Fight For Your Children, featuring Co-Parents Shawn A. Barksdale & Monique Barksdale

Fight For Your Children, featuring Co-Parents Shawn A. Barksdale & Monique Barksdale.
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Fight For Your Children

What does it really mean to fight for your children?

In this eye-opening and heartfelt episode, co-parents Shawn and Monique Barksdale pull back the curtain on their journey navigating the school system with gifted, talented, and deeply curious children—children who weren’t automatically selected for gifted programs.

Instead of backing down, they leaned in—with purpose.

They talk candidly about how advocating for your child doesn’t mean confrontation. It means translation—of grades, behaviors, emotional intelligence, and untapped potential. It means pulling together character, academic performance, and parental presence to open doors that might otherwise remain closed.

They share how they keep their children engaged through gymnastics, baseball, martial arts, soccer, football, entrepreneurial programs, and travel. How they stoke curiosity with books, encourage responsibility through everyday tasks, and build empathy by teaching their children to see others—and serve others.

This episode is for every parent who’s ever felt unheard…

For every teacher who wonders how to reach “that” student…

And for every child whose brilliance doesn’t fit the test score.

You’ll walk away reminded:

🧠 Smart is more than a label.

🫶 Emotional intelligence matters.

💬 Advocacy doesn’t have to be aggressive—it can be graceful, clear, and powerful.

Because when we teach our children how to rise, they’ll reach back and lift others too.