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15. Julie Metzger - Practical and Life Changing Tips for Dads with Daughters
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Julie Metzger joins us today to discuss how to create a family environment that thrives on open communication and why you shouldn’t hide difficult conversations in the dark. Julie is the co-founder of Great Conversations, a company that focusses on delivering classes and presentations (both in-person and virtual) on topics such as puberty, sexuality, parenting and adolescence.
Tune in to hear Julie discuss why you need to work on your own problems before helping others, because “there’s no chance to heal a relationship with a child, until the parent has worked on their own stuff.” You’ll hear how open conversations with her parents influenced her teachings, and why we shouldn’t be scared about having difficult conversations around the dinner table, even those that address the below the belt body parts.
Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Julie in this episode:
- Why certain topics, such as sex, are put in the dark whilst being the most important topics to discuss with your children.
- How Julie is helping families to communicate with each other on challenging things
- Discussing reproductive organs over dinner: The influence that Julie’s parents had on her profession today, her Dad being a urologist and her Mum being a nurse.
- What mathematically makes a great marriage and why children just want to be heard and seen.
- Why there’s no chance to heal a relationship with a child until the dad has worked on his own stuff.
Timestamps:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 0:30 – Who is Julie?
- 1:45 – Discussing sex with children
- 10:30 – Welcoming Julie to the podcast
- 12:20 – Julie’s background and what Great Conversations is
- 15:40 – How Julies relationship with her parents influenced her work
- 18:40 – How Julie’s dad saw growth in his life
- 21:40 – Pre-Talk Rituals: Delivering what the audience needs
- 25:35 – Approaching difficult conversations as a performance
- 27:00 – What makes a great marriage and being heard and seen
- 34:20 – Requiring people to pay attention to their own lives
- 36:12 – How to learn emotions
- 37:30 – Our job is to be the best person that we can be
- 40:52 – “The secret to a great marriage is these 5 things”
- 43:08 – Why you should say “Tell me more”
- 47:05 – Managing your internal protector
- 54:00 – Great Conversations: Changing the mentality of dads at scale
- 58:20 – Final thoughts: “I’ve been here before, let me call my dad.”
Episode Resources:
- Great Conversations Website: https://www.greatconversations.com/
- Julie Metzger’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-metzger-545b897/
- The Gottman Institute: https://www.gottman.com/
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