So Glad It's You

Bridget KerMorris, JD, MA, & Leah Anne Borrell, M.Ed.
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Finally, a show that holds your kid's whole day together. Your kid lives one life in two rooms: home and school. Most parenting advice only sees one of them. So Glad It's You holds the whole day together. Hosts Bridget KerMorris, a Stanford-trained lawyer and mom of seven who has spent thousands of hours in the therapy room helping adults heal relational trauma, and Leah Anne Borrell, a teacher, education professor, and mom of two, sit down with the sharpest minds in parenting and education to answer the question underneath every hard moment: how do you support your kid at home and at school while staying close to them through all of it? Expect real conversations, not the tips you've heard a hundred times. The science of belonging. What teachers wish parents knew. What therapists wish teachers knew. And words you can actually use tonight. The name of this podcast is the whole mission: every kid deserves adults, in both rooms, whose face says, so glad it's you.

Episodes

  1. 12h ago

    You Don't Find Community, You Grow It: Finding Your People in the Middle School Years with Jenn Wege

    When Jenn Wege's twins started kindergarten in 2020, parents weren't allowed inside the building. Out front sat a school garden that needed some love, so her family gave it some . . . and for the next six years she taught every single kid in that building how to grow something, giving thousands of pounds of food to neighbors they'd never met. Today she runs Northern Westchester Moms, a community of more than 17,000 moms an hour north of New York City . . . after twelve years at Nordstrom, she became the mom other moms call first. This fall, her twins started middle school. She joins Bridget and Leah Anne to talk about finding your people in the season nobody warns you about: when the drop-off circle replaces the classroom door, the talking moves behind a curtain, and the moms who look the most connected are quietly looking for connection too. In this episode: The garden at the door: locked out of the school, she grew something anyway . . . and what giving the harvest away taught her kidsThe middle school curtain: five elementary schools into one, and going from PTO president to knowing nothing until they walk out the doorWhere your people actually are this week: the library, the playground bench, and the mom in the grocery aisle hoping she bought the right snackHouses, 14 teachers, and the gift of twins who finally don't get comparedA no-devices house in 2026: landline calls, school firewalls, and letting kids be kidsPerimenopause meets puberty: we're all hot flashing togetherTry this week: Get the library card and go to the thing. The mom feeling the same way is already sitting there.Say hi to the mom on the bench. You'll be shocked how many people say hi back.If something feels off at school, send one short email with context. "He's anxious" changes how a teacher with 150 kids reads yours.Quotes from Jenn: "If somebody doesn't have a spot at a table, my kids are the ones to say, come sit with us.""You need to be a kid while you can be a kid. There's enough time to be an adult.""You'd be shocked how many people feel the same way you do."Find Jenn Wege: Instagram: @northernwestchestermomsWebsite + weekend calendar: northernwestchestermoms.comFind your own town's local moms site: thelocalmomsnetwork.comAbout So Glad It's You So Glad It's You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    You Don't Find Community, You Grow It: Finding Your People in the Middle School Years with Jenn Wege

  2. Nov 4

    ADHD, Rejection Sensitivity, and the Kid Who's Hardest on Themself, with Shannon Kalinka

    When Shannon Kalinka was twelve, neighborhood parents called her to babysit the kids no one else knew what to do with. She trained in early childhood education, worked for years with kids with complex needs, and was diagnosed with ADHD herself at 44, while raising two spirited ADHD girls of her own. Nearly a hundred thousand parents follow her at @keepitplayfulparenting for more peaceful, more playful ADHD parenting. She joins Bridget and Leah Anne for what's underneath "I've asked you six times": what's really happening when your kid doesn't hear you, why the girl who's perfect at school falls apart in the car, and the truth every parent needs: if your child tells you their darkest thought, that isn't failure. That's trust. In this episode: Why ADHD kids don't hear you the first time, and what works better than repeating from the kitchen Hyperfocus: why "shoes on, now" can feel almost physically painful, and the help that actually works Tantrum vs. meltdown: one is about the toy, one is the last straw . . . why lessons can't land mid-storm ADHD girls: great grades, people-pleasing, falling apart in the car . . . and what to do when the teacher says "she's fine here" Rejection sensitivity: the ice-water feeling, and what a kid needs first: a quiet space and a safe person Try this week: Get close before you ask: same room, their level, a hand on the shoulder . . . then wait. Decide ahead that slow isn't defiance.Build tomorrow tonight: lunches made, clothes laid out, fewer decisions for every brain in the house.Repair out loud: "I'm sorry mommy snapped. It's not your fault." When you can't help yourself, get really good at repairing.Quotes from Shannon: "You're not a bad kid. You and I . . . this is our problem together.""If they're telling you it's hard, believe them.""You have to be their longest, loudest, strongest, most determined advocate."From Bridget: if your child has mentioned self-harm or suicidal thoughts, take it seriously and get support. In the US and Canada, you can call or text 988 anytime. Start with your pediatrician . . . and if ADHD is in the picture, tell every professional you see. Find Shannon Kalinka: Instagram: @keepitplayfulparentingSubstack: https://substack.com/@keepitplayfulparentingThe Play Lab Playbook: https://keepitplayfulparenting.kit.com/products/the-play-lab-playbookAbout So Glad It's You So Glad It's You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    ADHD, Rejection Sensitivity, and the Kid Who's Hardest on Themself, with Shannon Kalinka

