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#719 How do You Raise Resilient Kids? · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for the
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  Speaker 1: time poor parent who just once answers.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you couple the COVID pandemic, lockdowns and restrictions, with
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  Speaker 2: the increasing use of screens and parents being busier. You
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  Speaker 2: bring all of these factors together and more pressure on
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  Speaker 2: schooling and academics. And so that's why we're putting on
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  Speaker 2: this summer, this Raising Resilient Kids summer.
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  Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show, my mom
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  Speaker 1: and Dad.
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  Speaker 2: I've got this feeling, Kylie. I've got a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an inkling that this week is going to go really
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  Speaker 2: fast and end in a whole lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: What do you know that I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's our wedding anniversary in a week
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  Speaker 2: from today, and we're going away this weekend, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't know where.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got this deal that I plan the wedding anniversaries.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it hasn't ever been formalized, but this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of how it plays out. I'm not that into
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day. I didn't even get you a flower on
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day. You did such a beautiful job of making
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  Speaker 2: me feel special on Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 3: But do you know I wrote all of those I
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  Speaker 3: love yous on the photos and I just found a
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  Speaker 3: few extras. You've forgot them all, and do you know
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  Speaker 3: what My favorite one was?
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  Speaker 2: You love me because I'm me? No, why do you
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  Speaker 2: love me?
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  Speaker 3: I love that you trust me with your credit card?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some stories we could tell about that, but
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  Speaker 2: not in today's podcast. But we've got this informal thing
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  Speaker 2: where I love to spoil you on our wedding anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: and I tend to, but this is a big one.
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  Speaker 3: This is a really big one.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five years. For the last few weeks, every Friday,
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  Speaker 2: you've been allowed to ask me one question, one question
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  Speaker 2: about what's going to happen on our anniversary. You know
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a big surprise. Since Valentine's Day,
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  Speaker 2: you've been asking questions and so far, what do you know?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the first one that was the most important was
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  Speaker 3: that we were celebrating alone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not going to be any children none. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we love our kids.
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  Speaker 3: And the second one was that we were going to
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  Speaker 3: be going away. We were actually having away time, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we live on the Sunshine Coast, so you were
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  Speaker 2: pretty well convinced that we're going to Montville Mulaney something
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  Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, the Hintsland, which I love. Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And then I asked whether or not we were catching
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  Speaker 3: an aeroplane.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think you said it were going overseas. No.
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  Speaker 3: I asked if you were catching an aeroplane.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you said overseas, because I had to fudge
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  Speaker 2: and get all funny about it, because well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I said, Tasmanie, you could be overseas because we're.
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  Speaker 3: Going over I asked if we were catching an aeroplane,
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  Speaker 3: and then once you said yes, I then asked if
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  Speaker 3: we were going overseas.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So you cheated. You asked two questions on the
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  Speaker 2: one day.
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  Speaker 3: You answered I did.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, So that's as much as you know. No, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: because you've asked one.
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  Speaker 3: Then I asked another question, Yeah, did I need a passport?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And you acknowledged that I did, so we're definitely not
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  Speaker 3: going to Tasmania, right. But then I also asked.
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  Speaker 2: You've been sneaking extra questions in because you've only had
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  Speaker 2: four weeks to ask questions if.
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  Speaker 3: We'd ever been there for yeah, and you said no, correct,
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  Speaker 3: And I asked it if we'd talked about going there.
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  Speaker 2: Have I been that generous in my answers?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So what's your pick? Where do you think we're going?
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  Speaker 2: What are your top three picks?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it can't be Bali, it can't be Fiji. It
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  Speaker 3: has to be somewhere close because we're only going away
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  Speaker 3: for a few days.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you know that My inspiration for this was
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  Speaker 2: a mister Beast YouTube video where he approached some guy
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  Speaker 2: on a university campus and said, if I give you
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  Speaker 2: three hundred dollars, will you fly to Paris flood to France.
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  Speaker 3: And that if I'm stuck on an aeroplane for two
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  Speaker 3: of the three days we're gone, that you are going
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  Speaker 3: to be dead.
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  Speaker 2: Me you said that, Oh my goodness. What if it's
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  Speaker 2: really good when we get there?
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  Speaker 3: After everything you know about me? Yes, I don't care
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  Speaker 3: where we're going, just as long as it's you and
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  Speaker 3: me alone?
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  Speaker 2: Well alone?
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  Speaker 3: Did you get it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I got it. I got it. You'll find out
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  Speaker 2: on Friday when we get to the airport, our happy
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  Speaker 2: families listeners will find out what do I have to
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  Speaker 2: pack next week? I'll tell you on Thursday night when
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  Speaker 2: we're packing. Oh, you can't do that. I need to
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  Speaker 2: get something. You don't need to get anything.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know?
