The Robin Smith Show

Will you choo choo choose us? Sit down, grab your favorite Valentine's Day treat, and enjoy the chaos. Leigh Tyberg bravely dares to enter the realm of 'the male psyche' - a territory she's more familiar with than she would have you believe ;) - to query the guys from the Monday night group about our past Valentine's Day experiences.

You'll probably need to get your blanket and some tissues for this one... ::throat clear::

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Hey Friends! Today on the show I'm speaking shadow Robin...

...I ramble about the process of my spiritual awakening - aka experiencing what non-dual conscious awareness is. I also ramble about firewood, the SuperBowl, and how I came to discover I had ADHD. Not necessarily in that order.....

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Today on the show I'm speaking with Kate Engbert. Kate is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She owns a private practice, At Home Psychiatry, where she sees clients across the lifespan for medication management of mental health issues. Her primary population of interest is young and middle aged adults who struggle with mood disorders, anxiety and ADHD. She has graduate degrees in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and Couple & Family Therapy from the University of Maryland.

We get into:

• Her origin story of how she got into the field of mental health
• Her experiences on rotation as a nurse in training
• How she incorporates her training in marriage and family therapy into her work as a Psych NP
• What she does to decompress
• How she thinks about lifestyle changes and their effect on well-being
• What medications she endorses and the meds to be cautious of
• And much more!

Follow Kate on:

IG @athomepsych

Website: athomepsych.com

Also go listen to the first episode of Restoring Regular Order: Eating for Immunity with Dr. Shayna Keller!

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Today on the show I'm speaking with Scott Siskind and Jason Cohen of Vinny Vegas. Vinny Vegas is a 5 piece rock band from Baltimore, MD. The band has self-released three critically acclaimed E.P’s and self-booked and funded many tours. Scott and Jason have been writing music together for some 14 years now, and I’ve known these dudes for a long time and they are some of the hardest working people I know. 

We get into:

• How they’ve adjusted during the pandemic, working, teaching, composing
• Music as self-care
• Their origin story, how they met and started writing together
• How being in a band helps grow you as an individual
• Horror stories on tour
• The importance of community and mutual support
• The trap of chasing external validation
• Why they play music, what really sustains and drives them
• And much more!

Being in a band myself, I always looked up to these guys like older brothers. It was a lot of fun to sit down and talk with them.

Follow Vinny Vegas on:
Spotify
Youtube
Bandcamp
@Cohlapser on IG
@JasonCohenDrums on IG
@ScottSiskind on IG

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Join me, as the Monday night gang - Will, Adam, Shawn, Leigh, Joe, and Jess - attempts to solves racism. It's a lively discussion covering various angles and takes on the Capitol Riot. If politics is not your thing, this episode might not be for you.

We do try to seriously talk about our collective responsibility for responding to this moment in history. We explore what the current climate reveals about our country's ideological extremist condition.

Shawn forces his goulash agenda on the representative from Pennsylvania. He also educates us about the business of tending to Western Harvester Ants or Bearded Ants.

Follow Jess's business on IG @green_lady_gardens

Follow Shawn's ant farm on IG @antony_acres

Follow Leigh's cats on IG @teamhandsome_kitties

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Today on the show I'm speaking with Erika Bond, LMFT. This was a really fun conversation! Erika is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in DC and MD. She’s been in practice nearly 20 years and her most recent undertaking is getting her AASECT sex therapy certification. AASECT is the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

She and I talk about:

• How she ended up becoming a therapist, and the calling to help heal others.
• The quality of sex education in the U.S.
• How most sexual problems have anxiety at the foundation
• Healthy sexuality
• The three things that people are moving towards and striving for (hint, one of them is approval)
  • Erika: "We all want to feel approval and so much striving of getting approval from others is chasing a feeling that it’s okay to love ourselves… if I get enough approval from others then it will be okay to love myself. "

Erika’s presence invited me to share my own story - for the first time publicly - of the real motivations for becoming a marriage and family therapist (and she tolerates me with grace as I rant to her).

Learn more about Erika at Guttman & Pearl Associates
https://gpatherapy.com/

Follow Erika on Twitter @erikabondmft

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I ramble about the holidays, church, Christmas lights, and other such nonsensical happenings. Oh yea, I also talk about some of the more indelible events of 2020 including a powerful father-son conversation.

Article on George Floyd
Let’s Take This Pain and Discover the Meaning that Justifies It

The meditation app I mentioned
Healthy Minds Program

For those who want to hear the whole song, my newest interstitial track can be found here:
the Very Small - Don't Forget the Lie

Happy Holidays, Folks! See you in 2021!

2020, you can kiss my ass.

Love,
-Robin-

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Dank Farrik! This is a great episode. Too great even, perhaps for some listeners' ears. Spoiler alerts at the top of the program, folks.

Follow Leigh:
on IG @wonderlandleighleigh
on Tumblr Wonderland (Or Something)

Check out Leigh and Madison's Star Wars inspired musical duo The Salacious Crumbles

As promised, here is Tatooine Lullaby

For all things COVID-related, check out the Osterholm Update
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars

And finally, we are still trying to help get Joe Butterbean adopted (reference from Episode #001 - go listen!) Please do what you can to help this adorable little tuxedo kitty find a home.

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In this episode of the podcast I get to introduce to you one my oldest and closest friends, the one and only, Aaron Mann. Aaron was the drummer in our band, the Very Small:
https://theverysmall.bandcamp.com/

He contributes a monthly report for the Geneva-Accord which can be found here:
https://geneva-accord.org/two-state-index/

On this episode, we talk about:

• How we met one another
• How he ended up moving to Israel
• His interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Why it's sweet living in Haifa
• Our history collaborating as musicians
• And of course, so much more!

Won't you come be a fly on the wall and listen to why this is my favorite episode so far?

Now then...
...come along, Bort.

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On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my dear friend (since hike school!!), Molly Scanlon and we co-create ADHD synergistic magic for your listening pleasure.

We cover:

• Molly's Yogi origin story
• How mindfulness can help change your perspective
• The roles our values play in our lives
• My ego's take on enlightenment
• Molly's insights on her relationship with anxiety and depression
• Genetics and nutrition
• And much much more!

Follow Molly on Instagram and Facebook @MindfulnesswithMolly

And don't forget to sign up for one of her classes here:
https://moxie.xyz/mindfulmolly2020

The Cheesy Chef
#68 Viking cheese saffron tart

A Wider Circle
https://a-wider-circle.networkforgood.com/projects/112174-help-our-neighbors

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