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Teaching Kids Kindness, Manners & Compassion with The Good Eggs · It's A Grand Life

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to another episode of It's a Grand Life.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, my name is Craig Nash.
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SPEAKER_01: We'd like to welcome you to another It's a Grand Life.
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SPEAKER_01: And we've got a special grand life for you.
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SPEAKER_01: I've got my guest co-host, Deborah Suzette Brown from Each One Teach One Together in Atlanta, Georgia.
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SPEAKER_01: Deborah, welcome so much to It's a Grand Life.
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SPEAKER_01: You've been out here many times.
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SPEAKER_01: And we've got one of our favorite new authors, author Sandra Charmataro, who is just an expert in children's literature space.
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SPEAKER_01: You're really going to be blessed by our time today.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh she's got a uh a Good Ags Foundation we want to hear about, and a good eggs media company we want to hear about, and we this the emphasis on positive role models.
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SPEAKER_01: And Sandra, welcome to Into Brand Life.
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SPEAKER_01: We're delighted to have you.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh so can you just for our uh our our audience, um, what is the difference between the Good Eggs Foundation and the Good Eggs Media?
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SPEAKER_00: So I do have two companies.
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SPEAKER_00: The Good Eggs Media started, um it includes a set of books, which started this whole thing, all things good eggs rolling.
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SPEAKER_00: So the set of books, um there's a trilogy, and they teach kindness and global awareness and um helping others in your community.
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SPEAKER_00: So once I wrote all three of those books, um I wanted to put them into action, and that's where the foundation came in.
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SPEAKER_00: So then I started the Good Eggs Foundation just to kind of um, you know how you you talk about it, but I wanted to make sure it was actually enacted in our community as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's why I started a nonprofit leg of the media company to make sure that we can see it's also working um in real time.
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SPEAKER_01: That sounds absolutely great.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's uh a method to it.
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SPEAKER_01: You just you just don't want to put out great uh material.
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SPEAKER_01: You want to make sure it's helpful.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's been growing and growing.
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SPEAKER_00: Like now I call it my educational ecosystem because it started with books and then um the first book I have into 12 videos, and then um I made um lesson plans for parents and teachers for all three books.
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SPEAKER_00: I have um tips for parents, I have um an app that I know we'll we'll talk about in a little bit, and I have a kids podcast that kids can listen to.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's grown and morphed into this whole big ecosystem for kids ages five to nine.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's really been a great ride, and the I love the foundation aspect of it because um I call it my eggings, and what I do once a month is I go reach out to people in our community that are helping children and I ask what they need.
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SPEAKER_00: So each month an egging is different.
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SPEAKER_00: So um I've done bedding for kids coming out of homelessness, I've done STEM supplies for summer science camps, I've done school supplies, I have done um, oh my gosh, pajama drive.
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SPEAKER_00: So different things depending on what the organization needs at that month.
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SPEAKER_00: I just did, I'm gonna do um, do you know mittens for Detroit?
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SPEAKER_01: I've heard of that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so they had a flood in their warehouse and all their mittens got destroyed.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna help, I'm egging them in October just in time for winter to settle in um with some kids' mittens.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, 100 pairs, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So so it just depends.
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SPEAKER_00: That's been a great joy uh for me.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's it's really great to see all the organizations in our area that are helping kids.
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SPEAKER_00: So we've got some great people in our area in our city.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: But most folks think of egging as a negative thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Right, I'm trying to spin it, right?
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SPEAKER_01: But you can't turn that all around.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And I tell them they've been egged, right?
5:30
SPEAKER_00: So here you go, you've been been egged.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it's been great.
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SPEAKER_02: That's wonderful.
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SPEAKER_02: I'll think about that when you say turn, uh it everybody think about it being negative.
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SPEAKER_02: So that just goes to show you can turn a negative into a positive.
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SPEAKER_00: You're exactly right.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you turn it around.
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SPEAKER_00: There's always another side.
