Tell Me This

Brianne and I are so excited to share our conversation with Mrs. Peg Drew. Peg brings beautiful stories, amazing poetry, and expertise and experience to help us better understand grief, belonging, and learning to live with our losses. Enjoy! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Brianne and I had a wonderful conversation with Carol Vales and her husband. She shared her journey of living through a stroke and managing aphasia. It is an incredible story of grace, hope, and resilience. She describes not only her personal journey but also her deep connections within the community. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as Brianne and I enjoyed being a part of it.

Brianne and I had a wonderful and eye-opening conversation with Mr. Varnis Whitley-Knight. As you will hear in the episode, Mr. Whitley-Knight suffered from multiple strokes that resulted in aphasia, a language disorder that causes difficulty in communication. Over the course of our conversation, Varnis shares his journey of grief and newfound joy, connection, and continued perseverance. We hope you enjoy our conversation. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Thank you, Dr. Swihart, for your generosity and wisdom. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Brianne and I are so excited to share our conversation with Dan Baum. We are so grateful to Dan for his generosity and willingness to tell some of the story of his journey with grief. Please take a listen and let us know what you learn.Thanks,Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

We are honored and thrilled to share our conversation with Dr. Jennifer Attonito. Jennifer recently lost her partner and generously shared her experiences, emotions, and perspectives on grief. We know you are going to learn so much from this conversation.Thanks for tuning in. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

We hope you enjoy our conversation with grief counselor and expert, Dawn Tippett. Her experiences, perspectives, and personal stories provide powerful insights about how to think about our grief. She invites us to consider how natural grief is, and yet, it evokes discomfort, avoidance, and masking our feelings about profound loss. Dawn also offered ideas about how we can show up better for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors experiencing their own grief journey.Thanks for listening. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Hello Everyone!We are so excited to share a beautiful conversation we had with Anna Ruby. Anna is a graduate student and former Division I college athlete. She shares her grief journey related to an early lacrosse injury, her journey back to playing, and then her eventual transition out of college athletics. She shares the many emotions, amazing relationships, and stories related to her grief and the process of reimagining and redesigning her next chapter.Hope you enjoy!Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

As parents and care givers we imagine and reimagine our lives and our kids' lives. We also know that one certainty in life is that plans do and will change. In these moments of change, we find love, hope, possibility, worry, fear, and grief (and many other emotions!). Dana Reinhardt joins us today to share parts of her beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking stories of grief, hope, and joy.We hope you enjoy our conversation. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Hello Everyone.Thanks for listening to another episode of Tell Me This. Brianne and I are thrilled to share a conversation we had with Dr. Aviva Moore. Aviva shares stories of grief through her journey of what she describes as "medical chaos." She has some amazing insights, ideas, and reflections on grief and her journey.We know you are going to enjoy this.Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

I am so excited to share a conversation I had with Dr. Breauna Wall. Dr. Wall's willingness to be open and vulnerable in sharing her journey of grief and hope (yes, I said hope), is an amazing example of the complexity and courage that comes in times of grief. I am grateful for her story and know that you will enjoy this episode.Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

We are so excited to welcome back, Dr. Carrie Miller. She has been on the pod to talk about belonging in the pandemic, leadership, and now, to share a very personal grief story and journey. We know you are going to enjoy this.Thanks,Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Welcome back to another episode of Season 6.We are so excited to welcome Emily Barnett. We had a wonderful conversation about grief as it relates to our kids growing up and becoming more independent. There are a lot of yes-and moments in this exploration: learning to find joy and allowing space for the loss.We hope you enjoy this episode!Brianne and Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Hello Everyone.Thanks for listening. Today, Brianne turns the tables on Carey to interview her about her experiences with grief and the journey she (and Brianne) took that brought them to their research and interests in the connections between grief and belonging.We hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to another season of Tell Me This. Brianne and I are so excited to share our summer research, stories, and plan for the upcoming season. Over the past year or so, our curious around connections between belonging and grief have blossomed into summer research projects, creative writing pieces, and intense, hard, and beautiful conversations. Through all of this work, we also recognize that while we have each have personal stories of grief, we are missing and wanting to hear diverse and varied stories from others. Season 6 will center on stories of grief and belonging where courageous and vulnerable guests share their own stories and journeys in grief.This first episode provides more context and our thoughts and learning about universal and unique experience of grief.We hope you will listen along this season.Carey and Brianne

