Building Stronger Relationships With Adult Children with Deborah Riegel and Sophie Riegel (Ep. 6)
Your children may be adults now, but figuring out how to relate to them as adults isn’t always easy. How do you stay close, offer advice, and handle disagreements without slipping back into the parent-child roles that worked when they were younger?
In this episode, Jesse Lunin-Pack, CFP®, speaks with Deborah Grayson Riegel, Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, and Consultant, and Sophie Riegel, Speaker, Entrepreneur, ICF-Certified Coach, and Best-Selling Author. They explore how their mother-daughter relationship became more peer-to-peer, why mutual respect matters, and how support can exist without agreement. They also share approaches to feedback, conflict, invitations, decision-making, and the small interactions that help relationships deepen over time.
Key points:
- How parent-child relationships can become more equal as children enter adulthood and develop their own perspectives
- Why supporting an adult child’s decision doesn’t require a parent to agree with the decision they’ve chosen to make
- How positive interactions can create a stronger foundation before difficult feedback or family conflict occurs
- Why changing how you extend invitations can reduce tension and make spending time together easier for everyone
- How defining decision rights before a disagreement can make working with family members more manageable and clear
- And more!
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About our Guests:
Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke’s Fuqua Business School, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University. She writes on leadership communication and presentation skills for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company, and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Deborah’s clients range from Amazon, Blackrock, and Google to J&J, NASA, and The United States Army. She is the author of “Aim High and Bounce Back: A Successful Woman’s Guide to Rethinking and Rising Up from Failure”, “Go to Help: 31 Strategies to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help” and “Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life”.
Sophie Riegel is a professional speaker, ICF-certified coach, entrepreneur, and author who focuses on helping people better understand themselves and one another across generations. She built a six-figure business before the age of 20 and has delivered a TEDx talk focused on destigmatizing mental health. Through her speaking, coaching, and writing, Sophie explores topics including generational differences, communication, personal growth, and relationships. She has also co-authored books with her mother, Deborah Grayson Riegel, bringing their perspectives as both family members and collaborators to their work.
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