Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show,

thanks for listening today. And if you've listened before, welcome back. Today I am joined by a very

special guest, a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, mother of three, and maybe arguably the single most influential person in the world of parenting today, at least on millennial age people like myself, Dr. Becky Kennedy. Dr. Becky is the founder of Good Inside, is the author of the fantastic book by the same name, has over 4 million social media followers across the various platforms, and maybe somewhere in there

I really hope is getting enough sleep. So Dr. Pecky, how are you doing today? I'm great. And you

are actually catching me after I just went away with some girlfriends. And so, yes, trying to carve out

that time for ourselves and all the things that rejuvenate us. If I look extra energetic, that's why. Well, we're getting you in a fantastic mood that a great moment

in time. Just before we started recording, we were talking a little bit about your growing

business, which now has 60 some odd employees, it has an app, it has a whole bunch of courses and programs and offerings for

parents. And it's just crazy how much it's grown and how popular it's all become. Well, thank you.

I know we were also talking about the irony of kind of all this started because I just truly

love understanding people and learning their stories and thinking about how we operate in systems.

And that all

started in the privacy of my private practice and a very impactful, but kind of small number of

people. And the idea that I actually feel like I do today very similar things to what I did then,

but the impact can be so much wider. It sounds cheesy, but I really feel so grateful to be on so many people's parenting journeys and life journeys. So I just, I feel lucky when I get out of bed in the morning to do that. Yeah. And I think a lot of people are very grateful to have you and to have the work that you're doing this days as well. Thank you. And one of the things that really drew me to your work is how much of a focus you put on

self-development for parents and for people in general. It's one of the topics that makes your work

really accessible for people like me who aren't yet parents. And I think it's one of the things

that differentiates your approach from more traditional approaches to parenting. So I'm wondering

why you put so much of the focus there and what kind of drew you in that direction.

I think part of it is almost not that I intentionally put the focus on self, maybe versus child,

but at the end of the day, in any relationship we have, being able to say, what's coming up for me,

what's my job here, what's under my control? How can I grow through this

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