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Learn Today. Share Tomorrow. | Episode 1 · Learn Today. Share Tomorrow.

• 0:11
  SPEAKER_02: Hello again, everybody.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to our inaugural edition of Learn Today.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: Share tomorrow.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: And you say, now what does that mean?
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I tell you what, we all learn every single day.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: It starts when we're very, very young.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Even preschool would maybe be the uh the very beginning.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: And of course, uh, we always want to be educated as best we can.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: Learn today, and we're sharing tomorrow.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: We want to learn how to be educated and how to move forward, but we also want to learn how to be a difference maker in our world.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: As I've said for years, live your life as a go-getter, but share your life as a go-giver and make a difference in the lives of those that need it most, wherever they might be.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: Just be that difference maker.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's what it's all about.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: So we're delighted to welcome you.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: My name is Scott Marin, alongside ideas.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Metsy Miller, and I'm so excited that you're joining us today.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: The other thing that I'm very excited about is all the amazing guests that we're gonna have on our show.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: As Scott mentioned, we're gonna bring people who are different makers who are gonna discuss how their what they're doing is part of philanthropy as well as education and how that impacts the world every day.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll tell you what, I'm really excited about the fact that we get a chance to do this.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um I think the first thing that we ought to do, since this isn't our inaugural show, is maybe tell our audience just a little about uh who you are and who I am, how we got involved in this uh in this podcast, and what we continue to do from an educational standpoint in our life, and then from certainly uh a philanthropic part of our life and how we learn to be go-givers as well as go-getters.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_02: So, uh, how about it?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Let's uh let's talk about you and and just uh why you do what you do and where you came from and what you know, just let's let's go back to your your schooling, educational.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, what what what comes to mind?
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: The first thing that comes to mind in my family, everybody's either a teacher or a doctor.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, as a very young girl, I decided that I wanted to become a teacher.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I did that for 20 years.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, after I had my daughter, she was born a premi, and I decided that I was going to stay home with her, at least for her first few months of life.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um immediately after that, the pandemic hit, and it made me realize that I needed to stay home a little bit longer.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I started a little home in daycare center, and with all the families that I have worked with for 20 years, we came up with the idea of creating a school.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we are now newborns to eighth grade.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Our school is called Cosmos Montessori.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: And going through that journey, I also realized that there isn't any educational training centers that provide the bilingual Montessori curriculum.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: The bilingual Montessori curriculum that is needed for the specific education that I wanted to provide for my daughter as well as other children in the community.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: So we created our training center, which is called Caminos Global.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and because Montessori is creme de la creme and it's a little bit of support, so we came up with a foundation called Cosmic Mind Funds, which supports anyone that is in bilingual Montessori education, and it helps children with scholarships, teachers with scholarships.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we are trying to empower children through bilingual Montessori education.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: And as you and I met at a networking event, we began to talk about my goals, about the things that you've already done in your career, and so we decided that it might be a good idea that we get a podcast together and uh we learn what other people are doing to make an impact in the world.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, but what about you?
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: You have an amazing career.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that was one of the first things that impressed me about you.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: I that I heard all of the things that you're doing in philanthropy um as a pod uh uh MBC uh broadcaster as well as your MX, etc.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, what would you like to share?
