In the latest podcast episode, we dive into the exciting world of AI in Education with global futurist Graeme Codrington. Graeme shares valuable insights on how AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, can serve as powerful assistants in teaching, helping educators enhance their workflow, engage students in new ways, and save valuable time - all while preparing for a tech-driven future.

This week I had a chat with music therapist Graeme Sacks about what music therapy is, how it encourages growth, self-expression and healing through music and how this might impact parents and their kids today! Graeme challenges the idea of adding competition to music, encouraging parents to let children and teens make music and sing for the joy and emotional release it provides, regardless of skill.

In this episode, I had a 'real talk' conversation with Vanessa Raphaely, co-author of "We Were Perfect Parents Until We Had Children" and founder of The Village. We discuss how community support, kindness, and respect can help parents from diverse backgrounds unite to raise engaged, resilient, and courageous children in our imperfect world. It’s a practical and relatable conversation for any parent navigating the challenges of raising a family today. 

In this episode Jude chats with Dr. Michael Mol about the invisible labour that oftens lands on the shoulders of moms. The fact that women are typically taking on more of the labour of childcare, organising the home and housekeeping, often in addition to their ‘actual’ jobs is a sad reality. The burnout that so many moms experience should not be the norm. And so in this conversation Michael and Jude talk about practical things, backed by science, that we can do to care for ourselves.

Today, I had a great chat with Helen Nicholson, Founder and CEO of The Networking Company. Her work in Mindful Resilience has helped thousands of individuals overcome burnout. We discuss what mindfulness is and how parents can practice mindfulness in their every day lives. It’s not about waking up at 4am and meditating - it starts with becoming more present, more aware. 

In this episode, I talk with Tarryn, an Occupational Therapist and mom to a daughter with ADHD. Tarryn shares her life-changing ADHD system for overwhelmed parents seeking smoother days and thriving kids. This insightful conversation blends her professional expertise with personal experience.

In this episode, I speak with Lelia Schott, a parenting coach focused on reclaiming inner child and parent wellbeing. We discuss engaging with teenagers, teaching them boundaries, and maintaining deep connections. Lelia, is an empathetic listener and dedicated therapist, helping people build deeper connections with themselves and others.

In this episode I chatted with Natalie Meerholz, the head of Holy Rosary Primary School, who started this campaign where many students pledged to go ‘phone-free’ for 40 days. I was also privileged to chat to some of the learners themselves to find out how they felt about the campaign.

The campaign was about calling for the delay of smartphone ownership in children "in a bid to restore a play-based childhood and to protect the mental health and well-being of its learners." 

In this episode, I chat with Buhle Dlamini, global speaker and author of Unleashing Your Greatness. We discuss his concept of unleashing your true potential, your greatness and specifically how this can impact our parenting.

In this episode, I had a lovely chat with Mandy Herold. Teacher leader turned Coach and Speaker, who is passionate about supporting parents, teachers and schools on their journey to develop safe, connected and problem solving environments for children to thrive. 

Today we're talking with Naomi Holdt, author, mom and child psychologist, all about her new book Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens. This book is so important and we encourage you to read it - if nothing else, it will remind you, as a parent, that you are not alone. Bounce will help you tackle this messy and beautiful journey of life and parenting in a very human way.

Today we're talking about jobs for the future with Graeme Codrington, global futurist and co-founder of the Future Smart Parent Club. Graeme specialises in the future of work and in this episode, we discuss prompt engineering and how it might be a career path for our kids in the future.

Today, I’m thrilled to talk with Cheryl Williams, an exceptional STEAM Based Learning Educator, whose days are immersed in the world of technology, exploring innovative approaches like the Internet of Things, Computers, iPads, Robots, and Coding to enhance learning. 

Today I got to speak with Rebekah Clark, from Happy Marlo. Happy Marlo is an organization dedicated to helping children build skills for dealing with their emotions, and being empowered to find their calm space. 

Today we’re talking about tech habits - specifically tech habits for families because I don’t know about you, but I know how difficult it is for me to break some of my own bad tech habits. 

In this episode, I chatted with Zanele about how to help our kids manage transitions. Dealing with disruption and change is a natural part of life, but it’s also difficult. She’s known to her clients as 'The UnLearning Lady', and is a global leading voice on using key unlearning principles to help companies build cultures that support change & transformation.

Sextortion might sound like the name of a really bad movie, but in fact it’s a lot more serious than that and it’s affecting all of our kids online. “Sextortion” is a crime, and occurs when predators blackmail our children into sending them sexual or nude pictures and videos. As frightening as this sounds, us parents cannot bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist.

And we definitely cannot just say “Oh, but not my kids… My kids would never do that.”

In this episode, I chatted with career counselor and gap year specialist (and author of The Good Gap Year Guide) Melanie Williams. Melanie shares her insights on how we can help our young adults take a structured gap year,  what a structured gap year looks like and why it's a great option for those young adults who aren't quite ready to jump into studying or full-time employment. 

