Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin has spent years working directly with over 1,500 challenging kids and reaching more than a million parents through his Celebrate Calm program. His podcast takes that deep well of hands-on experience and distills it into twice-weekly episodes that typically run 10 to 20 minutes. Short, punchy, and immediately applicable. The Calm Parenting Podcast doesn't focus exclusively on ADHD, but Kirk's approach was essentially built for the kinds of kids who get ADHD, ODD, OCD, and ASD diagnoses. His core message: the parent regulates before the child can. That might sound simple, but Kirk has an uncanny ability to describe the exact scenario happening in your house -- the power struggles, the bedtime battles, the explosive reactions to minor transitions -- and then walk you through a different way to handle it. With over 560 episodes and a 4.7-star rating from more than 1,300 reviews, Kirk has clearly found his audience. He records episodes addressing specific listener questions, so the content stays grounded in real family situations. Recent episodes have covered PDA and anxiety resistance, demand avoidance in teens, and what to do when rewards and consequences have stopped working. His style is direct and occasionally blunt, but there's genuine compassion underneath. Parents who feel like they've been stuck in a cycle of yelling and guilt often say this show helped them break it.