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Teachers Are A Gift From God · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Hello, welcome to Have a Little Faith
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah, my podcast where I get to unabashedly pronounce
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  Speaker 1: my faith, talk about my Lord, talk about my belief system.
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  Speaker 1: I try not to do that on the air. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not on the radio to preach at you. But if
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  Speaker 1: you found this podcast, if you stumbled upon it somehow,
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  Speaker 1: that means you are a person of faith or a
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  Speaker 1: person seeking to connect with faith. I'm not here to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a religion, a church, a denomination. Nay, nay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. But I am here
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how the Lord has shaped my life,
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  Speaker 1: shaped my heart, given me peace, how God and my
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  Speaker 1: faith helped to regulate my very stressed nervous system. And
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  Speaker 1: this episode of Have a Little Faith is dedicated to
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  Speaker 1: educ caters, teachers, principles, people in the education system, and
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  Speaker 1: the gift they are trying to bestow upon us. Despite
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  Speaker 1: all odds. Teaching is not a vocation. It is not
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  Speaker 1: It is a calling. And when you choose that path,
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  Speaker 1: when you choose to work with young people, you are
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  Speaker 1: truly doing God's work. The first color I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: share with you on this podcast was such a surprise
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  Speaker 1: to me I was shocked. I was floored. It wasn't orchestrated,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't put together. It was a complete surprise from
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  Speaker 1: God to my heart. Maybe one of the biggest blessings
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  Speaker 1: I've received in quite a while. I am going to
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  Speaker 1: let this story tell itself. It's such a beautiful story.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to have a little faith with Delilah. Who's with
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  Speaker 1: me on the phone line.
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  Speaker 2: Delilah, my name is James L. Stewart, and I'm calling
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  Speaker 2: for a friend that you knew back in Resport over again,
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  Speaker 2: back in the early seventies, Jack Jorgensen. When you work
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  Speaker 2: with him when you were like sixteen years of age.
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  Speaker 1: Where did Jack work back in those days?
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  Speaker 3: Resport High School?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh, Delilah.
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  Speaker 2: He's been trying to reach you for the last year
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  Speaker 2: and a half, and I told him I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: hang on the phone for him. We're calling from Madison, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: He's a retired teacher now, but here he is, Delilah,
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  Speaker 2: and he wants to speak with.
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  Speaker 1: You, all right, James, thank you for being patient, Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Jorgenson, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: My god, Oh, it's so wonderful to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 1: How did you get to Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: From Oh, well this is I was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 3: and I went to school and in Madison. I got
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  Speaker 3: my master's degree here and yeah, and then I moved
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  Speaker 3: out to Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: So why did you choose our little town? Remember what
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  Speaker 1: a thriving little town it was when you were teaching there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I started the first special let classroom there.
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  Speaker 1: And you had Carrie, right, wasn't Carrie one of your
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  Speaker 1: first students. Yes, you know Carrie passed away a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, and it just broke my heart.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to share that.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing, amazing young man.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I remember you helped me paint the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: I was painting everything that they would let me paint.
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  Speaker 1: I painted the Christmas windows, I painted classrooms. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: still paint everything I can get my hands on.
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  Speaker 3: I have so many wonderful men of you working with
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  Speaker 3: me and supporting the students with disabilities. We have the
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  Speaker 3: first classroom supporting students at that time with mental retardation.
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  Speaker 3: They don't call it that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it's fragile X usually or some other disability. But
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  Speaker 1: you were a pioneer in our little town, and you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I loved that I remember so profoundly was
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  Speaker 1: you were insistent that everybody treat the special needs kids
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  Speaker 1: with dignity and respect. And yes, I always, I always loved, loved,
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  Speaker 1: loved the kids that had special challenges. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the other students and a lot of even the
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  Speaker 1: administration and teachers didn't have that mindset. And you came
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  Speaker 1: along and you're like, no, no, no, we're not separating them,
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  Speaker 1: We're integrating them. Yes, Skipper and Carrie.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, you know. It brings back so many wonderful
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  Speaker 3: memories though, And I have to just say this, I
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  Speaker 3: loved working with you. You were such a wonderful, wonderful,
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  Speaker 3: supportive person in my classroom.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I go back. In fact, I was back
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  Speaker 1: in Readsport last week and I went down to the
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  Speaker 1: beach and always go by the high school, and so
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  Speaker 1: many memories come flooding back. We had such an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing time, amazing people. I'm still friends our class. You
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  Speaker 1: should come to one of our class reunions, mister Jorgenson.