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: How did you get started?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, when you talk about uh you know where I came from and things I've done in the past, uh it it all started for me uh I guess uh when I was in second grade.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: My best friend uh Frankie, the two of us went uh trick-or-treating and just had a great time, came back home, and my mother and father had on the kitchen counter three little Maxwell House coffee cans, and they had the word UNICEF put around it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: And they told us today we're gonna go out and uh be a part of uh being a difference maker.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna learn what the word philanthropy means, and we're going to help some other children that will never ever meet, but they don't have a place to stay, they don't have a place to live, they might have a mom or a dad, maybe that lives in another country, uh, maybe they passed away, they don't have food, they don't just just don't have the things that we had.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: So we went and did that, and it was a great uh great opportunity.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you talk about having doctors and what have you in your family.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: We had doctors and dentists in my family, but uh uh it was really disappointing because after uh after I went trick-or-treating on that Friday night, on Monday morning, I came into school and my friend Frankie wasn't there.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_02: His parents were there.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I asked my teacher why, and she proceeded to tell us that uh we needed to sit down.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_02: Frankie's parents were gonna talk to us all.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_02: Well, all of a sudden, they proceeded to tell us that Frankie had leukemia.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, he didn't even make it till the end of the school year.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: And so I'd lost my best friend, and I vowed that I was going to become a pediatrician at that time.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's uh that's what I went to college to become, was a pediatrician.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: And I was driving down the road, freshman year in college, and all of a sudden I hear this guy on the radio, hey, how would you like to make millions of dollars?
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Travel to millions of locations, meet millions of girls, you too can be a disc jockey.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: So I checked it out, and uh so and whatever, uh ended up uh being an all-night DJ.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_02: And that was uh that was a great opportunity.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_02: And uh called myself Doc Scott, the sound surgeon, because that's uh what I was gonna be, was a doctor, but I was spinning records now.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_02: I wasn't, you know, so I was making music.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: So uh uh that's that's how it all started.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: So it's it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then uh spent uh over 30 years as a as an anchor.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: I was in Washington, D.C.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was in upstate New York, and then uh spent most of that time in the in in in the Dallas Fort Worth area as uh as the main anchor at uh the sports sports director, sports anchor at MBC Five in Dallas.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_02: So a great opportunity and and just uh a great life.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_02: Really have enjoyed it.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: So why do this podcast now?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think the reason we're doing this podcast now is the two of us are both so focused on education.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: And education is first and foremost.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: And and unfortunately, we uh I think have have kind of lost that.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it it it doesn't seem to be as as important or as much as a a a priority as it was when my mom and dad said, do your schoolwork, do your homework, focus on focus on this, focus on that.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: And and they would give us opportunities to go places and do things that would educate us as well.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_02: So everything was about learning as much as we could.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I think it it served me well.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: So I I I have two of the most incredible parents on the planet.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_02: I've lost them both, lost my mom just a couple of years ago.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but it just uh it was a great, great opportunity.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I simply say to you, how about you?
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: Where did where did it come for you?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_02: Education.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: Being a teacher, first of all, being a mother, second of all, just seeing as you're saying how education has progressed, even from the time that I began being a teacher 20 years ago.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the education s system has changed a lot, and a big difference is how people outside of education are helping education.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, what are companies, um, anyone, it could be news, it could be people in technology, um, how they're supporting our education.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so we wanna we wanna learn from other people.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: We wanna see how they impact and how we can work together to create those relationships to bring education back to where it needs to be.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_02: As you look back, is there one thing that stands out that has been a highlight for you, maybe the most rewarding, and you say to yourself, you know what?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_02: I could have done a lot of things in my life and gone in many, many different directions.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_02: But the fact that I got involved in education, have created the school, and now continue to make a difference in the lives of these young children and what their future will be.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, how special is that?
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: And one or two things that come to mind that really have been the highlight for you.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: The biggest highlights for me actually happened in the last couple of years.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: My first graduating class of children from college.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I had a group of five little girls who were very special to me.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um they were my first first graders I ever had, and I love science.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I try to implement that love for science with them as well.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so um ever since last year I receive a call all the way to this year uh with invitations for college graduations.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: And actually all five of them are studying something to do with science.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, I it's me thinking back on how did I influence them, how did I get them to love science?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh because as you know, women normally don't go into the scientific field, unfortunately.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: So to me, it made it all worth it.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: If I were to say to you three most important things that children need to know, if you walked into the classroom today and you had some first graders, second graders, third graders, or for that matter, maybe even more importantly, uh someone that is is is there to let young people that might be in sixth, seventh, eighth grade are getting ready for high school or getting ready for college.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: What are the three things that are gonna come to mind that you say this education is the most important thing you're gonna be a part of, and here's why?