  3. Oct 30

    Boys Are Bigger Than the Box We Put Them In: Raising Boys with Payal Desai

    In 2023, a trend went around where moms taught their sons to cook so that some future wife would be impressed. Payal Desai flipped it: she taught her sons to clean up after themselves so that nobody spends a lifetime catering to them . . . and the flip went everywhere. The Tamron Hall Show, HuffPost, Business Insider, Parents. Close to half a million people follow her at @payalforstyle, where raising boys is a revolution. She taught middle school English in New Jersey for sixteen years, most of them eighth grade. She joins Bridget and Leah Anne for what's underneath the trend: what happens between sixth grade, when boys still cry at their desks and hug their friends, and ninth grade, when deep friendship has quietly stopped being cool. Payal is honest about the whole arc. She tells the story of her own gender disappointment . . . how a teacher who already knew boys are bigger than the box we put them in still reverted to her own bias the day she learned she was having a son. She talks about her last classroom years, when the manosphere reached her students and she realized she couldn't compete with an algorithm. And she tells the nail polish story, with a ten-year-old's answer that shows what confidence built at home sounds like. In this episode: The Dusty Sons flip: the original trend, her sister's one-line rewrite, and why it went everywhere Sixth grade boys cry and hug their friends. Eighth grade boys mostly don't. What happens in between "I can't compete with your algorithm" . . . the manosphere reached her classroom before it reached the news The nail polish, the friends who asked why, and his answer: "It's not an insult, so why would I be insulted?" For the parent whose spouse says take it off: "Sit down and ask him about his boyhood" Try this week: Catch one box: notice a moment where "boys don't" or "boys can't" sneaks into your house, and get curious before deciding it's true.Offer the full menu: one activity your son hasn't been offered because of the label on it. Art counts. Let him show you who he is.When a choice worries you, name the fear to yourself first . . . then ask whose boyhood it belongs to.Quotes from Payal: "Boys are bigger than the box that we put them in.""They say raising boys is easier. It's only easier when you're not doing it.""Of course boys are relational."Find Payal Desai: Instagram: @payalforstyleHer Raising Boys merch drop, orders close November 2, click hereMentioned in this episode, BoyMom by Ruth WhippmanAbout So Glad It's You So Glad It's You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    Boys Are Bigger Than the Box We Put Them In: Raising Boys with Payal Desai

  4. Oct 28

    When the Calendar is the Clutter: Tidy Up Your Life with Tyler Moore

    You can declutter every drawer and still feel buried, because the mess isn't always made of stuff. Sometimes it's the schedule. Tyler Moore, the New York City public school teacher nearly 400,000 people follow as Tidy Dad makes the case that a cluttered home and a cluttered mind are the same problem . . . and an overscheduled family will out-mess any amount of square footage. He would know: his family of five shares a 750-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and a triple bunk, and the book he wrote from inside it, Tidy Up Your Life, became a USA Today bestseller. He shares the story underneath all that order: his parents divorced when he was in eighth grade, and a kid moving between two homes learned to keep track of his own things so he wouldn't add to anyone's load. In this episode: "It was clean two days ago" . . . why the culprit is often the calendar, not the kidThe city bus, the dead watch battery, and the independence that surprised Tyler mostThe year NYC locked up the Chromebooks: puzzles, blocks, and kids who snap back fast"I'm lucky I have all daughters" . . . Tyler on boy tasks, girl tasks, and who cleans the toiletThe decluttering calendar: why nobody wants your old toys in JanuaryTry this week: Start where there's no negotiating: a ten-minute burst on a category only you use. Sock drawer, work bag.Set a baseline, not a blueprint: one clear bedroom expectation, then let your middle schooler run everything inside it.Before deciding your kid "just doesn't care," find the one category they do keep in order, and get curious. Light up on purpose: greet your middle schooler like you're glad to see them. Tyler does it every morning, even when he has to fake it.Quotes from Tyler: "It's a hurdle if you make it a hurdle.""Kids are hardwired to want to play and want to talk.""Do we really want to forever have these archaic stereotypes, that women are the only ones that clean a toilet?"Find Tyler Moore: Instagram, @tidydadHis Substack, The Tidy TimesHis podcast, Tidy TidbitsHis book, Tidy Up Your LifeAbout So Glad It's You So Glad It's You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    When the Calendar is the Clutter: Tidy Up Your Life with Tyler Moore

