It's fantasy football draft season right now! After a couple weeks off due to some tech issues, we're back with a fun episode about 3 Guiding Life Principles I learned from playing fantasy sports. 

:32 Me and my technology have not been doing well in August

5:46 Don't Let Other People Make Decisions for You: The Kawhi Leonard Lesson 

16:29 Make moves you can cheer for: Legal issues, bad decisions, character flaws, rivalries, and choosing who you cheer for 

22:15 Going down your own way: being veryyyyyyyyy wrong about Marshawn Lynch... and Derrick Henry. 

Plus tips for saving time managing your fantasy team (but still winning of course), shout out to Dynasty Nerds, and I break down the players that have made it onto the most of my own fantasy teams. 

Enjoy!!!

Get at me with your favorite players, favorite sleepers, and any lessons you've learned from playing fantasy football!

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Sometimes these go hand in hand with the college experience... sometimes they open up more opportunities than 4 years of college. 

What if you could learn far more in depth about something you're interested in for a fraction of the cost of going to college? You can. And they're often more easily accessible than you realize. You just have to look.

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Where can we find better learning experiences than a classroom? Today, we address the benefits and lessons that come from traveling and why YOU need to add it to your schedule as soon as the current pandemic is past us. 

Important links:

Hudson and Emily travelled to all 50 states!

Derek's first flight!

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5 years of lunch duty... every. single. day. 3 years of lunch duty TWICE A DAY. No, this podcast isn't about how much of a waste of resources it can be for teachers to constantly be used outside of their area of expertise. This podcast is about the "ADHD diet" that was witnessed on a daily basis. 

Chips, candy, chocolate, sugared drinks, staying up late and relying on constant sugar highs to get through the day...

Why is the diet not addressed when it comes to "ADHD" behavior?

How does sugar impact students?

What foods help the students be able to consume sugar and not have such huge fluctuations from maximum energy to exhaustion?

These topics and many more are exactly what we address today, ending with some practical ways to build healthy meals outside of the terrible school lunches most schools are equipped with.

We just finished one of the most unique school years of all time. After having to shut down our schools to finish this year and a lot of uncertainty around what the next school year will look like, this is the best opportunity we've ever had to really assess what we're doing in schools and if it's actually effective.

This is part the final installment in the 5 part series.

Have you recognized the common problems yet?

The same flaws of our system just keep standing out more and more and more as our kids go through this current system in place. They continue along the same poor pattern as we address the problems of:

The time and money wasted in meaningless gen eds.

Handcuffing our future by locking in 10-50 years of paying back debt for most graduates!

The scam that is college textbook prices and how I got around that problem after paying $1200 for books I didn't even use my first semester.

The slow process for new research and innovation to travel from the field to textbooks to the classroom. 

From having been a teacher, I'm passionate about the importance of education. But there's so many flaws in how we apply our education. I spend most of this series all the way hyped up, so you're gonna feel the energy at every single moment. Let's goooooo!!!

We just finished one of the most unique school years of all time. After having to shut down our schools to finish this year and a lot of uncertainty around what the next school year will look like, this is the best opportunity we've ever had to really assess what we're doing in schools and if it's actually effective.

This is part 4 of an ongoing series. 

Have you recognized the common problems yet?

The same flaws of our system just keep standing out more and more and more as our kids go through this current system in place. 

I'm tired of just pointing out the flaws. This is where I present my view of how we could create a better system that fits our current world... AND ISN'T 100+++ YEARS OUTDATED!

From having been a teacher, I'm passionate about the importance of education. But there's so many flaws in how we apply our education. I spend most of this series all the way hyped up, so you're gonna feel the energy at every single moment. Let's goooooo!!!

We just finished one of the most unique school years of all time. After having to shut down our schools to finish this year and a lot of uncertainty around what the next school year will look like, this is the best opportunity we've ever had to really assess what we're doing in schools and if it's actually effective.

This is part 3 of an ongoing series. Originally, I was planning on doing this in a 4 part series: elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. But there were a couple topics that I really wanted to address that I had a really hard time fitting into one of those distinct groups. They kind of flow fluidly across most grades, so I decided that needed to be it's own show.

This podcast covers:

The system of the education system.

Why teachers are, by definition, good at getting through the school system. But not all kids are...

5 years of lunch duty. every. single. day... and what I learned about the "ADHD" student's typical lunch.

How overcrowded classes encourage us to put kids on drugs rather than individualize their education.

How Covid cancelled the biggest waste of time in education.

Why do students practice taking tests for 12+ years... only to never need them again in life?

I finish with a genuine shout out to all the amazing teachers out there. Thank you!!!

From having been a teacher, I'm passionate about the importance of education. But there's so many flaws in how we apply our education. I spend most of this series all the way hyped up, so you're gonna feel the energy at every single moment. Let's goooooo!!!

We just finished one of the most unique school years of all time. After having to shut down our schools to finish this year and a lot of uncertainty around what the next school year will look like, this is the best opportunity we've ever had to really assess what we're doing in schools and if it's actually effective.

This is part 2 of an ongoing series. Today, we look at middle school education. This is one of the most unique points of a student's life as they're going through so many changes and really trying to understand who they are. But instead of embracing this unique time... we fill classes beyond the teacher's capacity, we go through the motions repeating the same subjects and often the same content they've been learning their entire educational existence, and we accelerate the emphasis of high stakes state testing (wasting MONTHS practicing for a test where the scores are arbitrary, the topics can be googled in any other setting, and the students taking the test are some of the most unpredictable humans in existence). 

This episode is worth the listen just for my rant on how stupid it is that we've created a system where middle schoolers- the same kids that can't wear deodorant consistently and most of their actions revolve around "I dunno, I wanted to see what would happen"-middle schoolers and an arbitrary number on a test determine a school's funding. 

From having been a teacher, I'm passionate about the importance of education. But there's so many flaws in how we apply our education. I spend most of this series all the way hyped up, so you're gonna feel the energy at every single moment. Let's goooooo!!!

We just finished one of the most unique school years of all time. After having to shut down our schools to finish this year and a lot of uncertainty around what the next school year will look like, this is the best opportunity we've ever had to really assess what we're doing in schools and if it's actually effective.

This is part 1 of an ongoing series. Today, we look at elementary education. Elementary school is where kids get to learn to socialize with others. They learn the foundations of their ability to read, write, do math, and communicate with others. Kids are so full of energy! It's a great time and should be a great experience. But we're still left with a lot of questions.

Why do we take kids-at their highest level of energy and excitement and curiosity-and force them to sit still and pay attention and follow directions for 6-8 hours a day???

Why are boys so easily labeled ADHD as elementary schoolers?

Why do we sedate high energy children with drugs so frequently?

How is it possible that Napoleon Hill wrote about how outdated the education system was in the 1930's... and we STILL haven't changed anything that he pointed out?

Why are 10 year olds taking high pressure standardized tests?

Why is school funding tied into how a 10 year old does on a test?

From having been a teacher, I'm passionate about the importance of education. But there's so many flaws in how we apply our education. I spend most of this series all the way hyped up, so you're gonna feel the energy at every single moment.