This Little Parent Stayed Home

Are you Over-Scheduled?

There is just not enough time to save the world… Women, you amaze me. You accomplish so much every day (that you probably get very little credit for) and you just keep raising the bar higher and higher! But are you fulfilled? You have collectively aimed into the stratosphere to be the most creative and dynamic leaders, the best parents with all the answers, daily life-savers to your children, the most understanding and loving partners, the best and most reliable friends…. It’s no wonder so...

The Best and Worst Ways to Cope... with EVERYTHING

Seeking Comfort in Outside Conditions Current brain science shows that a lack of consistent emotional nurturance in infancy and childhood, when the brain is still forming, can result in difficulties with self-regulation, causing us to seek comfort and nurturing outside ourselves, often substances. Food. Alcohol. Narcotics. Tobacco. Gamboling… Here’s the good news… History is not our destiny and the brain CAN be re-wired for optimal emotional health. Our addictive bad habits are usually relat...

Don't Think. Just Create

If love is what you seek, let love be your response. If you are aching for peace and harmony, you are not alone. Recent events has filled the media, workspace and cyber boards with adversity and distress around the world. Being emotionally depleted from such toxic stress can lead to mental instability and physical discomfort… but you don’t have to play that game. The best way to cope is to CREATE. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The worst thing you can do is NOTHING. Activism and ...

The Powerful Feminine Shift is FINANCIAL

When women are empowered with money, they become “difference makers.” Not only do women with money transform their own lives, but also the lives of their children, their families, and their communities. More women are building their own businesses and reaching top corporate levels than ever before… but far fewer than men are earning six and seven figures. Sounds like we need a miracle. In her new book, Money, Manifestation & Miracles: A Guide to Transforming Women’s Relationship with Money,...

Anxious Much?

Anxiety is the new depression. An estimated 40 million Americans, about 18 percent of the population over the age of 18, struggle with anxiety, including more than half of all American college students. So that should make you feel better. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 40 million adults age 18 and older, or 18.1 percent of the population every year. Only about a third of those suffering anxiety get treatment, meaning that millions stru...

Is leadership as we know it…becoming obsolete?

We are living in a complex world. If you haven’t noticed, there is an aversion to the way old types of systems worked in regards to top-down management hierarchies. Men and women of diverse educational and economic background can access information and resources that were unavailable just a decade ago. Anyone with a great idea can cultivate and lead. Command-and-Control forms of leadership are on their way to becoming obsolete… …but learning to SHARE power in an equal and balanced way has b...

YOU have a responsibility to TRUTH

Finding the Truth Isn’t Easy I haven’t seen the outside of a library in weeks. One of the reasons that I decided to go to graduate school is because I was tired of not knowing the truth. I wanted to learn how to research credible resources and be able to collect accurate and unbiased data. Have we forgotten why we are here? In the last decade alone I have found myself, like so many of you, in a never-ending and ineffective argument. “Your media source lies. Mine tells the truth.” If we ar...

How we are going to RE-HUMANIZE and win the war with one another

A call for Re-HUMANIZATION Time for you to answer it. When technologies and advancements that were originally intended to serve humanity cause us to become BLIND TO HUMANITY, we need to make a commitment to restoring our emotional connection for the sake of human dignity. It’s a top priority. Awareness of Awareness Are we even aware of when we have completely lost ourselves to the DARK SIDE? It all starts when we make a firm decision to GROW…whatever the cost. But here is where it gets tr...

Healing from Trauma and Awakening Your Body’s Wisdom

At one level or another, traumatic experiences are a part of any life… From the emotional shock of a parent or peer’s careless words in childhood to intense physical injuries or life-threatening emergencies and assaults….no one’s body is immune to the effects of traumatic events. Not only do these events take a toll on our psyches, in the book Reclaiming Your Body: Healing from Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom (New World Library, June 14, 2017), author Suzanne Scurlock-Durana expla...

A Zen Legacy

What's in a legacy? We should all hope to raise children who can see expansive meaning in the contributions we have made in our lives. Often the best way to interpret our life's work is through the insights that one has into our personal journeys. Just another reason to keep on writing. Letters can tell us so much. Today, we will be getting deep inside the inner-workings of Alan Watts, widely known as the philosopher who first popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the ...

What does a woman do when she loses everything?

I met Dr. Carol Soloway on a speaking tour last year. We were both on an author’s speaker panel at the San Diego Women’s museum. My first impression of her was that she was a spunky firecracker and she instantly felt like family. You never would have guessed that this positively spirited and joyful woman had endured several miserable marriages and battled cancer. After losing everything we as women hold dear—husband, children, self-worth—she overcame harrowing obstacles and built a seven-f...

Your year deserves a new story!

Welcome to the next year of your life! Every single year we say the same thing: “THIS is going to be my year. I can FEEL it!” And then we look back and categorize them into good years vs. the bad years depending on if things went our way. We are victims to our experiences whether we are satisfied with them or not… because we continue to give away our power. Not this year. The best way to ensure that you have an amazing year… is to rewrite your story and change your paradigms. Check out the...

So you want to be an activist?

