*Voted Buffalo’s Best Podcast in 2023, 2024 & 2025!* We’re a happily married couple, we have lots of stories to tell you about body parts, grammar, things we see on our daily travels and lastly, our three kids, our two cats, and our dog! “Relatable and so much fun! Can’t stop listening!” - All the bots across the universe “Hilariously irreverent!” - Emilie from across the street “Brilliant!” - Parkour Phenom Aaron “I’m always inspired to tell my best dirty jokes after listening to FFP!” - Bi ...
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Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you'll never learn in a textbook. For more fantastic resources for teachers, visit http://www.cultofpedagogy.com.
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Megan Dahlman, certified trainer and nutrition coach, is on a mission to help every woman - no matter her age - feel strong, healthy and confident in her body. In a culture that overcomplicates everything, this podcast will be a breath of fresh air! Self Care Simplified meets you right where you’re at, giving you simple, sustainable tips so you can feel fully functional and pain-free—in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. If you're looking for expert self-care advice combined with grace-filled mo ...
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The Actualising Woman 🌺 is an unfiltered diary of life after a mental breakdown and a late-diagnosis of ASD and ADHD (AuDHD) at age 57 🌼 As a therapist, empty nester, and entrepreneur, I share the raw reality of recovery: grief, regret, overwhelm and confusion, alongside professional insights, research, and coping tools🌸 This channel is about living unmasked 🌷 rebuilding identity 🌻 and finding strength after years of moving through the world undiagnosed. From mental health struggles to self- ...
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And be a Tom, not a Fredo!By Fully Functional Parents
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And midget mayhem?!By Fully Functional Parents
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David’s Assessment of 4th Grade Girls: A Family Heirloom?!
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16:08And living in a cold climate!! Tom and Jerry’s for all!!By Fully Functional Parents
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The only thing worth saving?!By Fully Functional Parents
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PART 1 What's Your Plan Clare?? What Do You Need for You to Start Becoming a Fully Functioning Person? AKA - Actualise?
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40:12PART 1. In this one, I'm talking about (well... rambling on, really) a lightbulb moment I had in May 2022, which I've never got out of my head. A long term dream. BUT, it seems that it's only now that I'm ready for it to come to fruition. Why? Because certain experiences needed to be experienced first, for me to gain clarity about why the dream hap…
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And ?!By Fully Functional Parents
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We love you, you frozen icy tundra!!By Fully Functional Parents
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265: Growth Discourse: A Framework for Discussing Hard Topics with Students
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1:10:08We're living in a time when having a difference of opinion is a potential minefield of hurt feelings, emotional outbursts, and severed relationships. If this has caused you to avoid certain topics in your classroom, the growth discourse framework used by the School of Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) may offer a way to re-engage in these convers…
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A Sunday special!By Fully Functional Parents
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License plates too!By Fully Functional Parents
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TMI time too!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Wtf Elizabeth Berkeley?!9By Fully Functional Parents
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Wayne Newton! Buffets! Cabanas! Join us next year!By Fully Functional Parents
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How Does Congruence Help You Unmask as an ASD ADHD -er? - A Core Condition for Actualising The Ideal 'You'
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20:51How Does Congruence Help You Unmask as an ASD ADHD -er? - A Core Condition for Actualising The Ideal 'You'. I talk about how masking goes against your congruent self.. causing distress and misalignment. The Actualising Woman 🌺 is an unfiltered diary of life after a mental breakdown and a late-diagnosis of ASD and ADHD (AuDHD) at age 57 🌼 As a thera…
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And the Weather Channel!By Fully Functional Parents
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264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers
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1:20:33Neurodivergent educators, like those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other forms of cognitive diversity, are essential voices in our schools. They bring innovation, empathy, and authenticity. Yet they often work within systems that weren't built with them in mind, and this can make the job of teaching especially challenging. In this episode, we'll…
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An empathy?By Fully Functional Parents
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And don’t see Materialists!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Too bad you didn’t come, it was fantastic!By Fully Functional Parents
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How I'm Helping Myself Unmask and Process ADHD, ASD Diagnosis - Self Parenting, A Potato + The Actualising Tendency Carl Rogers
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18:46How I'm Helping Myself Unmask and Process My ADHD, ASD Diagnosis - Self Parenting + The Actualising Tendency Carl Rogers. Here's the story of how Carl Rogers came to learn about The Actualising Tendency! AND why he developed his theory of The Three Conditions required by therapists (and yourself) to create the PERFECT environment in which a person/…
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And leaf blowing blows!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Uber! Waymo! And I learn how to read GPS!By Fully Functional Parents
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Appendicitis, a Sangeet and Pittsburgh! Oh My!
