Blended Family Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis
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🇨🇦 Canada - parenting
22/05/2025#57🇨🇦 Canada - parenting
09/01/2025#97🇨🇦 Canada - parenting
18/12/2024#98
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Sudshare, with returning guest, Mort Fertel
Episode 276
lundi 9 août 2021 • Duration 31:04
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Mort Fertel is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at 18 years old. He has a private equity portfolio that consists of SudShare, 2 other businesses, and real estate holdings. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business, and, during a short time when he thought he might be a corporate guy, worked on Wall Street for Bankers Trust Company. Mort is also an author, creator of the first online relationship renewal system (2004), and the subject of Back from the Brink, a documentary written and directed by Toroes Thomas. Now a grandfather, success for Mort means making a difference. And SudShare makes a difference by allowing customers to enjoy life and Sudsters (washers) to have their own work-from-home business. Mort loves working with his family to revolutionize the laundry business. Mort was on this show back on episode #228, when he was discussing his book Marriage Fitness, so if you haven’t heard that one check out that episode too. In this episode, he’s here to talk about his new company Sudshare.
- Personal story of Sudshare and how it came to be
- What it was like to create a family business
- Tips for families who want to create a business together
- How Sudshare works
- What Sudshare costs and how it compares to other laundry services
- Business opportunity for Sudsters
- Where Sudshare is operating
- How to get started with Sudshare
- And much more!
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Joe Pomeroy-Expert at helping business minded men become the best family men they can be!
Episode 275
lundi 2 août 2021 • Duration 57:18
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Joe Pomeroy knows how to translate business principles into family success. Joe gained a deep knowledge of business while helping build an 8-figure company and earning his MBA. More importantly, Joe discovered how to utilize those hard-earned skills to save his marriage and his family. He went from his wife walking out the door, to having a confident, committed, and connected relationship, and now he is committed to helping other dads and husbands learn how to use those principles to be more confident in their role. As a bestselling author and Family Leadership Coach, Joe helps business-minded men discover the new way to become the husbands and dads they once promised to be. His mantra has become: “Save the Family, Save the World.”
- His personal story
- Why businessmen become the best family men
- Why families and blended families should be treated like a business
- How to translate business principles into family success
- Why some men lack confidence and how they can build it
- How to identify generational patterns and how to eradicate them
- How a partner can best support a man in his journey to greatness
- Joe’s 3D family framework
- Joe’s best advice
- And much more!
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Q and A show about me!
Episode 266
lundi 10 mai 2021 • Duration 27:01
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
This is a Q and A show about me! After years of podcasting, I realize I do not share much personal information about me, so I asked the listeners to send in some questions. I hope this show helps you get to know me better! Here are some of the questions I answer!
- Do I come from a blended family and what was my upbringing like?
- What are some of my favorite things?
- What is something people would be surprised to know about me?
- What are my blended family regrets?
- What can I not live without?
- What would my dream vacation be?
- What is my relationship like with my ex and Shawn's ex?
- Did you and Shawn ever come close to breaking up?
- and more!
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176-Which comes first, your relationship, or your kids?
Episode 176
lundi 23 juillet 2018 • Duration 21:48
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Blended families require a lot of balance. Many parents struggle because they don’t know which should come first, their relationship with their partner, or their children. There are different factors you can look at, but ultimately, the attention you spend both on your partner and your kids needs to be carefully managed. You will also find that this balance can shift around over the years at different stages of your children's lives.
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175-How to Fight Fair!
Episode 175
lundi 16 juillet 2018 • Duration 33:00
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
How well do you resolve conflict in your life? We all have conflict in our relationships, but oftentimes, we don’t know how to resolve them in a healthy way. Conflict is a normal part of every relationship, and so we need to learn how to deal with it in a way that helps us grow together. In this show, my top ten tips to fighting fair, plus I’ll share what you might be doing wrong!
