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Will We Be Able to Prevent Alzheimer’s?

When we started our conversation with Dr. Eric Topol on this week’s podcast, I expected to talk about the usual “longevity” buzzwords—protein shakes, cold plunges, and whatever new anti-aging trend is on TikTok this week. What I didn’t expect was…

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How to Make Friends in Your 40s

If you’d told me in my 20s that friendship in my 40s would require the same courage as walking into a cafeteria on the first day of high school, I wouldn’t have believed you. Yet here we are — grown…

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Advice To Our Teenage Selves

On our recent book tour for All You Can Be with ADHD, Penn and I met so many amazing kids — some as young as twelve — who told us they listen to our Laugh Lines podcast. I was floored…

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3 Things I Hope Kids Take Away From Our Book

When we started writing All You Can Be with ADHD, Penn said something that stuck with me: “I want this to be the book I wish I had as a kid.” It wasn’t until college that Penn was diagnosed with…

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10 Questions to Ask Your College Kid

There are few things more emotional than Parents Weekend. You spend weeks counting down, imagining the reunion, the hugs, the chance to see your college kid thriving in their new world—and then, suddenly, they’re right in front of you. (And…

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5 Lessons From A Broadway Legend

One of the greatest gifts of this weird internet life has been finding friends in unexpected places. Alex Lacamoire and Ileana Ferreras Lacamoire are exactly that for us. (Yes—that Alex Lacamoire. The Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning musical genius behind…

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5 Ways To Raise Confident ADHD Kids

Parenting a child with ADHD is equal parts rewarding and exhausting. Some days, you’re celebrating their creativity and brilliance. Other days, you’re wondering if they’ll remember to turn in their homework or sit through breakfast without doing laps around the…

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Not an Empty Nest, An Open Door

I thought I was doing pretty well in the weeks after college drop-off. After all, I managed to make it two whole days without crying. Two days! I even bragged about it to my friends, like one of those “days…

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The Pros and Cons of Youth Sports

If you’ve ever found yourself on the sidelines of a soccer field or sweating through a tennis tournament in the middle of July, you know that youth sports are… complicated. It starts with your kid happily picking clovers in the…

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7 Fashion Tips Every Gen Xer Needs

Middle age can make getting dressed… tricky. Bodies change, trends change, and suddenly your closet feels like it belongs to a stranger. At 49, sometimes I open my closet and feel like I’m staring into a black hole (literally, because…

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