In The Trenches Podcast

John Huie has a long history as a teacher and educator. From his youth he has always had a deep connection with nature and adventure. As a young adult he found his way to Outward Bound where he spent a lot of time leading youth in the outdoors. He has been educational consulting for many years and has recently retired. In this episode he shares his stories of adventure and learning about life in the outdoors and especially staying young!

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Sanford Shapiro is widely known as a learning disabilities specialist with deep experience and love for students with with dyslexia and autism spectrum disorder. He authored "A Light Within," a children's book about anxiety. He has a long history as an educator and as an educational consultant. He currently resides in Ecuador with his wife where he enjoys writing and consulting with families and programs.

https://www.amazon.com/Light-Within-Sanford-Shapiro/dp/1544731590

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In this interview Bill talks about his experience in his early teens with drug addiction and recovery. A story of his path that lead him to Synanon, the first drug rehabilitation center. He went on to work at Synanon and eventually started his own transporting company. Transporting is the service of assisting adolescents and young adults in a smooth transition from the home into a program. Bill is a all heart and wealth of experience and knowledge. Enjoy! http://www.billlaneandassociates.com/index.html

Meditation and mindfulness are two concepts that have escaped me for years. I've always known that there's a lot we can benefit from both of them but it's difficult to find people that know much about them or can teach them in a way that makes sense. Josh and Maureen are some of the best I've found yet. In this interview we discuss tools, practices, methods, physiological benefits, mental benefits, health benefits, and more.

Maureen White earned her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Naropa University, the nation’s leading training program for mindfulness-based therapy. Maureen is known for her ability to combine penetrating insight with humor and warmth. She has worked with young people and their families since 1996, helping countless parents and young adults to resolve long-standing issues and move into new places of abundant love and peace. Maureen speaks Spanish and has taught internationally.

Maureen is a sought-after trainer for businesses seeking to learn mindfulness-based organizational management strategies. For seven years, she led transformational three-day workshops at a residential treatment center for young women. An authorized meditation teacher, she has served as core staff for multiple meditation retreats and worked with hundreds of adolescents and young adults at the apex of therapy and mindfulness practices.

Josh White, Sensei, MA, LCMHC, CGP earned his Master’s Degree in Psychology from Naropa University, the nation’s premier mindfulness-based therapeutic training institution. A recognized leader and innovator within the young adult treatment field, Josh has presented nationally at conferences for the Young Adult Transition Association, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Independent Educational Consultants Association, Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Council, and National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.

After beginning his career with adolescents and young adults as a martial arts instructor in 1994, Josh shifted his focus to behavioral health in 1998, serving as both a behavioral health technician and a Master’s-level clinician before becoming an administrator in 2005. Prior to the founding of Red Mountain, Josh served as a Program Director, Clinical Director, and Executive Director in top treatment programs for adolescents and young adults, gathering a wealth of experience which now guides the philosophy and day-to-day operations of Red Mountain.

A Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Certified Group Psychotherapist, Josh is a Senior Instructor and the second-ranking active practitioner of Ten-Chi Kenpo, an innovative martial art combining Karate, Jujitsu, Judo, Aikido, and T’ai Chi. Josh is one of approximately 250 teachers worldwide authorized to teach in the White Plum Zen tradition, and enjoys incorporating Zen teachings into his clinical work. Josh served on the faculty at Naropa University and Oregon Health and Science University, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the White Plum Zen Teachers Association and Prajna Zendo. Josh was a founding officer of the Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society, and is active in local and national charities.

A proud husband and father whose greatest joys in life are his wife and son, Josh is also an avid guitarist and former professional musician who opened for Run DMC, Vertical Horizon, and the Violent Femmes. When he’s not spending time with his family and Red Mountain students, he enjoys hiking with his dogs in Sedona’s majestic Red Rocks; building and playing guitars; and competing in (and occasionally winning) his long-running fantasy baseball league.

