Colin Wright has a PhD. in Evolutionary Biology and is a contributing editor at Quillette. His views of what needs to happen in today’s disrupted American culture are discussed in order for humanity to thrive in the future.

Specifically, we focus on sex as a biological identifying factor in humans and a discussion about transgender and gender fluidity are covered as well.

“The view that sex is a spectrum is not confined to fringe critical theorists.”

In February 2020 Colin co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed on the subject, entitled The Dangerous Denial of Sex.

“There are two main arguments typically offered in defense of the claim that sex is a non-binary attribute that exists on a “spectrum.””

Twitter description: “Evolutionary biologist. @Quillette assistant editor.

Twitter: @SwipeWright

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Judy Sarden is author of Sarden's Practical Guide: How to Start Homeschooling, hosts The How to Homeschool Podcast, now called The Ivy League Roadand, speaks nationally on home education and general education topics. As a former corporate attorney for over 20 years, Judy has now homeschooled her two children for 8 years.

Judy brings her corporate and legal strategy skills to families by helping them to strategically plan their children's academic and extracurricular career to position them for college admissions success and beyond. Understanding that the world where our children will raise their families is very different from that of our forefathers, Judy helps usher your children into the education of the future!

Judy helps people find others to network with to find resources and child care. She says that people do not have to homeschooling during school hours, so having flexibility to work is a benefit.

She also says that parents need to find a support network and have a mindset shift when deciding to homeschool from thinking that you have to be your children’s teacher, rather you will be their facilitator. It is also important to find your own space away from your children at times to give yourself a break and adjust your expectations of your kids.

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On her website, Judy provides an instantly downloadable book and workbook bundle. Sarden's Practical Guide: How to Start Homeschooling and the accompanying workbook,

The Stress Free Guide to Start Homeschooling Your Older Kids

Questions Judy answered:

*what should parents do about educating their kids in the covid environment?

*what are the benefits of homeschooling and self-directed learning?

*what are the top 3 things parents should focus on while educating their kids from home during COVID?

*how can kids return to school after homeschooling?

Website: www.judysarden.com

Email: [email protected]

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IG @ strategiceducationplanning

Twitter @ judysarden

About Judy: https://www.thesardens.com/about

Johnny Crowder is the Founder and CEO of the mental health tool Cope Notes and the host of the podcast called “The Cope Notes Podcast”. Johnny is a survivor of abuse (from birth) and is on a mission to educate and support other trauma survivors.

Johnny has also been featured as a TEDx speaker and titled his talk as “How to Grow as a Person (and Why it Sucks)”.

How is music significant to you?

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IG: @johnnycrowderlovesyou and @copenotes

FB: @johnnyxcrowder and @copenotes

Twitter: @copenotes

Website: https://copenotes.com

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Catherine Sherlock is a leadership consultant and founder of Higher Mindfulness who is in the business of transforming leaders from the inside out. She has a different approach to meditation so people can take back their own power and enhance their leadership capacity. Each medication has its own strengths, and is not a one size fits all.

Though Catherine has a Masters degree in Environmental Studies and was a sustainability consultant but the work declined because company budgets declined. This prompted her to look at the work place and humanity as a whole to see where the holes are in focusing. She has been studying under various teachers

Catherine says that we are taught that our left brain is supposed to be control of our right brain. She says that when we change our thinking about that, we are able to access a deeper consciousness. By doing this, we can avoid living out of fear since we live our life trying to avoid pain. If you are not coming into cohesion, you are on autopilot so it is essential that leaders should expand their consciousness.

Catherine says leaders have self-doubt and their own emotions since we have been taught to deal with them in a way that keeps us in an internal struggle. She says we fight within ourselves, and we need to make ourselves allies by making a life transforming switch. The problem with burnout and stress is at an all time high and essentially burnout is an epidemic. We need to get out of “overwhelm” and get into empowerment. She says that we use “ego” to create a disconnect from self like we do with negative emotions. Leaders should be taught how to deal with their emotions better so we can turn our energy towards more positive work that will leave us feeling fulfilled.

Catherine says we are supposed to use our right and our left brains in tandem and using intuition would make us much more productive leaders.

