Trust Your Kids’ Journeys with Millie & Gardner Flanigan

Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Show

You're in for a double rainbow treat today with the incredible, insightful, resilient Flanigan power couple - Millie and Gardner! Since many of our listeners are parents, often with kids in the Club, we are building on our parent-perspective series. The Flanigans are long-time supporters of the club; as they mention today, they were involved in the club even before they had kids! Millie is currently a Physician Assistant and worked for 22 years in family medicine and now work full time in mental health as a Psychiatric PA. Gardner is the Executive Director of STARS. They have two kids, Bode (20) and Merritt (15) who provide the foundation for this conversation (unbeknownst to them)!

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Today's conversation is fun and engaging all the way through including the following & more:

• How Millie & Garnder met (a baby blue snowsuit may be involved)
• The fire: their house literally burned down
• Finding community and support amid traumatic times
• Resiliency, kindness, generosity & allowing yourself to receive
• Mental health perspectives from Millie (her speciality) including tips on how to help your kids through big decisions and tough times
• "Be there for them, but don't feel their journey with them."
• How to battle "swooping parent" syndrome
• A guest appearance from Peter Lemonjello!
• Gardner's alter ego is one of SSWSC's greatest announcers
• How he fell into announcing & why it's important to keep it fun
• & so much more!

As always, please share your questions, comments, feedback and requests. Go to sswsc.org! Now get out there and support, lead or be a champion on and off the mountain!