Hey everybody, this is Todd. Welcome to Zen Parenting Radio. In this episode of Conversations of People We Love, we interview Dr. John Duffy, who is a highly sought-after clinical psychologist, best-selling author, certified life coach, parenting, and relationship expert, and he's a proud husband and father. He's been working with individuals, couples, teens, and families for nearly 20 years.

Along with his clinical work, Dr. Duffy is the author of the number one bestselling book,

The Available Parent, and He is the regular parenting and relationship expert on the Steve Harvey show.

In this two-part interview, Kathy and I talked to John about parenting teenagers.

More specifically, suicide, connecting with your child when it seems impossible, how lecturing your kid is useless.

John Hughes and why every teenager he has ever worked with is amazing.

And welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio, Dr. John Duffy.

This will be your second visit here in Kathy.

He is our second guest that we've had on twice, so that makes him pretty special.

Well, you want to know why we're having him on a second time?

Why's that?

Because everybody loved his show.

I know.

It was a good one.

So Dr. John Duffy is like our teenager guy. He's the expert.

He's the expert. He's going to teach us everything that we are going to need for the next 10 years

of our life. That's right. So people go to our websites at Parentingradio.com and they search for

whatever they're looking for, right? And they, when people put in teenagers John show comes up

and then we get emails about how everybody loved it so here's the format um Kathy's gonna take maybe

the first half and I'm gonna take the second half on just basically badgering Dr. Duffy with questions

great are you up for that I'm up for that. Let's do it. All right, good.

So, Kathy, I was about to say sweetie, but I won't.

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