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What if the best parenting lessons do not come from getting everything right, but from being willing to listen, repair, and keep showing up?

In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat sits down with her daughters, Kobain and Ava, for an honest conversation about what it was really like being raised by a parent and teen coach.

Together, they talk about single parenting, blended family life, strict boundaries, teenage conflict, social media, lying, independence, and the difference between what a parent intends and what a child experiences. Ashley opens the door for her daughters to share where she got it right,

where she missed the mark, and what they understand differently now as young adults.

Kobain shares how Ashley’s hands-off trust sometimes felt like having to figure life out alone. Ashley reflects on how she thought she was giving autonomy, but her daughter experienced it as a lack of support. Ava shares how some of Ashley’s parenting around values and morality

created guilt, even when the intention was to help her make good choices.

This conversation is not about perfect parenting. It is about repair, honesty, and the willingness to hear your child’s experience without immediately defending yourself. Ashley and her daughters show that strong relationships are built through ongoing conversation, not one perfect response.

In this episode:

● What Ashley’s daughters say she was really like as a mom

● How parenting changes as kids become adults

● Why good intentions can still hurt

● How strict boundaries can feel different to different children

● Why teens are still figuring out their values

● What parents should understand about lying and risk-taking

● Why repair matters more than perfection

● What actually worked in Ashley’s relationship with her daughters

If you are raising teens, repairing with adult children, or wondering whether you are doing enough, this episode will remind you that parenting is not one moment in time. It is an evolving relationship built through listening, humility, boundaries, and the willingness to keep coming back to the conversation.

Connect with Ashley Radzat and tune into more conversations on Name What Works.

What if the moment your teenager shuts down, talks back, or makes a mistake is not proof that something is wrong, but an invitation to see the full picture?

In this first episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat introduces the methodology behind her work with parents, teens, families, and schools. As an educator, author, and parent-teen coach, Ashley helps parents move out of fear and back into connection by learning how to pause, regulate, and name what is still working.

Ashley explains why parents naturally notice what is going wrong. Eye rolls, missing homework, messy rooms, lies, and emotional outbursts can quickly pull a parent into fear. One difficult moment can start to feel like proof of a terrible future. A slammed door becomes “I’m losing my child.” A missing assignment becomes “They’ll never be responsible.” A disrespectful moment becomes “My teen is disrespectful.”

Through the Name What Works methodology, Ashley shows parents how to interrupt that fear story. Instead of reacting from panic, shame, or urgency, parents can pause, separate facts from fear, look for evidence of their child’s strengths, and respond with curiosity and clarity.

In this episode:

● Why parents naturally focus on what is going wrong

● How fear can turn one hard moment into a story about the future

● Why your teen’s behavior is not their entire identity

● How to pause before reacting from panic or shame

● What it means to become a detective and name what works

● How curiosity helps parents respond instead of react

If you have ever felt afraid that your teenager’s behavior means something is wrong with them, or that you are failing as a parent, this episode will help you slow the moment down, see your child more clearly, and begin responding from connection instead of fear.

Connect with Ashley Radzat and tune into more conversations on Name What Works.