Welcome to season two, episode two of the Transformational Scholar podcast. 

In this episode, I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Shimel McDonell. Shimel and I engaged in a conversation about this past year and a half, spirituality, self-inquiry, and mental health. Shimel grew up in the Bronx, where he learned a lot about who he wanted to be. Shimel introduces us to CLEAR (Consciousness, Life/Love, Energy, Awareness, and Responsibility), which he believes can help people better understand who they are and can be. 

 I want to thank all of our listeners and subscribers. Please share this podcast with anyone who you believe could benefit from listening to this conservation. 
 
 
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I pivoted from my usual public educational dialogue around social-emotional learning, character traits, and physical wellness to engage in a personal and educational conversation around pregnancy loss, miscarriages, and infertility. As someone who has experienced a loss, I promised myself that I would take this tragedy and use it to help others one day. There is a saying that I used to have displayed in my classroom, and one that I would often tell my students, and that is, "Knowledge is Power." 

In this episode, I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with the highly successful home and lifestyle leader on YouTube, Brittany Vasseur.   Brittany has more than 1.4 million followers on YouTube and over 192,000 followers on Instagram. We are two women who share a similar story, and the hope is that we can help other women out there by discussing our stories. Listen to this episode to find out about the book we believe changed our storms to our rainbows.  

I want to thank all the listeners and subscribers of the Transformational Scholar podcast.  Please share this podcast with anyone who you believe could benefit from listening to our conversation. 

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I had the pleasure of talking with Ben Steuerwalt. Ben works in the physical education department as an administrative intern within an urban school district in New York. He spent the bulk of his career teaching physical education at the elementary level, where he worked diligently on various wellness initiatives in his school community. 

During this episode, we discuss the importance of overall wellness for children and adults. We focus on strategies that adults, educators, and children can do to stay active, increase healthy eating choices, and improved mental wellbeing. 

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In this episode of Transformational Scholar,  Missy Biviano and I team up to talk about World Kindness Day taking place on November 13, 2020. We give ideas on how adults and children can implement random acts of kindness, not only on this day but any day throughout the year. 

If you choose to complete a random act of kindness on November 13, please tag us on Instagram, mention us on Twitter, or share your story with us on Facebook.  We would love to hear from you!

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I had the honor of having Dr. Daria Willis, President of Everett Community College in Everett, Washington, on the podcast. She is Everett Community College's first African American female president. Our conversation focused on physical and mental health for ourselves and others and current actions and initiatives on campus around racial and social justice. We closed out the episode by talking about our work as leaders together in Syracuse City. This conversation could be beneficial to you or your organizations when thinking about making your local communities a better place.

Once again, I thank the listeners. You all are the reason I am doing this podcast.

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During this episode, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to Jamie Durgey, a mother and elementary school principal in the state of Arizona. We discuss relevant and relatable topics like the importance of building relationships, human touch, resiliency, remembering what it's like to be a learner, technology, mental health, social-emotional learning, and much more. 

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This year has brought unexpected challenges to the world of education. Today's guest on the Transformational Scholar podcast is Sophia Burden. She is a daughter, wife, mother of three children, aunt, and teacher. Sophia and I engage in a conversation around her current virtual learning world. We also discuss a webinar she co-facilitated this summer called, It's Not Enough to be Nice. We hope that this conversation helps our audience with possible strategies and implementations they can use when teaching or educating their children at home. 

If you are a current listener and have a willingness to share experiences or knowledge around educational strategies, homeschooling, social and emotional learning, positive character building, and overall physical wellness, please email [email protected]. 

Today on the Transformational Scholar Podcast we have Sara Krauss. She is a wife, mother, educator, and Assistant Principal in Baltimore City Schools. We talk about the start of the pandemic back in March and what that was like for her as a mom of two and a leader in education. We discuss what she learned in the spring and how those learning experiences shaped her goals for this fall. As children across the nation are resuming different models of learning this fall, I ask her to give advice to parents and guardians, educators, as well as herself. 

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**THIS PODCAST IS NOT MADE FOR CHILDREN**

This podcast will focus on how parents, guardians, caregivers, and educators are balancing their own daily lives and professional careers with the newest demands around educating their children. My hope is that this podcast will help you learn from others living through similar situations. 

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