John Fawole is an International Chess Federation master, chess in education lecturer, and founder of Bruvs Chess Media. John shares his journey to becoming a national chess champion in Nigeria, the transformative effects of chess education, and how the game impacts people's lives beyond the board.
Key topics
- John's journey to becoming Nigerian National Chess Champion, US National Master and World Chess Federation Master
- What chess can teach us about creativity, commitment, patience, and problem solving
- The grassroots advocacy and coaching work John does to advance the state of the game and teach young people important life skills through chess
- How chess is changing thanks to software tools, AI, and representation in popular culture
Episode Digest
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Recorded 15 January 2023
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Lara is a New Zealand-based planner with over 10 years of experience in the field, working on projects across the public and private sectors. With a background in both government processes and business realities, Lara has a unique perspective on the intersection of policy, science, and community engagement. We discuss breaking down institutional knowledge barriers and public participation in planning.
Key topics
- Understanding the challenges of managing climate risk and adaptation in New Zealand
- Lara's squiggly career and personal growth through exploring different opportunities within the planning profession
- How being a grokkist helps Lara break down the barriers between different planning agencies and institutions
- The importance of communication, empathy and public engagement in planning
Episode Digest
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Recorded 13 January 2023
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
© 2023 Grokkist Ltd. http://grokk.ist
Sam Hoffman is a multidisciplinary creative with roots in copywriting and content creation for Broadway shows and Fortune 500s. For over a decade, Sam has moonlighted as a part-time high school speech and debate coach with one of the nation's top programs, Ridge High School in New Jersey. He specializes in the competitive categories that allow students to craft a persuasive acting performance geared around subjects they are passionate about. We discuss the creative strategy and seduction of authentic storytelling and storydoing.
Key topics
- Sam’s background and journey in corporate advertising, copywriting and content creation, and why he loves chasing eyeballs
- Sam's journey as a speech and debate coach, and why speech and debate is a great way to develop one's own voice and values
- What Sam means by authentic storytelling with purpose
Detours and Tangents
- The evolving social media landscape and why it makes sense to think of social media platforms like cities
- The time Sam worked on a promotional campaign for comedian Mike Birbiglia
- What it means to have legitimate attention, and the role of competition and coaching in development and growth
Episode Digest
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Recorded 14 December 2022
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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A conversation all about risk, play and reward. Celebrating effort as well as outcome, learning through experience and adventure, and building confidence and resilience over time to ride out the inevitable bumps along the way. Showing up in the world, building a fulfilling and integrated lifestyle that aligns with your values, and freeing yourself from the need for external validation.
Key Topics:
- Avoiding the rat race and living the mountain lifestyle in the small town of Fernie in British Columbia, Canada
- Becoming a full-time content creator, documenting Erich's kids' adventures with That Mountain Life
- The 'don't bubble-wrap your kids' philosophy – examples and reactions
- Building confidence and emotional resilience through outdoor education
- Unschooling and escaping the need for external validation
Detours and Tangents:
- Being an unplanned dad
- The business mechanics of being a full-time content creator
- Why playing poker is a form of meditation
- The one book Erich read in high school that forever changed his life
About the Guest: Erich Leidums is the content creator behind That Mountain Life [https://youtube.com/thatmountainlife] who documents his family’s outdoor adventures and parenting journey in a small mountain town in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Erich has put in thousands of hours to create content for That Mountain Life making videos on YouTube and Instagram that at first, no one was watching. After 3.5 years he is now a full time content creator and social media influencer navigating the world of digital marketing with over 850,000 followers across all platforms. His videos fall into the categories of outdoor adventure, family, conscious parenting, homeschooling, risky play and small town mountain lifestyle among others. Erich has always been interested in the entrepreneurial journey and didn’t expect or set out to be where he is today.
Recorded 3 August 2022
Links:
- That Mountain Life [https://youtube.com/thatmountainlife]
- Chris McCandless [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless]
- Into the Wild by John Krakauer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book)]
- Gary Vaynerchuk: Document, Don't Create [https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/creating-content-that-builds-your-personal-brand/]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. He is the Founder of Grokkist. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by
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A conversation all about what happens when a mingling of interests meets a sudden change in priorities. The moments where you change from being one kind of thing into another, how that happens and how you update your self-understanding along the way. Teaching moments and learning moments – the beating heart of education that enables each of us to reflect on our experiences and capitalise on those reflections in ways we can put into practice and that move us forward.
