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Hey, I'm Sean. 

Growing up in San Diego in the '90s, my biggest dream wasn’t fame or fortune. It was this:

Be a dad.
Be a husband.
Have a great family.
Create a home filled with love.

That’s all I ever wanted.

But not one taught me the EQ tools I needed to make this dream happen. But when I became a dad in 2005… I had no idea what I was doing. I was not the man you see on my social media videos or hear on my podcast. 

I had hopes, dreams, and empty toolbox and a ton of unhealed emotional patterns.
Angry ourburts one day, Avoidant the next.

Made excuses. Blamed.
Quick to react. Harsh with discipline.
Then came the Guilt. The confusion.
Painful arguments with Danielle.
The fog of doubt.
I felt lost. Alone. Drowning in the chaos of family life.

All I ever wanted was to be a good parent.
To have a connected, loving family.
But I didn’t know how.

Still—I believed there had to be a better way.
A smarter, kinder, more emotionally intelligent way.
And I was determined to find it.

So I did.

I read everything I could:
Parenting psychology. Child development. Family dynamics. Brain science. Emotional intelligence. Trauma. Habits. Grit. Anxiety. Guilt. Overparenting. Connection.

I found brilliant mentors and books.
I studied positive parenting, attachment theory, and the work of people like Dr. Laura Markham.
I read the research. Took the notes. Did the work. I was obsessed. 

But the real learning didn’t come from books.

It came from people…Being with them…In their homes.
Living rooms.
Couches.
Kitchen tables.
Tear-stained stories whispered so the kids couldn’t hear
I got invited into the messy, sacred spaces of real life. Into the pain. The beauty. The chaos.
Into the behind-the-scenes moments most people never see.

I watched. I listened. I asked hard questions.
What works? What doesn’t? What actually changes a child’s behavior? What brings peace to a home?

I sat with overwhelmed parents.
With burned-out moms.
With frustrated dads.
With teenagers—screen-addicted, anxious, defiant, withdrawn, brilliant, beautiful teenagers.
I met lonely kids. Scared kids. Angry kids. Addicted kids. Anxious kids.
I met thriving kids. Gracious, joyful, self-aware kids. Leaders in the making.

And through it all…
I learned.

I learned that some parents are better than others.

And some parenting tools? Way better than others.

The most influential, connected, grounded parents are that way because they use better tools. Not because they’re perfect. Not because they were raised right. Not because they’re naturally calm and wise. They just got their hands on the right tools—and they used them.

I learned that great parenting tools exist in every society, culture, and era. They’re not new. They’re ancient. Maybe this book feels fresh to you, but the truth is, these tools have been around forever. We can only use the tools someone gives us…

What is new? A tidal wave of screens. TikTok. Instagram. YouTube. Gaming. Text threads. Group chats. All this tech has changed childhood, changed adolescence—and changed parenting. We need better tools to parent in a world with these distractions.

When I started learning these tools, I knew I had to bring them into my own home. My real home. With my real, imperfect kids.

So I did.

And things changed. Fast.

First, I changed.

Then my kids did.

Our once-chaotic home slowly became a place of peace. A place of joy. It didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen. I made a ton of mistakes. Still do. But parenting stopped feeling like an endless battle—and started feeling more like a wild, meaningful adventure.

My kids responded. They listened. We connected. I could speak calmly and get quick cooperation. I could set limits and still keep the love flowing. Danielle and I got on the same page. Our home felt like a team.

And somewhere along the way, I realized something powerful:

There are millions of parents out there who are exactly where I used to be.

Struggling. Surviving. Reacting. Lost in the fog of parenting.

And I wanted to help.

I dreamed that maybe—just maybe—I could be a kind of dude SuperNanny. That I could teach parents the tools I had learned. That I could help create peaceful homes, without shame or fear. 

Fast Forward

That dream I had? It came true.

Today, tens of millions of parents have watched my videos. My podcast often ranks in the top charts. I’ve coached CEOs, school principals, counselors, and therapists. My 1:1 sessions and parent IP membership community have created deep, lasting change. I’ve helped thousands of parents transform their families. 

All because of you. You made this book possible. Thank you.

I’ve heard from dads who say, “You get me.” “You talk like I do.” “Finally, someone who doesn’t make me feel stupid or broken.”

And I’ve heard from moms who say, “I want tools that actually work.” “I want emotional intelligence in my parenting.” “I want to be better than what I grew up with.”

That’s why I wrote this book—for you.

This is for parents who want to raise emotionally intelligent kids…

Who grow up to be wise, grounded 18-year-olds…

Who become compassionate spouses…

Who become loving, thoughtful parents…

Who raise your future grandkids with wisdom and EQ…

And who change the world through their parenting.

Because that’s what great parenting does.

It doesn’t just fix today’s problems.