  5. Oct 21

    The Kid Who Can't See the Mess: Notice and Do with Sam Kelly

    Every parent has said "can you not see this?" to a twelve-year-old. Sam Kelly, a therapist turned coach for mothers and the author of Notice and Do, joins Bridget and Leah Anne to explain why kids don't see what needs doing, and how to teach them, because noticing is a skill, just like tying shoes. She shares the Friday night that started it all, the "big three" in her house, and what to do with the kid who has refused to clean up their whole life. In this episode: What Notice and Do is, and what the first week looks likeThe two kinds of invisible work, and which one a kid can shareMartyr energy versus mentor energyThe big three, and "good, not great"What noticing looks like at school, and one move a teacher can borrowThe resistant kid, and why it's never too late with a seventh graderAbout Sam: Sam Kelly is a therapist turned coach for mothers, with a master's in art therapy counseling and years of teaching at the university level. Notice and Do began on a Friday night when she was writing a chore list for her kids and realized she was teaching them that mom's brain does all the noticing. It has since reached thousands of families, and it is now a book: Notice and Do: Raise Capable Kids, End Motherhood Burnout, and Lighten Your Mental Load. Find Sam: Instagram: @samkelly_worldWebsite and free guide: https://hellosamkelly.comHer book, Notice and Do (HarperOne), out now: https://hellosamkelly.com/notice-and-do-bookAbout So Glad It's You: So Glad It's You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    The Kid Who Can't See the Mess: Notice and Do with Sam Kelly

  6. Oct 21

    When You Have a Middle Schooler Who Negotiates Like a Lawyer: You Are the Parent w/Dr. Siggie Cohen

    Every parent has been told to validate their kid’s feelings, and plenty of us are now living with a twelve-year-old who negotiates like a lawyer. Dr. Siggie Cohen, the child development specialist nearly two million parents follow and the author of the brand-new You Are the Parent, joins Bridget and Leah Anne to talk about where the line is. Kids get to feel everything. Parents still get to lead. Siggie shares how more than 35 years with children, as a nanny, a preschool teacher, and a college professor, shaped her balanced parenting: firm without fear, warm without pleading. She explains why middle school is one of the hardest transitions a kid will ever make, why less is better when it comes to our words, and what changes when a parent moves from pleading to leading. In this episode: Middle school is “two separate worlds” from elementary, landing right alongside puberty“Your kids may not want to talk to you about the things you want to talk about”The balance between the old “do as I say” and the new habit of pleading with our kids to let us parentLess is better: why kids can’t absorb our lectures, and the question habit that hands kids false powerThe target-child trap, and the kindergarten spill that got blamed on a boy who was absent that dayStaying grounded with challenging kids, overlooked easy kids, and neurodivergent families“I like you,” said with specifics, so love never goes abstractIt’s not a crisis, and the opposite of anxiety is not calm, it’s trustTry this week: Only ask a question when it’s really a question: swap one “Should we get going?” for a kind, clear “It’s time to get going.”Catch one rhetorical question and simply give the instruction again, calmly.Tell your kid one specific thing you like about them, with the why. Like, not just love.Before any calming tools, try step one: “I can see this is hard. It makes sense. I trust you can get through it.”Quotes from Dr. Siggie: “A parent is not a bad word.”“The opposite of anxiety is not calm. It’s trust.”“I trust children . . . not accommodating them, trusting them.”Find Dr. Siggie: Instagram: @dr.siggieWebsite and courses: https://www.drsiggie.comYou Are the Parent, out now: [BOOK LINK]About So Glad It’s You So Glad It’s You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    When You Have a Middle Schooler Who Negotiates Like a Lawyer: You Are the Parent w/Dr. Siggie Cohen

  7. Oct 21

    How the Kid You Were Shows Up with the Kid You Have: Come Closer with Dr. Galit Atlas

