Parenting and Personalities
One thing about being a parent – there’s no shortage of personalities to be surrounded by. Our kids, our partners, our family, our friends. They keep us laughing, growing, loving, and crying. If only they understood us. Like the musician Van Morrison once sang “When people understand what I mean, mama said there will be days like this.” Adelaide Australia’s Kate Mason is an author, wife, and mother who has spent her career studying personality and relationships. In this podcast she looks at why relationships work, and why some don't. She also looks at how our personalities impact our relationships and examines what compels our children, husbands, wives and others to behave the way they do. This podcast is designed to help you understand those you love. A half hour listening on your own, will connect you with the ones you care about the most.
Episodes
Have you ever walked away from a disagreement with your partner absolutely certain of what was said…only to have them remember it completely differently? What if that isn't manipulation at all, but simply the way human memory actually works?
Kate Mason welcomes back Associate Professor Celine Vangolde from the University of Sydney, whose research explores memory, trauma, child testimony, and psychological abuse.
Celine's...
What if the secret to raising happier children wasn't about perfect parenting techniques…but about the quality of the relationship between you and your parenting partner?
Kate Mason is joined by author, family therapist, and family systems expert Dr. Jenny Brown for a return visit that builds beautifully on their first conversation.
Jenny brings decades of clinical experience alongside her deeply personal journey o...
Modern life is fraying us. But we can learn how to come back to ourselves.
In this thoughtful and deeply relatable episode Kate welcomes back educator, social worker, author, and speaker Stephanie Malia Krauss to explore why so many parents, teachers, carers, and children feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and disconnected.
Drawing from her book How We Thrive: Caring for Kids and Ourselves in a Changing World, Stephanie explain...
Your memory might feel certain, but it is not a recording.
In this fascinating episode of Parenting and Personalities, Kate speaks with Associate Professor Celine Vangolde from the University of Sydney about how memory really works, especially in children.
Celine explains why two people can live through the same moment and remember it differently, why memories are reconstructed rather than replayed, and how emotions, cont...
This is an episode originally published in November 2024. It is one of my most popular.
Are you raising resilient children?
In this episode, Kate Mason and Tania Johnson dive into the importance of building resilience and emotional strength in both parents and children.
From the benefits of play to the power of independent problem-solving, they explore how cultural differences impact our approach to parenting.
Discover practical ...
What if the reason you and your partner drive each other absolutely crazy over the washing, the cushions, or even the toilet paper roll has nothing to do with bad habits and everything to do with personality?
Kate Mason takes a warm, witty, and surprisingly eye-opening dive into the everyday irritations that quietly shape our closest relationships.
Drawing on the melancholic and phlegmatic temperaments and the Myers-Briggs judg...
What if the real challenge in parenting is not about doing more, but about understanding how we show up?
In this conversation, Kate Mason speaks with family therapist Dr Jenny Brown about the quiet pressure many parents carry to get everything right and the self-doubt that often follows.
With decades of experience and a foundation in Bowen family systems theory, Jenny explores how a parent’s emotional responses, anx...
What if the "right" path to parenthood looked nothing like the one you imagined and turned out to be exactly the one you were meant to take?
Kate Mason sits down with Lorena Otes, author of Solo Mum By Choice, dance teacher, and mother who made one of the most courageous choices a woman can make: to become a parent entirely on her own terms.
Lorena opens up about navigating 12 rounds of IVF, genetic discoveries she never ...
What if the hard weeks…the ones where nothing is catastrophically wrong, but everything still feels completely overwhelming…are actually telling you something important about yourself?
Kate Mason invites you into one of those weeks.
A solo episode unlike any other, Kate shares the real, raw, and sometimes messy experience of a family illness unfolding over Easter. Sick grandchildren, worried parents, a husba...
What if the overwhelm you feel as a parent isn't a personal failing but a signal that something deeply human is missing from your family's life?
Kate Mason sits down with Stephanie Malia Krauss, an educator, social worker, author, and mother of teenage boys, to explore the revolutionary idea of "re-humaning": reclaiming the connections, love, and belonging that modern life has quietly stolen from our families.
Stephanie's...
What if the moment your child stops believing isn't an ending… but the beginning of something even more meaningful?
Kate Mason takes a warmlook at one of family life's most tender rituals: Easter traditions.
From the egg hunts of her own Adelaide childhood to the night her son Jack and daughter Cassie discovered the truth behind the Easter Bunnyand the beautiful reframe that followed,Kate explores how traditions sh...
What if the biggest barriers to your autistic child's progress aren't the ones anyone told you about… and the solutions are already backed by science?
Kate Mason welcomes back Theresa Lyons, PhD, scientist, autism researcher, and founder of navigating AWEtism, for a conversation that goes beyond the diagnosis and into the biology.
Theresa unpacks three powerful areas that functional medicine research has identified...
What if the most powerful personality lesson of your life came not from a book or a podcast…but from a train in Tokyo?
Kate Mason shares warm, witty, and surprisingly profound reflections from her holiday in Japan.
Travelling with her family, Kate finds herself using the four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, to make sense of everything from Tokyo's train etiquette to the way her ...
What if the words you use every day…without even realising it…are quietly shaping who your children believe they can become?
Kate Mason sits down with communications expert, author, and mother of two boys, Kate Mason, to explore the hidden power of gendered language in parenting.
From "be careful" on the playground to "give grandma a kiss," the two Kates unpack the subtle, everyday phrases that send very dif...
Parenting isn’t a performance, it’s a relationship, and the messiest moments might be your best clues.
Kate talks with family therapist and educator Lisa Taylor about her new book The Perfect Parent Trap and why “losing it” doesn’t mean you’re failing. It may mean an old, tender part of you is getting “ignited.”
They explore Lisa’s “heartprint” framework (t...
What if the anger you feel as a mother isn't a character flaw…but a signal worth listening to?
Kate Mason sits down with Lauren Novak, award-winning journalist, mother of two, and author of the groundbreaking new book Meltdown: Why Motherhood Makes Us Angry and What to Do About It.
Lauren brings her two decades of investigative journalism to bear on one of motherhood's most taboo subjects: mum rage.
Drawing on...
What if the mood swings, the sleepless nights, the sudden irritation, and the loss of joy aren't signs that something is wrong with you…but signals that your biology is quietly staging a dramatic takeover?
Kate Mason sits down with Dr. Joanna Bruce, GP of over 25 years, clinical director of Myma Health, and passionate advocate for women's hormonal wellbeing, to talk openly about perimenopause and menopause.
Togethe...
What if an autism diagnosis could actually open doors instead of closing them?
Kate Mason speaks with Dr. Theresa Lyons—a Yale-trained chemist and autism expert—about how her daughter’s diagnosis completely transformed her personal and professional life.
Drawing on her background in pharmaceutical research and medical strategy, Theresa refused to accept outdated assumptions and instead turned to the late...
What if the key to being heard isn’t changing who you are but learning how to be powerfully likeable without apology?
Kate Mason sits down with another Kate Mason—executive communications coach, world champion debater, and author of Powerfully Likeable, to unpack the invisible dynamics of communication, particularly for women navigating work, parenting, and presence.
Together, they explore why women often feel the n...
What happens when a baby changes everything... except one partner's life?
Kate Mason welcomes Amy Taylor-Kabbaz, author of Mama Rising, for a raw, insightful dive into the invisible shifts parenthood brings to relationships.
Amy unpacks the silent resentment many new mothers feel when their worlds are upended while their partners’ routines stay largely intact.
Together, they explore the mental load, the myth of maternal in...
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