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The Nuclear Families EvangelistLearning2Step with Heather HetchlerDon’t be a wrecking ball. Pour into your marriage and learn to separate feelings from truth. Heather Hetchler is a monthly columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a thought leader, and co-founder of Learning2Step, an online educational and empowerment program for blended families. Heather shares her blended family experiences and the advice that she’s learned along the way while reminding us to always be kind to ourselves.Three Key Points1. Give everyone time to adjust. Just because two adults are healed, happy and healthy doesn’t mean the children are. Oftentimes, two people ar...2023-08-2439 min
The Nuclear Families EvangelistTips for the Smart Stepmom with Laura PetherbridgeThe bond is different. Stepparents and parents see their children through different lenses and that’s perfectly normal. Laura Petherbridge, life coach and author of several books including 101 Tips for the Smart Stepmom, shares her no-nonsense tips for the smart stepmom and the hardest things she had to overcome when she became a stepmother.Three Key Points1. Laura explains that what she perceived as disrespectful behavior from her stepchildren towards their father triggered her own “daddy wound” of growing up in a blended family. Laura had to discover that she was not her stepchildr...2023-07-2734 min
The Nuclear Families EvangelistThe Blended Family: Born Out of LossBlended families are born out of loss. A stepfamily would not exist if there hadn’t been a death, a divorce, or a break-up of a previous relationship. Laura Petherbridge, a wife, stepmother, life coach, and published author of several books including The Smart Stepmom, joins Traci on the podcast. Laura explains how loss influences the stepfamily dynamic and the importance of addressing this loss in your own blended family.Three Key Points:1. Laura highlights the importance of couples entering into blended families to address this key issue of loss for their children and s...2023-06-1328 min
The World of Multiemployer Benefit Funds PodcastFinancial Literacy HighlightsOne in five adults will experience an unexpected medical bill. Sixty percent of non-retirees do not believe their retirement savings are on track, and an alarming 25 to 50% of US households who have done some preparing for retirement believe that they will end up short of the savings needed to retire. Check out my course, Unlocking Financial Wellbeing, if you want to stop living paycheck to paycheck. Win the credit card debt floating game, and discover your core money values.Support the Show.Contact:traci@mutliemployerfunds.comwww.sisupartnersllc.com2023-06-0808 min
The Nuclear Families EvangelistUnderstanding Interpersonal NeurobiologyOur children's nervous systems are a carbon copy of ours. Understanding interpersonal neurobiology means what's going on inside the parents is also going on inside the child. If we want to calm our children, then we must first learn to calm our own nervous systems. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman shares tools with parents to heal themselves and their children of trauma, calm their nervous systems and reduce cortisol levels in order to de-flame the brain and rewire the belief system.Three Key Points· Healing trauma means healing the nervous system. Dr. Sandy expl...2023-05-1838 min
The Nuclear Families EvangelistParenting That Heals Spirit, Body and BrainBy 2020, 5.6 million children had been diagnosed with anxiety problems and 2.4 million had been diagnosed with depression. Many children are over-medicated, over-diagnosed and generally misunderstood. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman offers a medication-free option to help families heal from learning, behavioral and mood problems through her private coaching program, Parenting That Heals.Three Key Points· Dr. Sandy shares her personal experience growing up “right brain” dominant and the stress it created for her of not feeling “good enough.” While she was earning her first degree in psychology, Dr. Sandy attended a lecture on the integration o...2023-04-2730 minThe World of Multiemployer Benefit Funds PodcastNavigating Healthcare CoverageNavigating healthcare coverage can be confusing and frustrating. Every time there's a new regulation, it makes the healthcare system that more complicated. Josh Meyer and Jennifer Schuster from Segal Benz Communications are back for their final installment and share some ways that multiemployer plans customize communication to simplify navigating healthcare coverage for their participants. Support the Show.Contact:traci@mutliemployerfunds.comwww.sisupartnersllc.com2023-02-0915 minThe Nuclear Families EvangelistBlended Families and Financial InfidelityIn this episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guests Heather Hetchler, a columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a wife, a mom, stepmom, a thought leader and a coach for blended families with learning to step at e-learning platform for blended families. The second guest is Ed Vargo, who has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry and is the Founder of Burning River Advisory Group (A Wealth Management Firm that spec...2023-01-2527 minThe World of Multiemployer Benefit Funds PodcastCommunicating Financial WellBeing ToolsKnowing that you have financial planning tools is the first step on the path to financial wellbeing. Jennifer Schuster and Josh Meyer from Segal Benz Communications return to the podcast and share some tips and tools of how they communicate financial wellbeing to their Taft-Hartley clients. Segal Benz aggregates information and financial tools for multiemployer plans and then delivers access to those participants.Support the Show.Contact:traci@mutliemployerfunds.comwww.sisupartnersllc.com2023-01-1722 minThe Nuclear Families EvangelistThe "F" Word: Finance in The Blended FamilyIn today´s episode of the ‘Nuclear Families Evangelist’ (A podcast that debunks the mythologies and biology by exploring the dynamics and relationships in blended families), host Traci Dority-Shanklin (Managing Partner at Sisu Partners) talks with guests Heather Hetchler, a columnist at Stepmom Magazine, a wife, a mom, stepmom, a thought leader and a coach for blended families with learning to step at e-learning platform for blended families. The second guest is Ed Vargo, who has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry and is the Founder of Burning River Advisory Group (A Wealth Management Firm t...2023-01-1228 min