Catherine says you can do well by doing good in the world.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/catherinesherlock

www.facebook.com.highermindfulness

https://twitter.com/C_Sherlock

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Dalia Hesham is an International Education Consultant who provides insight on how schools can effectively open in the midst of this pandemic. Dalia says that we need to look at school communities individually and get creative to support students and staff to align with local and government mandates, ensuring we address concerns properly. Additionally, grouping students meaningfully and identifying key people involved while structuring the school day will help students flourish, even ones who are remote learners. Looking at data and addressing the unique needs of the school is paramount to a successful transition in a positive way.

Dalia says that when we engage parents they are more invested, and they become part of the solution. Having them involved as much as possible will benefit the school with careful consideration of laws and regulations such as through HIPAA so child protection and safeguarding is important. Using transparency with parents shows them that their children’s mental health and wellbeing are being looked after.

Dalia also says that teachers’ mental health and well-being needs to be addressed so we can strengthen relationships within the building and leaders should model this for their staff. Having workshops within schools for self-care is important as well as professional development.

Harvard, Oxford, Pennsylvania Universities have free online courses that would be supportive of teachers for professional development right now. Educational leadership would be useful too as “leaders have been born” due to COVID-19. Dalia coaches people through an educational leadership course through ImproveEd. Also, CPD courses around child protection and safeguarding children, contagion, remediation and reading strategies would be useful as well.

Dalia’s advice to parents who are also school leaders is to take it easy and start off small so you do not get overwhelmed. Also, it is important to ask for help and look for parents to volunteer using their strengths to build a strong community. Dalia says that sometimes it is ok to say “no”.

With regards to opening up schools, Dalia says to use students who will help with positivity and have staff get creative in making some of the new rules fun such as using colored soap when handwashing. Additionally, some suggestions are staggering start times, meal time adjustments, reducing traffic within hallways, ensuring all staff and students follow CDC guidelines, have students learn from each other in small groups and considering needs of each age group. Again, identifying key people within the school community is important in this transition and having tours of the school prior to starting, even virtually or externally, may help with the adjustment.

With technology, innovation and the human element of connection with the world coming together over the last couple of months, such as the United States, the United Arab Emirate (UAE), the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, etc. getting together to figure out how to move humanity forward, it is essential that we consider all people who are stakeholders, including parents, so we can unite.

Our next generation of children will need to be exposed to how we are working together and adapting to a new way of learning in order to have a thriving future.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dalia-hesham

Website: www.improve-ed.com

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Bob Berry is a is a principal at AnswerLab and a leader in the tech industry guiding Google, Facebook, Amazon to optimize the virtual experience for customers. Having in-depth knowledge in Apple products as well, Bob understand the needs of users in today’s shifting economy and cultural experiences. He’s also the founder of The Human-Computer MasterMind Academy. Bob pioneered the first-ever e-commerce, e-learning, social media, and cloud services in the 1990s so he is a visionary with a thorough knowledge base on how far we have come and where we are headed in the future.

Bob has designed and launched new learning systems that have guided 37,000 youth in all 50 states to prepare for life. He is also constantly innovating new products to adapt to the pandemic by offering remote platforms.

In this episode, we talk about education, business, social media, work, mental health, the effects of the pandemic and what our future might look like.

Going contactless, improving delivery services with ease of access such as through Amazon and helping the world shift to a hybrid approach in most areas of their lives is a major consideration in advancing humanity.

Bob offers personalized consultations for businesses and organizations to go contactless with insight in the best way to support their clients and users.

Website: http://ItsTheUsers.com

Website 2: http://answerlab.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_bobberry

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobberrycoppercreek/

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Todd Wiest is a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and is now the Director Of Business Development - Space & Missiles at Quantech Services, Inc. He provides insight into the future of space travel and innovations that will change the face of humanity.

Todd studied the issues that occurred with the Challenger explosion in the 1980’s and says that after several launch failures in the 90s, they have learned a lot about the technology behind a successful launch, which is why we have advanced so much.

We also discussed the issues of climate change and population increase, we may need to look elsewhere to repopulate, potentially outside of this earth or on an orbited International Space Station type dwelling.

At the time of this recording, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has just launched its first two astronauts to space for the first time in history on a privatized rocket. They are sending small satellites up to space which fall into the categories of geo, heo or leo. The geo satellite is spinning at the same time and rate as the earth so the satellite follows that same spot on the earth which is why you are always locked on. GPS helps you have the ability to drive to different locations and timing it will take to get there. Satellites also help up with national security to tell us where missiles are facing and when they launch.

In the future, Elon Musk is actually working on providing internet called Starlink to connect people throughout the whole work since continents like Africa only have about 40% connectivity and miniaturization is how we will advance in the future by leveraging space.

Space technology has led us to the technology we have with the internet and cell phones. The Apollo actually had diverse teams that pioneered many applications and devices we have improved upon that allows us the convenience and communication we have today.

Beth Cannon is a Motivational Speaker and Educator who delivers inspiring and engaging messages to the Early Education Community. She uses powerful tools to connect teams so they will perform well that she has acquired over the past 20 years in the field of education. Her message captures women since the early education community is mostly female dominated, and the content sheI delivers is themed as “better together” since she provides her teams practical steps to a more powerful connection.

She says that we need to prepare to support our kids and families in the Early Learning system, and embracing the “is what it is” approach with the attitude that we will do the best that we can as educators. She says that our willingness to lean in to a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset is how we will find success as we return to the school year in the midst of a pandemic.

Being a good leader is genuinely supporting your staff when returning to school and giving them opportunities to take space when they need it.

Yoga is a great way to incorporate a mind-body-emotion connection as a way to cope through a transition like staff and students are making back to school. She says that if we could choose silence over screaming and retreat instead of speak the world would be a much better place.

Beth presents both live and virtually as a keynote speaker with powerful and unique keynote and workshop topics. Though she mostly provides professional development for early educators, she also speaks at entrepreneur events and church retreats.

Beth also offers online courses for staff development with instant access and certificates available upon completion.

As a Master level Trainer registered with the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System, she is sure to provide early educators a fun, upbeat, original presentation that is memorable and useful.

SUMMIT for Early Learning Leaders & Teachers: https://leaderslounge.solutions/

BIO: https://bethcannonspeaks.com/meet-beth/

Courses: https://bethcannonspeaks.com/digital-courses/

Website: https://bethcannonspeaks.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=beth%20cannon

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Cynthia Zhai is a Professional Speaker, (TEDx), Best Selling Author and Voice Coach who teaches you how to use your voice to harness the best “you”. She helps people by teaching them how to speak up and become the person who makes real changes in their community and society, and reaches people both individually and in group settings. Cynthia has a wide range of global clients and says that she is able to help individuals find confidence and communicate better as either an introvert or an extrovert.

Cynthia says that people do not use their confident voice mostly because they fear judgement.

She helps two main groups of people in corporations:

Senior Executives - to learn to speak in a way to influence others rather than force them such by asking your employee a question with options

Sales / Consultants who are facing prospects - she help to engage customers/clients in their products or services

Cynthia says your voice reveals your past, present and potential (future) such as the wounds we have

.Cynthia has been a professional speaker and coach for the past 18years and her engagement spans 5 continents in 18 countries and regions such asUSA, Finland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,Argentina, Egypt, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, mainlandChina, India, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and The Philippines.Cynthia has appeared inU.S.A Discover Your Talent Show,SingaporeRadio Program 938 Live4 times, Hong KongRadio 3, and MalaysiaBusiness Radio Station BFMas a guest speaker on the subject of Voice.She's a regular guest on podcast shows around the world.Cynthia has spoken to more than 20,000 audience members across industries, from the world’s top MNCs as K & L Gates Washington D.C.,Stanford University, Sofia University, Mercer, Google, HSBC, Procter &Gamble, to Government bodies as British High Commission Singapore,Immigration & Checkpoints Authority, Singapore Air Force et

Bio: https://www.powerfulexecutivevoice.com/about/cynthia-zhai/

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linkedin.com/in/cynthiazhai

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Tina is the founder of CalmHouse which is a company that focuses on design therapy. continuing her mother’s legacy. It’s about creating calm and well being, a sense of belonging in our home and in our spaces.

Calm House was designed to help others move beyond interior design to something much more supportive to mental health. Tina has a psychology background and follows research from the happiest places in the world to help her understand an alignment that creates a calm, soothing space to live and exist. She helps people create healthier environments to live and work in as a “launch pad for dreams and goals”.

TIna says the role of our home environment on our overall happiness is definitely a factor and research confirms it. She often references the term “hygge”, a Danish term which helps to explain why Denmark consistently places first on the world happiness scale.

Tina says that can anyone achieve this sense of calm and well being in their home even if there is disagreement among family members.

This is not interior design; this is more of a therapeutic approach to use your home to create a space that brings you joy and comfort.

Website: www.mycalmhouse.com

Facebook: @mycalmhouse

Instagram: @mycalmhouse1

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