The College Counseling Mom Podcast: It’s Fine, I’m Fine, My Kid’s in High School.
Real talk and real guidance for parents raising college-ready teens — without the stress.
Host Lindsay Phillips, a school counselor turned college consultant (and mom who’s been there), helps families navigate high school and college prep with clarity, calm, and humor. Grab your coffee (or wine) and join Lindsay each week to make this season feel a little lighter and a lot more doable.
The College Counseling Mom Podcast: It’s Fine, I’m Fine, My Kid’s in High School.
Latest Episodes
Episode 35 | Should Your Kid Write About the Hard Stuff?
If your teenager has been through something hard, a loss, a stretch of anxiety or depression, a family rupture, a health scare, a year that left a mark on the whole house, you have probably had a quiet thought you would never say out loud. ...
Episode 34 | The Room I Wish I Had With Jake (And Am So Thankful I Have With Josh)
I came home from the IECA conference in Baltimore this month with one observation I cannot stop thinking about: almost nobody in our industry is naming the MENTAL LOAD moms are carrying through their kid's college process — and nobody is buildi...
Episode 33 | Why Liberal Arts Colleges Deserve a Closer Look (And the Myths Keeping Them Off Your List)
Fresh off the IECA conference and a campus tour day at Dickinson and Gettysburg, Lindsay walks through the four myths that keep most moms from putting liberal arts colleges on the list. The "my kid wants STEM" myth, the cost myth, the "no grad ...
Episode 32 | Three Things to Do Before Senior Year (So Your Kid Walks In Confident and You Walk In Relieved)
By the time senior year starts in August, what do you actually want for your kid? Lindsay says: a confident kid and a relieved parent. That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because of three quiet things you do between now and August that ...
Episode 31 | The Sneaky Grief of Every High School Year
A mom-to-mom honest talk about the quiet grief that hits at every grade of high school, not just senior year. Lindsay walks through the unique grief of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, plus what actually helps when the milestones (or the lack o...