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In this episode I get to meet two new friends while traveling for ice hockey. I'm so lucky to have found these two ladies, founders of Bright Links, a non-profit organization meeting the needs of highly and profoundly gifted kids and their parents in North Carolina and throughout the US. www.brightlinks.us - Bright Links - connecting highly and profoundly gifted students and parents www.coachalli.com - Alli Krug's academic consulting and coaching for neurodiverse students

This pod starts the moment I met Emily Burns for the first time after being mutual Twitter followers over the past two years. We set aside time after learning that we had each chosen to allow our torn ACLs to self heal (unthinkable to most). Emily and Alli talk about COVID-19 pandemic policies which failed to risk-stratify the population, what an empowered community can accomplish (Emily moved from Boston to Texas last year), raising curious minds who can shape their own tendencies to create vs consume content, podcasts to enjoy while traveling, and ACL self repair (vs surgery). A wide-ranging episode! Follow Emily on Twitter @Emily_Burns_V and Alli @KrugAlli Who else do you want to meet?

Yesterday I finished day 1 of 3 days in Mod1 (of 3) with iPEC life coach training. This is a one-year journey to becoming a certified professional life coach, and what tremendous training this is. Is. It is so valuable personally and I hope it will help me transform into a better spouse, parent, support for others seeking a life with more abundance. The challenge for me was figuring out how to construct empowering questions. My kids tease that I'm a "data miner" and someone comfortable speaking to anybody about anything. AND... I love questions. So what's the trouble? That's what I delve into in this episode and figure out how to teach myself to do this better. How can you see using empowering questions in your own life?

Testimony and support of a bill to protect Maryland public higher education students from covid-19 vaccine mandates.

This is a quick roundup on what I've been working on, what has been published recently, current research, focus and collaborations, and new directions ahead for 2023 focusing on young adults ages 18 to 34. Take a listen and please let me know your thoughts about what I should tackle next!

Is your middle or high school boy already failing 6 weeks into the semester? Have you already tried punishments and grounding? If so, I hope this episode may give you hope about working toward solutions together with your son.

On the road at Virginia Tech - a bike path run while thinking about mucosal immunity - how this works, why it's so important, and how it explains why breakthrough happens (and why vaccines can prevent infections but only for a short time). Thanks for listening!

Today's conversation picks up where Dr. Rohan and I left off - the catastrophizing of the pandemic, rhetoric and the response to the pandemic, words which convey little of value because we define them differently (eg, novel, flatten the curve, the new normal), and being outliers (educators who think we may have over-reacted).    Guests: Lelia Glass Ph.D. Coordinator of Linguistics Program, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgia Tech  Dr. Lelia Glass is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages.  She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018, where she won the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and held a dissertation fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies. Lelia works on lexical semantics (word meaning), compositional semantics (sentence meaning), pragmatics (inferences drawn in context), and sociolinguistics (how people use language in their social identity), from an empirically rich perspective, with a particular interest in how our knowledge of the (physical, social) world affects our interpretation of language. Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2018) M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2014), B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2012), with honors   Liz Rohan Ph.D. Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Michigan-Dearborn  With Gesa Kirsch, Dr. Rohan edited Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process (Southern Illinois Press, 2008). Her research, which reflects her ongoing interests in pedagogy, feminist research methods and America’s progressive era, has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, Pedagogy, JAEPL, Reflections, Composition Forum, Peitho, and also in several book chapters. She edited the diaries of a historical college student, John Price, that is published online in cooperation with Denison University and the Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Depository.  Education: B.A. in American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, M.A. in Writing, Depaul University-Chicago Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Writing Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Liz Rohan is a Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.  She has a Ph.D. in English/Writing Studies from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Her research reflects her interest interests in pedagogy, feminist research methods and America's progressive era and also diary studies. She is on Twitter @runwritethink Links: P Doshi article in Am J Public Health re influenza pandemics and preparedness (2008). - Discussion about risk tolerance and values, both on a continuum and difficult to define, shapes how we respond to policy - Bias and writing - understanding your bias, owning it, and how it shapes your writing and research  - What is Kairos? Hitting the nail on the head is as important as when you say it. Examples of kairotic moments, past and present.  - How can public health move forward?  Leave us a voice message using the link below. Thank you! https://anchor.fm/allison-krug/message 

We talk about how the semester is proceeding, how being in person and singing together again has made an impact on the overall academic experience. Nicola notes that for some students, being able to sing together again made coming back to campus a priority. Alli talks about the challenges of starting a hockey season during Delta with two groups - vaccinated and unvaccinated - sharing the same rink space. Good communication and collaboration allow for trust and individual responsibility to replace protocols. Enjoy! We'll meet up with Nicola again next month to hear how her Wed performance went :)