Future Smart Parent
The Future Smart Parent podcast provides resources for parents and kids who want to be ready for all the ways in which the future is going to be different from today.We will explore this future together, bringing insights from top futurists, resources from smart people working on making our lives better, and most importantly, stories of parents who are parenting a little differently, yet very much intentionally, for a changing world. These stories, insights and resources are all there to provide you with the tools needed to parent in the 2020s, and beyond.
Episodes
37 episodes
Empower Your Teaching with AI with Graeme Codrington - brought to you by Future Smart Teacher
In today’s episode, we dive into the exciting world of AI in education with global futurist Graeme Codrington and the team at Future Smart Teacher. Graeme shares valuable insights on how AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, can serve as powerful ass...
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Episode 36
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1:04:17
Harmonising Life: The Potential Role of Music Therapy in 21st-Century Parenting
Episode Summary: In this episode, Jude chats with music therapist Graeme Sacks about what music therapy is, how it encourages growth, self-expression and healing through music and how this might impact parents and their kids toda...
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Episode 35
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30:41
The Village Approach to Imperfect Parenting: A Conversation with Vanessa Raphaely
Episode Summary: In this episode of the Future Smart Parent Podcast, Jude chats to Vanessa Raphaely, co-author of "We Were Perfect Parents Until We Had Children" and founder of The Village, a community of diverse, imperfect paren...
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Episode 34
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41:15
Self Care Strategies for Overwhelmed Moms with Dr. Michael Mol
In this episode Jude chats with Dr. Michael Mol about the invisible labour that oftens lands on the shoulders of moms. The fact that women are typically taking on more of the labour of childcare, organising the home and housekeeping, often in a...
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Episode 33
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40:51
Mindfulness for Parents: How to stay sane in an insane world
Helen Nicholson is the Founder and CEO of The Networking Company. She specialises in speaking and teaching people to develop powerful personal brands and networks all over the world. Her work in Mindful Resilience has helped thousands of indivi...
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Episode 32
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39:27
Nurture ADHD with Tarryn
In this episode of the Future Smart Parent podcast, Jude chats with Tarryn who is the creator of a life-changing ADHD system designed for overwhelmed and frustrated parents who want smoother days, less chaos and to see their ADHD kids thrive.
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Episode 31
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36:16
Navigating Teen Emotions: The Power of Connection
In this episode, Jude speaks with parenting coach, Lelia Schott, about engaging with our teenagers - a time often accompanieed with many emotions (from both teens and parents), boundaries being pushed, connection sometimes being tested, but als...
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Episode 30
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35:17
South African Primary School goes phone free for 40 days
In this episode Jude speaks with Natalie Meerholz, the headmistress of Holy Rosary Primary School, who started this campaign where many students pledged to go ‘phone-free’ for 40 days. The campaign was about calling for the delay of...
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Episode 29
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44:44
Raising Greatness: Nurturing Potential in Your Children
In this week’s episode, Jude chats with Buhle Dlamini, author of Unleashing Your Greatness. They chat about how to raise greatness and nurturing potential in our kids.Buhle Dlamini discusses his concept of unleashing your true pot...
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Episode 28
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32:47
Why Connection Matters So Much! With Mandy Herold
Episode Summary: Mandy is passionate about supporting parents, teachers and schools on their journey to develop safe, connected and problem solving environments for children to thrive. Academics aren’t enough! We need to equi...
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Episode 27
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31:17
Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens
Episode Summary: In this episode, Jude talks with Naomi Holdt, author, mom and child psychologist, all about her new book Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens. This book is so important and we encourage you to...
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Episode 26
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37:52
Jobs of the Future: Prompt Engineers
This week Jude chats with Graeme Codrington, global futurist and co-founder of the Future Smart Parent Club. Graeme specialises in the future of work and in this episode, we specifically talk about a job of the future. We discuss prompt enginee...
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Episode 25
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38:26
Unleashing EdTech: Transforming STEAM Education with Cheryl Williams
Today, I’m thrilled to talk with Cheryl Williams, an exceptional STEAM Based Learning Educator. With a teaching journey that began in 2000, Cheryl has gained invaluable experiences in various grades and leadership roles - however, h...
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Episode 24
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42:55
EFT Tapping for Kids and Parents
Today I got to speak with Rebekah Clark from Happy Marlo. Happy Marlo is an organization dedicated to helping children build skills for dealing with their emotions and being empowered to find their calm space. While these tools and resources ar...
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Episode 23
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30:27
3 Tech Habits for Families to develop to keep everyone safer and saner online
Today we’re talking about tech habits - specifically tech habits for families because I don’t know about you, but I find it incredibly difficult to break some of my own bad tech habits. Yes, I'm also acutely aware of the saying that goes ...
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Episode 22
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28:12
Helping Our Kids Through Transitions
Zanele has built her profile as one of Africa’s brightest organisational change & learning influencers. She’s known to her clients as 'The UnLearning Lady', and is a global leading voice on using key unlearning principles to help companies ...
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Episode 21
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33:27
Sextortion and how to protect our kids online
Sextortion might sound like the name of a really bad movie, but in fact it’s a lot more serious than that and it’s affecting all of our kids online. Essentially “sextortion” is a crime, classified as cyber extortion under the South ...
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Episode 20
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28:04
The Good Gap Year Guide with Melanie Williams
Today I spoke with Melanie Williams, who is a psychometrist and careers expert. She used to teach high school English and Life Orientation and now works with high school students on looking beyond high school and preparing for life in the real ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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29:49
The Changing Gender Landscape
In this episode, I chatted with Christy Herselman from The Chat. We spoke about the changing gender landscape, and what this means for both our children, and for us parents as we all try to navigate and understand this phenomenon that's unfoldi...
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Episode 18
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48:46
Understanding neuro-development and the 21st century child
Episode Summary:Today I spoke with Dr Beulah van der Westhuizen, who is a specialist in neuro-development, education and the founder of EduExcellence. In this episode, we discussed the education system, and where tradi...
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Episode 17
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52:35
Emotion Ocean - Whats the big deal about EQ?
In today’s episode I spoke with Naomi Holdt, who is an educational psychologist, speaker, author and a mom. We spoke about many different things regarding EQ, including what it really means to develop emotional intelligence in our kids, the imp...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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43:38
Diversity in Schools - a conversation for white parents
In today’s episode, I talked with my colleagues, and fathers themselves, Buhle Dlamini, global speaker and expert on why Diversity and Inclusion are essential in business, and Graeme Codrington, an expert on the Future of Work and author of the...
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Episode 15
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36:15
MoneyWise Kids with Donna McCallum
In this episode, I speak with Donna McCallum, aka the Fairy Godmother, who teaches us about money and magic, and how as parents, perhaps we have some mindsets to shift that we haven't realised yet!Donna is running a workshop on March 17...
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Episode 14
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23:40
How to raise entrepreneurial kids and why it's important for them
Episode Summary: We talk about reframing entrepreneurship and the skills that are most valuable to instill in our children. Some of these skills include self-awareness, confidence, resilience, learning that it’s okay to fail ...
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Episode 13
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28:36
Innovation and Adventure in Learning - join the learning revolution with LearnLife
Discover a way of learning, backed by science and research, that is learner-centred and focuses on self-determined, purpose-inspired and personal learning.In this episode I speak with Bryan Gibson, who is the Research and Design Lead fo...
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Episode 12
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37:44