Rise & Shine with Adrienne Gold Davis

If you are carrying something against someone who never apologized, this episode offers a place to start without asking you to pretend you are fine. Adrienne opens with what an old friend told her years later: she used to be jaded, judgmental, and very good at holding a grudge. Becoming a mother in her thirties forced her to ask what she actually stood for, and the answer came from Jewish wisdom she chose to act on before it felt n...

Teshuvah, the Jewish practice of return, is easy to talk about and genuinely hard to do.

In this Rise & Shine conversation, Adrienne Gold Davis walks through the four steps of Teshuvah: cessation, regret, confession, and resolution, with author and educator Carly Israel, who has been sober for 27 years. Carly explains why nothing else works until you stop, why regret arrives after you stop rather than before, and how confession...

Some people irritate us for reasons we cannot explain. This episode offers a Jewish framework for what is really happening, and a practical way to use it.

Adrienne Gold Davis tells the story of a rooftop dinner in Jerusalem, where a young speaker got under her skin until the woman beside her leaned over and said the speaker could have been Adrienne's daughter. What followed was an uncomfortable education in projection: judging in o...

If you have ever lain awake worrying that you are getting parenting wrong, this conversation is for you. Adrienne Gold Davis sits down with Dr. Michael Milobsky, a pediatrician with more than thirty years of experience and a father of seven, to sort the worries worth your energy from the ones you can put down.

They talk through the fears that follow us from infancy onward: missed milestones, sleep, picky eating, screens, and the pr...

Your child's teacher spends more waking hours with them than almost anyone outside your home. Adrienne Gold Davis opens Season 30 of Rise & Shine with a case for putting the bar back up: the honor Jewish tradition asks us to give our parents extends to the people who teach our children. She also shares the pediatrician's line that reframes why your well-behaved student falls apart the moment he walks in your door. 

What if getting older is not about losing who you were, but discovering who you are still becoming?

In this episode of Rise & Shine, Adrienne Gold Davis shares seven lessons she has gathered with age: stay hungry for wisdom, tell yourself the truth, stop running from discomfort, love people without demanding sameness, and protect your peace without losing your humanity.

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Is it ever okay to step back from a parent? In this episode of Rise and Shine, Adrienne Gold Davis explores one of the most painful and least-discussed questions in Jewish family life: what to do when a relationship with a parent becomes harmful. Drawing on Bowen Family Systems Theory alongside Jewish teaching on honoring parents, Adrienne unpacks why complete cutoff often isn't resolution so much as a quieter form of the same conf...

Gratitude is not only a feeling. In Jewish life, it is a practice woven into the day from the moment we wake.

In this episode of Rise and Shine, Adrienne shares a personal story: months of caring for her husband through a frightening illness, the fear that came with it, and the renewed gratitude that followed his recovery.

Every child carries something precious inside, even when the world cannot see it yet.

In this episode of Rise and Shine, host Adrienne returns to the teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbe that every soul is a diamond, infinitely valuable and waiting to be polished until its light shines through. Drawing on the story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, Adrienne explores a truth at the heart of Jewish parenting: latent poten...

Repair is possible, even when parenting feels painful, complicated, or far from what we imagined. In Part 2 of this special Rise and Shine episode, Adrienne continues her conversation with Momentum Educators Ruchi Koval and Jael Toledo about Jewish motherhood, adult children, family dynamics, grief, and repair. This conversation explores what happens when children make choices that challenge our expectations, including choices arou...

Motherhood often comes with a deep desire to protect and hold everything together, but what happens when our children need us to step back? In this first part of a special Rise and Shine episode, Adrienne Gold-Davis introduces the parenting practice of “watch, wait, wonder".

Together with Momentum Educators, Ruchi Koval and Jael Toledo explore radical acceptance, parenting anxiety, the instinct to save, solve, fix, and the di...

Adrienne Gold Davis sits down with Tanya Tsikanovsky, known online as Highly Jewish, for a powerful conversation about what it means to be visibly and unapologetically Jewish after October 7.

Tanya shares how a community she once trusted began to see her differently, why she now centers Jewish identity in every part of her life, and what Jewish pride can look like when rooted not only in activism but also in values, family, resilie...

In this episode of Rise and Shine, Adrienne offers practical language for raising children with strong family values without judging families who live differently. From playdates and kosher standards to teen peer pressure and household boundaries, Adrienne explores how Jewish wisdom can help us protect our children, respect privacy, avoid lashon hara, and model unity without uniformity. For any parent trying to raise confident Jewi...

What if the broken parts of your life are not something to fix, but something to carry with purpose?

In this episode of Rise and Shine, Adrienne explores a deeply Jewish perspective on resilience, identity, and growth. Drawing on a powerful story about a familiar bridge, the wisdom of the Talmud, and the enduring strength of the Jewish people, she reframes what it means to live with both joy and pain at once, offering a grounded, p...