“Mindfulness saved my life. Learning how to watch my thoughts, feelings and impulses arise and fall saved me from a self-destructive path fueled by past trauma and poor choices. Today I am living my dream teaching and mentoring young people who are just like I was, and helping them find a path of productivity and peace.”

www.redmountainsedona.com

This podcast really has two very different parts. In the first part, Colleen talks about her experience in sending her own daughter to a Wilderness Therapy program and all of the emotions surrounding that experience. In the second part she talks about managing millennials in the workplace. She love millennials and her enthusiasm is contagious!

Over the course of her 20-plus-year career, Colleen has specialized in selling software and services that support the B2B sales community. As chief sales officer, she leads sales team initiatives worldwide as Brainshark continues to help new customers on their paths to better sales effectiveness. Colleen was most recently vice president of worldwide sales at SiriusDecisions, where she led the firm’s business development, customer support, sales enablement, sponsorship and worldwide sales teams. She loves millennials love millennials in sales and all they bring to the organizations they join.

She's born and raised in Boston and a big fan of the Patriots!

Jenney Wilder M.S.Ed launched All Kinds of Therapy in 2015, as the only independent online directory for the Family Choice Behavioral Healthcare Industry. With an impressive case of ADHD and her starter career in the 90's in Silicon Valley, the dream for creating a website with features like side-by-side comparison and an integrated newsletter was born. Jenney stopped counting treatment centers and all types of schools that she has visited when she hit 500 many years ago. She was the sponsoring author of the only Economic Impact Study of the Family Choice Behavioral Healthcare Industry, which revealed the only true financial figures about this industry (in Utah). Jenney has a Masters in Special Education from Bank Street College (NY) and a Bachelors of Arts focused on History from Wheaton College (MA).

www.allkindsoftherapy.com

Jeff Dvorak grew up on Long Island, NY and after finishing high school there, he did a gap year with the National Outdoor Leadership School. His love of the outdoors, lead him to stay out west and attend the University of Montana. After graduation with a BA in Journalism and English, he began his education career working with at-risk youth—first in a therapeutic wilderness program in Idaho and, then creating and directing a service-learning program in Costa Rica for a therapeutic boarding school based in Western Massachusetts.

Jeff returned to school and completed a Masters of Education with a focus on Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating with high honors Jeff was given a full scholarship to participate in a doctoral program in Special Education Leadership at UMass. While working on his doctoral degree he continued to work in local public schools as English teacher and then an administrator. Subsequent positions included a post as a Assistant Principal in London, England and then five years as a 6-12th grade college counselor for the San Francisco Public School District. Jeff is currently the college and career counselor at the Greenwood School in Putney, VT, which is a school that serves 6-12th grade boys with learning differences.

Since 2010, Jeff has worked for The University of California, Berkeley as a freshman application reader, a position that has afforded him insight not only into what great universities are looking for, but more importantly what separates one great student from thousands of other high-performing applicants. Jeff continues to read thousands of applications ever year for UC Berkeley.

Currently based in Riverdale, NY; Jeff work runs a Eduction Consulting practice that works with young people and their families to find and place students at top universities, traditional high schools, therapeutic programs and schools, post graduate and gap year programs, schools and colleges that serve students with learning differences, and programs that help young adults move towards independence.

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Amanda has 15 years of experience in the therapeutic field.* She specializes in Marriage and Family therapy and has a lot of experience with attachment and trauma. It's an area I have always had a hard time wrapping my head around. We explore in depth the difference between trauma and when someone needs to "buck up". Enjoy!

*In my intro I say she does interventions but she is actually no longer doing interventions.

https://www.integrativeapproachtx.com/about-1/

Derek has been a mentor to me over the past year. He's knowledgable and insightful about his work and every time we get together we talk for hours. In the last part of the interview he drops some inspiring advice for millennials, do not miss it. I hope you enjoy!

Max is an alumni of the Pure Life program. He opens up about his own experience as a millennial who struggled in his transition to college and how he came to make the decision to step into a wilderness therapy program. He shares about the ups and downs of his stay and what most young adults experience in wilderness therapy programs. It's been two years since he graduated and he is healthy and thriving. He offers excellent perspective on the benefits of taking that step and leading a happy life on a new path as a millennial.