    Your twelve-year-old slams a door, and the person shaking on the other side of it is somehow eight-year-old you. Dr. Galit Atlas, the psychoanalyst whose Emotional Inheritance became a bestseller in 29 languages, joins Bridget and Leah Anne to talk about her brand-new Come Closer, and why raising a middle schooler brings your own childhood back to life. The feelings are old. The kid in front of you is new. Galit shares the story of her childhood diary, the faithful friend of an invisible child, and what her grown son taught her about how hidden a child’s inner world can be. She explains why good-enough parents are tuned in only about 30% of the time, why a quiet home is not the same as a connected one, and how repair, not peace, is what makes a family feel secure. If you are healing backward and parenting forward at the same time, this one is for you. In this episode: Why raising kids brings your own childhood back to lifeThe childhood wound Galit’s grown son recognized in himself when he read her bookThe myth of the peaceful home: quiet isn’t the same as connectedGood-enough parents are tuned in about 30% of the time, and the other 70% is where repair livesWhy middle schoolers hand us so much rejection, and the bravery of reaching out anywayGalit’s childhood diary, and Zoe’s story from the Frightened Child chapterWhat takes over when your kid slams the door: the frightened, ashamed, and guilty children inside the parentTry this week: After a hard moment, try: “Did you feel that I was with you today?” Then let the answer be whatever it is.When the door slams, slow down and tell the kid inside you: it’s okay, you’re not in danger. You’re the parent now.Reopen one conversation: “I keep thinking about what you said yesterday.” A dialogue doesn’t have to end the same day.Gather information before taking it on: “You seemed upset when you got in the car. What’s going on?” It’s often not about you.Quotes from Dr. Galit Atlas: “There is no relationship without rupture, not between parents and children, and not between lovers, and not between friends.”“It’s not about the noise . . . it is about the connection. And sometimes when it’s too quiet, it’s a little disconnected.”“I have it. It’s on me. I can handle it. You are safe.”Find Dr. Galit Atlas: Instagram: @galit_atlasHer Substack, Wild AnalysisCome Closer bookEmotional Inheritance bookAbout So Glad It’s You So Glad It’s You is a show about the same kid in two rooms. Bridget KerMorris, a parent coach, takes the home side. Leah Anne Borrell, who spent 25 years in education, takes the classroom side. New episodes every Wednesday. Want more help with the home side and the school side? Our membership for parents of middle schoolers has short videos, word-for-word scripts and email templates, live Q&As, and a place to ask about your own kid: https://sogladitsyou.com Follow us on Instagram: @sogladitsyou · @bridget.sogladitsyou · @leahanne.sogladitsyou This show is for education and encouragement. It is not a substitute for advice from your own doctor, therapist, or counselor.

    How the Kid You Were Shows Up with the Kid You Have: Come Closer with Dr. Galit Atlas

  8. Season 1 Trailer

    Introducing So Glad It's You for parents of tweens and teens

    The tween and teen years hand your kid a whole new world . . . the group chats, the friendship flips, the shrug at pickup. So Glad It's You is the show for the parents living this season and it's hosted from both sides of the school door. Bridget KerMorris is a former Stanford lawyer turned marriage and family therapist and a mom of seven raising her fourth middle schooler. Leah Anne Borrell is a teacher who taught in public school classrooms for ten years and then spent fifteen more training teachers. We're best known for the middle school years . . . the stretch where every relationship in the house renegotiates at once . . . and every week we sit down with the authors, psychologists, and educators we'd want at our own kitchen tables, because these years aren't something to survive. They're a relationship to keep. The show opens Wednesday, October 21 with three episodes: Dr. Siggie Cohen (author of the newly released You Are the Parent), Sam Kelly (author of the newly released Notice and Do), and Dr. Galit Atlas (author of the newly released Come Closer). New episodes drop every Wednesday after that. Follow now so they find you . . . we're so glad it's every guest and so glad it's you. More from us on Instagram @sogladitsyou, @bridget.parentcoach, @leahanne.sogladitsyou. And at sogladitsyou.com.

    Introducing So Glad It's You for parents of tweens and teens
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Finally, a show that holds your kid's whole day together. Your kid lives one life in two rooms: home and school. Most parenting advice only sees one of them. So Glad It's You holds the whole day together. Hosts Bridget KerMorris, a Stanford-trained lawyer and mom of seven who has spent thousands of hours in the therapy room helping adults heal relational trauma, and Leah Anne Borrell, a teacher, education professor, and mom of two, sit down with the sharpest minds in parenting and education to answer the question underneath every hard moment: how do you support your kid at home and at school while staying close to them through all of it? Expect real conversations, not the tips you've heard a hundred times. The science of belonging. What teachers wish parents knew. What therapists wish teachers knew. And words you can actually use tonight. The name of this podcast is the whole mission: every kid deserves adults, in both rooms, whose face says, so glad it's you.

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  • Creator
    Bridget KerMorris, JD, MA, & Leah Anne Borrell, M.Ed.
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Bridget KerMorris, JD, MA, & Leah Anne Borrell, M.Ed.
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    So Glad It's You

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