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18:56An epic wedding weekend that our kid doesn’t realize was a lot of stress!!By Fully Functional Parents
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263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning
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42:29If we're doing our jobs right as educators, students will gradually become independent, self-directed learners capable of monitoring, directing, and actively participating in building their own learning. But what if that's not happening? What if students continue to lean heavily on their teachers for step-by-step instructions on every task, never r…
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Googling People From Your Past: Never Good!!
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8:39And we’re going to a wedding!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Tie your shoes!By Fully Functional Parents
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How Trauma & AuDHD Led Me to Chronic Negative Thinking & Breakdown
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32:35This episode is fully loaded! I talk about how having experienced trauma in childhood (and adulthood) alongside undiagnosed ADHD and ASD, had led me to my recent mental health breakdown. Heavy topics which I have only just touched on in this episode, but give an outline of what (I believe) have caused this life-changing experience. I talk about wha…
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An Accidental Arnold Schwarzenegger Retrospective!
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24:53And need a sleep counter? Me too!By Fully Functional Parents
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What??By Fully Functional Parents
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She’s a Monster, Episode #22: Kid Concerts!
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13:54The Archives! I hate kid concerts. And why won’t David go on a survival course with me?By Fully Functional Parents
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Is this episode about the Gin Blossoms? Definitely not! (Affairs and cologne!)By Fully Functional Parents
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The band! And no, we won’t text with our kids!By Fully Functional Parents
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Torpedoes and big tonsils!!By Fully Functional Parents
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262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts
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44:36If your teaching requires students to read or work with texts, and things have gotten a little stale in the engagement department, this episode will give you some great new strategies to try. High school English teachers Susan Barber and Brian Sztabnik once felt the same way, so they curated tons of fun, interactive, interesting text-based activiti…
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And Bill’s naked feet!!(Rerun Saturday!)By Fully Functional Parents
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It’s Despicable What I Just Did In the Restaurant Bathroom!
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12:36And the thing every human hates!! Every human!By Fully Functional Parents
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And live in a commune with us?!By Fully Functional Parents
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And Mr. Trump, Bring back homemade Halloween!!By Fully Functional Parents
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And David’s French relatives!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Starting to Come Back to Myself - My NEW Self - Breakdown to Breakthrough as an AuDHD-er
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19:21Starting to Come Back to Myself - My NEW Self - Breakdown to Breakthrough as an AuDHD-er. I talk about how I move into an assessment phase, despite still feeling very vulnerable, emotional, sad and distressed. I assess Version 1 (the old Clare: the masker, the people-pleaser, etc) into Version 2, the Clare who has NO IDEA how to be unmasked in this…
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And other potpourri!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Concept maps are graphic organizers or visual representations of knowledge. They're simple, they're low-tech, and they're incredibly powerful tools for learning. In this episode, cognitive scientist Dr. Kripa Sundar explains why concept maps are so impactful, then shares a handful of specific practices that will help you make the best use of them. …
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DB Sweeney! More Tales From Corporate America!
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15:29Surprises are good, you nimrods!By Fully Functional Parents
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Damn, I love a run in the dark! And don’t try to understand how the moon even works!!By Fully Functional Parents
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Falling into Breakdown - What Was the Last Straw? AuDHD-er's Journey Towards Diagnosis
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24:58Falling into Breakdown. In this episode, I talk candidly about what caused my 'crash' into being mentally and physically incapacitated for 13+ weeks after months and years of extreme stress and worry. But what was the final straw? Includes: life review, dissociation (detachment from reality and time) and executive function malfunctioning! Trigger W…
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Sealy Posturepedic with Brown Streaks On It: The Buffalo Bills Loss!
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14:33Morning talk!By Fully Functional Parents
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Music and our pasts!By Fully Functional Parents
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And my nickname!!By Fully Functional Parents
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7 Minutes in Heaven! Ever Been In A Closet?!
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14:55And no sleepovers for me!By Fully Functional Parents
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260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice
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1:01:17At a time when test-driven reform has quieted student voices and marginalized perspectives are being pushed aside, we need student voice and agency more than ever. In this episode, I'm joined by Shane Safir, Marlo Bagsik, Sawsan Jaber, and Crystal Watson, authors of the new book, Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency. The …
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