• Parenting A Child with ADHD: 2 Steps to Lighten the Load
• 8 Tips for Parenting Kids with ADHD

Connect with Eric:

• https://www.adhdrewired.com/
• Twitter
• Facebook 

Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Elaine and Diane as they

discuss navigating awareness and intention in an attempt to control dysregulation, only to find their own self-managing strategies the key to success.

Ten Self Care Tips for Parents

Do you give and give until you give yourself away? You’re not alone! In this FREE guide for caring (and exhausted!) parents, you may recognize some of the key tips — but it’s always good to have a reminder! And then there will be some new ideas to help you put yourself back on your list and find a little more peace and joy in family life. Sure, your kids may need more than other kids. But that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve the care you need to keep helping your kids!

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Effectively navigating awareness, understanding, intention, and action as a coach      
• Creating awareness of dysregulation and setting an intention to change behavior  
• Understanding aware vs alert.  Recognizing when you’re on ‘alert’ and understanding you are not using the rational part of your brain   
• What is needed to do to self-actualize in the way it is wanted most
• You can’t control what happens, you can only control how you respond

Links Mentioned:

• MeltdownPrevention: Help Kids Raise Their Own Awareness
• The 3-LeggedStool of Success for Kids with ADHD Part 1: Self-Awareness
• 2Methods to Give Clear Directions and Get Cooperation
• ThreeSteps To Learn From Mistakes Without Shame
• How To Stay Calm

Get your FREE copy of 12 Key Coaching Tools https://impactparents.com/gift

Connect with Impact Parents:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactparents/

@impactparents

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImpactParent

@impactparent

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactparents/

@impactparents

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImpactParents

@impactparents

When Danielle, a corporate IT mom of three within a neurodiverse family, sets out on a journey to help her family and others, she discovers an unexpected path of self-discovery and learns to play her own unique instrument in life.

Danielle Junker is a certified coach who works with teams, leaders, and parents. She is the founder of Leading With Purpose, a coaching organization. Danielle has spent her career working within Corporate IT and focusing on system implementations, process improvement, and project management. Danielle is married, has three school-aged children, and is a member of a neurodiverse family. She understands the delicate balance of parenting neurodivergent children, managing a career, and caring for yourself.

Listen to this inspiring Parenting With Impact episode with Danielle Junker about learning to let go of expectations, collaborate and honor each person’s needs, and use a strengths-based approach to build better relationships at work and home.

Ten Self Care Tips for Parents

Do you give and give until you give yourself away? You’re not alone! In this FREE guide for caring (and exhausted!) parents, you may recognize some of the key tips — but it’s always good to have a reminder! And then there will be some new ideas to help you put yourself back on your list and find a little more peace and joy in family life. Sure, your kids may need more than other kids. But that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve the care you need to keep helping your kids!

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• How to best support neurodiverse children and foster strong relationships.
• Discovering values and gaining clarity on what direction to take in life through coaching.
• Finding balance between encouraging growth and accepting individual differences.

Related Links:

• About Danielle Junker
• A Team to Support Parents & Families
• Shift Your Expectations to Manage Complex Kids
• A Huge “aha” Moment: Set Realistic Expectations for ADHD Kids
• Parent Expectations: 2 Steps To Success

Connect with Danielle:

• https://www.leading-purpose.com/

In addition to being an advocate for neurodiversity and autism acceptance, Sally J. Pla is the award-winning author of The Someday Birds and Stanley Will Probably Be Fine (HarperCollins), and the picture book Benji, The Bad Day, And Me (Lee and Low). Her next middle-grade novel, The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn (HarperCollins/QuillTree), is slated for Summer 2023.

She is also co-founder and editor of A Novel Mind, a web resource on mental health and neurodiversity in children’s lit. 

Top 12 Tips To Help Your Complex Kids

Got complex kids? Yeah, so do we. Parenting a complex kid can be frustrating, overwhelming, and isolating. It can also be incredibly rewarding — with the right help and guidance! This FREE insider’s guide  from the experts at ImpactParents includes our top 12 tips to help you create a calm, peaceful home and guide your kids to become more independent every day.

Listen to this inspiring episode of Parenting With Impact episode with Sally J. Pla about her adult diagnosis of Autism and sensory processing and how she has turned it into storytelling to help complex kids feel represented and inspired to create and tell their own stories.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Sally’s diagnosis of sensory integrative processing disorder autism at age 50
• Stories provide a neutral way to enter a conversation about emotions and feelings
• The importance of giving children the opportunity to create or tell their own stories

Related Links:

• Travel Planning with Anxious, Inflexible, Neurodiverse Kids with Dawn Barclay
• Storytelling Helps Children with ADHD 
• Sharing Your Story 
• Does Your Child Get Anxious? Tell a Social Story!

