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Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health

Brenda Zane

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led parenting and addiction-support show focused on families navigating adolescent or young-adult substance use and co-occurring mental health challenges, featuring addiction and mental health professionals alongside parents with lived experience. Credible pitches include clinical psychologists, treatment and prevention specialists, family-recovery practitioners, and experienced parent advocates; the show prioritizes practical, compassionate expertise over celebrity, making booking difficulty medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 339

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 123 subscribers

Instagram: 1.9k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@hopestreamcommunity.org

brenda@brendazane.com

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Host

Brenda Zane - Mayo Clinic Certified health coach and CRAFT-trained Parent Coach who draws on her experience nearly losing her son to addiction to support parents navigating a child's substance use and mental hea...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Clinical psychologists, addiction and mental health treatment professionals, prevention specialists, family-recovery practitioners, and parents or advocates with direct lived experience of a child's substance use challenges.
Required Achievements:  
Clinical practice or leadership in addiction, mental health, assessment, prevention, or treatment, Direct lived experience supporting a child or young adult through substance use and recovery, Practical expertise in family boundaries, treatment decisions, emotional resilience, or recovery support

Recent Guest Discussions

Cathy Cioth - Healthy Boundaries, Parenting A Struggling Young Adult, College Decisions, Emotional Resilience, And Family Recovery.

Cathy Cioth - Supporting A Struggling Young Person Through The Transition To College, Campus Resources, Treatment Considerations, And Parental Grief.

Graham Husick - Comprehensive Psychological Assessment, Complex Mental Health Cases, Diagnosis, IQ Testing, Substance Use, And Treatment Planning.

Cathy Cioth - Parental Emotional Resilience, Boundaries, Emotional Durability, Self-regulation, And Family Dynamics.

Recent Topics

Substance Use, Addiction, Mental Health, Parenting, Recovery

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health
:

What Are Boundaries and Why Parents Need Them, with Cathy Cioth

August 27, 2026

ABOUT THE EPISODE:This week's episode is a Summer Replay originally aired in 2023. You have rules. You have said them out loud, more than once. And somehow your kid is still doing exactly what they want, and you are the one lying awake wondering why nothing you say seems to land.Before I knew the word boundaries, that was my whole life. I felt invisible in my own house. Like a doormat. Like the rules I set were something my son found funny. The anger built until I was short with everyone...

Sending Your Struggling Kid To College, with Cathy Cioth

August 20, 2026

ABOUT THE EPISODE:This week's episode is a Summer Replay from 2025.There is a version of August that has been living in your head since they were small. The car packed to the roof. The drive. Target for the bedding, the sweatshirt, the bumper sticker, the parent barbecue where everybody's kid looks fine. Except it is three weeks out and you are not picturing it anymore. You are watching them.Cathy and I both know what it costs to send them anyway. The tuition is paid. The housing is...

Substance Use Isn't the Whole Story, with Dr. Graham Husick

August 13, 2026

ABOUT THE EPISODE:Your kid has been to a program. Maybe two. Maybe four. Each one handed back a diagnosis list a little longer than the last, and none of it ever explained why nothing is sticking.My guest uses a comparison in this one that stopped me cold. If your child had stomach pain, no surgeon would just open them up and look around. They would scan first. And yet with our kids we tend to go straight to treatment, treatment, treatment, without asking who this person actually is underneat...

Publicly listed emails

info@hopestreamcommunity.org

brenda@brendazane.com

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