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Parenting advice and inspiration for raising smart, confident Black children. Join host and Ground Control Parenting founder Carol Sutton Lewis for weekly conversations with guests––familiar and new––about the joys and real work of parenting.
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Giving Children the Freedom to Fail with Dr. Marian Croak (opens the original)
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Dr. Marian Croak is one of the most influential inventors of our time. With more than 200 patents, she helped develop Voice over Internet Protocol, the technology that makes Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp possible. She has transformed the way people around the world communicate. Dr. Croak joins Carol for a deeply personal conversation about parenting, including how her parents turned a frightening childhood mistake into a defining lesson, and how their example shaped her approach to failure, inven
GCP Book Talk: A'Lelia Bundles and the Joy Goddess of Harlem (opens the original)
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Madam C.J. Walker built a groundbreaking business and created opportunities for thousands of Black women. She also raised a daughter, A’Lelia Walker, whom she loved fiercely and tried hard to protect. Sometimes that protection felt like pressure. In this GCP Book Talk, Carol talks with award-winning journalist A’Lelia Bundles about her book, Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance , the story of her great-grandmother. They explore the complicated bond between Madam Walker and her
Inside The Ground Control Parenting Shower (opens the original)
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What happens when you throw a shower for parents? At the Ground Control Parenting Shower on Martha's Vineyard, parents at various stages of the journey spent an afternoon being informed, inspired, and celebrated. In this special episode, Carol goes behind the scenes at the Shower, describing how the afternoon was built around four issues that matter deeply to GCP families, and sharing some of the best advice and resources that parents took home courtesy of sponsors Morgan Stanley, Meta, The Coll
Live From the GCP Shower: Raising Kids Who Know Who They Are with Abby Phillip and Courtney B. Vance (opens the original)
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How do you raise children who are confident in who they are, especially when they are growing up in a world very different from the one you grew up in? Recorded live at the Ground Control Parenting Shower on Martha’s Vineyard, Carol sits down with CNN anchor and author Abby Phillip and Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and author Courtney B. Vance for an intergenerational conversation about the values we carry from our own childhoods and the ones we choose to pass on. Abby and Courtney talk with
Life on the Hormonal Highway with Dr. Sharon Malone (opens the original)
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Periods. Sex. Fertility. Perimenopause. Menopause. There’s a lot we wish someone had told us about sooner. How do we do better with the next generation? Carol welcomes back Dr. Sharon Malone, acclaimed OB-GYN and author of Grown Woman Talk, for a frank and funny conversation about women’s hormonal health from puberty through menopause. Dr. Sharon shares what we need to tell our daughters and what we should be telling our sons. Dr. Sharon clears up persistent misconceptions about perimenopause an
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