Track 1: Introduction to Generational Shifts
The lowdown on today’s episode: The inspiration behind the podcast, who you will be hearing from this season, and a sneak peek into future episodes!
In this inaugural episode, I'm excited to share:
What sparked the fire for this podcast
Give you some background about me, just a teeny bit
Provide a glimpse of what's in store for the upcoming episodes
This GenXer mom (and your podcast host) urges you to grab your Walkman, adjust those leg warmers, and get ready to uncover the tools (along with me, in almost real-time) for navigating parenthood in today's ever-changing world.
Episode references:
Kate Anthony
Amy Lang
Amy Green Smith
Christina McGhee
Bari Tessler
Music by Yrii Semchyshyn from Pixabay
Transcript:
[00:00:00] Darlene: You're listening to Generational Shifts, the podcast that explores the evolving landscape of parenting, health and wellness, and personal development.
[00:00:12] This season features conversations from today's leading professionals to help you gain new insight and tools for parenting in the 21st century. Now, let's jump into today's topic and uncover the tools you need for navigating parenthood in today's ever changing world.
[00:00:33] Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast. My name is Darlene and I am your host and producer of generational shifts. I am thrilled to be launching this series and I'm equally thrilled that you are here listening. So thank you. In this first episode, I wanted to share the inspiration for the entire podcast, share a teeny bit about myself, and then [00:01:00] provide you with a sneak peek of what's to come this season.
[00:01:10] Alright, so I'm going to give you a brief overview of how and why the idea for this podcast the idea for generational shifts came to me in early 2022, when I started to get curious about certain parenting topics. Different parenting questions would come to mind, and I would be like I don't really know the answer to that question.
[00:01:32] That's not something that maybe came up when I was a child or needed to come up. So I started to really start thinking about these parenting topics and I realized I wanted to learn more about them and or understand these topics from maybe a different perspective. So topics like, how to keep your kids safe online.
[00:01:53] That wasn't a thing when I was growing up. There was no online. How to talk to your kids about sex. That really wasn't [00:02:00] something. There wasn't like this whole birds and bees conversation that I had growing up. So it's not something that comes natural to me. Oh, how am I going to do this? When am I going to do that?
[00:02:10] So many other questions that just came to mind. Now, I do want to preface all of this by saying that the many lessons I did learn about how to be a parent come from my mother, and those lessons are deeply cherished and ingrained in many of the things I do today as a parent. The tools needed to become a caring, capable, and loving parent that I learned from my mom allow me to connect with my child in a way I am so deeply grateful for.
[00:02:37] And, in 2023, raising small humans can be hard. The world looks different in many ways than it did in the 80s when I was growing up. So it requires parents to learn, sometimes maybe relearn, and understand these new parenting techniques or ideas that are either no longer applicable or they just weren't talked about when they were a [00:03:00] child, whether it was because Certain things didn't exist or it just was a topic that was closed off within the family.
[00:03:09] So around that time, it was when I started to create a spreadsheet and started jotting down all of these parenting topics and questions that I had that came to mind as a Gen Xer mom. And I realized I'd like to explore these topics. In a podcast form, I ended up quickly having a list of 20 topics. Once I actually had those 20 topics and I looked at them, I realized this really was a podcast idea that had some actual likes.
[00:03:41] And that is the impetus of where generational shifts Came from now, I will like to say, because I have varied interests, I envision future seasons of this podcast to explore some areas around mindset, health and wellness, and even personal [00:04:00] development. But for now, this season, and maybe season two will be episodes that intertwine a little bit of purple personal development.
[00:04:10] Meets parenting. Another thing that I found interesting and also informed my thoughts and ideas for this podcast was I recently completed my Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and some of my college curriculum focused on society and culture and how. Society and culture influence some of the things we think, see, feel in our lives.
[00:04:36] So much so that when I thought of these 20 parenting topics, I started to really think a little bit harder did different generations within our culture view these parenting topics? And how has culture and society informed Some of the generational shifts that we see in parenting today. So that's where everything jumbled together.
[00:04:58] And I was like, [00:05:00] I think I want to make this a podcast and I think I'm going to do it and I'm ready to go. So I. Got a couple people on my team to help me research the topics a little bit more, find some astute guests to explore these topics and conversations and what I have for you so far, I am super excited about.
[00:05:23] So let me actually tell you a little bit now about the Who. I'll tell you a little bit about me and my background and then also about some of the guests that you can expect to hear. In this upcoming season, so I'm Darlene. Hi, nice to meet you. How are you? Fancy meeting you here. I am a podcast editor and manager for podcasts, primarily in the personal development space.
[00:05:52] And I started podcasting in 2008 as a way to market my then virtual assistant business [00:06:00] after about two years. And. After having produced over 100 episodes of my podcast, I started offering podcast editing services. So that was in about late 2009, early 2010 that I started doing podcasting. Continued producing podcasts and around 2015, 2016 my podcasting started dwindling and my business started getting busier.
