Welcome to day 8 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from Chris.

Podcast: ESPN 30 for 30

Host: Various

Episode: The Lights Of Wrigleyville

Description: When the Tribune Company bought the Chicago Cubs in 1981, its executives saw nighttime baseball as a way to turn around the club's fortunes. The only problem? Scores of Wrigleyville residents were ready to fight against it. Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions. Narrated by former Cubs PA announcer Wayne Messmer.

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Welcome to day 7 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from AJ.

Podcast: Art of Manliness

Host: Brett McKay

Episode: Episode 356 - How to Finally Beat Procrastination

Description: Procrastination. We’ve all done it and we tell ourselves we’ll never do it again. So we come up with an elaborate time management system to get us on track only to find ourselves continuing to put things off. While some procrastination can be mildly infuriating, chronic procrastination can be financially, professionally, and personally devastating — overdue bills result in calls from collection agencies, late reports result in getting fired, and undone chores turn your house into a dump. 

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Welcome to day 6 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from Stacey.

Podcast: Wow in the World

Host: Guy Raz

Episode: Back to School: Recess 101

Description: How in the world does recess make us smarter? Where in the world do kids enjoy the most of it? Join Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas on an expedition to better understand the science of taking a break! It's the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the World of RECESS!

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Welcome to day 5 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from Chris.

Podcast: Art of Manliness

Host: Brett McKay

Episode: #360: Understanding Male Friendships

Description: It’s a common trope that adult men don’t value friendship as much as their female counterparts and that men really don’t need or want friends like women do. But my guest today argues that assumption is wrong and comes from viewing friendship from a strictly female point of view. In fact, based on his research, most adult men very much want good friends but just don’t know how to make them. What’s more, he says, male friendships look different from female ones and we should stop judging the quality of male friendships based on how women do them.

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Welcome to day 4 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from AJ.

Podcast: Hidden Brain

Host: Shankar Vedantam

Episode: Kinder-Gardening

Description: Many parents think they can shape their child into a particular kind of adult. Psychologist Alison Gopnik says the science suggests otherwise. She thinks we’d all be better off if we had a different understanding of the relationship between parents and kids.

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Welcome to day 3 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from Stacey.

Podcast: How I Built This

Host: Guy Raz

Episode: The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman

Description: Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his mission to revive his dad's beloved characters. Over the last 40 years, Ross Jr. and his wife Janice have built The Chipmunks into a billion dollar media franchise – run out of their home in Santa Barbara, California. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Daniel Clark-Webster and his three friends came up with RompHim – a company specializing in male rompers.

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Welcome to day 2 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from Chris.

Podcast: StartEdUp

Host: Don Wettrick

Episode: #122: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, & Your Retirement

Description: There has been a LOT of talk about Bitcoin lately. So I had a talk with two of my students (yes, two high school students) to talk about understanding blockchain, and why you might want to consider getting on the cryptocurrency bandwagon- responsibly.

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Welcome to day 1 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!

Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.

Today's recommendation comes from AJ.

Podcast: Note to Self (WNYC)

Host: Manoush Zomorodi

Episode: Should We Post Photos of our Kids Online?

Description: Kids are all over the Internet. But… should they be? In this episode, they tackle a debate about whether or not to post pics of children. Do your parents post pictures of you? Or did they when you were younger? Do you post pictures of your kid?

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Burnout is defined as a complete loss of motivation; something that is close to a depression. As educators we all face it at some point of the year, it’s inevitable. In this episode, our conversation is based on episode 350 of the Art of Manliness Podcast – artofmanliness.com.

On that episode host, Brett McKay speaks with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness who co-authored the book Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive With the New Science of Success. They shared how their respective backgrounds in elite running and business consulting taught them the importance of rest and recovery from brain work.

More than ever American teachers are experiencing a 24/7 grind in and out of their classroom that requires a hustle that can actually hinder our performance in the classroom.

We talk about the science of burnout: what it is, how it feels, and why it happens. Then based on our understanding of the information, we’ve got some recommendations for you to combat with burnout and fatigue as an educator.

• Gretchen Bridgers – Always A Lesson Empowering Educators Podcast
• Chuck Poole – Teachonomy Talks Podcast
• Tami Jiminez – Time to Teach Podcast

• Peak Performance: Elevate your game, avoid burnout and thrive with the new science of success.
• Hidden Brain – Eyes Wide Shut part 1 and part 2

Tis the Season… The 12 Days of Podcasting is coming!

Happy Thanksgiving from PodcastPD! We share three podcast recommendations you can enjoy while preparing your holiday meal!

Chris: The 5 AM Miracle Podcast with Jeff Sanders – 15 Effective Studying Techniques for A+ Students [Podcast #229]

AJ: Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers – 7 Ways Teachers Can Push Past Imposter Syndrome

Stacey: Google Teacher Tribe Podcast with Matt Miller and Kasey Bell

• Contribute to AJ’s Movember campaign!
• Derrick Crabtree – The reason and inspiration for this episode!

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