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  Speaker 2: I just believe that you don't need to get anything.
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  Speaker 2: We have a podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I also know that we have unstructured time. Well that's
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  Speaker 3: for one something.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we have one specific activity planned. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: have one a specific activity plan for us. We have
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  Speaker 2: a podcast to get on with. I'm going to let
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  Speaker 2: that one fly. We have a podcast to get onto today.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about an upcoming summit. Every six
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  Speaker 2: months or so at Happy families dot com dot a you,
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  Speaker 2: we have been running amazing summits, the Misconnection Summit, the
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  Speaker 2: Bringing Up Boys Summit, the Little People Big Feelings Summit,
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  Speaker 2: the how to Help your Family Not be a Hot
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  Speaker 2: Mess Summit, and we've had just thousands and thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people who have been able to take advantage of these
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  Speaker 2: summits make their families happier. We've got a summit coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Just launched the details in the last couple of days
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  Speaker 2: at Happy families dot com, dot you and at our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page. And I'm gonna be honest, today's podcast is
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  Speaker 2: a bit of an advertorial for the summit because it
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  Speaker 2: matters so much now. As you know, we give away
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  Speaker 2: as much information as we can for free, but our
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  Speaker 2: summits are an absolute premium product and so they do
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  Speaker 2: attract a fee. And I want to tell you about
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  Speaker 2: our next summit is going to be called Raising Resilient Kids.
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  Speaker 2: The Summit.
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  Speaker 3: The Summer.
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  Speaker 2: The summer I feel like we need big music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So Raising Resilient Kids the Summit. It happens on the
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth of March. So resilience is this that's a buzzword.
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  Speaker 3: It's a real buzzword.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it has been for I reckon ten fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years now.
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  Speaker 3: So why is it such a hot topic, especially now?
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  Speaker 2: Can I share some science, some old science, and then
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  Speaker 2: bring that into right now to answer a question years
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  Speaker 2: and years and years ago, in the mid nineteen fifties,
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  Speaker 2: an American sociologist by the name of Emmy Warner received
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  Speaker 2: funding to go into a fairly impoverished, underprivileged, and challenged
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  Speaker 2: community on the Hawaiian island of Cawi and research follow
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  Speaker 2: literally every child that was born in that year. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was either nineteen fifty five or nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 2: six from memory, follow every single child born that year
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  Speaker 2: across the first ten years of life to see what
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  Speaker 2: makes kids why these kids were struggling. Now they were
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  Speaker 2: born into a community. Bearing in mind it's the nineteen fifties, right,
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  Speaker 2: so we're dealing with intergenerational poverty in this community. There's
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  Speaker 2: intergenerational alcohol and drug use and abuse. There's intergenerational imprisonment.
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  Speaker 2: People aren't finishing school, that dropping out early, there's kids
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  Speaker 2: getting pregnant in their teens, you name it. The intergenerational
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  Speaker 2: challenges were enormous in this particular place, and so she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to find out what was going on, why there
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  Speaker 2: were so many challenges, and this ten year grant that
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  Speaker 2: she received was designed to figure it out. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of ten years, they still didn't have enough answers,
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  Speaker 2: and she got funding for another ten and then subsequently
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  Speaker 2: she received more funding and more funding until forty years
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  Speaker 2: later in the mid nineteen nineties, she finally wrapped up
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  Speaker 2: the study, speaking with teachers and parents and church leaders
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  Speaker 2: and people in the community, neighbors, the parents, the artists,
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  Speaker 2: the uncles, the grandparents, the kids themselves as they moved
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  Speaker 2: through childhood and into adulthood. I mean, this was a comprehensive,
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  Speaker 2: quantitative and qualitative study. There's surveys, there's questionnaires, there's interviews,
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  Speaker 2: there's all kinds of measures. And what Emmy Werner found
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  Speaker 2: was that about two thirds of the kids repeated all
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  Speaker 2: the non resilient behaviors that they'd been taught as they
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  Speaker 2: were growing up. They also dropped out of school earlier.
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  Speaker 2: They had emotional and behavior regulation challenges. They were inclined
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  Speaker 2: towards alcohol and drugs. They ended up in prison or pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: They had hard lives, but one third didn't. One third thrive.
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  Speaker 2: They were resilient. They grew in the face of that
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  Speaker 2: adversity rather than struggled. In the face of that adversity.
