The Equipped for Life Podcast is back! After a long hiatus due to the production of Equipped for Life Academy, we've begun recording new episodes. We also have some old episodes in the archives we'll be publishing as well. We loved this episode as our first episode back though.

After introducing Rebecca Carlson and welcoming her to be a second co-host on the podcast, Josh and Emily discuss their common backgrounds in music and musical theater, and how that affects our dialogue.

This leads to a listener mail question on how Emily is able to come across as spontaneous as she does even when saying memorized responses.

This leads to a FASCINATING discussion on, in the situation that we're talking to a pro-choice person, whether it's inherently deceptive to add fake thinking pauses, among other things, that actors commonly do when performing.

ERI Blog: The Best Way to Expose Logical Fallacies: Don't Call Them by Name: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/best-way-expose-logical-fallacies

ERI Instagram: If Glinda and Elphaba were pro-life advocates: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DExLM1eKaiP

ERI Podcast Clip: Can a musical background improve your dialogues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wuPFkvv1ds

Dallas Morning News: Choosing Thomas -- Inside a family's decision to let their son live, if only for a brief time: https://youtu.be/ToNWquoXqJI?si=hN4PkhrV8_GSE2h6

The Place We Find Ourselves Podcast: https://adamyoungcounseling.com/podcast

Equal Rights Institute Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

Equal Rights Institute Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

Equipped for Life Academy: https://EquippedForLifeAcademy.com

Equipped for Life Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass: http://SidewalkCounselingMasterclass.com

Chapters: 00:00: Re-introducing podcast and Rebecca 20:34: Commonalities in music and/or musical theater 30:49: Listener mail question

Hosts: Josh Brahm, Emily Geiger, Rebecca Carlson Audio/Video Editor: Josh Brahm Publisher: Ellen Campbell