Relate w/ Patrick McAndrew

It is very easy for us to get stuck in the coziness of loneliness. It takes a lot of effort to build relationships, to meet people, and to break free of our technological bubbles to create meaningful connections. In this episode of SHIPS, we discuss why we must not use our smartphones as a crutch from discomfort and why we must go out and meet people, despite how uncomfortable or awkward it may feel.

Please visit https://www.patmcandrew.com/ to learn more about my work.

Rose Bonczek and Roger Manix join us in episode 070 of the SHIPS podcast! In this episode, we discuss how our phones are robbing us of discomfort and how important it is for us to go out of our comfort zones. We talk about what the collaborative gene is, how play teaches us how to be human, and how theatre makes us feel less alone, among many other incredibly important topics of conversation. Be sure to share this episode with a friend who you believe it will resonate with! 

To learn more about Rose and Roger and the amazing work they are doing, please be sure to visit https://www.roseburnettbonczek.com/ and https://ludolo.com/.

Rose Burnett Bonczek is a theater director, consultant, educator and author who has directed over 100 productions including Off and Off-off Broadway, regional and community theater, international festivals, and in education. For the past 15 years, she has been the festival director of Gi60 (Gone in 60 Seconds) International One Minute Theatre Festival: US Edition – an international festival with three global locations (US, UK and New Zealand). To date, Ms. Bonczek and artistic director Steve Ansell of the UK have produced and directed over 2,000 one minute plays by authors from around the world. Ms. Bonczek served as director of the BFA Acting Program at Brooklyn College where she taught acting, improvisation, ensemble building, collaboration skills and directing to undergraduate and graduate students for nearly 30 years. In 2018 she received the Excellence in Teaching Theatre in Higher Education Award from the national Association for Theater in Higher Education. As a writer, she has co-authored Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21 st Century Actor Training with Roger Manix and David Storck, Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide with David Storck, and One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre with Steve Ansell, all for Routledge Press. Currently, Ms. Bonczek is working as a consultant for companies and universities such as Atlantic Theater Company, Fordham University, CNY Arts and Stable Cable Lab Co. She teaches private acting classes in Manhattan, and is working on a new book with co-author Mike Flanagan, All the Classroom’s a Stage, for Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Roger earned his MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, where he remained for over ten years, teaching acting and movement in the BFA Acting Program, as well as co-director of the Professional Actor's NYC Showcase. He's worked professionally across the United States as an actor, director, producer, and educator. Roger taught at The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University for six years. While there, he created a methodology to teach Emotional Intelligence using Play-based learning. That methodology became Ludolo, a Play-based learning company he Co-founded that sparks innovation, strengthens culture, and fosters human connection. Ludolo was awarded a finalist by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea in Education. Roger was invited Parsons School of Design at The New School to develop a course which uses Play-based learning to stimulate design thinking across disciplines while fostering empathy, collaboration, and creativity. He continues to teach at Parsons, currently a professor in the Global Executive Master of Science in Strategic Design and Management. His course uses Play as a leadership tool to support teams and projects.

Please visit https://www.patmcandrew.com/ for more information about my work.

In episode 069 of SHIPS, we discuss how theatre can be an incredible medium to talk about tech. While a lot of awareness is being spread about digital wellness and the influence that technology is having on us through lectures, workshops, and research, theatre can provide a different outlet to reach our population and resonate with those people who might not otherwise be inspired to make a change in their lives.

Please visit https://www.patmcandrew.com/ for more information about me and my work.

Multitasking is often glorified in our always-on society. We see "multitasking" listed under job qualifications all of the time, but is it really as valuable as it seems? In episode 068 of the SHIPS Podcast, we discuss why multitasking is far from a good thing, how we should be more focused on organization, and how multitasking is killing our productivity in the digital age.

REEL is a one-man show that I created that is all about the negative influence that technology can have on human relationships. In episode 067 of SHIPS, I share with our listeners a little bit about the creation of the show, why I created it, and how we should consistently be aware as to what is real from what is illusion.

To learn more about this show, please visit https://www.patmcandrew.com/soloshows 

Relationship-building and conversations are much like building a house of cards. Each take immense patience, but we end up with an amazing result in the end. Smartphones, however, are knocking down houses of cards when they are barely even built. In episode 066 of SHIPS, we discuss how invasive phones can be in building relationships and deepening existing relationships and what to do about it.

Marissa Verson Harrison, co-founder of ScreenAge Bootcamp, joins us in episode 065 of SHIPS! Marissa and I chat about her entrepreneurial background and how her personal experience with her family led her into the digital wellness field. We discuss the importance of group accountability, how valuable attention is, and how to dissect our family values in order to achieve peace in the digital age.

To learn more about Marissa's work, please visit https://www.screenagebootcamp.com/, @screenagebootcamp, @screenagebc. You can also e-mail Marissa at [email protected].  If you are interested in purchasing her program, be sure to use the discount code: SHIPS

Marissa Verson Harrison is the co-founder of ScreenAge Bootcamp (SABC), an online coaching platform to help parents create tech-life balance in the ScreenAge. After 25 years in tech marketing, Harrison watched her 14-year old son become addicted to video games, and erode her family and values. Desperate to save her son from tech addiction, Harrison built a system to protect her own family, then adapted the program to offer a simple solution for all families battling the threats of addictive digital media. Prior to SABC, Harrison was a serial entrepreneur and startup tech marketer. Harrison founded a tech PR firm, sold it to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) and served as VP of marketing for several startups, including her own e-commerce product company for dog lovers. Harrison passionately speaks about the perils of addictive digital media to schools, parent groups, and mindful-living forums across the country. Harrison lives in the Oakland Hills with her ex-husband, two children, dog, and cat.

Stock characters are very common within the theatre world. These are two-dimensional, flat characters that play out certain stereotypes and nothing much more besides that. Increasingly, we are seeing stock characters throughout social media. There is a flatness and illusion being presented that isn't completely three-dimensional. In this episode, we dissect this concept and how we can go about addressing it.

In the age of social media and smartphones, there is a lot of pressure to impress, whether it be our friends, families, or people at work or school. We begin to mold ourselves into people that we believe society wants instead of living our authentic selves. In episode 063 of SHIPS, we discuss the importance of not letting others define your identity, and how you can go about defining it for yourself.

Many of us become absolutely paralyzed when faced with a decision. We fear making the wrong decision and, therefore, make no decisions. In this episode, we discuss how to free ourselves from overthinking and how to work towards finding what we want to do with our lives.