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"The land has always been my touching stone." – Rachel Berg In this episode, I sit down with Rachel Berg, a multifaceted artist whose work blends diverse cultural influences and artistic mediums. Rachel's unique background, combining Mnicoujou, Lakota, Mexican, and German heritage, serves as the foundation for her creative expression and worldview. This episode offers a glimpse into the mind of an artist who bridges cultures, pushes creative boundaries, and finds inspiration in the natural world around us. Rachel's story is a testament to the power of art in exploring identity, connecting communities, and fostering a deeper understanding of our shared human experience. About Rachel Berg: Rachel Olivia Berg (Mnicoujou Lakota, Mexican, German) works in diverse media as an artist, teacher, and the founder of LivArtfully Studio. Graduating from Princeton University and Columbia University Teachers College, since 2004 she has designed and fabricated custom large-scale commissions in notable commercial projects across Turtle Island. Berg expanded her studio practice in 2023 to engage with research-based methodologies that explore Indigenous ontologies, histories, healing, and cultural relationships to nature and ecology. Berg was a 2023 Emerging Artist Fellow with the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, NY. She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.   A Journey of Cultural Exploration The complexities of growing up with diverse cultural influences The role of language in cultural identity and artistic expression How Rachel's multicultural background informs her creative process Her educational journey, from Princeton University to Teachers College at Columbia The transition from commercial art to personal artistic expression How teaching has influenced her approach to artmaking   Large-Scale Installations and Public Art The inspiration behind her monumental installations Her innovative use of materials and techniques The use of repetition and natural elements in her installations   Follow Us on These Channels: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emydigrappa/ www.ThinkWY.org https://www.facebook.com/storiesaboutwhy https://www.instagram.com/storiesaboutwhy   Listen on all your favorite platforms and subscribe! As always leave a review if you enjoyed these stories and follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode! And visit the webpage of the Wyoming Humanities!

What does it mean to live your life purpose? I think we spend years trying to figure this out. When I was at Hay House radio, and we had people call in to talk to teachers like Caroline Myss and Dr. Wayne Dyer this was one of the most frequently asked questions by callers. Who doesn't want someone to tell us what our purpose it but unfortunately it is a question that only we as individuals can answer. So today I have brought in two amazing teachers and podcast hosts from the network to  help us answer this. Victoria Shaw is the host of Intuitive Connection here on MindBodySpirit.fm and she has some amazing credentials. Victoria works with people to help them get to the core of who they really are. Using her intuitive skills to help she has also earned PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton University, and completed my postdoctoral training in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College.  She received a Masters of Counseling from Fairfield University, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified School Counselor in the State of Connecticut.  also the author of four books, for tweens, teens and adults and the mother of two spirited (now adult) children April Wyett is the host of the Living with Intention podcast and a wellness advocate who is passionate about helping people to heal and bring balance back into their lives. She is a certified reiki practitioner and an expert in the Bio Dynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release system. So I have two experts today to help us uncover our true essence and live our life purpose- or try to. Interested in the Retreat that was mentioned on the show? Join us Feb. 20-23 2025 for A Retreat for Purpose -Full Driven Women Here is the link with all the information for the retreat California Retreat – Living With Intention Below is the direct link for the Saturday Day passes, for the BOGO $299   BOGO Saturday, Feb 22nd, Day Pass – Living With Intention https://livingwithintention.co/product/bogo-saturday-feb-22nd-day-pass/ Here is the individual rate for the Saturday Day Pass for $199 Individual Day Pass Saturday, Feb 22nd – Living With Intention https://livingwithintention.co/product/individual-day-pass-saturday-feb-22nd/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Erin shares 15 powerful lessons she learned in 2024 that she is taking with her into 2025. Erin shares personal stories about her postpartum journey, where she is asking for guidance & miracles, her surrender practice, the science of nourishment, her book launch journey, returning to basic needs and so much more. The frameworks shared in this episode will offer ease and clarity for those on the spiritual and self development path. You can buy Erin's book Nothing Can Stop You Here. If you buy 22 books you get a 1:1 session with Erin, just email receipt to hello@erinracheldoppelt.com Join Erin inside Nourish Tuscany. Erin Rachel Doppelt is a spiritual psychology and meditation teacher with her master's in psychology in education with a spirituality mind body focus from Columbia University Teachers College. She is the author of Nothing Can Stop You: A Revolutionary Guide to Unleash Your Authentic Self. She spent her twenties living in Israel, India, and across Asia and Europe, studying with diverse gurus and yogic educators. Erin is the CEO and founder of the international brand Spiritual Intelligence, which hosts certification trainings and business and spiritual courses to support those looking to live their most unedited, nourished, and soul-authentic life. Erin is the creator of UpLevel Meditation, an active meditation framework supporting those in healing anxiety, depression, and ADD/ADHD and shifting negative thoughts toward the light. She is also the founder of the Align Coaching Certification, where you become a certified meditation teacher and spiritual psychology coach. Erin's frameworks have been featured by SXSW, NBC, Google, Healthline, and Nike. She is also the host of The Wise Woman Podcast, your place to get insights on Erin's life, exciting guests, and spirituality and psychology tools to deepen your connection to Self and your most nourished life. She is from Chicago and enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Jon, reading in cafés, drinking strong coffee, and eating ethnic food. You can connect with her on Instagram and TikTok @erinrdoppelt or on her website, erinracheldoppelt.com

In this episode Erin shares profound manifestation practices to ensure that 2025 is the year you call in all your deepest desires and dreams. She offers guidance on Neville Goddard's congratulations/telephone method, whisper method and shares her shower timeline hopping practices and how to work with "I am" statements. Erin also shares some research behind the law of attraction and manifestation and the Positivity Effect from Dr. Dan tomasulo. We then move into the holy grail of all practices, snapshot manifestation, quantum leap, embodiment, soul time and the law of massive aligned action. Erin Rachel Doppelt is a spiritual psychology and meditation teacher with her master's in psychology in education with a spirituality mind body focus from Columbia University Teachers College. She is the author of Nothing Can Stop You: A Revolutionary Guide to Unleash Your Authentic Self. She spent her twenties living in Israel, India, and across Asia and Europe, studying with diverse gurus and yogic educators. Erin is the CEO and founder of the international brand Spiritual Intelligence, which hosts certification trainings and business and spiritual courses to support those looking to live their most unedited, nourished, and soul-authentic life. Erin is the creator of UpLevel Meditation, an active meditation framework supporting those in healing anxiety, depression, and ADD/ADHD and shifting negative thoughts toward the light. She is also the founder of the Align Coaching Certification, where you become a certified meditation teacher and spiritual psychology coach. Erin's frameworks have been featured by SXSW, NBC, Google, Healthline, and Nike. She is also the host of The Wise Woman Podcast, your place to get insights on Erin's life, exciting guests, and spirituality and psychology tools to deepen your connection to Self and your most nourished life. She is from Chicago and enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Jon, reading in cafés, drinking strong coffee, and eating ethnic food. You can connect with her on Instagram and TikTok @erinrdoppelt or on her website, erinracheldoppelt.com. Buy the book here. Join Erin for a life expanding 5 day retreat in breathtaking Tuscany + online group coaching program to transform into your most joyful, fulfilled and authentic Self. Mention that you listened to this episode for $500 off. All details here. Get your copy of Erin's book, Nothing Can Stop You: Unleash Your Authentic Self https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/NothingCanStopYou – Follow Erin on Instagram @erinrdoppelt– Erin's book tour, certification program, and more at https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/

What does it mean to live in alignment with your highest timeline? In this inspiring episode, Erin Rachel Doppelt shares her journey of becoming a spiritual psychology teacher and how an early curiosity about life's deeper questions led her down a path of exploration, self-discovery, and purpose. Erin recounts the powerful spiritual awakening she experienced at 17 while living in Israel—a turning point that reshaped her entire outlook. She and Kevin explore the profound impact of nurturing spirituality in children, as well as Erin's own practices that keep her grounded in her connection to the divine. They also tackle some of life's hardest questions: Can suffering truly be a pathway to peace? Erin explains how embracing discomfort can serve as a tool for growth, offering insights on “Karma burns” and the power of community and mentorship in navigating life's challenges. As they explore legacy, intuition, and the art of self-reflection, Erin shares unique practices, including a powerful meditation to help you connect with your legacy energy and a "Rule of Threes" approach to accessing your intuition. If you're curious about aligning with your true purpose, or just wondering how to make sense of the journey, this conversation is packed with wisdom to help you reconnect with your highest self. Ways to Connect with Erin: Website - https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erinrdoppelt/ Book - https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/NothingCanStopYou Coaching Certification - https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/align-coaching-certification About Erin: Erin Rachel Doppelt is a spiritual psychology and meditation teacher with her master's in psychology in education with a spirituality mind body focus from Columbia University Teachers College. She spent her twenties living in Israel, India, and across Asia and Europe, studying with diverse gurus and yogic educators. Erin is the CEO and founder of the international brand Spiritual Intelligence, which hosts certification trainings and business and spiritual courses to support those looking to live their most unedited, nourished, and soul-authentic life. Erin is the creator of UpLevel Meditation, an active meditation framework supporting those in healing anxiety, depression, and ADD/ADHD and shifting negative thoughts toward the light. She is also the founder of the Align Coaching Certification, where you become a certified meditation teacher and spiritual psychology coach. Erin's frameworks have been featured by SXSW, NBC, Google, Healthline, and Nike. She is also the host of The Wise Woman Podcast, your place to get insights on Erin's life, exciting guests, and spirituality and psychology tools to deepen your connection to Self and your highest possible timeline. She is from Chicago and enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Jon, reading in cafés, drinking strong coffee, and eating ethnic food.

Thomas and Panu spoke with three graduate student researchers from the The Development, Environment, & Wellness Lab at Columbia University Teachers College in New York: Paritosh Joshi, Rian Maxwell-Williams, and Danny DeBonis. All three are deeply engaged in environmental psychology and justice issues. They discussed their personal backgrounds, environmental identities, and the values and goals for their research. Join us for an inspiring conversation!

Erin Rachel Doppelt is a spiritual psychology and meditation teacher with her master's in psychology in education with a spirituality mind body focus from Columbia University Teachers College. She spent her twenties living in Israel, India, and across Asia and Europe, studying with diverse gurus and yogic educators. Erin is the CEO and founder of the international brand Spiritual Intelligence, which hosts certification trainings and business and spiritual courses to support those looking to live their most unedited, nourished, and soul-authentic life. Erin is the creator of UpLevel Meditation, an active meditation framework supporting those in healing anxiety, depression, and ADD/ADHD and shifting negative thoughts toward the light. She is also the founder of the Align Coaching Certification, where you become a certified meditation teacher and spiritual psychology coach. Erin's frameworks have been featured by SXSW, NBC, Google, Healthline, and Nike. She is also the host of The Wise Woman Podcast, your place to get insights on Erin's life, exciting guests, and spirituality and psychology tools to deepen your connection to Self and your highest possible timeline. She is from Chicago and enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Jon, reading in cafés, drinking strong coffee, and eating ethnic food. You can connect with her on Instagram and TikTok @erinrdoppelt or on her website, erinracheldoppelt.com. Buy Erin's book here (https://www.erinracheldoppelt.com/NothingCanStopYou).Key topics discussed:- The concept of spiritual nourishment and its relationship with diet.- The role of diet and lifestyle choices in achieving true freedom.- The practice of manifestation and its impact.- The importance of mental and emotional health, including overcoming anxiety and depression.- The role of spirituality and authentic living in personal development.Timestamps:(00:02) Manifestation and Book Writing Journey(04:35) Evolution of Self-Development and Teaching(08:13) Path to Freedom(22:01) Navigating Devastating Macro Level Issues(26:38) Exploring Spirituality and Education Choices(39:10) Discovering New Pathways to Freedom(44:02) Embracing Self-Trust and Divine Timing(52:09) Overcoming Procrastination and Book Promotion(59:13) Align Coaching Certification Enrollment Offer*** SPONSOR ***CarnivoreCrowd - CrowdHealthThe CarnivoreCrowd over at CrowdHealth is bringing together metabolically healthy people to share in medical expenses. It's incredible. They're providing an alternative to health care coverage in the form of a community-based approach. It's pretty simple - you pay a monthly fee and then when your medical expenses come up you simply cover them with cash (which is often times 50% less) and then the crowd bands together and splits those costs through a crowdfunding model. We've both used this service for the last two years and love it.Check out their new CarnivoreCrowd and if you sign up be sure to use code MEATMAFIA for a discount on your first 3 months!We Feed RawI've been a dog owner for the last two years and I can confidently say that nothing has made a bigger difference than feeding my dog, Sunny, raw food. I've been feeding her We Feed Raw for the last 18 months and Sunny has transformed into the healthiest dog I've possibly ever seen (I am biased though). If you're a dog owner who's tired of feeding their dog kibble, check out We Feed Raw and use code MEAT to get 30% off.*** LINKS***Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Erin:WebsiteInstagramBook - Nothing Can Stop YouYouTubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinLink to vegan protest video at Sage restaurantAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Listen as Dr. Lorea Martinez, Columbia University Teachers College faculty member, founder of HEART in Mind, and author of "Teaching With the Heart in Mind," provides guidelines for supporting teachers in building students' social emotional learning skills. Identify how developing your own SEL skills supports your leadership and instructional coaching with staff. Honor Your Emotions Elect Your Responses Apply Empathy Reignite Your Relationships Transform with Purpose Read Lorea's article, "Leading From the Heart" here.  Visit Lorea's website and find her resources here.  Find Lorea's YouTube Channel and watch her video, "5 Strategies for Educator Stress" here. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find new episodes!

Dr. DeWayne Davis, Ed.D, CBO (Chief Business Official) has been an educator for 29 years. He started his career as a classroom teacher educating some of LA's most underserved communities. He went on the work as a principal and most recently as a Deputy Superintendent - Strategy and Accountability. He is also an Adjunct Professor for Columbia University - Teachers College; a Board member for the Urban Education Leaders Collaborative and Chair of the CSUDH Anti-Racism Committee. www.drdavis4lausdkids.com

It's been several years since the onset of our current pandemic labor market, yet large organizations still face challenges in recruiting and retaining top-tier talent. In response to this challenge, some organizations are leveraging new tools to source the skills they need from the talent they already have.Heather Yurko is a seasoned talent strategist who has implemented talent marketplaces in two Fortune 50 companies, providing them with platforms to source internal talent to solve business problems as they arise.In this episode, Heather and Dart discuss the benefits of implementing an internal talent or opportunity marketplace, how these marketplaces improve employee satisfaction and retention, workplace sustainability in a post-pandemic world, and much more.Topics Include:- Skills-Based Management- Using talent marketplaces to facilitate employee career growth- Hiring for adaptability rather than credentials- The biggest hurdles to implementing a talent marketplace- The reliability of skill assessments in employee hiring- How skills-based hiring can support DEIA initiatives- Specialization versus generalization in the modern workforce- And other topics...Heather Yurko holds an M.A. in organizational development from Columbia University-Teachers College, and has been building people, processes, and organizations for more than 20 years. She has implemented talent marketplaces for two Fortune 50 companies including Cisco Systems. Heather was the Director of Global Channels Engagement at Facebook before transitioning into her current role as VP of Digital Talent for Mastercard.Resources Mentioned:The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen: https://www.amazon.com/The-Cold-Start-Problem/dp/B08MKNHSWC/

Are coincidences & synchronicities beginning to be taken more seriously by academia? You bet! Our guest today, Ryan Suspanic, knows firsthand of this emerging field of research! You can purchase Dr. Beitman's new book, "Meaningful Coincidences", here ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel to see the latest podcast episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Coincider A doctoral student at Columbia University Teachers College, Ryan leads research initiatives in the Awakened Awareness spiritual intervention and the Study of Synchronicity in the Spirituality & Psychology Lab, directed by Dr. Lisa Miller. He holds a Master of Arts in psychology and education from Teachers College and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He has served as president of the Columbia University Triathlon Club, and president and executive director of the Teachers College graduate student Coaching Clinic. He is an academic advisor for the master's program within the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. His doctoral advisors are Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor and Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, and Dr. Thomas James, former Provost of Teachers College and Professor of History and Education.

In this two-part series on the Healing Power of Music, Dr. Roger Landry and Danielle Palli interview Jeff McSpadden of Composure and Maestro David Dworkin of Conductorcise. They discuss the budding research on music for stress reduction, memory, sleep, social connection and overall wellbeing, with some surprising new information on what helps us fall and stay asleep, what helps us heal, and how listening to, playing and moving to music can have a profound and positive influence on our lives.JEFF McSPADDEN: Jeff McSpadden is co-founder and CEO at Composure, an evidence-based, digital audio company that delivers original soundscapes for senior living communities to improve sleep and drive healthy outcomes for older adults living with dementia. As an entrepreneur, technologist and life-long musician and composer, Jeff has dedicated himself to the pursuit of sound as a vital ingredient to human thriving. Prior to launching Composure, Jeff's 15-year career as a composer includes writing and producing original music for film, television, and advertising with clients such as MGM, NBC, CBS, PBS, HBO, and AMC as well as brands ranging from Mercedes-Benz, Verizon, Progressive, Toshiba, and Ford. Jeff's career in music began in his hometown of Dallas, TX as a teenager playing trumpet in a range of idioms from jazz, to classical, to pop, and world music. He moved to New York City where he attended The New School for Social Research where he graduated with a Bachelor's in the Performing Arts. Jeff continues to live in NYC where he and his wife are raising their two teenage sons. https://www.composure.care/MAESTRO DAVID DWORKIN: Maestro David Dworkin has led orchestras across America and abroad and has performed around the world. Maestro David Dworkin is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Columbia University Teachers College. He began his career as a clarinetist, and much of his career has been devoted to working with young people. Later he combined his lifelong passion for conducting, performing, educating, and physical fitness and launched the award-winning Conductorcise. https://dworkincompany.com/site/artist/conductorcise/

In this two-part series on the Healing Power of Music, Dr. Roger Landry and Danielle Palli interview Jeff McSpadden of Composure and Maestro David Dworkin of Conductorcise. They discuss the budding research on music for stress reduction, memory, sleep, social connection and overall wellbeing, with some surprising new information on what helps us fall and stay asleep, what helps us heal, and how listening to, playing and moving to music can have a profound and positive influence on our lives.JEFF McSPADDEN: Jeff McSpadden is co-founder and CEO at Composure, an evidence-based, digital audio company that delivers original soundscapes for senior living communities to improve sleep and drive healthy outcomes for older adults living with dementia. As an entrepreneur, technologist and life-long musician and composer, Jeff has dedicated himself to the pursuit of sound as a vital ingredient to human thriving. Prior to launching Composure, Jeff's 15-year career as a composer includes writing and producing original music for film, television, and advertising with clients such as MGM, NBC, CBS, PBS, HBO, and AMC as well as brands ranging from Mercedes-Benz, Verizon, Progressive, Toshiba, and Ford. Jeff's career in music began in his hometown of Dallas, TX as a teenager playing trumpet in a range of idioms from jazz, to classical, to pop, and world music. He moved to New York City where he attended The New School for Social Research where he graduated with a Bachelor's in the Performing Arts. Jeff continues to live in NYC where he and his wife are raising their two teenage sons. https://www.composure.care/MAESTRO DAVID DWORKIN: Maestro David Dworkin has led orchestras across America and abroad and has performed around the world. Maestro David Dworkin is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Columbia University Teachers College. He began his career as a clarinetist, and much of his career has been devoted to working with young people. Later he combined his lifelong passion for conducting, performing, educating, and physical fitness and launched the award-winning Conductorcise. https://dworkincompany.com/site/artist/conductorcise/

