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“Beyond Risk and Back” is a beacon of hope for parents grappling with the most harrowing challenges of teen parenting. This distinguished podcast, ranking in the top 3% of parenting podcasts globally, serves as an essential resource for mothers, fathers, and caregivers who are on the brink, of dealing with teenagers facing severe issues such as addiction, mental health crises, and the dangers of trafficking. Target Audience: The core listeners are parents—80% mothers—whose teenagers are not just at risk but are in the throes of life-threatening struggles. From dealing with the aftermath of suicide attempts and overdoses to battling the grip of addiction and the scars of abuse, the audience of “Beyond Risk and Back” seeks solace, understanding, and effective strategies to pull their children back from the edge. Content and Format: With over 275 compelling episodes, the podcast features a blend of expert insights and moving personal stories of recovery and resilience. Each episode spotlights survivors of the ”four A’s”—Addiction, Abuse, Assault, and Abandonment—offering their raw, unfiltered experiences to listeners as proof that a turnaround is within reach. Host Profile: The show is anchored by a veteran parent coach with 25 years of experience, who has also established and managed the most successful treatment center for teens in the U.S. for 15 years. His deep expertise provides listeners with tactics to navigate every conceivable family crisis. Scope of Topics: “Beyond Risk and Back” delves into provocative and urgent issues that today’s teens face daily. The range of topics is exhaustive—from the reality of active shooter drills and suicide to the complexities of teen sexuality and the dark world of trafficking. The podcast does not shy away from the gritty truths of video game addiction, pornography, drug abuse, self-harm, and personality disorders, ensuring that there is wisdom and guidance for every parent’s struggle. Mission: The mission is clear: to equip parents with the knowledge and tools to keep their teens alive and guide them toward a healthier future. For the seasoned audience members or those newly seeking guidance, “Beyond Risk and Back” is more than a podcast—it’s a community and a lifeline for parents in the most trying times.
Episodes
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
I have the host of Coffee over Suicide Podcast, Chris Parker Howard, on to talk with humor, honesty, and a deep message about suicide.
Who he is is best Summed up in his own bio...
"I used to wonder if I was stranded on a desert island, without anti-depressants or mood stabilizers, would my own brain be the thing that kills me? I spent a lot of time trying different coping mechanisms for my particular cocktail of manic depression, social anxiety, OCD, and ADD, and I have come up with a LOT of ways to live through them. Every morning I face the same choice; I could kill myself, or just have a cup of coffee and see where the day goes from there. Coffee over Suicide is a dramedy podcast about mental illness and choosing life over death one cup of coffee at a time."
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Dr. Heim will quickly become your favorite source for understanding the human condition. He has become mine.
Just listen and you WILL understand.
https://www.drchristianheim.com/
Dr. Heim is an award-winning Psychiatrist, Music Professor, and Churchill fellow. During his 18 years of continuing psychiatry practice, he has heard the stories of 1000s of people. Combining science, entertainment, and large doses of Australian humor, he speaks from a place of deep compassion and authority on 21st Century Mental Health issues that can affect us all.
Dr. Heim has spoken extensively in both public and corporate forums in the US and Australia and has a natural ability to explain complex mental health issues in lay language, giving practical takeaways that can be actioned straight away. He delivers CLE talks to law firms, talks on mental health to corporate firms and retirement companies.
His writings and public lectures reference medicine and music and cover a range of topics – the mental health crisis, happiness, stress management, neuroplasticity, work/life balance, the pleasure myth – but primarily focus on how to get the right DOSE of brain chemicals to help overcome 21st Century mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, suicide, trauma, personality disorders, and addictions. Dr. Heim includes memorable experiences in his talks, such as music, to keep audiences engaged.
Dr. Heim is an associate senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in the School of Medicine and in music has lectured at Manhattan School of Music, The University of Newcastle, and the University of Wollongong.
He has a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and has published research articles and music compositions. He is the 2014 recipient of the Newton-John award for innovation and creativity and the 2000 Blackwell Award for Critical Reasoning in Science. His music compositions are played on ABC Classic FM.
Dr. Heim currently lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Australia with his wife Dr. Caroline Heim and he gives virtual lectures all over the world from his professional studio.
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Video Games are not what they used to be...but are they dangerous? What's really happening when your child logs on to a game?
Jed Shaffer is a dad who uses video games as a connection with his kids and he gives us an insight to online language, sexism, racism, and the potentially violent behavior that takes place. Have you ever heard of "S.W.A.T-ing"?
Knowing that his own children are online, what are his strategies to keep the connection and experience healthy and fun?
Should kids be on screen? Ever?
The "Gamer Parent Strategy Guide" is his podcast and his Facebook page!
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
What is the difference between willingness and capability when it comes to dealing with anxiety?
Since Covid began, adolescents 13-17 reporting anxiety symptoms have skyrocketed to 25%. The brain spin is crippling.
Do you have knowledge of it or do you understand it?
Kyle Mitchell grew up with it. Survived it. Thrives with it. Kyle is a teen mental health advocate, podcast host, upcoming TEDx speaker, and, most importantly, severe social anxiety survivor and overcomer.
