The King Maker Program: A pep talk for the parents of young adults

Rich Jones RN

A podcast for parents who know their young adult was made for more — and want the mindset, strategy, and confidence to help them get there. The King Maker Pep Talk is where parents of young adults come to regroup, reset, and get real direction.If your son or daughter is drifting, stuck, underperforming, unmotivated, or capable of far more than they’re showing… this is your space. Created by Richard Jones, RN — the mind behind Parenting Your Child in Recovery and the King Maker Program — this podcast offers short, powerful sessions designed to help you: • Understand what today’s young adults are REALLY up against• Shift from worry and frustration to structure and strategy• Learn the “parent side” of building agency, direction, and accountability• Support your young adult without arguing, rescuing, or controlling• Use the principles of the King Maker Program to strengthen influence at home• Become the steady voice that helps them move from potential to purpose Every episode is a pep talk — direct, honest, and grounded in decades of real-world experience with young adults in crisis, transition, and transformation. This is not another “parenting tips” podcast.This is where parents become king makers:Adults who know how to guide, support, and encourage young men and women into confidence, leadership, and a future they can own. If you’ve ever said to yourself,“I know my child can do more — I just don’t know how to reach them,”you’re in the right place. Welcome to The King Maker Pep Talk —where hope becomes strategy,and strategy becomes transformation.

  1. 08/19/2025

    Transformation: Like it or Not?

    Send a text Transformation is needed when circumstances and results suck. But how do you achieve transformation when the who, when, where, and why of change have not been defined, agreed to, or believed? In this podcast, I want to discuss the qualities of a genuine transformation, the distinction between primary and secondary transformation, and the three immediate steps necessary to bring a lasting transformation into focus and into practice. Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    19 min

  2. 08/06/2025

    Parenting your Child in Recovery: The Basics and preparing for a Podcast

    Send a text This podcast is a review of a show I just did with James Moffitt of the “ABCs of Parenting Adult Children” Podcast. James is a good friend who is doing magnificent work. I am proud to sponsor his show and his work. I'd like to take a few minutes to discuss my mission, my 'why,' and illustrate some of the basic tenets of Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management. ATTENTION:  FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 at risk, in trouble, or in transition into adulthood. “You’ve Tried Everything… But He’s Still Slipping. Here’s What You Haven’t Been Told.” 🚨 Substance use ?, trouble with the law ?, lost potential?  You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working. But what if: ✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"… ✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan 🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now! https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com  📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/  📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts 💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions. 🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting. 🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program: 🧭 Reinforces clinical goals 📦 Equips the home system 👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan 🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689  📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below) https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/ 🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery? 2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement.  We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed. 📌 Who we help 🎯 What we teach ✅ How we track success 🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us" 🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    20 min

  3. 07/13/2025

    Give your Young Adult A Competitive Edge

    Send a text Give your Young Adult A Competitive Edge Providing your young adult with a competitive edge should be your top priority.  The first step is to set aside your negative perceptions, prejudices, and past injuries and focus on providing the Tools, weapons, knowledge, and Support necessary to ensure the best possible future. Anything else is a roadblock ATTENTION:  FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 at risk, in trouble, or in transition into adulthood. 🚨 Substance use ?, trouble with the law ?, lost potential?  You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working. But what if: ✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"… ✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan 🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now! https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com  📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/  📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts 💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions. 🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting. 🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program: 🧭 Reinforces clinical goals 📦 Equips the home system 👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan 🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689  📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below) https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/ 🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery? 2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement.  We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed. 📌 Who we help 🎯 What we teach ✅ How we track success 🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us" 🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    12 min

  4. 07/06/2025

    Your Pain Point should lead to Solution Awareness ( Fix it!)

