The FASD Success Show
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Jeff Noble thought he knew all about FASD... until he became a full time FASD Foster Parent. Fast forward to now. Jeff has been coast to coast and from one side of the earth to the other talking, teaching and learning about FASD with other Caregivers, Front Line Staff and anyone who might sit and listen to him. In The FASD SUCCESS SHOW, Jeff and his gang of FASD Insiders will talk about FASD in a real way so that you can learn how to deal and cope with FASD in REAL life, to be a better advocate and a more confident caregiver. Jeff is going to tackle all the hot topics like FASD and aggression, sleep, hygiene, the education system, meltdowns and working with professionals. Pretty much all the things you need to know so that you can focus on being a happy, balanced caregiver. Jeff will make you laugh, he will make you think, but mostly he will give you hope that you CAN do this. Hit subscribe and get ready to transform into the FASD Caregiver you know you can be.
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Carrie McCarter is a speech-language pathologist with a master’s degree who has spent her career working in the birth-to-three world of early intervention. However, when it came to raising her own twins with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), she found that her professional training wasn't enough to navigate the intense dysregulation and sensory challenges at home. In this episode, Carrie opens up about the "professional paradox" of being an expert in child development while feeling like...
When you’re parenting on high alert for years, your nervous system eventually tries to protect you. Sometimes that protection looks like numbness, irritability, shutdown, or going through the motions. In this episode, Jeff Noble sits down with Michael Harris, known online as FASD Elephant, to break down the science of blocked care and the small, realistic ways caregivers can find their way back to connection. In this episode you’ll hear • What blocked care is and why it happens when str...
Episode #187 The FASD Brain and Connectivity with Dr. Raja Mukherjee What if many of the struggles we see in FASD are not about behavior at all but about how the brain sends and receives messages? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Dr. Raja Mukherjee, one of the world’s leading experts in FASD psychiatry and brain development, to explore what brain connectivity really means for individuals living with FASD across the lifespan. Dr. Mukherjee explains how prenat...
What if independence is not the finish line we should be chasing for individuals with FASD? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Chris Fillion, an adult on the FASD spectrum, foster parent, and national advocate, to talk honestly about what adulthood with FASD really looks like when support is done right. Chris shares his lived experience navigating mental health challenges, the justice system, social services, and burnout, and how everything changed when the fo...
Trigger warning: This episode discusses suicide, self-harm, and mental health crises. In this powerful and compassionate conversation, Jeff Noble sits down with Dr. Carly McMorris — clinical psychologist, associate professor at the University of Calgary, and leading FASD researcher — to talk about one of the hardest and most important topics in the FASD community: mental health. They break down how to recognize the signs of crisis, why individuals with FASD experience such high rates of anxie...
Episode 184: Laurie Anderson The Power of Showing Up What if success as a caregiver wasn’t about getting everything right, but about showing up again and again? In this heartfelt episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with long time community leader and coach Laurie Anderson to talk about what it really means to keep going through the hardest seasons of caregiving with compassion, connection, and calm. Laurie shares her journey from confusion to confidence, what she’s learned ...
What really happens as people with FASD grow into adulthood and beyond? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Dr. Valerie Temple to talk about brand-new Canadian research exploring how the FASD brain and body change with age — and what families, caregivers, and professionals need to know to support lifelong success. Dr. Temple and her team analyzed data from over 400 adults across Canada to compare younger adults (18–24) with older adults (35+). What they found c...
What happens after the diagnosis? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Joseph Munn, an adult with FASD who’s building a life that works, not one that’s defined by expectations. Joseph opens up about what it felt like to finally understand his brain, how interdependence and technology help him stay regulated, and what community really means in adulthood. From gaming and advocacy to the one-dollar house that changed his life, Joseph’s story reminds us that success...
What if healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken but finally seeing it clearly? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff sits down with Dr. Debbie Michaud, a researcher, advocate, and storyteller whose groundbreaking dissertation Hitchhiking With Mama: Living With FASD, A Collection of Truths explores what happens when we stop trying to fix the past and start understanding it. Debbie shares her journey of growing up in a family shaped by trauma, addiction, and undiagnosed FASD, and how ...
