The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation

Vivian Glyck

English Health & Fitness Kids & Family Mental Health Parenting

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Episodes 27

Avg. Duration 35m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (11)

Since Sep 2025

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks

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About This Podcast

Our kids are growing up in an experiment no generation has faced before. Smartphones, social media, and online culture have become the dominant forces shaping their mental health, their relationships, and their sense of self. The results are devastating: skyrocketing anxiety, depression, and a generation more connected yet lonelier than ever. We had no idea how destructive the algorithms, deliberately engineered to turn our children into addicts, would prove to be. The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation is the show for parents who see what's happening and refuse to accept it as inevitable. Host Vivian Glyck brings the credibility of a TED speaker and founder of Just Like My Child Foundation, plus the authenticity of a mother who personally navigated her son's mental health struggles. She is not lecturing from the sidelines. She is in the fight with you. Each episode features conversations with thought leaders like Dave Asprey, JJ Virgin, and Lisa Nichols, as well as parents in the trenches dealing with screen addiction, algorithmic manipulation, cyberbullying, and the daily struggle to protect kids from a digital ecosystem built to hook them. Vivian also brings the most current information on social media legislation and the policy battles being fought right now to protect our kids, because this is not just a parenting problem. It is a public health crisis that demands a public response. No judgment. No shame. Just honest dialogue, real strategies, and a path to collective action. Because when parents speak together, their voices carry. Through Project Grit, the show connects families to a growing movement working to hold platforms accountable and push for laws that actually protect children. Vivian channels 20+ years of work with vulnerable families worldwide into helping parents reclaim their kids from the online forces working against them. If you have ever felt powerless watching your child vanish into their phone, this podcast proves you are not alone, you are not helpless, and your voice matters more than you know.

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Recent Episodes

The Story Behind the Bad Mom: Why I Started All of This with Vivian Glyck

Jun 08, 2026 17m Transcript

I have been asked one question more than almost any other: "Vivian, why did you start all of this?" And the real answer (the one that actually matters) is that I became a mother, and everything I…

Why Your Teen's Brain Is Being Hijacked (And What to Do About It) with John Assaraf

Jun 01, 2026 50m Transcript

John Assaraf, behavioral neuroscience researcher and founder of NeuroGym, said something to me in this conversation that I haven't been able to stop thinking about: "In the absence of practice, we…

How Do I Let Go of My Kid Without Feeling Like I'm Giving Up? with Lisa Garr

May 18, 2026 31m Transcript

Here's the thing…I sat across from my friend Lisa Garr, someone who has spent 20-plus years interviewing the greatest minds in consciousness and personal growth, and she looked at me and basically…

The Lawyer Who Beat Meta and YouTube: How He's Changing Everything for Parents | Matthew Bergman, Esq

May 04, 2026 42m Transcript

When you feel the system is rigged and you have no power, sometimes the only place left to turn is the courthouse. Matthew Bergman, founder of the Social Media Victims' Law Center, has spent the last…

Why Is My ADHD Kid So Anxious? The Connection Parents Miss with Elaine Taylor-Klaus

Apr 20, 2026 43m Transcript

"I wasn't handling it well." That's how Elaine Taylor-Klaus, parent educator and founder of ImpactParents.com, describes her early years raising three kids with ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety,…

What If It's Not in Their Head? Connecting Metabolic Health to Your Child's Mental Wellness with Dr. Henna Karna

Apr 06, 2026 42m Transcript

I'm going to be real with you: when my son was in crisis, every doctor I saw handed me a prescription instead of an answer. And I kept thinking, "Has ANYONE actually looked at what's happening inside…

Your Kid’s Nervous System Is Not Misbehaving, It’s Surviving with Dr. Aimie Apigian

Mar 23, 2026 40m Transcript

Dr. Aimie Apigian stopped me in my tracks when she said: "It's not my words, it's not that phrase I'm going to say that will make the difference. I am the medicine." As someone who spent years…

Cracking the Man Code: Understanding Your Son, Your Partner, and the Masculine Mind with Mat Boggs

Mar 09, 2026 50m Transcript

I'll never forget when my son looked at me and said, "I just don't know how to win here. I can't do anything right." And I thought, I'm a bad mom.Then I sat down with Mat Boggs, relationship expert…

The Incel Pipeline Is Coming for Your Son (And What You Can Do About It) with Zak Koenigs

Feb 23, 2026 35m Transcript

Here's what keeps me up at night: neo-Nazi content has gone so mainstream that kids are making edits using Nazi imagery as a "cool template" without even knowing where it comes from.In this raw…

When a 16-Year-Old Recognizes What Adults Miss: The Truth About Teen Tech Use with Keegan Lee

Feb 09, 2026 46m

Here's what keeps me up at night: watching a generation of kids lose themselves to screens, and then finding hope in the moment one of them wakes up and becomes the voice we need.Keegan Lee was 16…

Kate Winslet Was Right: How Tech Is Robbing Our Kids of Their Happiness

Jan 26, 2026 14m Transcript

Kate Winslet stood up and said what so many of us feel but rarely say out loud: we don't want social media to harm our kids.And here's the thing, the world is finally listening.Australia just became…

The Mental Health Tool Hiding in Plain Sight with JJ Virgin

Jan 12, 2026 17m Transcript

When JJ Virgin was on the show recently, we barely scratched the surface on something that has genuinely changed how I think about fueling my brain and body. I had to bring her back because this…

Why Your Teen's Confidence Crisis Isn't About Grades (It's About This) with Priya Patel

Dec 29, 2025 30m Transcript

"I just remember thinking, I have no context of what to say to my friend." That's Priya Patel at 13, watching multiple friends come to school with bandages on their wrists, completely paralyzed…

How to Stop Passing Your Body Hatred to Your Daughter with Jennifer Joy Jimenez

Dec 15, 2025 45m Transcript

Here's the thing: 90% of women don't just dislike their bodies. They hate them. And whether we want to admit it or not, we're passing that straight to our kids. Jennifer Joy Jimenez gets it because…

The Truth About What's Breaking Our Kids (And Us): An Origin Story with Sammy Tagget

Dec 08, 2025 24m Transcript

So here's the thing: I spent nearly 20 years building hospitals and schools in Uganda, fighting to save adolescent girls from forced marriage and early pregnancy, and then I looked up and realized…

The Warrior Mom Blueprint: Brain Injury and Functional Medicine with JJ Virgin

Dec 01, 2025 51m Transcript

I remember JJ Virgin telling me years ago that her son Grant said, "I'm just gonna go get hit by a car" — and then he actually got hit by a car. Hit-and-run. Airlifted. Deep coma. Torn aorta.…

You Can’t Parent Your Child Out of Addiction, Here’s What Actually Works with Christopher Doyle

Nov 24, 2025 45m Transcript

When your child is spiraling into addiction, the first instinct is to hold on tighter: plead, negotiate, or wait for them to “hit bottom.” But what if those instincts are exactly what are keeping…

Parents Need Recovery Too: The Missing Step to Helping Your Addicted Child with Joe Polish

Nov 17, 2025 58m Transcript

When we see our kids sinking into anxiety, depression, or even addiction, our first instinct is: “How do I fix them?” We scramble for therapists, schools, treatments, and programs, anything that…

What Parents Get Wrong About Phones, Anxiety & Connection with Sierra Sasevich

Nov 10, 2025 36m Transcript

Every parent I know worries about the same things: Why won’t my kid put down the phone? Why do they care more about strangers online than conversations at home? Are they losing themselves to…

Why Your Kid Can't Listen To You (And How To Break Through) with Dave Asprey

Nov 03, 2025 56m

We’ve created a generation that’s overstimulated, overprotected, and underprepared for real life.In this raw and revealing conversation, Dave Asprey — the father of biohacking, four-time New York…

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