Key Topics:
- What you lose when you stop being a teacher and reconnecting with what you love about education
- Being in the hotseat as head teacher at the start of the pandemic and coming up with a plan to support students, teachers and parents
- Student wellbeing and how education systems fit and discard people
- What teachers making the transition to learning design and operations need to learn and unlearn
About the Guest: Maria Fernanda Puertas is a Latina, tea lover and cat lady who is passionate about the science of learning and community building. After being a teacher and head teacher for over a decade, she made the decision to move into tech to pursue the mission of reaching a much wider audience with amazing learning experiences, and hopefully help people find what they are looking for. [Maria's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-fernanda-puertas/]
Recorded 21 July 2022
Links:
- Atom Learning [https://atomlearning.co.uk/]
- Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? [https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity]
- Convivencia [https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095636384]
- Bed of Procrustes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. He is the Founder of Grokkist. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
© 2023 Grokkist Ltd. http://grokk.ist
A conversation all about doing things in a different way and order than you’re supposed to. Not doing what you’re told, leaning into life’s sudden twists and turns, feeling behind, and taking flight, all while figuring out adulting and navigating the exciting challenges, complexity and expectations of cultural identity.
Key Topics:
- Having a family at a young age and living life out of sequence with your career-focussed peers
- Starting undergraduate studies at age 28 and catching up
- Becoming a public school teacher and chafing against the system
- Living and working in Shanghai, China as a Chinese-American
- From educator to entrepreneur to engagement leader
About the Guest: Grace Liaw is a connector, an educator, and a global citizen-in-progress.
Unlike most of her peers, Grace did not start her undergraduate studies until turning 28, when she began to pursue a degree in Human Ecology and Family Studies at Montclair State University. Finally fulfilling her dreams of being a teacher, Grace taught in New Jersey public schools for a couple of years and realized that public education was not for her. Later, she found herself living and working in Shanghai, China, for 6 years in various private schools. The experience of doing work, life, and family in a foreign land was absolutely transformative. Grace then pursued a Master of Education at Penn State for Curriculum and Instruction.
Now living in New York, Grace is designing and hosting events, creating experiences, and building relationships with global students at Quantic School of Business & Technology, a virtual business school. She is now able to tick all of the important boxes of connecting, educating, and becoming more culturally intelligent.
Grace hates and loves running, is a novice birder, and is obsessed with Canva. She is also excited to see what the second half of life has in store! [Grace's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceliaw1/]
Recorded 8 July 2022
Links:
- Quantic School of Business and Technology [https://quantic.edu/]
- Falling Upwards by Richard Rohr [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9963483-falling-upward]
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878688-the-5-love-languages]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. He is the Founder of Grokkist. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Seth is the President & Founder at Banyan Global Learning, a group of educators who deliver live virtual programs in social and emotional learning (SEL), Digital Citizenship, and Global Citizenship. We talk about what it means to design education that helps us find our place in the world.
Key Topics
- How Banyan Global Learning works with schools to help kids find their place in the world by exploring the intersection of language, culture, technology, and social and emotional learning
- Seth's squiggly career, from wanting to be a vet, to studying psychology, to teaching in high-needs public schools, to starting a company that delivers distance education globally
- What happens on a virtual field trip, why live video matters, and what it means to be a camera-ready teacher
- How Seth's experience of homeschooling his daughter during the pandemic connects to broader issues of reform, revolution and student choice in education
Detours and Tangents
- How being a real-life meme (Sad Mets Fan) is a weird kind of fame because you have to tell people about it first
- How Seth's self-understanding of being a person of privilege has evolved over time
Episode Summary
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Recorded 10 May 2022
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this episode: Navigating the dynamics of death, grief and loss, from brain fog to finding a sense of control. Arguing over estates and why 70% of people don't make plans for what happens after they die. Explaining the mechanics of probate with a story about picking berries. Being a stage magician and how magic helps with storytelling. What we can learn from near-death experiences. Why patience matters in law as well as in marriage. Swimming and mindfulness.
About the Guest: Robert Kabacy has been a lawyer in the estate planning and wealth transfer industries for more than twenty-five years. He grew up in the small town of Canby, Oregon, where he was a competitive swimmer. He attended law school to pursue his passion of helping others navigate a complicated legal and tax world and has an uncanny ability to explain complicated concepts in an easy-to-understand format. About Me is a result of the passing of his mother and experiencing firsthand the difficulty of losing a loved one while navigating the mechanics that go with it. He enjoys reading, stage/parlor magic, and outdoor activities. He still swims almost daily (though no longer competitively). Learn more at robertkabacy.com.
