Why Adult Learners Don’t Return to School for a Just One Reason

I Can Do This Show Me How! · Sep 3, 2026 · 31m

In today's solo episode, I'm reflecting on something I've carried with me for decades: the idea that education became a mirror for me—not just a way to learn about the world, but a way to learn about myself.

I share the story of enrolling in college in my 30s after years of believing I wasn't "the academic type" and talk about what it was like to get back my first college paper. I also share about being asked, for the first time, "What do you think?" and how that question started to change everything. I reflect on the difference between earning a credential and being transformed by the…