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: What comes to mind?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Children need to be children need to feel safe and they need to feel loved.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: If they don't have those two things in their environment, they're not gonna succeed academically.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then the last thing is a partnership between parents and the school and the community because they have to know what that child needs, they have to know how to support them at any given time.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's very, very important, and a lot of the education system does not have those first two.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and so it's important that we include that in in our partnerships and education.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: That's it's amazing.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's funny how you uh you think about education, and of course the name of our program, we talk about education, but then also taking that education and putting it forth with uh just a philanthropic spirit in who we are and making a difference in the lives of those that need it most.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: So what comes to mind?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's why we created this this podcast in the first place, education first and foremost, but then take that and be a difference maker.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: So how about you?
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: And the question that you had for me reminds me of a question that I had for you.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: What is one of your biggest highlights in your career?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Biggest highlights in my career?
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, I've I've been very fortunate.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I've been named uh Sportscaster of the Year 17 times, uh, have won countless Emmys.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um and and it just uh you know the Silver Circle and the Gold Circle Award have received both of those from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: Those are the Emmys.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: And so that was very, very special and always will be.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um named Father of the Year here in here in Texas uh back in 2002.
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  SPEAKER_02: The first person was Roger Stahlbach in 1976.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: And uh to be able to follow in the footsteps of someone like a an All-American uh Hall of Famer like Roger Stahlbach, I mean it doesn't get much better than that, but still to be named Father of the Year is probably the highlight of of any award I've ever won or been named for.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then I would I would probably say as far as a story, as far as a newscaster, uh having been to 44 Super Bowls and the Olympics and all kinds of things like that, that was wonderful.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: But if I was to name one thing that stands out about everything else, it would probably be going to Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day with two dozen World War Two vets all in their 90s, excuse me.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: And we went to Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, back to the back to France, and went to where they were in World War II when they were all in their twenties.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_02: And it was just so moving and so emotional.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I did that with my son.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_02: I do a lot of uh military things, uh MC the Veterans Day Parade in Dallas did that for years and things like that.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: But I think probably being there with all those veterans was just above and beyond.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we thank them all the time for their service, but it it you you just don't realize the difference they make.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: And to be there with my son, who came with me, who since I left television and formed a television production company with my with my son, um, after he graduated from Baylor University with with a degree in that in that field, I thought it was most important that uh we we do something that would really make a difference in the lives of those.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: So we put together a documentary.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: He shot the whole thing, and then I interviewed them and wrote the documentary, and both my son and I won an Emmy.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: So to win an Emmy with your son going to Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, it simply doesn't get any better than that.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: So we thank them all for their service, and I certainly thank my son for all that he continues to do along those lines.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: And my daughter.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: My daughter is just uh just she's a corporate event planner, executive vice president, uh, and she just is uh you know a real difference maker.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm I'm most proud of my children.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: I can see that in your face that you're proud.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, definitely.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: They're the best.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: And how did you get started with doing events for veterans?
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: Why do you do them?
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: What what gives you?
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: I never served.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: My dad was in the Air Force, I never served, and I I was uh when I was going to college, I was exempt from going into the I was uh 2S, I think is what they called it, and that meant I was a student.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't get drafted, I and I was studying to be a doctor.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: So they needed doctors.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: So I d didn't qualify for the draft at that time.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: And then of course uh the the draft at that point ended because of you know the Vietnam War was over and I was I came after all that.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh um, you know, just I I never served.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: But I always had great respect for those that did serve in any way that I could be involved.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on the board of of uh tribute to valor and and go to the the military order of the world wars, member of that organization.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: I just uh um spent did a television show with Chris Cassidy, who is the gentleman that is the former astronaut, former Navy SEAL, former Annapolis uh graduate um of uh for the uh uh uh Medal of Honor Museum, the National Museum that is in uh Arlington that has been built, you know, within the last year, and uh to sit down with Chris and and listen to him represent all these in incredible gentlemen and ladies, uh young and old alike, all races, all creeds, all colors, that just put their life on the line for all of us every single day.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: It simply doesn't get any better than that.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: So I salute them all and I will be there 24-7 the rest of my life to do whatever I can for for all of them.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: I was honored to uh to uh uh serve uh um as the MC for the 250th celebration.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh was also honored to be the MC at uh the 9-11 uh event that was recently held uh here in Dallas, one of the one of the events.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_02: And I just uh anything I can do like that.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm there.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's just such a no-brainer.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the words that you said remind me of a poem that you like to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's I have two questions for you.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: First, how do you think that we can represent being a proud American uh in conjunction to what we're trying to work on, which is philanthropic philanthropy and education.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the second part, would you like to share a little bit of your poem?
