Day 3

October 29, 2025

Connect


The Most Influential Tools We Have as Parents

Wendy Snyder
Certified Powerful Positive Parenting Educator & Family Life Coach

Key Points About Our Chat
  • Teach Emotional Literacy

  • Model Self-Calming

  • Encourage calming bags & big movement for big feelings

Featured Freebie

Compassionate Discipline Quick Start Learning Bundle

  • Compassionate tools that work: Self-regulation, natural consequences, and logical consequences that teach instead of punish (includes downloadable learning guide & interactive online workshop).

  • Practical & usable today: Video lessons, blueprints, and examples that show you how to set limits with empathy.

  • End power struggles: Shift from yelling or bribery to confident, connection-based leadership.

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Meet Our Speaker

Wendy Snyder is a mom of two, certified parenting educator & family life coach, who inspires parents to learn & grow through connection based positive parenting strategies.

As the host of The Fresh Start Family Show & Founder of FreshStartFamilyOnline.com, she helps parents ditch the threats, yelling & harsh punishments so they can live life as a joyful & confident parent (with kids that listen & cooperate great!).

Families who take part in her learning & coaching programs experience radical shifts in their hearts, minds & souls - that help them to create rock solid relationships with their kids, while at the same time teaching important life lessons & helping to raise the next generation of leaders, change makers & important human souls.

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Compassion Over Chaos: Raising Emotionally Healthy ADHD Families

Katherine Lizardo, Esq.

Thriving ADHD Mompreneur, Lawyer, TEDx Speaker

Key Points About Our Chat
  • A fresh perspective on ADHD in families – Learn how compassion (not shame) changes the way parents and children experience ADHD, creating a healthier emotional foundation at home.

  • Practical systems for everyday life – Walk away with simple, ADHD-friendly tools that bring steadiness and calm into daily routines without adding more to your plate.

  • Strengthening family resilience together – Discover how co-regulation, open communication, and shared language for emotions help parents and kids grow stronger side by side.

Featured Freebie

ADHD-Friendly Daily Affirmations

  • Proven and loved worldwide. Downloaded by more than 5,000 people across the globe — including families, educators, and ADHDers — these affirmations are already helping thousands reframe ADHD with compassion and confidence.

  • Daily encouragement for ADHD minds. 30 simple, uplifting affirmations that shift self-talk from shame to strength, designed to support executive function and emotional health.

  • Build resilience with compassion. These affirmations help parents and kids reframe ADHD as a different way of thinking, fostering steadiness, connection, and confidence in family life.

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Meet Our Speaker

Katherine Lizardo, Esq. is a lawyer, TEDx speaker, and Founder of ADHD Life Simplified. For over 20 years, she has combined her professional expertise and lived experience as an ADHD mom to guide families in creating emotionally healthy, thriving homes.

She leads two communities—Thriving ADHD Mompreneurs, a global space for moms with ADHD to simplify life and business with compassion, and Law Skool, an innovative platform for law students that uniquely supports neurodivergent students (especially those with ADHD) in building clarity, confidence, and emotional resilience. Both reflect Katherine’s mission of raising emotionally healthy neurodivergent families by building systems, support, and self-compassion that last across generations.

Her work has been featured on national and international media outlets, and she is most proud of being called “The Best Mom Ever!” by her two boys.

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Finding Your Family's Way -

How to Nurture Strong Connections With a Flexible Approach

Emily Murray

Hand in Hand Instructor

Key Points About Our Chat
  • Part 1: Special Time - Creating a Resting and Connecting Spot

  • Part 2: Playfulness & Playlistening - Oil For The Gears Of Cooperation

  • Part 3: Listening Partnerships - Parent Emotional Fuel and Thinking Space

Featured Freebie

Hand in Hand Resource Pack

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Meet Our Speaker

Emily is an Instructor and Program Director with Hand in Hand Parenting. She discovered Hand in Hand after struggling to be the parent she wanted to be and found the approach and Tools to be an invaluable resource and practice. She enjoys working with families, educators, and other professionals to share about this approach and Tools can work for them and the children in their lives.

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How to Co-Regulate With Neurodivergent kids

Debbie Reber, MA

CEO & Founder, Tilt Parenting

Key Points About Our Chat
  • Reframe Neurodivergence – Kids aren’t “broken”; they just process the world differently.

  • Co-Regulation First – Parents modeling calm helps kids regulate.

  • Ditch the Guilt – Focus on growth and trust kids’ independence.

Featured Freebie

10 Things You Need to Know Mini-Series & Workbook

  • A mini video course with accompanying workbook sharing 10 powerful insights for raising neurodivergent children to help parents feel more informed and capable of shaping the path for their family.

  • Based on the most important things Tilt Parenting founder Debbie Reber wishes she'd known when she first discovered her child's neurodivergence, from where to focus energy and how to find resources to where to start and who to trust.

  • Gives ideas and best practices for navigating the biggest concerns and unknowns parents are currently facing.

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Meet Our Speaker

Debbie Reber, MA, is a parenting activist, author of Differently Wired, and founder of Tilt Parenting, a top resource for families raising neurodivergent kids. Through her Full-Tilt Parenting podcast (9M+ downloads), bestselling books, and speaking, Debbie champions a strengths-based, inclusive approach to parenting.

A two-time TEDx speaker and certified Positive Discipline trainer, her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on NewsNation. Debbie lives in the Netherlands with her husband and two cats, while her neurodivergent young adult attends university in Scotland.

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Connection Before Correction:

Building Emotional Safety for Your Complicated Kid

Gabriele Nicolet, MA, CCC-SLP

Complicated Kids Coaching

Key Points About Our Chat
  • Why connection matters more than compliance

  • Simple, doable ways to connect in daily life

  • How to repair when things go sideways

Featured Freebie

Connecting without Question

  • Why statements work better than questions

  • Exactly what to say instead

  • How this change strengthens connection

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Gabriele is a toddler whisperer, child development specialist, parent coach and host of the Complicated Kids Podcast. Gabriele is passionate about showing families how to help their complicated kids thrive and not just survive. She works with children and their families 1:1 and in groups.

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