Speak Out Stand Out by Green Communications
Welcome to Speak Out Stand Out by Green Communications / My Speech and Debate Coach, the ultimate podcast for enhancing your child's communication skills. Join us as we explore effective strategies to empower the younger generation in making a positive impact on the world.
Whether you're a parent, educator, or passionate about today's youth, this podcast is your guide to nurturing confident voices for a brighter future. Tune in to unlock the power of communication, one voice at a time.
Episodes
91 episodes
Listening In The Raw
If you’ve ever nodded along while your mind races toward advice, corrections, or the perfect response, you already know the uncomfortable truth: “listening” can be a performance. I sit down with Dr. Randall Alifano, clinical psychologist, ordai...
How Conversation Builds Confident Kids In Any Family
Your child’s “good” might mean “I don’t have the words yet” or “I’m not sure it’s safe to say it.” That is why we wanted this conversation with Ashley Noelle, founder of Blended Bond, a conversation card company designed to help families build ...
From Peacekeeping To Real Connection At Home
Your kid arguing with you can feel like disrespect, but it can also be the training ground for confidence, boundaries, and real-world self-advocacy. We sit down with Dr. Elise Murray, licensed psychologist, certified life coach, author, and pod...
Raising Capable Kids | Katie Kimball
Confidence doesn’t magically appear when a kid finally decides to “be brave.” We’ve learned it’s built the boring way first, through small responsibilities that stack up into proof: I can do hard things, I can figure it out, I can recover when ...
What If Parenting Is Mostly Learning To Listen | Corine LaFont
Your child is talking, you’re half listening, and your brain is already drafting the response. We’ve all been there and it quietly chips away at trust. I’m Elizabeth Green, and in this episode I sit down with strategic communication specialist ...
Teach Kids To Speak Up | Samantha Taylor
IEP meetings can feel like walking into a room where everyone speaks a different language and you’re expected to keep up. We sit down with Samantha Taylor, founder of Olive Speech Therapy and the Empowered Parent Network, to talk about how fami...
Stop The Anger Spiral
A tense moment hits and your brain goes straight to fight, flight, or freeze. The scary part is how fast that reflex can turn a normal disagreement into yelling, shutdowns, or patterns that feel impossible to break. We sit down with educator, p...
Winn Schwartau: Critical Ignoring For Digital Life
Your kid is going to see the internet, even if you try to block it forever, so we bring in a voice who has been studying the digital world from the beginning. Cybersecurity expert, author, and futurist Winn Schwartau joins us to answer the ques...
Supporting Your LGBTQ Child Starts With Listening
The first thing you say after someone comes out can either open a door for the rest of their life or quietly slam it shut.We sit down with Heather Hester, host of More Human, More Kind and author of Parenting with Pride, to talk about w...
Confidence Grows When You Practice Small Risks
“Get out of your comfort zone” sounds inspiring until it lands your kid in full panic. We sit down with Lorraine Connell, TEDx speaker, author, and founder of Peers, Not Fears and the Speak Boldly Showcase, to talk about a more realistic way to...
You Can Train Your Brain To Chase Better Rewards
Your brain isn’t broken, lazy, or “addicted to the internet” in some mysterious way. It’s doing what it evolved to do: chase rewards, seek safety, and size up social status using a handful of powerful chemicals. We sit down with Loretta Breunin...
The Five C’s Of Communication
Your teen is upset, you’re frustrated, and suddenly a simple “no” turns into a full-blown argument. That moment can feel impossible to recover from, especially when you’re trying to hold boundaries and still keep your relationship intact. We wa...
How Parents Can Teach Kids To Speak Up
Your child says “fine,” shrugs, and disappears into their room, and you’re left wondering what you missed. We sit down with international conversation coach Jackie Bailey to unpack why kids and teens often stay quiet even when parents are tryin...
What If Connection Matters More Than Being Right
Your family might not have a “communication problem” as much as a nervous system problem. When stress spikes, logic detaches from emotion, tone sharpens, and we start speaking to win instead of speaking to connect. That is where this conversati...
Grammar Without Shame
Grammar shouldn’t feel like a black hole that sucks the joy out of writing, yet that’s exactly how many of us learned it: memorize, label, correct, repeat. We sit down to teach our kids and suddenly realize we can “hear” what sounds right, but ...
How To Spot Dyslexia Early And Help At Home
Your kid is bright, curious, and full of ideas, yet reading feels like a daily fight. That mismatch can leave families stuck between “maybe they’ll grow out of it” and the heartbreak of watching confidence slip away. We sit down with dyslexia t...
How Understanding Autism Changes Everything For Parents, Teachers, And Kids
What if the first word you heard after an autism diagnosis was “Congratulations”? That single reframing sits at the heart of our conversation with Mandy Cook—teacher, autistic adult, and parent of four—who has turned lived experience into an on...
How One Father Turned Tragedy Into Action To Protect Kids From Sextortion
A single message can flip a teen’s world. Our guest, South Carolina State Representative Brandon Guffey, walks us through the 100‑minute window that turned a fake Instagram flirtation into a fatal sextortion—and why he chose to go public to sav...
Turning Speech Struggles Into Public Speaking Success: A Teen’s Guide
Christiana Garcia is a high school senior who has been homeschooled from kindergarten through 12th grade. Despite six severe learning disabilities, she went from being inarticulate to an advocate for learning differences, a TEDx speaker, and a ...
{Encore} Game On: How the Digital Classroom is Leveling Up Learning
Discover a hidden dimension of childhood development we talk with Devyn, the Outschool video game educator who's revolutionizing the way we view digital play. Together, we dismantle the stereotype of gaming as a mindless activity, shining a spo...
Raising Kids Without Losing Them To Screens
A preschooler looks at a rectangle and says “phone.” That moment launched a teacher-mom into a deep investigation of how screens are changing childhood—and what we can do about it. Kimberly Long, a special education teacher and chapter leader w...
From Lemonade Stands To Leadership: How Kids Build Businesses That Teach Money, Grit, And Giving
If a four-year-old can price a canvas, track costs, and ship a painting, what else might kids be capable of when we give them the chance? We sit down with Leah Ellis, founder of the Society of Child Entrepreneurs, to explore how children can tu...
Homeschooling, Reimagined With Real-World Learning
What if kids learned the moment they needed a skill, not months before it mattered? We sit down with Ben Somers, founder of Recess.gg, to unpack how problem-first projects, kid choice, and safe online communities can turn screens into tools and...
Teach The Pause: Raising Rational Communicators
Hard conversations at home don’t have to turn into shouting matches. We brought in Joe Dillon, a pioneer in divorce mediation, to show how the same tools that settle high‑stakes disputes can make family life calmer, kinder, and more effective. ...