{"podcast":{"title":"Parents With Questions","slug":"parents-with-questions-6853219","podcast_index_feed_id":6853219,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/aslTzWs9.rss","website_url":"https://parentswithquestions.riverside.com/","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/f5bf252a-47df-41b3-8379-c671724e7015/logos/fcf34d99-a3c5-4080-ad9a-fda394641162.png","author":"Parents With Questions","episode_count":48,"summary":"This is a podcast for thoughtful parents navigating a rapidly changing world. Hosted by Adam Gibson, the show explores the big questions shaping the future of our families — from children’s health and food systems, to financial resilience, digital privacy, education, and raising capable, independent kids. This isn’t about panic or outrage. It’s about curiosity, critical thinking, and learning how to build strong foundations at home. Through conversations with doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs, educators and independent thinkers, Parents With Questions helps families step back from the noise, think clearly, and make confident decisions for themselves and their children. Because the most important leadership in the world starts at the kitchen table.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T06:20:40.918991+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parents-with-questions-6853219"},"episode":{"title":"Busy Mornings vs Good Intentions - A Parent's Health Dilemma","slug":"busy-mornings-vs-good-intentions-a-parent-s-health-dilemma","published_at":"2026-05-27T02:16:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parents-with-questions-6853219/busy-mornings-vs-good-intentions-a-parent-s-health-dilemma","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parents-with-questions-6853219","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/24f8c5448c433d8bab9e4f9e24a4cf55fa35b243ded91584ca4dffe10780c6d1/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0Y2Q5YzcxZC05MzYwLTRkMDYtYTA0NC1jMjhlYzU3NjE4NjEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmNWJmMjUyYS00N2RmLTQxYjMtODM3OS1jNjcxNzI0ZTcwMTUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2M2VjMWFlZWFkZjExOTQ3OWQyYzE2ZGYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmExNjI4ODFhY2U0OTZiNmUxYmI2YzI0L2FkYW0tZ2lic29ucy1zdHVkaW8tS3lBNjEtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi01LTI3X18xLTEwLTU3Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/24f8c5448c433d8bab9e4f9e24a4cf55fa35b243ded91584ca4dffe10780c6d1/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0Y2Q5YzcxZC05MzYwLTRkMDYtYTA0NC1jMjhlYzU3NjE4NjEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmNWJmMjUyYS00N2RmLTQxYjMtODM3OS1jNjcxNzI0ZTcwMTUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2M2VjMWFlZWFkZjExOTQ3OWQyYzE2ZGYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmExNjI4ODFhY2U0OTZiNmUxYmI2YzI0L2FkYW0tZ2lic29ucy1zdHVkaW8tS3lBNjEtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi01LTI3X18xLTEwLTU3Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"Over the years through Parents With Questions, many of you have come to know me as the face of things. But the truth is there has always been a co-founder quietly behind the scenes who rarely gets mentioned, and that’s my wife Fiona. While I’ve been out the front speaking up for families and questioning broken systems, Fiona has been raising our three daughters, running her own architecture business and obsessing over one very practical question that most parents wrestle with every single day: How do we raise healthy kids in a world where unhealthy has become completely normalised? That’s what this new podcast conversation is about. Because the reality is most parents already know many of the standard breakfast and lunchbox foods aren’t really working. The sugary cereals. The “healthy” breakfast drinks. The processed snacks. The endless convenience foods marketed directly at exhausted parents and hungry kids. The problem isn’t that parents don’t care - in fact its quite the opposite. The problem is that modern life is busy, rushed and overwhelming, and school mornings are often where good intentions fall apart. And sadly, big food companies have leveraged that reality to their own advantage — marketing ultra-processed convenience foods directly into the chaos of modern family life, while an entire generation of kids is now experiencing historically high rates of obesity, metabolic dysfunction and chronic disease at increasingly younger ages. In this conversation, Fiona shares: * why so many kids today are overfed but undernourished, * how food directly impacts focus, mood, behaviour and energy, * why healthy fats and protein matter so much for growing brains, * how schools and marketing have quietly normalised ultra-processed food, * and most importantly, simple, prove…","meta_description":"Over the years through Parents With Questions, many of you have come to know me as the face of things. 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