The Growth Lab Podcast
The Growth Lab Podcast
Podcast Description
Join Luba Patlakh-Kaplun as she brings on guests to talk about exploring business growth, achieving family balance, women empowerment, and making meaningful impact. The Growth Lab Podcast delivers practical insights and inspiring stories from entrepreneurs who are navigating both professional success and personal fulfillment.Having built her own success from the ground up, Luba shares authentic perspectives and practical wisdom for those carving their own path. If you’re seeking strategies to grow your business without sacrificing what matters most, this podcast is your essential resource!
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The podcast explores themes such as business growth strategies, achieving work-life balance, women's empowerment, and creating a meaningful impact. For example, episodes may discuss navigating trends in entrepreneurship, personal stories of overcoming challenges, and practical tips for moms balancing business duties with family responsibilities.
You’ve Googled your kid’s development at midnight. You’re drowning in appointments, acronyms, and advice that doesn’t quite fit. Wherever you are in the process, this is the show for you.
Luba Patlakh is a speech-language pathologist, myofunctional therapist, and founder of Kidology, a pediatric practice that has worked with over 150,000 families. She’s also a mom of three. She knows what it’s like to sit with a question that no one around you seems to have the answer to.
Every week, Luba brings on the clinicians, advocates, and specialists who actually work with kids. Real conversations about speech delays, feeding, IEPs, sensory processing, and everything in between. No fluff, no fear. Just the clarity you deserve.
Whether you’re just starting to notice something or you’ve been in the thick of it for years, The Growth Lab gives you the information and confidence to show up for your child.
Most of us were raised on “clean your plate,” “that’s a bad choice,” and “you’re so lucky you can eat that.” Then we grow up and wonder why food feels so loaded. In this episode I sit down with Lea Rifkin, a non-diet registered dietitian and founder of Kindred Nutrition Co., to talk about how early food messaging shapes our kids, and how we can rewrite that story while we heal our own relationship with food.
We get honest about the comments that slip out without us realizing it, why labeling food good or bad tends to backfire, and what it actually looks like to guide your child around food without controlling it. Lea shares the difference between always foods and sometimes foods, why sitting down together matters more than any perfect plate, and the signs that it’s time to reach out for support instead of waiting it out.
If you have a picky eater, a snack grabber, or a little one already picking up messages about their body, this conversation will help you feel steadier at your own table.
Want to work with Lea? Check her out here: https://kindrednutritionco.com
Connect with Luba on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lubapatlakh/
Pre-order Bobo Wears a Bowtie: bobowearsabowtie.com
Luba’s website: lubapatlakh.com
The Confident IEP Parent ebook: theconfidentiepparent.com
00:00 Welcome and meeting Lea Rifkin
02:52 Why our food stories start in childhood
06:09 What non-diet really means
13:09 How the words we use shape the way kids eat
18:14 The phrases parents don’t realize are harmful
27:50 Bodies are like trees, and guidance versus control
37:41 Family meals and modeling around the table
42:36 When to seek help and why not to wait
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