It echoes into the future. It leaves fingerprints on time.

Years from now, people will tell stories about how you parented—what you said, how you showed up, what kind of presence you were in your kids’ lives.

Good parenting changes today.

Good parenting changes the future.

Good parenting changes the world.

If you want to change the world through your parenting…I’ll show you how.

If you are ready for positive change...

I'd love to speak with you.

Sean Donohue

Founder, Family Coach, Speaker, Steph Curry Fan, BBQ Master

 

Back in 2004, Sean saw the TV show The SuperNanny and was inspired!

He said to his wife Danielle, "I would love to do that...help parents and kids...I should become a Dude SuperNanny! I could really help people."

 Today, Sean has helped millions of parents and has coached young people who went on to become CEOS, Worldwide leaders, amazing mothers, Hollywood TV and film stars, YouTube stars, TV and news personalities, reality television stars, business entrepreneurs, and college athletes.

Most importantly, Sean has helped thousands of parents become the leaders they were meant to be...

and helped countless young people to become mature, kind, responsible, successful adults; many of whom have now become happy, healthy parents themselves. 

Sean Donohue graduated from  UC San Diego and has a Masters degree from Golden Gate.

Sean enjoys sports, fishing, backpacking, concerts and livin' it up on his pontoon.

"The Family Coach" on Social Media

Instagram

300,000+ Followers

@The.FamilyCoach

TikTok

600,000+ Followers

@The.Family.Coach

PMT on Facebook

500,000+ followers

@PMT.Family

Some of the Shows and Podcasts Sean Has Been Featured On

Sean's interview on the TV show Take 5.

 

Some of Sean Donohue's Top Parenting Articles

Keynotes, Masterminds, Retreats and Parent Ed

Sean speaks LIVE to many thousands of parents every year...and tens of millions via social media.

Parents Say

"Sean's energy, humor and connection with the audience - 10 out of 10!"-Mom

"Amazing intro, great use of humor, tech and role-playing."-Mom

"Sean role playing and acting like both the parent and the child was incredible."-Mom

-Sean taught me to tune into my own emotions"-Mom

 

Inspirational. Educational. Transformational.​

Sean uses a unique mix of excellent relatable humor, audience interaction, powerful story-telling, EQ skills, and modern research to educate and inspire parents worldwide.

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Parents Say...

                                

Frequently Asked Questions

Sean's rate varies from $0-10,000 per event day.

Sean speaks at Masterminds, Men's Retreats, Business Executive Events, Couples Retreats, Parenting Conferences, Overnight Family Camps, Communication Summits, and Mindfulness Retreats 

Sean does pro-bono speaking for various good causes and also at public schools, non-profits and churches who may have limited budgets.

Alhambra High School, Martinez

Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek 

Bishop’s Ranch, Healdsburg

Boys Team Charity, Alamo/Danville

Bret Harte Middle School, San Jose

Cal High School, San Ramon

Castillero Middle School, San Jose

Chevron World Headquarters, San Ramon

Clayton Valley High School, Clayton

Community Presbyterian Church, Danville

College Park High School, Pleasant Hill

Carondelet High School, Concord

Charlotte Wood Middle School, Danville

Community Presbyterian Church, Danville

Creekside Community Church, Alamo

Creekside Elementary School, Danville

Crestwood Healing Center, Pleasant Hill

De La Salle High School, Concord

Diablo Vista Middle School, Danville

Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon

Dublin High School, Dublin

East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland piscopal Church of the Resurrection, Pleasant HillHearst Elementary School, Pleasanton

Hope Center, Pleasant Hill

Fallon Middle School, Dublin

First Presbyterian Church of Alameda - Alameda, CAale Ranch Middle School, San Ramon

First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley - Berkeley, CAHope Center, Pleasant Hill

John Baldwin Elementary School, Danville

Los Cerros Middle School, Danville

Montair Elementary, Danville

Monte Vista High School, Danville

Mount Diablo Unified School District, Concord

Mothers Together, Various locations

MOPS, Various locations

Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, Walnut Creek 

National Charity League, Davis

National Charity League, Danville

Pleasant Hill Middle School, Pleasant Hill

Pleasanton Library, Pleasanton

Rancho Romero Elementary School, Danville

Restore, Concord

Saint Agnes Catholic School, Concord

Saint Isidore's Catholic School Danville

Saint James Episcopal Church, Fremont aint Joan of Arc Church, San Ramon

Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church, Walnut Creek

Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Walnut Creek Saint Philip Neri Catholic School, Alameda

Saint Raymond Catholic School, San Ramon

San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Danville

San Ramon Valley Christian Academy, Danville

San Ramon Valley High School, Danville

Stone Valley Middle School, Danville

Tabernacle Christian School, Concord

Valley Bible Church, Dublin

Vista Grande Elementary School, Danville

Walnut Creek Christian Academy, Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church, Walnut Creek

Wells Middle School, Dublin

WorkDay, Dublin

Click on the "Contact Us About Speaking" button.  We will contact you and discuss your need, answer your questions, and make a plan together.