Connect with Sally, and find her books:

• https://linktr.ee/SallyJPla

Jenny Drennan Certified Educational Therapist and Founder of WeThrive Learning, Jenny specializes in supporting students with ADHD, and math and writing challenges. Drawing on best practices and the latest research, her practice provides 1-1 support for students and families globally. She is certified by ImpactParents as a Sanity School® behavior therapy program trainer and is attaining her certification as a dyscalculia specialist by the Association of Dyscalculia.

Jenny Drennan shares her story and expertise as a coach about supporting teachers and students who struggle with resistance, creating a more positive and collaborative environment in which ADHD children can thrive.

Top 10 Ways to Stop Meltdowns in Their Tracks

In this FREE insider’s guide from the experts at ImpactParents, learn 10 tips that will actually help you reduce the frequency and intensity of meltdowns for good! Used by parents all over the world, successfully help children manage their intense emotions and triggers so they learn to respond with respect and calm.

Listen to this inspiring Success Stories Edition of Parenting With Impact episode with Jenny Drennan about unlocking your child’s potential by leveraging their strengths and engaging in collaborative problem-solving conversations.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Strategies that can be used to collaborate with students and meet them where they are
• How the Coach approach can be used to scaffold students towards independence
• Asking open-ended questions to help to empower shift their narrative of themselves

Related Links:

• Getting the Right Kind of Help for your Child- And You!
• Teach Your Kids to Hold Themselves Up
• When School Says NO, How to Get the YES
• Helping 2E Kids Reach Their Academic Potential
• Redefining Success for Parents, Students, and Teachers

Connect with Jenny:

• Website 
• Facebook
• Instagram

Listen to this milestone Parenting With Impact episode with Elaine and Diane as they discuss insights from 2 seasons of the podcast and the many wonderful guests they have had the privilege and honor to interview. Developing our content and the ways we can support families of complex kids is truly rewarding. A heartfelt thank you to all of YOU who tune in and listen every week!

Recommended Treatment for Children and Teens with ADHD Tip-Sheet

So — your child has ADHD. Want to get past the confusion and the stigma really fast? This FREE Guide explains, in the simplest terms possible: 

What is recommended treatment for children and teens: 

• Ten things to consider when trying to make a decision about medication 
• Exactly what to look for in a behavior therapy training program. Short, sweet, and to the point — don’t spend hours on the internet scouring. 
• ImpactParents gives you exactly what you need to know without wasting any time or effort.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• We have contributed to supporting hundreds of thousands of families all over the world!
• Our guest experts offer implementable advice and tools to help families of complex kids
• Learning how to map out where you are so you can get to where you want to be

Related Links:

• Join our mailing list
• Parenting ADHD Now!: Easy Intervention Strategies to Empower Kids with ADHD
• ADHD in Reality: Practical Guidance from Parents Who’ve Been There!
• Parenting with Impact: Expert Advice to Empower Parents Raising Complex Kids Coming March 8th!

Want to share YOUR Success Story with ImpactParents Coaching? Contact TheTeam@ImpactParents.com to be on the show!

Connect with Elaine and Diane:

• www.impactparents.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactparents/
• @impactparents
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImpactParent
• @impactparent
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactparents/
• @impactparents
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImpactParents
• @impactparents

This episode brings you another Success Story from the ImpactParents Community! Dorothy Liu is a recovering Tiger Mother and a work in progress. All her efforts to NOT be the tiger mother archetype she despised still turned her into a Tiger Mom, just one with different stripes

As a certified Personal Development & Leadership Coach & Facilitator, Dorothy leverages her lived experience as a daughter of immigrants and the mother of an adopted daughter born in China in a multi-race family to provide a unique lens to parenting complex kids. Many of Dorothy’s clients are third-culture kids who balance their deep ethnic or ancestral identity with the context of their Western upbringing. Together, she and her clients work to bridge that gap and integrate all sides of their identity to give voice to who they uniquely are.

Ten Tips for Calm and Confident Parenting of Complex Kids

Parenting complex kids can be difficult, even mind-numbing at times. In this FREE Guide you’ll find clear, quick guidance to help you calm the chaos and more confidently prepare your child for greater independence and success! Learn techniques parents all over the world are using to reduce friction and (believe it!) rediscover the joy of parenting.