Often, we have the “willpower” to work towards our goals but struggle to identify and leverage the “way power.” We may know what we want to accomplish (or have some idea) but do not know how we can go about making that a reality. This was the inspiration for establishing Way Power Consulting. With over 25 years of experience in senior human resources and talent management leadership roles, Donna has delivered talent and organizational development, leadership coaching, assimilation and transition, and DE&I strategy in large for-profit enterprises in medical technology and numerous other fields. Using her strengths-based focus, Donna works with leaders, teams, and individuals to attain clarity around their business challenges, understand and lead with their strengths and values, minimize the impact of gaps, and identify actionable ways to maximize the engagement and effectiveness that drives business results. Donna has coached, advised, and mentored a range of executives and leaders across all business functions. Her clients have included Fortuneranked enterprises as well as non-profit leaders. Donna's credentials include a doctorate in Social Psychology from Michigan State University and her Executive and Organizational Coaching certification from Columbia University Teachers College in New York. She possesses a deep competency in strengths coaching using CliftonStrengths®, and holds other certifications including Emotional Competence Inventory®, Myers Briggs (MBTI)®; CCL Benchmarks® 360-degree surveys, and Hogan®. Individual strengths and talents are interesting, but when aimed intentionally for a purpose, they become powerful. Described by others as “inspirational,” Donna focuses primarily on coaching, teaching, and delivering keynotes on a variety of topics. Her coaching style is warm, appropriately challenging, supportive, and insightful, and she believes a good dose of humor can make the journey not only successful but fun. Feel free to reach out at donna@waypowerconsulting.com or visit my website at https://waypowerconsulting.com Learn more about the Soul Professional movement at: https://www.soulprofessional.com/ #SoulProfessional #consciousleadership #sixfiguresoulbusiness #globalentrepreneur #soulalignedbusiness #entrepreneurship #CamilleLMiller #NLBP#NLBP #CamilleLMiller

Alexandre Tannous has been active as a musician, educator, composer, and as an ethnomusicologist. He holds a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Music Theory and Composition, and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College. As a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship he also earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy degrees in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University where he was enrolled in the PH.D. program. He has taught various music courses at the same institution. The works of Alexandre Tannous are frequently performed in the United States, Europe, and in Asia. The World Première performance of his orchestral composition “Métamorphose” under his baton at Carnegie Hall in 1995 received a standing ovation. As a film composer he composed two film-scores: The Seventh Dog (2005), and Jim (2009) www.jimthefilm.com. As a musician, he has performed a variety of musical styles including classical, jazz, rock, and non-Western music on various instruments. Alexandre is also active as an ethnomusicologist. He has conducted fieldwork for 17 years in over 40 countries around the world. His ethnomusicological research investigates issues of acculturation, community, musical identity in an urban setting, and the concepts of talent, charisma, and leadership in music. He is a sought-after ethnomusicologist/composer consultant on projects in recording studios helping creating awareness in amalgamating various musical cultures.

Collaborating in Community: Philanthropy's Role in Cultivating Equitable K-12 Learning EnvironmentsIn this special guest episode of 16:1, Katie and Chelsea are joined by Dr. Gisele C. Shorter, the Director of National Education Strategy at the Raikes Foundation, an organization with a mission to "[invest] in youth-serving institutions and systems to make them more effective in supporting and empowering all young people, especially those who have been most marginalized."Dr. Shorter discusses her work at the intersection of philanthropy and building equitable learning environments in K-12 schools, a role through which she empowers educators, policymakers, grantmakers, schools, support orgs, and communities to center the student experience. The discussion ranges from topics of classroom instruction, funding, and the science of learning and development to the educational policy initiatives that bolster community engagement and drive student success. Gisele and the hosts also explore the processes of defining goals and outcomes and measuring success with partner schools and educators, undertakings that can be difficult against a challenging cultural and political backdrop.The show concludes with a discussion of the ideal role of philanthropic partners in transforming educational experiences, a few questions about how Dr. Shorter sees her work evolving over the next decade, and a list of resources that she recommends for educators who are striving to build more equitable learning communities. Stick around for "What We Learned" if you're into trivia on transistors, maple syrup bottles, and a parting thought about doing the hard work of naming what's happening in our schools.Meet Dr. Shorter:Dr. Gisele C. Shorter provides strategy, policy, impact scaling and fundraising consulting services to non-profits, coalitions and advocacy groups to help them expand their reach and strengthen their impact.Gisele's career is rooted in a deep belief that an equitable society starts with an equitable education system. For 20 years, she has led large-scale community-based programs, research and policy initiatives to advance justice and equity, close health disparities, and ensure access and opportunities for Black and Brown youth and communities to flourish.Dr. Shorter has led youth development, education and community-based organizations through programmatic resets, large-scale culture change initiatives and strategic re-engineering. In 2018 she was recruited to the Raikes Foundation to lead the K-12 School & System Redesign portfolio focused on a commitment to grow the foundation's impact and to advance justice and equity in the redesign of our national public education system by leveraging the science of learning and development.The heartbeat of the K-12 portfolio is the Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) Network. Today she is responsible for impact and strategy coherence across the K-12, postsecondary, education fieldbuilding, and policy portfolios, as the Director of the National Education Strategy. She ensures grantmaking investments advance education policies and practices that support students furthest from educational justice, including those experiencing homelessness, foster care, and the justice system.Gisele began her career in the private sector with leadership experiences including Volume.com, an AOL Time Warner company, where she was Head of Research and ESPN, Inc. where she was a Program Management Associate. She has successfully leveraged her private sector experience, community connections, and academic training to drive positive change on behalf of the most vulnerable youth and communities.She is an adjunct professor and founding faculty member of the EdD in Leadership and Innovation degree program at NYU Steinhardt Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology. She advises doctoral students on a wide range of complex problems of practice, from the role of philanthropy in China's evolving socio-political context to the role of district superintendents as agents for change.Dr. Shorter earned her Ed.D. from Columbia University Teachers College. She holds an M.P.A. from Long Island University and a B.A. from Amherst College. She is a Pahara Aspen Fellow and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.Sources + Resources:Raikes Foundation - Introducing Gisele C. ShorterBuilding Equitable Learning Environments NetworkThe BELE Resource LibraryNYU Steinhardt FacultyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention - Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)Search Institute - The Developmental Relationships FrameworkNational Assessment of Educational ProgressCommunities for Just Schools FundKingmakers of OaklandCouncil of Chief State School OfficersWestEDCollaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)The BARR CenterThe School Superintendents AssociationResource Equity Funders CollaborativeIpsos

In this episode, Dr. Jason Altmire has a fascinating discussion with Senior Research Scholar Dr. Davis Jenkins about the role of community colleges in providing value and return on investment for students. Dr. Jenkins is the Senior Research Scholar at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University Teachers College. The CCRC works with community colleges to achieve better outcomes and serve their communities with limited resources. Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Altmire discuss community college outcomes, degrees of value, and guided pathways.To learn more about Career Education Colleges & Universities, visit our website.

  Dr. Lorea Martinez - Challenges Facing Teachers, Supporting Teachers, and Her New Course "Growing Your HEART Skills." This is Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is currently a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Learn more at www.loreamartinez.com.  In Teaching with the HEART in Mind, Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez provides a comprehensive roadmap to understanding the psychology of emotions, relationships, and adversity in learning, while equipping you to teach SEL skills and develop your own social and emotional intelligence. Full of practical techniques for educators of all subjects, this is your guide for transforming your classroom through essential SEL principles. You'll learn: How to create a safe, supportive school environment that encourages a positive educational mindset and better goal setting. A three-step process to infuse HEART skills into lesson planning for every subject and grade level. A full scope and sequence by grade, along with indicators of mastery for each skill in the HEART in Mind program. Tools for teachers to develop their own social and emotional capacity for a more effective and resilient teaching focus.  Over 90 activities to implement SEL into your classroom—even virtually! Our focus today is the challenges that are facing teachers, supporting teachers, and Lorea's New Court - Growing Your HEART Skills. So much to learn. Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: http://www.loreaMartinez.com https://stevenmiletto.com/397 https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/ https://twitter.com/loreamart/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/  Growing Your HEART Skills Length - 31:50

UX Researcher at Amazon, Monica Chan, is a Singaporean living and working in the United States. She recently graduated from Columbia University (Teachers College), where she completed her doctorate in Education Technology and focused on K-12 maker / STEAM education. Now at Amazon Alexa, she investigates interactive experiences between humans and voice assistants, in areas such as personalization, customization, and proactivity. She recently started mentoring at ADPList and Open Door Policy, an organization that helps refugees upskill to find remote jobs, as she is passionate about supporting upskilling/reskilling opportunities and career transitions for underserved populations. In her free time, Monica keeps up-to-date with edtech and emerging tech trends. Join us to hear us cover:- Do you need a PhD to work in UXR?- Projects and processes at Amazon Alexa- Reframing your experience and CV for UXR- Experience working for US Tech companies like Uber, Pinterest & Amazon

In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Steve Katsouros of Come to Believe Foundation and Network, which works with colleges and universities to replicate a successful DEI, enrollment, and graduation model. Dr. Katsouros was the founder of Arrupe College, a two-year institution that is part of Loyola University Chicago. Arrupe has an amazing track record for completion and having students graduate with little or no debt. Fifty percent (50%) of students complete their degree in two years/ nearly 70% in three years, and 90% of graduates incur no debt. More promising, more than 70% of students complete their Bachelor's degrees in five years or less. Compare this to the national average, where 13% of students in two-year colleges complete their Associate's degree in two years, and 13% of students who start at two-year colleges complete their Bachelor's degrees in six years. Steve discusses Arrupe's credit-bearing remedial classes, the rigorous application process, the Fellows Program that connects freshmen with sophomores in and outside of class, the roles of its graduate support coordinator, financial aid officer, and employer relations officer that help students succeed, and more. Arrupe's model can be applied to any 2- or 4-year institution. Podcast Highlights 50% of students at Arrupe College complete their degree in two years, 90% incur no debt and more than 70% complete their Bachelor's degrees in five years or less. Arrupe's model attracts first-generation, Pell-eligible, and undocumented students and helps them flourish in a post-secondary ed environment and beyond. Upon launching the model at Arrupe, over 50% of its donors had never given to its larger university, Loyola University Chicago, before. Most of these donors consisted of the many relationships that Arrupe made with local businesses through its model. One donor gave $100 million to Loyola University Chicago for all Pell and first-generation students from low-wealth backgrounds. For higher ed institutions that want to adopt Arrupe's model, Come to Believe helps university leaders perform a feasibility study to make sure they have bandwidth and consensus for the program and helps them prepare for presenting their proposals to their boards. The application season for the next cohort is open until the end of March. → View the podcast transcript More About Our Podcast Guest A member of the United States East Province of the Society of Jesus, Steve Katsouros, S.J., is the president and CEO of the Come to Believe Foundation and Network in New York City. Before Come to Believe, Fr. Katsouros served as the founding dean and executive director of Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago. Arrupe is a two-year college that continues the Jesuit tradition of offering a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse population, many of whom are the first in their family to pursue higher education. Fr. Katsouros served as Arrupe's academic and administrative leader from 2014 until 2020. In Paul Tough's study of higher education, The Most Important Years: How College Can Make or Break You (2019), the author observed Arrupe College "may be doing a more impressive job of keeping its students enrolled and on track for success than any other institution I visited." Prior to his assignment at Arrupe, Fr. Katsouros served as the director of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership (ICEL) and associate dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. From 2002-2011, Fr. Katsouros was president of Loyola, a coed Jesuit high school on Manhattan's Upper East Side; during his years at Loyola, the endowment and annual giving tripled, capital gifts were raised to refurbish the physical plant, and faculty and staff salaries increased to market competitiveness. The success of Arrupe College and its students inspired Fr. Katsouros to lead Come to Believe, a network, and foundation created to replicate and scale the Arrupe model nationally. Based in Manhattan, with teams working in Chicago and New York, Come to Believe provides advisory services to universities with the capacity to launch and sustain successful two-year colleges for high-potential students from low-wealth backgrounds. Come to Believe guides university leaders through the process of implementation and launch of new colleges and provides research-based best practices and problem-solving techniques. Fr. Katsouros earned his doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in organizational leadership; his research interests are leadership, governance, and institutional performance. He was ordained in 1998. Guest Links Come to Believe Network Steve Katsouros Bio Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago About Our Podcast Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton is the host of Changing Higher Ed Podcast and a consultant to higher ed institutions. To learn more about his services and other thought leadership pieces, visit his firm's website, https://changinghighered.com/. The Change Leader's Social Media Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrumm/ Twitter: @thechangeldr Email: podcast@changinghighered.com Keywords: #HigherEdEnrollment #CometoBelieve #HighEredPodcast

Ava Mateo is the amazing kind of young leader that can inspire an entire generation. She is the Executive Director of 18by Vote and is focused on a masters from Columbia University Teachers College that focuses on Sociology and Education. Ava coordinates important collaborations with 18by Vote while studying the influence of youth-led organizations and youth educational programs across the country. https://18byvote.org/ https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/18by-vote-claiming-your-voice https://www.representwomen.org/ava_mateo https://www.turnoutpac.org/18by-vote-uplifts-youth-voters-grantee-spotlight-ava-mateo/ https://circle.tufts.edu/explore-our-data/youth-voting-and-civic-engagement-america   Get a Political Hope t-shirt and support the show!!!  

Andrea Kantrowitz, an artist and educator, has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and has twice served as a Singapore Ministry of Education Outstanding Educator in Residence. She was a teaching artist in the New York City public schools for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects that demonstrated the positive academic impact of an integrated art curriculum for students growing up in poverty. As a director of the Thinking through Drawing Project, she co-organized 10 years of international drawing and cognition research symposia and workshops, in collaboration with colleagues from around the world. She holds a doctorate in Art Education and Cognitive Studies from Columbia University Teachers College, an MFA in Painting from Yale, a BA in Art and Cognition from Harvard and is an Associate Professor and Director of the Art Education Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are in many private collections.  She has curated multiple exhibitions on themes of drawing, cognition, and the creative work of artist/educators.  She is an artist member of The Painting Center in New York City, and her artwork is also represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Homage to Las Meninas, Mixed media on paper, 32 x 40. 2022 Many Stories Could Be Told, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 28 x 40. 2022 Polyhhedra, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 24 x 40. 2022

