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Family, Business & Beyond"Empowering Parents: ADHD, Executive Function & Mindful Parenting with Yulia Rafailova"Send us a textDescription: In this in-depth and eye-opening conversation, Yulia Rafailova, founder of "MindFull Education", shares her wealth of wisdom on parenting children and teens with ADHD. Together, we explore the importance of executive function skills, practical strategies for fostering these skills, and how mindfulness can transform family dynamics. This is a must watch/listen to episode for ALL parents. Executive function skills are lacking in MOST of the youth today, the importance of these skills cannot be over-emphasized!Yulia's insights are a...2024-10-031h 09
Earn More TutoringEP 36: Yulia Rafailova on becoming an Executive Function Coach, doing meaningful work, and being inspired to learnYulia Rafailova is an Executive Function Coach who primarily works with families, practicing methods for collaborative problem solving using a strategy called Plan B. Yulia would ask kids why they go to school and the consistent answer was “so I can get a job”. She realized that kids are not inspired to learn, and are going to school because it is forced. When starting her own business, Yulia didn’t know exactly what she wanted to do. But, she knew that Executive Function Coaching was needed in the world. Hear all the different ways she explored getting her business starte...2021-11-011h 09
Alpha ParentAlpha Parent Course: Holly's TransformationIn this short interview, my guest, Holly, shares her biggest takeaways from the Alpha Parent Group Coaching Pilot. We talk about the online course, weekly group coaching sessions, and parent pods.
Holly's Testimonial
I found that Yulia's course was extremely helpful for me to return to my place of compassion for my child who suffers from a lack of executive functioning skills. It has been a hard thing to comprehend and find empathy when trying to keep a functioning household and everyone doing their part. I now understand what I need to bring to the ta...2021-07-1221 minAlpha ParentGuided Meditation, The Parents Tao Te ChingThe Parent's Tao Te Ching is (in my humble opinion) the most important parenting book ever written. It is also the inspiration for my upcoming Alpha Parent Online Mini Course.
This new, 15 minute, guided meditation features a relaxing body scan and several of my favorite readings combined with a beautiful playlist.2021-05-1415 minAlpha ParentQuaranTEEN Ep2 | Transformation, with JudeI talk to my 16 year old coaching client, Jude, about navigating relationships, academics, ADHD, and the quarantine. 2020-07-031h 09Alpha ParentQuaranTEEN Ep1 | Playing the Game, with NathanI talk to my 17 year old coaching client, Nathan, about navigating school, ADHD, and the quarantine.2020-06-0156 minAlpha ParentMother's Day, Inner Child MeditationTo all the moms who sacrifice so much for your families,
I see you.
I hear you.
I acknowledge you.
I wish you more joy,
more peace,
more play,
and more self-compassion on this Mother's Day and beyond.
Here's a gift for you - a meditation to connect you with your inner-child. Written by the brilliant, Katie Krimitsos, of the Women's Mediation network, and recorded by me.2020-05-1110 minAlpha ParentThe Failure of Modern Schooling | A Conversation with Creativity Guru, Jon PearsonJon Pearson has been called an “imagination guru” and a “maestro of creativity.” He combines his skills as artist, writer and speaker to awaken, entertain and inform his audiences whether he’s speaking about humor techniques, visual thinking or storytelling. Jon’s core message is “Imagination will set you free.” He believes that along with courage and caring, creativity is what will save the world. And he believes that creativity starts with imagination and goes way beyond “the arts.”
Jon has worked with artists, writers, educators, businesspeople and life coaches—over one million people around the world. He is a Distinguished Leade...2020-05-041h 15Alpha ParentExecutive Power and Parenting in the Modern CultureI talk to Political Philosophy Professor, Dr. Nicholas Dungey, about the role of executive function and executive power in the modern Western Culture. Parents will learn how to trade power for influence and how to guide their kids to develop self-awareness and self-governance in the age of impulsivity and endless acquisition. (Warning: This is a Deep Dive! Find more awesome podcasts by Professor Nicholas Dungey at www.dungeystate.com/blog)2020-03-171h 40Alpha ParentWhen Autism Grows Up - Interview with Coach Lynn C. DavisonParents, If the thought of your child becoming an independent adult seems like an impossibility right now, please know that that's OK. Raising a differently-wired child means letting go of the traditional roadmap to adulthood and helping your young adult design their unique path toward a fulfilling life that they can manage. In this interview, life coach, Lynn C Davison and I boil down the process of parenting into a concrete system that helps you shift from the impossible to the possible, and into the inevitable.
