THE PODCAST PARENTS NEED
Becoming a parent can be both the greatest and hardest thing you’ll experience. In our award-winning* Navigating Parenthood podcast, parents and experts share their stories.
Over 4 seasons we take a deep dive into the rewarding and challenging periods of any parent’s life: from taking those first baby steps, to keeping up with our teens, making peace with the imperfect reality of parenthood and the juggles and struggles of raising tweens.
Listen to the Navigating Parenthood podcast below or on your device through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.
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SEASON 4: Growing Great Tweens
In our fourth and most recent season, Growing Great Tweens, dad and host Dylan Lewis discusses the experience of raising today's tweens with other parents. Speaking with familiar voices, like Susie Maroney, Robbie Buck and Pia Miranda, he tackles issues faced by many families, from raising mentally strong kids and navigating the online universe, to how to stay connected and tackle identity and belonging with your tweens.
Listen to all of Season 4: Growing Great Tweens.
SEASON 3: IMPERFECT PARENTS
Host Jessica Rowe talks to parents and expert psychologist Lydia Black about the struggles and juggles of raising happy healthy kids. We explore work-life balance, the challenge of co-parenting and separation, managing device time and what to do when the unexpected happens along your parenting journey.
Listen to all of Season 3: Imperfect Parents.
SEASON 2: TALKING TO TEENS
Six switched-on teens and experts tell us what it means to grow up and get by in our complex world: mates, dates, self-esteem, study stress, true grief and the grief we give them. Host Rebecca Sparrow takes us inside the heads of today’s teenagers, uncovering insights every parent needs to hear.
Listen to all of Season 2: Talking to Teens.
SEASON 1: BABY STEPS
Host Gretchen Miller, parents and experts take on early-years topics like parenting a child with special needs, having twin babies in intensive care, postnatal depression, how our bubs reshape our identities and more.
Listen to all of Season 1: Baby Steps.
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Award-winning podcast
We’re proud to support members with award-winning podcast content.
The Navigating Parenthood podcast, produced and distributed by HCF, has received the acclaim of both the global Content Marketing Institute (finalist for Best Podcast/Audio Series), and the Content Marketing Association of Australia (silver winner, Best Branded Podcast Series).
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*Navigating Parenthood has received the acclaim of both the global Content Marketing Institute (CMI) (finalist for Best Podcast/Audio Series – season 1), and the Content Marketing Association of Australia (silver winner, Best Branded Podcast Series – season 1).
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