Tell Me What Happened

Nina Slesinger recalls her teen years "secretly" blogging about music. Unbeknownst to her parents and most of her friends, Nina develops an ever larger audience for her blog. Over the course of a year, record labels reach out to her and she successfully "crashes" a large music event held on the National Mall in Washington DC by boldly asserting non-existent media credentials. Nina relates her memory with a clear fondness for an earlier time when she felt emboldened to ask for what she wanted without fear of rejection.

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I reconnect with a former student of mine, Lawyer Darfour, whom I met 35 years ago as his sixth grade teacher at St. Thomas of Canterbury, in Uptown, Chicago. Lawyer details his journey from transferring from a South Side of Chicago school to one on the North Side. As he recalls, his experience in Uptown led him to a greater understanding of the ethnic and cultural diversity of the world. Lawyer takes us through his days in high school, college and beyond. His deep understanding of diversity has helped him along the way, up to and including his current employment with an international construction company that has sent him all over the world.

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The story Dr. Martinez tells is profoundly moving and, ultimately cathartic.

Dr. Efrain Martinez describes a painful childhood in which he slowly realizes why his mother both physically and mentally abuses him. As a pre-teen, Efrain realizes that his mother's attitude towards him is the direct result of the fact that he and his sister are the children of a relationship his father had with a Venezuelan prostitute.

One day, years after successfully completing college, building a successful professional career, marrying, and having children, Dr. Martinez has an epiphany while rescuing a man from a burning car fire.

As a consequence of that seminal event, over time, Dr. Efrain learns to forgive his parents, as well as himself.

The story Dr. Martinez tells is profoundly moving and, ultimately cathartic.

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Kristel Bauer PA-C, Wellness Expert and host of the podcast "Live Greatly," recalls traveling to Austria as a little girl, not speaking the language, but being able to communicate with her cousins through the joy of play.

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Kaelin A. Vu is a self-love coach who specializes in helping young adults love themselves and step into their power to manifest success in every area of their lives. She has overcome addiction, sexual abuse, suicidal thoughts, and so more. In her words, she is grateful for every experience because they have shaped her into the best version of herself and gave her life purpose. She has picked herself up from the lowest points in her life and now uses her experiences to help people just like you become the best version of themselves as well and live purposeful lives! Links

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Eva Lopez, a former student of mine at Whitney M. Young High School, recalls going to a market in Mexico with her aunt to buy a chicken. At the time, Eva was eight and believed she was choosing a chicken that would live in the farmyard and produce eggs for the family. Little did she realize, she'd be eating chicken soup in the evening. Eva's experience has led her to a deeper appreciation of the animals that nourish us all and the men and women who do the work to make it happen.

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This podcast is a reminder to all early childhood educators that children are often greatly impacted by their words, especially if those words are a remonstrance. Tell Me What Happened guest, Kelley Gessner, recalls being wrongfully accused as a first grader of "making a ruckus" during quiet reading time. The actual culprit, a fellow student in her reading pod, points at Kelley and the teacher believes her. Kelley is devastated at having to take a "time out" and further remembers meeting the teacher years later.

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Doctor Joyce Kenner, educational leader, innovator, and the Chicago Public Schools longest serving principal, discusses the values she learned as a young girl working in her parents' record stores in Dayton, Ohio. Kenner, a triplet, recalls working alongside her siblings, and learning how to listen and react to the needs of people from all walks of life.

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Jay Rehak, author, educator, podcaster, recalls being surrounded by 8 suburban Illinois squad cars and having a gun pointed at his head as he is arrested for aiding a friend in the stealing of a car battery. Cuffed and driven to the police station, he is released to his parents without charges, in large part due to being given the benefit of the doubt that many people of color or means often do not receive.

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Dr. Wilma Jean Turner, author and educator, recalls her junior year in high school, when she and 13 other African-American students integrated the local all white high school.

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