Bio:   Shari Short is a patient advocate, a professional in healthcare communications and naturally, a standup comedian. As Senior Director of Insights and Strategy at Bionical Solutions, she has over 20 years of experience in patient education from behavior change to clinical trial recruitment. A developmental psychologist by training, Shari has held positions with the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, Virginia Department of Health, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and various healthcare marketing firms. Shari received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.    Shari has been living with Multiple Sclerosis for 14 years. As a Patient Advocate, Shari has shared insights from living with Multiple Sclerosis to the New Jersey statewide advocacy committee of the National MS Society as well as written for their national magazine, Momentum. She incorporated her experience with MS into a sold-out one-woman show called “It's My Mother's MS, I just Have It” and a satire letter series from “The Crazy Cane Lady”. Shari has been featured on multiple podcasts. She has been performing standup comedy since her teen years (read: the 80s) and has opened for performers such as Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bernhard.   Questions:   Welcome to the program, Shari, and thanks so much for joining us on Living Well with MS. You have a very eclectic background, from standup comedy to developmental psychology. Can you tell us a bit about how that all ties together and has helped you forge your current path focused on behavior change? We know humor is important to you, an essential part of your personal and even professional identity. And we'll dig into that in a moment. But first, I'd like to understand your experience with MS. Can you give us a bit of an intro to that, anything you feel comfortable sharing? Was there a point when you developed a philosophy or even a methodology for using humor to cope with some of the challenges of MS? Can you tell our audience about that journey? You've produced a lot of humorous output about MS. Some notable things to mention (incidentally links to many of these can be found in the show notes, so I encourage everyone to have a look): a one woman show called “On My Nerves”; a satirical piece for Momentum, the National MS Society magazine; presentations at the University of Pennsylvania; various podcast appearances, including this one. Do any of these stand out for you, and if so, how? I understand that humor has personally helped you deal with scary situations, reframe your current physical abilities, and not take yourself too seriously. How transferable are these “benefits” to the broader MS community, and how would you advise people who don't have the same organic relationship with humor that you do tap into them? How do you overcome the discomfort some people may feel when you apply a humorous or jokey spin to a “serious” topic such as MS? There's a principle I understand you have called “laughing on purpose”. Can you tell us a little more about that? So I'm getting the sense that humor can be many things as applied to MS: a coping tool, a teaching tool, or even a defense mechanism. What's your best advice for how Joe Q. Public with MS can harness humor to its maximum positive advantage? Thanks so much for being our guest on Living Well with MS, Shari. We are thrilled to learn about the amazing work you're doing to help people with MS ease their burdens and get the most out of life using humor. And I encourage everyone to learn more about you and your work by checking out the links and more in our show notes for this episode. Thanks again, Shari.   Links:   Connect with Shari on LinkedIn Read Shari's humorous piece in Momentum Magazine, the official magazine of the National MS Society Check out Shari's satirical take on pharma marketing Here's a collection of Shari's videos connected to the 2021 Tody Awards Check out selections from Shari's 2011 one-woman show, "It's My Mother's MS, I Just Have It" – clip 1 and clip 2   Coming up next:   Starting June 27, please join us for the 33rd installment of our Living Well with MS Coffee Break series. On this journey into the lives of our global OMS community, we have a special surprise for you – a mystery guest. Their location won't be disclosed until the episode because you'd likely guess who it is it were. But we assure you that you'll relish some of the behind-the-scenes details of this person's life and OMS journey.   Don't miss out:   Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favorite podcast listening app. For your convenience, a full episode transcript is also available on all platforms within 72 hours of each episode's premiere. If you like our program, don't be shy and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show. And feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org.   S4E53 Transcript Laughter is the Best Medicine   Geoff Allix (00:00): Welcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast from Overcoming MS, the world's leading multiple sclerosis healthy lifestyle charity, celebrating its 10th year of serving the MS community. I'm your host, Geoff Allix. The goal of our organization and this podcast is to inform, support, and empower people with MS to lead full and happy lives. We're excited you could join us for this new episode.   Make sure to check out this episode's show notes for more information and useful links. You can find these on our website at www.overcomingms.org/podcast or on whichever podcast platform you use to tune into our program. If you enjoy the show, please spread the word about us on your social media channels or leave a review wherever you tune into our podcast. Have questions or ideas to share? Email us at podcast@overcomingms.org or you can reach out to me directly on Twitter, @GeoffAllix. We'd love to hear from you. Finally, don't forget to subscribe to Living Well with MS on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And now, let's meet our guest for this episode.   Welcome to the Living Well with MS podcast. This episode is Laughter is the Best Medicine, with guest, Shari Short. Shari is a patient advocate, a professional in healthcare communications, and naturally, a stand-up comedian. As senior director of insights and strategy at Bionical Solutions, she has over 20 years of experience in patient education, from behavior change to clinical trial recruitment. A developmental psychologist by training, Shari has held positions with the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, Virginia Department of Health, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and various healthcare marketing firms. Shari received her MA in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University Teacher's College.   Shari has been living with multiple sclerosis for 14 years. As a patient advocate, Shari has shared insights from living with multiple sclerosis to the New Jersey Statewide Advocacy Committee of the National MS Society, as well as written for their national magazine, Momentum. She incorporated her experience with MS into a sold-out one-woman show called, It's My Mother's MS, I Just Have It, and a satire letter series from The Crazy Cane Lady. Shari has been featured on multiple podcasts. She had been performing stand-up comedy since her teen years and has opened for performers such as Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bernhard. Welcome to the program, Shari, and thanks so much for joining us on Living Well with MS.   Shari Short (02:34): Thank you for having me.   Geoff Allix (02:37): You have a very eclectic background, from stand-up comedy to developmental psychology. Can you tell us a bit about how that all ties together and has helped you forward your current path focused on behavior change?   Shari Short (02:51): Sure. I mean, doesn't it sound like such a natural path, from stand-up comedy to developmental psychology. It's like a board game, really, it's like a party game. I basically started out really wanting to be in the arts and especially stand-up, I preferred stand-up to acting. I sing, I act, whatever, but stand-up was my favorite. And I for some reason had the guts to start it at 14 years of age when I had braces and was in high school and was able to go into the comedy clubs and just watch, watch and learn. And the older comics there just, they adopted me and took really good care of me. I read John Belushi's book, a book about John Belushi by Woodward, at a young age, and it scared me to have to depend on my sense of humor for finances.   So I said, "Well, I want to have like a solid degree and a solid job and do stand-up." And of course, when you're a teenager, you think that all works. I was eager to at least get academic credentials behind me, so I went to film school, went to NYU, and there I minored in psychology, spent a lot of time during the summers, working with young kids and parents in theater camps, and just absolutely fell in love with... Excuse me... The way that our lives changed when we become parents. And it wasn't me, I was watching people become parents, and I was helping parents and I wasn't even a parent yet. So when I chose developmental psychology for my graduate work, I felt like that's what I'm going to go into. I want to create resources for parents.   I became concerned with... like we talked about Microsoft earlier, I was like, "Are there books for parents on how to use the computer?" I interned with Sesame Street. I was very focused on being creative within this academic psych setting. But once you go to grad school, nothing's really funny, so I stopped doing comedy. I had opened for Sandra Bernhard, I'd opened for Shawn Colvin, I'd had a wonderful time, but you got to commit. If you want to do stand-up, you have to commit and you have to want it, you have to want that life and I preferred giving lectures.   I preferred making the audience laugh that they had to be there, I had to grade them or they had to be graded, they had to show up. And I tipped my hat off to everybody I know that's successful now, that just put in those hours and put in that amount of travel to live the life of a stand-up comic, especially in the 90s, and the early 2000s, because that was way before MS for me, but something I knew I didn't have the stamina for. And I was so nervous to not get paid and have it all depend on my sense of humor, that was a big thing for me.   Geoff Allix (06:14): We'll come back to the humor in a bit because it's obviously an essential part of your personal and professional identity. But first, because this is a Living Well with MS Podcast, we want to understand a bit about your experience with MS. Could you give us a bit of an intro, anything that you feel comfortable sharing about your MS journey?   Shari Short (06:35): Sure. I was diagnosed in the summer of 2008. I had become a runner a year or so before that, and was training pretty intensely for a 10k, and I suddenly had vision loss and pain behind my eye. It presented as the optic neuritis, but I didn't know that. For me it was, "Oh, there's pain, there's my eye, there's my head. Clearly it's a brain tumor." And I panicked and went to the urgent care center and they sent me to the ER, and I got an emergency eye doctor appointment the following morning. And the eye doctor just said, "Oh, this is really classic optic neuritis." And I was like, "Great, give me some eye drops." I didn't know what that meant, and he just kept sitting there and I'm like, "Oh, you have more to tell me, don't you?"   He got me into a pretty quick appointment with a neurologist. And I don't have a slow, drawn-out diagnosis story, like so many. They had a neuroradiologist at my MRI, they saw lesions, I was diagnosed really quickly, all based on that one event with the optic neuritis.   Geoff Allix (07:53): I think there is a difference in different health care systems around the world, it does seem to me the Americans I've spoken to, do get diagnosed typically quite quickly, whereas in the UK we often get diagnosed quite slowly. But on the flip side, we get lots of free medication.   Shari Short (08:10): Yes, it's quite the flip side.   Geoff Allix (08:13): Definitely tradeoffs between the different-   Shari Short (08:13): It's quite the flip side.   Geoff Allix (08:16): If someone were to come up with the best of both worlds, it'd be pretty good. But yeah. Yeah, I would never say anything bad about our system, our system is fantastic.   Shari Short (08:24): I'm a fan of your system.   Geoff Allix (08:25): But yeah, there are downsides to how quickly things happen occasionally, but anyway, we can live with that.   Shari Short (08:30): Yeah [inaudible 00:08:33].   Geoff Allix (08:33): Was there a point when you developed a philosophy or methodology even of using humor to cope with some of the challenges that came up because of MS?   Shari Short (08:45): It was pretty organic, I think, for me to be using my humor to cope. And I just didn't realize how naturally it would be until I was actually in a situation where I had to really tap into my coping skills. At my very first MRI where they diagnosed me, and the neuroradiologist is literally showing me my scan so I'm seeing my skull, the first thing out of my mouth, Geoff, was, "Do I look fat?" Right? It's like, "What?" Like, "Where'd that come from?" Like okay, I'm nervous and I'm processing, and clearly I'm going to try to lighten the mood. And to just see myself consistently doing that, when I got my first handicap tag and I was very sad about it, I remembered I had a dress the same color and I'm like, "I can finally accessorize."   So things were just coming to me in a way to get me off of the morbid train, to get me off of the "Okay, I could really [inaudible 00:09:53] because of this particular situation, but I'm going to find the humor in it." And the more I did that, the more my friends would say to me, "You've got a collection of stuff here. You've got stories, you've got strangers who've said ridiculous things to you, you've got just funny conversations, you've had funny interactions." People would see me, and I didn't mention this before, but eventually after the optic neuritis, eventually I lost feeling on my left side and now I walk with a cane and two leg braces. And I've had people just approach me, like I'm some sort of former athlete and then they'd be like, "Oh, was it soccer?" They just made up sports and they're strangers, I started telling people it was a Quidditch injury.   Geoff Allix (08:45): Well Quidditch is very dangerous. I mean, the altitude and...   Shari Short (10:48): Well, yeah, this is my little PSA. Yeah, so Quidditch causes MS, so yeah. I had a lot of time to not only see how I was using my humor to cope, but also to just see humor in situations. I was watching it unfold and gave myself the project of putting together a one woman show. And in doing so, in writing and in taking every Sunday to just sit and write and write, it was really, it was a deep dive into my own perspective. And from there I did the show, but I also then put together presentations and different types of creative outlets and tools for coping, that could hopefully help other people. Because this is not a mindset that just comes easily to a lot of people.   Geoff Allix (11:39): You've produced a lot of content, which you've touched on there, and it is mentioned in the show notes, so do have a look, there's links to a lot of that content. Some of the things are shows, like On My Nerves, as well as a satirical piece for Momentum, the National MS Society magazine in the States. Presentations at the University of Pennsylvania, various podcast appearances, including this one. Could you tell us if there's any of those experiences that stand out for you?   Shari Short (12:11): The one-woman show was phenomenal, and it was called On My Nerves, but the working title for me was, It's My Mother's MS, I Just Have It, because I had so many stories about how mom was dealing with my diagnosis or dealing with my disease, as opposed to me. And then that dovetailed into how everybody else was dealing with my situation, and the stories that I had on that. To have so many people come out and see that, and then be asked, "Do you want to do this for fringe festivals and stuff like that?" And to have to say, "Actually, no, I can't, that took all the energy I have." It was amazing, I'm glad I had it taped, I'm glad I have my binder. I could do it again, but I couldn't do it on a show basis.   To have a night at the theater where 140 people came out and it was sold out, was a really wonderful way to honor how I've used the humor. And also I got just emails and responses from people with other chronic illnesses, and a lot of people with more silent, hidden chronic illness that were like, "Thank you for that, because you just touched on stuff that no one's talking about, and you did it in a way that was safe." And I just realized that the humor can help people and it's not just helping me. Yeah, and then just the Crazy Cane Lady letter series that I started a couple of years ago was just a little creative advocacy project for me, where I would just write letters, fake letters, very real feelings, but fake letters to different entities, like hotels or restaurants, or back to school night, or Broadway theaters, about how they could be more accommodating to people like me.   I definitely honed in on the cane part of my existence because I see that there are tremendous accommodations, and we could still improve for people in wheelchairs, but the cane, it gets a little middle child treatment sometimes. And there's a ramp that it'll take me a year to get up the ramp on the cane when I could just go up the steps and then be there. So I just feel like there's a lot to learn and people have a lot to learn in terms of event planning and in terms of accommodating people with canes. I did this series of letters during MS Week here in the States, it was in March a couple of years ago. And I made those public, and that took off really nicely. People responded really well to that, and I need to write more of them. I was going to do it again the following year, but the following year was COVID and I just felt like we all had bigger fish to fry than if I can find a bench near a movie theater, right? So I didn't continue with that. I did a video series, like an Oscars version of just thanking different entities within the MS community that have helped me cope. I feel like if I can't perform it or if I can't write it and put it out there in a satirical way, I'm not processing. I don't do the serious stuff and process; it has to be creative for me to feel like it's healing.   Geoff Allix (15:37): You've mentioned that humor's helped you deal with situations you've had and help with your physical abilities and not take yourself too seriously, so how transferable are those benefits to the broader MS community? And how would you advise people to try to tap into that relationship you have with humor?   Shari Short (16:03): Yeah, no, that's a great question. I think that it comes down to the lens that you're seeing life through and the lens that you're seeing your mobility issues through, or whatever it is that MS has affected for you. And the lens I used to see my slow gait and my balance issues, I used to just... Well, I went from being a runner to the negative and it was, "Oh, great. This is what I get, and this isn't fair." And all of those very, very normal feelings, to, "All right, I'm going to rock a cane." Or "All right, with these assistant orthotic devices, they make me look like a Jedi." Or not, they made me look like a storm trooper actually, because they were white.   I also, I have to say I had a small child during this time, so I really felt the need to be creative about what was happening to mommy, because he saw me go from a runner to, I can't walk well, and that kind of pushed me along. There might be something for other people, when they consider, "Well, am I looking through it in the glass half full lens, or am I looking through it in the glass half empty? And what lens am I looking at it through? And are there things that I think are funny that, if I tell people I think they're funny, they're going to judge me?" And I'm here to say, embrace all of it. It's your lens, you're seeing it through. I did a lot of acceptance of dark humor. I did a lot of acceptance of the fact that humor is a language and some people will be put off if you're joking about your condition. And some people will feel like, "Oh, okay, good [inaudible 00:17:53]."   Geoff Allix (17:53): How do you deal with that discomfort if people are not comfortable with you talking in a humorous way about something as serious as MS?   Shari Short (18:03): Sure. Well, it's always know your audience, right? If I'm talking to other people who have MS, to the best of my ability I gauge where they are, like that talk I gave at Penn here in the States, they knew they were logging on to see a comedian, they knew what they were getting, so I wasn't too scared to read the Crazy Cane Lady letters or whatever. But I mean, to this day... look, last week I dealt with COVID and I knew I had COVID not because of a cold or a cough, but because I collapsed, and my husband had to pick me up off the floor. It triggered something in the MS and I'm like, "Oh, I've got a virus that my body wants me to know about."   And I could tell people and I get the "Oh." You know, I get the face. And I'm like, "Yeah, but I didn't hurt myself." Or "Yeah, my husband was right there." Or "My COVID's more fun than your COVID." I feel the need to keep going with the story instead of letting it halt and let them know I'm okay. And not everybody can do that, and I get that. And that's why, when I do workshops or anything like that, I get personal and talk about, "Okay, what's in your toolbox? What can you grab onto at that moment that is going to help you get either through telling the story or through what you're doing?" Almost in a cognitive behavioral way, "What's a great image you have in your head to just move you through the situation?"   And that's all just been because that's worked for me, and I know from research that humor is healing and laughing is really good for the body. There have definitely been situations in my life where the instinct is to cry, but I know it I've always felt better if I set the situation up so I could laugh at it.   Geoff Allix (20:10): You've got a principle, I believe, called laughing on purpose, which you've almost touched on there, I think. But could you tell us a bit of more about that?   Shari Short (20:18): Laughing on purpose?   Geoff Allix (20:19): Yes.   Shari Short (20:22): Laughing on purpose, I mean, when I hear that phrase, I mean, I feel like it's making a conscious choice to keep your sense of humor about you when things are challenging. And that looking at things with humor is not a weakness, it's like, if I don't laugh, I'll cry, that phrase that's out there. It's like if you laugh, it's actually going to help the situation a little bit. And it's for you, it's personal for you. It's not like, "Oh, somebody else is suffering, so laugh at them." I'm only talking about when one is dealing with one's own stuff. That would be horrible advice to give to anybody to just laugh at other people's challenges.   Geoff Allix (21:04): I just think all the best humor is when it's the comedian laughing at themselves, I think that's the funniest humor, isn't it?   Shari Short (21:10): Of course. Yeah, and I felt like sometimes I had to be jostled into it, I had to be jostled back. And I had this wonderful story in the show whereby I got that handicap tag and I was sad about it. And my boss at the time was like, "Well, can I borrow it? I have Springsteen tickets, and I would love to use your handicap tag." Here I was feeling really bad for myself, and then people were like, "You've got the golden ticket." I have this motto or whatever, or this creed or this way of looking at things, like if I don't try to find the humor in this, then I haven't really processed it, like I mentioned before. And it's not a pressure, it's just how can I help myself?   Occasionally they'll be like, "Oh no, no, no, it's not working yet. It's not working yet." And in my toolbox, I have things that make me laugh. I have old Blackadder episodes, I have the best of Bits of Fry and Laurie, I have comedians like David Mitchell and things on the BBC that make me laugh, or American comedians like Kathleen Madigan. And I just go there, I'm like, "They're going to make me laugh and it's going to reset me." The things that are dark, the things that I've had to deal with with MS, the intimate, discreet ways in which the central nervous system wreaks havoc, MS wreaks havoc on it, I don't want to share with everybody, but I've become a little bit more like, "I've got to advocate for me or no one else will."   So if we're all going into a restaurant, I'm like, "Excuse me, but the seat near the bathroom. Yeah, that would be me. That is mine." Right? Yeah. And it's just like, I'm 51 years old, people might think, "Oh, oh, women do that." No, no, no, it is totally because of the MS. But I've just grown a little bit more comfortable with the uncomfortable because I communicate with my humor. And when you have MS, I mean, everybody's got it differently, but there's uncomfortable things about it.   Geoff Allix (23:33): Sense of humor can apply to many things in MS. It can be coping tool, teaching tool, defense mechanism, so just for general member of the public who's got MS, how can they harness humor to make a positive benefit to themselves?   Shari Short (23:55): I think, first of all, you have to ask how you're processing any aspect of where you are in your patient journey, is the term that's used most often. How are you processing? Are you talking about it a lot? Are you thinking about it a lot? Are you down on yourself because of it? Or are you trying to give yourself pep talks? Are you worried about the future? Where are you with it? And then ask yourself in that processing, "Okay, what kind of lens should I look at this through so it's going to help me move forward?"   The toolbox is something I come back to a lot. What makes you laugh, as you, your own person with MS, what makes you laugh is not what makes me laugh, is not what makes everybody else laugh, it's you. So write it down, actually acknowledge your sense of humor. What makes you laugh? And start to collect those things, whether it's books or whether it's links on the internet, whether it's the cat video or the guy who says, "I'm not a cat," to the lawyer, you know those things that went viral last year. There are things that can immediately make you laugh so just be more aware of them because they're tools for you to reset. And I use humor to communicate, not everybody does. You may find in your dealing with MS, that you've got two friends that will get your dark humor, that will get your jokes, or will support you on that, then they're part of your toolbox too.   I've found that I've had, like we talked about earlier, there's people that get uncomfortable or they make faces and I don't stop too long in their party. I just go, "Okay, yeah, yeah, no, I know it sucks." I can't take care of anybody else but me, so I think that's really important, is to just look where you are, what lens are you looking at it through? Where can you find, is there humor in this situation? Do you want to write about it? Do you want to tell a good close friend about it? Do you want to tell your doctor about it? But collect those things, because at other times it's going to make you laugh when no one else knows what you're thinking, and it's going to be part of your own collection of stories that you can go back to and say, "This is how I dealt. This is how I helped myself." Because to find humor in situations, it's not self-defeating, it's empowering.   Geoff Allix (26:26): With that, I'd like to thank you so much for being our guest on Living Well with MS. We're thrilled to learn about the amazing work you've been doing to help people with MS, to ease their burdens and get the most out of life using humor. And I would absolutely encourage everyone to learn more about you and your work by checking out the links in the show notes, they're available on every platform. Have a look at the show notes of the episode. And thank you much for joining us again, Shari.   Shari Short (26:52): Thank you so much for having me, this was great.   Geoff Allix (27:01): Thank you for listening to this episode of Living Well with MS. Please check out this episode's show notes at www.overcomingms.org/podcast. You'll find all sorts of useful links and bonus information there. Do you have questions about this episode or ideas about future ones? Email us at podcast@overcomingms.org. We'd love to hear from you. You can also subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform, so you never miss an episode.   Living well with MS is kindly supported by a grant from The Happy Charitable Trust. If you'd like to support the Overcoming MS charity and help keep our podcast advertising free, you can donate online at www.overcomingms.org/donate. To learn more about Overcoming MS and its array of free content and programs, including webinars, recipes, exercise guides, OMS Circles, our global network of community support groups, and more, please visit our website at www.overcomingms.org. While you're there, don't forget to register for our monthly e-newsletter so you can stay informed about the podcast and other news and updates from Overcoming MS. 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Episode 85 of the Making After School Cool podcast centers on the growing trend of teaching students Social Emotional Learning skills. People with strong social-emotional skills are better equipped to manage daily challenges, build positive relationships, and make informed decisions. To discuss what it can look like to implement SEL skills in schools, after school programs, and at home is my guest Dr. Lorea Martinez.  During this interview you will learn: Why is awareness of Social Emotional Learning important The benefits for schools to teach social emotional learning The connection between students understanding of SEL and their social behavior at school? How to get the book Teach with the HEART in Mind, A complete educator's guide to social emotional learning Guest Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. She has worked with schools, districts, and organizations to guide SEL implementation efforts, including training teachers and leadership teams, and provided guidance to educational technology and media companies to help them integrate SEL in their products. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. She has conducted extensive research in the SEL field with a focus on SEL implementation, principals' Emotional Intelligence, teacher preparation, and school climate. She frequently blogs about how to incorporate SEL in teaching practices, leadership, and parenting. Dr. Martínez started her career as a special education teacher and administrator. A native of the Costa Brava in Spain, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. Resources Dr. Lorea Martinez Loreamartinez.com   Mike Wilson mwilson@hcde-texas.org   Harris County Department of Education https://hcde-texas.org   CASE for Kids https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone

Jane Pollak is the Founder of Jane Pollak Designs which produces one-of-a-kind textiles – pillows and wall pieces – for interior designers, collectors and connoisseurs.Pollak was born in Columbus, OH, and grew up in White Plains, NY from the age of 6. Her parents identified her as the artist in the family at an early age and supported her choice of Studio Art as a major at Mount Holyoke College along with her decision to earn a Masters degree in Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College. Teaching high school art, Pollak learned the craft of Ukrainian Easter egg decorating that defined her entrepreneurial journey over the next 30 years. She authored the best-selling craft book Decorating Eggs, Exquisite Designs with Wax & Dye, achieved national recognition with appearances on The Today Show and features on CBS News, The Carol Duvall Show and The New York Times.You'll find Pollak thriving in New York City where she regularly visits museums and galleries, and attends theatre as often as possible. Her grown children are all entrepreneurial, and are terrific parents to her three grandchildren.Follow Jane;Janepollak.comJanepollakdesigns.com@janepollakIf you have a story to tell;Email: bluelemonadepodcast@gmail.com to be a guest on the showhttps://www.facebook.com/Blue-Lemonade-Podcast-113752514556183https://www.instagram.com/bluelemonadepodcast/Follow #HATNOTHATEwww.hatnothate.orghttps://www.facebook.com/hatnothatehttps://www.instagram.com/hat_not_hate/

How well do you understand your own emotions? Do your emotions ever get in the way of producing quality work or collaborating effectively? Chances are, yes. This is why social-emotional learning, or SEL, is so important for us to teach children at home and at school. For us adults, we can still master SEL skills so that we, too, can be stronger, more compassionate leaders, colleagues, and citizens. My guest today, Dr. Lorea Martinez, and I discuss the positive impact that can have on your workforce, productivity, and performance. In this episode, Lorea and I discuss what SEL means to both children and adults. We talk about the efforts around the world to embed this learning in our schools and how it helps kids become more aware of their emotions, leading to better problem-solving skills and collaboration. Lorea shares the psychology of emotions and how they impact our performance at work and our ability to learn. We discuss how trauma impacts learning and cognitive development in kids and adults, and finally how we create spaces where people can bring their full identities and truly belong. Key Takeaways:We all have a voice and can make a difference in our communities. We all have a purpose in life and we can change the future generations as we learn, ourselves, and teach our children these social-emotional skills. Emotions are part of our cognitive process - we cannot have thought without feelings and all decisions we make are based on emotions.One of the most important things is creating spaces where people can build their most authentic selves. We are hiding from ourselves when we are not embracing the diversity in ourselves and around us.  "Social and emotional learning is the application of emotional intelligence. It's a lifelong process. It's never too early or too late to start practicing and learning emotional intelligence." —  Dr. Lorea Martinez About Dr. Lorea Martinez:Dr. Lorea Martinez, Author & Founder, HEART in MindDr. Lorea Martínez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind, a consulting company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her new book for educators, Teaching with the HEART in Mind, is currently available. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. She frequently blogs about how to incorporate SEL in teaching practices and parenting at loreamartinez.comConnect with Dr. Lorea Martinez:  Website: https://loreamartinez.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/loreamartLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/Book: Teaching with the HEART in Mind: https://amzn.to/394f5dO Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy  Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

How well do you understand your own emotions? Do your emotions ever get in the way of producing quality work or collaborating effectively? Chances are, yes. This is why social-emotional learning, or SEL, is so important for us to teach children at home and at school. For us adults, we can still master SEL skills so that we, too, can be stronger, more compassionate leaders, colleagues, and citizens. My guest today, Dr. Lorea Martinez, and I discuss the positive impact that can have on your workforce, productivity, and performance. In this episode, Lorea and I discuss what SEL means to both children and adults. We talk about the efforts around the world to embed this learning in our schools and how it helps kids become more aware of their emotions, leading to better problem-solving skills and collaboration. Lorea shares the psychology of emotions and how they impact our performance at work and our ability to learn. We discuss how trauma impacts learning and cognitive development in kids and adults, and finally how we create spaces where people can bring their full identities and truly belong. Key Takeaways:We all have a voice and can make a difference in our communities. We all have a purpose in life and we can change the future generations as we learn, ourselves, and teach our children these social-emotional skills. Emotions are part of our cognitive process - we cannot have thought without feelings and all decisions we make are based on emotions.One of the most important things is creating spaces where people can build their most authentic selves. We are hiding from ourselves when we are not embracing the diversity in ourselves and around us.  "Social and emotional learning is the application of emotional intelligence. It's a lifelong process. It's never too early or too late to start practicing and learning emotional intelligence." —  Dr. Lorea Martinez About Dr. Lorea Martinez:Dr. Lorea Martinez, Author & Founder, HEART in MindDr. Lorea Martínez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind, a consulting company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her new book for educators, Teaching with the HEART in Mind, is currently available. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. She frequently blogs about how to incorporate SEL in teaching practices and parenting at loreamartinez.comConnect with Dr. Lorea Martinez:  Website: https://loreamartinez.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/loreamartLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/Book: Teaching with the HEART in Mind: https://amzn.to/394f5dO Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy  Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

Dr. Lorea Martínez is the award-winning Founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate social emotional learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. She is also the author of the book, Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. false dichotomy between academics and sel. We cannot have thoughts without feelings Designing with emotions in mind Teach skills explicitly There was no place to teach the skills. Lens of parents not doing enough. How to deal with parents at-home culture. Lead with understanding. How to tell a parent you're calling child protective services. How to be a transformative principal? Pay attention to your own social emotional capacity. Emotions are data and information explaining what's happening inside. Sponsors Transformative Principal Mastermind Lead a school everyone can be proud of. Being a principal is tough work. You're pulled in all kinds of directions. You never have the time to do the work that really matters. Join me as I help school leaders find the time to do the work they became principals to do. I help you stop putting out fires and start leading. Learn more at https://transformativeprincipal.com John Catt Today's Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt's mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today's and tomorrow's schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles: - The Coach's Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott Let's Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt's research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

Lorea Martinez Brings Tons of Experience to FocusED Listeners Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. She has worked with schools, districts, and organizations to guide SEL implementation efforts, including training teachers and leadership teams, and provided guidance to educational technology and media companies to help them integrate SEL in their products. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. She has conducted extensive research in the SEL field with a focus on SEL implementation, principals' Emotional Intelligence, teacher preparation, and school climate. She frequently blogs about how to incorporate SEL in teaching practices, leadership, and parenting. She received her Doctor of Philosophy, magna cum laude, in Quality and Innovation in Education from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In 2014, she was awarded the American Education Research Association Graduate Student Award for Excellence in SEL Research from the SEL Special Interest Group. Dr. Martínez started her career as a special education teacher and administrator. A native of the Costa Brava in Spain, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. Buy her book, Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. ------------------------------------------------------------- Show Notes from Our FocusED Episode with Lorea Martinez Lorea talked about being a special education teacher and all that needs to be done to support students, including their coping skills. She wrote the book because she realized that we're not spending enough time on social and emotional learning to support students. She talked about how SEL is often misunderstood in terms of implementation. Joe asked about the entry point for SEL work. Lorea said it must be entered in any way possible. Lorea explains the HEART acronym and its alignment to CASEL. She lays out three easy steps to infuse SEL into any lesson plan. Every teacher can use this information. Don't miss what she says about brain breaks and movement for our learners. Always have an SEL goal for your lesson plan in addition to your academic goal. ~ Lorea Martinez We need a common understanding in our education community in terms of exactly what we mean by SEL when we're planning for ourselves and our students. Lorea talked about nurturing students' strengths to help them discover their path forward in life. She discussed the false dichotomy about relationships and academics and that they aren't two things but rather one together. Lorea mentioned The Learning Policy Institute as a place she goes for practical research. She also pointed to Facing History and Ourselves as a resource for teachers and leaders. Lorea mentioned two books that she's reading: Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristen Neff She wants to see a book written that compiles educators' success stories with SEL. We cannot teach what we do not practice. ~ Lorea Martinez ___________________________________________________ Thanks for listening to FocusED, an educational leadership podcast brought to you by TheSchoolHouse302 @ theschoolhouse302.com where we publish free leadership content. Go to the site, subscribe, and you'll get all of our content sent directly to your email.

Diana Pacheco is entering her 18th year in education. She began working in public and private institutions in Massachusetts with students with moderate to severe special needs. In the last 11 years, she has lived overseas, teaching diverse learners from early childhood to lower elementary in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Taiwan. Originally from New York City, she attended the University of Buffalo and earned a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology with a concentration in the implication on culture on education and a Masters in Education through Simmons College with licensure in Special Education. In 2020, she earned a Masters of Education in Public School Leadership from Columbia University Teachers College.Over the course of her career, she has been an elementary and secondary teacher, Math Department Coordinator, ELA Liaison, and a cohort team leader who has led her colleagues through multiple school accreditation processes, collaborated in the development of school improvement plans, and designing and implementing professional development. Building capacity in teachers and team building is a high priority for her as it leads to providing high-quality education for students. In her free time, she loves to read, try new recipes, find time to stay connected to those who restore her spirit, and explore new places.If people are interested in getting more information about teaching and living overseas, then they can contact me via Linkedin.https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-pacheco-ed-m-m-s-ed-72a370206/

Kuwait's nationality and citizenship rules have been contentious since the country's independence in 1961. The rightful claim to full citizenship rights in the oil-rich Gulf state is highly restricted and divided along lines of kinship, religion, gender, ethnicity and nationality, leaving the majority of Kuwait's population excluded from many social privileges. Shaping youth civic identities through education and media messaging has been an important part of the state's construction of nationalist narratives of Kuwaiti citizenship. While young people's voices are largely absent from official discourses, they have been creating their own spaces and means of participation. This webinar presented findings from the LSE Kuwait Programme project ‘Empowering Democratic Citizenship through Education: Exploring Rights-Based Approaches to Educational Policymaking in Kuwait'. The study explored the tensions between young people's perspectives and Kuwaiti official discourses around citizenship identities, rights and participation. Findings are based on focus group discussions and interviews with more than 100 secondary school students and youth activists in Kuwait, as well as an analysis of Kuwaiti media outlets. Dr Rania Al-Nakib is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, where she teaches courses in the sociology of education as well as human rights. She also worked as a consultant to en.v (a Kuwaiti organization dedicated to fostering civic engagement in the Middle East) on their n-mu programme, developed in partnership with the Eurasia Foundation and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) to promote constructive youth engagement in Kuwait. Her research focuses on human rights education and education for democratic citizenship in Kuwait. She is particularly interested in the impact of the hidden curriculum on Kuwaiti students' citizenship activities and Kuwaiti female students' gendered experiences of public education. Her PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London was titled ‘Dialogic Universalism and Human Rights Education: A Case Study from Kuwait'. She has an MS in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MEd from Marymount University. Her most recent publication is a chapter in an edited volume, entitled Citizenship and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching, published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Dr Sam Mejias is Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. He conducts multidisciplinary research on the cultural politics of human rights and equity across several connected strands of work in different countries (currently the UK, USA and Kuwait). Dr Mejias holds a PhD in Education from University College London and a Master's degree in International Educational Development from Columbia University Teachers College. Abdullah al-Khonaini completed his MA in Power, Participation, and Social Change from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. He co-founded 'Raqib50', an online parliament watch that holds Kuwaiti parliamentarians accountable by making their voting records accessible to the public. His research interests include a focus on civil society, dynamics of informal civic groups and participation, postcolonial identity and belonging in the Gulf. Abdullah is a researcher on the LSE Kuwait Programme project led by Rania and Sam. Dr Rana Khazbak recently joined the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab as a post-doctoral researcher. She did her PhD in the Department of Social Policy at LSE, during which she explored the impact of urban regeneration on young people's wellbeing in London. Rana is a researcher on the LSE Kuwait Programme project led by Rania and Sam.

Decisions, decisions, we make them everyday. Simple and hard decisions are a part of life: Blue or red? Pizza or chips? Within these decisions, there's debate about what's right, wrong, & what you believe. The classroom is a huge part of developing skills to make decisions. At this week's Round Table, Jack, Kenisha and Madeline spoke with Mariel Halpern, the program coordinator of the Debate and Decision-making Workshop at Columbia University Teachers College, a 4 week long workshop for middle schoolers focused on civic discourse about contemporary issues. Debate is so important during middle school years, especially in a complex world where there are so many shades of gray. Students are placed with a peer with an opposing viewpoint each week to converse for about 25 minutes, after which they write a short position piece on their stance and watch their feedback video to evaluate what skills they've gained. Since the pandemic started and the workshop shifted online, Mariel and her colleagues discovered that the anonymity Zoom affords makes participants feel freer to express ideas they may not have otherwise, and that participants have stayed more focused on the issues than the identity of their partner, while noting that the absence of in-person cues has pros and cons. Interesting, right? As Mariel finishes her graduate work, her main question is about how students value the things they learn in the classroom through thinking and discussing critically and, of course, whether this translates BEYOND the classroom into our democracy. Now YOU can practice these skills by making the decision to keep on listening to learn more about the program, its impact, and what's next for Mariel Halpern. Thank you for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Just in time to save your Thanksgiving dinner from turning into a war zone, FMC Fast Chats with renowned expert Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D. who gives us an inside look at polarization, how it has developed over time, and what to do to overcome our conflicts. Be in the know in 30(ish) minutes. Street cred check: A gifted storyteller, Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D. is the author of “The Way Out: Overcoming Toxic Polarization,” and holds a joint appointment at Columbia University Teachers College and The Earth Institute. An expert on constructive conflict resolution and sustainable peace, Dr. Coleman directs the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, is founding director of the Institute for Psychological Science and Practice and is co-executive director of Columbia University's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity. MORE: https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ The FMC Fast Chat podcast features conversations with notables in news, media & business. Expect engaging conversations — partly driven by audience questions — that get right to the point, providing you with expert insight and advice to help you improve your life, business, and community. FMC Fast Chat is hosted by Fair Media Council CEO & Executive Director Jaci Clement. This is the podcast of the Fair Media Council. MORE: https://www.fairmediacouncil.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just in time to save your Thanksgiving dinner from turning into a war zone, FMC Fast Chats with renowned expert Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D. who gives us an inside look at polarization, how it has developed over time, and what to do to overcome our conflicts. Be in the know in 30(ish) minutes. Street cred check: A gifted storyteller, Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D. is the author of “The Way Out: Overcoming Toxic Polarization,” and holds a joint appointment at Columbia University Teachers College and The Earth Institute. An expert on constructive conflict resolution and sustainable peace, Dr. Coleman directs the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, is founding director of the Institute for Psychological Science and Practice and is co-executive director of Columbia University's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity. MORE: https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ The FMC Fast Chat podcast features conversations with notables in news, media & business. Expect engaging conversations — partly driven by audience questions — that get right to the point, providing you with expert insight and advice to help you improve your life, business, and community. FMC Fast Chat is hosted by Fair Media Council CEO & Executive Director Jaci Clement. This is the podcast of the Fair Media Council. MORE: https://www.fairmediacouncil.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are reviewing and straightening out some misperceptions about Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a program that allows for the forgiveness of specific federal student loans in exchange for 10 years of public service in a federal, state or local government, or in select nonprofits. The PSLF program has the potential to save borrowers countless thousands of dollars. But there has been a great deal of confusion about and misinterpretation of Department of Education program guidelines by organizations and lending officials alike. That has resulted in many Peace Corps Volunteers being told incorrect information regarding their participation. This has, sadly, resulted in many RPCVs not receiving credit for their Peace Corps service towards the tenure required to receive the remainder of their loans forgiven.Our featured RPCV guests speak about their own experiences with the PSLF program, sharing what they've learned along the way, and explaining some of the recent changes Department of Education has issued that may help RPCVs gain credit for their past service after all. Links and resources mentioned in the podcast:Facebook group: Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Support (PSLF) | FacebookFacebook group: RPCVs for PSLF Relief | FacebookWaiver fact sheet: Fact Sheet: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program Overhaul | U.S. Department of EducationForbes article: Student Loan Forgiveness Changes and Who QualifiesSpecial  Guests:Katie McSheffrey, RPCV Azerbaijan 2009–11, is currently the Chief of Staff in the Office of Human Capital for the Department of the Interior. Prior to her current position, she was the Government Affairs Officer and Public Service Engagement Lead with the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. Katie also worked for Peace Corps Headquarters in multiple roles, including Special Assistant to the Deputy Director. She has a comprehensive understanding of Public Service Loan Forgiveness, based on her own experience with it, and is committed to guiding others through the complexities of the program.Sarah Kilchevskyi, RPCV Ukraine (2006–08), is also a former Peace Corps Fellow at Columbia University Teachers College. She has worked for the Social Security Administration for over a decade and holds the title of Technical Expert for her local office. Sarah has become a staunch advocate for PSLF reform based on her own challenging experience maneuvering the program and misinformation surrounding it.Sarah has advocated extensively on the congressional side of this issue and is leading efforts to organize RPCVs around understanding and advocating for needed changes in the rollout of the program to ensure RPCVs can benefit fully from the program. Please note that Sarah Kilchevskyi participates in this podcast in a personal capacity, and her views do not represent the views of any agency or organization. 

Social Emotional Learning with Dr. Lorea Martínez  Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is currently a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals inEmotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. A native of the Costa Brava in Spain, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. Dr. Lorea Martínez is also the author of the book, Teaching with the HEART in Mind. In the book, Dr. Lorea Martínez provides a comprehensive roadmap to understanding the psychology of emotions, relationships, and adversity in learning, while equipping you to teach SEL skills and develop your own social and emotional intelligence. In This Episode Dr. Lorea Martínez believes that creating better outcomes for our children means academics and standardized assessments aren't enough. You need to educate both their hearts and minds. In this episode Martínez offers social emotional learning tools and techniques that we can put into practice in our own homes. These HEART principals and framework help us integrate emotions, build relationships and support a rich learning environment. We explore; Social Emotional Learning and the psychology of emotions- honouring and responding to our emotions Thought patterns and self talk Self Empathy- the importance of connecting with ourselves and showing ourselves compassion How to establishing positive relationships The emotions that are most conducive to learning I loved this interview. Dr. Martínez and I hold similar beliefs that purpose and connection are the key components to building a successful learning environment. I am certain that you will appreciate the practical steps and example that Dr. Martínez provides in this episode so that we not only have an understanding of why Social Emotional Learning is important, but the how in implementing this into our home and relationships. Resources Lorea Martínez websites and social media: http://www.loreaMartinez.com https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/ https://twitter.com/loreamart/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/ Heart In Mind Discussion Guide Dr. Dan Siegel Inside Out The Movie If you enjoyed this interview, you may also like my interview with Roya Dedeaux, a grown unschooler, professor and family therapist. Are you enjoying the podcast? I would love to hear from you. Just head to my contact page and send me a message. If you would like to offer support, join my Patreon community ~ https://www.patreon.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Lorea Martinez Perez - Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. This is episode 397 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is currently a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Learn more at loreamartinez.com.  Today we are focused on her book - Teaching with the Heart in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. Thanks for listening! Enjoy. But wait... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks! Ready to start your own podcast? Podbean is an awesome host. I have been with them since 2013. Go to https://www.podbean.com/TLLK12 to get 1 month free of unlimited hosting for your new podcast.  Remember to take a look at NVTA (National Virtual Teacher Association) The NVTA Certification Process was created to establish a valid and reliable research-based teacher qualification training process for virtual teachers to enhance their teaching and develop their ongoing reflective skills to improve teaching capacity. NVTA is an affiliate sponsor of Teaching Learning Leading K12, by following the link above if you purchase a program, Teaching Learning Leading K12 will get a commission and you will help the show continue to grow.  By the way, don't forget to go to my other affiliate sponsor Boone's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission. Thanks!!! Oh by the way, you can help support Teaching Learning Leading K12 by buying me a soft drink (actually making a donation to Teaching Learning Leading K12.) That would be awesome! You would be helping expand the show with equipment and other resources to keep the show moving upward. Just go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stevenmiletto Thanks! Have an awesome day!   Connect & Learn More: http://www.loreaMartinez.com https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/ https://twitter.com/loreamart/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreamartinez/  Length - 53:46

In this episode, we're talking to Evan Meyers, an educator and the founder of the charter school, School in the Square. Evan shares his journey from a career in finance to a calling in education. His unique approaches to learning, collaboration, and student empowerment are as applicable in the business world as in schools. From building community and navigating power dynamics to fostering engagement and curiosity, Evan's practices are critical for any customer-obsessed organization, and the future of education.Key TakeawaysSome educational institutions still function like old-school big businesses, with a top-down 1950's leadership style that is outdated. It may do better to yield to a collaborative approach in which students & stakeholders have equity. Voices and choices matter, in school and in business.When deciding whether to make a change (career, life, etc.) there is no predicting the future, and no perfect solution. Sometimes a leap of faith is the only answer.Education matters to business because schools are fostering future leaders and a creative workforce. We need institutions which value students as creative individuals who can think and speak critically, are resilient, and have space to learn and grow.Evan's Customer Obsessed PickEnrique's Journey by Sonia NazarioAbout Evan MeyersEvan Meyers is an experienced and passionate educator and school leader committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity within the public education sphere. He is the founder and Executive Director of School in the Square Public Charter School located in Washington Heights, NYC. Under his leadership, School in the Square has expanded from a charter school initially approved to serve middle school grades 6 through 8 to include an elementary school that educates children in an immersive Spanish-English dual-language environment. Evan has worked tirelessly to ensure that School in the Square provides its families and the larger community with the economic, health and social welfare supports they need to provide children with the stability and security they need to thrive. As Evan's vision of the role of public schools in underserved communities has become reality through School in the Square, the school has become an anchor institution in Washington Heights. Evan is a New York State-certified School Building Leader. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Evan received his Master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College. He began his teaching career as a founding History Teacher at the High School for Language and Diplomacy after a 20-year career in the financial sector.

