Parents With Questions

Parents With Questions

This is a podcast for thoughtful parents navigating a rapidly changing world. Hosted by Adam Gibson, the show explores the big questions shaping the future of our families — from children’s health and food systems, to financial resilience, digital privacy, education, and raising capable, independent kids. This isn’t about panic or outrage. It’s about curiosity, critical thinking, and learning how to build strong foundations at home. Through conversations with doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs, educators and independent thinkers, Parents With Questions helps families step back from the noise, think clearly, and make confident decisions for themselves and their children. Because the most important leadership in the world starts at the kitchen table.

  1. MAR 16

    Leading Doctor Breaks Ranks on Food and Health

    For decades, parents have been told a simple story about health: Follow the food pyramid. Trust the experts. Do what the doctor says. But what if some of those assumptions are wrong? In this powerful conversation, Adam Gibson sits down with Professor Ian Brighthope, one of Australia’s pioneers of nutritional and environmental medicine, to unpack a generational shift in how we think about food, immunity, and the role of doctors in our lives. Professor Brighthope helped establish the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and has spent decades challenging conventional thinking about diet, chronic disease, and preventative health. In this interview, he shares why the next generation of parents may need to rethink what we put in our kids’ lunchboxes — and why nutrition may be the most powerful medicine we have. But the conversation goes deeper. Professor Brighthope was also one of the early medical voices who publicly questioned the rollout of COVID vaccines for children, advocating instead for a more cautious and evidence-based approach. That stance came at a personal and professional cost. Now approaching 80, he reflects on what it means to stand up against your own profession, how parents can navigate a medical system many no longer fully trust, and how families can reclaim responsibility for their own health. This is a thoughtful, practical and deeply honest conversation about raising healthy kids in a complicated world. In This Episode We Cover• Why many of our assumptions about “healthy food” are outdated • Simple ways to improve kids’ nutrition and immunity through diet • What actually belongs in a healthy school lunchbox • Why nutrient density matters more than calories • How modern food systems may be contributing to chronic illness • Why some doctors are beginning to rethink mainstream nutrition advice • Professor Brighthope’s controversial stance on COVID vaccines for children • Whether we can still trust the medical profession • A new way parents can interact with doctors and the health system • What it takes to speak truth when the pressure to stay silent is immense • Lessons from a lifetime spent challenging medical orthodoxy About Professor Ian BrighthopeProfessor Ian Brighthope is one of Australia’s pioneers in nutritional and environmental medicine. Originally trained in agricultural science before becoming a medical doctor, his work bridges human health, nutrition, and the environment. He is a founding figure behind the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and has spent decades educating doctors about the role of nutrition in preventing disease. His work has helped shape a growing movement of practitioners focused on addressing the root causes of illness rather than simply treating symptoms. To learn more about Ian and his work, please visit https://wowintl.org/

    1h 1m
  2. FEB 24

    Finding Your Superpower in Chaos - Jason Miles

    In a world that feels increasingly unstable — politically, economically, socially — how do we not just survive… but thrive? In this episode, Adam Gibson sits down with Jason Miles to explore what uncertain times demand of us — and the hidden strength they can reveal. Before the conversation begins, Adam addresses the recent developments surrounding the Family Farm project. Of the four farms launched three years ago, three remain independently operational and producing food. One farm on the Sunshine Coast escalated into prolonged legal conflict and is now in liquidation. Rather than focusing on conflict, this episode looks at something deeper: • What setbacks teach us about leadership • Why freedom requires structure • How misalignment can quietly undermine vision • The danger of assuming reasonableness • How to rebuild wiser, not bitter The original vision behind the farms — regenerative food, fractional land ownership, community, kids connected to soil — worked. Families gathered. Food was produced. Ownership was real. But structure matters. Protection matters. Alignment matters. And in uncertain times, pressure doesn’t destroy character — it reveals it. This conversation is about discovering your superpower in chaos — the mindset, discipline and clarity that allow you to keep building when others retreat. Because uncertainty isn’t going away. The question is: who do we become in the midst of it?

    50 min
  3. 11/11/2025

    The Quiet Revolution No One Sees Coming

    https://libertyspenders.com/ We all remember what it felt like during lockdowns — the masks, the mandates, the ridiculous rules that changed every week. But what hit me hardest was the day I stopped at a country bakery on my motorbike ride. I just wanted to grab a bite to eat, and a 15-year-old girl behind the counter told me I needed to wear a mask. Think about that — a teenager, paid a few bucks an hour to serve pies and coffee, suddenly forced to become the health police. She wasn’t paid to do that. She was coerced — just like every other small business in the country. During those years, local business became the gatekeepers for government policy — unpaid, unwilling, and often unknowingly enforcing something they didn’t believe in. And the threat of fines, shutdowns, and loss of income kept them silent. Let’s be honest: apart from the big corporates, most small businesses in Australia suffered terribly through that time. Many didn’t make it. But what if business could become the vehicle for change? What if those same small businesses that were coerced last time… became the united front that said, “Never again.” In this episode of The Uncoercible Family podcast, we’re talking with Liberty Spenders — a group out of the US who’ve identified a $5 trillion market of faith-based, conservative, freedom-loving consumers who are done supporting woke corporations. It’s the biggest niche market in modern history — and the greatest opportunity for small and medium businesses to align their values with their customers and prosper because of it. Imagine if, instead of being bullied into compliance, Aussie businesses banded together and became a powerful movement for freedom — a marketplace built on integrity, courage, and truth. Even if you’re not in business yourself, please share this episode. Because this — this could be the one line of defence that no one has talked about yet. The big shift we are all praying for in our country may not come from politics… it may come from business owners who choose to stand together. All the best Adam Gibson Founder, Parents With Questions Host, The Uncoercible Family

    1h 5m

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This is a podcast for thoughtful parents navigating a rapidly changing world. Hosted by Adam Gibson, the show explores the big questions shaping the future of our families — from children’s health and food systems, to financial resilience, digital privacy, education, and raising capable, independent kids. This isn’t about panic or outrage. It’s about curiosity, critical thinking, and learning how to build strong foundations at home. Through conversations with doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs, educators and independent thinkers, Parents With Questions helps families step back from the noise, think clearly, and make confident decisions for themselves and their children. Because the most important leadership in the world starts at the kitchen table.

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