Latest / Math Therapy / Taking my own advice
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- 0:00Vanessa Vakharia: Hey, guys.
- 0:00Vanessa Vakharia: It's me, it's Vanessa.
- 0:01Vanessa Vakharia: This is Math I am recording this from my hotel room in Utah I just left Boston, where I was presenting at Get Your Teach On, which was literally magical.
- 0:14Vanessa Vakharia: My friend Allison Mello put on this entire conference that was Christmas-themed, and it was unreal.
- 0:22Vanessa Vakharia: There was, like, a gingerbread land.
- 0:24Vanessa Vakharia: Everything was a vibe.
- 0:26Vanessa Vakharia: We I had two outfit changes: one in red velvet, one in green velvet.
- 0:30Vanessa Vakharia: Anyways, it was amazing, and then right away I had to leave and head to Utah for the first time ever to do two days of professional development with Davis County School District starting tomorrow.
- 0:41Vanessa Vakharia: I'm actually so excited because this is just my first trip, because I'm working with them for the entire year, and guys, Utah has been on my bucket list.
- 0:49Vanessa Vakharia: I cannot wait.
- 0:50Vanessa Vakharia: I have wanted to try a dirty soda for, like, literally two years now, and it's gonna happen.
- 0:56Vanessa Vakharia: And I have a whole day off on Saturday, so text me your recommendations.
- 0:59Vanessa Vakharia: Anyways, okay, the whole point is, long story short, I ran out of time, things got a bit hectic, and I was like,"Instead of forcing an episode, I'm gonna take a break for a couple of weeks." Now, I hate taking a break.
- 1:11Vanessa Vakharia: I feel like I'm letting you guys down.
- 1:13Vanessa Vakharia: I feel like you expected an episode, but instead you have me telling you all the reasons why you don't have an episode.
- 1:18Vanessa Vakharia: Things have been a bit crazy this summer, and David convinced me that podcasts take breaks apparently, and I'm not a failure, and everything's fine.
- 1:26Vanessa Vakharia: So I'm choosing to just believe him because I don't really have another choice right now.
- 1:30Vanessa Vakharia: Honestly, though, I've been a bit burnt out the last few weeks, and I'm always giving out advice about self-care and, like, blah, blah, blah, how to look after yourselves when you're stressed.
- 1:38Vanessa Vakharia: And of course, I'm really bad at taking my own advice.
- 1:40Vanessa Vakharia: And I think we can all agree it's way too soon for me to do another episode where I have a panic attack meltdown in your ears.
- 1:48Vanessa Vakharia: So we're gonna get caught up over the next couple of weeks, and we will be back in no time.
- 1:53Vanessa Vakharia: We just did a whole bunch of amazing interviews, so we're gonna process those, and I promise you we will have some amazing episodes coming up in the next few weeks.
- 2:03Vanessa Vakharia: And if you're like,"Okay, cool, like, yes, I want you to take care of yourself, but I also wanted to listen to you", don't worry, I have a plan.
- 2:12Vanessa Vakharia: There are actually a few interviews I've done recently on other people's podcasts that you can listen to right now.
- 2:19Vanessa Vakharia: The two that come to mind are, number one, the three-part series that HeartWork did on math anxiety.
- 2:25Vanessa Vakharia: Now, you may have already listened to this, but if you haven't, HeartWork is actually an Imagine Learning podcast series, and they are so good, They basically did a three-part series on math anxiety featuring me, Peter Liljedahl, Deborah Peart, some other amazing educators, and I'm on the second episode.
- 2:42Vanessa Vakharia: And I don't wanna give too much away, but we have something coming up on this podcast, like, Math Therapy, that ties directly to Heartwork's three-part series.
- 2:51Vanessa Vakharia: So if you haven't heard it yet, this is a great time to go hit play because that'll put you ahead of the game when we release our surprise next month.
- 2:58Vanessa Vakharia: So that's my first suggestion.
- 2:59Vanessa Vakharia: Go listen to Heartwork's three-part series on math anxiety.
- 3:03Vanessa Vakharia: The second podcast you can listen to is Kristin Moore's Modern Math Teacher podcast.
- 3:08Vanessa Vakharia: She did a huge series on my book, Math Therapy.
- 3:11Vanessa Vakharia: This was actually really cool.
- 3:12Vanessa Vakharia: She basically treated her podcast like a Math Therapy book study with 10 to 15-minute episodes every week about every chapter.
- 3:19Vanessa Vakharia: Actually, it wasn't even every week, it was like every day.
- 3:21Vanessa Vakharia: She, like, really banked a whole bunch.
- 3:23Vanessa Vakharia: And for the final episode in that series, she interviewed me, and I actually gave her a little bit of live math therapy.
- 3:29Vanessa Vakharia: So you can binge that right now by hitting up the Modern Math Teacher podcast.
- 3:34Vanessa Vakharia: Now, here's the bonus idea If you haven't been listening to this podcast since day one, which I'm sure most of you haven't because we've been around since 2020, today's your day to play what I like to call Math Therapy Roulette.
- 3:48Vanessa Vakharia: I want you to go to your podcast app or maththerapypodcast.com or wherever you're listening to me right now, and I want you to do that thing where you scroll like you're, like, spinning a wheel.
- 3:57Vanessa Vakharia: Like, you flick your finger over the screen or your cursor or whatever and let it ride, and then just hit play on the first episode you see when your screen slows to a stop.
- 4:07Vanessa Vakharia: Like, the first one you see that you have not listened to.
- 4:09Vanessa Vakharia: As I said, we've been podcasting since 2020.
- 4:11Vanessa Vakharia: There are some deep cuts that I'm sure you haven't heard.
- 4:14Vanessa Vakharia: Like, go through seasons one through three and pick something from there.
- 4:19Vanessa Vakharia: Today's your day to find some serious gems, like a treasure hunt, and then I want you to text me by hitting the link in your show notes and tell me which one you listened to, because I'm already dying to know.
- 4:29Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, I'm gonna wrap this up because the whole point was to, like, make this short because it's not an actual episode, but somehow you've been listening to six minutes of me telling you why this is not an actual episode, but why you're still listening to me anyways.
- 4:40Vanessa Vakharia: So all that to say, enjoy the rest of your summer.
- 4:43Vanessa Vakharia: If you're already back to school, get in there, crush it.
- 4:46Vanessa Vakharia: I cannot wait to hear from you, and we'll be back in your feed soon with more Math Therapy.
- 4:52Vanessa Vakharia: Thank you guys for being so understanding, and I hope you are also engaging in whatever act of self-care you need right now to get you through the week.