Alexandre Tannous is a musician, educator, composer and ethnomusicologist.He is also the principle founder of the Resident Mind Collective. He holds a Bachelor of Music, with a double major of Music Theory and Composition and Master of Arts Degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College.To find out more and listen to some of his meditations, please visitsoundmeditation.comAlexandre Tannous – ResonantMind CollectiveThe Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tvDue to extreme censorship and shadow banning, we have created a platform challenging the mainstream paradigm,to create a space to share vision and views, to create long term sustainable health solutions.To express without censorship and restriction. To allow freedom of speech and interest in ideas that will allow humanity to Evolve…Become part of the solution.We hope you've enjoyed the first half of this podcast - if you'd like to listen to the rest, please visit the Evolve Network. Watch in full hereI'd love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/theevolvenetworkpeteevansInstagram @theevolvenetworkhttps://www.instagram.com/theevolvenetwork/Follow Pete Evans accounts here https://linktr.ee/peteevans

Victoria Shaw received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University, and completed her postdoctoral training in the department of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She earned her MA in Counseling from Fairfield University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a State Certified School Counselor.Additionally, she has advanced training in several counseling modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Distance Counseling and Energy Psychology.Her approach to counseling and therapy is holistic, and she draws from a variety of theoretical frameworks, tools and techniques to meet the unique needs of each individual client. She works with children, teens and parents on a variety of life issues including those academic, social and emotional. She also works with adults on the challenges of life transitions, stress management, trauma, parent concerns and spirituality.She has authored four self-help books for parents, teens and preteens, and is the mother of two spirited children. Learn more about Victoria and find her podcast and other resources at https://victoriashawintuitive.com/Join Laura and incredible guest speakers and teachers to learn about writing and publishing. You will learn how to write and structure your book, formatting tips, and tools, how to hire freelancers, how to distribute your book, successful launch strategies, how to get reviews, strategies to make your book a bestseller, and best practices to make your book profitable and supporting you and your business from day 1. The course will also include live instructional and coaching calls, an interactive Facebook group, and a built-in launch and support team! Calls will be on Wednesday evenings at 5 pm pacific time starting on Wednesday, July 21. All calls will be recorded and participants will have access to the calls, templates, and tools for writing and publishing, and learn from the incredible guest teachers and speakers (will be announced soon)! Be sure to visit https://powershour.biz/services to sign up and lock in your early-bird rate!Laura will be hosting a blockchain and cryptocurrency training event for psychics and intuitives in July with an early-bird pricing of only $188. For more information reach out to bookings@laurapowers.net or visit https://www.powershour.biz.For more information about Laura and her work you can go to her website www.healingpowers.net or find her on Twitter @thatlaurapowers, on Facebook at @realhealingpowers and @mllelaura, and on Instagram and TikTok @laurapowers44.

Our guest is Fr. Steve Katsouros, SJ. After graduating from the University of Maryland in College Park, he was a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1987 and was ordained in 1998. He is the founder and president/CEO of the Come To Believe Network, as well as the founding dean and former executive director of Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to arriving in Chicago, Fr. Katsouros served as the director of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership and associate dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Fr. Katsouros was also president of Loyola, a Jesuit high school in New York City. He has a doctorate, from Columbia University Teachers College, in organizational leadership. Show Notes: Come To Believe Network: https://www.ctbnetwork.org/ Arrupe College: https://www.luc.edu/arrupe/

Victoria Shaw received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University and completed her postdoctoral training in the department of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a State Certified School Counselor, but what makes Victoria unique is that she has a very high intuitive nature and can use this ability to help her clients heal more effectively. She takes a holistic approach to counseling and helps address clients at the mind, body, and spiritual level. Victoria shares how anybody can tap into their intuitive guide and receive messages from their loved one, even when they’ve passed on.    Key Takeaways: A little bit about  Victoria and how she helps her clients.  Victoria defines and explains what our intuitive guide does for us.  You’re exactly where you need to be. Don’t be cruel to your human self.  Can anyone connect with their spirit guide and talk to someone who has passed on?  How do we know the difference between the stories that we’re making up in our mind vs. what’s actually real and spiritual? Victoria tunes into her intuition and feels her client’s energy. She helps connect her clients with messages they need to hear, but can’t always see clearly.  If you’re feeling so sad and so depressed, just keep asking yourself, “What now?”  Acknowledge that there’s a speck of hope when you’re in grief. This can be hard, but just know that you can grow this hope.  Susan shares an example on how Paul guided her.  Our loved ones aren’t ‘all knowing’ just because they’ve passed on to the other side.  No matter where you are in your grief journey. You are love and you will get through this. How can you connect to your higher power? Victoria offers some tips.  Victoria shares a message from Paul.    Resources: Victoriashawpsychotherapy.com

Alexandre Tannous is a musician, educator, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He is also the Principal Founder of ResonantMind Collective. He holds a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Music Theory and Composition, and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College. As a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship he also earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy degrees in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University where he was enrolled in the Ph.D. program. He has taught various music courses at the same institution. The works of Alexandre Tannous are frequently performed in the United States, Europe, and in Asia.

Welcome back to America‘s premier K12 education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Edge we talk with Dr. Lorea Martinez, Founder of HEART in Mind Consulting and faculty at Columbia University Teachers College. Dr. Gonzales and Dr. Martinez go one-on-one discussing supporting adult SEL in education, supporting students SEL, how to practice good mental/emotional health, and how to build good SEL skills. This is a wide-ranging discussion on the current and future state of SEL in education and you'll hear about the amazing work Dr. Martinez is doing to help educators across the world. Dr. Lorea Martinez is the award-winning Founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate social emotional learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the host - Dr. Stacey Gonzales Check out our other episodes at The Ed Up Edge! Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edupedgek12/message

Overview: Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. Today we discuss what part emotions play in learning and how we can build relational trust with our students. We also talk about Dr. Martinez' latest book, Teaching with the Heart in mind, and learn what that acronym H.E.A.R.T. stands for in regards to Social Emotional Learning. Connect Website Twitter Facebook Resources Mentioned in Today's Show Book: Teaching with the HEART in Mind Article: Understanding Resistance to SEL Bio: Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her second book for educators, Teaching with the HEART in Mind, is currently available. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Learn more at loreamartinez.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seniapodcast/message

Treat yourself to a conversation with Civil Rights Icon, New York Times Bestselling Author, and Speaker Ruby Bridges who at the age of six was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. Her walk through the front doors of William Frantz Elementary School on Nov. 14, 1960, was immortalized in Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With in Robert Coles’ book The Story of Ruby Bridges, and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges. Published in November 2020, This is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years following the publication of her award-winning autobiography, Through My Eyes. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity. Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New Rochelle, Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. She recently named one of 100 iconic Women of the Century by USA Today. **Please note that the N-word is used once in this episode in a historical context** Ruby Bridges Foundation: www.RubyBridges.com Purchase Ruby Bridges’ New York Times bestselling book This Is Your Time: https://bit.ly/3wM97c5 Disney's Ruby Bridges (movie): https://bit.ly/3a5Pn9U Instagram: rubybridgesofficial

"Dr. Manning-Gibbs is a licensed psychologist that is passionate about helping the underserved. She works for Rutgers University as a contracted employee at a juvenile prison, New Jersey Training School for Boys (NJTSB). At NJTSB, she is a clinical supervisor of a specialized unit for juvenile inmates diagnosed with moderate to severe mental illness. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Seton Hall University. Prior to her PhD, she earned a Master of Arts from Columbia University - Teachers College. In addition to her full-time employment with Rutgers University, Dr. Manning-Gibbs also treats clients with depression and anxiety disorders in her private practice in Maplewood, New Jersey." Website: https://www.drmanninggibbs.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-manning-gibbs-phd/    

About Lorea Martinez, Ph.D. Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her second book for educators, Teaching with the HEART in Mind, is currently available. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Show Highlights Teaching with the HEART in Mind Five Key SEL Competencies Honor your emotions Elect your responses Apply empathy Reignite your relationships Transform with purpose Connect with Lorea Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator’s Guide to Social Emotional Learning loreamartinez.com Twitter: @loreamart Facebook: loreamartinezSEL Let's connect on Instagram!

Our guest today is Dr. Lorea Martínez. Dr. Martínez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her second book for educators, Teaching with the HEART in Mind, is currently ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/173606200X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_V2K8Fb0H53YQF ) available ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/173606200X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_V2K8Fb0H53YQF ). Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. In this week's episode, I sit down to talk with Dr. Lorea Martinez about her new book (out now!). We discuss the importance of living SEL instead of viewing it as simply a cognitive concept. We also talk about ways that teachers can infuse SEL into their classroom environments on a daily basis. I have a very special giveaway in this episode so be sure to listen in for the details on how to enter the drawing. *GUEST INFO  —* *Twitter* ( https://twitter.com/loreamart?lang=en ) *Website* ( https://loreamartinez.com/ ) *Facebook* ( https://www.facebook.com/loreamartinezSEL/ ) *Book:* Teaching with the HEART in Mind ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/173606200X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_V2K8Fb0H53YQF ) *LET’S GET SOCIAL —* *Linked in* ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tia-navelene-barnes-ab262576/ ) - ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tia-navelene-barnes-ab262576/ ) https://www.linkedin.com/in/tia-navelene-barnes-ab262576/ *Twitter* ( https://twitter.com/drtianbarnes ) - ( https://twitter.com/drtianbarnes ) https://twitter.com/drtianbarnes *Website* ( https://www.drtiabarnes.com/ ) - ( https://www.drtiabarnes.com/ ) https://www.drtiabarnes.com/ *MORE ABOUT DR. BARNES —* Dr. Tia N. Barnes is an education researcher with a passion for improving social/emotional outcomes for culturally diverse students and those with emotional and behavioral disorders. Her research focuses on the social-emotional well-being of minoritized populations. To study this she focuses on the areas of social-emotional learning, culturally responsive pedagogy, and special education. Her research has been published in Prevention Science, International Journal of Educational Research, Aggression and Violent Behavior, Infant and Child Development, Journal of School Violence, and Developmental Review.

Victoria Shaw is an intuitive counselor and spiritual psychologist who combines her training in counseling and psychology, with her intuitive gifts.  She earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton University and completed her postdoctoral training in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College.  She received her Masters of Counseling from Fairfield University. I pick her brain on how she merges her left brain and her right brain mentalities: How psychology and other Western healing modalities have their foundations in shamanic practicesHow science isn't a conspiracy. It's just limited by stigmas. How sciences like Quantum Physics open the current paradigm up to the idea that energy is everything. How just because you aren't trained in intuitive awareness doesn't mean you aren't using it!How to stop victim-blaming when you tell people they "create their own reality".Why you should stop doing your work in other people's energy.How to reach Victoria:https://victoriashawintuitive.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/victoriashawintuitivecounseling/ // IG: @victoriashawintuitiveHow to reach Julia:www.divinerealignment.com  // www.facebook.com/divinerealignment377  // IG: @divine.realignment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meaghan is a former US Army Captain and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. She specialized in aerial delivery and led a unit of parachute riggers. Today, Meaghan is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Columbia University Teachers College, and serves as a clinician in training while pursuing her PhD.

Valerie Rockefeller chairs the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. She also co-chairs BankFWD, a network to persuade banks to phase out financing for fossil fuel and to lead on climate. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She began her teaching career at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, New York, and also taught in Australia. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in secondary Social Studies from Columbia University Teachers College. She majored in International Relations at Stanford University, and worked as a confidential assistant to Secretary Richard Riley at the U.S. Department of Education during the first Clinton administration. She also serves as a trustee of Achievement First, the Asian Cultural Council, Columbia University Teachers College, Greenwich Academy, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She was a trustee of Spelman College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Valerie lives with her daughters Percy and Lucy and her son Davis in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. https://bankfwd.org/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Dr. Dan welcomes back authors Carol Zeavin and Rhona Silverbush to discuss three new books in their popular Terrific Toddler series:  Potty!, New Baby!, Time to Go!  as well as their ongoing work with parents and families.   Dr. Dan is delighted to speak to experts Carol and Rhona again (they first appeared as guests on Episode 56) to give parents, educators and caregivers even more ways to help toddlers overcome their daily dramas and challenges.  Published by the American Psychological Association/Magination Press, the entire series will help families struggling with parenting during the toddler years.   The lively and engaging co-authors explain to Dr. Dan and parents how they used groundbreaking research to craft age-appropriate stories that take into account the language level and comprehension level of a toddler.  Dr. Dan agrees these books will empower parents because they all include a “Note to Parents and Caregivers” that provides parents with important guidelines for navigating challenges and helping their toddlers understand their toddler world.   Carol Zeavin earned her B.A. in music from UCLA and became a successful freelance orchestral violinist and chamber musician in New York City. She earned Masters degrees in Education and Special Education from Bank Street College and worked with infants and toddlers from 1992 to 2010. She was Headteacher at Rockefeller University’s Child and Family Center and Barnard’s Toddler Development Center, and worked as a Special Educator employed by Y.A.I. and Theracare. She continues to perform classical music in NYC and teaches violin and piano to kids and grownups of all ages and abilities. Rhona Silverbush puts her own eclectic background to good use by wearing many hats throughout the course of any given day. She studied psychology and theatre at Brandeis University and holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. After practicing immigration law, primarily representing asylum seekers, she returned to her first loves, writing and theatre. Rhona is the co-author of Speak the Speech! Shakespeare’s Monologues Illuminated (Faber and Faber, 2002) and has taught theatre to all age groups from tots to adults, currently coaching actors in Shakespeare. She has taught at Columbia University Teachers College and wrote ‘wichcraft: craft a sandwich into a meal–and a meal into a sandwich with chefs Tom Colicchio and Sisha Ortuzar (Clarkson Potter, 2009). She is also a freelance writer and editor, a consultant for families of children and teens with learning differences and special needs, a tutor, and a smitten parent and step-parent.   The three new books explain and explore these common topics: Time to Go! -- how to teach toddlers about having to stop what they're doing and transition to another activity Potty! -- reassures toddlers and parents alike that we all use the potty when we're ready New Baby! -- helps toddlers expecting a new sibling navigate this very major transition in their lives   The show ends with each author answering the Parent Footprint Moment question and Dr. Dan’s invitation for the guests to return when they next publish new titles in the series.   Watch this free video to learn more about Dr. Dan and Parent Footprint Awareness Training®.  

We are so thrilled (and lucky) to close Season 2 with Annie Weinberg of Alexander Twilight Academy! While our conversation focuses primarily on equity in education, the achievement gap, and allyship in the classroom, the lessons and tips would be helpful for all to hear and start to integrate into daily practice. This isn't a calling out... it's a calling in. And as always, a call to action. Happy New Year ya'll! We'll be back with Season 3 in late January. We hope you enjoy, and please don't forget to like, share, and rate! Tag us on instagram @the.courage.campaign or @ashleymitchfit Learn more about Annie here: Annie Weinberg earned her B.A. from Middlebury College, her Masters in Teaching Social Studies from Columbia University Teachers College, and her Masters in School Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is, first and foremost, a relationship-driven, equity-focused educator and practitioner who wants nothing more than to ignite the passion that lies within each of her students to achieve their potential and discover their why. After teaching and serving in various founding leadership capacities both in urban public school districts and in charter school networks, Annie founded Alexander Twilight Academy. Named after the first Black American to graduate from college in the United States, Alexander Twilight Academy (ATA) is a free catalyst and academic enrichment program that provides hard working, high potential Boston-area students from under-resourced backgrounds with the highest quality educational and life-enriching opportunities. Alexander Twilight Academy develops leaders who will change the world and empowers the next generation of great thinkers, creators, and change-makers to live meaningful lives of passion and purpose. Through rigorous, year-round academic programming, support, advocacy, enrichment, and mentorship, ATA prepares middle school students to earn admission and thrive at the nation's top high schools and colleges. ATA makes a long-term commitment to serve each student and family we admit from middle school through college and beyond.www.alexandertwilightacademy.org Support the show (https://donorbox.org/the-courage-campaign-1)

Valerie Rockefeller chairs the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. She also co-chairs BankFWD, a network to persuade banks to phase out financing for fossil fuel and to lead on climate. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She began her teaching career at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, New York, and also taught in Australia. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in secondary Social Studies from Columbia University Teachers College. She majored in International Relations at Stanford University, and worked as a confidential assistant to Secretary Richard Riley at the U.S. Department of Education during the first Clinton administration. She also serves as a trustee of Achievement First, the Asian Cultural Council, Columbia University Teachers College, Greenwich Academy, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She was a trustee of Spelman College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Valerie lives with her daughters Percy and Lucy and her son Davis in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. https://bankfwd.org/ https://nexuspmg.com/