We hope you enjoy this spring reflection from Brianne.Thanks for listening! We're thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

We hope you enjoy our conversation with Drs. Barbour and Clark as much as we did. Picking up on our conversation earlier in the spring, we were interested in exploring AI in education. If you also have questions, curiosities, concerns, and wonders about AI, this might be the podcast for you. We came to this conversation with some AI experience (mostly ChatGPT), no expertise in this area, and lots of questions and left with more questions and some ideas on how we might use AI in our work and life.Hope you enjoy!!Carey We're thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

Hello Everyone.We are so excited to welcome back Dr. Paula Clark and Dr. Kristin Barbour for what we are calling an Education Roundtable. It has been too long since the four of us gathered around our virtual zoom room and talked about the books, articles, and other topics on our minds. In part one of our roundtable, we discuss Hope and Help and scratch the surface into why many kids in K-12 do not like school. Hope you enjoy!

No - Brianne and I are not snowed in but this article and the weather in the town provided an opportunity for one researcher to explore the every day experiences of belonging. We often forget that belonging is grounded in people, places, and our history. Brianne and I share the article and the discoveries and questions that emerged for us.Enjoy!Carey

Brianne and I had so much fun revisiting and sharing a very recent article about school belonging. In it, Dr. Kuttner, a professor at the University of Utah, writes about how multiple perspectives inform his definition of school belonging. We discuss the importance of agency, intersectionality, systems, and others.We hope you enjoy this episode.Carey and Brianne

Hello Everyone!I bet you were starting to wonder if we were ever coming back. We are BACK! We are so excited to emerge from our six months of deep thinking, coding, and writing. We are grateful for the time and thrilled to share what we are learning from this process. Enjoy the first of many conversations during the second half of this season.

We are so excited to share our conversation with Dr. Vanessa May. Dr. May is a sociologist and researcher who studies belonging in the context of place. We had so much fun getting to talk with Dr. May and exploring some of the questions she examines in her research.Hope you enjoy.

Hello Everyone.Thanks for tuning in for another episode of the pod. Brianne and I are so excited to share a conversation we recently had with Kimberlee Rivers and Es Swihart about code switching and belonging.Hope you enjoy!Carey

Hello Everyone.Please take a listen to this beautiful conversation that Brianne and I were lucky enough to be a part of with Janine McGuire. It was an amazing journey into Janine's early music days at camp, sharing ideas and music across the distance, and her current work in musical theatre. She shares her views on belonging, music and story, and much more.I know you are going to love this one!Take care,Carey

Hi Everyone.Brianne and I are extra excited to share our conversation with Dr. Nick Sousanis. He is an award winning comics author, artist, mathematician, and an Associate Professor Humanities and Liberal Arts. We talked about his beautiful creation, Unflattening, his "origin story," as well as his journey to make Unflattening the focus of his doctoral studies and eventually a published book. If you want to learn more about Dr. Sousanis be visit his website and check out the comic-focused minor and certificate he leads at San Francisco State. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed spending time with Nick.With joyful anticipation,Carey and Brianne

Hi Everyone.Brianne and I recently sat down with Coach and Educator Andrea DeWitt to talk about her book and her journey to belonging to self. She shared important insights and tips for living a well-lived life and how to cultivate your own gentle warrior.Hope you enjoy this conversation.Best,Carey and Brianne

Hello Everyone.Brianne and I are so excited to share a conversation we had with Dr. Lisa Schoenbrodt and Kayla Grange. Dr. Schonebrodt is a Professor at Loyola University Maryland and co-founder of Leadability, an organization whose mission is to provide services to support programs and curricula that train people to effectively and respectfully work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Ms. Kayla Grange identifies as an autistic adult and is a Self-Advocate Educator (SAE) at Leadability. In our conversation we explore definitions of belonging and the work of belonging for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We hope you enjoy our conversation.With gratitude,Carey and Brianne