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  Speaker 2: They finished high school, they got good jobs, they held
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  Speaker 2: down strong relationships, they ended up married with kids. And
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  Speaker 2: when Werner, after forty years, sat down with their team
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  Speaker 2: and said, what's gone on with this one third of kids,
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  Speaker 2: this two hundred and twenty ish kids that they seem
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  Speaker 2: to have bucked the trend? Why are they so special?
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  Speaker 2: And ultimately, as they went through the data, there were
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  Speaker 2: four central factors that contributed to these kids' resilient outcomes,
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  Speaker 2: But the number one outcome ultimately was that they had
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  Speaker 2: one single adult in their lives who was absolutely there
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  Speaker 2: for them, completely cared for them and made life safe.
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  Speaker 2: So Warner's research and that of others who have done
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  Speaker 2: similar studies has really underpinned this idea that our kids
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  Speaker 2: to be resilient, they need to have great relationships like
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  Speaker 2: resilience and happiness ultimately come down to loving relationships, full stop,
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  Speaker 2: end of story. But in those communities, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the time, in these families, these kids didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: parent that could be that one caring adult. They were
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  Speaker 2: talking about arties and uncle, school teachers, churchly, there's sports coaches.
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  Speaker 2: It was those people who were that rock for those
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  Speaker 2: kids when things were tough. Now that's the first part
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  Speaker 2: of my answer. The second part to your question is
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  Speaker 2: why is resilience such a big deal right now? And
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  Speaker 2: the answer to that is, as we look at the
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  Speaker 2: data over the last several decades, we're seeing a continued
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  Speaker 2: decline in well being and a continued decline in resilience
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to our kids. Here in Australia as
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  Speaker 2: well as overseas, we're seeing among teenagers suicidal ideation and
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  Speaker 2: even suicide attempts are at some of the highest levels
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  Speaker 2: that they've ever been in history, these issues are growing.
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  Speaker 2: Australian data tells us that more kids are hospitalized for
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  Speaker 2: attempts on their own lives now than pretty much ever before,
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  Speaker 2: and this is something that's been growing over the last
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  Speaker 2: decade or so. It's getting worse and worse. Fortunately, most
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  Speaker 2: kids aren't successful, whereas in the United States success that
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  Speaker 2: this is unfortunately quite high. I think it's because we
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  Speaker 2: have different gun laws, different access to violent ways of
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  Speaker 2: ending life, which is just so devastating, so sad, so tragic.
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  Speaker 2: But ultimately, the resilience conversation is that the fore right now,
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  Speaker 2: because we've got this confluence of factors. We're coming out
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  Speaker 2: of the COVID pandemic with all of these lockdowns and
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  Speaker 2: all of these draconian measures, and we've got now good
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  Speaker 2: reports that are highlighting that the governments may have overstepped
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  Speaker 2: a little bit with some of what they did. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: they were doing the best that they could with what
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  Speaker 2: they knew, but data is suggesting that it wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: best thing. But it's had a huge impact on our kids.
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  Speaker 2: You couple the COVID pandemic, lockdowns and restrictions with the
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  Speaker 2: increasing use of screens and parents being busier and families,
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  Speaker 2: not literally, I mean the data is their families are
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  Speaker 2: not as strong as they used to be. Kids need
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  Speaker 2: strong families. You bring all these factors together and more
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  Speaker 2: pressure on schooling and academics and kids are struggling under
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  Speaker 2: the weight of an anxiety is at record levels, depressions
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  Speaker 2: at record levels, and like I said, much more drastic
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  Speaker 2: and concerning things as well are at very very high levels.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's why we're putting on this summer there's
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  Speaker 2: Resilient Raising Resilient Kids Summer, because we need to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that kids are okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've got an awesome lineup the professionals in their
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  Speaker 3: fields to share with parents.
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  Speaker 2: Really smart, experienced people.
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  Speaker 3: Who's on your list?
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  Speaker 2: Okay number one Maggie Dent. Everybody, I mean, anyone who
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  Speaker 2: has ever read anything about parenting in Australia loves to
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  Speaker 2: hear from Maggie. And she's going to be talking about
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  Speaker 2: ten resilience building blocks. She's a dynamo when she talks
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  Speaker 2: about this topic and everybody's going to be stoked to
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  Speaker 2: hear what she has. I just know it. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a great conversation because it always
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  Speaker 2: is with Maggie. Somebody else that I've got coming in
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of people might not have heard of.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy knows his stuff like no one else.