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank Social Change is Everywhere. I spent ten years advocating for parents and small business leaders. We set out to give Corporate America a run for their money, and we did just that. Yay, us. In the last 12 months I have shifted my advocacy efforts again. I know that I am not the only one who has felt compelled to use my voice for social change. Look around and you’ll see that this ...

Do you ever feel like a broken record?

“I can’t believe this is happening to me… AGAIN” If you have ever heard yourself say something like this, chances are you have gotten yourself stuck under a set of beliefs that are no longer serving you. Many of us feel like we are just riding around on the same merry-go-round. It’s not just the feeling of running your voice and feeling unheard. It could also be that you are experiencing the the same disappointing results over and over again. All of our experiences have value, but when the ...

Woke Men and Daddy Drinks

This is what happens when six actors in Hollywood, give up late night drinks after rehearsal and decide to become fathers. These guys are not experts in fatherhood. Not by a long shot.But somehow they are getting through it… as former drinking buddies do. Their secret? Alcohol, lots of talk about poop and… an ongoing thread on instant messenger. Six dads share an instant messenger thread to share advice, tears, and dirty jokes as they help each other navigate the joyful insanity of fatherho...

Growing Pains are the Greatest Tests of Our Lives!

If you are feeling torn these days… you aren’t alone. Every day it seems, we are being presented with a new sexual allegation of a public figure, and many of us have become especially challenged with how to process it all. Some women are being triggered with massive PTSD while others are traumatized to learn that someone they’ve admired has a history of abusive behavior. And then there is all the vitriol and confrontation. People everywhere are heated. We’d love to be able to turn it all of...

How to push on… especially when you’ve experienced the absolute WORST.

Why does trauma break some of us down, and fuel others to be great? Truth? I still suffer from the “imposter complex” sometimes. It’s not present every day, but when it rears its ugly head, I just want to throw in the towel, give up on my biggest dreams, lay down and vow never to get up again. I bet I am a lot like you. I still wonder sometimes if I’ve really accomplished anything worthwhile in my 43 years. I battle a whole bunch of old paradigms that haunt me and keep me from moving forwa...

The Power of ONE Woman

Lately, I have been incredibly inspired and deeply moved by the rising sisterhood in our nation. Through the work I have been doing with RISE: Resist, Inspire, Speak, Empower– An Activist/Leader Bootcamp, my involvement with PUSH: People Unwilling to Sit on their Haunches, and the many forward thinking discussions that I’ve been having with women of influence… I’d say… we’re all going to be okay. =) What kind of DRAMATIC IMPACT will you make? As agents of change, we must be willing to acknow...

Help! Get Me Off This Crazy Ride!

Is there such a thing as TOO MUCH excitement? Last week I felt my central nervous system shutting down. I was on sensory overload and my brain processes were spinning like a rainbow wheel on a computer that was just given too much information all at once. Was this due to stress? Nope. All of the new information I had received was good— really good. I wanted to celebrate ALL of it— but I didn’t no where to begin. I desperately needed to decompress. Spinning rapidly was only fun as a child. ...

The World Needs You to Thrive

You aren't the only one who suffers when you deny your gifts to the world. Children are watching and learning how to deal with these adverse times by observing our responses and reactions. Have you honored yourself the way you'd hope for them to do for themselves? How many million dollar ideas have you talked yourself out of over the years? Have you fully stepped into your talents? It's important to build confidence in your unique creativity. But more importantly, to use your creative life f...

Where do we go from here, Hollywood?

How to Deliberately Create Your Story

Whatever We Want - This Episode Has No Rules

We must do something about the gun laws in this country. Going bold here. This is the first time I am broadcasting a show without any rules. My rules, My discussion. My good friend Terri Britt joins the conversation about how we can cope with the high levels of toxic stress that all of us have right now. I always come away from my conversations with Terri so much lighter. Today, she will be a gift for you as well.

Passion Projects...Are They Productive?

Have You Lost Yourself

What is YOUR Super Power?

Turning Horrible Habits into Healthy Ones

Infinite Wisdom

Express Your Authentic Self

How to Increase your HIREABILITY in the Most Competitive Industry in the World

Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Sex In Hollywood

Joyful Simplicity

The Path to Prosperity is lined with multiple dimensions. Last weekend I attended a memorial service that celebrated the life of a brilliant and creative man who had a profound impact on everyone who knew him. Leaving us far too young, I knew Gary Smoot as an award winning theatrical scenic designer, but I learned at his service that he was so much more than that. He was a magician, an actor, a friend, a father, a brother, an uncle, an inspiration, an athlete, an adventurer, a creative probl...

High Performance in your Career and Life!

Does it feel like your finish line... keeps getting moved? I've been there. A LOT. It doesn't matter how ambitious you thought you were before you jumped into this crazy career of yours... there are days when it feels like your dreams are being dangled like a carrot in front of your nose--- just out of your reach. It would be SO EASY to give up, wouldn't it? I've given up several times. Yep--- I was D.O.N.E. Tired of having hope, tired of working hard without the results, tired of knocking...

The Wonder Woman in All of Us

Breaking: Box Office Records, Feminism Misconceptions and Glass Ceilings Seen as a milestone for many feminists, Wonder Woman just smashed box office expectations with the biggest domestic opening of a film directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins) earning $100.5 million in revenue. Furthermore, the film itself has saved the day for DC Comics after it's disappointing response to the release of it's counterpart, Batman vs. Superman. Wonder Woman is flexing new muscles in Hollywood For the first ti...

The Soundtrack of Your Life

We aren’t always aware of the little things that foster our experiences. Unless you are really looking for it, you are likely unaware of how your mood and reaction is being manipulated by powerful, but hidden, artistic elements in the shows and films that you watch. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo How often have you paid attention to your mood while watching television or film? It’s likely you haven’t fully noticed the musi...

Hollywood's Call to Activism

Making Magic...and using it to get you there, FASTER.

The NEW Role of Women in the Entertainment Industry (and Beyond!)

Do you HATE the "business" part of Show Biz?

If you are like most artists, it's the creativity that fills you up. There is nothing like being fully emerged in your craft, but often that performance high you feel leaves little to be desired when it comes to doing the business side of your career. Most creative types avoid the "business" side of things altogether because ... well... it's NO FUN. Blah blah blah...product development, market research, networking, promotion, follow-up, branding... blah blah blah If I wanted to do business...

So...You want a career in voice over, eh?

Harness the Power of Your Dreams for Your Career!

Your dreams are your secret weapon. If you pay attention to your dreams, you will discover that these little nighttime dramas are opportunities for spiritual awakening and growth. As a creative person, your mind is quite busy both while you are awake as well as while you slumber. You might as well decipher every bit of your consciousness to find solutions to your biggest questions. Awaken to Inspired Action! Dreams initiate us into the highest capacity of imagination… and this mode of consc...

Overcome that negative mind chatter!

Beware of the Monstrous MIND CHATTER!! For many of us, we are so used to the cynicism of the industry we are in, that we have forgotten anything else to be considered NORMAL. Negative chatter might seem harmless at first, but if you are not prepared for it, the chatter will gradually erode your belief in yourself and cause you to start questioning your value as an artist. It's All in Your Head! It's pretty easy to find yourself disenchanted with your acting career when you are surrounded wit...

Breaking Your Kids (or Yourself) into Hollywood

Jump start your career! Today we are going to get the inside scoop from two very prominent and well known casting directors, Megan Foley and Chuck Marra. You'll LOVE them because they LOVE YOU~! Thesze industry vetrans have cast dozens of TV shows and Films and more than 3500 commercials... and they do what they do because they really love people (and especially actors!)

How to Succeed in (Show) Business without Really Trying

Is it possible to get ANYWHERE without really trying? That subject sounds like a promise from a bad infomercial, doesn't it? It may have even turned you off a bit. How is it possible to get anywhere in life without really trying? Let me explain. If anything at all feels like WORK, your mindset needs to be adjusted. Most of us choose the industry that we are working in because we are COMPELLED to it. It brings us significant joy and excitement to imagine ourselves performing and playing in a...

Let's Get down to Show Business

First episode where we are figuring out our place in the studio. Announcing the line up of guests, casting directors, agents and managers. Also giving some pretty big advice to actors who are frustrated and want to start seeing results in their careers.

Parenting Teaches us the Most About Ourselves

This is a bonus show! An extra show recorded over a year ago that was never released on the live stream. It's a fantastic show with coaching for moms and dads who are looking to break out of unfulfilling lives and feel abundant again. My terrific studio team joins in to lift you up... and give you back a little better than how we found you!

Staying the Course ...with Surrender.

Exciting News! Thank you for letting your voice be heard! We love knowing that you still have a desire to keep our weekly radio show going... and we are happy to announce that we have found a way! After 7 years, This Little Parent Stayed Home is heading back to a studio where we'll be able to continue bringing you quality content, progressive conversations and support in Parenting, Business and Self-Development... and... we'll once again be able to take callers! (more details at a later time....

How to get others to support you... and your dreams.

We simply cannot EXIST without having others in our life...but it ain't always easy! Studies in Psychology have shown that your personal relationships are most important when it comes to increasing your resilience, contributing to your happiness and keeping you mentally healthy. Get yourself some good quality relationships We may not get to "choose" our siblings, in-laws or children, but when it comes to choosing our friends and lovers, we all have a tendency to get stuck in familiar pattern...

Let's get you across that finish line!

Never in a million years did I expect this... While I am super ambitious, I'd been frustrated for years because it felt like my finish line kept getting moved. My dream of being a television talk show host was being dangled like a carrot in front of my nose, but always just out of my reach. I began to think my dream would never come true... So... I simply gave up. I was DONE. Tired of having hope, tired of working hard without results, tired of knocking on doors that never opened and tired o...

Parenting the Millennial Generation

Every generation thinks that they have it all figured out. Why then, are our twenty something kids struggling to become adults? It's easy to generalize an entire population by their collective Facebook statuses, but Millennials, often accused of being narcissistic and entitled do have to face some issues that previous generations did not. Rates of depression are soaring among Millennials Contrary to what you might hear the media say, the biggest problem with the era of instant gratification...