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The Parenting Conversation no one is having
Featuring Steven Shapiro & Nancy Shapiro Rapport, co-founders of Our Family Culture.
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A brother-sister team, and a front-row seat to the youth mental health crisis
Co-Founder
Steven Shapiro
Steven spent 34 years as a public-school educator and emerged as a national thought leader in experiential learning. He hosted the acclaimed podcast Experience Matters, featuring national experts including Daniel Pink, Tony Wagner, and Father Greg Boyle. Beyond his work as a high school teacher, program director, and district leader, he trained teachers at The Ohio State University, provided professional learning for educators in emerging democracies, and was a regular keynote speaker. His most important work was partnering with Susan to raise their three children.
Co-Founder
Nancy Shapiro Rapport
Nancy spent the majority of her 34-year public-education career as a school counselor, supporting students and parents through the challenging middle years. Her leadership in professional development and crisis management showed her ability to identify needs, empathize with stakeholders, and deliver results. As a certified Hudson Institute coach, Nancy leads courses on learner mindset and question thinking for the Inquiry Institute, helping adults pursue a life of curiosity and possibility. Most importantly, she is the proud parent of two adult children, Emily and Jacob.
Interview Talking Points & Sample Questions
These questions can be used as interview prompts or conversation starters. They are designed to flow naturally from one topic to the next.
The Conversation That’s Missing
- “Everyone’s talking about screen time, anxiety, and discipline. What’s the conversation you feel is being left out?”
- “What do you mean when you say these challenges are ‘downstream’ — downstream of what?”
What Parents Are Getting Wrong — Without Knowing It
- “After 68 combined years in schools, what’s the most common pattern you saw in struggling families?”
- “Why do so many well-intentioned parents end up feeling like their values aren’t sticking with their kids?”
- “What does it look like when a family is working on the symptoms instead of the source?”
The Upstream Shift
- “Walk us through what it actually means to build an intentional family culture. What does that look like day to day?”
- “What are Fundamentals, and how does the weekly focus change things for families over time?”
- “How does a strong family culture affect the way kids respond to outside influences — social media, peers, and the world?”
The Results
- “What do you see in families that have gone through this process — what changes first?”
- “Is there a story that stands out — a family where you saw the shift happen?”
The One Thing
- “If a parent is listening right now and wants to start, what’s the one shift they can make this week?”
- “What do the families who do this work have in common?”
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About Our Family Culture
Our Family Culture is a groundbreaking mobile app and system that helps parents build intentional family cultures rooted in their most deeply held values. The system is built on the Fundamentals framework — a proven culture-building methodology used in 800+ organizations worldwide, now brought home for the first time.
Parents use the app to identify their core values, translate them into specific behaviors (Fundamentals), and focus on one each week — building a culture that becomes ingrained in the daily life of the family over time.
You only get one chance
to raise amazing kids
