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Embrace the Crazy
by Dan and Kristy Marks
Embrace the Crazy is about a normal couple living in suburban Canberra, Australia juggling a family, marriage, business and all the challenges of life. Dan and Kristy talk about the ups and downs they have, what they do to get through them, accept and manage them. Dan and Kristy provide practical real examples of how they keep their partnership strong, remain healthy, deal with four young children, manage their finances, budget and live a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. Follow them as they share their life stories and learnings.
Episodes
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Embrace the Crazy: Building Kids Friendships
How can parents better shape their kids’ friendships? Making friends is an important aspect of every kid’s sense of connection and development. Dan and Kristy talk about how to help your kids be and make good friends from before they start school, at school and as young adults. They talk about…
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Embrace the Crazy: Knowing When to Jump In and Stand Back
Do you stand in the way of your child learning and connecting with others? Working out when to get involved in your child's interaction with others is an important part of parenting but, how do you improve awareness and get good at it? Dan and Kristy open up and laugh with what they have learned...
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Embrace the Crazy: Saying No
Are you the 'yes' or 'no' parent? Either way, you need to deal with the consequences which can appear to be soul destroying for your kids and sometimes yourselves. Dan and Kristy look at why parents need to say no, the benefits to their kids and themselves, and how it can assist creativity,...
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Embrace the Crazy: Confrontation and Conflict Resolution
Conflict is a part of everyone’s every day, whether we like it or not. How we manage and deal with disagreements can have a big impact on our own and our family’s quality of life. Dan and Kristy look at some of the areas of their lives such as school, sport, and home life where they experience…
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Embrace the Crazy: Fostering Family Relationship
In this episode Dan and Kristy talk about why they invest time and effort in cultivating good family relationships and how to make family members some of your best friends. They look at how to involve different generations within the family to draw closer and built strong connections and the...
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Embrace the Crazy: Career Passion
Big change is afoot as Kristy returns to her first career love. Dan and Kristy talk about how they transition into this new role that has implications individually and as a family. Kristy talks about the journey and how support and belief in her has helped her embrace the sometimes uncomfortable...
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Embrace the Crazy: Sparking Joy in Our Children
Getting things done can take over from some of the more important aspects of parenting. Dan and Kristy talk about how they ignite the spark in their children by getting involved in their children's interests and games.
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Embrace the Crazy: Creativity in Our House
How do you feel about creativity? Many of us don’t think of ourselves as creative however this episode looks at Dan’s passion for the importance and power of creativity, its diverse applications, and its integral part in learning. We look at the Mark’s family way of applying and driving…
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Embrace the Crazy: Healthy Lifestyle Choices For Our Children
Dan and Kristy talk about the healthy lifestyle choices they have chosen and implemented for their children. They explore the value of each activity and how it aligns with their families view of health and recreation. Dan explains why sport plays such an integral part of their day-to-day life and...
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Embrace the Crazy: Diversity of Financial Management
Dan and Kristy reveal how they manage their family’s household finances. Dan dives into his insights around healthy financial planning and healthy relationships while Kristy talks about prioritising, drawing on lessons learned from childhood and how it can shape each of our personal view of money...
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Embrace the Crazy: Greening Our Home
Kristy and Dan discuss the huge topic of environmental friendliness. You can’t do it all in this space and Kristy and Dan have learned that along the way. They do what they can to green their own home and discuss who they admire, follow and which products they use to be a good example to their...
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Embrace the Crazy: Entitled Children
Are entitled children a new phenomenon or are parents tackling an age old dilemma rooted in their own sense of entitlement? Dan and Kristy dive into why it happens and what to do about keeping this pervasive attitude at bay.
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A Mother's Voice: Returning to Work
In this episode, Kristy talks about returning to work after a long 10-year absence from work. Kristy provides an overview of what that absence looks like and how she was able to capitalise on the experience not only for herself but also for her family. She honestly and intimately shares the...
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Embrace the Crazy: Negativity
Negativity creeps into everyday life and affects us all. Dan and Kristy discuss the appeal of negative talk and why it's so destructive to ourselves, careers and family. They also go further and look at how to shut the negative chatter that can sometimes dominate our headspace.
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Embrace the Crazy: The Power of Rest
Managing rest within a busy family is one of the key ingredients to achieving harmonious family dynamics. Dan and Kristy look at how a lack of proper rest impacts the family, the tell tail signs of tiredness and what needs to be prioritised so that proper rest and recuperation can happen.
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A Mother's Voice: The Mental Load
Kristy explores the much talked about woman's mental load in today's society and how she experiences and responds to the burden. She looks at the difference between mens and woman's brains and the feelings of overwhelm and exhaustion that comes with that mental load.
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Embrace the Crazy: Developing Yourself as a Parent
Dan and Kristy delve into one of their biggest challenges - developing themselves as parents. They discuss giving and receiving feedback from partners, children and trusted others - a difficult thing for anyone to do, especially as a parent. They talk about how they learn and parenting…
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Embrace the Crazy: Food and How it Unites Us
This session we discuss one of Dan’s favourite thing…. food! It is often said that food brings us together and that the kitchen is the heart of the home. The significance of food and its influence on our family table is not lost our family. We discuss all the wonderful memories we have made…
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Embrace the Crazy: The Dreaded Digital Media
How hard is it to navigate kids and digital media? As our kids get older it becomes more challenging to keep up and to know the right thing to do. We struggle with it every day, but we discuss how we do it with our family. We discuss the rules we put into place, and we also talk about ways we can...
