Five with Fry
Five with Fry is your go-to podcast for understanding conflict—where it comes from, why it shows up, and how to handle it with clarity and intention. On each episode, Dr. Jen Fry breaks down the moments we avoid, the reactions we default to, and the skills it takes to move through conflict without blowing things up or shutting down.
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Latest Episodes
S4 Ep9: Your Coach Isn't A Vending Machine
There's a version of the young coach in your kid's gym that you've already written off. You clocked the age, the thin résumé, the decision you'd never have made, and you decided. Before a single practice, sometimes.I coached club at 21. ...
S4 Ep8: Congratulations, Your Kid Just Fired The Sport
Your kid says they're done, and they say it without drama. No meltdown, no blowup, just a decision. They walk away lighter. And you're the one left standing there running the numbers on everything you put in.I've watched this from the co...
S4 Ep7: Your kid isn't being picked on. They are being coached.
Your kid comes off the court and says the coach is picking on them again. Always calling them out, never the other kids. And before they've finished the sentence, you're already halfway to a decision about what you're going to do about it.<...
S4 Ep6: Put the angry email in the book (Before You Blame the Coach out now!)
Your kid gets benched. Your chest goes tight. And somewhere between the sideline and the parking lot, a message starts writing itself in your head — the one that has to be sent.This is the episode where the book is finally out, ...
S4 Ep5: The Secret Bribery Ring That Doesn't Exist
You've probably said some version of it. "I didn't pay all this money for you to play like that." Maybe out loud, maybe in your head on the drive home, maybe half-joking. This episode is about where that sentence actually lands.It doesn'...