    Send a text Your Pain Point!. The goal is not to upset you any more than you already are. The goal is to make your solution aware of the issue. The goal is to let you know that you can fix this problem, but unfortunately, we sometimes agitate feelings of guilt, shame, and blame. There is a mindset that allows you to understand this dynamic and still not waste precious moments recovering, fixing, and eliminating the source of pain.  Keep reading below. Section 2: FOR PARENTS of Young Adults 17–24 in Crisis 🚨 Substance use, trouble with the law, lost potential? You've tried everything: tough love, therapy, waiting on "rock bottom,"… and it's STILL not working. But what if: ✅ The real change doesn't come from "fixing them"… ✅ It comes from YOU learning how to lead — with leverage, calm confidence, and a tapered plan 🎥 This video will open your eyes. Click below and Watch now! https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.com 📞 📅 Click below to BOOK A FREE CALL – Talk with Our Team https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/ 📘Click below to  Learn More About Parenting Your Child in Recovery https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts 💼 Section 3: THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS & PRACTITIONERS – Let's Partner Up You help clients in session. We help their families between sessions. 🧠 When coaching parents and mentors in a structured, non-clinical framework, outcomes get stronger — and longer-lasting. 🤝 Our Leveraged-Based, Tapered Life Management program: 🧭 Reinforces clinical goals📦 Equips the home system👨‍👩‍👧 Works side-by-side with your care plan🔗 click below to See How 2ndStarts Can Support Your Clients https://parentingyourchildinrecovery.kit.com/73024ae689  📞 🤝 Book a Collaboration Call Now ( click below) https://schedulewith2ndstarts.as.me/ 🌱 Section 4: What is 2ndStarts + Parenting Your Child in Recovery? 2ndStarts isn't a theory—it's a movement. We provide families with a system that works when everything else has failed. 📌 Who we help 🎯 What we teach ✅ How we track success 🙌 Why do families say, "This saved us" 🔍 Click below to Learn About the Program https://linktr.ee/2ndStarts Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    17 min

  5. 05/29/2025

    Working Without a Mission is Hard Work

    Send a text When the mission is unclear, the work is that much harder. To use a football analogy, Our current system wants to teach our young adults how to do a great endzone dance and spike the ball, but we don't want to teach the basics of blocking and tackling. Blocking is recognizing and blocking out distractions. Blocking out those who have doubtful words and actions against Your child's recovery efforts.  Tackling involves aggressively taking actions that change habits, which in turn change outcomes.  It's all about coming together as a team and knowing what your true vision of a championship is. Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    11 min

  6. 05/06/2025

    You Not Be Welcome When You Arrive: Your Recovery Destination

    Send a text Preparing Your Young Adult to Handle Hidden Resistance One of the most overlooked but critical parts of preparing a young adult for lasting recovery—or any serious self-improvement—is helping them understand how people around them might react when they start to change. We expect enemies and strangers to doubt them. We don't always expect that some of the toughest resistance will come from people who love them. Sometimes, when a young adult starts showing real growth—building better habits, setting clearer boundaries, standing stronger—people close to them feel unsettled. It’s not necessarily malice or cruelty. It’s fear. It’s sadness. It’s a sense of being left behind. The important thing to prepare them for is this: Not every negative reaction they get is a sign they’re doing something wrong. More often, it's a sign they're doing something right. When growth exposes old wounds in others, the easiest thing for a young adult to do is to shrink themselves back down to fit. To stop growing so fast. To apologize for wanting better. But the truth is: they’re not responsible for making everyone else comfortable with their progress. Here’s what you can do to prepare them: 1. Normalize It Early: Let them know it’s normal if a friend or family member seems irritated, distant, or critical. Change creates waves. "Sometimes when you start doing really well, it can make others feel things they don’t know how to say. That’s about them, not about you."2. Frame It as a Positive Indicator: Help them reframe emotional distance or minor pushback as evidence that they’re growing—and that growth is often contagious, even if it’s uncomfortable at first. "You're not leaving people behind—you’re showing them it’s possible to move forward. Some will catch up. Some won’t. Either way, you’re lighting the way."3. Teach Steadiness, Not War: The goal isn’t to fight back or "prove" anything. It's to stay steady, kind, and focused. Model how to keep moving without resentment or bitterness. "Stay open-hearted. Keep your boundaries clear. Let your actions speak louder than any argument."4. Encourage Self-Validation: Recovery and growth are already hard enough without waiting for applause. Teach them how to validate themselves internally so they aren’t dependent on outside approval to stay on course. "You're doing this for you. Be proud of every small step, even if no one else notices yet."Remember: You can't clear every obstacle for them. But you can plant truths in them now that will carry them through the tougher moments later. Prepare them for the unexpected emotional storms—and they’ll learn to sail right through them. Your love, your words, and your preparation can give your young adult the confidence to keep growing, even when it's hard. Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    11 min