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SPEAKER_00: Always another side.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: And and it'd be good for our culture to look at both sides more than once, wouldn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: Correct.
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SPEAKER_00: That is yes.
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SPEAKER_01: And and um, but I I I want to ask you about the books that you write.
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SPEAKER_01: And in fact, I um you have one on the in your last newsletter, you talked about the importance of manners.
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SPEAKER_00: And yeah, that's chapter 12.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's um, and I know that's uh you you have a chapter on another very positive um uh core value for kids ages five to nine, but you know, we really can't emphasize the importance of things like manners enough in our culture.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like we've forgotten it half the time.
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SPEAKER_00: I think so.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, and and if you start with chapter one, it starts about understanding and it goes through, you know, then there's like forgiveness and generosity and gratitude.
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SPEAKER_00: There's 12 in all, and the last one is manners, and it follows um Benedict as the new egg who moves to town, and he just has trouble adjusting all year.
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SPEAKER_00: But his friends end up really helping him.
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SPEAKER_00: And the last chapter on manners that you mentioned, they go on a camping trip, and it's his first time with his other little egg friends, and he's so excited, he just forgets everything that he learned all year, and he's rude, and he's running off and leaving his dog for his friends to take care of, and he's you know, not roasting marshmallows with them.
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SPEAKER_00: He's eating on his own, he's not cleaning up.
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SPEAKER_00: He's anyway, it ends up he realized because some other little children were rude to him.
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SPEAKER_00: The light went on.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, this is what my friends have been trying to tell me.
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SPEAKER_00: So, and you you kind of see his journey throughout, and that it culminates with the manners.
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SPEAKER_00: So um, it's a great 12 chapters.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, parents can journey with their child through each chapter.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I did 12 for a dozen, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And they can um ask questions, they can, you know, and the chapters I have little stopping points, so if they don't want to read the whole chapter that night, they can stop um, you know, at specific points that I put in the chapters, and they can um, you know, kind of look at the lesson plans and look at, you know, if they want to take it further and do activities at home or in school.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it's been great.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's that's just book one.
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SPEAKER_00: So then book two, they actually in book one, they win a recycling contest, and the United Nations recognizes them for that, sends them on a trip around the world.
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SPEAKER_00: So they learn all about 10 different countries.
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SPEAKER_00: They go to Chile, they go to um Italy, they go to India, they go to Zambia, they go to Scotland, 10 in all, and they learn customs, culture, language, they learn how people around the world do things, they meet little egg friends around the world, um, and it's a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_00: And they come back and they have to report out to the United Nations, and they each have a little favorite part of their trip, and they end up realizing in the end that everybody just wants the same thing in the world, just to be recognized and seen and heard and understood, and and to live in peace and to live, you know, um their lives according to their, you know, their customs and their language and their cultures, um, and not to be judged for that.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what they learn.
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SPEAKER_00: They get very um good education, worldly education.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's why I call that one global awareness.
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SPEAKER_00: And then they come back from that trip and they stay in their hometown and they serve as ambassadors in book three in their own hometown.
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SPEAKER_00: So they help kids with school supplies, they go to a senior living center, and there's a lot of intergenerational um work there with them.
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SPEAKER_00: They go to an animal shelter, they um put on a health program for their town, and they go to a nature center.
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SPEAKER_00: So all things um of a town that they would, you know, be immersed in, and they learn that as well.
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SPEAKER_00: And they learn that it takes everybody in a town helping each other to make it run smoothly, like the saying we we need a village, right?
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SPEAKER_00: That saying.
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SPEAKER_00: So um the good thing in that book too, then they go back to the little eggs they met in book two around the world, and they implement the same community service in their own communities around the world.
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SPEAKER_00: So it all comes full circle.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's really it's really been fun to write.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I loved, you know, creating the characters, creating their situations, and I've had some great feedback from parents and teachers as well, as them connecting with their child in it and the child understanding what's happening and applying it to real life too.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I've had parents say, That's like Reggie, or oh my gosh, Peggy said that.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, they'll know when they're journeying together.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you have you gotten any feedback from folks from other countries?