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Embrace the Crazy: Embracing the Crazy in 2024
As they move into the new year, Dan and Kristy discuss their 2024 podcast and family plans. Listen as they talk about the process they use to recap the year that has passed and plan for the year ahead, a process that has been refined over time and is still being perfected. Dan and Kristy have…
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Embrace the Crazy: You Don't Just Marry a Person, You Marry Their Christmas Traditions
Christmas and the end of the year round up is such a stressful time for many families, but it can be a time of magic for children and adults alike. This week we discuss the magic and the crazy of Christmas and how important family time is at the end of the year. We discuss how we have brought…
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Embrace the Crazy: 'Do You Need Any Help With Your Business?' How It All Began
Kristy asked this one question; it opened a discussion then led to her entrance into the business world with Dan. She often thinks it was a silly question to ask but she speaks about how joining the business has assisted with her growth and development to start thinking about life and seeing her...
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A Mother's Voice: Pregnancy & Birth
Kristy speaks candidly about her journey through pregnancy and birth. She gives her unique yet positive experience and touches on the power that she felt through her birthing journey. If this episode has brought up any trauma or other feelings for you please reach out for support Lifeline 13 11…
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Embrace the Crazy: Where We Live Impacts the Dynamics of Our Home
Kristy and Dan speak frankly about the choices they made to move to beautiful Canberra, the emotional, social, and financial reasons behind the move. They expand on what lead them to the suburb where they now live, the importance of a collaborative discussion and how their choices align with…
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Embrace the Crazy: Overscheduled and Overwhelmed
Kristy and Dan talk about the dangerous trap of overscheduling. Dan continues to want to do more, with no time making commitments that just can’t be delivered. This edition follows the challenges Kristy and Dan have on not overscheduling, becoming aware of when it is happening and strategies to...
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Embrace the Crazy: Family Holidays - Same Stuff, Different Location
The insta holiday vs reality. You know when you have seen your friends or family post these happy smiling photos of a holiday and you think… that’s not exactly how our holidays go. Kristy and Dan share their experiences of holidays with a big family. The ups and downs of spending time and being...
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Embrace the Crazy: Meeting the Individual Needs of Our Children
Each of our children are so different but we easily catch ourselves trying to treat them and bring them up the same. We discuss our children’s differing personalities and needs and talk about what works well for us. The differences in interests, personalities, feelings and lists goes on. What we…
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Embrace the Crazy: Being Dan & Kristy
Coming to you from Rio in Brazil, Kristy and Dan talk about how they built up to being able to go on holiday a week without the kids and feel totally at home and comfortable with life. From the incredible support structures around them that they have fostered, to the small steps they have taken...
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A Mother's Voice: Mum Guilt vs Self Care
Kristy shares a recent unique experience she had travelling overseas to visit her best friend. During that week away, Kristy was able to let go of her mother coat and be herself. It's been many years since Kristy experienced this feeling. It was a satisfying moment in life to recognise where we…
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Embrace the Crazy: Roles in Our Home
Kristy and Dan provide some insight into how the functions of their house work, the traditional and not so traditional ways that they make things work. From managing finances, doing jobs around the house and getting the kids involved so that they take responsibility and contribute to the running…
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Embrace the Crazy: Four Times the Fun and its Reality
We get asked all the time how do you do it with four? This provides you some insight into the challenges and joys we have with four time everything. Yes it is mayhem and the volume of everything can be overwhelming but there are some silver linings that we experience that makes it all worth it.
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Embrace the Crazy: Planning & Organisation = Sanity, or Does It?
Planning and Organisation = Sanity, or Does It? looks at what we do to try and build in a fraction of structure to our crazy lives. The things that work and the things that don’t and how we work through it when it doesn’t work.
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Embrace the Crazy: Consistency in Parenting
Embrace the Crazy podcast talks about consistency in parenting. From modelling good behaviours, managing outbursts to fairness with your children. Dan and Kristy talk share stories about their parenting and how they work towards consistency with their children.
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Embrace the Crazy: Prioritise Yourself
Dan discusses the key ingredients to maintaining a good exercise and self care schedule focusing particularly on the importance of a good network, a flexible approach and consistency. Kristy speaks frankly about the limitations imposed by kids on ones self care and the importance of joining a gym...
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Embrace the Crazy: When Things Get Tough Stick Together
It is so easy to believe the Insta life but scratch under earth and you see quickly the craziness of a parents life raising 4 kids. One of the keys to our success is our partnership. It's tough almost everyday but we have each other. That gets stretched pretty quickly when tensions rise and so...
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Embrace the Crazy: Living a Healthy Life
Dan and Kristy talk about how amongst the crazy of their life they try and get balance and wellness. From juggling kids and their businesses the couple find time to be together every Friday. They have a baby sitter that they use regularly to have focussed time amongst help from family.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Embrace the Crazy is about a normal couple living in suburban Canberra, Australia juggling a family, marriage, business and all the challenges of life. Dan and Kristy talk about the ups and downs they have, what they do to get through them, accept and manage them. Dan and Kristy provide practical real examples of how they keep their partnership strong, remain healthy, deal with four young children, manage their finances, budget and live a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. Follow them as they share their life stories and learnings.
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Embrace the Crazy is about a normal couple living in suburban Canberra, Australia juggling a family, marriage, business and all the challenges of life. Dan and Kristy talk about the ups and downs they have, what they do to get through them, accept and manage them. Dan and Kristy provide practical...
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