Introducing You Only Know What You Know — A Mental Health Podcast for Parents

Parenting doesn’t come with a manual—and when your child’s mental health enters the picture, the pressure to “get it right” can feel overwhelming. Advice is everywhere, from well-meaning family members to TikTok feeds that never stop scrolling. What’s harder to find are answers grounded in real evidence. Even the most thoughtful, informed parents can find themselves wondering: Am I missing something? Am I doing enough? Am I the only one who feels this way? 

That’s where You Only Know What You Know comes in. 

Launching in Winter 2026, You Only Know What You Know is a mental health podcast for parents and caregivers who want grounded, evidence-based insights delivered with warmth, honesty, and real-life perspective. Hosted by Beth Hope and Britt Teasdale, the show brings together clinical expertise, lived experience, and thoughtful conversation to explore the questions families are already asking, but aren’t always sure where to turn for accurate, trustworthy guidance. 

Each episode features respected, expert mental health professionals breaking down complex topics such as child, teen, and young adult anxiety, OCD, screen dependence, school stress, and family transitions—without jargon, fear-mongering, or quick fixes. The goal isn’t to have all the answers. It’s to expand what we know, together. 

Meet Your Podcast Hosts

Beth Hope and Britt Teasdale don’t just bring credentials to the microphone—they bring curiosity and a deep respect for the families listening. 

Both come to this work with extensive professional experience, but what truly shapes their conversations is how closely their work intersects with their own lives as parents and as humans still learning alongside everyone else. Together, they create a space that feels informed without being intimidating, and supportive without being judgmental. 

Beth Hope, LCSW

Beth Hope is a clinician, parent, and advocate whose career has focused on supporting children, adolescents, and families through some of life’s most challenging seasons. With more than two decades of experience across residential care, child welfare, and intensive outpatient treatment, she brings both clinical expertise and lived perspective as the parent of a tween and a teen. 

Her professional path began in social work and was shaped by early work in residential programs serving youth, migrant children, and families navigating significant transitions. Since joining Compass Health Center nearly ten years ago, Beth has served as both a clinician and program leader, helping to expand adolescent services and strengthen the organization’s family-centered approach to care. 

Beth’s commitment to this work is both professional and personal. She has found that even with years of training and clinical knowledge, parenting can still feel confusing or uncharted. These moments have reinforced her belief that parents deserve accessible, evidence-based support before challenges escalate into crisis. 

On You Only Know What You Know, Beth brings a clinician’s depth of experience, a parent’s humility, and a community-builder’s perspective to conversations that are practical, validating, and deeply human. She lives in the Chicagoland area with her husband and two daughters. 

Britt Teasdale 

Britt Teasdale is a writer, photographer, creative strategist, and parent whose work explores the intersection of identity, parenting, mental health, and storytelling. As Associate Director of Brand Management & Content at Compass Health Center, she has spent nearly a decade shaping narratives that translate complex clinical ideas into stories that resonate, reduce stigma, deepen understanding, and help families access care. 

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing and began her career in journalism, bringing a reporter’s rigor, curiosity, and care for nuance to her work in mental health communications. 

Britt’s connection to this work is both professional and personal. After losing her eldest sister to suicide and becoming a mother during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she brings a nuanced understanding of grief, vulnerability, and the quiet tension many parents carry as they try to protect their children while finding their own footing. 

On You Only Know What You Know, Britt offers a journalist’s curiosity, a writer’s voice, and a parent’s lived experience to conversations that are thoughtful, grounded, and expansive. She lives in the Chicago area with her partner and two young sons. 

Together, they model something powerful: expertise without ego, and guidance without judgment. Offering parents a place to learn, reflect, and feel a little less alone. 

A Note from the Producer

When we first started talking about this podcast, I knew the hosts mattered just as much as the topics. 

I chose Beth and Britt not only because of their experience, but because of who they are in the quiet moments that don’t show up on resumes or bios. 

They are the people who ask thoughtful questions. The people who check in. The people who remember. They are willing to share their own uncertainty when someone else feels overwhelmed—not to fix the moment, but to remind you that you’re not alone in it. 

That’s the heart of this podcast. 

You Only Know What You Know isn’t about perfect parenting or having all the answers. It’s about learning in real time, asking questions, and sharing what we’ve learned a little sooner. 

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “I wish I had known this earlier,” this space was made for you. 

Coming soon.

New episodes will drop in the weeks ahead.  

Until then, remember: 
You’re not alone. And you’re doing better than you think.