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  Speaker 2: There's a guy based out of Harvard Medical School. His
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  Speaker 2: name is doctor Robert Brooks. Bobok has literally written the
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  Speaker 2: book about resilience. He's from Harvard, for goodness sakes, and
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  Speaker 2: he knows his stuff. Also literally the nicest guy you
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  Speaker 2: might ever listen to, a talk to or meet. He's
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  Speaker 2: just such a great guy. And Bob, doctor Robert Brooks
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  Speaker 2: from Harvard is going to be joining us to talk
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  Speaker 2: about resilience and everything that the Harvard researchers over the
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  Speaker 2: last ten decades have discovered over the last one hundred
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  Speaker 2: years about resilience. I'm so excited for that. You might
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  Speaker 2: have heard of doctor Laura Markham. She has a website
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  Speaker 2: called AHA Parenting and she's all over Facebook. She does
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  Speaker 2: such a beautiful job. She's going to be talking about
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  Speaker 2: calm parents, happy kids. Laura Markham is just I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to say it other than she's just a delight.
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  Speaker 2: She's so wise, she's so compassionate and gentle and good
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  Speaker 2: and her ideas, I know are going to make a
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  Speaker 2: big difference. I mean, these are three enormously influential, powerful
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  Speaker 2: people to talk about this straight away. Next up, I've
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  Speaker 2: got Alfie Kohne, who's been on our podcast a number
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  Speaker 2: of times. Alfie has written so many books, and he's
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  Speaker 2: always polarizing, he's always provocative, he's always got these ideas,
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  Speaker 2: and we've been talking ahead of time about what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to discuss in this summit, and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: shake people in really thought provoking positive ways, getting this
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  Speaker 2: to think about what resilience really is and whether we're
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  Speaker 2: even going about building resilience, raising resilience the right way health.
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  Speaker 2: He's just he's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So he's such an intellectual, but he's just so captivating. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: when I listen to him, I'm just he draws me
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  Speaker 3: in in spite of his academic nature. Yeah, he really,
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  Speaker 3: because because his thoughts are so pulverizing.
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  Speaker 2: Polarizing, polarizing, polar evocative, provocative, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For sure, and they really make me think.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Maggie Dent, Robert Brooks, Laura Markham, Healthy Kohne, and a
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  Speaker 2: New York Times bestselling author, Jessica Lay. She wrote a
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  Speaker 2: book called The Gift of Failure. I mean, what a
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  Speaker 2: perfect book, What a perfect conversation to have when we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about raising resilient kids.
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  Speaker 3: Is that it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, there's more. There's actually quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit more. So there'll be ten. There'll be ten speakers
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  Speaker 2: in total, including me. Okay, So we've also got a
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  Speaker 2: guy who, in the early two thousands was voted as
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  Speaker 2: Australians Australian's Comedian of the Year. His name is Marty Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: He's a friend of mine from here on the Sunshine Coast.
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  Speaker 2: Funny guy.
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  Speaker 3: But okay, so hang on a sec. You've got all
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  Speaker 3: these heavy hitters and now you've got Marty Wilson. What's
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  Speaker 3: he bringing to the Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So, can you think of any career that you could
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  Speaker 2: choose that could be harder and require more resilience than
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  Speaker 2: being a stand up comedian? No, I'm serious, Like, this
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  Speaker 2: guy has got resilience lessons up the wazoo, whatever the
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  Speaker 2: wazoo is. My dad used to say that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why. I just said that he's got Like, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's got resilient stories. Because you cannot be a stand
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  Speaker 2: up comedian and not be resilient. Like when you stand
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  Speaker 2: up in front of an audience and you tell a
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  Speaker 2: joke and at bombs, It's like.
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  Speaker 3: We have a stand up comedian and our.
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  Speaker 2: We have several. We have several. Are you talking about
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  Speaker 2: me or somebody else?
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  Speaker 3: No, the eight year old who's dying to be a
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  Speaker 3: stand up comedian?
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  Speaker 2: Who else have we got? Thanks for asking, Kylie. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a guy called James Anderson. He's been on the
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  Speaker 2: podcast a couple of times. Really bright guy, super intelligent.
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  Speaker 2: He talks about growth mindsets and the idea of resilience
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  Speaker 2: around growth mindsets in ways that I think even Carol
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  Speaker 2: Dweck would be jealous of. Really smart, really switched on.
