Monthly Favorites : July, 2023

July was a crazy month. I even wrote a Friday Thought about how quickly Moments turn to Memories. Considering my favorite podcasts, conversations, and songs of the month have a similar feel . . . how in the world has it come and gone so quickly?

Regardless, goodbye July, and welcome August! I truly am looking forward to it.

Favorite Quote:

“Relationship expectations are at an all-time high, yet the expectations are less and less clear. We are making up new norms as we go” - Esther Perel

Podcasts:

Artificial Harmony : At the Table

This inspired me so much that I ended up writing a quick Friday Thought about it.

#KeepKnocking: The Art of Never Giving Up on People : Schurtz and Ties

This is Kasey’s tagline for our show. In this episode, he explains why it is so important to him, and why it should be for all of us. So good.

What Jazz can Teach us about Innovation and Teamwork : Harvard Business Review

“To lead innovation, you have to embrace experimentation – and mistakes.”

Songs:

Ole Magnolia, by Happy Landing

Patience, by Wilder Woods

Video:

“Marriage is never 50/50.”

I LOVE this reminder. So much so, that it has inspired me to think more about how it can apply to schools and leadership teams and how we show up to work. I shared my thoughts in a blog post entitled, Giving less than 100% is 100% okay. Let me know what you think! I’d be curious for your thoughts.

Let me know of anything you’ve been reading, watching, listening to, or have been inspired by!

Happy August!

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March Favorites : Podcasts, Movie, Quotes, and Shtuff!

March was a blur! But here are a few things that stick out as some of my favorites.

Movie: CODA

Gifted with a voice that her parents can’t hear, seventeen-year-old Ruby, is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles. Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.

Book: Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

Ehrenreich attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart associate. Her insight and experience of living like many of Americans do is not only enlightening, its convicting. We should all be doing more to be mindful and supportive of those scrapping by at the poverty level.

Podcast: Don’t Worry, Be Tacky by Freakonomics. Partial inspiration for the Friday Thought : Its a dangerous world out there. Bring a club, this podcast encourages us to, “despite sneers from the Establishment . . . be more willing to embrace the déclassé.”

Song: It isn’t new, but damn. I can’t stop listening to Surefire by Wilderado. And neither can my kids.

Instagramer: Menwiththepot These videos are comforting, mouthwatering, and somehow inspiring. Their website is pretty rad, too.

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Three (plus two) favorite quotes from You Are A Badass

“If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.”

I just finished this book a few weeks ago and, to be honest, it wasn’t earth shattering. But it was a good reminder - a great reminder even - that I am a badass, and so are you. We just need to get rid of the many obstacles that we set in our way.

To help (inspire and save you time, if you can’t read the book), here are a few write-em-on-a-notecard points of encouragement that you can post on your frig, your dash, your workspace, or anywhere else you find yourself thinking and procrastinating.

In no particular order:

1. “If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn . . . write your thank-you notes!” (pg 120).

2. “Sometimes the road to freedom lies in deciding you’d rather be happy than right” (pg 125).

3. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse” (pg 153).

Favorite quotes that were quoted:

1. “Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past” - Lily Tomlin

2. “We tiptoe through life trying to safely make it to death” - unknown

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