 So this is it, ladies and gents, the episode where we discuss the piece for which this podcast was named and the composer that wrote it: William Schuman and his Symphony No. 10 ‘American Muse'! The man literally got letters in the mail telling him either how awful his music was, OR how it had changed someone's life. Were he still alive today, I would absolutely send him a physical letter thanking him for so dramatically effecting my life. Ironically, I did in fact send his two children, Andrea and Anthony, physical letters to ask for their permission to use the music you just heard at the beginning of this podcast! Anyway, let's talk about this man and his fantastic compositions.###Background- I first heard music by William Schuman when I was an eager young musician in middle school. I listened to his Symphony No. 5, performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic string section, recorded on a vinyl record (I kid you not). The opening bars explode with energy and melodic creativity unlike I had ever heard. It was forceful, bold, full of life. It drew me in and to this day has not let go. From that moment I knew I had to know more about this man and his music. He and his music are a large part of the reason I began this podcast, my blog, and my book to be released next year, _Secrets of American Orchestral Music_.####Bio- One of the first things one learns about Schuman is the story of how he came to be a composer in the first place. He did play bass in a dance band, but never considered it very serious. Then he went to a concert at Carnegie Hall and heard the New York Philharmonic, conducted by the great Arturo Toscanini. He was so blown away by the performance he said "I was overwhelmed. I had never heard anything like it. The very next day, I decided to become a composer." So, he dropped out of New York University, quit his job, enrolled at the Malkin Conservatory of music to study composition, and a short 5 years later he graduated from Columbia University. Who knew it could be so easy? While this anecdotal story is humorous, it accurately shows a key characteristic of Schuman's personality. He is an optimist, endlessly curious, and has a child-like approach to new endeavors. He is also steadfast and resolute in his values, many times refusing to compromise his artistic work or arts administration efforts. - Though not all of William Schuman's biographical history is pertinent here, some key positions and career events as well as insight into his composition process help to contextualize the unique nature of the man and his music. One fortuitous happenstance came at the beginning of his journey to become a composer. In 1930, primed by having just attended his first orchestral concert, Schuman saw a sign for the Malkin Conservatory, walked in, and according to him “registered for a course in harmony because he had heard somewhere that composers begin by studying harmony.” This placed him with Max Persin, a teacher more interested in discovering the intricacies of each individual piece rather than regurgitating from quote “a textbook of dull orthodoxy.” Not long after earning a teaching degree from the Columbia University Teachers College, Schuman carved out a teaching and administrative position at Sarah Lawrence College. The way in which this came about is characteristic of Schuman's free-form thinking and commitment to the highest quality in any endeavor he undertook. Schuman convinced the president and Faculty Advisory Committee on Appointments at Sarah Lawrence to make him the quote "one man... coordinator, working from a single focal point" on a new set of freshman focused courses. Schuman connected with the faculty and administration at Sarah Lawrence on a philosophical level, influenced by the progressive education movement of John Dewey and the concept that "making knowledge one's own was the central goal of education…” This desire for individuality and freedom from convention carried over into Schuman's composing. Keenly aware of contemporary trends, Schuman casts the "emergence of a contemporary tonal language" in the twentieth century as "a musical revolution." Referring to contemporary composers (presumably including himself), Schuman posits “[t]he process of seeking a way of creating fresh sounds is a natural one for a truly creative musician. It may be conscious or subconscious, or both. But whatever the process, the result is innovation in musical speech." Even Copland recognized the boldness of Schuman's work, describing it as "music of tension and power," and expounding on his rhythmic writing as "so skittish and personal, so utterly free and inventive."- Schuman's commitment to his own musical and educational standards resulted in his being tapped as president of Juilliard in 1945. Schuman was reluctant to even consider the post because, as Steve Swayne puts it in his biographic work _Orpheus in Manhattan_, “[h]e could see no possible marriage between Juilliard's hidebound, rote education and the progressive, student-oriented approach that he enjoyed at Sarah Lawrence." Partly due to this honesty expressed to Juilliard's board of directors, Schuman was offered and eventually accepted the position. As a sign of the school's desire for change, Schuman immediately made drastic alterations to the Juilliard curriculum and faculty. One program he spearheaded is particularly of note here. Showing his independent thinking and will to move forward, Schuman explains his educational philosophy:> The first requisite for a musician in any branch of the art is that he be a virtuoso listener. It has been a student who is adept at the writing of melodic dictation may be incapable of listening to a symphonic composition with an understanding of its design. In other words, an ability to hear the component parts of the language of music… does not ipso facto mean integrated understanding--an understanding that can only be achieved when the whole work is clearly viewed as the sum of these parts... In an effort to replace conventional theory with more meaningful studies, the Juilliard School has discontinued its Theory Department and added to its curriculum a new department--Literature and Materials of Music.- This is the kind of ideology Schuman applied to his composition and administrative roles. In a 1986 interview, Schuman illustrates the interconnected nature of all his endeavors: "composition has been the continuum of my life's work, but it's been by no matter of means my sole pursuit. I would never be happy just being a composer. I've always wanted and needed to do other things of a general societal nature."####Culture- Even through his compositional process, Schuman shows his independent thinking. Intending not to be bound by the limitations of both his piano skill and of the instrument itself, according to a biography written by Vincent Persichetti, Schuman "writes for the instruments of the orchestra directly... sings the parts at the top of his lungs... because his music is essentially melodic... He does, however, use the piano for new vocabulary departures; that is, for experimentation.”- One more quote by Schuman from 1977, helps summarize his philosophy on the balance of artistic honesty and the ambition needed for such a high profile career he had to that point:> I would like to be loved through my music, as anybody would be. But I recognized that this was not necessarily to be the case, and it would be much better to be despised and write what you want than to be loved and write what you didn't want.… I was asked that question just the other day [in February 1977] … “Why—when you write these difficult symphonies that hardly anybody ever plays, and you can write the New England Triptych or orchestrate Ives' Variations on America—why don't you write a holiday overture that would make you a lot of money and would be played a lot?”- Hopefully the continued reverence of Schuman's music will suffice as an answer to that question.- Schuman's symphonic output is quite varied, ranging from symphonies and concertos to ballet and opera. Schuman got the most mileage out of his symphonies, and he admittedly put most of his focus on their creation. Schuman's symphonies are most representative of all his compositional work, even by his own statements in an interview with Overtones: > “It never occurred to me not to write symphonies... I like every medium in music when I'm working on it… [but] I believe that as long as writers write long and complicated novels, composers are going to write in the symphonic forms, because they give an opportunity that nothing else gives.”- Schuman wrote 10 numbered symphonies, though he “withdrew” the first two.###Analysis of piece####Overall scope- Now to Symphony No. 10, the ‘American Muse' itself.- The recorded excerpts you will hear today are from a 2005 NAXOS recording of the Seattle Symphony conducted by Maestro Gerard Schwarz, a dear friend of this podcast.- Written and premiered in 1976, this symphony was commissioned for the American Bicentennial by the National Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Antal Dorati. - The work is in 3 movements: Con Fuoco, Larghissimo, and the third movement goes through many different speeds, but does begin and end with a Presto.- The orchestration is outrageously large: 4 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, Eb clarinet, 3 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, percussion that calls for 4 players, timpani, piano, harp, celesta, and strings. Whew! None of this would have been surprising coming from Schuman at that point, but even today that is quite a task to take on.####Excerpts- The opening fanfare sets a tone of muscularity, optimism as Schuman might put it...- And then gives way to a mostly brass chorale, punctuated by moments of woodwind interaction.- Not long after, we have a section of what we call homorhythm. This is when all or large portions of the orchestra are playing the same active rhythms, but not the same notes, in fact they are usually quite dissonantly contrasting notes. It is a powerful effect as Schuman builds a great deal of tension. In this excerpt there is a short unison of homorhythm followed by 2 independent layers.- After spending this entire movement in tonic disarray, giving a bit of tonal center, but then taking it away with swaths of dissonance, Schuman suddenly takes an about face at the end and we get, at first, blips of tonal, recognizable chords, before a final Eb major chord grabs hold and blares to the end as if we had been in that bright, happy key all along!- I LOVE that moment!- The second movement, Larghissimo, is a work of beauty, but you have to stick with it. Schuman lets his slow movements develop as organically as possible from the simplest of musical aspects. Here, he begins basically with a chord cluster, again moving only in homorhythmic motion, and very slowly at first. While the violas and then cellos take the lyrical line, which again does not change very much at all, but makes big glissando jumps when it does.- Then what follows is an iconic Schuman sound if there ever was one, I swear I could pick this writing out from any other composer on the planet. The violins slowly expand a high, and still higher reaching, melodic line over chromatically moving chordal movement in the violas and cellos, and just as the line starts to peak, he opens up the sound more, then again as another peak comes, he adds horns... and on and on, one layer after another. It is a long section, but here is a fairly representative moment. 『- And again, just like in the first movement, though this movement isn't quite so tonally wandering, he lets out all the tension, leaves off with a question mark... and gives us a big, fat, juicy Eb major chord!- The final movement, beginning Presto, starts a series of homorhythmic sections, first strings alone, then trading off with the woodwinds. The activity begins with much space, but quickly becomes lively, almost furious! 『- One element we had yet to come across was Schuman's craftiness with a fugue. Finally, in the last symphonic movement he ever wrote, in order to build up as much energy and tension as possible, Schuman writes a complex double fugue. This is not a tightly formed, rule-following Bach-like fugue you would expect, but most of the elements you would expect are there. It gives him the chance to push forward and pull back at will. One theme is very active, harmonically and rhythmically, while the other is long held out notes with little movement.- Now you must be wondering if and when we get that Eb major chord we've gotten at the end of every other movement. We do! And in similar fashion, Schuman prefaces it with heavy dissonance and confusion. This time, though, the final brilliant chord arrives and finishes in full fanfare. Instant standing ovation!###Closing- Beyond composition, Schuman taught at Sarah Lawrence College, served as president of the Juilliard School, facilitated it's move into the newly built Lincoln Center, founded the Juilliard String Quartet, served as president of Lincoln Center itself, and won 2 Pulitzer Prizes and the National Medal of Arts. Many people desire to change or effect the world in some way. William Schuman did that and more during his time. As long as we perform or hear his music, he still does.Music:Symphony No. 10By: William SchumanPerformed by: Gerard Schwarz; Seattle Symphony OrchestraCourtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Bob as he interviews Dr. Joseph Scelsa the founder and president of the Italian-American Museum to be completed in Oct 2021. Professor Joseph V. Scelsa, (a Bronx native) received his doctorate in Sociology and Education from Columbia University Teachers College, his dissertation topic being “Constructive Pluralism”. In addition, he holds three Masters’ degrees in Sociology, Social Studies and Counseling. He is a licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State.In 1984, Prof. Scelsa was appointed Director of the Italian American Institute of The City University of New York which was renamed the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute after the late State Senator John D. Calandra in 1987. On March 1, 1999, Prof. Scelsa was named Dean of the Calandra Italian American Institute and elevated to Full Professor. In October 2000, Dr. Scelsa was named acting Vice President for Institutional Development at Queens College, CUNY and on July 1, 2005, he was appointed Vice President for Outreach and Cultural Affairs at Queens College, CUNY. Prof. Scelsa as Dean of the Calandra Institute created and served is Executive Producer and Host of ITALICS: The Italian-American Magazine which is co-produced by the Calandra Institute and CUNY-TV; seen on cable stations throughout the United States. In 2001, Prof. Scelsa founded the Italian American Museum and currently serves as its president.Prof. Scelsa has authored and edited several books and has written various articles and reports on ethnicity, pluralism and education, notable the report on the Italian-American High School Student Drop-Out Rate in the New York City Schools (New York Times, May 1, 1990). In 1997, Prof. Scelsa contributed an essay entitled, “The 80thStreet Mafia”in Beyond the Godfatherpublished by the National Italian American Foundation. Prof. Scelsa was the historical consultant for A&E’s documentary, The Italians in America. Prof. Scelsa is considered an expert in Italian-American affairs; he teaches and lectures extensively in Italian-Americans Studies and specializes in Italian-Americans and Civil Rights. Italian Marketplace LLC Online tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=30519446)

Download my free gift, "4 Steps to Ease and Flow" here. HOW DO YOU ACCESS YOUR INTUITION? FIND OUT RIGHT HEREVictoria Shaw is a licensed counselor, intuitive coach and healer. She holds a Masters of Counseling, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and achieved a postdoctoral training in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. In this episode you will discover how to:access your intuition and avoid shutting it downsupport your children to develop their intuition tap into the wonder and magic of your soulsee these crazy times as amazing timesrecognize if you possibly share a past life with someoneenjoy life more  Learn more and connect with Victoria here:Website: Victoria Shaw IntuitivePodcast: Intuitive Connection with Victoria ShawInstagram: @victoriashawintuitiveFB Group: Intuitive Connection Community ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Devora here:Website: https://www.easeandflowsoul.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/devoragila/Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devoragilaberkowitz/Email: devoragila@gmail.com

In this episode, I chat with Brianna Baker, a budding professional in the cross-section of public health and psychology. Brianna got a dual Major in Psychology and African American Community Health & Resilience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She has had many positions that span her wide interest in the social justice, public health, and mental health realms, especially for black communities. She currently holds roles as a Public Health Analyst at RTI International. Brianna has recently started her PhD in Counseling Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She will be working in two labs: the Stigma, Identity, and Intersectionality Lab and the Cogburn Research Group. Being the trailblazer that she is, Brianna is public on many platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Check out the show notes for more information on all of Brianna's platforms.Omari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omari-richins-mphShownotes: thePHmillennial.com/episode20Support The Public Health Millennial: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thephmillenialUse Code “thePHmillennial” for discount: https://thepublichealthstore.comWebsite: https://thephmillennial.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thephmillenial (@thePHmillennial)Email List: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/Support the show (http://paypal.me/thePHmillennial)

On Belief Busters Podcast we discuss what spiritual awakening means. We are living in a time when we are seeing the hidden aspects of humanity coming to the surface. Each of us must decide whether to stay asleep and add to the hatred. OR choose to awaken to life, light, and connection to Source. Our guest to have this deep dive with is Victoria Shaw, earned her PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton University, and completed her postdoctoral training in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She also received her Masters of Counseling from Fairfield University. Victoria is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified School Counselor in the State of Connecticut. She is also the author of four books and the mother of two spirited (now adult) children. Victoria says when she made the commitment to her own spiritual growth and development everything changed. People, books, teachings and opportunities appeared at just the right moments. The path unfolded in front of her, and with each step forward she gained a greater sense of wisdom and clarity. The more her intuitive gifts developed, the surer she became that it was her destiny to use what she learned to share and be of service to others. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sheree-taylor-jones/support

Joyce Cowin of New York City is a 90-year-old Fellow of the Academy going on 55. She never ceases to amaze those around her with her activities and achievements. Her last 40 years have been mainly spent as a sparkplug on various boards and philanthropic ventures, through the Joyce and Daniel Cowin Foundation that includes funding New York Historical Society's Center for Women's History, Columbia University Teachers College's Cowin Financial Literacy Institute, Heritage School and many other philanthropic endeavors. Listen in to hear the wonderful history she and her late husband created both in their professional and personal lives. You will also hear her contribution to helping children and women be at a better place with education and professionally.

Dr. Bruce Hubbard PhD is a clinical psychologist based in New York City who developed tinnitus, hyperacusis and high-frequency hearing loss in 2005. After many months of struggle, he was encouraged to learn that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), the treatment for stress and trauma he’d practiced his entire career, was the most researched, clinically-proven approach to tinnitus. Armed with his own expertise in CBT and having read everything he could about tinnitus, he guided himself through a successful course of CBT. Since then he’s guided hundreds of clients, many with severe tinnitus, in applying CBT to achieve high levels of habituation and resume full, valued lives with tinnitus. He founded CBT for Tinnitus, LLC, to help people apply principles and strategies of cognitive behavior therapy to address tinnitus and related hearing issues. Dr. Hubbard is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University - Teachers College, Past-President of the New York City Cognitive Behavior Therapy Association (NYC-CBT) and Board Certified in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). https://www.cbtfortinnitus.com/

After an executive order from Governor Cuomo, elections for New York State school boards are going remote. That means school districts have to make sure every eligible voter gets a mail-in ballot. But many school districts say they haven’t received any additional funding or much guidance on how to meet these new requirements. And the deadline for these ballots to be returned is in less than a month. Aaron Pallas teaches education policy at Columbia University Teachers College. I asked him what it’s like to be a school district representative trying to get this done.

In this episode I'm talking with my friend Karen Iverson. Karen experienced a difficult season when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She writes about her journey in her memoir Winning the Breast Cancer Battle: Empowering Warriors and Guiding Loved Ones.  This is not only her story, but a guide to help women and their loved ones and caregivers navigate through breast cancer. So much more than that, Karen has a heart for helping others through all the experiences, gifts, and talents the Lord has blessed her with. Her fierce calling is helping others find positivity in their lives even through challenging times. You can connect with Karen at winningthebreastcancerbattle.com on Facebook and Instagram. Karen Iverson is an educator, artist, and author. For the current school year she is working as a teacher for a virtual school and is developing her coaching business. She holds a master’s degree in Education from Columbia University Teachers College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire where she studied Microbiology and English. She is an artist in most senses of the word – she loves to paint and draw and is trained in photography as well as has worked as an actress and singer. She is the author of the book: Winning the Breast Cancer Battle: Empowering Warriors and Guiding Loved Ones, which is a guide for breast cancer patients and their loved ones on navigating the illness. Karen is also pursuing a master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling which she hopes to use to expand upon her coaching to counsel clients in a holistic manner. I'd also love to connect with you so subscribe to this podcast and hop on over to dorisswift.com. There you'll find encouraging posts and free resources. OySXDkFfHryOKUtE1h0b Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doris-swift/message

In this episode I'm talking with my friend Karen Iverson. Karen experienced a difficult season when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She writes about her journey in her memoir Winning the Breast Cancer Battle: Empowering Warriors and Guiding Loved Ones.  This is not only her story, but a guide to help women and their loved ones and caregivers navigate through breast cancer. So much more than that, Karen has a heart for helping others through all the experiences, gifts, and talents the Lord has blessed her with. Her fierce calling is helping others find positivity in their lives even through challenging times.   You can connect with Karen at winningthebreastcancerbattle.com on Facebook and Instagram.  Karen Iverson is an educator, artist, and author. For the current school year she is working as a teacher for a virtual school and is developing her coaching business. She holds a master’s degree in Education from Columbia University Teachers College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire where she studied Microbiology and English. She is an artist in most senses of the word – she loves to paint and draw and is trained in photography as well as has worked as an actress and singer.  She is the author of the book: Winning the Breast Cancer Battle: Empowering Warriors and Guiding Loved Ones, which is a guide for breast cancer patients and their loved ones on navigating the illness. Karen is also pursuing a master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling which she hopes to use to expand upon her coaching to counsel clients in a holistic manner. I'd also love to connect with you so subscribe to this podcast and hop on over to dorisswift.com. There you'll find encouraging posts and free resources. OySXDkFfHryOKUtE1h0b --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doris-swift/message

The sudden disruption in routine due to COVID-19 is challenging for all individuals to manage as we adjust to a new, and hopefully short-lived, normal of staying at home and ceasing most of our regular activities. For families of individuals with autism and other disabilities, the disruption can be especially challenging. Richie has a conversation with Katherine Johnson, BCBA and founder of Advances Learning Center to share helpful tips and resources for you and family during this time. Katherine has a Master of Arts degree in Behavior Disorders and Applied Behavior Analysis from Columbia University Teachers College and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (Charter Certificant). Katherine has taught in both private and public schools at pre-school and elementary levels and has provided educational consultation services to public schools and home programs. She has taught undergraduate behavior analysis courses at Northeastern University and graduate level courses at Simmons College, has provided parent training through the May Institute, and is on the Advisory Board for the undergraduate psychology program in Applied Behavior Analysis at Regis College. Katherine also currently serves as Vice President of MassCAP. Resources Discussed: Go Noodle: https://www.gonoodle.com/  Privilege Points: http://www.privilegepoints.com/ For more helpful tips and resources, sign up for our Parent Newsletter at LearnBehavioral.com/parentresources. All Autism Talk (allautismtalk.com) is sponsored by LEARN Behavioral (learnbehavioral.com).