Kyle believes that we need to start a new conversation around mental health for teenagers. Where breakthroughs are the new norm, and all challenges are opportunities. There is a silent pandemic that continues to emerge across the planet. According to the World Health Organization, over 300 million people are suffering from anxiety and the number is not showing signs of subsiding, especially after this past year. With Kyle experiencing social anxiety much of his life, he is starting a new movement, his own bold mission, to help 1 million teens go from socially anxious to socially confident by 2022.
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
When children self-harm, we often are afraid of what they will have to tell people about their scars when they get older. How will they explain it to a friend, future spouse, a boss? How could they do this to their bodies and their future?
WHY would a child ever do this?
"I am not my mental health trauma. I am me."
I met with Amy Minh Hạnh Corey on the birthday of her 8th year of sobriety from self-harm who can explain it to use from a young-persons point of view, and WHY she cut.
Bullying, depression, suicide survivor... The words "fat" and "hate" are carved into her arm... but...now at only twenty-four years old, TEDx Speaker, Mental Health Keynote and Public Speaker, Singer, Songwriter and Goodwill Ambassador to Holt International and HCMC Peace and Development Foundation; Amy Minh Hanh Corey is building her creative empire through her understanding and honesty in mental health by sharing her mindset in music, songwriting, writing, public speaking, and ambassadorships on how she has not only overcome the worst anyone could imagine going through, but how because of those sufferings and her unbelievable experiences, she has trained her mind to turn every negative time into something positive and mastered how to not only survive in chaos but how to thrive in it as well. Her mindset has not only created her rapidly growing empire throughout multiple industries but is the drive-in her passion to understand the misunderstood and help heal whoever she can reach around the world, in everything she does.
You can reach Amy here:
amycorey.com
I: amycorey
F: amycorey
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
This week's guest! Emily Ansell Elfer Editor of Autism Parenting Magazine brings us the expertise she has gained through her experience of putting together a monthly magazine for parents.
Emily Ansell Elfer, BA Hons, Dip is Editor of Autism Parenting Magazine, where she coordinates an extensive group of therapists, autism specialists, and writers to publish news and professional guidance for families affected by autism. An NCTJ-qualified journalist, Emily’s work is published in newspapers, magazines, and across multiple websites. She previously managed the content for the women’s careers website, Where Women Work, is a former Editor of a food magazine group, and a former Deputy Editor of Toy World Magazine.
The more we understand, the more we accept.
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Dr. Brassel is known as the Jim Carrey of reading. Danny Brassell is America's Leading Reading Ambassador...who grew up hating reading.
- Do kids read more or less now?
- How do you get teens who don't read...to LOVE reading?
- Does the internet count?
"Captain Underpants is the gateway drug to Shakespeare."
Since 1996, Danny has taught at California State University. A tenured professor in the Teacher Education Department, he works with beginning teachers and administrators. He has taught courses in educational theory, reading, second language acquisition, and multiculturalism, and his popular live televised courses consistently earn raves from students and casual viewers alike for content presented in a “fun, meaningful and memorable” way. Danny helped coordinate alternative teaching credential programs that served over 4,000 teachers in 150 schools throughout 14 school districts serving over 400,000 students in the Los Angeles area. In addition, Danny taught international students English as a Second Language at the American Language Institute at the University of Southern California for a number of years, and he served as the founding director of Loyola Marymount University’s MA program partnership with Teach for America. Before teaching at the university level, Danny was a teacher and tutor to pre-K – grade 12 students.
Learn about him here: https://education.dannybrassell.com/about/
and thereadinghabit.com
and https://readbetterin67steps.com/
or on Amazon...he's authored 16 books.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Once you begin to understand that your experience as a parent was informed by your parents, and their parents...and their parents...then what?
Marci Brockmann, a high school teacher for 27 years, tells her story of childhood pain and walking away from the legacy of trauma passed down in her family, generation after generation after finally giving herself...permission to heal.
Now it's your turn.
Marci Brockmann is a multi-passionate woman – an artist, an author, a podcaster, and an English teacher. She has been writing expressively in journals for 35 years which became the basis of her two new books, Permission to Land: Searching for Love, Home & Belonging, and Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through Writing, and her podcast Permission to Heal. She lives in New York with her husband, their grown kids, frisky cats, and many fishes.
PERMISSION TO LAND: SEARCHING FOR LOVE, HOME & BELONGING is a memoir about surviving narcissistic abuse and addiction and learning to thrive and love yourself to build a life of love, joy, success, and friendship. She survived familial mental illness and addiction, emotional abuse and neglect, an emotionally abusive marriage, and in her book, she shares her story and experiences to empower others to trust their inner voices and to live their best lives of love, home, and true belonging.
* Graphic Language
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Jayson Gaddis is a favorite guest on Beyond Risk and Back because of his work in relationships. Founder of the Relationship School in boulder colorado, Jayson is also the author of the newly released "Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships".
Chances are most of us deal with conflict on a daily basis with friends, family members, lovers, partners, and even co-workers, and when unresolved it can affect every single aspect of our lives, from self-confidence to physical and mental health. Getting to Zero is a dynamic, user-friendly, practical conflict resolution method aimed at helping readers work through conflict with those they care about as quickly as possible. When you know how to work through conflict in your high-stakes relationships, every other area of your life improves.