Dana Baker is a mother of two who started Parenting In Real Life, a platform where she shares her experience and expertise to help other parents navigate challenges related to ADHD, anxiety, and depression in their children. Having gone through similar struggles with her daughter, Dana felt overwhelmed and alone without a guide to effective parenting. She then decided to learn tips and tricks to help her child with emotional dysregulation, panic attacks, and executive functioning, which she now shares with other parents and children. Dana's mission is to help families find calm in chaos and connect with their children, leading to effective parenting and fewer struggles.

Through Parenting In Real Life, Dana aims to provide an outside perspective that can help families with executive function and emotional regulation, which can be difficult to manage within the family dynamic. Dana believes that bringing one's whole self, personality, sense of humor, and heart, to the table is essential to thriving in today's world, and she brings this philosophy to her work as a parenting coach.

Find Dana at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parentinginreallife/

https://twitter.com/Danaparenting

https://www.parentinginreallife.org/

https://www.facebook.com/parentinginreallife/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvs2cPAbw0lXZLkm33p_N6Q

https://www.instagram.com/parentinreallife/?hl=en

https://grownandflown.com/author/danabaker/

https://www.additudemag.com/author/dana-baker-williams/

Debbie Ausburn is a social worker turned lawyer who has been working with traumatized children for over 40 years. Her experience in this field started when she was a preteen helping her parents with their summer camp and church ministries.

Throughout her career, she has served in various roles, including juvenile court probation officer/social worker, group home parent, criminal prosecutor, non-profit volunteer, and Board member, and attorney defending youth-serving organizations.

Her most important roles, however, have been as a foster parent and stepparent, through which she has managed to collect seven children and ten grandchildren. Debbie has learned important life lessons from her experiences with her foster children, stepchildren, and grandchildren, and she now enjoys sharing about how to build strong relationships as their Plan B parent.

She has appeared on numerous podcasts, radio shows, and television broadcasts and is a frequently requested speaker for foster parent associations, camping programs, childcare center associations, private school conferences, and child—service organizations. My book, Raising Other People’s Children: What Foster Parenting Taught Me about Bringing Together a Blended Family, outlines many of those lessons. I also blog about parenting topics at RaisingOtherPeoplesChildren.blog

Find her at:

https://www.debbieausburn.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahausburn/

https://www.instagram.com/debbieausburn/

https://www.facebook.com/OtherPeoplesChildrenLLC/

Gina and Don Grothoff,(Grodoff) are parents and founders of Focused Healthy Family. Despite their qualifications as occupational therapists, child-led learning coaches, EFT practitioners, and mindset coaches, One might think with all those qualifications and the fact Donald and Gina are the proud parents of three children who are now 25, 21, and 14 that they were prepared for any parenting challenges.

But along with the joys and challenges of everyday parenting, the Grothoff family has experienced issues with mental illness, extreme personality and behavior changes raising three kids two of whom suffer from severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,

Gina and Donald understand the joys and challenges of everyday parenting and believe that communication and emotional stability are crucial for a healthy, happy family. They are passionate about helping other families, particularly those in the "Sandwich Generation" who are raising kids while caring for aging parents, find their way through similar challenges. Their non-traditional paths of life and learning have led them to follow their passions and use their experiences to assist others.

They share their unique journey and experiences, with an emphasis on parenting, on their podcast, the Focused Healthy Family Podcast and have spoken to groups including National Alliance of Mental Illness, National Association of Women Business Owners, National American Holistic Nurses, Rotary clubs, Holistic Health Network

Find them here:

https://www.focusedhealthyfamily.com/index

https://www.autismspeaks.org/provider/focused-healthy-family

http://ginaanddon.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldgrothoff/

https://www.instagram.com/donaldgrothoff/

https://www.boomplay.com/podcasts/29458