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Billboard Happiness Laura Scholes Baedeker & Jerome Burt
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Welcome to Billboard Happiness! We're Dr. Jerome Burt and Laura Scholes Baedeker, and we're here to take the best advice on happiness and health from the smartest people and turn that advice into little nuggets of wisdom your kid will listen to and hopefully learn from! Jerome's a clinical psychologist in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Laura Scholes is a copywriter and brand consultant in Oakland, California. Jerome and Laura have been best friends since high school, and now that Laura has an 11-year-old daughter, they've come together to give her—and your own kid!—the shortcut to the good life. We're so happy to meet you!Have a topic or question you'd like Jerome & Laura to talk about on Billboard Happiness? Send us an email—or even better: leave us a voicemail so we can use your question on the air! hello@billboardhappiness.com or 510-269-1944
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Ep. 34: Susie Moore on confidence
Susie Moore is a "confidence" coach who's been on everything from Oprah to the Today Show to CNN. In this episode, we deconstruct one of her lessons from her shockingly helpful book, Let It Be Easy, titled "Confidence is simply a willingness to feel uncomfortable." Have a question about raising your kid or something you want us to chat about on Billboard Happiness?Send us an email (hello@billboardhappiness.com) or send us a voice text and we’ll use it on the podcast! 415-515-0995Links:S...
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Ep. 33: How to get out of one-word answer loop with your kids
Are you sick of getting one-word answers from your kids? You know: "How was school?!" "Fine." Jerome & Laura share a strategy from renowned therapist Terry Real that gets you out of the loop and get you and your kids really connected and talking to each other. Come have a listen!Have a question about raising your kid or something you want us to chat about on Billboard Happiness?Send us an email (hello@billboardhappiness.com) or send us a voice text and we’ll use it on the podcast! 4...
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Ep. 32: Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke
Jerome & Laura are LOVING this essential book about addiction—to substances, screens, and everything else—and how to reset our brains to handle modern life. Dr. Lembke is a Stanford professor, psychiatrist, and Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Come have a listen!Have a question about raising your kid or something you want us to chat about on Billboard Happiness?Send us an email (hello@billboardhappiness.com) or send us a voice text and we’ll use it on the po...
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Ep. 31: The Courage to Be Disliked
The title of the book we're discussing this week is provocative—The Courage to Be Disliked—and that's one reason we picked it. It's intrigued many others, too: it's sold more than 3.5 million copies. Jerome and Laura talk about some of the essential pieces of advice in this fascinating book that's based on the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung. Come have a listen!Have a question about raising your kid or something you w...
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Ep. 30: The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
Martha Beck is the OG of life coaches and is one of Oprah's favorite gurus. Her latest book takes on a core belief: Much of what plagues us--people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits--all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole.She uses Dante's classic hero's journey, The Divine Comedy, along with powerful stories from her own life, as the framework to teach us how to find our own way back to integrity. Laura and Jerome find a ...
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Ep. 29: The 25th Anniversary of Emotional Intelligence
Today we're celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the OG self-help book, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Jerome and Laura talk about how Goleman's groundbreaking idea—that EQ (emotional intelligence quotient) is more important than IQ to a person's success—has changed how we raise our kids and how we can teach kids to be the person other people want to be with versus cracking the whip about getting all As. Have a question about raising your kid or something you want us to chat about o...