Hello Everyone.Thank you for listening. Brianne and I are so excited to introduce our guest, Jordan Differding, to the podcast. He is an amazing human being, teacher, and baker. We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did.Carey and Brianne 

Hello Friends,I am offering this replay of an episode from a few summers ago in memory and celebration of Coach Erika Alexander who we lost way too soon. Please take a listen.With Gratitude,Carey

Hi Everyone.Brianne and I are busy getting our conversations with our great guests scheduled, edited, and posted. In the meantime, please take a listen to our latest minisode.Thanks,Carey

Brianne and I are so excited about our conversation with Dr. Kevin Frick.He is a professor, former Vice Dean, mentor, and dear friend to many and he stopped by to share his thoughts on belonging, his stories of his personal journey, and ideas on how we can cultivate spaces for belonging to emerge and grow.Hope you enjoy the show.Carey and Brianne

We are excited to jump into Season 5. In this episode we explore our "Why" for focusing on belonging to self, share research on the topic, describe snapshots of our own belonging stories, and a tee up the plan for the season.Hope you enjoy!

Brianne and I are excited to welcome everyone back. It has been a "yes and" kind of summer with lots of rest AND lots of great work. We have a big announcement and a great line up of guests in store for everyone this season.Please take a listen and if you have never heard an episode, be sure to go back and check out Season 1 to hear our origin story.Thanks!Carey and Brianne

Enjoy Episode 2 of our Summer Series. Es and I continue our conversation about self-worth, conditional self-worth, and belonging.Hope you enjoy!Carey

Happy Summer, Everyone!Hope you are well and enjoying some much needed, deserved, and cherished down time.Brianne and I are busy working on our Season 5 line-up. In the meantime, we thought we would offer a Summer Series on Belonging and Self-worth.I am joined by Es Swihart. She is a friend, former student, teacher, and current doctoral student doing research on self-worth.She and I have been having ongoing conversations about self-worth and belonging and we thought, "We should record some of these chats," and so, here were are!!Hope you enjoy our first of several conversations.Thanks!Carey

Surprise! We decided to offer another episode of book club. Hope you enjoy our conversation.Carey and Brianne

Reflections on our podcasts from Season 2.

Thanks to everyone for a great season. We want to send a special thank you to all of our guests who showed up for our conversations, shared so much, and taught us so many things in so many different ways!! We hope that you enjoy our final reflections on Season 4.Enjoy!-Carey and Brianne

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I just could not resist playing episode 2 - let me apologize in advance for the music (pre theme song!!).I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it!

As Brianne and I start to plan for Season 5 of the pod and wrap up Season 4, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane. Over the next few weeks, we will share several "oldies but goody" episodes of the podcast. Enjoy!!Carey

Hi Everyone! Happy May! We are starting to wind down our fourth season and will be concluding with some reflections, minisodes, and a sneak peak of what is coming in Season 5. In today's episode, Brianne shares some thoughts and gratitude as she reflects on her daughters journey through K-8 and her youngest heads off to high school. Enjoy. Carey

Hi Everyone! Excited to share our conversation with Dr. Marie Heath. Her background in education technology, social studies, and teacher preparation offered new and important insights in how we think about belonging and the spaces in which we teach, learn, and connect. Enjoy!!

Hi Everyone. Hope you enjoy this minisode where I share a little about what has been swirling around in my own heart and mind. Thanks for listening. Carey

Hi Everyone! Brianne and I are so excited to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Radday to our podcast. During this conversation we talk about belonging, chemistry projects, crafting a hand powered radio, synchronized swimming, college parties, and, of course, belonging. Amazing and, we hope, very resonant stories and sharing.   Hope you enjoy! Carey and Brianne

Hi Everyone. Brianne is on a short vacation with family and we had to reschedule a few interviews due to some loud construction noise at my house, so, I decided it might be a good time for one of our minisodes. I hope you enjoy my musing of belonging to self, our life journey/question to see and be ourselves, and how we might contribute to creating the conditions to invite in belonging. Enjoy!