The nextTalk Parent Podcast with Mandy Majors
The nextTalk Podcast with Mandy Majors helps parents navigate technology, cultural pressures, and difficult conversations with their children. Through practical guidance, honest stories, and faith-centered encouragement, parents learn how to replace fear and reaction with open communication, biblical wisdom, and stronger family relationships.
Join award-winning author Mandy Majors (TALK and Keeping Kids Safe in a Digital World) for honest, practical conversations at the intersection of technology, culture, and faith.
There are plenty of tools to control technology — but at nextTalk, we go deeper. We help parents build the kind of trusting relationship where kids actually come to them when something goes wrong.
nextTalk is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to keeping kids safe by fostering a culture of open communication in families, churches, and schools.
The nextTalk Parent Podcast with Mandy Majors
Latest Episodes
My Child is Being Influenced. What should I do?
Watching your child be influenced by friends, social media, music, or culture can be scary. When you see their beliefs beginning to shift, the instinct may be to panic, lecture, or try to control what they’re exposed to. But those reactions ...
Beyond the Cornell Headlines: 5 Conversations for Every Family
What are we teaching our kids now that will guide them when we’re not there? In response to the troubling Cornell headlines, Mandy Majors and Merideth discuss five conversations parents can begin long before the teen years, from respecting boun...
What Parenting Taught Us
What happens when the parenting season you thought would never end suddenly does? Mandy sits down with her husband, Matt Majors, for an honest conversation about becoming empty nesters and the surprising grief that comes when the no...
The Fentanyl Conversation Every Parent Needs to Have
Matt Riviere never imagined that one decision would take both of his sons, Andrew and Stephen. At 21 and 19, the brothers purchased what they believed was oxycodone through Snapchat. The pills were counterfeit and contained fentanyl, and bot...
How to Become Your Kid’s Safe Place
What happens when the parenting principles you learned when your kids were little are finally put to the test in the teenage years? Mandy welcomes longtime friend and former nextTalk co-host Kim Elerick back to the podcast to talk h...
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