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: Well, my my poem actually uh is is something my mother was a a nurse and concert pianist, and she also though loved poetry and wrote lots of poetry.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: And after my my friend Frankie that I mentioned earlier passed away when I was eight years old the following year, she said, Let's uh let's uh write some uh write some some poems.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: And uh you and I can write them together.
• 16:47
  unknown: Uh-huh.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, Sure, that's that's great.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: And she said, And let's let's do about uh a poem about being a a good a good you know, good parent.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um because someday you're probably gonna be a parent and you wanna always remember to teach your children as positively and productively as they can so that they have great purpose and great passion in their life and who they are and what they're all about.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: But do it with great integrity and just uh just be that special person.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_02: And so, but it's how you speak to people and how you treat people that is key.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: And you have to have that respect for for folks.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: So we wrote a poem that, as a matter of fact, to this day, um I'm sure there are lots of people say, Oh yeah, I did that.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: I well my mother and I did this poem, I still remember the poem to this day.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: And if you go to the to Google or something and look up this poem, it says author unknown.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh in my mind I know who wrote that poem.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: My mom did, because I've recited this poem for for decades.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: And uh it it just it it deals with children and how you need to be kind, courteous, and respectful to children.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's what my mother told me, that I was the most important job I was gonna have was was a father.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I had to be a good one.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: And uh it it it it started by simply uh going like this.
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  SPEAKER_02: It says, I got two A's, the small boy cried.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_02: His voice was filled with glee.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_02: His mother turned and rudely said, But why didn't you get three?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: Mom, I've got the dishes done, the girl called from the door.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: Her mother turned and rudely said, But did you sweep the floor?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: I mowed the grass, the tall boy said, I put the mower away.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: His father turned and smiled and said, You've made i well, no, his father turned and abruptly said, Did you clean off all the clay?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: Now the children in the house next door seemed happy and content.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: Same thing happened over there, but this is how it went.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: I got two A's, the small boy cried.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: His voice was filled with glee.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_02: His mother turned and smiled and said, I'm glad you live with me.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_02: Mom, I've got the dishes done, the girl called from the door.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: Her mother turned and smiled and said, Each day, I love you more.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: I mowed the grass, the tall boy said, I put the mower away.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_02: His father turned and brought and br you know proudly said, You've made me happy today.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Children desire a little praise for things they're asked to do.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: If they're to lead a happy life, so much depends on you.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: And therein lies the key.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: And since we wrote that poem, I just have always been fascinated with poetry.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: And so I recently wrote my third book, and it's called Rhyme Has Reason, because there is reason behind rhyme, things that that that rhyme, that's that's poetry, poetic.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: And so I uh I decided to uh to create uh words and you know, we're take words and and and create poems.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_02: And I took uh well 125 words like courage, commitment, character, compassion, kindness, courtesy, respect, honesty, integrity, faith, family, mother, father, whatever, and uh put them all together and uh and did poems.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Can we edit that out?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: Excuse me.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: So the poem goes something like this This is my Leadership America Creed, because my my keynote that I give across the country is Leadership America, creating champions of change through a culture of civility, because we've lost the ability to be kind, courteous, and respectful.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: So this is my leadership America Creed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Living life is not just about me, a purposeful life is all about we, sharing together all that we see, even though we might not always agree.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: Respectful and kind is forever key.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Truthful and transparent is what we should be.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: Eradicating the anger and the hateful debris, live not in a world where we need referees.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_02: So let us move forward in a place we foresee, diverse and inclusive for both he and she.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Matters not religion nor race, faith is for thee.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: We must live in a world that's our home of the free.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: And therein lies the key.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_02: We've got to be kind, courteous, and respectful every single day, not selectively, but every day to everyone.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: And if somebody is not as kind as they should be, well, you know, my my keynote that I I use the ten letters and all start with the letter C, because that's what we strive to be in in life, is is a champion.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: You want to be a champion.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: So you take these credibility, continuity, creativity, consistency, confidence, and then courage, commitment, character, compassion, not confrontation, but conversation.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_02: And those those are the perfect ten.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_02: You put all those words that all begin with a letter C, that's what it's all about.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's how you become a champion in everything you do, and of course, most importantly, a champion in life.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_02: So I I need to turn around and without doing all the talking here, ask you the same thing.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: How about you?