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SPEAKER_01: Is this a challenge in their countries?
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SPEAKER_01: Are we the only mannerless group around?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh no, I I've gotten some feedback because in um on the podcast for uh uh book two, I actually went on a site that's a site called Upwork where people freelance, and I looked for voiceover actors with accents from their own native country.
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SPEAKER_00: So I actually hired them to do their voiceover parts.
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SPEAKER_00: So when they they want all wanted to know when their episode came out, so I would tell them.
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SPEAKER_00: So um the man from Scotland was really, really funny.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I came out great.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I love this.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can't wait to tell my kids.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so um, that's been a lot of fun too.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, one of the criticisms of of the Scottish Brogue is sometimes it's so thick it's hard to understand.
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SPEAKER_01: But hopefully you had someone you could understand.
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SPEAKER_00: He did a great job.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, he did a great job.
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SPEAKER_00: And he actually had to do two people, so he did two different voices, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: That's so yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So you'll listen to it, Craig.
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SPEAKER_00: It's on Spotify.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: I love I really think there is a uh a huge market for this, and uh uh and we it's absolutely in our culture.
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SPEAKER_01: We we really need to talk about being positive.
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SPEAKER_01: And you and you you spend a lot of time talking about positive role models and the power of positive role models.
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SPEAKER_01: And of course you are one, and uh, and now you uh uh you're you're putting this in your book series and what have you, and that that's something I'm sure parents just love, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I uh like I said, the feedback's been great from parents and teachers alike.
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SPEAKER_00: I had um a teacher, a fifth grade teacher, write to me and say that her whole classroom wanted to model the same service that the eggs did in the book, and they did it for their own community.
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SPEAKER_00: And even the local newspaper came out and did a story on it, which really that that's my goal, you know, that's what I would love to happen, is for kids to embody um that's why I wanted this age group because I feel like they're at that spot where they're still making friends and they, you know, they're learning right from wrong, yet they don't quite know what to do sometimes.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, they're they're young, and and this way, if it becomes part of who they are, they'll might have a tool to say, Oh, I know what I could do.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so that made me really happy that once they read book three, they did the same service in their own hometown.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's great.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: Could you see this working in in your community, you know, with uh each one teach one together, that organization that you run down in Atlanta?
13:30
SPEAKER_01: You think uh a lot of those grandkids would go for something like this?
13:33
SPEAKER_02: Oh, they would love it, they would love it, and the parents would love it too, because we have a lot of older grandparents, but we also have a diverse group of younger, and we all can learn from it.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm just I'm I'm older, I'm not gonna tell you how my age, I'm older, and I'm sitting here just getting so excited about it until and it's so easy to it sounds so easy to grasp the concept and the practice and all that, and that's what I feel my grandparents need, Craig.
14:07
SPEAKER_02: They need that example to be able to pass on to the kids, and then also the good thing about it, Sandre, is I feel like the kids can pass it on to the parents.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, yes, it can kind of go both ways, exactly.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: Um with the parents or grandparents or whatever, you know, caregiver, if they're facilitating, like say a book club, say you do a book club, you know, on the lesson plans that I have, I give three suggestions for each chapter on what you can do, like maybe if it's an art project or or some kind of park cleanup or something, you know, to reinforce what's being kind of modeled in the books.
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SPEAKER_00: So with a an adult facilitator, it would really um really open the kids up to something new.
14:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I can't wait.
14:54
SPEAKER_02: I can't wait.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm excited.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh good, good.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm real passionate about getting that message out, and I just feel that kids are so sweet and resilient and understanding, and I think that this could get into their you know model of how to behave.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: And you know, when you're younger learning something, it sticks with you, and hopefully that sticks with them all the way into their adulthood, and we'll have a whole bunch of kinder adults, right?