Our speaking rates vary depending on speaker, venue, audience and location.

Sean is Very Different...

...and not your typical speaker.

1. In a "family space" saturated with mostly women and female speakers, Sean is a man/father that both men and women can relate with. A dad who likes sports, the outdoors, business and thinks and talks like a man.

2. More than educate parents, Sean inspires. he speaks in a way that touches emotions.

Audiences laugh and cry. They walk away feeling empowered. Inspired. Changed. 

(Listen to his podcast to hear this!)

 3. Sean understands modern parents. he is one. He knows they are exhausted, overwhelmed, and want more than boring speakers, boring charts, boring PP slides, scary stories and overwhelming statistics when they see a speaker. 

4. Sean can speak to a group full of Stay-At-Home mom or at Tech Week to a room of Tech Bros. Sean can lead a mastermind toi figure out work life balance and to a room of parents trying to figure out how to get their kids off screens. Sean can connect with anyone and everyone.

5. Sean uses story-telling and role-playing to offer people a unique, one-of-kind experience.

 

A Custom Experience

Sean creates custom experiences that best support the parents in attendance and the goals of the event organizers.

Evaluation: One of the reasons Sean is so sought after as a speaker is that he provides post-talk surveys to the audience.

Sean plans on, and expects, 10/10 feedback! (and normally gets it.)

Speaking Catalog and Ideas

Parent Experiences​

How to Help Your Child/Teen Build Grit, Confidence and Emotional Intelligence

Schools Won't Teach This: How 

How to Talk So They Listen and Listen So They Talk

How to Be Close To Your Children and Guide Them Into Maturity

How to Emotion Coach Your Children

How to Respond to Vaping, Drugs, Alcohol, Screen Addition and Defiance

What Kids Wish Their Parents Knew

How to Teach Your Children High-Level EQ-Skills

How To Emotion Coach Your Child Through Anger And Anxiety

8 Life Skills All Kids Need

Being a Power Couple

Being Partners and CoParenting Masters

Leading Your Family Into Screen Life Balance

Let’s Talk: An Interactive WORKSHOP for Parents and Teens/Tweens To Communicate With Each Other

Let's Talk: An Interactive Experience for Parents and Teens/Tweens To Discuss... (Pick: Screens, Vaping, Family, etc...)

Family Retreats and Experiences 

(Talks for Parents, Kids or Combined)

Being the Family You Were Meant to Be

Becoming a Family of Love and Wisdom

The Family That Talks Together, Stays Together

How Kids and Parents Can Team Up To Be an Amazing Family

Parenting the Child You Have Not The Child You Want...or Were

Mastering the Emotions of Parenting..and Leading

Masterminds, Busniess and Leadership

(Private, Corporate, or Exclusive Communities)

Thriving in the Emotions and Relationships of Business, Family and Enormous Success

Balancing Career Ambitions and Family Joy

How Leaders Can Use Communication to Lead Their Businesses and Family Into Healthy and Prosperity

Being a Man, Husband and Father Of Intense Impact

How To Master Any Conflict With EQ Communication and Incredible Leadership

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Parents Say...

More Stories Of Lives Changed

Camille

Sean is a really good listener and is compassionate about understanding what teenagers are going through. He is very relational and has shown me how to communicate with my peers in a healthy way. I have benefited from his guidance and leadership.

Mark

Sean has been a significant factor in my son’s emergence into adulthood with a high degree of capacity and maturity. I’m forever grateful for Sean’s “holding” of Mathew during his middle and high school years; of all the many events, including fireside talks and weekend outings. As a co-parent of boys, I feel Sean has given Mathew an older brother/wise uncle perspective that I never could have individually. And the on-going friendship/mentorship that my son continues with Sean during college breaks and summers is priceless.

Alan

Sean began to coach me during my freshman year of high school. I was on a very bad path. I had my insecurities and didn’t follow any rules from my teachers or parents. With regular help and guidance from Sean all through high school, he helped me turn my life around. I am proud to say that today I am a United States Navy Corpsman stationed with the Marines at Camp Pendleton.

Kathy

When I was a single mother struggling to raise a teenage daughter, Sean provided an essential positive male role model in our lives. I always breathed a sigh of relief when my daughter was on an activity with Sean, because I knew that she was safe emotionally and physically. I was confident that Sean was guiding her down a path towards healthy life choices and away from destructive influences. Today my daughter is a college educated, happily married, mother of two, and Sean and his family remain a part of our family. Thank you, Sean!