Recorded 6 May 2022
Links:
- About Me: Information You Will Need When I've Passed on Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Kabacy/e/B09VS4QP3P?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000]
- Robert's website [http://robertkabacy.com/]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this episode: Losing your job in the pandemic and reverse culture shock when moving from the US back to Colombia. From English language teaching to instructional design for product managers. Never leaving school and how teachers are more than teachers. Universal design for learning. How teaching expertise is valued in traditional education vs instructional design and edtech and what that means for teachers' freedom and creativity. Filling your cup and finding structure in uncertainty.
About the Guest: Diego Boada is an educator, researcher, and instructional designer from Colombia with over 15 years of experience. As a Fulbright scholar, Diego earned his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Learning, Design, and Technology at the University of Georgia in the US. Before recently becoming an e-learning consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, Diego worked at Product School where he collaborated with product leaders from top Silicon Valley companies to develop training materials and certificates for product managers. Also, Diego is working on his Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology. [Diego's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-boada/]
Recorded 12 April 2022
Links:
- Ellii (formerly ESL Library) [https://ellii.com/]
- Product School [https://www.productschool.com/]
- Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction [https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/gagne.htm]
- Minerva University [https://www.minerva.edu/]
- Mentimeter - interactive presentations [https://www.mentimeter.com/]
- The Culture Map - breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business [https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/]
- Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensions_theory]
- Inter-American Development Bank [https://www.iadb.org/en]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this episode: What's involved in being an artist, academic and activist on YouTube and TikTok. Musical influences from Bob Dylan to Public Enemy. Why make songs and videos about the history of words and ideas? Getting naughty for nature. Performing rap on tap. Teaching as performance. Meditations on the self and social media. BONUS: Nathan and Danu collaborate on a song about the history of school.
About the Guest: Nathan Dufour Oglesby (aka 'Nathanology') is a poet, producer and professor based in Brooklyn, NY who has built a distinctively didactic approach to hip-hop, using the form to explore concepts drawn from philosophy, history and the physical sciences. He is also one half of 'Nate and Hila' - eco-rappers who take a musical approach to environmental activism.
Nathan's socials:
- Nathanology YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NATHANOLOGY
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nathanology_
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2CMSPILf0X39kpdhdxVue2?si=ZrSLshY8SNi74OFd7YdedQ
- LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/nathandufour
Recorded 25 March 2022
Links:
- Event Rap [https://www.eventrap.com/]
- Billboard interview on the album Naughty for Nature [https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/nate-and-hila-new-album-naughty-for-nature-interview-9335689/]
- Die for that pussy (Honeybee Sex) music video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1blN7GURdk]
- BBC article on the history of 'meta' [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-facebook-and-the-true-meaning-of-meta]
- Meditation Mag article on social media and the self [https://www.meditationmag.com/buddhism/social-media-and-the-self]
- Sneak preview video of the video for Old School School [https://youtu.be/O79ch1CbtEA]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this episode: Journey from a humanities background in libraries to technical integrations specialist for a global corporate. Building a chatbot and losing everything in a server crash. Importance of communication and soft-skills when working on technical projects. A love of problem solving and an avoidance of boredom.
About the Guest: Being forever curious about how things work has taken Cristina Huidiu from various roles within the library to technical roles in the corporate environment, where she now works as an Integrations Consultant at Elsevier. Cristina has discovered her biggest passion is to humanise data, metrics and tech so it works for us rather than people having to adjust their lives around them.
Cristina's socials:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinahuidiu/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CristinaHuidiu
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cristina_huidiu
Recorded 29 March 2022
Links:
- 'Velocity' - Agile terminology [https://www.planview.com/resources/articles/lkdc-velocity-agile]
- BRAT - a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/brat%3A-a-Web-based-Tool-for-NLP-Assisted-Text-Stenetorp-Pyysalo/a97c7876ebf9ae6c468db92c3c6dc1c0be832192]
- Cris' favourite resource on visualising data [https://www.bigbookofdashboards.com/]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this episode: Using virtual reality in the classroom. How games taught James important life skills. Innovation and entrepreneurship in education and tensions between formal and informal modes of learning. The pedagogical value of game jams and hackathons. Parallels between e-sports and regular sports. How games helped James when he broke his back. The importance of standards and governance and an argument for formalised education.
