16 Conversations For Raising Confident Men

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Martha revisits her conversation with Joanna Schroeder and Christopher Pepper, who highlight their book, Talk To Your Boys, which includes 16 conversations that parents can have with their teenage sons. Joanna and Christopher share ways to deepen the bond between parents and their sons on a face-to-face level. They emphasize the importance of active parenting through the middle and high school years to help boys navigate modern pressures like social media, masculinity, and mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:12.0	Martha McCallum here.
0:13.4	Welcome to the Untold Story Podcast.
0:16.1	And one of the untold stories that we have focused on a lot over the years is the stress and anxiety
0:23.0	in our children over the past decade or so. A lot of it brought on by social media, all kinds
0:31.7	of stresses of life and pressure, in particular, I would say, on boys in many ways. And so when I saw this book,
0:41.6	which is new, and it is called Talk to Your Boys, and the authors have a lot of experience
0:47.5	in how to get your boys to open up and how to really prevent them from internalizing the stresses of being boys and try to find ways
0:57.0	to help them deal with everything that's going on in society today.
1:00.5	So I'm really glad to be joined by the co-authors of this book, Joanna Schroeder and Christopher
1:06.2	Pepper.
1:07.0	And the book is called Talk to Your Boys, 16 Conversations to Help Twins and Teens
1:13.1	Grow Into Confident, Caring Young Men.
1:16.7	So welcome to you both.
1:18.3	Hi, Joanna and Chris.
1:19.7	Hi.
1:20.1	Thank you so much.
1:20.7	It's great to be here.
1:21.5	Oh, it's great to have you both.
1:23.5	You know, Joanna, let me start with you.
1:25.2	Tell me a little bit about yourself as an author and what
1:28.9	brought you to this topic and what brought you and Chris together. Yeah, you know, I was a gender
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