[00:06:25] So the last year, two years, I've been wanting to start a podcast again, and I just hadn't come up with an idea that really felt right. It wasn't one that I felt passionate about. And then, as the story goes, and I told you how the idea for this podcast came to be, once that solidified, I Realized, yes, I get to come back and do podcasting again.
[00:06:49] And I'm super excited for it. I'm happy to be back in the driver's seat of podcasting. Now, let me tell you who you will hear from in this season of [00:07:00] generational shifts podcast. Over the course of the next few months, you'll hear my interviews with authors, academics, therapists, and other professionals who are in the world of parenting and personal development.
[00:07:14] I have the pleasure of featuring even some of my own podcast clients as guests on the show, people like Kate. Anthony from the Divorce Survival Guide, and some of the other guests will be people that have been guests on shows in which I produce for my clients. Getting to understand and know their work by editing them as guests made me realize, huh.
[00:07:37] They will be a good guest for this specific topic. So I was able to reach out to them, and I have some great people coming up, like Christina McGee to talk about co parenting, Barry Tesler to talk about the art of money and parenting and your money stories, and just so much more. And now, the time has come for a sneak [00:08:00] peek where you'll get to hear just some of what the guests share this season on Generational Shifts.
[00:08:08] Kate Anthony: You can never say to a kid your dad's a lying cheat, so we've decided to get divorced, right? That is the worst thing that you can do to a child. And so coming up with, this is why we're getting divorced, let's say, but you and I have to now get on the same page about what the story is so that neither one of us throws the other parent under the bus.
[00:08:28] Now we're going to come together. Ideally. This isn't an ideal scenario. We're going to come together and create a narrative that doesn't make anyone the bad guy. It's hard. It's also necessary. And by the way, as kids get older, you can have more detailed conversation or they start to see things.
[00:08:52] Amy Lang: Pretty much everybody has the same experience. We didn't get what we needed, no conversations with parent, with their parents or caregivers [00:09:00] or a one off Hey, this is what sex is good luck out there. So I think that's the first thing, like you're not alone in this. Nobody comes into these conversations knowing what to do, how to have them.
[00:09:11] And the way we learned through sex ed, maybe HBO peer conversations, like just trying to sort it out on our own. One of the things I asked parents. to do oftentimes is to do what you did. It's look back, like, how did you learn? What messages did you get? What was good? What was bad? What was helpful?
[00:09:29] What wasn't
[00:09:29] Kate Anthony: helpful?
[00:09:30] Amy Lang: Because what happens is when you get it out, what is, Oh, I don't want that for my kid. And it's only motivating really. I think doing that little exercise does that like it's motivating. And then it also just like from that crap go, you need to talk about this stuff.
[00:09:48] We need to feel good. ish enough, better about our histories in order to, take on these conversations with our kids
[00:09:57] Darlene: when it's a good time to speak up [00:10:00] versus putting it aside for now and speaking up about it at a later time.
[00:10:04] Amy Green Smith: It's a different answer every single time. Yeah. For example, let's say you're at a family function.
[00:10:11] Let's say it's a holiday. And so the overall essence is merriment and everyone's jovial and having a great time together. And there is a comment made that really doesn't sit well with you. You don't necessarily have to get involved in a full on conversation in order to speak up for yourself. So quite simply, you could say something like.
[00:10:38] I find that comment a bit disturbing or I don't share that opinion, but we certainly don't need to get into it right now. And just that phrase allows your silence to not make you a liar. That's one of my favorite sort of governing mantras is do not allow your [00:11:00] silence to make you a liar.
[00:11:01] Meaning if you are quiet. Does it look like you're complicit? Like you agree with that person. So in those moments, you can very easily say, I don't think this is the time to get into it, but that comment really didn't sit well with me.
[00:11:19] Darlene: So good. You'll hear from Kate Anthony, Amy Lang, and Amy Green Smith in future episodes this season on Generational Shifts.
[00:11:31] I thank you for listening to this first introductory episode. I'm excited for you to go on this journey with me. A journey that hopes to shift perspective and learn about parenting for today's intergenerational parents. Thanks for listening. This is Darlene Victoria signing out. Hey, thanks for listening to generational shifts.
[00:11:55] This podcast is a production of Darlene Victoria digital media. If you would like to [00:12:00] suggest a topic or future guest or leave feedback, head on over to the website at gen shifts. That's G E N S H I F T S dot com. You can also find episode information, links, resources, and transcripts on the website. And if you'd like to connect with me, you can find me over on Instagram at D V podcasts.
[00:12:25] And finally, as the old internet saying goes, sharing is caring. If you like what you've heard in today's episode, please share it with a friend. That does it for another episode of the podcast. Thanks again for listening. Bye.[00:13:00]