We celebrate pride month with a conversation with Carolyn Wahlskog, LCSW (she/her), the Director of Operations and Programming at Youth Outlook, a nonprofit working to meet the ever-evolving needs of LGBTQ+ youth, families and communities. We ask her how to support our LGBTQ+ kids, how we, as parents, can best handle conversations around LGBTQ+ issues, and how best to address the delicate moment when a teen or tween decides to come out.

Find out more about Youth Outlook and Carolyn Wahlskog:
https://youth-outlook.org/
https://www.bestrongfamilies.org/carolyn-wahlskog

And a few more resources discussed in the show:
https://www.lgbtqcenters.org/
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/

https://pflagillinois.org/
http://www.pinwheels.us/

https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

Reading:
The ABC's of LGBT+: (Gender Identity Book for Teens, Teen & Young Adult LGBT Issues)

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Mashek was named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and has been featured in media outlets including MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed, Fortune, Reason, Business Week, University Business Insider, and The Hill. She writes regularly for Psychology Today.

On the premiere episode of Season 3, we talk to Viorica Marian, a Psycholinguist, Cognitive Scientist, Psychologist, and author of the new book (out this week): The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds.

Marian, who's known for her research on language, bilingualism, and multilingualism, tells us how being multi-lingual might just be our super power and why it's never too late to learn another language.

Marian is the Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and is the Principal Investigator of the Northwestern Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory.

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