As founding Dean of Relay Graduate School of Education in Connecticut, Dr. Rebecca Good is an award-winning educator and an inspirational leader.

She shares with us her story of resilience, being the first person in her family to graduate from high school and, most recently, earned her Doctor of Education EdD degree in Global Education from the University of Southern California.

Rebecca tells me her story and how she processes stress, even as a young child, understanding the natural ability to pay attention to our senses, to be in the moment, to be, what we now know is mindfulness.

Listen for a surprising implicit bias unfold in real-time and see if you get sucked into it too.

Dr. Good will be leading a workshop at the annual Educator Summit co-hosted by her school, RELAY Graduate School of Education and Character Lab -  Angela Duckworth, author of ‘GRIT: The POWER of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE.’

“. . . persuasive and fascinating . .”— Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink

MENTIONED IN OUR CONVERSATION:

“It is important to acknowledge that many trauma survivors have a genuinely great sense of humor, which is both miraculous and, at times, life-saving.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-trauma-s-wounds/201509/why-clients-smile-when-talking-about-trauma-part-1

Some of our favorite books we escaped with during a tumultuous childhood:

https://www.beverlycleary.com/

https://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_High

Sweet Valley High is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series

Go Ask Alice by “Anonymous” Simon Schuster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Second Edition, Kindle Edition by Rigoberta Menchú (Author), Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (Editor), Ann Wright (Translator)