Dads, have you ever wondered what’s going on inside your children's minds? Would you like to know what they’re thinking? If you had a chance to learn ways to strengthen your child’s mental health, to help them feel safe, loved and confident would you take that opportunity? That chance is now on this episode. My guest is Psychotherapist, Keynote Speaker and Parent Coach Nicole Runyon.To learn more about Nicole Runyon or book a discovery call visit:https://nicolerunyon.com/To connect with Nicole Runyon on social media visit:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolerunyonlmsw/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igenerationmentalhealth/Special thanks to InGenius Prep for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. To learn more about InGenius Prep or to claim your free consultation, visit: https://ingeniusprep.com/get-a-free-consultation/?utm_campaign=2024+Podcast+Email+Marketing&utm_content=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_medium=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_source=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_term=Fatherhood+PodcastSpecial thanks to Zencastr for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. Use my special link https://zen.ai/CWHIjopqUnnp9xKhbWqscGp-61ATMClwZ1R8J5rm824WHQIJesasjKDm-vGxYtYJ to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.Transcription - Guarding Your Kid's Hearts and Minds---Dads, have you ever wondered what's going on inside your children's minds?Would you like to know what they're thinking?If you had a chance to learn ways to strengthen your child's mental health to help them feelsafe, loved, and confident, would you take that opportunity?That chance is now on this episode.So don't go anywhere before we begin.I'd like to thank our proud sponsor of this episode and the Fatherhood Challenge in GeniusPrep.Genius Prep is the world's premier admissions consulting firm, proud to be officiallyrecognized as the country's top college admissions consultants, helping students preparefor admissions to top schools through individualized educational programs that increase chancesof admission by up to 10 times.Genius Prep students work with former admission officers to differentiate themselves fromother competitive students in three areas colleges evaluate students.In academics, extracurricular activities, and personal characteristics.Just this past admission cycle, Genius Prep students have secured 110 offers from IvyLeague schools, 268 offers from top 20 schools, and 904 offers from top 50 schools.Genius Prep's student success lies within the fact that Genius Prep is an all-in-one consultingfirm offering every service a family needs, whether it be test prep, tailored candidacy,building mentorship, academic mentorships, the leadership, and innovation lab, soft skillscourses, writing courses, and other customized programs to develop their application personato the most effective and authentic extent to share with colleges.Just click on the link in the episode description to book a free strategy call with one ofGenius Prep's college experts.Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhereto take great pride in their role and to challenge society to understand how important fathersare to the stability and culture of their family's environment.Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.Greetings, everyone.Thank you so much for joining me.My guest is psychotherapist, keynote speaker, and parent coach, Nicole Rennian.Nicole, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.Thank you for having me.I'm excited to talk about this.Let's dive right in.Nicole, let's start from the beginning of how you got into coaching parents and helpingthem understand their child's mental health.What's your own story?Well, so my story starts when I was around 10 years old.When I decided that I always loved children, I was one of the oldest in my family, my siblingsand my cousins.And I had just really felt like I wanted to go into something that made a difference inchildren's lives and helped them.And psychology was just always an interest of mine.And so I ended up having a private practice where I specialized in seeing children.I've done that for about 21 years.And in the last 10 years or so, I've noticed sort of a major shift with this generationof kids.And the shift was that I was seeing mental health cases in front of me with these very severesymptoms with no root in any kind of trauma or any psychosocial issue that I could attachit to.And in my training, I was always taught to see the child in the context of their environment,which for a child is their family or their community or their school.And when I would do digging into these kids' lives, I would find that for the most part,everything was intact.I mean, sure, there were some things to work on.Maybe some family dynamic stuff to work through.But nothing that would warrant the symptoms that I was seeing.And so I kind of started asking myself, what's happening with these kids?And this was 10 years ago.So nobody was talking about the effects of ...
