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October 23, 2017 – From cabs to buses to ride sharing, getting around on the strip has never been easier. This episode is part 1 of a closer look at transportation on the strip. The show opens with a couple of returning guests. Cousin Vito shares the details about the upcoming travel and gaming conference ZorkFest. Then we hear from an old friend, Todd Gades, who has an update to his travel tip about taking a bus in Vegas. Then, Kara Stewart Fortier from the Playgrounding Podcast shares an uncomfortable cab ride story. Last, Vegas cab driver Dustin provides some useful tips and talks about what it’s like to be a cabbie in Sin City. For more information about the topics we talked about on this episode: The Return of Vegas Bright twitter: @vestroe website: VegasBright.com New Vegas Podcasts Vegas BunBoy – website: Vegas BunBoy  twitter: @VegasBunBoy Vegas Confessions – website: VegasConfessionspod.com twitter: @VegasConfessionsPod ZorkFest info: Cousin Vito’s Casino Podcast: Episode 59 ZorkFest Todd Gades – Find his eBook “How A Math Nerd Plays Craps” on the You Can Bet On That Website. Twitter: @YoEleven_ Playgrounding Podcast website: Playgrounding.com twitter: @karafortier Dustin twitter: @vagascab Dustin on Jobstr.com CrowdRise Zappos For … Continue reading

With all of this talk about kids and play, it's about time we hear from an educator here on the PlayGrounding Podcast. Doug Smith has been a physical education teacher for nineteen years. In this episode, we discuss the state of physical education in schools today such as the focus on testing and how many states are losing PE classes altogether. But don't worry, we talk about the fun stuff too, such as the importance of playgrounds that fire kids' imaginations. He helped to build a beautiful one inspired by a book by Richard Louv called Last Child in the Woods. Doug's story is also inspiring for us adults. His love for play led him to participate in a self-imposed challenge to play 30 sports in 90 days in 2011 and wrote a blog about his play adventures to share with his students. Doug is a National Board Certified Physical Education Teacher in Charlotte, NC.  He has been teaching elementary PE for 19 years.  He has a passion for guiding his students towards a healthier lifestyle and helping them to be physically fit.  His knowledge of whole school wellness has led him to the creation of many innovative ideas, programs, and play areas for his school, including the one of a kind North Carolina Creative Playground.  He believes in and encourages his school as a whole to embrace PLAY and FITNESS as a positive lifestyle. Show Links: Visit Doug's Blog Read Last Child In The Woods by Richard Louv Watch Tim Brown's TED Talk on Creativity and Play Check out his Teacher Talk:

Fitness fun? For most of my life, I would have answered NO WAY to that question. It’s the one challenge I’ve had to my belief that whatever is true about play for children is also true for adults. Children play very differently from adults. They play with their whole selves, their imaginations, their creativity and especially their bodies. Physical play comes naturally to children. They run and jump, swing, slide, do cartwheels. We talk a big game here on PlayGrounding about adults and play, but what about play through movement? Is “exercise” an unpleasant necessity after you reach a certain age? Or can grownups experience the same kind of joy a child does when they run out onto a playground? This episode is the first in a series seeking to answer the question, can fitness really be fun? I mean really? Fitness for adults seems to be a series of measured movements meant to affect the body in specific ways – to help with strength, stamina and to help us lose weight. To me, that’s always seemed more like work than play. We do specific activities to achieve specific results. But not everyone gets results, even when we try to follow the rules. And this is only one piece of a larger problem: our culture’s epidemic of mental illnesses like body dysmorphia and eating disorders. Brian Bristol, a small business owner whose worked in outdoor sports for over a decade, wants to tackle this problem head-on, but he needs your help. It’s not as easy as it might seem to bring fitness and play together in one place – especially for adults. He wants to open an alternative indoor playground filled with movement-based activities and programs so youth and adults can experience play together in a way that is healthy, productive AND fun. He’s on the PlayGrounding Podcast seeking YOUR insights and ideas to re-think play and fitness so that his dream can come to life.  You’ll be hearing more from Brian in future episodes. He’ll be joining me to interview some other fitness and play experts as we go through the series to find out what’s already being done to make movement fun instead of painful for those of us who don’t already gravitate toward the fitness world. Links: Submit your ideas to join the conversation! Visit Brian’s Website, Firefly, to Rethink Play MovNat

Have you ever started a passion project only to find it suddenly feels like work? And not the fulfilling kind of work either – just plain, to-do list work. It’s not easy to rediscover the spark that led you to start your project, but one way to achieve that is to revisit the reasons we got started in the first place. Maybe you’ve changed and grown? If the project hasn’t grown with you, maybe it’s not the right project for you anymore? Or maybe our discomfort with it is a growing pain – maybe it’s time to start thinking about how your project can change and grow as you do. In this episode you’ll meet Chris Kim, the podcaster responsible for the awesome storytelling show about the great city of Las Vegas called Faces and Aces. Their show is “our love letter to the city and the people who work in it.” I was just recently interviewed for his show which sparked a larger conversation offline about this very topic - so I asked him if we could share that conversation on here on the PlayGrounding Podcast.  Chris and I are both coming back from a bit of a hiatus from our shows – for me it’s been a month and for him, he’s been away from podcasting for about six months. We’ve both come back to our podcasts after some deep soul searching and decided to move forward – we’ve found motivation to keep our projects fresh and fun. And while this particular conversation is about podcasting, it can apply to any project you started out of pure passion, curiosity and fun that has begun to feel like a little too much. Don’t give up quite yet. Start asking yourself the right questions so that whether you decide to lay it down or not, you know you're doing it because it’s what you really, really want. Show Links: Check out Chris Kim's podcast, Faces and Aces Las Vegas!

On this very first episode of The PlayGrounding Podcast, I'll take a moment to introduce myself and tell you why I'm investing so much in the concept of play. You'll hear: What it's meant to me, as an adult, to learn how to play again Why it can be hard for us adults to play How stumbling into a playful community changed my life What I want you to get out of this podcast How you can participate and be on the show Show Notes: TED Radio Hour's "Press Play" episode