Don't just parent. Lead. The Most Important Thing is a podcast about building intentional family culture. We explore how ambitious, busy families can create connection, meaning, and resilience at home—just as intentionally as they do in other aspects of life. Each episode blends personal stories, research, and experiments you can try in your own family. Because when the world is moving fast, the most important thing is what we build at home. Hosts: Danielle and Greg Neufeld
Every couple has to navigate how to divide responsibilities, whether it’s managing groceries, handling finances, or aligning on long-term goals. For us, the breakthrough happened when we shifted away from addressing everything on the fly and instead put a shared system in place to prioritize what matters most.
What we’ve realized is that the specific system you use isn’t as important as simply having one. A syst...
🎙️ TMIT 27: This week, we explore a topic that hits close to home and raises some big questions: the booming industry of parenting advice — and how it’s built on the back of your anxiety.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Parenting challenges don’t reflect failure; they reflect purpose. The hard stuff? It’s what builds strong families.
🎙️ TMIT 26: Sometimes kids run into conflict with other kids. But sometimes kids run into conflict with grownups—teachers, coaches, camp counselors, even random adults in the community. And when that happens, most of us as parents want to swoop in and handle it ourselves.
In this episode, we share a different path. One where we don’t jump in to solve the problem, but instead equip our kids to handle it directly. We call this leadin...
TMIT 25 🎙: This week we’re talking about the difference between parenting and building family culture, using a framework from Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson. Parenting is a lot like management—it creates stability through routines and logistics. But building family culture is leadership. It’s about shaping values, vision, and identity.
We share how this shift in language helped us better understand what we’re doing at home...
What happens when your 10-year-old asks for a magazine and you realize there is not a single one you feel good about handing her? That is the moment Mary Flenner faced, and it led to Tween Magazine.
Mary is a mom of three girls, a longtime marketing and content writer, and the founding editor of a lifestyle magazine designed just for tweens. Instead of pushing girls to grow up too fast, Tween celebrates silliness, creativity, indivi...
TMIT 01 🎙️: Our very first episode, now with video! (Spotify and YouTube only)
“What works about the family meeting is that it’s a regularly scheduled time to draw attention to specific behaviors. If you don’t have a safe environment to discuss problems, any plan to improve your family will go nowhere." – David Starr
What makes a weekly family meeting not just happen—but matter? In this episode, we kick off a conversation about one...
TMIT 23 🎙️ Every journey has a beginning, and this is ours. We recorded this episode a few days after 01 Family Meetings. We didn’t release it at the time because, well, it felt premature. But we also didn’t want to wait too long, so here we are.
At the time, we really didn’t know where we were going but we did have a feeling: that family culture matters and more people...
TMIT 22 🎙️ What if your next family trip could be more than just a change of scenery? In this episode, we’re talking about how to transform a typical family vacation into a true family adventure—one that creates lasting memories, builds connection, and leaves everyone feeling fulfilled (even when things don’t go perfectly).
We’re heading out on our own 14-day trip across the Pacific No...
📺 Episode 21: Seeing & Being Seen
In this final episode on the Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto, we talk about what it means to truly see and be seen.
“I will not teach or love or show you anything perfectly, but I will try to let you see me, and I will always hold sacred the gift of seeing you – truly, deeply seeing you.”
Over the past 11 episodes, we’ve explored courage, compassion, boundaries, accountability, and joy. Here, we tie...
In this penultimate episode of our Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto series, we reflect on one of the most courageous lines in Brené Brown’s manifesto:
“The greatest gift that I can give you is to live and love with my whole heart and to dare greatly.”What does it mean to dare greatly as a parent? For Danielle, it’s reclaiming personal ambition and giving herself permission to live a full life outside of...
In this episode of TMIT Teammates, we sit down with our friend Noah Zaltz, a fellow investor, deep thinker, and someone who brings the same intention to family life as he does to his work.
We explore what it means to create a family culture that feels like home, not through rigid rules, but by shaping a sense of “normal”—the daily rhythms, values, and habits that hel...
From the Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto:
“We will always have permission to be ourselves with each other no matter what. You will always belong here.”
In this episode of The Most Important Thing, we dive into one of the most fundamental human needs: belonging.
We unpack the tension between raising kids with a strong family identity while also giving them the space to become their own people.
Alon...
In this episode, we explore one of the hardest lines from Brené Brown’s Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto:
“Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain, but instead I will sit with you and teach you how to feel it.”
Danielle shares how she lives with acute medical fear and anxiety, and where it stems from.
Greg reflects on watchin...
We’re joined in person by our dear friend and neighbor, Julianne Annunziata Peters. Julianne shares her family’s move from NYC to Delray Beach, how a serendipitous beach moment (thanks to our daughters!) reconnected us after decades, and the lasting legacy of her mother’s influence on how she now parents her own daughter.
“When uncertainty and scarcity visit, you will be able to draw from the spirit that is a part of our everyday life.”
In today’s conversation, we explore what it means to bring spirit into daily family life. We reflect on how our personal spiritual practices may be invisible to our kids and discuss Dr. Lisa Miller’s research on how we are all innately spiritual beings.
We share:
Welcome to the very first episode of TMIT Teammates—our new segment where we talk with real families we love and admire about how they’re building culture at home.
Our first guest is our brilliant and adventurous friend Jennifer Zelman. Jen is raising a blended family across two continents—splitting time between New York and Rome—and in this episode, she shares what th...
“I want you to know joy, so together we will practice gratitude. I want you to feel joy, so together we will learn how to be vulnerable.” — Brené Brown, Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto
This week, we’re talking about joy—what it feels like, why it can be hard to stay with, and how we’re learning to welcome more of it into our family life.
We explore the kind of joy that sneaks up on you, the kind that’s la...
🎙️ Episode 15: Accountability & Respect
This week, we’re diving into two words that carry a lot of weight—and often get misunderstood in parenting: accountability and respect.
We unpack what these concepts really mean in a family setting (hint: it’s not about obedience), and how we’re trying to model them at home—imperfectly, but intentionally.
From birth stories to playground conflicts, we talk about:
This week, we’re talking about boundaries—inside our home and outside of it.
The kind that protect our family culture… and the kind that make everyone just a little bit uncomfortable (in the best way).
From Brené Brown’s Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto:
“We will set and respect boundaries. We will honor hard work, hope, and perseverance. Rest and play will be family values, as well as family practices.”
We sta...
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