About the Guest: James Birt is an Associate Professor of Computer Games in the Faculty of Society and Design at Bond University, Australia, where he runs the Mixed Reality Research Lab (www.mixedrealityresearch.com). His research spans computer science and visual arts, with an emphasis on applied design and development of extended reality (XR) and games-based experiences for assisting learning and knowledge discovery. James is recognised as an international leader in educational technology, XR and games with an editorial role with Springer Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), a position on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) working group for AR/VR, an assessor’s role for the International Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGSC) and an expert role on the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report.
[James' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-james-birt/]
Recorded 8 March 2022
Links:
- James' staff profile at Bond University [https://bond.edu.au/nz/profile/james-birt]
- EDUCAUSE Horizon reports [https://library.educause.edu/search#?publicationandcollection_search=Horizon%20Report]
- Video of James' use of mixed reality in the classroom [https://vimeo.com/bondolt/review/429113737/1527673308]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this solo episode, Danu discusses how his own squiggly career is animated by his troubled personal relationship with education, and reflects on the traits that people who are 'still curious' have in common.
- Curiosity, love of learning, and privilege
- Why Front Row and Back Row are useful categories
- How we can recognise people who are 'still curious'
- Learning as a superpower
- Danu's squiggly career and troubled relationship with education
Recorded 29 March 2022
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s2e4-danu-poyner/
In this episode: What happens when executives and senior leaders start receiving coaching. Moving from 'to-do list' goals to transformational goals. Volunteering adventures from providing care in a rest home to advising on education policy in Nepal. Moving to France and starting an English language school. Starting and abandoning a PhD in girls' education. Learning to build rapport.
About the Guest: Ann Collins is an Executive and Leadership Coach who helps successful senior leaders to get clarity on their next career steps, uplevel their thinking and transition into new roles with confidence and ease. She taught at Bedford Prep School for a number of years and has since worked across the world in education, teaching and consulting. She has a language school for adults in France and trained as a coach a few years ago. She now works with clients internationally, in Switzerland, the US, the UK and France, specializing in one to one executive coaching, team coaching and leadership development.
She lives on the Swiss/French border in France with her family where she enjoys the mountains, local music making and French food!
[Ann's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annridleycollins]
Recorded 9 February 2022
Links:
- Ann's coaching practice [https://www.bluebottlecoaching.com/]
- Ann's podcast 'Leaders Who Love What They Do' [https://www.anncollinscoaching.com/podcast-playlist]
- 'Inner Voice' podcast series [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1358308/8892182-inner-voice-special-series-no-1-how-to-harness-the-gift-of-your-inner-voice]
- Ann's Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/anncollinscoaching/ ]
- Ann's language school in Belfort, France [https://belfortschoolofenglish.com/]
- Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) [https://www.vsointernational.org/]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
© 2023 Grokkist Ltd. http://grokk.ist
In this episode: Not letting your job description define who you are as a person. Fitting in an impressive array of hobbies and interests. The joys of reading and irrational dislike of book editions with 'Now a Major Motion Picture' covers. Learning to have fun while making mistakes. Being a mixed-race Australian, multiculturalism and Amanda's first trip to Vietnam to see family. Empathy, boundaries and soft/enduring skills in the workplace.
About the Guest: Amanda Young is a Service Delivery Relationship Lead in Melbourne, Australia working on risk mitigation and problem solving. Prior to this she was a linguist, focusing on how changes to the English language in Australia reflect the context of the wider society. She likes coffee, reading, running, and finding new things to delight in.
[Amanda's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandayoung7/]
Recorded 25 January 2022
Links:
- Yoga with Adriene [https://youtube.com/c/yogawithadriene]
- Kate Burridge's work on linguistics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Burridge]
- 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear [https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits]
- Disney running events [https://www.rundisney.com/]
- 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini [https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/159448385X]
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About the Host: Despite never letting school interfere with his education, Danu has nevertheless acquired two social science degrees and an executive MBA. He toils at the intersection of education, technology and society and has worked at various times in teaching, research, project management, business development and customer service. He has so many interests that he has started to outsource them, and his life plan is rapidly running out of alphabet. [Danu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danupoyner/]
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: podcast@grokk.ist | Socials: @stillcuriouspod
Rate and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/stillcurious
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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1-minute trailer showcasing what the Still Curious Podcast is all about. [Updated 25 May 2022]
Maxine Bryant is an experienced team leader, project manager, and research management professional with fifteen years experience in the tertiary sector, specialising in operations management, system development, and policies and process. We talk about having an unplanned career and what's involved in leading science teams.
Key topics
- The business of science, why research management isn't anybody's Plan A, and what happened when Maxine decided to step off the treadmill of life as a scientist.
