Family Dialogues
The Family Dialogues Podcast helps couples heal, parents unite, and families grow stronger together. Dr. Taniesha Burke offers evidence-based strategies for nurturing emotional growth and fostering resilience in children. Each episode guides listeners back to connection, rebuilding love, trust, and teamwork. The podcast combines academic expertise with lived experience to provide practical wisdom for creating a joyful home.
Episodes
Raising Bilingual Children: Protecting Home Language, Identity & School Success
Can speaking more than one language confuse a child? In this episode, bilingual education specialist Ms. Yulia explains why parents do not need to abandon their home language and how they can support children learning the majority language without sacrificing identity and connection.
Learn practical strategies for raising bilingual and multilingual children, navigating schools, advocating
Overwhelmed Working Mom? Project Management Strategies to Reduce Mental Load with Nionila Ivanova
Feeling overwhelmed trying to manage work, motherhood, family responsibilities, and your own goals? What if project management strategies could help you reduce the mental load and create more harmony at home?
In this episode of Family Dialogues with Dr. Burke, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Nionila Ivanova, certified Project Management Professional, entrepreneur, and founder of IT Project
Stop Arguing, Start Negotiating: How to Save Your Marriage | Joe Dillon
Most marriages do not break down because love disappears; they unravel after years of unresolved decisions, growing resentment, and conversations that repeatedly become arguments.
Divorce mediator Joe Dillon reveals how couples can replace conflict with structured negotiation to strengthen their marriage, protect their children, and make decisions as a team.
In this episode of Famil
How to Co-Parent With a Difficult Ex Without Losing Your Peace with Sol Kennedy
One message from a difficult ex can trigger anxiety, anger, and hours of emotional distress, but high-conflict co-parenting does not have to control your life.
Learn how to communicate calmly, establish healthy boundaries, protect your children from parental conflict and reclaim your peace after divorce or separation.
In this episode of Family Dialogues with Dr. Burke, Dr. Taniesha Burke
The Truth About Blended Families: Why Love Isn't Enough with Ron Deal
Blended families don't fail for lack of love; they struggle because most parents don't understand the unique challenges stepfamilies face. In this powerful conversation, family therapist and bestselling author Ron Deal explains why building a thriving blended family requires patience, trust, and a completely different approach to parenting.
If you're dating, remarried, co-parenting, or na
Helping Picky Eaters Try New Foods Without Mealtime Pressure with Dr. Andrea Hartmann
How can parents help a selective or picky eater expand their food choices without turning every meal into a struggle?
In this episode, Prof. Andrea Hartmann explains why the first priority is ensuring that children eat enough before focusing on increasing food variety. She shares a gradual, low-pressure approach that allows children to explore unfamiliar foods outside regular mealtimes, w
How Your Adult Attachment Style Shapes Your Parenting with Annette Kussin
In this powerful episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Annette Kussin, author of Secure Parent, Secure Child, about how adult attachment styles shape parenting, emotional regulation, and the parent-child relationship.
Annette explains how early childhood attachment continues into adulthood and influences how parents respond to their children’s needs, emotions, behavior, and struggles. T
Why Parenting Feels So Hard: Tim Carney on Family-Unfriendly Culture, Overscheduled Kids & Raising Resilient Children
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Burke speaks with Tim Carney, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, columnist at the Washington Examiner, father of six, and author of Family Unfriendly and Alienated America.
Together, they explore why modern parenting feels so exhausting, not because families are failing, but because culture, policy, neighborhoods, and youth activit
Raising Independent Teens: How to Stop Overparenting and Build Confidence with Cindy Muchnick
In this episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Cindy Muchnick, education expert, former college admissions professional, and author of The Parent Compass, about how parents can raise confident, capable, and emotionally healthy teenagers without hovering, rescuing, or overmanaging.
Cindy explains why today’s teens are facing intense academic pressure, social media stress, college admissio
Capturing Your Parents’ Stories Before It’s Too Late with Neil Taylor
What if the greatest family heirloom is not a photo album, recipe, or piece of jewelry, but the sound of your parent’s voice telling their life story?
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Neil Taylor, founder of Me and My Old Man. This 12-week guided conversation experience helps families record their parents’ stories in their own voice. After losing his fat
Is Mouth Breathing Affecting Your Child’s Sleep, Behavior & Jaw Development? | Dr. Sandra Kahn
What if your child’s snoring, mouth breathing, crowded teeth, restless sleep, bedwetting, or attention struggles were connected?
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Sandra Kahn, orthodontist and author of Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, joins us to discuss how children’s breathing, jaw growth, oral posture, sleep quality, and facial development are deeply connected.
