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2 Moms on The Couch
by Amy Veltman & Dr. Dana Dorfman
Join Dana and Amy on the couch as they dish about about life’s biggest issues. Serious insights from Dana’s work as a psychotherapist and Amy’s work as a comic, management consultant, and wife of a psychiatrist are couched in the kind of irreverence you can only get from two kinda-related New York moms who are (almost) out of ****s to give!
Episodes
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Other Generations Are ANNOYING
For maybe the first time in history, there are currently four generations sharing the workplace. No matter what generation you belong to, the other ones can be so ANNOYING! Come sit with Dana and Amy as we crack the code of how to get along with EVERY generation and how to understand their weird...
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LATE BLOOMERS: Get Going with Your Life!
LATE BLOOMERS: Get Going with Your Life! If you didn’t peak in high school, college, your 20’s, 30’s, or 40’s, this episode is for you! Find out why "mid-life" is such a fork in the road, and how to decide which way to go. Dana offers three useful strategies to approach this sometimes-complex…
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INTELLIGENCE:You're Smarter than You Think. (So's the Idiot Next to You.)
Amy and Dana ALMOST argue about whether being "book-smart" is more valuable than other types of intelligence. They discuss how their parents shaped their early views of smarts and how their perspectives on the topic continue to evolve as they "mature." Dana gives three useful approaches for...
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Raising Confident, Safer Kids in the Age of #METOO
Let's be real: we don't want our kids to be either victims or perpetrators of sexual harassment or assault. But is there a conversation we can have with them to keep them safer? Dr. Dana Dorfman uses her professional expertise and experience as mother to both a daughter and a son to help us...
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THERAPY: Huh? And Why Should I Care?
You might have figured out that the title "2 Moms on The Couch" is referring to "the therapy couch," as well as the ones we like to laze about on. In NYC where Amy and Dana live, people talk about therapy a lot, and Dana is a therapist herself, but we realize that not everyone feels comfortable...
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How Hard Should You PUSH YOUR KIDS? "Stop and Smell the Process!"
Amy fesses to a parenting fail that inspired the episode topic. Dana explores the pitfalls of the question, "To push or not to push," and offers a great alternative. Hear their different approaches to the same parenting challenge—and how their mothers would have handled it! *Sorry about a few...
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Getting Ready for the HOLIDAYS...EMOTIONALLY!
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Dana and Amy dish out strategies for thriving--or at least doing okay--during the holiday season. This week, the focus is less on parenting and more on mere survival and emotional health in a season that demands a lot of us as mothers, daughters, and humans. Amy...
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SEPARATION: It's Already Started!
Even though Dana is a psychotherapist, her own daughter's imminent departure for college is bringing up a lot of STUFF. Amy is rewarded handsomely for making the difficult decision to let her teenage daughter go to a truly scary Halloween party. At the end of this episode, you'll have 3 useful...
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FEAR: Is Fear of Happiness a Thing?
Dana and Amy talk about what really keeps them up at night, and it's much more existential than spiders.... Dana, a therapist, lets us in on what a "Happiness Attack" is, and tries to figure out why they're so awful. Amy confessed her fear to her dad before a big performance; her dad then gave…
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CONFIDENCE: How to get and give it!
Dana and Amy discuss confidence. Things get meta when their own confidence sometimes appears to flag... or is that just a ruse to get you not to hate them? They truly don't know. They have practical tips, as well as book and video recommendations to help you get more confident. If that doesn't...
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MONEY: It's harder than it looks!
Join Dana and Amy on the therapy/ friend/ family couch as they get real about money, admitting what so few of their friends do—they sometimes skate perilously close to the edge. They both talk about how their ideas of "success" and "enough" have evolved over time... but are still…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join Dana and Amy on the couch as they dish about about life’s biggest issues. Serious insights from Dana’s work as a psychotherapist and Amy’s work as a comic, management consultant, and wife of a psychiatrist are couched in the kind of irreverence you can only get from two kinda-related New York moms who are (almost) out of ****s to give!
HOSTED BY
Amy Veltman & Dr. Dana Dorfman
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