TPP 259a: Getting Aligned Through Parenting and Marriage Challenges, with Zen Parenting's Cathy and Todd Adams
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the premise of Zen Parenting and how did Kathy and Todd start the podcast?
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Hey, it's Debbie. For the month of December, Playback Friday episodes will be all about navigating family dynamics, partners, co-parents, grandparents, in-laws, and everyone in between. If this season tends to stir up old patterns or extra tension, these episodes will offer you grounding, perspective, and practical tools to help you move through it with more ease. Welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. I am so thrilled to be sharing my guests with you today. They are a parenting super duo and co-hosts of the Zen Parenting Podcast, and they are friends and colleagues that I just deeply admire and adore.
Kathy and Todd Adams. A self-described spiritual and emotional mom and a logical and practical dad. Kathy and Todd started Zen Parenting 10 years ago as an outlet to share their. real and vulnerable conversations balancing their different perspectives while raising their three daughters. Kathy is a licensed clinical social worker and a teacher. She's written several books and focuses on self-awareness and the empowerment of women and girls. And Todd is a certified life coach and advocate for men supporting healthy masculinity, conscious relationships, and prosperous careers. Thanks so much, and now here is my conversation with Kathy and Todd. Hey Kathy and Todd, welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast.
Thank you for having us. We're excited to be here. Thank you, Debbie. So excited. And yeah, we were just talking before I hit record that I was on your podcast. And I will just say that it was a thrill for me because I know that you don't have a lot of guests on your show. And I was pretty jazzed when uh Todd you wrote back to me and said, Let me get into this book some more and we'll talk and uh And anyway, it was such an honor. And I got to do that in person, which is so rare. That was such a fun experience.
In our basement, in our podcast studio. Yes. It was so nice to have you here. And as we were just saying before we started recording, your book really meant a lot to us. And I have said this a number of times, but I'll say it on your show that when I read your book, Differently Wired, I realized that obviously it was your experience. And you were talking about, you know, neurodiversity and raising children who, you know, have their own way of seeing the World, but I thought it was relevant regardless. I thought it was relevant to every single parent that every single parent needs to realize that when they, you know, one kid, three kids, whatever, that they need to see them as individuals and recognize their skills and their gifts and not try and put all of our children in the same box.
So I just feel like you spoke to that so clearly. And I, as I told you, I used your book in my college. college class with my social work students to demonstrate that. So again, thank you for your work too.
Thank you. So kind. Well, I would love to learn more about your work and about Zen Parenting, which you've been doing for a long time. Can you tell us a little bit about I mean, this could be a whole show, but I just would love to know about the origins of Zen Parenting, what made you decide to do it and kind of who you both are as individuals and what you bring together to Zen?
So 10 years ago, um, Kathy wrote her first book and she was interviewed on this thing called a podcast. Nobody knew what a podcast was, or very few people did. And Kathy's like, I really like this format. Cause like, you know, radio, there's always all those commercials. She's like, I really like this platform and I would love to start my own podcast.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the premise of Zen Parenting and how did Kathy and Todd start the podcast?
0:00–8:14
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How did the couple’s different personalities shape the early days of Zen Parenting?
8:14–16:13
3
Why is vulnerability important in co‑parenting and how do Kathy and Todd practice it?
16:13–24:59
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What strategies do they use to stay aligned when they’re on separate pages about parenting decisions?
24:59–38:26
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How do they handle mental‑wellness challenges that arose during the pandemic?
38:26–46:02
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