📻 Season 2.1 - Mendota Heights, MN - Class of 2022

🔑 Key Takeaways: Where to even begin?

In the opener the guest that I interview shares thoughts on being a park ranger of academic tutoring, the conflict overseas concerning the Jewish people, why sources matter, dating outside of your personality type, and some sports things that I followed 93% of the way.

🎼 Spin by Sumbuck

📚The Secret History by Donna Tart

🎙Zoe podcast

Stitches and snitches and such.😆

📻 I'm gonna go ahead and call this one my SEASON ONE FINALE! 🥳

🔑 Loved my convo with this guest. The bits and bobs of it are this: Treat educators with respect, jump rope, listen to those 80's tunes from the 1900's!!! And don't peak in HIGH SCHOOL!

❤️ Happy whatever you celebrate season!

🎼 Forever Young by Alphaville
📚 The Berenstain Bears by Stan Berenstain

📻 Woodbury, Minnesota - Class of 2017
🔑 How many versions of yourself have you put out into the world? I know I've had a couple. This guest and I discuss that, sports (of course🤓), and much more on the episode. Thanks to all of you listening and supporting the podcast!
🎼 That's Life - Frank Sinatra
📚 Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

📚We get into the banning of books.

READ ALL THE BOOKS.

Get multiple perspectives on ideas, experience things that are outside your bubble. 📚

Also on the b part of this episode we talk about mental health. Everybody should be taking care of their brain. So I'm going to help you do that in a small way. I've introduced a mindfulness component into the end of each episode from here on out!

📻 We are telling you about Orono, MN. It's giving Gilmore Girl vibes for this one.
My guest and I take on the early 2000's. The guest shares about The BURNED CD phase that some of my listeners are too young to even have heard of. The start time of this listener's school was 7:05!!! That's so damn early!!!
🔑 Key Takeaways - the most rebellious thing takes a bit of time and is by far one of the strangest things.🪨I am not even going to drop a hint for you. It's very midwest. My favorite line of the interview is: I'm not a quiet human. He had to notice!

🗣Mental health and Education need to go on a date and get things figured out! Cause our teachers need those services too! Mental health is one of the most underserved areas in education. When it does serve, it generally focus on the students, which is needed.

But our teachers need it too. It's almost like they need it to put the oxygen mask on first. To help the kids even faster.

BANNED BOOKS came up a little bit. More on that topic in part two of this episode.
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📻 The guest for the 14th episode of the first season discuss what an incredible feeling it is to have the support of a school family, especially when you lose someone in your family. She acknowledges that her high school Social Studies teacher really made her feel comforted. She discusses what it felt like to win the Athena Award. She helps break down sports for me.
🔑 Some of the takeaways from the episode are how much it mattered that her principal went to more than just the sporting events. Together we talk about the banning of books that are happening around the country and I AM HERE FOR IT!

As part of the closing we talk about mindfulness and friendships. We dissect what your friendships mean and when to evaluate if they are healthy.

📚 If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin

📻 In the studio for this episode my guest and I discuss how he founded a boys volleyball team!

We gotta give a shoutout to the office ladies at that high school! They are beloved!

We start to take

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🎼 Favorite Song by Toosii (yeah I don't know it)
📚Scythe by Neal Shusterman (this is #1 in a series)

📻 My guest will graduate in 2024. Which means they are currently a senior in their high school career. BIG SHOUTOUT TO THEIR AVID TEACHER. That teacher sounds downright remarkable. 🥳

And for those that don't know about what AVID is - it's linked right here in the notes.

My guest and I discuss skipping school and what it looks like when your Freshmen year is just COVID.

We also discuss #bannedbooks and I introduce a new mindfulness activity to close out this episode!

🎼 Our Song by Taylor Swift
📚Night by Elie Wiesel

A little teaser for you listeners as I work on the next episode!

Don't put alll the pressure on you when you are figuring out what your future holds past high school.