Dr. Kahn ex
Childhood Money Wounds: How They Shape Your Family, Marriage & Wealth | Dr. Nicole B. Simpson
Money problems are often blamed on poor budgeting, but what if the deeper issue is financial trauma?
In this powerful episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Dr. Nicole B. Simpson, Certified Financial Planner, CEO of Harvest Wealth Financial, and author of Breaking Free from Financial Trauma. Together, they explore how childhood money wounds, a scarcity mindset, layoffs, divorce, il
Boys, Girls, and the Brain: What Parents Need to Know About Movement, Focus, and Learning | Dr. Michael Gurian
In this episode, Dr. Michael Gurian shares brain-based insights into how boys and girls may experience learning, movement, focus, and behavior differently. The conversation explores why some children struggle in traditional learning environments and why understanding brain development can help parents, educators, and caregivers respond with more compassion and effectiveness.
Michael expla
Parental Burnout Signs: Why You Feel Angry, Exhausted & Overwhelmed | Dr. Claire Plumbly
Burnout is more than feeling tired. For many parents, it can look like snapping at their children, feeling emotionally numb, struggling to make decisions, doomscrolling, overshopping, or moving through the day on autopilot.
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Claire Plumbly, registered clinical psychologist, trauma expert, EMDR consultant, and author of Burnout: How to Manage
Why Parents Snap: Polyvagal Theory, Parenting Triggers & Co-Regulation | Deb Dana
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Deb Dana, author of Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, about how parents can better understand stress, emotional dysregulation, tantrums, shutdowns, anger, anxiety, people-pleasing, and conflict through the lens of polyvagal theory.
Deb explains how the autonomic nervous system sca
How to Raise Confident Girls Who Set Boundaries & Trust Themselves | Kate Rope
In this powerful episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Burke speaks with award-winning journalist and author Kate Rope about how parents can raise girls who trust themselves, set healthy boundaries, express emotions safely, and grow into confident, self-aware young women.
Kate shares why the elementary years, ages 5–12, are such a critical window for building a girl’s confidence, agency, emoti
Your Spouse Isn't Lazy, Selfish, or Unloving. They Have ADHD | Melissa Orlov
When ADHD shows up in a marriage, it can often be misunderstood as laziness, selfishness, unreliability, or a lack of care. In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with ADHD relationship expert Melissa Orlov, author of The ADHD Effect on Marriage, about how ADHD can impact communication, trust, emotional regulation, household responsibilities, intimacy, and connecti
Parenting ADHD with Confidence: How to Handle Defiance, Forgetfulness & Emotional Outbursts | Cindy Goldrich
Parenting a child with ADHD can feel overwhelming with the constant reminders, emotional outbursts, forgotten tasks, and daily power struggles. But what if the key isn’t more discipline… but deeper understanding?
In this episode of Family Dialogues, ADHD expert Cindy Goldrich shares practical, research-informed strategies to help parents move from frustration to connection. Learn ho
When Crisis Strikes: How One Family Survived a Brain Aneurysm & Built Unshakable Resilience | Scott Delahooke
What happens when life changes in an instant? In this deeply moving episode of Family Dialogues, we explore how one family navigated a sudden, life-threatening brain aneurysm, and what kept them grounded through fear, uncertainty, and recovery.
Scott Delahook shares the powerful story of his wife Mona’s medical emergency, the emotional and spiritual resilience required during ICU un
Why 90% of Families Lose Their Wealth (And How to Prevent It) | Emily Griffiths-Hamilton
In this powerful episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with family enterprise advisor Emily Griffiths Hamilton to unpack the truth about generational wealth, succession planning, and building a lasting family legacy.
Most families focus on making money, but far fewer know how to sustain wealth across generations without conflict, entitlement, or loss. Emily introduces
How to Save Your Marriage While Raising a Child with Disabilities (Real Strategies That Work) | Kristin Faith Evans
What happens to your marriage when life takes an unexpected turn through diagnosis, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm?
In this powerful episode of the Family Dialogues Podcast, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with licensed therapist, author, and special needs mom Kristin Faith Evans about how couples can not only survive but build a thriving, connected marriage while raising children with
“I Grew Up Without a Father:” The Truth About Childhood Trauma & Healing | Adam B. Coleman
In this powerful episode of Family Dialogues Podcast, we sit down with author and cultural commentator Adam B. Coleman to explore the long-term impact of father absence, single-parent households, and broken family systems on children and society.
Drawing from his deeply personal story and his book The Children We Left Behind, Adam shares how growing up without a consistent fath
How Moms Can Start a Business Without Losing Their Family | Faith, Entrepreneurship & Motherhood | Cherene Francis
Can mothers successfully balance entrepreneurship, marriage, and motherhood without losing themselves in the process?
In this episode of the Family Dialogues Podcast, Dr. Taniesha speaks with multimedia creator, filmmaker, and business strategist Cherene Francis about how women can build meaningful businesses while nurturing strong families and staying grounded in their identity.
Together
Raising a Child With Disabilities: Advocacy, Marriage, Faith & Thriving as a Special Needs Parent | Christine Staple-Ebanks
Raising a child with disabilities can transform every aspect of family life from medical decisions and advocacy to marriage, sibling relationships, and personal identity. In this powerful episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with author, advocate, and speaker Christine Staple-Ebanks, a mother whose son Nathan was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after surviving a life-threa
From Resentment to Real Partnership: Ending the “Lazy Husband” Cycle & Building an Egalitarian Marriage | Dr. Joshua Coleman
Why do so many modern marriages struggle after children arrive, even when couples start with the best intentions? In this episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with psychologist and bestselling author Joshua Coleman, author of The Lazy Husband, to unpack one of the most common sources of marital resentment: unequal parenting and household labor.
Most couples say they want an egalita
Protecting Childhood in the Digital Age | Screen Time, Parenting & The Big Disconnect with Catherine Steiner-Adair
In today’s hyper-digital world, children are growing up immersed in screens and families are feeling the impact.
In this powerful episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with clinical psychologist and author Catherine Steiner-Adair to discuss how technology, smartphones, gaming, and social media are reshaping childhood and what parents can do to reconnect with their children.
Based on her b
Rebuilding Intimacy After Kids: How to Reconnect, Rekindle Desire & Strengthen Your Marriage |Dr. Rebecca Eudy
After children, many couples quietly shift from lovers to logistical partners. The romance fades, exhaustion sets in, and intimacy feels like another task on the to-do list.
In this powerful episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with certified sex therapist Dr. Rebecca Howard Eudy, author of Parents in Love: A Guide to Great Sex After Kids, to explore how couples can reconnect emotionally
Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World | Parenting & Etiquette with Jackie Vernon-Thompson
In a world where manners are fading, social skills are declining, and family connections feel harder than ever, could etiquette be the missing link to raising confident, respectful children?
In this powerful episode of the Family Dialogues Podcast, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with renowned etiquette expert Jackie Vernon Thompson to explore how manners, respect, and social protocols shape
Why So Many Couples Resent Each Other After Kids (And How to Fix It) | Jancee Dunn
What really happens to a marriage after kids arrive?
In this episode of Family Dialogues, Dr. Taniesha Burke sits down with New York Times bestselling author and journalist Jancee Dunn to talk candidly about resentment, emotional labor, and rebuilding a partnership after children. Drawing from her book, How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids, Jancee shares deeply relatable stories, resea
How to Parent Teens Without Losing Them | Alyson Schafer on Influence vs Control
What does it really take to raise teenagers who still talk to us, trust us, and stay connected even as they push for independence?
In this episode of the Family Dialogues Podcast, parenting expert Alyson Schafer joins the conversation to unpack one of the most challenging transitions for families: moving from parental control to parental influence during the teen years.
Alyson explains wh
Why Putting Your Marriage First Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Children | Dr. Bill Harley
In this episode of The Family Dialogues Podcast, Dr. Burke sits down with Dr. Willard F. “Bill” Harley Jr., clinical psychologist, marriage counselor, and bestselling author of His Needs, Her Needs, to explore a question many parents wrestle with but rarely say out loud: Should marriage come before children and why does it matter so much?
Dr. Harley draws on over six decades of marriage r
Reinventing Supermom: How Nervous System Regulation Transforms Parenting | Kate Kripke
In today's episode of The Family Dialogues Podcast, we explore what it really means to be a "good mother" in a culture that glorifies perfection and the idea of the supermom. Host Dr. Burke sits down with Kate Kripke, LCSW, perinatal mental health therapist and author of Reinventing Supermom, to unpack why high-achieving women are especially vulnerable to anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout i
Trailer: Welcome to The Family Dialogues Podcast
Family life can feel overwhelming, meltdowns, tension in your relationship, emotional distance, and the constant question, “Am I failing at this?” But thriving homes are possible, even when things feel hard.
Hosted by Dr. Taniesha Burke, research psychologist, parenting coach, and mother of three boys, Family Dialogues Podcast tackles the real, unspoken challenges of parenting,
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