The Uzume Podcast

Even the strongest of us are having bad days right now, but how do you know when it's time to get serious about taking care of your mental health? Dr. Markesha Miller helps us navigate these tricky days, and offers advice to get through the most challenging times. Visit her website for more.

When the world went into lockdown to control COVID, Professor Richard Slatcher and a team of collaborators jumped into action, creating an online study of how COVID was affecting relationships, depression, and loneliness. The study turned up some counter-intuitive results, and helped shine a light on our resiliency.

 

Love in the Time of COVID

Between the pandemic and election 2020, it's a very stressful time for so many. Join Angela Card and Christiana Thomas as they discuss two questions from the Uzume community - the first about navigating the election madness, and the other about redistributing work in a household. Send your questions to [email protected] and we may feature your question on a future episode.

The 2020 election is less than a week away, and if you're like me, you are wondering how to get through the day without feeling constantly stressed about the news and the relentless flood of disinformation. Brandon Nappi, founder of Copper Beech Institute, offers a counter-intuitive solution, and you don't even have to have practiced meditation for two decades to be successful. Listening to this podcast is guaranteed to reduce your blood pressure. 

 

Copper Beech Institute

Are we watching a whole generation of women fall behind economically, thanks to COVID? The numbers from September - when over 800,000 women left the workforce - certainly paint a grim picture. Kate Bahn, economist and Director of Labor Market Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth joins us to discuss how women were doing before COVID, how COVID has shifted the landscape, and what we can do about it now. 

 

Read more from Kate Bahn:

Wage discrimination and the exploitation of workers in the U.S. labor market

Five ways to understand Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

New research on the Great Recession shows extended unemployment benefits insignificantly affect U.S. unemployment rates

Remember when news out of China reported that couples were lining up for divorces after the COVID lockdowns lifted? Now that we are six months into the pandemic with no real end in sight, just how bad has COVID been for marriage in the US? Join Prof. Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project for a conversation on the impact of the pandemic on our family lives.

Join Host Christiana Thomas and her friends Angela Card and Kari Lofing as they discuss what the start of school looks like for each of them and how our kids are managing. Kari brings decades of experience both as a teacher and an administrator in the Sacramento area school district to the conversation, and helps us understand what to expect when you're not really expecting school to be anything approaching normal.

Back to School time has always been full of uncertainty and changes, but never more than today, in this time when COVID is upending everything. Join host Christiana Thomas, and educator Stephanie Witt, an elementary principal in Kansas, as they discuss how to make back to school work for families, and how COVID is reshaping education, maybe permanently.

Preparing for on-line high school? Join host Christiana Thomas and teacher Andrew McCain for an in-depth conversation about going back to school in the time of COVID, and how to navigate the many competing concerns.

Preparing for on-line high school? Join host Christiana Thomas and teacher Andrew McCain for an in-depth conversation about going back to school in the time of COVID, and how to navigate the many competing concerns.