There’s nothing more important than our kids — and it’s never been harder to reach them.
Even for adults who already have a strong relationship with them. Kids today are under constant pressure. It often shows up as anxiety, defensiveness, withdrawal, or shutting down.
If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking:
I just can’t seem to reach this kid.
It feels like something else is going on that they won’t talk about.
I don’t know if they’re unmotivated, overwhelmed, anxious, or just checked out.
This is for you. A lot of kids don’t come right out and say what’s wrong. Not because they’re hiding something — but because they don’t have the language for it yet. That’s why adults have to get better at how we communicate.
Choose Your Challenge
Challenge+
- Same as standard challenge
- AoC Challenge Workbook
- 30 daily challenges
- Additional strategies
Challenge
- Admission to digital community
- Critical communication content
- Weekly Q+A / Happy Hours
- Access to AoC team
Why I care about this
As a teenager, I nearly lost my life — in part because important conversations didn’t happen, or didn’t happen well. I was labeled “hard to reach.”
As a parent, I’ve had to navigate hard conversations with my own son through major life changes — cross-country moves, divorce, changing schools, and loss in the family.
Professionally, I’ve spent over a decade working with kids across more than ten youth sports, in multiple countries, while helping adults communicate more effectively in high-pressure environments. This work shaped my first book, Conscious Coaching. It’s also why this challenge exists.
What this 30-day challenge helps you do
- Understand how kids and adolescents think — especially during conflict
- Stop guessing what’s really going on
- Communicate clearly without therapized language
- Have hard conversations without blowing the relationship up
- Make kids feel heard and cared about without backing away from challenge
- All delivered digitally. From home. Built to fit real life.
What this is not
This isn’t about fixing kids. It’s about improving how we relate to them and reach them. That’s something none of us will ever be good enough at.
FAQs
This challenge is for parents, coaches, teachers, and mentors who care deeply about kids—and feel the weight of not always knowing how to reach them.
If you work with or care for kids or adolescents and want to communicate more clearly, calmly, and effectively—especially during hard moments—this challenge is for you.
You don’t need to be “doing it wrong” to benefit. You just need to want to do it better.
Mondays: New content drops inside a private digital community, delivered through short videos, mixed-media lessons, audio, and lectures.
Each week includes a handout or PDF with practical tools you can use right away.
Thursdays: A private Zoom Q&A or Happy Hour to ask questions and go deeper. All sessions are recorded if you can’t attend live.
Throughout the week, you’ll be encouraged to reflect, share, and interact with support from our team.
This challenge is completely self-paced and asynchronous.
You’ll receive small, digestible daily practices designed to fit into real life. Think of it as micro-dosing communication and interpersonal skills.
Like anything, you’ll get out of it what you put into it.
Once the challenge has begun, all sales are final. This protects the integrity of the group, the content, and the trust of other participants.