15:20
SPEAKER_02: I know, I know it is, yeah.
15:23
SPEAKER_02: And God knows we need that.
15:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I want to see that.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: You need that kindness, yes, for sure.
15:34
SPEAKER_01: Suzanne, I know you had some questions on the new application that's coming out.
15:38
SPEAKER_02: Yes, I did.
15:39
SPEAKER_02: Uh I wrote a note here.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh, can you explain or talk about the app?
15:44
SPEAKER_02: Because I'm very interested in that, and I do want to pass it on now that I think you can you can get the app to my families and not to my families, but to our community.
15:57
SPEAKER_02: Definitely.
15:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'll let you explain the app.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's my latest um in the ecosystem.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: The latest educational ecosystem component is the app.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's available on the app store and Google Play, and it's$4.99, just a one-time fee.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no ads, there's no subscriptions, it's just a one-time fee.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it's safe for kids.
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SPEAKER_00: They can't like get out onto other websites from the app.
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SPEAKER_00: And what it has is um, well, you can meet the eggs, it has kindness challenges like um tell your friend a joke, or cheer up somebody who you think might be sad, or write a thank you note to somebody, or help a friend with homework, and they can come back and say, I did it, and get a badge.
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SPEAKER_00: So it enacts uh kindness in the real world, but then they can come back on the screen and get a badge.
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SPEAKER_00: It has games for the kids to play, sorting games, puzzle games.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, it has uh travel games to go with book two, trivia about other countries that they can learn.
17:00
SPEAKER_00: It has um kindness puzzles where puzzles are all mixed up, and then they have to kind of like like say there's um a child helping somebody with their homework.
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SPEAKER_00: It'll, you know, they have to put the puzzle together to figure out what the person is doing.
17:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, there is the town of albumin, which is where the eggs live.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a town that you can build albumin town, and you can drag trees and cars and you know, build the town however you like.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of things in there.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: And my latest addition to the app are the sleep stories, which I'm really proud of.
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SPEAKER_00: There's 30 sleep stories, they're just three minutes each, and they talk about sharing or tomorrow's a good day, or um responsibility, or kindness.
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SPEAKER_00: There's 30 different topics, and then at the first part of the sleep story talks about the virtue or the value, and then the second part shows all the eggs going to bed.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, like good night, Gregory, good night, Meg, good night, you know, all six eggs.
18:05
SPEAKER_00: So um it's really sweet.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: I tested it out on my grandkids and they love it.
18:11
SPEAKER_01: So grandkid tested and approved.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Grandkids tested and approved, and the funny thing, they don't even know it's my voice.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't know.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: They go, We want Miss Poach, we want Miss Poach.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: That's the teacher in the eggs.
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SPEAKER_00: Her name's Miss Poach, and that's who I voice on the videos, so they don't even know that's me.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: So I I want I tell my daughter, don't tell them it's Nona, don't tell them it's me.
18:34
SPEAKER_01: Wait till they're 13.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: What's that, Nona?
18:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: So anyway, um, that's been good, and they're all 30 are available now on the app, but um they're also gonna be available week by week starting September 19th on my Spotify channel and my YouTube channel.
18:56
SPEAKER_00: But you can get them all together right now on the app.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: What's the name of the Spotify channel?
19:01
SPEAKER_01: Is it the Good Egg?
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Good eggs.
19:05
SPEAKER_01: Okay, good eggs, yeah.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: That is a good egg.
19:10
SPEAKER_02: Excuse me, Craig.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: I was gonna tell her I love her.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: The concept to use it is the sleep.
19:15
SPEAKER_02: What what did your terminologist sleep?
19:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, it's called bedtime.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Here, I'll read you the exact thing.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: It's called um so it's called I call it sleep stories, but it's called How to I I called it goodnight corner with Miss Poach.
19:32
SPEAKER_02: And and that's that's just awesome because I feel like they go to bed with something positive on their mind.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, wake up the next morning, it's about being responsible and kind.