P.S., You can find Lynn on her website at www.L...2019-12-0253 minAlpha ParentA new perspective on parenting with Conscious Parent Coach, Naomi RodriguezIf you could boil down parenting into one concrete action, what would it be? Join me and Conscious Parent Coach, Naomi Rodriguez, in this conversation about finding your parenting groove. 2019-11-1134 minAlpha ParentCalm your nervous system & heal trauma through breathwork [Interview]I'm thrilled to bring you this interview with my personal meditation and breathwork coach, Jeannie Kulwin. I can say without hesitation that this is one of the most important conversations I've shared on this podcast.
Here's why...
Many of us (myself included) go OUT OF OUR WAY not to feel our feelings.
We would rather...
Binge watch TV shows
Binge eat carbs and sugars
Drink excessively
Smoke Cigarettes
Work ourselves ragged
Run up credit card debt on "retail therapy"
Spend countless hours on social media and gaming
While this stuff provides us with some...2019-10-0858 min
Alpha ParentAn Open Letter to ParentsIn this episode, I read my Open Letter to Parents about 1) the five symptoms of micromanaging your kid, 2) the negative effects that it causes, 3) the common excuses that keep you stuck, and 4)how you can turn it all around. Read this letter and check out my weekly vlog on www.mindfulleducation.com/blog2019-09-1012 min
Prepped and Polished PodcastP&P Episode 200: Yulia Rafailova "How to Get Unmotivated Students to Take Action"The Prepped and Polished Podcast is an educational and inspirational show that offers tutoring and test prep tips as well as interviews with celebrities and leaders in education. It is hosted by Alexis Avila, founder of Prepped and Polished LLC, a tutoring and test prep firm for K-college.
On today's show, Alexis talks Yulia Rafailova who is founder of Mind Full Education, a company that helps parents and their kids tackle a variety of issues that stem from executive functioning deficits such as:
> Lack of engagement and motivation in academics/school.
> Disorganization, losing important items.
> Emotional overwhelm and anxiety.
> Poor...2019-01-2830 minAlpha ParentEmotionally Unsafe ClassroomIn this series, teacher and mom, LaTanya Carter, speaks to me about navigating her kindergartener, 3rd grader, and 8th grader through LAUSD.
In this episode we talk about what happens in your child's brain and body in an emotionally unsafe classroom as well as how to reframe your child's negative experience if they don't like their teacher.2018-10-0353 minAlpha ParentSummer to Fall TransitionsIn this series, teacher and mom, LaTanya Carter, speaks to me about navigating her kindergartener, 3rd grader, and 8th grader through LAUSD.
In this episode we discuss the transition from summer to the fall school semester and expecting the unexpected.2018-09-151h 03Alpha ParentNO SHAME ParentingIn this podcast my friend, math professor, and mother of seven, LaTanya Carter, shares her insights about parenting seven completely different individuals, and the importance of freedom in her home. Quotes from our conversation: "I became combative, because I didn't want the opposition, so I was fearful that she [my daughter] was taking over. So I would react in ways, that I think now, were ridiculous."2018-08-1618 minAlpha ParentDoes your Child have GRIT?In today's podcast: I speak to math professor and mom of seven kids, LaTanya Carter, about identity, grit, and navigating the dysfunctional public school system. P.S. Like this podcast? Thank you! Please share it to help me reach more parents. Quotes from our conversation: "It never shows up on her report card, though, because this is not what we're testing in school. And for her, the grit is lost in the system, and she loses a part of herself." "At some point, I had to realize the things I'm being asked to take from her, are later going to...2018-08-1618 min