477: Beaven Walters: Preparing For Your Child’s Coming Out

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Beaven Walters is Shameless Mom of 4, a ACPI Certified Parenting Coach and the founder of The 3D Parent, where she is a supportive and nurturing champion for bringing dignity, direction, and deep connection to family relationships. She has always had a passion for working with children and their families. Beaven began her professional career as an elementary school teacher and taught in a variety of educational settings for 10 years. Between having her four children, Beaven and a close colleague developed an educational program for young children and their caregivers called GEM Tots which focused on connecting children to their caregivers by learning, playing, and exploring together. Beaven also created CharacterWorks, a Social/Emotional Learning program that ran for three years in the Seattle School District combining character education, performing arts, and parental support. Beaven focuses on helping parents build stronger relationships with their children. In addition to coaching one-on-one with clients, Beaven runs parenting workshops, speaks on a variety of topics relevant to parenting, is a regular guest on local news stations, and hosts The 3D Parent Podcast. In addition to The 3D Parent, Beaven is often found on the stage performing in local regional theater, singing, and spending time with family. After hearing Beaven talk about her son, Scooter, coming out to her on her podcast, The 3D Parent, I asked her if she and her son would be open to her sharing this story and journey on the SMA. I am so grateful they both said yes. This conversation is so important and so beautiful. I’m truly honored that Scooter gave consent for his mom to share this with you. Listen in to hear Beaven share: Why all parents should prepare for their child’s potential coming out The story of her son coming out at age 12 What she did well and what she flubbed up in the initial coming out conversation with her son How she apologized and owned her missteps - and how all parents can better model apologizing skills How her son’s peers reacted to his coming out Why you should trust your child’s instincts around their sexual orientation and their coming out process How she’s navigating son’s sexual orientation within her Catholic community What it was like attending PrideFest after her son came out Links mentioned: Sign Up for my Purposeful & Profitable Podcasting Workshop Connect with Beaven: The 3D Parent Lounge Beaven on IG: The 3D Parent Lounge Beaven on FB: The 3D Parent Lounge Private Membership Community on FB: The 3D Parent Lounge Thank you to our sponsor: Best Fiends: Download FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 47 with Bevan Walters. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.5	including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking
0:10.9	on episode 477. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:22.9	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day.
0:33.4	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.3	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.1	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:46.7	All right.
0:47.2	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.7	Bevan Walters is a shameless mom of four, an ACPI certified parenting coach, and the founder of the 3D parent, where she is a supportive and nurturing champion for bringing dignity, direction, and deep connection to family relationships.
1:08.7	She's always had a passion for working with children and their families.
1:12.6	She began her professional careers in elementary school teacher and taught in a variety of
1:16.2	educational settings for 10 years. Between having her four children, Bevin and a close colleague
1:21.0	developed an educational program for young children and caregivers called Gem Tots, which focused on
1:27.2	connecting children to their caregivers by learning,
1:29.1	playing, and exploring together. Bevin also created CharacterWorks, a social emotional learning
1:34.4	program that ran for three years in the Seattle Public School District, combining character
1:38.7	education, performing arts, and parental support. Now, Bevan focuses on helping parents build
1:43.8	stronger relationships with their
1:45.3	children. In addition to coaching one-on-one clients, she runs parenting workshops, speaks on a
1:51.0	variety of topics relevant to parenting, talks about how to parent your teens and tweens,
1:56.6	because she runs the gamut from toddler to tween in her house to teen in her household.
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