19:43
SPEAKER_02: That concept is so actually it's it's so positive and so needed for our kids today to be able to have that type of energy when they do go to school.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: That's I think so too.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: And I do say on there, tomorrow morning when you wake up, try to think of a way, you know, to be responsible or to share a toy or something, and they'll they'll remember that.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: And it's very calming, it's slow moving and very calming.
20:08
SPEAKER_00: There's a lullaby in the background, and so um yeah, it's a nice window.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: And like I said, it's only it's like three minutes and 15 seconds.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: It's not very long.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
20:20
SPEAKER_01: Do you ever have the eggs go through a time of cleaning up when they screw up?
20:26
SPEAKER_01: Like ask apologizing or asking forgiveness because that's Benedict.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: Benedict is the troubled egg.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: So in chapter two of book one, that chapter is about forgiveness.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: And what he does, he jumps to a conclusion.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: He thinks he's not invited to the Halloween party because he didn't see everything in completion.
20:45
SPEAKER_00: He saw a partial list of invitees and he didn't see his name on there.
20:49
SPEAKER_00: So he got offended because he was new and he thought they were leaving him out when they really weren't.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: He just didn't see the completed list.
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SPEAKER_00: He ends up taking the snacks and ruining the party, and so they had to find it in their own hearts to talk to him and forgive him.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: Like they weren't happy at first, his little friends, um, but they kind of had a meeting and sorted it out, and he apologized, and it it so yeah, chapter two is about forgiveness.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: And throughout book one, Benedict messes up a lot, so there's a lot of apologizing from him going on.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: Oh uh when I read that uh uh your chapter on manners, I thought I've been golfing with Benedict before because he was supposed to be characters that are just so rude in the golf course.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: A teacher, a teacher wrote to me and she said, Teachers will recognize Benedict.
21:45
SPEAKER_02: A lot of different will recognize Benedict too.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, some important thing the important thing I feel is that his friends don't give up on him.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: They they keep trying with him and they do see the the goodness in his heart and You know, he's going through some stuff, so which is causing him to act out.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: So they stick with him.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: And by the end of book three, you see how he changes.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: That sounds absolutely great.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: And we can for our um audience, they can get your materials on your uh the good eggs site.
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SPEAKER_01: Um that's the name for the Spotify site.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: The good eggs.org is my website.
22:27
unknown: Okay.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: They can get to um the Spotify channel, the YouTube channel, they can get on the Amazon link if they wanted to purchase the book series.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I might want to add that any purchase from the book series, the um net proceeds goes into the foundation so we can continue our egg gings.
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SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you're you're getting um kind of a keepsake, I would say, you know, with the three-part series.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and also you're helping kids.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's not just getting the content out.
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SPEAKER_01: You've made that totally clear.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about helping folks through the foundation.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's really definitely because that we can keep it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep, and the app also, um, the app is the links are on there too, the for the app store and Google Play on the website.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, that this sounds absolutely great, and we we just want to thank you for being our guest here, and it's a great life again.
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SPEAKER_01: And you you have to come back and and keep us posted on the next iteration of what's what the good old.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, because it keeps it past 15 years, I've been working on this and it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger.
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SPEAKER_01: So yes, you're it's gonna keep going.
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SPEAKER_01: Your teaching background shining through, but your creative ability to put this these characters on the lower shelf.
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SPEAKER_01: That's just it's so great.
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SPEAKER_01: And it we all can relate to that.
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SPEAKER_02: The same thing, Craig, she's so creative.
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SPEAKER_02: Um in this world today, that your creativity would definitely make a difference.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I hope so.
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SPEAKER_00: That is Michael.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, David, for having me.
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SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you all for joining us, Suzette.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks for being our co-host today.
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SPEAKER_01: And Sandra, we just wish you nothing but continued success and and uh very excited to hear um about the next phase, what's going on with the good eggs.org organization.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much, Craig and Suzette.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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