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Blended Family Podcast

Melissa Brown
Blended Family Podcast
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  • Blended Family Podcast

    Sudshare, with returning guest, Mort Fertel

    2021/08/09 | 31 mins.
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    www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
     
    Mort Fertel is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at 18 years old. He has a private equity portfolio that consists of SudShare, 2 other businesses, and real estate holdings. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business, and, during a short time when he thought he might be a corporate guy, worked on Wall Street for Bankers Trust Company. Mort is also an author, creator of the first online relationship renewal system (2004), and the subject of Back from the Brink, a documentary written and directed by Toroes Thomas. Now a grandfather, success for Mort means making a difference. And SudShare makes a difference by allowing customers to enjoy life and Sudsters (washers) to have their own work-from-home business. Mort loves working with his family to revolutionize the laundry business. Mort was on this show back on episode #228, when he was discussing his book Marriage Fitness, so if you haven't heard that one check out that episode too. In this episode, he's here to talk about his new company Sudshare.
    Personal story of Sudshare and how it came to be
    What it was like to create a family business
    Tips for families who want to create a business together
    How Sudshare works
    What Sudshare costs and how it compares to other laundry services
    Business opportunity for Sudsters
    Where Sudshare is operating
    How to get started with Sudshare
    And much more!

    Connect with Mort
    Website
     
    Connect with me
    Join the Private Facebook Group
    Connect with me on Facebook
    Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



    Send questions or feedback to [email protected]
    Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe
    Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Sign up for my monthly newsletter
    Listen and Rate/Review on Itunes
     
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    To receive discount, use promo code BLENDED
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    Joe Pomeroy-Expert at helping business minded men become the best family men they can be!

    2021/08/02 | 57 mins.
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    www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Joe Pomeroy knows how to translate business principles into family success. Joe gained a deep knowledge of business while helping build an 8-figure company and earning his MBA. More importantly, Joe discovered how to utilize those hard-earned skills to save his marriage and his family. He went from his wife walking out the door, to having a confident, committed, and connected relationship, and now he is committed to helping other dads and husbands learn how to use those principles to be more confident in their role.  As a bestselling author and Family Leadership Coach, Joe helps business-minded men discover the new way to become the husbands and dads they once promised to be. His mantra has become: "Save the Family, Save the World."
    His personal story
    Why businessmen become the best family men
    Why families and blended families should be treated like a business 
    How to translate business principles into family success
    Why some men lack confidence and how they can build it
    How to identify generational patterns and how to eradicate them
    How a partner can best support a man in his journey to greatness
    Joe's 3D family framework
    Joe's best advice
    And much more!
     
    Connect with Joe
    Website
    Facebook
    LinkedIn
    Instagram
     
    Connect with me
    Join the Private Facebook Group
    Connect with me on Facebook
    Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



    Send questions or feedback to [email protected]
    Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe
    Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Sign up for my monthly newsletter
    Listen and Rate/Review on Itunes
     
    Affiliate
     
    Living the Good Life Naturally
    To receive discount, use promo code BLENDED
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    Debbie Ausburn, author of the book Raising Other People's Children

    2021/07/26 | 50 mins.
    [email protected]
    www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
     
    Debbie Ausburn is the author of the book Raising Other People's Children and has spent more than 40 years working with children who've experienced trauma. Her many roles include social worker, group home parent, foster parent, and stepparent. Along with parenting seven foster, adopted, and stepchildren, Debbie has served as a criminal prosecutor, volunteer, and Board member with nonprofit organizations. She is now an attorney in private practice, counseling and defending youth-serving organizations. She says, "I make my living as a lawyer, but what I do is take care of other people's children."
    Debbie's personal story
    How fostering children and blended families are similar
    Tips on building new relationships and forming trust
    Helping children through trauma
    Sibling rivalry
    Advice for stepparents learning their place
    Helping children who have an absent parent
    Dealing with attitude and backtalk
    Debbie's best lessons learned
    Her book, Raising Other People's Children
    Debbie's final advice/word of encouragement for listeners 
    And much more!
     
    Connect with Debbie
    Website
    Twitter
    LinkedIn
    Instagram
    Buy the book HERE
     
    Connect with me
    Join the Private Facebook Group
    Connect with me on Facebook
    Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



    Send questions or feedback to [email protected]
    Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe
    Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Sign up for my monthly newsletter
    Listen and Rate/Review on Itunes
     
    Affiliate
     
    Living the Good Life Naturally
    To receive discount, use promo code BLENDED
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    Are you feeling your feelings?

    2021/07/19 | 35 mins.
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    www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
     
    We all have feelings, and they are there to help us. Most of us do not know how to work with our feelings, and instead we push them down and suppress them for various reasons. This is quite common in the blended family.  It's important that we learn to recognize and process our feelings and emotions so that they do not get trapped in the body. 
     
    My personal journey with feelings
    Why feelings are important
    How thoughts and feelings are connected
    Why we ignore feelings and what that does to the body
    My 4 step process that I made for you to help you RISE above those negative feelings 
    The emotional scale and how to climb it
    Tips for self care
    Tips for expressing feelings and emotions
    Tips for loved ones



    Connect with me
    Join the Private Facebook Group
    Connect with me on Facebook
    Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



    Send questions or feedback to [email protected]
    Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe
    Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Sign up for my monthly newsletter
    Listen and Rate/Review on Itunes
     
    Affiliate
     
    Living the Good Life Naturally
    To receive discount, use promo code BLENDED
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    Gray Divorce, with Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenburg

    2021/07/12 | 45 mins.
    [email protected]
    www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
     
    Carol Hughes, PhD, LMFT, holds her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and her master's degree in Counseling Psychology, achieving both summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. She is also a two-time Fulbright Scholar. Carol served for ten years as an Associate Professor of Human Services at Saddleback College. In her practice in Laguna Hills, CA, as a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and family-focused divorce professional, for more than thirty years, she has assisted hundreds of divorcing families, as a therapist, child and co-parenting specialist, divorce coach, and mediator.
     
    Bruce Fredenburg, MS, LMFT, has been a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for more than 30 years and is Board Certified in Clinical Hypnosis. He was a college instructor in Human Services at Saddleback College and at the National Medical Review School in Southern California. He also created and taught parenting classes for adoptive and foster parents. He is trained and experienced in chronic pain management, trauma, addictions, mediation, and collaborative divorce. In his practice in Laguna Hills,
    CA, Bruce helps families as a therapist, divorce coach, co-parenting specialist, and mediator.
     
    The topic of this show is Gray Divorce, or divorce that takes place after the age of 50, after the children are typically grown. In this interview we discuss
     
    Bruce and Carols personal stories
    What is gray divorce, and why it's becoming more prevalent
    Why not many people are talking about this trend
    What gray divorce looks like and how it differs from earlier on divorces
    How adult children are affected by their parents late divorce
    What parents can do to make the transition easier on their adult children
    How a couple going through a gray divorce can move forward without fear 
    Their book, Home will never be the same again: a guide for adult children of gray divorce
    And much more!
     
    Connect with Bruce
    Website (Orange County Divorce coach)
    Website (Psychology Today)
    Facebook
    Linkedin
    Instagram
     
    Connect with Carol
    Website (Dr. Carol Hughes)
    Website (Divorce Peacemaking)
    Facebook
    LinkedIn
    Instagram
    Buy the Book HERE

    Connect with me
    Join the Private Facebook Group
    Connect with me on Facebook
    Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



    Send questions or feedback to [email protected]
    Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe
    Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com
    Sign up for my monthly newsletter
    Listen and Rate/Review on Itunes
     
    Affiliate
     
    Living the Good Life Naturally
    To receive discount, use promo code BLENDED

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About Blended Family Podcast

The Blended Family Podcast is a weekly show with a strong focus on strategies and methods to help your family thrive. Blended Families face many difficulties and challenges which can sometimes drive families apart. The goal of this podcast is is to help your family grow together through these challenges and create the peaceful and loving home you desire. Your host, Melissa, understands these struggles because she has a blended family of her own. When you listen to this podcast, you will see that the family life you have always dreamed of is completely attainable!
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