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  Speaker 2: And he's going to be talking about resilience in learning
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  Speaker 2: what he calls the gift of learnership, the skill of learning,
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  Speaker 2: and how some kids are like, oh god, do it,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do it and they shy away.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be talking about what we can do
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  Speaker 2: to move kids towards learning rather than away from it
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  Speaker 2: when it's hard. So that's going to be a great conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Yasmin London talking about kids and screens. Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: runs an organization called why Safe and is just fabulous
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  Speaker 2: on this and resilience and screens like these are two
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  Speaker 2: topics that go hand in hand. And last, but not least,
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  Speaker 2: Michael McQueen. Michael McQueen is literally one of Australia's most
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  Speaker 2: in demand keynote speakers. The guy I'm good friends with
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  Speaker 2: him and I follow him on Facebook and he literally
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  Speaker 2: is in different states for different talks on the same day,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes overseas and in Australia on the same day. He
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  Speaker 2: gives keynotes galore, and he has very generously agreed to
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  Speaker 2: spend some time with me talking about post COVID kids
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  Speaker 2: because he's I guess you'd call him a futurist, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to him about the future of
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  Speaker 2: well being, the future of resilience, the future of education,
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  Speaker 2: the future of what our kids, what are our kids'
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  Speaker 2: lives is going to be like based on what the
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  Speaker 2: trends are saying. So, I mean, rock solid, the best
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  Speaker 2: summit we've ever put on. And I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of advertorial here for people who are listening
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  Speaker 2: to the podcast, but I've already given a really big
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: take home at the start with the conversation about Emmy
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: wooner and one carrying adult. But you can see why
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited about this summit. It's going to be
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: so good, and we're going to do something really different,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: something we've never done before with one of our summits.
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  Speaker 2: We know that people don't actually want to stop everything,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: drop everything, and give up an entire day so they
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  Speaker 2: can sit in front of a screen and listen to
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  Speaker 2: ten talks, and so we're going to give you the
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  Speaker 2: facility to watch it where, when and how you want.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we're going to get it behind a podcast
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  Speaker 2: paywall as well, so that if you buy the summit,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you don't even have to watch it at all. You
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: can just download it and listen to each of the conversations.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're talking my language on.
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  Speaker 2: Podcasts because a lot of people, look, who's really got
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: time to sit in front of the screen. We're also
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: going to do highlights reels, so if you don't want
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: to watch the whole thing, you'll be able to just
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: watch the here's the ten or fifteen minute highlight of
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  Speaker 2: the forty five to fifty minutes. Yeah, or or of
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: course you can watch it live. You have access to
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: it for however long because we don't want you to
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: have to watch it on the day. So this is
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: really a summit to meet the needs of time poor
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: parents who want answers in ways that work for them.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I'm super excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: So if we get to the nitty gritty of things, yes,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: how do I get involved? How do I?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So, all the details are at Happy Families dot
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: com dot au or at our Facebook page dot Justin
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  Speaker 2: Colson's Happy Families. The summit is normally one hundred and
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars, but the early bird special is one
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine bucks. One hundred and forty nine dollars.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: You've got about another week to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: So if I am doing the mass right, are you
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: telling me that to sit and listen to each one
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of these ten people is pretty much on the early.
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  Speaker 2: Bird it's about fifteen bucks ahead dollars. Yeah, at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's insanely cheap, but that's because this matters so much.
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  Speaker 2: Like we have bills to pay, and obviously Happy Families
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  Speaker 2: ultimately has to be a commercially run thing so that
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  Speaker 2: we can pay our staff and so that we can
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: but we invest into what we're doing, and we give
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  Speaker 2: it a way as cheap as we can, because we
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: want people to get access to this.
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  Speaker 3: Where else can I go and listen to this person
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: these people, No.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: No, you can't fifteen dollars. You can't even listen to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: them for one hundred and fifty dollars And each of
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: them is basically fifteen bucks. Obviously you can't buy the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: one at a time, by the whole summit. By the way,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: if you're a Happy Family's member, you get twenty percent off,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: twenty percent off the full price, and twenty percent off
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the early bird. So there's so much value. It's such
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a great summit, the Raising Resilient Kid's Summit. It's happening really,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: really soon, the thirtieth, the thirtieth of this month. Early
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  Speaker 2: Bird finishes next Thursday, the twenty third, one week out
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: from the summit.
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  Speaker 3: So if I'm not a Happy Family's member.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Jump onto Happy families dot com dot you become a member.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: It's like eighteen bucks a month, and I mean you're
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: gonna save twenty percent straight up. Get you just get
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: so much value out of it. Plus you get the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: ongoing support, the ongoing monthly support as we do our
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: best to help you make your family, happier, raising resilient kids.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: The Summit. Please join us for it. It's on the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: thirtieth of March. All the details at our Facebook page
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: doctor Justin Colson's Happy Families or happy families dot com,
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  Speaker 2: dot a