# Irena Smith

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Episode 236 - Parenting Does Not Come With a Playbook with Irena Smith

Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Today’s episode is a conversation between Joanna and Irena. When it comes to parenting, there is not a playbook that parents can use.  Parenting is unique…

What universities want in a college essay may not be what you think

What does it take  to get children into top universities without damaging families, without scandal, jail-time, debilitating tension and humiliation? What roles should parents play? What makes the best college essays? All good questions. And here to talk about those issues is Irena Smith, a long…

How this very smart mother handled an autism diagnosis

When Irena Smith’s  son was diagnosed with autism she got right to work calling on the same innate wizardry she detailed in her recent book The Golden Ticket showing college applicants how to find and express their best selves. It is easy to expect our children to be, as Irena says, some variati…

Irena Smith: Success Is Not One Size Fits All

Society can make you think that going straight to an elite university after high school is the only measure of intelligence or success. Irena Smith begs to differ.

S2E22: Redefining Success and Easing the College Pressure for Our Kids with Dr. Irena Smith

Hello, and welcome back to The Parent Doctor Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Marissa Caudill. Please rate and follow this podcast to help spread this resource, and be sure to visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theparentdoctor.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or join the monthly ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠book club⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, both a…

Replay: Nan Tepper and Eileen Dougharty reveal something BIG. It's GREAT. It's on the way!

Take a look at the recording of our LIVE from this afternoon. We introduced our new project, Wham! Bam! Thank You! Slam! Check it out, and subscribe….and if you want to get brave and tell a story at one of our events, take a look at the themes, and let us know. The guidelines (in brief) are in the…

No, No, Nanette!

When I was little, I had two nicknames; “Nancy No-No” and “No, No, Nanette.” My folks thought they were hilarious for thinking up these clever monikers, and took enormous pleasure in taunting me with them for years. Backstory is unimportant, so unimportant that I never learned what it was, though I…

Ch 41: The Stories We Carry with Irena Smith

We kick things off with author signatures, big family updates, and the very strange feeling of watching their boys grow up and move toward their own next chapters. Then we're joined by Dr. Irena Smith, author of Troika, a powerful memoir about a three-day road trip across California with her mother…

Taking the Long Roadtrip Home

From a Tennessee farm to California's Central Coast, the action-packed road trips of this panel navigate the complicated, winding paths of familial connection with heart, humor, and sincerity. Kevin Wilson's Run for the Hills takes off with an unexpected road trip across America when Madeleine's lo…

Bibliocracy Radio: Irena Smith on Troika

My guest this week is Irena Smith,  the author of a defining, or perhaps further defining memoir from a writer, memoirist and raconteur whose storytelling accommodates or contextualizes nearly any circumstance, and bring insight, humor, and welcome complication. In her latest, Smith chronicles an u…