In this episode, I chatted with Christy Herselman from The Chat. We spoke about the changing gender landscape, and what this means for both our children, and for us parents as we all try to navigate and understand this phenomenon that's unfolding so quickly. 

In today’s episode I spoke with Dr Beulah van der Westhuizen about neuro- development in kids, the impact of tech, the role schooling plays, and the many talents that neuron diversity brings, as well as the learning centers, EduExcellence, that she has pioneered in South Africa.

In today’s episode I spoke with Naomi Holdt, who is an educational psychologist, speaker, author and a mom. We spoke about many different things regarding EQ, including what it really means to develop emotional intelligence in our kids, the importance of EQ over IQ and how to truly value our children’s emotions.

In this episode I hosted a conversation with Inclusion and Diversity specialist, Buhle Dlamini, and author of Future Proof your Child for the 2020s and beyond, Graeme Codrington. A conversation that's important for all parents and teachers to hear, but in particular, one for white parents to take note of.

In this episode I speak with Donna McCallum, aka the Fairy Godmother, who teaches us about money and magic, and how as parents, perhaps we have some mindsets to shift that we hadn’t realised yet! Donna is running a workshop on March 17th with Meike Lovemore, called MoneyWise Kids, which will walk parents through good money habits that they can teach their children, including practical tools to implement immediately so that your kids are delighted to learn about money.

We talk about reframing entrepreneurship and the skills that are most valuable to instill in our children. Some of these skills include self-awareness, confidence, resilience, learning that it’s okay to fail (something some parents could also learn!) as well as, innovation, independence and critical problem solving! Without these ‘soft’ skills it becomes almost impossible for us to empower our children to become successful entrepreneurs.

In this episode I chatted with Bryan Gibson from LearnLife about what learning can look like in the modern world. We chat about how innovation in learning can take us away from the need for standardized testing and formal learning settings that haven’t changed much since we, parents, were in school. We chat about how LearnLife's approach to learning brings adventure, discovery and curiosity into a new way of learning via their learning hubs, both physical and digitally.

In this episode, I speak with Paul Bushell about Mindfulness. What Mindfulness is, how it's a practice that can really help our kids, and ourselves with creating an environment and state that helps us be in the here and now, reducing our anxiety while just learning to be more present in this sometimes crazy world we find our selves in. 

I chatted with Josh Ramsey about what us parents can do to help keep our kids safe online. As parents, it's our responsibility to help and guide our kids in this digital world, but I feel that I'm not alone in getting slightly overwhelmed by the 'how' of going about this. 

From the software / tech that we can use, to the conversations we can have with our kids... this podcast episode is a must listen to any parent with kids who are online.

I jumped onto a call with Graeme Codrington to discuss the skills needed for the future of work, with a particular focus for parents at this time of the year when anxiety levels are perhaps a little higher than normal with end of year exams and assessments.

A conversation that challenges parents and teachers to a paradigm shift in their young learner’s educational journey away from the traditional, narrow path to a university academic career and towards a more practical, usable range of skills relevant to every organization five years into the future.

Kim is a teacher with a passion for learning and is curious about the possibilities for creating learning environments that engage children and help them to flourish. She’s involved in projects that innovate within traditional systems of education and is a teacher at Manor Gardens Primary School, a government school in Durban.

I was privileged to jump on a call with Naomi Holdt, mom, educational psychologist, and speaker earlier this week in response to the big feelings and other trauma responses that seem to be impacting so many families after a week of the extreme unrest we experienced in KZN. 

What I love about my conversations with Graeme is how he helps us reframe the way we think about things... helping us see things from different perspectives, and more often than not, a new way of thinking that pushes our boundaries, enabling us to think bigger...  

In this episode, I talk with unschooling Mom, Tamryn Sherriffs about what unschooling and self-directed learning is, and why (and how) we've both decided to take this approach for educating our kids.. 

In this episode we speak with Keith Coats on why he believes becoming comfortable with transitions is a lifelong skill that we all need to keep developing and how he has been more intentional on his own parenting journey with helping his (now adult) kids learn how to embrace change. 

In this episode, we chat about how Graeme thinks parenting is different now as we prepare our kids for the future and how this shows up in his life as he parents his 3 daughters. As Graeme says during the interview - we are the first generation of parents who know for sure that we don’t know what the future will be like for our kids and that means we have to approach parenting slightly differently. 

I’m Jude Foulston, an introverted mom trying my best to raise kids who are happy & confident, kids who embrace all that makes them unique, while preparing them for an exciting future that looks really, nothing like the world we grew up in. 

We share some of our plans and goals for the Future Smart Parent podcast and introduce you to your host, Jude Foulston - an introverted mom trying her best to raise kids who are happy & confident, kids who embrace all that makes them unique, while preparing them for an exciting future that looks really, nothing like the world we grew up in. 

In this first full episode, we chat with futurist, author, and expert in the future of work Graeme Codrington.
We chat about what we hope this podcast will do for parents, we start to chat about what future-proofing our kids looks like, without overwhelming us as parents and Graeme gives us some practical ideas on how we can approach parenting as Future Smart Parents.