SS #05: Balancing Work and Wonder (with Ravi Jain)

In this episode, Pam and Brandy have a great conversation with Ravi Jain, co-author of The Liberal Arts Tradition, on the subject of balancing work with wonder. How do both of those fit together? What happens when our students seem to have lost the wonder? What if we seem to have lost the wonder? Ravi had some great…

SS #120 – Let Them Go: Parenting Teens (with Toby Sumpter!!)

SS #120 – Let Them Go: Parenting Teens (with Toby Sumpter!!)

What does it look like to raise children – especially boys – who grow up mature and ready to leave and launch their own lives? How does that transition happen? Moms are naturally wired for and gifted at growing and building families, so sometimes the teen years are hard on us not because our kids…

SS #119 – Rewards Revisited

SS #119 – Rewards Revisited

We live in a world that is obsessed with rewards and even driven by it. We are controlled by our appetite for quick hits of dopamine as the designers of technology get better and better at manipulating that ability. We are told every goal must have a reward, as does every habit. We are trained…