The Capable Conversation Everyone Needs to Hear Whether You Have Kids or Not (Couch Talks)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Amy and Kat sit down with Sissy Goff and David Thomas to answer listener questions and talk about their newest book, Capable. They share practical tools for raising capable, resilient kids and answer everything from screen time (did you know a family media calculator exists?) to parenting college aged kids and what to do when your child is capable but just refuses to try. This conversation covers it all. They also tackle how to raise more empathetic kids, what to do when your child's emotional age doesn't match their actual age, and why the WAIT acronym might be the most useful tool ever. Plus a rapid fire round with Sissy and David that is not so rapid but gives some really good insight.
Sissy Goff and David Thomas have been sitting with children and families as therapists at Daystar Counseling Ministries for decades. Through their counseling, podcast, books, and speaking, they have made it their life's work to offer practical help and hope to families.
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HOSTS:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
Kat Van Buren // threecordstherapy.com // @KatVanburen
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | While we hope couch talks can be a tool that helps and supports wherever you are in life, |
| 0:08.7 | Couch Talks does not serve as a replacement or substitute for therapy or any mental health services. |
| 0:13.9 | One, two, three. |
| 0:15.0 | If you ever have feelings that you just want some amy and cat got you covered like a |
| 0:23.1 | brother ladies and fellas we just follow in the spirit where it tells us from the real stuff |
| 0:30.0 | to the chill stuff and the in between sometimes the best thing you can do is just |
| 0:36.3 | outs and feel things. |
| 0:39.6 | This is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat. |
| 0:42.0 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to Couch Talks, the Q&A episode to the Feeling Things podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Amy. |
| 0:46.3 | And I'm Kat. |
| 0:47.2 | And we have lots of feelings right now. |
| 0:50.3 | The feeling for me right now, I feel like exciting. |
| 0:56.6 | I use that one too much. So I need a... I have another one. What is it? I feel relieved. Why? Because I don't have to answer any questions today. |
| 1:02.1 | Oh, okay. So that's a hint as to why I am excited. We have yet to have guests on the Feeling Things podcast ever since we transitioned, |
| 1:13.5 | which by the way, it's been a year. Yeah. This is like a celebration of sorts. And that just |
| 1:19.5 | snuck up on us. Totally. I didn't even realize it until you said it about 20 minutes ago. |
| 1:24.0 | We should have had a year party or celebration. That's when we should have done |
| 1:28.9 | something live and in person. Well, it'll be a delayed celebration. We have Sissy Gough and David |
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