Raising Greener Teens EcoParent Podcast Network

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast. Where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. On Today’s episode I interview author, podcast host, and Fertility educator Lisa Hendrickson Jack about all things fertility and your teen. And we ask: What is your teen not learning in sex ed?

About the Episode:
What does the everyday environmentalist think about what it takes these days to raise teenagers to be the future citizens the world needs. What’s important for parents, aunties and uncles, and others to consider when we go to these years beyond the days of parental control and move more towards influencing future adults.

Guest Bio & Links:
Kyle Empringham is co-founder and co-Director of the Starfish Canada, helping lead the youth environmental movement in Canada. The Starfish Canada does annual 25 under 25 awards and speakers bureau, educational programs, and an award-winning journal of youth voices.

Learn more about the Starfish Canada at thestarfish.ca or @thestarfishca

Host Bio & Links:
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids’ nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal, and was edited by Emily Groleau.

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
IN this episode Muneera shows us how the Ancient wisdom of Ayurveda can provide guidance for supporting today’s modern teenager.

Ayurveda examines health and systems through an understanding of the five elements and the way they combine in three dosas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Each individual will have their own primary dosha and there are different times of day, year, and a lifetime more influenced by each particular dosha. The teenage years are particularly influenced by the fire and water elements associated with pitta. Muneera discusses diet, daily rhythm, healthy eating, and practical ways to handle stress gleaned from her years using Ayurveda with clients and her own family and teenagers.

Listen in and see how this ancient wisdom can be applicable to our modern times and teens.

Guest Bio & Links:
Muneera Wallace is an Ayurveda Wellness Counsellor and Health Coach. You can learn more about her and how she can help you, your teen, and your family realize their healthiest selves at RadiantLivingVancouver.com n Find her on FB or Instagram @radiantlivingvancouver

Host Bio & Links:
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids’ nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal, and was edited by Emily Groleau.

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode
What does the everyday environmentalist think about what it takes these days to raise teenagers to be the future citizens the world needs. What’s important for parents, aunties and uncles, and others to consider when we go to these years beyond the days of parental control and move more towards influencing future adults. If your teenager wants more, but doesn’t want to listen to this whole episode, then my teenager simplifies the episode in her “Teen Splain”.

Guest Bio & Links
Jennifer Hetzel and Kris Andrew are the hosts of Sustainably Geeky a podcast for the everyday environmentalist/.The show features a group of average people with one thing in common: a healthy respect for the environment, and a desire to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

Learn more about Sustainably Geeky at www.epicallygeeky.com/sustainably-geeky Or find them on FaceBook, Twitter and Instagram. And listen in to Sustainably Geeky wherever you get your podcasts.

Host Bio & Links
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids’ nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal, and was edited by Emily Groleau.

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast. Where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. On Today’s episode I interview author, podcast host, and Fertility educator Lisa Hendrickson Jack about all things fertility and your teen. And we ask: What is your teen not learning in sex ed?

About the Episode
Did you know that though teenagers and young adults account for only one quarter of the textually active population, but half of all STI transmissions and are in general at greater risk from them than older adults? STI rates in adolescents have been on the rise since 2014 and are currently at an all-time high according to the CDC.

Lisa Hendrickson Jack discusses the basics of fertility health, why a push towards chemical birth control not only may damage your young teenager’shealth, but may also be contributing to the rise in STIs, and asks why more adults (and teens) don’t know how to properly use condoms. (Hint: you can’t use them with oil-based lubricants!) Why aren’t teens taught anymore that condoms, used correctly, are 98% effective at preventing pregnancy and remain the only way to protect against most STIs other than abstinence? What else is behind these distributing trends and what can teenagers and young women especially learn about their bodies, health, and fertility to help prepare them to take charge of their health and sexuality? She covers it all and then my teenager simplifies it in her “Teen Splain”.

Guest Bio & Links
Lisa Hendrickson Jack is a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, author of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility, and host of the popular podcast series Fertility Friday.

She specializes in helping health conscious women discover the connection between their menstrual cycles and their overall health so they can ditch hormonal birth control forever. “Our education system has failed to teach us about our fertility, so I’m here to empower you to take control of your fertility and your life.”

Learn more about Lisa Hendrickson Jack, her book, and her popular podcast at https://fertilityfriday.com/

Host Bio & Links
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and...

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast, where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. In this episode I interview author Jennifer Block about her most recent book Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution.

I’d suggest this is one of the most important books a woman will ever read. But what does it mean for our teenagers, especially our daughters? We will learn more today. And then, at the end, my daughter will Teen Splain the issue. Stay tuned. Stay curious.

About the Episode:
American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block looks at the stories behind some scary stats to question why one third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy; and life expectancy of women are declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and relative to the generation before them. Our teenagers are growing up in a world where feminism has some serious unfinished business in women’s healthcare. Jennifer Block leads us in a discussion of how we might help guide our teenagers to enter adulthood, eyes open to the possibility of improving healthcare for all people. She covers it all and then my teenager simplifies it in her “Teen Splain”.

Guest Bio & Links:
Jennifer Block is an independent journalist focused on women and health. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Pacific Standard, The Cut, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Her first book, Pushed, led a wave of attention to the national crisis in maternity care and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Kirkus Reviews. A reporter with Type Investigations, Block won several awards for her investigative reporting on the permanent contraceptive implant Essure, which has since been discontinued. For early chapters of Everything Below the Waist, she won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her son.

Learn more about Jennifer Block and her books and writing at jenniferblock.com.

Host Bio & Links
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.
Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We...

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
Help your teen tap into the potential of the menstruating body. Traditional Chinese Medicine educator and Feminine Rhythms instructor Janine Mila guides us through the physiology and psychology of the menstrual cycle and how to support and work with its potential. What are the myths that teenagers today still face when it comes to embracing bodies that bleed? And what is at stake when young women are encouraged to push through or negate their bodies natural rhythms? Learn more about the four aspects of the cycle, when you will have the most energy for starting new things, the support to have those difficult conversations, when you will have the power of your most creative self, and when you will be most in need of extra rest. Learn more about what’s normal discomfort versus what’s a sign of things going wrong and how to gently support bringing your body back into a healthy “feminine rhythm.” Then, my teenager gets to the essence of the episode in her “Teen Splain.”

Guest Bio & Links:
Janine Maila is a Traditional Chinese Medicine educator, acupressure practitioner, and Feminine Rhythms instructor. She teaches at Ecole Setsuko, a holistic health education school based in Montreal, ran a holistic health practice in Montreal for eight years, and now runs her own private practice. Learn more about Janine and her services at her website ayniholistic.com.

Host Bio & Links:
Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids’ nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by the incredible Kattie Laur.

This pilot episode was made possible with support from Ontario Creates.