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's amazing what you have done with this with the schools that you've created.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I just wondered where did that where did that finally say to you, I need to be a part of that?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, at some point in your life, you said, This is what I'm really gonna do.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: You talk about science and you had a lot of doctors in your family.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: But what was it that said, I'm gonna be in charge of a school, I'm gonna create a School.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna move forward.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_02: Both my kids went to Montessori school as uh you know in in uh before they went to to uh grade school, uh you know, when they were in uh uh you know nursery school, I guess it is primary, right?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_02: So how about you?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: What comes to mind?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: So funny enough, when I was starting college, I was studying broadcast broadcasting.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so I happened to take this class in college for aptitudes, and the aptitude said that I could be a broadcaster, that I could be a teacher, and I don't remember the other.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: So part of this class um asked us to go into the college um career center and pick out several schools that were looking for internships, and one of them was uh Montessori School.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to go there and do an internship, and I was thinking, I'm never gonna work with children.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I love broadcasting, I love entertainment, and but I have to do this for my class.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I went into this school, I sat down in the classroom and I observed all these little children doing these amazing things.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um and the internship was paid, so I said, okay, I need a little part-time job to go along with my college.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: And so I started working there and I just absolutely fell in love.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and of course, once I became a mother, it all kind of just clicked together.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was the whole circle.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was understanding how all of the things that children learn at school, um, if they're done properly, if they're gone through the correct pedagogy, can actually be applied into the real world and will actually affect them for the rest of their lives.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: So not things like taking a test, um, but things like learning how to be curious to one another, learning how to be independent, learning um how their brain develops at certain times of their um growth and trying to follow that so that it also matches the real outside world.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really just been an easy transition for me.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've found that a lot of people that have mentored me and I enjoy it, I have a passion for it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: And again, being a mother now is just closing that circle and trying to do what I would like for my daughter to have.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that also brings me to uh a mentor that I have that's a really good friend of yours because we're gonna have him on our first as our first guest in our podcast.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: So Bob Hopkins.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh, I've known Bob for four decades.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Met him as a as a young kid when I was uh first in broadcasting.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Great guy.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: And he is a ph philanthropist, wrote uh a couple of books along those lines, Philanthropy Misunderstood, and then came out with a book called Philanthropy Understood.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: And it uh it's incredible.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: So if you get a chance to get one of those books, Philanthropy Understood is is really something.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_02: So pick up and continue on how you know I he he was the executive director of the neurofibromatosis foundation.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_02: And so I thought, oh my gosh.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: And he called me one day and said, Scott, been watching you on television for years.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh would like to uh have you be our MC for this event.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: Well, last year celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the dining out in Dallas, which is their their big event that they have every year where they pull in all the top chefs from from the Dallas restaurants.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I've mc'd that for 40 years.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: So they honored me last year for my fortieth year of edu you know of of of doing that.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_02: It was uh 1980, 80 uh 85, 86, 86 is when they started it.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: And that's something.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_02: So uh those are the type of that was Bob Hopkins.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: And those are the type of guests that we want to have on our podcast.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: So that's something that the audience uh can look forward to, meeting uh different people that we know that make a difference.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, he will be on our for first podcast.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's fantastic.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: Have you got other any other stories like that that you would share with us?