Listen to this inspiring Success Stories Edition of Parenting With Impact episode with Dorothy Liu about overcoming crippling guilt and fear to find the courage to let her daughter “lean into her weird” and become her own empowered person.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Helping children actualize their optimal potential while respecting cultural expectations
• Employ strategies to create a balance between family life and work life
• Empowering children to become independent and embrace their unique qualities

Connect with Dorothy:

• resonant-strategies.com
• LinkedIn

Related Links:

• About Dorothy Liu
• A Team to Support Parents & Families
• To Worried Parents of Complex Kids: You are Not Alone

Robin Nordmeyer and Joyce Kubik are long-standing ADHD coaches. They have been working together for over a decade to elevate the field of ADHD coaching through research and delivering services to those living with ADHD, with a specific focus on couples with ADHD.

Joyce Kubik, a pioneer in ADHD coaching, has been a Certified Masteries Coach and Professional ADHD Coach for 24 years. She is actively involved in research involving couples where ADHD is present. She wrote the ground-breaking study on ADHD Coaching, Efficacy of ADHD Coaching for Adults with ADHD (JAD 2010), which Harvard Medical School recognized at the Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare event in 2018. She has won awards for coaching and research and is the past president of the ADHD Coaches Organization. Joyce is also the author of four books, including her memoir Unraveling ADHD: How I turned my greatest deficit into my greatest asset. 

Robin Nordmeyer, PCAP is an ADHD Coach and founding partner of The Center For Living Well with ADHD. Her coaching experience of 12+ years specializes in the support of helping couples create sustainable loving relationships, as well as helping adults learn how to navigate ADHD in ways that help them thrive in their businesses and careers. She co-led Marriage Uncomplicated, an 8-week workshop and research study designed to help couples impacted by ADHD for three years. She currently co-leads Relationship Reboot for Couples Impacted By ADHD, a group coaching program and curriculum, with the Center For Living Well with ADHD, LLC. You can learn more about The Center, Robin, and the Relationship Reboot Couples Program by visiting their website. 

Listen to this inspiring Parenting With Impact episode with Joyce Kubik and Robin Nordmeyer about how couples can better navigate their relationship when both partners have ADHD.

Parenting is Leadership

Parenting is a leadership opportunity. With the “Parenting is Leadership” Guide from ImpactParents, two frameworks and a dozen core competencies will guide you to up-level your parenting… and improve the most important relationships of your life.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• How can couples effectively manage ADHD in their relationship?
• What strategies can couples use to create a more collaborative and open relationship?
• What is the importance of understanding the role of coaching in relationships with ADHD?

Connect with Robin:

• centerforlivingwellwithadhd.org
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Email

Connect with Joyce: 

• joycekubik.com
• Email

Did you know that parents who work with ImpactParents are consistently better with communication, learning to let go, putting the onus on the child, reducing micromanagement, working together as a family, learning boundaries, as well has having better tools for managing a family? Get some insight from one of Impact Parents’ Student Coaches, Scott Grabini.

Founded in 2014 in New London, Connecticut, Garbini Education and Career Consulting LLC., came about due to the demand and need Founder/CEO/President Scott S. Garbini saw during his time working in the higher education field. It was during this time he recognized the need for students from underprivileged areas and backgrounds who needed College/Career Consulting as well as Life and Executive functioning strategies to be successful during this transition. Whether it was the LGBTQIA identifying students looking for an appropriate college fit that would make them feel at home or the student fully capable of college but needed specific supports due to a learning difference to ensure the transition from High School to college or career is as smooth as possible.

Listen to this inspiring Parenting With Impact Success Story with Scott Garbini, ImpactParents Student Coach, about how the ImpactParents model greatly impacts students in their ability to become college-ready and career ready, and what you need to know to help your complex kids.

10 Parenting Tips for School Success with Complex Kids

There are only 10 tips in this FREE parent’s guide from the experts at ImpactParents — and they’re the only ones you need to give you the foundation to help your kids find school success! Used by parents all over the world, you learn quick steps to lighten the load and help smart kids feel good about school again.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Navigating the college process for students with ADHD and other learning differences
• Strategies for assisting students in achieving their goals
• How you can help your children with ADHD be successful without over-parenting

Related Links:

• Learn more about Scott on ImpactParents 
• Learn more about ImpactParents Coaches

Connect with Scott:

• Garbinied.com
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn