Dr. Becky Kennedy

“I am truly very excited to be here. I'm an avid listener of your podcast and all of your content, so I'm honored to be here.”

“You're not even talking about the behavior anymore. Now their language seems like it's talking about the behavior, but all you're doing is you're having a debate you don't even realize you're having, ...”

“You're not doing our potty learning course? Lenny, I'm going to talk to you after.”

“And I think, in every situation, kids, workplace, in laws, whatever it is, that sturdy leadership always feels good.”

“My heart always races when I think about this moment. It's so visceral still. And something in me, I don't know, I was on my game that day. I was like, "Becky, just be quiet. Don't say anything."”

“But I think about at work when someone, yeah, whatever it is we think they're getting away with, or kids, sometimes I think kids are asking, "Is there an adult here? Is there an adult here who will he...”

“And you know why kids act out more? It's not because they're taking advantage of you. It's because they feel that much more dysregulated because they don't feel like there's an adult in the room who's...”

“Yes. See a more capable version of them than they can see in the moment. Doing those two things at once, it's magic. I talk a good game. It's hard for me too. Again, these things are hard in practice,...”

“You're like this too. It's helpful to have a framework to come back to.”

“Not to say there aren't some moments that are instinctual, but if I'm parenting by instinct, do you want to know what I'm going to do when my kid has a tantrum or when my kids lies in my face? It's no...”

“February 2026 and pre-orders, thank you. Yes, help so much. And I'll be doing a little tour around it as well.”

“Yeah. And I like giving people very concrete things. So a question recently that I've asked my kids that have led to amazing moments just as a, is some version of, "If I could do one thing different t...”