Empowered by Hope

You want the best possible quality of life for your child regardless of diagnosis or prognosis. Raising a child with medical complexities is often lonely, scary and overwhelming. Join two parents of amazing children with rare medical complexities, Emily K. Whiting and Ashlyn Thompson, to get help and grow with them into empowered advocates for our kids. Here you’ll find a community of support, encouragement, education and resources, equipping you to navigate your child’s medical complexities with hope. To get more personal support, connect with us directly at www.ParentEmpowermentNetwork.org.

Empowered by Hope is a kids podcast hosted by Ashlyn Thompson, with 89 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ashlyn Thompson hosts Empowered by Hope, a kids show with 89 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  The Pressure We Put on Ourselves and the Burnout That Follows

  Mar 24, 20261h 8mS1

  <p>Send us a text, we want to hear from you!</p><p>In this episode, Ashlyn sits down with <b>Danielle Ireland—licensed therapist and host of </b><b>Don’t Cut Your Own Bangs</b>—for a real, unfiltered conversation about the internal pressure so many medical parents and caregivers carry.</p><p>That constant voice that says you’re both too much and not enough…<br/> that you should be doing more, even when you’re already doing everything…<br/> that it’s all on you to hold it together and make it okay.</p><p>Together, they explore:</p> ...

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  Episode #5

  Why Connecting With Another Medical Parent Can Change Everything

  Feb 26, 202641 minS1

  <p>Send us a text, we want to hear from you!</p><p>There’s a moment many medical parents know too well: the late-night scroll, the knot in your throat, the feeling that you need an answer and a hand to hold—right now. That’s where our story begins, with two moms, a Facebook group, a long hospital stay, and one honest message that turned fear into friendship.<br/><br/>Co-hosts and close friends, Ashlyn Thompson & Ashley Milbourne, talk about how relationships change when your child’s care gets complex, and why connecting with someone who has lived your kin...

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  Episode #4

  Turning Insight Into Evidence: A Journal for Caregivers with Amy Lamb

  Feb 11, 202628 minS1

  <p>Send us a text, we want to hear from you!</p><p>You know your child best. The challenge is proving it in a 15-minute appointment or during morning rounds at the hospital.</p><p>In this episode, Emily talks with Amy Lamb, creator of My Health Journal, about a simple journaling system that helps caregivers track symptoms, medications, sleep, stress, and daily observations in one organized place.</p><p>When patterns are documented clearly, doctors can see what you see. That’s how Amy uncovered her mother’s misdiagnosis after years of stalled treatment.</p><p>This isn’t abou...

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  Episode #3

  Holding Hope Together When Our Children Suffer: Support for Medical Parents

  Feb 3, 202659 minS1

  <p>Send us a text, we want to hear from you!</p><p>Some weeks call for a pause.</p><p>Last week, we were scheduled to release a new episode sharing a valuable resource for medical parents. But with everything that unfolded in our country, it felt important to step back, take a breath, and model what we so often encourage within this community: giving ourselves space and grace when things feel heavy, and allowing time to process before pressing on.</p><p>So this week, we’re revisiting a conversation from the early days of Empowered by Hope—an e...

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  Episode #2

  Emily K. Whiting: Love, Impact, and the Work that Continues

  Jan 19, 202632 minS1

  <p>Send us a text, we want to hear from you!</p><p>January on Empowered by Hope is dedicated to something we talk about often but live out imperfectly: self-care. Or, as we prefer to name it in medical-parent reality, <b>self-preservation</b> — the small, necessary choices that allow us to be the parent advocates we want and need to be.</p><p>This episode opens with a deeply personal conversation as we honor <b>Emily K. Whiting</b>, our incredible co-founder of Parent Empowerment Network and co-host of Empowered by Hope. Emily shares her decision to pause her fo...

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