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  Speaker 1: We still have a class reunion every five years. We've
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  Speaker 1: never missed one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is so wonderful. Oh well, I have to
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  Speaker 3: say I have so many wonderful memories of you and
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  Speaker 3: I working together in supporting students in our classroom. And
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  Speaker 3: that was the first classroom to support students.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember painting the murals, painting the walls.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we had weren't they bean bag pillows we brought
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  Speaker 1: in or something bean bag chairs for the kids up
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  Speaker 1: against the back corner wall. I remember, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I remember memories. And the woodshop class helped us build
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  Speaker 1: some things for the room.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I just have to say our time
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  Speaker 3: working together is so memorable for me. My very first
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  Speaker 3: job after I graduated from college as a special ed
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  Speaker 3: teacher and to move out to Oregon and reach Court,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I remember meeting with the principal and saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where's my classroom? And he goes, well, Jack,
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  Speaker 3: it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Really a not really a classroom. It's more of a closet.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a huge closet.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big store. It's where they stored supplies.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that it was a storage room. It was
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  Speaker 1: the big storage supply room. And we had to clean
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 3: It was dirty, the walls were awful. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: you and I together, and I hope you remember this.
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  Speaker 3: We painted that room.
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  Speaker 1: I remember painting the room. I remember moving bags of sand.
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  Speaker 1: They had sand in there for some project. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was to keep water out or something.
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  Speaker 1: And we had to move out hundreds of pounds of sand,
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  Speaker 1: and then we had to shovel the damn floor and
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  Speaker 1: then sweep the floor. There was some kind of industrial
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  Speaker 1: glue stuff. Remember that stuck on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do, Yeah, I remember. But I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 3: you and I together were able to totally transform that
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  Speaker 3: room into a wonderful classroom. We did well.
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  Speaker 1: It was more than you and I together, but I
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  Speaker 1: was definitely, uh, definitely loving every minute of it.
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  Speaker 3: I would say you were probably my favorite partner as
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  Speaker 3: we were doing that. We did it together.
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  Speaker 1: I think the other teachers were happy because while I
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  Speaker 1: was in there working, I wasn't in their classroom disrupting everything. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: mister Warcanteine was more than happy to have me go
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  Speaker 1: help you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but I'll tell you I was blessed to
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  Speaker 3: have you in my room, being such a wonderful, caring,
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  Speaker 3: supportive person, and together we made such a difference at
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  Speaker 3: classrooms for students with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: And missus Timchuk remember missus Timchuk came and helped.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I remember that very well.
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  Speaker 1: She was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Well, I don't know if you remember, but and
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  Speaker 3: I may not have known you when I was doing this,
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  Speaker 3: but when I took the job, the principal handed me
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  Speaker 3: a paper with all these addresses on it, names, and said,
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  Speaker 3: these are all families that have a child with a
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  Speaker 3: disability and the child is not attended school, and these
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  Speaker 3: are the homes they live in. You have to go
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  Speaker 3: up and actually let them know that you are now
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  Speaker 3: opening up a classroom for students with disabilities. And I
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  Speaker 3: spent my first two weeks driving up into the coastal
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  Speaker 3: mountains to all these little I mean seriously, they were
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  Speaker 3: located way up in the hills.
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  Speaker 1: I know some of those families. Still. You went up
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  Speaker 1: to ash Valley and there were some people up there
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  Speaker 1: that had never been in school.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I remember going to the homes, knocking on the
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  Speaker 3: door and introducing myself and saying, I'm Jack Jorgensen, and
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  Speaker 3: I will be the special education teacher at Reesport High
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  Speaker 3: School and your son or daughter is now eligible to
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  Speaker 3: come to school. And they were absolutely so amazed by that.
