HopePunk Parenting Podcast
Welcome to the HopePunk Parenting podcast, the short-form podcast for anyone raising a teenager. Hosted by the team behind Teen Brain Trust, we bring together a community of mental health experts, neuroscientists, educators, and parents to demystify adolescence, help you build a better relationship with your teenager, and help raise the next generation of changemakers.
Listen on your preferred streaming device or visit our Episode Catalog below.
Episode Catalog
Podcast: The Teen Mental Health Crisis Part 3: Anxiety & Depression
Podcast Episode, [19 MINUTES]Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The advice shared in this episode ......
Podcast: The Teen Mental Health Crisis Part 2: Self-Harm
Podcast Episode, [21 MINUTES]Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The advice shared in this episode ......
Podcast: The Teen Mental Health Crisis Part 1 – Talking About Suicide
Podcast Episode, [19 MINUTES]In Teen Brain Trust's 4-part series on teen mental health, therapist Dr. Dana Dorfman and mom of three Mya Dunlop unpack the current teen mental health crisis....
Podcast: American Parenting Styles
Podcast Episode, [21 MINUTES]Learn where 15,000 Americans who took our Parenting Quiz fall among the four main parenting styles....
Podcast: Let’s Normalize Failure
Podcast EpisodeHost Mya Dunlop, a mom of three adolescent boys, has a message for all parents: we have to rethink failure, ......
Podcast: Two Teens on Anxiety, Pressure, and What They Want All Parents to Know
Podcast Episode, [25 minutes]Host Mya Dunlop talks with two incredible teenagers about the modern teen experience, anxiety, social isolation as punishment, academic pressure, and more....
Podcast: Why Punishing Teens Doesn’t Work
Podcast Episode, [9 minutes]The traditional ways of parenting with punishment just don’t work. So what are parents to do when their teen exhibits unacceptable behavior, like lying?...
Podcast: Teens and College Stress: Don’t Make My Mistake
Podcast Episode, [7 minutes]Host Mya Dunlop shares the story of how a conversation with her oldest son who was struggling during his first year in college went off the rails . But thanks to a friend's insight into microinvalidation, she course-corrected and...
Podcast: Why Are Teens Socially Awkward? Let Science Explain!
Podcast Episode, [5 minutes]Teens are obsessed with thriving socially—so how are they so clumsy and awkward in social situations? There are four main factors that neuroscience can explain. We break it down this frequently cringey process of development that the...
Podcast: We Have to Talk About Teenage Partying
Podcast Episode, [9 minutes]Teens gonna party... And probably drink alcohol, too. Here's why their beautiful brains seek out partying and how parents can help their kid healthy manage it all—and stay sane in the process....
Hosts
Mya Dunlop - founder and CEO of Teen Brain Trust and mom of three boys
Robin Friend - Co-creator and Lead Course Designer for Teen Brain Trust