In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Sophie Harrington, CEO of NOFASD Australia, to talk about what happens when caregivers stop chasing perfection and start building holidays and lives that actually fit their families’ nervous systems. Sophie is a mom, advocate, and birth parent who’s turned her personal story into national leadership. Together, Jeff and Sophie dig into the power of reframing guilt, setting boundaries, and parenting differently without ap...
The holidays are here, and for a lot of caregivers raising individuals with FASD, this isn’t the season of calm and cozy. It’s the season where routines explode, nerves fray, school schedules flip, people show up unannounced, and you’re trying to keep everyone safe while the world tells you to “make memories.” That’s why all month long, The FASD Success Show is bringing you the Holiday Sanity Series — conversations that unpack the science, the stress, and the strategies that actually make lif...
The scans are in, and they tell a different story. Dr. Catherine Lebel, Canada’s leading FASD brain imaging researcher, joins Jeff Noble to share what MRI research reveals about how the brain develops after prenatal alcohol exposure and why the story is far more hopeful than most people think. Through years of ground breaking studies, Dr. Lebel and her team have shown that the FASD brain doesn’t stop growing. It just grows differently and on its own timeline. Her work connects science and liv...
What if your loved one with FASD’s brain wasn’t misfiring — it was miss-messaging? In this powerful episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. Long from the University of Calgary’s Developmental Neuroimaging Lab, one of the key researchers on Dr. Catherine Lebel’s team, to uncover what really happens inside the brain after prenatal alcohol exposure. Dr. Long explains how the brain’s network — the system that keeps messages moving between regions — changes after prenatal alcohol exposure, and what that ...
What if mental health and behavior weren’t just about the brain, but also about the body? In this fascinating conversation, Jeff sits down with Dr. Tamara Bodnar, a biological scientist and researcher at the University of Calgary, whose work is changing how we understand FASD from the inside out. Dr. Bodnar studies the gut–brain axis — the constant communication between our digestive system and our brain — and how prenatal alcohol exposure can disrupt that balance for life. Her groundbreaking...
Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions around mental health challenges and suicide. Please listen when you feel ready and take care of yourself as needed. What if everything you thought you knew about mental health and behavior was flipped on its head? In this powerful conversation, Jeff sits down with Dr. Jacqueline Pei, psychologist, professor at the University of Alberta, and senior research lead with CanFASD, to explore how mental health really shows up for individuals with FA...
What if you could hear the same family one year apart and actually feel the shift from chaos to connection. In this powerful “before and after” episode, Jeff revisits Angela Freeman and her two kids, Ruby and Elias. Last year, we met them in Toronto when every day felt like triage — school battles, misunderstandings, and constant fires. One year later, everything looks different. Through sober momentum, the right school fit, and daily co-regulation, the Freemans moved from surviving to thrivi...
Teaching, Training and Transformation: Malgorzata’s Journey Forward What happens when language that works at home starts changing classrooms and systems. What if a one minute demo with an umbrella could stop symptom punishment faster than another meeting. What if a parent advocate was invited to help shape an international conference. About This Episode In this Part 2 of The FASD Success Show, I bring Malgorzata back from Poland to share what happened next. Invitations to schools and training...
Turning Pain Into Purpose: Malgorzata’s FASD AdvocacyWhat if the child you were promised was “healthy” — and the real story didn’t show up until years later? What if the diagnosis you fought so hard to get didn’t open doors but instead left you standing in another long hallway? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, I sit down with Malgorzata from Poland. Her journey takes us through judgment, grief, and exhaustion, but also resilience and advocacy. From being told by her pediatrician sist...
Relationships and Resilience: Reinier & Kate on Love and FASD What does love look like when FASD is part of the story? And how do you play the long game when milestones come later than expected? In this episode of The FASD Success Show, I sit down with my friends Reinier deSmit and Kate Kristiansen for a real and vulnerable conversation about partnership, conflict, and resilience. Reinier was diagnosed with FASD at 56. Now in his 60s, he describes that diagnosis as a gift finally gi...
FASD Awareness Month Special: CanFASD Updates + See Jeff LiveAwareness isn’t just hashtags or red shoes. It’s what we do with that awareness that counts. In this special episode of The FASD Success Show, I sit down with Kathy Unsworth (the new Executive Director of CanFASD) and Audrey McFarlane (who has been a champion of mine since day one). We talk about the new Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) report, the leadership transition at CanFASD, the National FASD Framework Bill, and the...
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