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  Speaker 3: And it was like I remember that was truly in
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  Speaker 3: my career, one of the most memorable times of my career,
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  Speaker 3: in meeting with those families and meeting the parents and
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  Speaker 3: then being introduced to the student that I was going
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  Speaker 3: to be working with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, twenty years ago I started working in West
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  Speaker 1: Africa in a refugee camp and there was a doctor
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  Speaker 1: from France whose wife, Elise, was a special education teacher
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  Speaker 1: in France and her husband was a doctor volunteering in
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  Speaker 1: this refugee camp. And she said, it's so weird that
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  Speaker 1: there's this huge population and no special needs kids. And
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  Speaker 1: somebody at the clinic that her husband worked at said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there are hundreds of special needs kids, but they're shunned
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  Speaker 1: and so the parents keep them out of public view.
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  Speaker 1: And just like you did, Jack back in the seventies,
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  Speaker 1: she went door to door in the refugee camp, shack
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  Speaker 1: to shack, tent to tent, introduced herself and said, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to meet your child. I hear you have
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  Speaker 1: a special needs child. Well, then her husband came to
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  Speaker 1: me and to Jam the rector for Point Hope, and
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  Speaker 1: we were able to start one of the first schools
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  Speaker 1: ever in a refugee camp in the world for special
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  Speaker 1: needs kids, just like I was painting the walls with
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  Speaker 1: you back at Readsport High School, I was painting the
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  Speaker 1: walls in the special needs program in West Africa.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is so beautiful to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have so many amazing experiences that you
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  Speaker 4: can reflect back on.
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  Speaker 1: And it all started at Readsport High and at Katie
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  Speaker 1: you in and all those years ago. Oh, it's so
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  Speaker 1: good to hear your voice. I'm giving you a great
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  Speaker 1: big hug via the airwaves.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm retringing it to you, sending my love
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  Speaker 3: bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Jorgensen, you have blessed me beyond measure. You taught
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  Speaker 1: me something I've carried with me my entire life. People
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  Speaker 1: who have so called disabilities special needs are oftentimes the
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  Speaker 1: very best people, the very best people on this planet.
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  Speaker 1: My friend Jamie Minton lives in a group home. I've
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  Speaker 1: known him for over thirty years. He has the sweetest,
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  Speaker 1: sweetest heart. My friend Megan Megan to Spain, who I
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  Speaker 1: met fifty years ago, was born with cerebral palsy. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, what a strong, strong woman she is. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Olivia Marconi, who just had a birthday She is
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  Speaker 1: a week older than my late son Zach. She has
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  Speaker 1: the strength of ten people. And mister Jorgensen, you dedicated
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  Speaker 1: your entire life to not just giving a space a
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  Speaker 1: room that we converted, but you gave a voice to
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  Speaker 1: kids who otherwise would not have had that. Thank you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: for teaching me by example, your example back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: what was at seventy four? Your example changed the trajectory
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  Speaker 1: of my life. You open my heart to something I
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  Speaker 1: knew intuitively, but you gave it legs, and you gave
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  Speaker 1: it words, and you gave it life. So thank you. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: don't mean to cry on my podcast. Up next, we
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  Speaker 1: have Christina. She met two teachers by chance. She found
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  Speaker 1: them through a job, and they have taught her long
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  Speaker 1: after they stopped their profession. Let's have Christina share this
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  Speaker 1: story in her own words. Christina, welcome to have a
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  Speaker 1: little faith.
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  Speaker 5: I heard you say you want to honor some teachers,
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  Speaker 5: and I have actually two teachers. They're married, they are
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  Speaker 5: retired now, and they hired me to clean their house.
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  Speaker 5: They have become like family. I don't know what I
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  Speaker 5: would do without them. And I see myself in missus Jackie,
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  Speaker 5: and I see my husband and in her husband and
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  Speaker 5: mister Buck and they are just awesome people and they're
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  Speaker 5: giving and loving and have just taught me so many things,
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  Speaker 5: and I just feel like they need to be honored.
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  Speaker 1: So did you have them as teachers or you met
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  Speaker 1: them afterwards?