- Maintain Control
- Take a break
- Pick and choose your battles
- Stick to the topic
- Listen
- Communicate well
- Shift your perspective
- Recognize that no one is perfect
- Learn to apologize
- Learn to forgive
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174-Charla Miller returns, her story of reunification with her son!
Episode 174
lundi 2 juillet 2018 • Duration 42:20
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Charla Miller is a successful author who used traumatic events in her life to propel her forward. She wrote a book called, Wonder and Beauty: My Journey From Heartbreak to Healing Through the Wonder of Horses. Her story is paving the way for others to see that their pain from loss isn't the ending but a launching point to even greater connection to those they love and so much more.
Charla returns to talk about the reunification with her son, which she did not know was coming when she was on this show back in December. To hear that first interview with the full story, click here.
In this interview we discuss
- A recap of her personal story of parental alienation
- How the reunification came to be
- Her emotions during that time
- What it was like spending a week together with her son for the first time in years
- What her future looks like
- Her personal message to parents suffering from parental alienation
- Horse therapy
- and much more
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5445 Murrell Rd
Unit 102 #178
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173-The Blame Game, and How to Stop Playing it!
Episode 173
lundi 18 juin 2018 • Duration 18:35
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
The blame game is something we all play. It’s easy to point fingers at someone else, but is it really helpful to the situation? In this episode, learn why playing the game holds you back, as well as learn how to stop playing it.
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Join the Private Facebook Group
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Schedule an interview or coaching session here
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5445 Murrell Rd
Unit 102 #178
Viera FL 32955
172-Special guest Andrea Santiago Malcolm shares how knitting helps her cope
Episode 172
lundi 4 juin 2018 • Duration 29:05
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Andrea Santiago Malcolm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Sex Therapist. In that time, she has found she really loves working with couples who are ready to own and revitalize their sexuality with a mix of real talk and a sense of humor. She believes that sex is natural, important, and nothing to be embarrassed about! Andrea is also a Cancer survivor and enjoys helping others navigate that space as well. She’s a stepmother and knows what it’s like to have all the joys and challenges that come with her role as a step-parent. Andrea enjoys assisting others in dealing with similar life stressors because she has a lot to draw from and can offer real talk and genuine empathy, coupled with easily applied solutions to these challenges. She teaches multiple coping mechanisms, including therapeutic knitting, which is an evidence-based, portable, and fun way to cope with life. Andrea’s private practice, 363 Therapy, has two offices in South Florida: one in Boca Raton and the other in Fort Lauderdale.
In this conversation, we discuss
- Andrea’s personal story
- Her cancer diagnosis
- What is therapeutic knitting
- What are the benefits of therapeutic knitting
- What services Andrea has to offer
- And much more
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171-Stepparents who want their partner to sever ties with the ex
Episode 171
lundi 21 mai 2018 • Duration 16:57
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
There are many cases where a new partner wants their mate to sever ties with an ex. Whether you are a stepparent wanting this, a bio parent struggling with this, or an ex dealing with it, it can be tricky. You’ll hear two listener questions which show examples of this in the show, plus my advice to them. There are many reasons why this happens, and many reasons why it’s best to overcome it.
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170-Mother's Day Special, with Kristen Skiles, of Stepmomming.com
Episode 170
lundi 7 mai 2018 • Duration 39:56
melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com
Kristen Skiles is an Air Force wife and [step]mom to a beautiful 7-year-old. She runs on coffee, wine, and Amazon Prime, and she blogs at stepmomming.com where she provides comfort and guidance for overwhelmed stepmoms, encouraging and helping them to write their own happily ever afters. Kristen wholeheartedly believes that [step]momming is what you do, it’s not who you are.
In this episode, we talk about
- Her personal story
- Her relationship with bio mom
- The challenges she faces in her own blended family
- Tips and advice on making it work
- Her blog, stepmomming.com
- And so much more!
Connect with Kristen
Free 5 day stepmom course-Write your own happily ever after! Click HERE
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5445 Murrell Rd
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