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you talk about how you've met people along the way and and some of the people that you you you you'd like to to have on the on the program as as we move forward, but the kind of person that we're we're looking for.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh or maybe there's somebody out there that says, Oh gosh, I've got to get so and so on the program there.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh they they might, you know, want to be a part of what we're doing here.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think the biggest key for anyone that wants to be of our podcast is the passion that they have and how they can translate that into education or philanthropy because I think everybody has a literature that they can share um and they can contribute in their own way, whether you're a teacher, whether you're a businessman, but whether you're an AI, I think, or woman.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think anyone can contribute.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: But we really just want to see uh what their passion is.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: You asked me uh earlier about uh all that I've been involved with and and it's it's been an incredible life.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but I just I just wondered for you.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_02: What comes to mind for you?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: You you talk about the in incredible school that you've put together and and that type of thing.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: But other things that you're you're you're proudest of that uh you know have made a difference in your life, and then for that matter, things that you've yet to be a part of that you would like to be a part of before all is said and done.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_02: What comes to mind?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, as a great Montessorian, I would like to continue to spread Montessori throughout the world.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's already out there, um, but I think it's not as well known as I would like it to be.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm always proud to meet people, to share my experiences, and to try to to share a little bit of what Montessori means, um, as well as bilingual education.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just the brain development that comes with that when you teach a child from a young age to have multiple languages, um, you know, just the way they think, the creativity, biologically, scientifically.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm proud to do those things daily.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, as well as being a mother, I would like to be able to help single mothers.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a single mother, so I would like to be able to share with them how they can make sure that they have an amazing education for their children.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what their background is, um, what their circumstances are.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, parents need a space where they can feel safe and comfortable with their children when they know that they're learning they're gonna be empowered humans, that they're gonna be great, amazing humans.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and all of this can sorry, totally forgotten.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um the Montessori education is able to provide that in all kinds of ways.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to promote that.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: I want to invite people to learn about it.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and again, you know, what why are people philanthropists?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, bottom line, why does someone want to help?
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's tapping into that, understanding uh, you know, whether you want to volunteer and go read a book or you know, you want to do a donation for a specific um nonprofit that uh you think is important to you.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: For example, Bob, the one that he that you mc'd um with him, um brought him into the Montessori system.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so he worked with a school called Shelton, which is where I did my training.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: So he knows all about uh Montessori.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that as people get to know that education, they can get more involved, and um I'm proud to to continue to do that work outside of the of our school and just spread it out throughout the community.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I tell you what, we're heading down the home stretch here in this our inaugural program.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_02: So I uh I just uh why don't you let let the uh the world out there know the name of the program, what we plan to do, some of the pope people that we you know are looking to be a part of, and then if there's anybody out there that would like to to share their story, because they have an impact so impactful story they'd like to share with with our audience um how they can get in touch with us, what what uh what might they do?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're so excited to have you here today.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: We hope that you can join us again.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this was our first podcast, but we're excited to have many more coming.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have amazing guests.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to watch us, follow us on YouTube as well as on Instagram.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Our Instagram name is share learn or learn share podcast.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: And any other closing words that you may have?
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_02: No, just uh, you know, learn uh is is all about education and sharing philanthropically.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's that's what we're all about, and that's what you need to do.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: Living your life as a go-getter and sharing your life as a go-giver every single day.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: And that's what we hope to do.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_02: So in the meantime, thank you, thank you, thank you for being uh my my co-host on this, and I'm proud to be your co host as well as we move forward in a positive, productive way and making a difference in the lives of those that need it most, right?
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_02: So I'll let you say goodbye on behalf of the program.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_02: Go for it.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much, guys.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: We will see you next time, and don't forget, learn today and share tomorrow.