EPISODES
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Hold Me Back Podcast: Shady Side Academy
Aidan and Ash interview Lauren Lieberman, currently the Director of College Counseling at Shady Side Academy and former Assistant Director of Admissions at The University of Chicago. Lauren has spent two decades deep in the trenches, helping thousands of families navigate the college admissions process.
Hold Me Back Podcast: The College Admission Series (CAS)
The college admissions process has become increasingly filled with uncertainty and stress for millions of families. In this multi-part series, Aidan and Ash interview the admission leaders of several renowned universities in an effort to demystify the admissions process so families can navigate through it in a healthy and rewarding manner.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Social Media
Social Media is no longer just a "thing teens are into" - it's become the primary portal into Gen Z's lives, and the metaverse in which they experience every aspect of their world. In this episode of Hold Me Back,Aidan and Ash explore the dangers and wonders of these social networks, including how parents and teens should approach them differently, in a candid interview with Carrie Kerpen, a bestselling author and CEO of the most prominent social media consultancy in the country.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Grades
In this immensely emotional and raw episode of Hold Me Back, Ash and Aidan openly and honestly tackle a topic that's caused turmoil in their own household, and is a daily dinner table topic for millions of families - Grades.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Bonus Sports Episode
Join Aidan and Ash as they take a break from debating the heady issues facing our generations, and tackle an even more important question - is Tom Brady the undisputed GOAT? During this extensive interview on Hold Me Back with his father, who's been studying Brady and the Patriots for decades, Aidan discovers that perhaps we’ve been looking at the Brady debate all wrong.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Mom’s Perspective
Is there anything harder than raising a teenager in today's world? In this episode of Hold Me Back, Ash and Aidan get mom's perspective from the two co-founders of Your Teen Media, a leading platform for information and advice on raising teenagers.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Critical Thinking
In Part 2 of this Hold Me Back podcast episode, Aidan and Ash explore how we might overcome our biases and motivated reasoning - the cause of the divisiveness - by bringing back rational dialogue and critical thinking.
Hold Me Back Podcast: Battling Misinformation, with Guest Dr. Alex Lickerman, M.D.
In this two-part episode of the Hold Me Back podcast, Ash and Aidan discuss the biggest threat to Gen-Z: the erosion of critical thinking due to the digital world. They debate what's been called an "epidemic of cognitive contagion" in terms of misinformation with no end in sight.
