Episode 116: Mighty and Bright: Raising Resilient Kids with Sara Olsher
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 2012, my guest, Sara Olsher, packed up her 18-month old daughter, left her marriage, and after four years of intense personal growth, founded a company that sells amazing resources for co-parents and their children. Whether it's divorce, cancer, death, or any other uncertainty, Sara has worked hard to be comfortable with the profoundly uncomfortable through her company Mighty + Bright.
Much of what we discuss in this episode is about how to help our children through a hard situation and ease their anxiety. Because honestly, most kids simply want to know that you're going to be okay, and want to know how divorce is going to affect them. As Sara reminds us, "You're raising resilient kids. This [divorce] is a really hard thing to go through, but every challenge that we have makes us more resilient and that's true for your kids too. They have your support through it and you're helping them to be stronger people."
Show Highlights
- Sara shares the story of her path towards healing after divorce led her into the world of child psychology and into the way that kids' brains work. (7:45)
- The inspiration for her first product, a magnetic co-parenting calendar for separation + divorce. (9:58)
- Sara's breast cancer diagnosis and the creation of a book about talking to children about cancer. (11:01)
- How her calendars and books help children get answers to unresolved questions, ease tension, and help them with executive functioning. (17:18)
Learn More About Sara:
As a writer, illustrator, and speaker, Sara spends her life creating products to help kids through really hard things at Mighty + Bright, and talking about stuff that makes many people want to crawl into a deep, dark hole. Whether it is divorce, cancer, death, or uncertainty, she has worked hard to be comfortable with the profoundly uncomfortable. Her work has been featured in POPSUGAR, Reader's Digest, the Mighty, and Good Housekeeping, to name a few, and she has spoken in front of audiences large and small about her experience making major life changes after divorce and cancer. She truly believes that everyone has the strength and resilience to overcome unimaginable hardship and use those lessons to make this world a much better place.
Resources & Links:
Mighty + Bright website
Sara's website
Sara on Instagram
Mighty + Bright on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome back to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. How's everyone doing? |
| 0:50.7 | Before we get into today's episode, I just have a couple of sort of housekeeping things that I |
| 0:55.8 | wanted to tell you about. First of all, are you all following me on Instagram? So here's the deal. |
| 1:02.6 | I am writing my book, which is kind of a huge undertaking. And I am not planning on self-publishing. I am planning on going the traditional |
| 1:13.8 | publishing route because that is what has been advised to me by both my coach and, you know, |
| 1:21.1 | other people in the industry. And so one of the things that's really important in the publishing |
| 1:27.0 | industry is that you have a |
| 1:28.8 | gargantuan social media following. I know it's, it sounds gross and it's silly and all those things, |
| 1:33.9 | but it's just one of those things in the 21st century that matters. So if you're not already |
| 1:37.8 | following me on Instagram, I would appreciate it if you would go over there and give me a |
| 1:42.9 | follow. It's at the Divorce Survival Guide. |
| 1:46.5 | I post really good content, so it's not like annoying or anything. |
| 1:50.8 | I mean, if you like my podcast, you'll like my Instagram. |
| 1:53.4 | Come on. |
| 1:54.3 | So head over there and give me a follow. |
| 1:56.0 | I would really appreciate it. |
| 1:57.2 | It would help boost my numbers and make me more attractive to publishers. And then I can write this book. And then you go and all read it. It would help boost my numbers and make me more attractive to publishers. And then I can |
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