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  Speaker 5: I met them afterwards. I was planning our wedding and
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  Speaker 5: we were tied on money, and so I said, you
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  Speaker 5: know what, I'll just start cleaning houses again. So I
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  Speaker 5: went on Facebook and I posted a little thing and
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  Speaker 5: they called me. And at first I was like, thinking
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  Speaker 5: it was just the man, and so I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I wanted my soon to be husband to go with
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  Speaker 5: me just in case something crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Just to be on the safe side. Very wise of you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, And they ended up being just I can't even
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  Speaker 5: explain it. They're like having a no other parent or
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  Speaker 5: having you know, they have good advice and they they
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  Speaker 5: have just taken us under their wing and has helped
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  Speaker 5: us in more ways than they could imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Some people call that coincidence. I say that's God doing
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  Speaker 1: his best work when he weaves lives together like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Both of us.
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  Speaker 5: Both couples have been through, you know, some hard times
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  Speaker 5: and and but you know they've always been there for
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  Speaker 5: with a smile on their face, and you know, supportive
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  Speaker 5: words and you know, and I just don't know what
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  Speaker 5: I would do without them.
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  Speaker 1: I will play a sweet song to let these teachers
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  Speaker 1: know that even though they might have retired professionally, they're
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  Speaker 1: still teaching about life.
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  Speaker 6: They are they do every day.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: Jackie and Buck would enjoy sharing a nice cup of
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  Speaker 1: Bigelow tea with you?
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  Speaker 3: They would.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very sweet relationship with Cindy Bigelow from Bigelot,
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  Speaker 1: and she said, anytime somebody calls and you just want
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  Speaker 1: to gift them with a cup of tea, they can share,
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  Speaker 1: let me know and I will send them some tea.
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  Speaker 1: So I am going to let Cindy Bigelow know and
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  Speaker 1: her team will send you some Bigelot to share with
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  Speaker 1: this family, the Reiner family.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for listening. You have a great night.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for everything you do because you're an inspiration
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Christina, thank you for sharing your beautiful story and the friendship.
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  Speaker 1: The relationships that you've built. Teachers are everywhere. We only
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  Speaker 1: need to recognize them to listen to them and to
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  Speaker 1: honor them. The last call I want to share with
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  Speaker 1: you is from a teacher in the making. Her name
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  Speaker 1: is Mac. Mac welcome to have a little faith. Who
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  Speaker 1: are you thinking about this evening?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I was thinking about a teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, tell me about your teacher and why this teacher
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  Speaker 1: has impressed to your heart so well.
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  Speaker 7: I've had many wonderful teachers throughout the years. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I'm I'm thirty now, but I think back to my.
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  Speaker 6: School days often.
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  Speaker 1: So when you say school days, favorite favorite years to
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  Speaker 1: look back on, junior high, high school, grade school, like
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  Speaker 1: where is the sweet spot?
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  Speaker 7: I've had excellent teachers in every year of school, but
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  Speaker 7: the ones that I really look back at are like
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  Speaker 7: the teachers that helped me kind of grow my foundations
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  Speaker 7: for like elementary school. Honestly, those are who I right
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  Speaker 7: now having, like a child who is elementary grade. I
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  Speaker 7: think about them a lot.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do?
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  Speaker 7: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Do you you're a mama? But do you have a profession?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a job outside of full time mama hood?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm actually a stay at home mom. So I
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  Speaker 7: have three kids. My oldest is five and he in
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  Speaker 7: pre K. He'll start kindergarten next year, and then my
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  Speaker 7: second will be in pre K next year.
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  Speaker 6: They're only seventeen months apart.
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  Speaker 7: And then my youngest is one, so I'll be home
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  Speaker 7: with her for a while until she.
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  Speaker 3: Goes to school.
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  Speaker 7: But right currently, I'm able to volunteer at my son's
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  Speaker 7: school a couple of days a week, and just being
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  Speaker 7: in that pre K class, that setting, it's just like
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  Speaker 7: it reminds me of, you know, being younger, or like
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  Speaker 7: I get along so well with the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe when yours are in school full time, you should
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  Speaker 1: be in school full time so that you can share
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  Speaker 1: this passion that you have in this respect you have
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  Speaker 1: for teachers by becoming one, you sound like you were
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  Speaker 1: made for it.
