Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids

Jessica Shaw

Booking Overview

This is a parenting-focused interview show about raising neurodivergent children, featuring candid conversations with parents, clinicians, psychologists, and ADHD or learning-difference experts. PR agencies could credibly pitch qualified child-development professionals, neurodiversity advocates, educators, and parents with compelling lived experience; booking difficulty is low because the show values accessible expertise and personal stories over high-profile celebrity status.

Metrics

Episodes: 22

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 93.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Jessica Shaw - Journalist and radio host who covers the experiences of parents raising children who learn and think differently. She is also a mother of two.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Child-development clinicians, psychologists, ADHD or learning-difference specialists, educators, neurodiversity advocates, and parents with direct experience raising neurodivergent children.

Required Achievements:

Clinical or professional expertise in ADHD, dyslexia, psychology, or child development, Meaningful advocacy or educational work supporting neurodivergent children, A compelling lived-experience story involving neurodivergent parenting

Recent Guest Discussions

Merriam Saunders - Adhd-related Skills Gaps, Discipline, Connection, And Parent-child Relationships.

Dr. Andrew Kahn - School Refusal, Factors Contributing To School Avoidance, And Strategies To Help Children Return To School.

Margaret Ables - Neurodivergence, Disclosure, Masking, Shame, Self-advocacy, And Belonging.

Alynda Wheat Savage - Neurodivergent Children, Grief, Family Caregiving, And Adapting Parenting Approaches To A Child's Needs.

Melena Blanton - Dyslexia Support, Educational Advocacy, Limited Local Resources, Tutoring, And Neurodivergent Parenting.

Recent Topics

Parenting, Neurodiversity, Adhd, Autism, Dyslexia

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids

I disciplined my ADHD daughter all wrong. This saved our relationship.

September 17, 2026

Psychotherapist and ADHD expert Merriam Saunders spent years locked in daily battles with her strong-willed daughter. No form of discipline worked. Then one ordinary blowup led to an unexpected realization: The problem wasn’t defiance, it was an ADHD skills gap. And, crucially, she realized it wasn’t her daughter’s job to fix it. Merriam shares what happened the moment she chose connection over control, and how that choice reshaped their relationship for good.For more on this topicWatch:...

School refusal: Strategies for getting your child back in the building

September 03, 2026

Jessica is off this week, but we didn’t want to leave you without something great to listen to. So, in honor of back-to-school, we’re sharing an episode about school refusal from another Understood podcast, called In It. Why do kids sometimes refuse to go to school? And what can families do about it, both in the moment and to avoid it in the future? In this episode, hosts Gretchen Vierstra and Rachel Bozek hear from Erin, a returning guest whose family has struggled with school refusal challe...

Why I stopped hiding my kid’s neurodivergence

August 20, 2026

For years, Margaret Ables believed the kindest thing she could do for her autistic child was to help them blend in. Then a single article reframed everything she thought she knew about acceptance and disclosure, and what her kid actually needed from her. She and host Jessica Shaw dig into the messy, evolving work of showing up as yourself in a world that isn't always built for you. This is a candid, funny, occasionally heartbreaking conversation about shame, self-advocacy, and belonging. For ...

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