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Bob

Sean has been a beacon of light for my whole family, and especially our children in their teenage years. Every teen needs someone outside of their family who can give them extra insight in lives that are sometimes awkward and have difficult challenges. Sean has been that light to my sons, and I truly cannot imagine our lives without Sean’s support.

Sabrina

Throughout high school Sean has helped me navigate many tough situations such as drinking, friends, guys, self-esteem, and my studies. Like many teenagers, I have struggled with my relationship with my father. Sean helped by talking to us individually and gave us both great tools for communication that made it much easier for us to get along with each other. I am so thankful for all of the wisdom he has shared with me.

Mat

Throughout my high school years, Sean was, and still is, a constant friend and mentor, steering me away from murky waters and leading me in the way of honor, wisdom and maturity. As I continue to grow into a man, I will never forget his wisdom and never stop trying to emulate the example he has set for me.

Faith

I am so thankful to Sean for all the time, support, wisdom, and influence that he has shown my son, Gabe, throughout his teenage years. His mentoring made a difference in his life and I know that Gabe will be “paying it forward” in the years to come. Today, Gabe is a United States Marine, and I am so proud of the man that my son has become!

More Stories Of Lives Changed

Emile

Sean began mentoring me when I was a freshmen in high school. To young people, Sean is extremely relatable, knowledgeable and understanding of the current challenges and struggles in the variety of teen and school ‘worlds.’ He is always reaching out to help, provide resources, and give advice in ways that are so needed to many teens and their families.

Nick

I was 15 and going into my freshman year of high school when I first met Sean. I quickly began to see Sean as a mentor. Through the years, he has played a major role in my growth into the man I am today. Sean has always been there to give me sound advice and offer guidance when I get off track. He has a gift for a type of honesty that is straightforward yet kind; this has impacted me and has changed the way I interact in my relationships. I still count Sean as a close friend.

 
 
 
 

Curtis

Sean was always the one who kept me on track with my decisions through my high school years and today we are still good friends. I knew that I could always count on Sean to be there for me when I needed advice or an honest opinion about a situation that I was dealing with. I’m very grateful for the compassion and honesty that Sean showed me, as well as how he challenges me to be the best I can be.

Danielle

Meeting Sean when I was 14 changed the trajectory of my life. Without Sean’s influence I would have continued down a dangerous path, but instead learned tools for navigating through tough circumstances. Looking back I credit Sean with so many of my successes. I simply cannot imagine what life would look like if Sean had not been a part of mine. Now I am married to my high school sweetheart, Jordan Higley (who was also helped by Sean), and the mother of twins.

Meet Us...And Some Happy Clients



Our unique, one-of-a-kind approach combines elements from traditional talk therapy, positive mentoring, D.B.T., life coaching, executive functioning counseling, life skills, mindset, attachment theory, interventionists, drug counseling, addiction counseling, trauma therapy, positive parenting, and of course, our own secret sauce.

Because every family is different, our clients receive personalized attention and a custom coaching experience.

Meet Our Coaches

Get to know us.

Sean Potts

Teen Coach, Speaker, Ultimate Frisbee Fanatic

Sean Donohue jokes that Sean Potts' youth work actually began when Sean Potts was Student Body President of his Danville,CA high school in 1995.

Over the last 20 years, Sean Potts has worked with teens in many capacities throughout Northern California.

​Sean loves to help teens and adults build close emotional bonds, practice mindfulness of body and mind and find some peace of mind in a go-go-go world.

​“The teen years are difficult for so many of us. I was blessed to have adult mentors and a group of peers who loved me for who I was. Today, I am committed to offering the kind of support that I received as a youth growing up.” 

​Sean Potts graduated from the University of Oregon with Summa Cum Laude honors and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology.

​Sean plays as much Ultimate Frisbee as a family coaching schedule allows and loves connecting with friends and family.

"Sean Potts has been instrumental in keeping our family united...Some of my skills learned were learning to listen and love despite disagreement...Working with Sean Potts is a priceless investment in your family's future."

Nancy
Mom Of Two

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Colleen - Mom

I loved the one-on-one sessions that Sean Potts spent with my son geared towards an activity that my son could relate to. The two formed a lovely bond together.

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Patsy Conner

Teen Coach, Speaker, Dog mom

Patsy Conner has chnaging teen lives for over 15 years. She has a passion for coming alongside teenagers and families, helping them restore broken down communication, and empowering them to make healthy individual choices.

Having worked with fifth graders all the way up to college students, she is skilled at creating connections, building trust, and coaching through difficult situations all throughout the teenage and young adult years.

Her experience includes various non-profit work and various youth organizations

Patsy likes long beach days, beautiful hikes, karaoke, finding good vegan food (even though she isn’t vegan), and snuggling with her Great Dane, Coconut.

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