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228. Prisons, Schools, Sports & Therapy: the Gender Turf Wars with Judge Elspeth Cypher
Retired Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Elspeth Cypher returns to the podcast (her first appearance was episode 183) to map the legal landscape of the gen...
227. Cognitive Warfare, Moral Inversion, and the War on Children with Simon Esler
I'm welcoming back filmmaker Simon Esler, who first appeared on this podcast back on episode 54 to discuss his documentary Cut: Daughters of the West. This time, we're...
226. Clever Parenting: Faith in Your Teen's Soul, with Kim O
I'm so glad to welcome back my friend Kim O for her third appearance on the show. Kim is a relational soul coach and author who works directly with ROGD-affected teens...
225. Teens and Screens, Part 2: The Case Against Moral Panic with Dr. Will Dobud
This is Part Two of Teens and Screens, and it's the counterweight. Last episode, Dr. Johann D'Souza made the case for keeping toxic screens out of your teenager's hand...
224. Teens and Screens, Part 1: The Case Against Teen Smartphones with Dr. Johann D'Souza
This is Part 1 of a two-part series on teens and screens, and I'm starting at one end of the spectrum on purpose. Today I welcome back Dr. Johann D'Souza, a clinical p...
223. The HIV Money Trail Behind Global Transgender Health Policy | Róisín Michaux Returns
Today I welcome back Róisín Michaux — the Irish writer based in Brussels who covers women’s rights and free speech in the context of the transgender movement — for her...
222. Unprofessional Conduct: The Vague Phrase That Can End Your License | Diana Lutfi
I’m welcoming back Diana Lutfi — independent legal expert, healthcare regulatory and bioethics consultant, and coalition builder — for a conversation about just how br...
221. Ryan Rogers: Gas Station Opioids, Faith-Based Recovery, and Honest Therapy
My friend Ryan Rogers returns to the podcast for our third conversation. He's an addictions counselor in Texas, host of Reality Therapy, and now the author of two book...
220. The Corporate Vibe Shift: Tanya de Grunwald on Why This Isn't Working
We've talked a lot on this podcast about institutional capture — whistleblowers, mission drift, what happens when ideology takes the steering wheel. Today my guest tak...
219. Why ROGD Teens Tune Out Parents' Warnings — and the Alter-Casting Fix
Why does your teen tune you out? It might have to do with the role your message unconsciously casts her in. "Alter-casting" refers to the way every message you send im...
218. Why Your Teen Thinks in Extremes — And What You Can Do About It
In this solo episode, I'm diving into one of the most pervasive and underappreciated cognitive patterns I see across ROGD families: black-and-white thinking. It's the ...
217. "Gender Identity" as a Shell: What the Alter Ego Does for Your Child & How to Help Them Desist
In this solo episode, I share one of my favorite metaphors for understanding how desistance actually unfolds in practice — because it rarely looks the way most parents...
216. Creating Conditions for Desistance: A Parent's Guide to ROGD Recovery
In this solo episode, I pull back the curtain on the work I do the rest of the week as an ROGD parent coach. Most parents arrive with one goal in mind: convince their ...
215. Disenfranchised Dad, ROGD Kid: When Fathers Get Sidelined in Their Own Family
In this short solo episode, I introduce you to a figure who shows up again and again in my ROGD parent coaching work: the disenfranchised dad. He's usually a decent ma...
214. Too Buddhist, Not Self-Hating Enough: Counseling Whistleblower Suzannah Alexander
In this episode, I sit down with Suzannah Alexander — counseling-education whistleblower, writer of the Substack Diogenes in Exile, and now organizer with the National...
212. The Most Dangerous Moment: The 30 Seconds That Determine Whether Your Child Opens Up Again
Instead of a long-form interview, this week I'm reading you an essay I wrote called The Most Dangerous Moment in the Conversation: What To Do and What Not To Do When Y...
211. Mia Hughes: Trans as an Extreme Overvalued Belief — Cracking the Code
In this episode, I welcome back Mia Hughes — director of Genspect Canada, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and one of the sharpest writers on the gend...
210. Why Gender-Referred Youth Went From Bad to Worse: A Psychological Lens on the Finnish Study
In this solo episode, I'm bringing you something a little different. I've been wanting to talk about the recent Finnish register study on gender-referred youth since i...
209. When Schools Keep Secrets: Parental Rights, Teachers & the Supreme Court | Dean Broyles
Constitutional attorney Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy, joins me to continue untangling the legal battles reshaping how public schoo...
207. Parents' Rights vs. School Secrecy: Laura Powell on Mirabelli v. Bonta at the Supreme Court
Joining me today is Laura Powell, an attorney and founder of Californians for Good Governance, to break down one of the most important parents' rights cases in recent ...