In this special two-part series, Bright Side hosts, Dr. Roger, Teresa and Danielle are joined by Maestro David Dworkin, who has led orchestras across America and abroad and has performed around the world. Maestro David Dworkin is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Columbia University Teachers College. He began his career as a clarinetist, and much of his career has been devoted to working with young people. Later he combined his lifelong passion for conducting, performing, educating, and physical fitness and launched the award-winning Conductorcise. In this series, the team discusses the many benefits of music, including brain health and emotional wellbeing. Listen to Part 2: https://www.spreaker.com/user/11175410/david-d-part-2-finalRESOURCES:Conductorcise: http://conductorcise.comTED Talk - The Benefits of Music Education: https://www.ted.com/talks/anita_collins_the_benefits_of_music_educationAlive Inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fcTed Talk - Music is Medicine: https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_gupta_music_is_medicine_music_is_sanity#t-467444

Our guest today is Mimi Donaldson, Speech Coach and owner f Mimi Speaks! Mimi is a superstar in the speaking business, keynoting with celebrities for audiences of thousands.  Her rare combination of sophisticated humor and solid content makes her one of America’s most popular funny females.  Mimi has created speeches for executives, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and sales staffs, including Betsy Myers, former Executive Director at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, and Dan Moriarty, national radio personality and sideline commentator for the L.A. Kings. Mimi is an official speech coach for TEDx Talks and TED Talks.  She coached all 9 of the TEDx speakers at TEDx Loyola Marymount University in October 2018. She was the “pitch coach” on ABC TV’s American Inventor, coaching the contestants to success persuading the judges and all of America. Before starting her speaking and coaching business, she was a Human Resources Specialist with Walt Disney Company, Northrop Aircraft, and Rockwell International. She has a Masters Degree from Columbia University Teachers College. Mimi’s latest book is Pitch Perfect:  Speak to Grow Your Business in 7 Simple Steps. She is the author of three other books:  Negotiating for Dummies, selling almost 2 million copies and translated into 6 languages, Bless Your Stress:  It Means You’re Still Alive! and Necessary Roughness:  New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life.  She can be reached at mimi@mimidonaldson.com and her website iswww.miidonaldson.com

Victoria Shaw received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University, and completed her postdoctoral training in the department of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College. She earned her MA in Counseling from Fairfield University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a State Certified School Counselor. Her approach to counseling and therapy is holistic, and she draws from a variety of theoretical frameworks, tools and techniques to meet the unique needs of each individual client. She works with children, teens and parents on a variety of life issues including social and emotional. She also works with adults on the challenges of life transitions, stress management, trauma, parent concerns and spirituality. You can find her at: http://victoriashawpsychotherapy.com/about-victoria

Mindfully Loved founded by Chloe and Michael exists to empower new and expectant parents to find the art of self-love and slow living. About Chloe Chloe is a certified hypnotherapist and psychologist working with adults, children, and parents for almost 10 years. She has worked at her own private practice overseas, worked in youth organizations, various school settings, and private clinics. She has two master’s degrees in Educational Psychology and School Psychology having completed her studies at Columbia University – Teachers College in New York City. During that time she also developed a passion for Hypnotherapy and completed her certificate in hypnotherapy through the National Guild of Hypnotists Inc. Chloe is a dreamer, who wants to be part of the change to our future generation. She loves the outdoors, traveling, volunteering, the beach, and essential oils. About Michael Michael is an Allied Health Professional with over 11 years of hands-on and case management experience with people recovering from soft tissue injuries to severe brain and spinal injuries. Michael studied Health Sciences at La Trobe University before finding his calling, completing an Advanced Diploma in Myotherapy. Battling with his own Mental Health for 8 years, he discovered the power of self-worth and acceptance. Since then he's been able to support and help lots of others through his own learning’s, writing and poetry. Michael has a passion for personal, spiritual, and collective growth. He enjoys writing, being immersed in music and sports. In this episode, you'll hear about: Mindfully Loved's mission Self-Love Slow Living Fully accepting all of yourself (even trauma) & letting it go Shveta's mantra bracelets Mindfully Loved: An eCourse for Expectant Parents Preparing for parenthood HypnoBirthing & hypnotherapy We need to clean out our own garage in order to create a safe space of love for our children, partner, and others. Chloe and Michael empower expecting and new parents to heal themselves through the art of self-love and slow living. Learn more at: Website: www.mindfullyloved.com (Feel free to join their list) Download their free ebook entitled, Mindfully Growing: A Holistic and Mindful Approach to Preparing for Parenthood. (no opt-in is required) Instagram: @mindfullyloved Facebook: @Mindfully Loved

Elise Warner Executive Director of Girls Helping Girls. Period. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisewarner1 Elise Warner is the Executive Director of Girls Helping Girls. Period., the non-profit she founded with her teen daughters that offers education and product donations to people who need financial assistance to manage their periods. They never intended to be running an organization, but one thing led to another after they discovered girls were missing school in their own town because of a lack of menstrual items. They have donated more than half a million products and offer a full year of supplies to those in need. Elise had a fantastic 20-year career in the field of journalism and is an award-winning producer and developer of non-fiction television programs and documentary films. After getting a Masters in Broadcast Journalism, Elise started as a live news reporter/anchor/producer. Her big break came when she was in her late 20s and was tapped to be the producer/editorial manager of the evening news at WNBC in New York. Two years later she left to oversee the morning programs at MSNBC. She then spent 15 years in the documentary department and was the co-creator and executive producer of all four spin-off series in MSNBC’s longest running, highest-rated documentary franchise, "Lockup," where her team produced more than 250 episodes investigating the ills of our system of incarceration.  Additionally, she developed and oversaw more than 100 titles with a specialty in programs highlighting social issues from hunger and medical breakthroughs, to human trafficking and juvenile justice. Since leaving MSNBC in 2015 Elise has focused on her non-profit and learning new skills in the field of education. She earned a certificate in College Advising from Columbia University-Teachers College, is a substitute elementary school teacher and is the VP of Education at her synagogue where she also teaches kindergarten at Sunday School. In the episode we discuss: The impact of the lack of access to feminine products on school and work attendance How our value is dictated by the work we are doing and the meaning we create in other peoples’ lives How the measurement of success in the non-profit world is different from a for-profit business The benefits of including your children in your passion for non-profit work Growing and transforming into an international organization The incredible support and partnership from large company manufacturers and vendors The evolution of the social conversation regarding menstruation

We have a chat with Alexandre Tannous, a leading sound researcher, sound therapist and ethnomusicologist.  On 9/18/19 Alexandre will lead an experiential exploration of the effects of this unique system of sound, consciousness, and spirituality with key members Brooklyn Raga Massive. To deepen the experience we sat had a wide ranging discussion about the effects of sound.  Alexandre Tannous has been active as a musician, educator, composer, and as an ethnomusicologist. He holds a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Music Theory and Composition, and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College. As a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship he also earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy degrees in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University where he was enrolled in the Ph.D. program. He has taught various music courses at the same institution. The works of Alexandre Tannous are frequently performed in the United States, Europe, and in Asia. The World Première performance of his orchestral composition “Métamorphose” under his baton at Carnegie Hall in 1995 received a standing ovation. As a film composer he composed two film-scores: The Seventh Dog (2005), and Jim (2009) www.jimthefilm.com.   As a musician, he has performed a variety of musical styles including classical, jazz, rock, and non-Western music on various instruments. Alexandre is also active as an ethnomusicologist. He has conducted fieldwork for 17 years in over 40 countries around the world. His ethnomusicological research investigates issues of acculturation, community, musical identity in an urban setting, and the concepts of talent, charisma, and leadership in music. He is a sought-after ethnomusicologist/composer consultant on projects in recording studios helping creating awareness in amalgamating various musical cultures.   For the past 17 years he has been researching the therapeutic and esoteric properties of sound from three different perspectives – Western scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs – to gain a deeper understanding of how, and to what extent, sound has been used to affect human consciousness. This search has led him to the intersection where art, science, philosophy, and spirituality intersect. His ethnomusicological approach entails a social scientific study of sound use in several traditional contexts—religious, spiritual, holistic, and cultural—for various purposes and occasions in entertainment, worship, meditation, and rituals of healing and trance. Consequently, his approach in researching, understanding, experiencing, transmitting, and working with sound has always been based on a multidisciplinary approach.   The material he transmits about sound is based on thorough research over many years: observations he made during his fieldwork, scientific studies, personal experiences, and data collected from thousands of people he has worked with doing sound therapy. This has led him to a deeper understanding of how sound reveals and unlocks hidden powers we have within us to promote profound inner changes and healing.   Inspired by his findings, he designed a protocol of an integrated experience he calls “Sound Meditation” in which he shares the findings from his research, raising an awareness to how a specifically designed sound can have the ability to help us to disconnect from habitual patterns while judiciously listening to the specific traditional instruments he plays. He employs a phenomenological approach to study the effects of sound, using a method that empowers the participants to engage actively with tools that enhance their experience, using the consciousness-altering properties of sound to heighten self-awareness, to connect to the higher self, to fine-tune self-observation, and to attain self-realization.   Alexandre is a frequent guest-lecturer in major institutions such as Georgetown University, Princeton University, Columbia University, NYU, and in museums such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubin Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York.   He continues to do research on sound, currently works as a sound therapist, teaches this practice, and lectures about sound. On 9/18,  Beginning with a presentation and a discussion which give context to this music, Alexandre will lead a sound meditation that will incorporate musical experiences from Neel Murgai (overtone loops), Arun Ramamurthy (Carnatic Violin), David Ellenbogen (guitar), Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury (sitar) and Ehren Hanson (tabla).Participants should bring eyemasks for a fully immersive experience.Brooklyn Raga Massive is a prolific artist collective who have gained accolades for “Expanding the notion of what raga—the immersive, epic form of Indian music—can mean…” (Wall St. Journal) and “Preserving the past while blurring genres in an inventive spirit,” (New York Times).All proceeds from the event will go to the Raga Massive 501-C3 non-profit to help produce the most ambitious event of the year: The epic 24 Hour/ 24 Set, Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works.

Today I’m interviewing a special guest – my friend and cookbook author ChihYu Smith, who's also the creator of the popular food blog I Heart Umami. ChihYu’s blog is dedicated to helping busy folks like you and I make everyday Asian-inspired Paleo Cuisine.  A Whole 30 certified coach, ChihYu shares Asian-inspired Paleo, Whole 30, and Keto recipes on her blog. She also offers several programs including Cook Once Eat All Week and Feel Good Food Plan, as well as other online Paleo meal planning programs. ChihYu’s cookbook Asian Paleo was recently released, and it's already hit number one in Chinese cooking, Korean cooking, high protein, and gluten-free diet cookbooks on Amazon. ChihYu’s book has been featured by NBC News Wellness, Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, Country Living, Chowhound and Greatist. Two of her recipes also appear in The Whole30 Fast and Easy Cookbook. A graduate of Columbia University Teachers College, she lives with her husband and two dogs in Brooklyn New York. You can find her book now on Amazon, at Barnes and Noble as well as anywhere fine cookbooks are sold.  In this episode, we talk about ChihYu’s journey to Paleo living, the differences between the Paleo, Keto and Whole-30 plans, cooking Paleo Asian Cuisine, tips for flavoring your meals with aromatics and sauces, a report from the Everything Food Conference, and tips for those who want to explore food blogging Find ChihYu: Website Facebook Pinterest Instagram YouTube Recipes Mentioned in this Episode:  Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Lemongrass Chicken Lemongrass Chicken Pizza with Almond Butter Sauce Paleo Chinese Chicken Stir-Fry Paleo Mongolian Beef Paleo Fish Tacos Tantanmen Ramen Korean Sweet Potato Noodles mentioned on the show ChihYu’s Cookbook – Asian Paleo Asian Paleo (visit this link to claim the cookbook companion gift) Come Visit BFF with the Chef: The BFF with the Chef Website Twitter Facebook Instagram

Join the conversation with Stephanie Simpson as we talk all things stress and how to live a completely different life, regardless of what is happening around you.Stephanie Simpson is an Artist, Educator, Consultant, and Coach. Drawing on her background in movement, meditation, and psychology, she guides people to achieve their greatest potential by nurturing the connection between the mind, body, and spirit. With a focus on helping people find their true balance and align with their authentic selves, Stephanie empowers them to live their lives unapologetically and to the fullest. An RYT-200 Hour Certified Yoga Instructor, Stephanie holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emerson College and an MFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from Smith College. She is currently an MA degree candidate at Columbia University Teachers College in the Clinical Psychology program with an emphasis in Spirituality, Mind, Body and a focus in Organizational Change. Stephanie presents and consults for businesses nationwide, bringing her expertise and passion for helping people thrive to audiences and organizations seeking to realize their fullest potential.Get $50 off Stephanie's Stress Management Coaching program when you mention this podcastFind Stephanie here:www.stephanie-simpson.comhttps://www.instagram.com/stephanie.e.simpson/https://www.facebook.com/StephanieSimpsonCoaching/www.mhnrnetwork.com

I've never had a guest on to talk about a memoir, but I thought Jane Pollak's journey would be beneficial for the Creative Warrior community. Jane was a successful artist decorating eggs bought by people like Steve Jobs and featured at The White House, but ultimately she wasn't happy. She decided that she could no longer settle for a life of not enough. As creative professionals, we have to be proactive agents in our lives instead of victims of circumstance. If you're feeling that you're experiencing “too much of not enough,” you can let go of what isn't serving you. When you know in your gut that you can't do it anymore, it's the beginning of living a life of enough. Jane Pollak is an author, coach, blogger, coach, and speaker. She inspires people to create income pursuing their passions.  She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in studio art and theatre and an MA in art education from Columbia University Teachers College. Her first book, Decorating Eggs: Exquisite Designs with Wax & Dye, was recently republished by Schiffer Publishing. Her second book, Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur (Crossing Press, 2001), shares what she learned as a home-based business owner who successfully turned her passion into a thriving company. When Pollak's marriage ended in 2011, she moved back to Manhattan, where she currently resides contentedly single. She has three grown children and three grandchildren. To learn how to become a proactive agent of your own life, download this episode now. THE FUTURE SELF WARRIOR   “You can only go as far in your business as you've developed in your life.” - Jane Pollak Highlights - Because of Jane's withholding mother, she thought she had to settle for whatever love and attention was given to her. She was getting by with “crumbs.” You have to select your own teachers and guides. Hustle vs. Self Care: pay attention to what you want in life and what wants you. Desire what you have. Find your tribe. Say that you need help. Being vulnerable allows people in. Guest Contact - Jane's Website Jane's Twitter Jane's Book: Too Much of Not Enough: A Memoir Contact Jeffrey - Website Coaching support My book, LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer's Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible is now available! Watch my TEDX LincolnSquare video and please share!  Mentions - Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Resources - Have Your Website Brand Message Reviewed! Is your website and are all your marketing materials speaking the right LINGO of your ideal customers? Often it's not which is why you're not converting traffic and leads to clients and attracting your most profitable customers. Fill out the simple LINGO Review application and I'll take a look at your website. If I have suggestions for you to improve your brand message (I almost always do), we'll set up a complimentary 30-minute call to discuss. A select number of websites are also chosen for my LINGO Review Video Series. Fill out the application today and let's get your business speaking the right LINGO! Music by Jawn  

This week I chatted with artist, educator, consultant and coach Stephanie Simpson about the interplay between stress and creativity, and how to nourish and draw on the power of our full human selves. Drawing on her background in movement, meditation, and psychology, Stephanie guides people to achieve their greatest potential by nurturing the connection between the mind, body, and spirit. With a focus on helping people find their true balance and align with their authentic selves, Stephanie empowers them to live their lives unapologetically and to the fullest. An RYT-200 Hour Certified Yoga Instructor, Stephanie holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emerson College and an MFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from Smith College. She is currently an MA degree candidate at Columbia University Teachers College in the Clinical Psychology program with an emphasis in Spirituality, Mind, Body and a focus in Organizational Change. Stephanie presents and consults for businesses nationwide, bringing her expertise and passion for helping people thrive to audiences and organizations seeking to realize their fullest potential. Most recently, she launched her 21 Day Stress Management Program to help people redefine how they respond to stress. It comes with a cool guide to help you learn all kinds of stress management techniques that harness your creativity, awaken your body, and more! You can learn more about her work at stephanie-simpson.com, and follow her on Facebook (Stephanie Simpson Coaching) or Instagram (Stephanie.e.Simpson).

Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September, 2018. Her memoir is also forthcoming with Graywolf. Moore is the founder of One Moore Book. One Moore Book is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that encourages reading among children of countries with low literacy rates and underrepresented cultures by publishing culturally relevant books that speak to their truths, and by creating bookstores and reading corners that serve their communities. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015. Her writing can be found in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications. She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR, NBC, BET and ABC, among others, for her work in advocacy for diversity in children’s literature. She’s a graduate of Howard University and the University of Southern California, and is currently a Margaret Mead Fellow at Columbia University Teachers College, where she’s researching the impact of culturally relevant curriculum and learning aids in elementary classrooms of underrepresented groups. Moore is an Africana Studies lecturer at City University of New York’s John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Duncan catches up with two of the members of BFAMFAPhD for a chat about the upcoming event series, which for those of you in NYC starts friday with MAKING & BEING.   Conversations about Art & Pedagogy co-presented by BFAMFAPhD & Pioneer Works, hosted by Hauser & Wirth, with media partners Bad at Sports and Eyebeam.   image credit... BFAMFAPhD, Making and Being Card Game, print version, 2016-2018, photograph by Emilio Martinez Poppe. Full details below... ____________________________   Hauser & Wirth   BFAMFAPhD is a collective that employs visual and performing art, policy reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States.   Pioneer Works is a cultural center dedicated to experimentation, education, and production across disciplines.   Contemporary art talk without the ego, Bad at Sports is the Midwest's largest independent contemporary art podcast and blog. Eyebeam is a platform for artists to engage society’s relationship with technology.   Access info:   The event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required through www.hauserwirth.com/events.   The entrance to Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookshop is at the ground floor and accessible by wheelchair. The bathroom is all-gender. This event is low light, meaning there is ample lighting but fluorescent overhead lighting is not in use. A variety of seating options are available including: folding plastic chairs and wooden chairs, some with cushions.   This event begins at 6 PM and ends at 8 PM but attendees are welcome to come late, leave early, and intermittently come and go as they please. Water, tea, coffee, beer and wine will be available for purchase. The event will be audio recorded. We ask that if you do have questions or comments after the event for the presenters that you speak into the microphone. If you are unable to attend, audio recordings of the events will be posted on Bad at Sports Podcast after the event.   Parking in the vicinity is free after 6 PM. The closest MTA subway station is 23rd and 8th Ave off the C and E. This station is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are 1/2/3/A/C/E 34th Street-Penn Station and the 14 St A/C/E station with an elevator at northwest corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue. ____________________________ "While knowledge and skills are necessary, they are insufficient for skillful practice and for transformation of the self that is integral to achieving such practice.” - Gloria Dall’Alba BFAMFAPhD presents a series of conversations that ask: What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes? The series places artists and educators in intimate conversation about forms of critique, cooperatives, artist-run spaces, healing, and the death of projects. If art making is a lifelong practice of seeking knowledge and producing art in relationship to that knowledge, why wouldn’t students learn to identify and intervene in the systems that they see around them? Why wouldn't we teach students about the political economies of art education and art circulation? Why wouldn’t we invite students to actively fight for the (art) infrastructure they want, and to see it implemented?   The series will culminate in the launch of Making and Being, a multi-platform pedagogical project that offers practices of collaboration, contemplation, and social-ecological analysis for visual artists. Making and Being is a book, a series of videos, a deck of cards, and an interactive website with freely downloadable content created by authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard with support from Fellow Emilio Martinez Poppe and BFAMFAPhD members Vicky Virgin and Agnes Szanyi.   ____________________________   SCHEDULE ____________________________ Modes of Critique   What modes of critique might foster racial equity in studio art classes at the college level?   Friday 1/18 from 6-8pm Billie Lee and Anthony Romero of the Retooling Critique Working Group Respondent: Eloise Sherrid, filmmaker, The Room of Silence   Billie Lee is an artist, educator, and writer working at the intersection of art, pedagogy, and social change. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Yale University, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in American Studies. She has held positions at the Queens Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, University of New Haven, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Hartford Art School.   Anthony Romero is an artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. Recent projects include the book-length essay The Social Practice That Is Race, written with Dan S. Wang and published by Wooden Leg Press, Buenos Dias, Chicago!, a multi-year performance project commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and produced in collaboration with Mexico City based performance collective, Teatro Linea de Sombra. He is a co-founder of the Latinx Artists Retreat and is currently a Professor of the Practice at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.   Judith Leemann is an artist, educator, and writer whose practice focuses on translating operations through and across distinct arenas of practice. A long-standing collaboration with the Boston-based Design Studio for Social Intervention grounds much of this thinking. Leemann is Associate Professor of Fine Arts 3D/Fibers at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds an M.F.A. in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her writings have been included in the anthologies Beyond Critique (Bloomsbury, 2017), Collaboration Through Craft (Bloomsbury, 2013), and The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MIT Press 2007). Her current pedagogical research is anchored by the Retooling Critique working group she first convened in 2017 to take up the question of studio critique’s relation to educational equity.   The Retooling Critique Working Group is organized by Judith Leemann and was initially funded by a Massachusetts College of Art and Design President's Curriculum Development Grant.   Eloise Sherrid is a filmmaker and multimedia artist based in NYC. Her short viral documentary, "The Room of Silence," (2016) commissioned by Black Artists and Designers (BAAD), a student community and safe space for marginalized students and their allies at Rhode Island School of Design, exposed racial inequity in the critique practices institutions for arts education, and has screened as a discussion tool at universities around the world.   __________________________   Artist-Run Spaces   How do artists create contexts for encounters with their projects that are aligned with their goals?   Friday 2/1 from 6-8pm Linda Goode-Bryant, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and Salome Asega   Linda Goode-Bryant is the Founder and President of Active Citizen Project and Project EATS. She developed Active Citizen Project while filming the 2004 Presidential Elections and developed Project EATS during the 2008 Global Food Crisis. She is also the Founder and Director of Just Above Midtown, Inc. (JAM), a New York City non-profit artists space. Linda believes art is as organic as food and life, that it is a conversation anyone can enter. She has a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in painting from Spelman College and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Peabody Award.   Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Historical Society, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times to Art Forum. Heather is also a co-founder of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.   Salome Asega is an artist and researcher based in New York. She is the Technology Fellow in the Ford Foundation's Creativity and Free Expression program area, and a director of POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Bushwick. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess Art. She has exhibited and given presentations at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Performa, EYEO, and the Brooklyn Museum. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she also teaches.   ____________________________   Building Cooperatives   What if the organization of labor was integral to your project?   Friday 2/22 from 6-8pm Members of Meerkat Filmmakers Collective and Friends of Light   Meerkat Media Collective is an artistic community that shares resources and skills to incubate individual and shared creative work. We are committed to a collaborative, consensus-based process that values diverse experience and expertise. We support the creation of thoughtful and provocative stories that reflect a complex world. Our work has been broadcast on HBO, PBS, and many other networks, and screened at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Tribeca, Rotterdam and CPH:Dox. Founded as an informal arts collective in 2005 we have grown to include a cooperatively-owned production company and a collective of artists in residence.   Friends of Light develops and produces jackets woven to form for each client.  We partner with small-scale fiber producers to source our materials, and with spinners to develop our yarns.    We construct our own looms to create pattern pieces that have complete woven edges (selvages) and therefore do not need to be cut. The design emerges from the materials and from methods developed to weave two dimensional cloth into three dimensional form. Each jacket is the expression of the collective knowledge of the people involved in its creation. Our business is structured as a worker cooperative and organized around cooperative principles and values. Friends of light founding members are Mae Colburn, Pascale Gatzen, Jessi Highet and Nadia Yaron.   ____________________________   Healing and Care (OFFSITE EVENT)   How do artists ensure that their individual and collective needs are met in order to dream, practice, work on, and return to their projects each day?   Thursday 2/28 from 6-8pm Adaku Utah and Taraneh Fazeli NOTE this event will be held at 151 West 30th Street  # Suite 403, New York, NY 10001   Adaku Utah was raised in Nigeria armed with the legacy of a long line of freedom fighters, farmers, and healers. Adaku harnesses her seasoned powers as a liberation educator,healer, and performance ritual artist as an act of love to her community. Alongside Harriet Tubman, she is the co-founder and co-director of Harriet's Apothecary, an intergenerational healing collective led by Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, health professionals, activists and ancestors. For over 12 years, her work has centered in movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, and healing justice. Currently she is the Movement Building Leadership Manager with the National Network for Abortion Funds. She is also a teaching fellow with BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) and Generative Somatics.   Taraneh Fazeli is a curator from New York. Her multi-phased traveling exhibition “Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying” deals with the politics of health. It showcases the work of artists and groups who examine the temporalities of illness and disability, the effect of life/work balances on wellbeing, and alternative structures of support via radical kinship and forms of care. The impetus to explore illness as a by-product of societal structures while also using cultural production as a potential place to re-imagine care was her own chronic illnesses. She is a member of Canaries, a support group for people with autoimmune diseases and other chronic conditions.   ____________________________   When Projects Depart   What practices might we develop to honor the departure of a project?  For example, where do materials go when they are no longer of use, value, or interest?   Thursday 3/14 from 6-8pm Millet Israeli and Lindsay Tunkl   Millet Israeli is a psychotherapist who focuses on the varied human experience of loss.  She works with individuals and families struggling with grief, illness, end of life issues, anticipatory loss, and ambiguous loss.  Her approach integrates family systems theory, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, and trauma informed care. Millet enjoys creating and exploring photography and poetry, and both inform her work with her clients. Millet holds a BA in psychology from Princeton, a JD from Harvard Law School, an MSW from NYU and is certified in bioethics through Montefiore. She sits on an Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research at Weill Cornell.   Lindsay Tunkl is a conceptual artist and writer using performance, sculpture, language, and one-on-one encounters to explore subjects such as the apocalypse, heartbreak, space travel, and death. Tunkl received an MFA in Fine art and an MA in Visual + Critical Studies from CCA in San Francisco (2017) and a BFA from CalArts In Los Angeles (2010). Her work has been shown at the Hammer Museum, LA, Southern Exposure, SF, and The Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe. She is the creator of Pre Apocalypse Counseling and the author of the book When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die.   ____________________________   Group Agreements   What group agreements are necessary in gatherings that occur at residencies, galleries, and cultural institutions today?   Friday 4/19 from 6-8pm Sarah Workneh, Laurel Ptak, and Danielle Jackson   Sarah Workneh has been Co-Director at Skowhegan for nine years leading the educational program and related programs in NY throughout the year, and oversees facilities on campus. Previously, Sarah worked at Ox-Bow School of Art as Associate Director. She has served as a speaker in a wide variety of conferences and schools. She has played an active role in the programmatic planning and vision of peer organizations, most recently with the African American Museum of Philadelphia. She is a member of the Somerset Cultural Planning Commission's Advisory Council (ME); serves on the board of the Colby College Museum of Art.   Laurel Ptak is a curator of contemporary art based in New York City. She is currently Executive Director & Curator of Art in General. She has previously held diverse roles at non-profit art institutions in the US and internationally, including the Guggenheim Museum (New York), MoMA PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm) and Triangle (New York). Ptak has organized countless exhibitions, public programs, residencies and publications together with artists, collectives, thinkers and curators. Her projects have garnered numerous awards, fellowships, and press for their engagement with timely issues, tireless originality, and commitment to rigorous artistic dialogue.   Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and arts administrator. She is currently a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Experimental Humanities.  As the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery and educational space, she helped conceive, develop and implement the organization’s mission and programs.  Her writing and reporting has appeared in artnet and Artsy. She has taught at the Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, Parsons, and Stanford in New York, where she currently leads classes on photography and urban studies.   ____________________________ Open Meeting for Arts Educators and Teaching Artists   How might arts educators gather together to develop, share, and practice pedagogies that foster collective skills and values?   Friday 5/17 from 6-8pm Facilitators: Members of the Pedagogy Group   The Pedagogy Group is a group of educators, cultural workers, and political organizers who resist the individualist, market-driven subjectivities produced by mainstream art education. Together, they develop and practice pedagogies that foster collective skills and values. Activities include sharing syllabi, investigating political economies of education, and connecting classrooms to social movements.Their efforts are guided by accountability to specific struggles and by critical reflection on our social subjectivities and political commitments.   ____________________________   Book Launch: Making and Being: A Guide to Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts   What ways of making and being do we want to experience in art classes?   Friday 10/25 from 6-8pm Stacey Salazar in dialog with Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, and Emilio Martinez Poppe of BFAMFAPhD   Stacey Salazar is an art education scholar whose research on teaching and learning in studio art and design in secondary and postsecondary settings has appeared in Studies in Art Education, Visual Arts Research, and Art Education Journal. In 2015 her research was honored with the National Art Education Association Manuel Barkan Award. She holds a Doctorate of Education in Art and Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College and currently serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was a 2013 recipient of the Trustee Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.   BFAMFAPhD is a collective that employs visual and performing art, policy reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts. Susan Jahoda is a Professor in Studio Arts at the University of Amherst, MA; Emilio Martinez Poppe is the Program Manager at Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) in New York, NY; Caroline Woolard is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Hartford, CT. Supporting this series at Hauser and Wirth for Making and Being are BFAMFAPhD collective members Agnes Szanyi, a Doctoral Student at The New School for Social Research in New York, NY and Vicky Virgin, a Research Associate at The Center for Economic Opportunity in New York, NY. Making and Being is a multi-platform pedagogical project that offers practices of collaboration, contemplation, and social-ecological analysis for visual artists. Making and Being is a book, a series of videos, a deck of cards, and an interactive website with freely downloadable content created by authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard with support from Fellow Emilio Martinez Poppe and BFAMFAPhD members Vicky Virgin and Agnes Szanyi.

Renee Owen Renee Owen’s life mission is to bring wellbeing and harmony into education. This is her twelfth year as executive director at Rainbow Community School, a holistic private school in Asheville, NC, that spans preschool through eighth grade. She is also a founder of Rainbow Institute, an adult learning arm of Rainbow Community School, which hosts the More Than Mindfulness Conference each October. Renee Owen is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University Teachers College in an Adult Learning and Leadership program based on transformative learning. Her forthcoming dissertation is about the experience of K12 teachers who imbed spiritual development within their teaching practices.West Wilmore West has served many roles at Rainbow over the years. From lead teacher of second and third and multiage classrooms, to the professional development coordinator and mentor teacher and now as Rainbow Community School’s curriculum coordinator and development director and Rainbow Institute’s Director of Operations. As a lifelong learner, these varied opportunities have yielded much personal and professional growth, increased enthusiasm and connection to Rainbow’s unique model and philosophy as well as continual interest and motivation to support Rainbow’s growth.West also brings with her a decade of teaching natural sciences and environmental education to children of all ages. West first became interested in teaching while working with children in environmental education centers and camps. Her own love of the natural world and her joy in sharing this world with children inspired her to pursue a teaching career that used “nature’s theater” as a primary learning environment. Much of West’s own education took place in nature’s classroom where she studied the unique ecosystems of the Appalachian region and the southeastern Barrier Islands, the western United States, and New Zealand.West’s educational philosophy is anchored in place based and experiential learning. She works to nurture a love of learning by fostering in students deep connections to themselves, their community, and the natural world around them. She strongly believes that direct, authentic and meaningful experience is the primary stepping stone to understanding.West holds a Bachelors Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies from the University of the South, a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Education from the Teton Science Schools, a Master’s of Education from Montana State University, a school administration license from Appalachian State University, and a graduate certificate in non-profit management from Duke University. She also won WNC’s Best of the Best Teacher – 2nd place in 2012 and 1st place in 2013!West is also an avid rock climber and travels nationally and internationally with her dog, Willow to climb. West is also a competitive bodybuilder and loves to trail run, cycle, paddle board and backpack.Links:http://rainbowcommunityschool.org/more-than-mindfulness-conference/http://rainbowcommunityschool.org/heart-of-the-matter/http://rainbowcommunityschool.org/news/rainbow-institute-blog/ Click here for a transcript of the podcast

Video games & empathy! Hosts David Ryan Polgar (tech ethicist) and Joe Leonardo (comedian) take a deep dive with Dr. Karen Schier, an expert on empathy & video games. We discuss the ideal game design for exploring other identities, how games are well suited for exploring boundaries, whether there are disturbing games that shouldn't be made, and if VR-headset wearing people in the future will visit grandma! Dr. Karen Schrier, Associate Professor, is the founding director of the Games & Emerging Media program at Marist College. From 2018-2019, she is also serving as a Belfer Fellow for the ADL's Center for Technology & Society, where she will be making anti-bias games and researching using games for perspective-taking, compassion, and bias reduction. Prior to Marist, she spent over a decade producing websites, apps, and games at organizations such as Scholastic, Nickelodeon, BrainPOP, and PBS/Channel 13. She is the editor of the book series, Learning, Education & Games, published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon), and co-editor of two books on games and ethics. She has written over 40 publications, including single-authored articles published in journals such as Educational Technology Research & Development and the Journal of Moral Education. With Matthew Farber, she co-authored the UNESCO MGIEP working paper, The Limits and Strengths of Using Digital Games as "Empathy Machines." Her latest book, Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Help Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change, was published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. She is also working on a book for Oxford University Press on using games for civics and ethics education. Dr. Schrier holds a doctorate from Columbia University/Teachers College, master's degree from MIT, and a bachelor's degree from Amherst College. Twitter: https://twitter.com/drgamermom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgamermom/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenschrier https://www.karenschrier.com/ Funny as Tech tackles the thorniest issues in tech with the help of experts. Each week, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo invite a guest to take a deep dive into a complex tech issue that is tripping up society. The show has dealt with AR, VR, AI, IoT, diversity in tech, tech addiction, media literacy, future of work, and much more. Previous guests have included CNN's Laurie Segall, Baratunde Thurston, Nir Eyal, Manoush Zomorodi, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Lubin, Tracy Chou, Bridget Carey, and Chuck Nice. Funny as Tech also performs on the road with conferences and special events. Have a question? Info@FunnyAsTech.com FUNNY AS TECH FunnyAsTech.com Twitter: twitter.com/FunnyAsTech Instagram: www.instagram.com/FunnyAsTech/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/FunnyAsTech/ Soundcloud: @user-328735920 Signup to our monthly mailing list: eepurl.com/dgokyz twitter.com/TechEthicist twitter.com/ImJoeLeonardo www.instagram.com/techethicist/ www.instagram.com/imjoeleonardo/ NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY

Alexandre Tannous has been active as a musician, educator, composer, and as an ethnomusicologist. He holds a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Music Theory and Composition, and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Columbia University Teachers College. As a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship he also earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy degrees in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University where he was enrolled in the PH.D. program. He has taught various music courses at the same institution. The works of Alexandre Tannous are frequently performed in the United States, Europe, and in Asia. The World Première performance of his orchestral composition “Métamorphose” under his baton at Carnegie Hall in 1995 received a standing ovation. As a film composer he composed two film-scores: The Seventh Dog (2005), and Jim (2009) www.jimthefilm.com. For the past 13 years he has been researching the therapeutic and esoteric properties of sound from three different perspectives – Western scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs – to gain a deeper understanding of how, and to what extent, sound has been used to affect human consciousness. This search has led him to the intersection where art, science, philosophy, and spirituality intersect. His ethnomusicological approach entails a social scientific study of sound use in several traditional contexts—religious, spiritual, holistic, and cultural—for various purposes and occasions in entertainment, worship, meditation, and rituals of healing and trance. Consequently, his approach in researching, understanding, experiencing, transmitting, and working with sound has always been based on a multidisciplinary approach. Alexandre is a frequent guest-lecturer in major institutions such as Georgetown University, Princeton University, Columbia University, NYU, and in museums such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubin Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. He continues to do research on sound, currently works as a sound therapist, teaches this practice, and lectures about sound.

We all deal with traumas in our lives, large and small. Internationally known psychologist Dr. Judy Kuriansky http://drjudy.com/ , who provided mental health support to first responders after 9/11, talks about the steps to healing that can help us all. She is a psychology professor at Columbia University Teachers College, and says there are things we can all do to let go of anger, fear and resentment.

Dan Emery is on a mission to bring the thrill and pride of guitar playing to the world.  He is the founder of NYC's friendliest and fastest growing guitar schools, New York City Guitar School, Brooklyn Guitar School and Queens Guitar School. He is the author of the Amazon best selling guitar book "Guitar For Absolute Beginners" and several other books on guitar playing and deliberate practice. He has a Masters in Education from Columbia University Teachers College, and extensive performing experience as songwriter and guitarist for The Dan Emery Mystery Band. Besides loving to play guitar and teach guitar, he enjoys coaching new business owners in the Entrepreneurs' Organization Accelerator Program, learning about music from his three kids, and reading books. And, as you’ll hear us talk about in the podcast, Dan’s official life mission is "coaching personal greatness, one lesson at a time."   In this podcast Michael and Dan discuss: Creating a mission statement for your life and work. How to keep your team in sync. How your team can demonstrate your values every single day. Dan’s approach to meeting rhythms. The importance of clear and consistent expectations. Dan’s approach to checklists and accountability. How being relentlessness can be a magical superpower.

Dr. Judy opens up about the 12/11 terror attack in New York City, what to do after an attack and why it is so important to pay attention to children during these traumatic events. Web: www.DrJudy.com Follow: @DrJudyK About Dr. Judy: Dr. Judy Kuriansky is a world renowned radio advice host, clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist, popular lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author of many books. She is a pioneer of radio call-in advice, and more recently of Internet advice. An adjunct professor at the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University Teachers College and visiting professor of Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, she is a frequent commentator on international media --including CNN -- on various news issues. Dr. Judy is on the Advisory Board of several magazines and public service organizations, and works extensively in Asia on health and women's issues, and Known for her relationship advice, Dr. Judy is also expert on emergency mental health services, and has worked at Ground Zero and many other disasters worldwide, and lectures about coping with world conflicts, including in the Middle East. About the show: ► Visit http://www.swap.com and use Promo Code: ASHDAILY40 for 40% off! ►Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ►SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ►Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AshSaidItMedia ►Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ►Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ►Daily Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ►Newsletter: http://ashsaidit.us11.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863c8&id=a6f43cd472 ►SWAP Commercial Music Courtesy of http://www.BenSound.com #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit