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Leadership Parenting- Resilient Moms Raise Resilient Kids

Welcome to Leadership Parenting, the podcast for the mom who wants to stop yelling, feel less overwhelmed, and be the calm, connected parent she knows she can be. Here you"ll learn to calm your body, direct your mind, and parent with a plan. Because resilient moms raise resilient kids.Hosted by Leigh Germann, therapist, resilience coach, and mom of five grown children, this show is your weekly guide to building emotional strength, navigating tough moments, and leading your family with confidence

kids & family parenting

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165. Overthinking? 3 Powerful Ways to Quiet Your Mind...

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2026/10/07

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever lie awake replaying a conversation, going over what was said and what it might have meant? You're not alone, and nothing is wrong with you. Overthinking is one of the most common things a human mind does. In this episode, I talk about why overthinking feels so productive while it's happening, and why the advice to just stop thinking about it so rarely works. We look at what's going on underneath the loop, and at how your body responds to the scenarios your mind cr...

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14:41

164 How to Feel Better When You Have No Time

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2026/09/30

Send us Fan Mail If you'd like to get the show notes for this episode, head to: https://leighgermann.com

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22:45

163. Why Taking A Break Doesn't Always Make You Feel...

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2026/09/23

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever take the time for yourself that everyone says you should take, the pedicure, the show after bedtime, the hour alone in a store, and come back feeling exactly as tired as when you left? I want to talk about why that happens, because it isn't that you've been taking care of yourself wrong. In this episode I walk through a difference I've been talking about with moms lately, one that separates the kind of rest that drains away from the kind that actually refills you....

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22:31

162. How to Take Your Time and Trust Your Decisions.

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2026/09/16

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever answer somebody before you have actually decided anything? Somebody asks, you hear your own voice saying yes, and it is out of your mouth before any part of you has checked whether you have the room for it. You are not alone, and nothing is wrong with you. In this episode, we look at what researchers found about the difference between warmth that still includes you and warmth that quietly leaves you out, and why a request made to your face is the hardest kin...

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30:49

161. Five Habits That Make Moms Miserable and How to...

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2026/09/09

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I name five ordinary habits that most of us picked up without noticing, and I show you which pillar of the Resiliency System each one is quietly taking from. Then I walk you through what to do instead, including the three questions I run on a thought that feels true, and a four question tool you can use on yourself in a few seconds. If you'd like to get the show notes for this episode, head to: https://leighgermann.com

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33:08

160. How to Get Your Child to Open Up

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2026/09/03

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever pick your child up, ask how the day went, and get one word back? Fine. Good. I don't know. And then a few days later you watch that same child sit down next to somebody else and tell them everything you asked for. You're not alone, and it doesn't mean you've done something wrong. In this episode, I talk about why asking more questions often gets you less, and what the research says about where a parent's knowledge about her own child actually comes from. It isn't ...

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32:18

159. How To Have Happier Mornings With Your Kids

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2026/08/26

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever have one of those mornings where you can feel it going before it goes? You are doing everything you are supposed to be doing, and somewhere around the second time you say the same sentence, you hear yourself using a tone you would never use with another adult. You are not alone, and nothing is wrong with you. In this episode, I talk about why there is no perfect morning routine, and why even the people who study this for a living cannot agree on one. We look at wh...

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23:22

158. How to Handle Your Back-to-School Emotions...

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2026/08/19

Send us Fan Mail The first day of school can feel like freedom and heartbreak in the same breath. You may feel sad that your kids are growing up, worried about how they'll adjust, relieved to have some time to yourself - and then guilty for feeling relieved. In this episode of the Leadership Parenting Podcast, I'm talking about how to handle back-to-school emotions without mom guilt. I'll explain why parenting transitions can feel so emotional, why your brain and nervous system react strongly...

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29:52

How to listen so the People You Love Feel Truly Heard

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2026/08/05

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever finished a conversation with someone you love and felt like something did not quite land, even though the words went back and forth and your intentions were good? In this episode, I talk about why the people closest to us sometimes go quiet, what we are actually doing when we think we are listening, and the difference between listening to respond and listening to understand. I share what Carl Rogers and John Gottman discovered about being truly heard, and I give...

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25:54

156. How to Build Trust With Your Kids

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2026/07/29

Send us Fan Mail Trust is one of those words we use constantly without ever defining it. In this episode, I break trust down into something simple and buildable: your words and your actions matching, over and over, until your kids come to expect it. I walk through why a vague "maybe later" can register as a broken promise, how we accidentally set traps for ourselves by attaching things we were always going to do to conditions we were never going to hold, and how to hold a line without any pun...

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31:08

155. 3 Proven Ways to Help Your Child When They Can...

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2026/07/22

Send us Fan Mail If you have a child who decides things are ruined before they've even started, you already know that reassurance doesn't work. The more you insist he's doing fine, the harder he argues that he isn't. In this episode I explain why that happens, and why our instinct to talk a discouraged child out of his feelings so often backfires. Then I walk through three research-backed practices that build genuine, lasting confidence, along with what to do in the heat of the moment when yo...

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20:05

154. How to Protect Your Child's Playtime in a Busy...

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2026/07/15

Send us Fan Mail A mom wrote to me, torn between the pressure to start academics early and her daughter who just wants to play, and I have a feeling her question lives in a lot of us. In this episode, I answer it directly: yes, play is enough, and it's actually more sophisticated than most of the programs we're tempted to buy. I walk through what's really happening in your child's brain when she stacks blocks or plays pretend, why schedules and screens are crowding out play, and how to recogn...

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20:31

153. Simple Ways to Feel Better When You're So Tired-...

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2026/07/08

Send us Fan Mail If you have ever taken time for yourself, the bath, the show, the quiet trip out alone, and still come back to your family feeling completely depleted, you are not doing self-care wrong. In this episode, we look at why so much of what we call self-care never actually refills an overwhelmed, tired mom, and the difference between numbing and soothing that changes everything. I walk you through the gap between the stressor and the stress your body is still holding long after the...

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21:29

152. How to See Beneath Your Child's Behavior When...

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2026/07/01

Send us Fan Mail When your child's behavior feels confusing, the fix usually isn't a tougher consequence. It's a clearer read on what's happening underneath. In this episode we look into why a meltdown, an eye roll, or a kid who suddenly can't get out the door is almost always the tip of something bigger, and I walk you through a simple piece of brain science that makes it click. Then I hand you the two jobs of parenting, love and connection first, teaching second, and show you how to use the...

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151. Why You Don't Have to Believe Everything You Think

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2026/06/17

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I walk you through where negative thoughts actually come from, why your body reacts to a scary thought as if it's really happening, and why trying to force them out only makes them louder. We look at the difference between a fact and a thought that distorts that fact toward the negative, and I give you a set of questions you can run any thought through to decide whether it deserves your attention. This is the foundation underneath so much of the work we've do...

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21:15

150 Why You Stress, and How to Feel More in Control

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2026/06/10

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we walk you through what's actually happening in your brain the moment stress takes over, and why your reactions make complete sense once you understand the system underneath them. I'll show you the five ways your nervous system steps in to protect you and why your thinking brain goes quiet right when you need it most. We'll look at one surprising trigger behind so much of our daily stress, and I'll give you a simple shift that turns a moment of being hijacked...

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23:25

149. How to Make Screens Work For Your Family This...

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2026/06/03

Send us Fan Mail Screen time doesn't have to be a source of guilt, negotiation, or constant battle — and the research is finally catching up to what many moms already sense. In this episode, we walk through a values-based approach to family screen use this summer, including why screen-free days aren't automatically good days, what screens as a reward are actually teaching your kids, and how to run a family screen meeting that gets everyone on the same page. Whether you're dealing with a young...

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21:46

148. How to Make Summer Less Stressful

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2026/05/27

Send us Fan Mail It's the end of May and I've been sitting with moms all month who are half excited about summer and half quietly dreading it — and I noticed the same handful of questions coming up again and again. So in this episode I take the most common summer struggles I hear from real moms and work through them together, because there is something genuinely helpful about knowing that what you're carrying isn't a personal failure — it's a shared experience. We look at why summer actually ...

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27:41

147. How to Get Back on the Same Side as Your Body

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2026/05/20

Send us Fan Mail So many of us moms are trying to build resilience while living completely disconnected from our own bodies. We push through stress, override exhaustion, ignore anxiety, and keep functioning until our nervous systems finally demand our attention. In this episode of Leadership Parenting, we explore the powerful connection between resilience, nervous system regulation, and body awareness. Drawing from neuroscience research on interoception, emotional regulation, and Polyvagal Th...

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146. How to Stop Letting Shame Control Your Life

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2026/05/13

Send us Fan Mail Shame doesn’t usually show up as a clear thought. It shows up as a heavy feeling that tells you you’re the problem, and it can take one messy parenting moment and turn it into a whole identity. In this episode, we slow that process down and name what’s actually happening when you get stuck replaying a conversation, judging yourself, and wondering why “I’m whole and valuable and wise” suddenly feels impossible to believe. We walk through a practical, repeatable fra...

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