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  Speaker 6: Not the first person to say that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you sound like this is what you were
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  Speaker 1: born for. This was the mission that God put on
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  Speaker 1: your heart when you were little.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, when I was a kid, I did want to
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  Speaker 7: be a teacher, and then as I get older, I
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  Speaker 7: got into like art, I wanted to be an artist.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like you are meant to be your children's
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  Speaker 1: art teacher. I was my kid's art teacher. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a teaching degree, but I was my kid's art
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  Speaker 1: teacher when they were in junior high and some of
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  Speaker 1: their core memories. We laugh every time we have a
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  Speaker 1: family get together. My Sontle raises hand really goofy and
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  Speaker 1: wave it back and forth and back and forth, and
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  Speaker 1: mister Renee, mister Renee, please please, I can't draw a circle.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please just just draw the circle? That's all
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  Speaker 1: I need. No, I mean I need you to draw
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  Speaker 1: the tree too. Can you just draw the tree? And
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  Speaker 1: this like he just teases me.
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  Speaker 6: You were my art teacher, pretend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, junior high kids. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: teachers survived junior high kids. Oh goodness, but Mac, you
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  Speaker 1: are meant to be a teacher. I am telling you.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord gifted you with a gift, and you you
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  Speaker 1: were born for this.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's not even in a traditional school type
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  Speaker 1: of setting way. Maybe it's as a volunteer. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: at a local art center. Maybe it's doing art therapy
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  Speaker 1: with kids that don't have the kind of stable mama
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  Speaker 1: you are. I don't know. I just know that you
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  Speaker 1: have a gift.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for favor. I think you're right.
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  Speaker 7: My husband says the same thing. My friend say the
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  Speaker 7: same thing I think. Yeah, but it's like I've been
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  Speaker 7: a stay at home moms for five years. Well, so
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of like how to move out of that?
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  Speaker 1: Even you know you do it the same way. You
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  Speaker 1: do everything, one day at a time, one step at
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  Speaker 1: a time, the same way you you grew those babies
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  Speaker 1: and birth them and are raised them, one day at
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  Speaker 1: a time, one step at a time, one class at
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  Speaker 1: a time, one project at a time.
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  Speaker 7: Given my oldest, I gave my oldest all my time,
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  Speaker 7: and I've given my middle child all of my time
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  Speaker 7: as well, and then my youngest she's one, Like.
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  Speaker 6: Do I pursue a career and put her in daycare?
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  Speaker 3: Or do I no?
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  Speaker 1: Because that would be contrary to who you are and
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  Speaker 1: your core values. I can tell that. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I gave my kids my time, and I had a
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  Speaker 1: full time career and they never once went to daycare,
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  Speaker 1: not one day of their life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: My husband is a chef, so he works like pretty
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  Speaker 7: much breakfast till bed time.
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  Speaker 1: Mac. I know that you are naturally a teacher, and
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  Speaker 1: however this plays out, I'm guessing you will touch a
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  Speaker 1: lot of young lives. Trust your own timing. If you
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  Speaker 1: lean on your faith, if you follow the path that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is lighting in front of you, Ah, you
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  Speaker 1: are going to change and impact lives, just like mister
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  Speaker 1: Jorgensen did with me fifty years ago. As we wrap
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  Speaker 1: this episode up, I want to thank everyone, but especially teachers, educators, principles,
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  Speaker 1: counselors at school, the sweet women that work in the
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  Speaker 1: lunch room at our school, the bus drivers. No matter
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  Speaker 1: where you find yourself in life, I know there was
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  Speaker 1: a teacher that cared for you, that touched your heart,
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  Speaker 1: that touched your life. You might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: thank your particular teacher like I got to thank mister
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  Speaker 1: Jorgenson earlier. But you can thank your child's teacher, your
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  Speaker 1: grandchild's teacher. Take them a card for a Starbucks drink.
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  Speaker 1: Their new energy drinks are amazing. Teachers could use those.
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  Speaker 1: Take them a gift card, take them a note, write
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  Speaker 1: them a note that says thank you. You are touching
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  Speaker 1: lives when you see a teacher, When you talk to
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, thank them, listen to them, Tell them to
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  Speaker 1: listen to this episode and how much I appreciate them.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing your time with me today. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you and the journey that you are on. Have
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  Speaker 1: a little faith, have a lot of faith, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know how to start that conversation, start
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  Speaker 1: that dialogue with the Almighty text me, call me, write
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I will be happy to help you
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  Speaker 1: begin this journey. You're listening to the Lilah de