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Pop Parenting

JFI Pop Parenting

Kids & Family

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 50

JFI Online's Pop Parenting with Avrum Nadigel and Ellie Bass is a romp through some of the most iconic movies of the last four decades, and using them to dissect, discuss and optimize relationships and family dynamics while drinking a lot of coffee and waxing poetic about our favourite bands. Avrum Nadigel is an author and therapist who uses Bowen Family Systems to understand how families work. Ellie Bass is a Personal Coach and Wellness Guide and the director of the Jewish Family Institute.

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🇫🇷 France - parenting
13/11/2025
#91
🇫🇷 France - parenting
12/11/2025
#71

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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory: Are Parents Really the Culprit?

Season 2 · Episode 15

Friday, October 1, 2021 • Duration 01:05:16

S2 Ep15: In this episode Avrum and Ellie talk about the movie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp. This movie is a feast for themes on parenting, but we focus on fault. Is it totally the parents fault when kids behave badly? How much are parents really to blame for how their kids turn out?

PLEASE NOTE! We are about to change the focus of this podcast! Don't worry, a big announcement next episode plus a lookback at our favourites, and we can't wait to lauch the new season with you all in the next few weeks! We think you are going to love it.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about Avrum's practice

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to learn more about Ellie's coaching

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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Little Miss Sunshine: Families Living in a Fantasy World and How Reality Bites

Season 2 · Episode 14

Thursday, August 12, 2021 • Duration 54:27

In this episode Avrum and Ellie talk about the movie Little Miss Sunshine and the idea of what happens when fantasy is the only coping mechanism in a family, and how if even one person decides to get real and grow up, that can help change an entire system, be it a family, community or nation.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about Avrum's practice

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to learn more about Ellie's coaching

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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Napoleon Dynamite: Friendship, True Selves and Mirrors

Season 2 · Episode 5

Thursday, June 3, 2021 • Duration 42:20

Ellie was forced to watch Napoleon Dynamite this week, but ended up really digging what there is to learn from it about friendship, differentiation of self and how longing for the past can make a mess of your present. Avrum feels vindicated.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

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Mean Girls: Internality and Externality, Mother Daughter Fusion and Burn Books

Season 2 · Episode 5

Thursday, May 20, 2021 • Duration 55:12

S2 Ep 5: This week Avrum and Ellie are exploring the movie Mean Girls. The 2004 cult classic is a hilarious look at teens, queen bees and how to topple the popularity system. This movie gets us talking about what we focus on and value in our families, and how that impacts the next generation, and how mothers and teen daughters can be a complicated system unto themselves.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about Avrum's practice

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to learn more about Ellie's coaching

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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The Royal Tenenbaums: Emotional Shockwaves in Families and How We Cope

Season 2 · Episode 4

Friday, May 7, 2021 • Duration 52:17

The Royal Tenenbaums is one of our favourites so far, so many juicy family dynamics, but we are focusing on the emotional shockwave when Chaz, played by Ben Stiller, loses his wife to a tragic accident, and how he copes or doesn't, and how we are all looking for ways to manage sudden change and Avrum and Ellie point to some powerful ideas to help us go forward.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about Avrum's practice

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to learn more about Ellie's coaching

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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High Fidelity: No Relationship Will Fix You

Season 2 · Episode 3

Friday, May 7, 2021 • Duration 47:46

This week Avrum and Ellie are exploring the movie High Fidelity. A musical masterpiece and superfun trip through relationship dissection and the realization that getting the love you want won't come from other people.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about Avrum's practice

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to learn more about Ellie's coaching

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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Gladiator: The Roots of Being Unloved

Season 2 · Episode 2

Thursday, April 29, 2021 • Duration 58:47

S2 Ep2: This week Avrum and Ellie are diving into the Oscar winning movie Gladiator. Rife with family dysfunction, the tragedy of Commodus the Emperor and Maximus the Gladiator leads us down a path to be able to discuss fathers and son, how birth order, and family history can conspire to put so much pressure on a child that they break, and how we could do 3 more episodes on this movie alone...but we won't.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Want to join us live on our Zoom? Click here!

We want to hear from you! Click here to leave us a voice message letting us know how you like the podcast, giving us your movie recommendations or just saying hi!

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Traffic: Addiction and Families

Season 2 · Episode 1

Friday, April 23, 2021 • Duration 01:00:40

S2 Ep1: We are looking at the movie Traffic as a door into the world of drugs, addiction and symptoms of family illness.

For more information on Avrum Nadigel, MSW and his books and resources, or to join his newsletter go here: www.nadigel.com

For more infomation on Ellie Bass go here: www.elliebass.com

For more information on The Jewish Family Institute go here: www.myjfi.com

If you have a movie suggestion, argument or feedback please email us at ellie@myjfi.com or leave us a voicenote on Anchor.com/popparenting

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SEASON 2 ANNOUNCEMENT!

Season 2

Friday, April 23, 2021 • Duration 01:13

This is the beginning of Season 2... stay tuned for more full episodes now with movies from the 2000s.

Contact: Little Green Men and Societal Regression

Season 1 · Episode 30

Sunday, April 11, 2021 • Duration 55:45

Contact is a movie that asks big questions. This week Avrum and Ellie are using it to explore how anxious societies deal with uncertainty, and how that plays out in families, and how our experience with our own parents influences our present relationships.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

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