Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,

Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian. And I have such an encouraging and insightful and helpful

podcasts for you today from Jonathan Brush at Unbound Ministries.

He is someone that works with teens.

He calls them young adults, which they are, on a regular basis and has for years and years.

And I find his perspective on young adults and raising kids so refreshing and so just bolstering and encouraging and I think you guys

will too. Okay, friends, I have a guest today that is in response to all the questions that I'm

getting about parenting older kids, Jonathan Brush from Unbound Ministries is here to talk about, he doesn't use the word

teenagers. He uses the word young adults, the phrase young adults, which I can totally get behind.

And Jonathan, welcome to the podcast today.

Well, thank you so much for having me. It's an honor and a pleasure to be here. And I appreciate

the teenager adjustment there. It is fun to kind of think about them as young

adults, I think, in my opinion. Yeah. And so kind of give us an intro to what it is that you do

and why you're passionate about what you do. So those things go together. I get the distinct

privilege of working with young adults. Often as they're making some of those big changes, I call it, you know, going from sleeping on your couch to sleeping on their own couch. And I've spent sort of a scary amount of years now. I was, I was actually in response to an email that you said, me going, I think it's been 27 years that I've been working in this kind of space. And so that's been a privilege. It's been an opportunity. And so I do get to train and help those students through Unbound. We say we train young adults to thrive. And that means we get this unique opportunity to walk beside people during a pivotal time in their life. And that it's a privilege, it's an honor. And it's something I'm really passionate about. Because I think if you can get that right and give a little guidance there, dividends pay for the rest of their lives. And it's an exciting place to be. Well, and I know

young adults are looking for guidance, whether they will admit that they are or not. And they are

thrilled when they find people that are showing enough interest in their success and their ability

to thrive, that they're willing

to actually contribute time and effort and pay attention and listen to them. I feel like those are

the things that I've learned with my own teens and with being a high school teacher for 10 years

that kids kind of expect kids young adults

teenagers expect to be brushed off they expect to not be taken seriously they've heard all

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