Hey everybody. It's Todd. We decided to put this podcast into two different weeks because we interviewed this amazing guy, friend of ours. We've had him on the podcast multiple times. We've actually had him speak at our Zen Parenting Conference, and his name is Mike Dameshish and usually our interviews are between 50 minutes

and an hour but we just got going with Mike and none of us wanted to stops we just kept going

so you'll get part one this week and you'll get part one next week so hopefully you enjoy the

conversation between Kathy myself myself, and Mike Damesh. Enjoy.

Here we go. My name's Todd. This is Kathy. Welcome back to another episode of Zen

Parenting Radio. This is podcast number 709. Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? Because you'll feel outstanding. And always remember

our motto, which is that the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding.

On today's show, we have one of my favorite people of all time. Mr. Mike Damesh. Mike, welcome to the program.

Well, thank you, Todd. Kathyempi, for having me back.

Mike's back. So we'll have Mike introduce himself in a second, sweetie, but for those people who have

never come to our conference, who are relatively newish listeners, how do we know Mike?

So I would say, like you said, Mike's going to give his own intro, but I would say the reason we always bring Mike on is because he is, he talks about consent, he talks about sexual assault, he talks about equity, quality.

He talks about how we can better raise our kids to understand these things.

He just is, I consider to be the expert in

this field. And we live in the Midwest together. That's part of it as well. So Mike, just give us

your whole overview of where you work and everything, what you've created, I should say. That's better.

Yeah, sure, happy to go there. So, you know know nobody grows up in the 70s and 80s thinking

oh I'm going to be a speaker on sexual assault that wasn't a possibility you even considered

and I certainly wasn't either and I was studying college when I received a phone call and it was

that my sister had been raped and my life would change in that moment and about a year later I heard

a speaker and I thought I could do something about this.

And I started speaking out.

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