I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. I'm hosting my guest today all the way from Australia. Steve Bedolf is one of the world's best known parent educators.

A psychologist for 30 years, he is now retired but continues to write and teach.

His books, including The Secret of Happy Children,

Raising Boys, The New Manhood, and the Ten Things Girls Need Most, are in the 4 million copies sold. I think raising boys alone,

which was really definitive in Steve's work on men's psychology and how to raise boys has

been translated to more than 31 languages and sold more than 3 million copies. Those books have influenced the way we look at

childhood and especially the development of boys to men and girls to women that we can all be proud of.

Steve was voted Australian Father of the Year

for the year 2001 for his work encouraging dads, and he is a member of the Order of Australia for his work in young people's

mental health. He has two grown-up children and lives in Tasmania with his wife and co-author Sharon.

I intend to spend as much time as I can to bring as much of Steve's wisdom and advice to you.

If you're a parent or an expecting parent,

that's wonderful, but also maybe just

to reflect back on how you were raised as a child and see how you became what you are today.

So let's begin our conversation with Steve Bedorf.

Thank you so much by the way for joining me and as we were saying before we started recording

I've been very looking forward to this conversation not just because your work is incredible on it

but because the topic itself can really set the human race right.

If we manage to raise our children better,

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