  7. 04/13/2025

    Creativity is Communication

    Send a text In today's podcast, I will discuss the third vital part of communication: Creativity.  Communication is not limited to what you take in, hear, see, and feel, and what you put out in the form of speaking, writing, and expressions but what you put out for the work to consume.  Without the ability to determine and execute your creative expression, your young adult is doomed to frustration.   This seminar series is not about traditional rehab models. Instead, it’s about Leveraged-Based Tapered Life Management—a proven system that turns external accountability into internal habit and sets young adults up for sustainable success. Parents and mentors, you deserve a clear, actionable path to support your young adult’s transformation. You’ll learn how to: ✔ Build an effective support network without feeling overwhelmed. ✔ Help your young adult make an immediate 180-degree turn toward success. ✔ Eliminate the guilt, shame, and blame that often stall progress. ✔ Equip them with a Maximum Achievement Mentality for lifelong success. 📞 Book a Call Today 📖 Get the Quick Book 🔹 Your child’s recovery is possible. 🔹 Your role is essential. 🔹 Let’s build a plan for long-term success together. 📍 Stay Tuned for Official Seminar Dates & Locations! For more details, visit:  🌐 2ndStarts.com 🌐 ParentingYourChildInRecovery.com 📧 RichardJones@2ndStarts.com #ParentingYourChildInRecovery #2ndStarts #YoungAdultRecovery #BreakTheCycle #ParentingSupport #FromPainToProgressToPride #RecoveryTransformation Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    8 min

  8. 04/08/2025

    5 things About This Podcast: A Throwback Episode

    Send a text In today's episode, I want to throw it back to my first full podcast. I talked about the five things I wanted you to know about the show. At the start of this journey, which commences on September 14th, 2020, I didn't know what I was doing, much like now, but I was optimistic, much like now. It was always about making a team of people and doing tasks to help the families of young adults in trouble. I wanted to emphasize TEAM. I wanted to talk about PREVENTION. I wanted to join everyone who had the same mission as I did. Nothing has changed, but this is a fun recap and trip down memory lane. This seminar series is not about traditional rehab models. Instead, it’s about Leveraged-Based Tapered Life Management—a proven system that turns external accountability into internal habit and sets young adults up for sustainable success. Parents and mentors, you deserve a clear, actionable path to support your young adult’s transformation. You’ll learn how to: ✔ Build an effective support network without feeling overwhelmed. ✔ Help your young adult make an immediate 180-degree turn toward success. ✔ Eliminate the guilt, shame, and blame that often stall progress. ✔ Equip them with a Maximum Achievement Mentality for lifelong success. 📞 Book a Call Today 📖 Get the Quick Book 🔹 Your child’s recovery is possible. 🔹 Your role is essential. 🔹 Let’s build a plan for long-term success together. 📍 Stay Tuned for Official Seminar Dates & Locations! For more details, visit:  🌐 2ndStarts.com 🌐 ParentingYourChildInRecovery.com 📧 RichardJones@2ndStarts.com #ParentingYourChildInRecovery #2ndStarts #YoungAdultRecovery #BreakTheCycle #ParentingSupport #FromPainToProgressToPride #RecoveryTransformation Raising a young adult in today’s world is no small task — and sometimes, it feels like the stakes couldn’t be higher. The King Maker Podcast is your dose of encouragement, perspective, and practical wisdom. Each episode is a pep talk for the heart and the head — combining insight from Richard Jones, RN, creator of the King Maker Program,  Parenting Your Child in Recovery

    13 min
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A podcast for parents who know their young adult was made for more — and want the mindset, strategy, and confidence to help them get there. The King Maker Pep Talk is where parents of young adults come to regroup, reset, and get real direction.If your son or daughter is drifting, stuck, underperforming, unmotivated, or capable of far more than they’re showing… this is your space. Created by Richard Jones, RN — the mind behind Parenting Your Child in Recovery and the King Maker Program — this podcast offers short, powerful sessions designed to help you: • Understand what today’s young adults are REALLY up against• Shift from worry and frustration to structure and strategy• Learn the “parent side” of building agency, direction, and accountability• Support your young adult without arguing, rescuing, or controlling• Use the principles of the King Maker Program to strengthen influence at home• Become the steady voice that helps them move from potential to purpose Every episode is a pep talk — direct, honest, and grounded in decades of real-world experience with young adults in crisis, transition, and transformation. This is not another “parenting tips” podcast.This is where parents become king makers:Adults who know how to guide, support, and encourage young men and women into confidence, leadership, and a future they can own. If you’ve ever said to yourself,“I know my child can do more — I just don’t know how to reach them,”you’re in the right place. Welcome to The King Maker Pep Talk —where hope becomes strategy,and strategy becomes transformation.

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