A lot of parents have asked whether Real Talk would ever come for their daughters, and the answer is yes, this fall.
We didn't want to rush it. The boys series took time because we wanted to get the tone right, honest without being heavy, faith-based without feeling preachy. Getting there with girls will take the same care.
So this isn't a formal launch announcement with a date locked in. It's a heads-up, because enough of you have been asking that you deserve a real answer rather than a vague "maybe someday."
Why Faith-Based Resources for Teen Girls Need Their Own Approach
The temptation with a follow-up series is to swap pronouns and repackage the same framework. We're not doing that. Because while teen boys and teen girls are both navigating identity, insecurity, and what it means to be loved by God, they come at those questions differently.
Teen girls often have a sharper internal voice. More self-awareness in some ways, and sometimes more cruelty in others. The way comparison operates for a girl is different from how it operates for a boy. The mask she wears, the version of herself she performs for other people, it has its own texture and its own cost.
The girls series will start from her actual experience. Not what we think teenage girls should be thinking about, but what they actually are. That requires listening before writing, which is part of why this takes time.
What the Real Talk Girls Series Will Carry
Same core themes, identity, emotions, real-life faith, but grounded in what's actually true for a teenage girl right now. The internal noise. The social pressure that doesn't feel like pressure until she's already shaped herself around it. The way she can be deeply spiritual and quietly convinced that God sees someone else when he looks at her.
There will be a student book, a workbook, and a parent guide. Same structure as the boys series, because parents need a roadmap too. The conversations between a mom or dad and a teenage daughter can be just as hard to start as they are with a son, sometimes harder, for different reasons.
We want to give you the language for that. That's the whole point.
What to Do Right Now If You Have a Daughter
If your daughter is in her teen years now, the boys series isn't completely off the table. A lot of the core themes, insecurity, identity, the fear that God is disappointed, are universal enough that some parents have used the student book as a conversation starter across the board. The tone is honest in a way that tends to resonate regardless.
But if you're waiting for something built specifically for her, it's coming. This fall.
In the meantime, if you have a son, or a house with both, the boys series is ready at ivoryroad.shop. Get on the email list and we'll reach out before the girls series goes live.
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