- How Maxine follows what interests her while going with the flow, and how opportunities arise from others recognising her abilities before she did
- What's involved in leading science teams and how Maxine's relationship-based leadership approach is influenced by her cultural heritage
Detours and Tangents
- The complexities of Māori engagement in science and why Māori scientists work a cultural double-shift
- Maxine's interest in molecular genetics and why she chose to study the genetics of pāua (a Haliotis mollusk)
- The joys and discoveries of changing jobs after a long period in one place
Episode Summary
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Recorded 8 December 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Travis is a special education teacher who trained as an early childhood educator. We talk about building relationships with special needs kids and what Travis learned by migrating from Taiwan to New Zealand.
Key topics
- What happens in a special needs classroom and why every day is about both careful planning and also throwing the plan away most days
- How Travis helps kids learn and grow through play and how he gets to know them by exploring their interests together
- What Travis has learned by migrating from Taiwan to New Zealand and why he made sure he was a top student all the way through school in Taiwan so he could get out of the system as soon as possible.
Detours and tangents
- Why Travis left early childhood teaching to become a flight attendant and how he celebrated a 50-hour birthday across timezones and continents
- Travis' many hobbies, from making his own clothes to learning new languages to connect with far-flung friends and relatives
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e11-travis-yuan/
Recorded 16 November 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Kat is the Program Manager for the Bachelor of Youth Work and Youth Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. We discuss how 'street wisdom' and lived experience of chronic disadvantage, child abuse and homelessness helps Kat and her students tackle systemic injustice for young people.
Key topics
- How growing up in poverty taught Kat from an early age about the need to tackle injustice and stand up for others (and why that got her into trouble)
- How Kat became an academic by accident and how a typo in her university enrolment changed the course of her career
- What it means to have a sociological understanding of young people - making sense of young people as a collective group, how policy is made in relation to young people and how young people are included or excluded in that process
Detours and tangents
- Why curiosity is a privilege that comes with having time and economic security
- What's involved in running the largest youth work degree program in Australia
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e10-kat-daley/
Recorded 5 November 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Bo is an expert in sales management, strategy and execution in the enterprise software industry, based in Denmark. We talk about how to walk into a room and what it means to establish a cycle of curiosity with your clients.
Key Topics
- Bo's squiggly career, from studying communications for fun, to switching jobs with a friend, to helping grow a global software company
- Bo's practical wisdom on the difference between being 'sold to' and having a salesperson who is an expert on helping you address your needs
- What it means to establish a cycle of curiosity with clients and why quality of communication is so important
Detours and Tangents
- What clients can learn from salespeople
- Why the fear of IT projects going horribly wrong can become a self-fulfilling prophecy
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e9-bo-alroe/
Recorded 30 October 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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In this solo episode, Danu reflects on caring and uncaring teaching, how we live out what the world teaches us and why an ethical imagination is the beating heart of education.
- Why we need an ethical imagination
- How an uncaring teaching system kills curiosity
- How we live out what the world has taught us
- The truth about learning outcomes
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e8-danu-poyner/
Recorded 7 November 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Kathryn is a hydrogeologist with a wealth of experience in the private energy sector. We talk about how she fell into hydrogeology and how she combines her love of the environment, adventure, science and emotional connection to make a difference in her community.
Key Topics
- Kathryn's squiggly career path, from dropping out of music school and waitressing in outback Australia to managing multi-million dollar groundwater projects
- How the availability of safe, supportive and nurturing spaces, relationships and communities can completely change the course of your life
- How Kathryn combines her love of the environment, adventure, science and emotional connection to make a difference in the world of hydrogeology
Detours and Tangents
- The time Kathryn got lost in the wilderness with her dad and a search party came looking for them
- The challenges of moving from being a specialist out in the field to being a manager behind the desk
- Diversity, inclusion and mentoring in the energy sector
- What Kathryn loves about singing in a women's barbershop choir
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e7-kathryn-harris/
Recorded 2 October 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Peter Gilderdale is a freelance writer and calligrapher and recently retired lecturer in Design History at Auckland University of Technology. We talk about the difference between education that gets people creative and excited vs turning out people who just want to tick boxes.
Key Topics
- Why ‘learning outcomes’ and the disciplinary apparatus of a university shuts down free thinking, excitement, innovation and student-focussed education
- How an abiding interest in marrying image and text has led Peter on a life journey through calligraphy, communication design, art history and Egyptology
- How assessment gets in the way of learning and how simply removing it altogether can lead to a supportive learning culture that exudes excellence
- Peter’s observations on changing attitudes towards the arts, from a resurgence of young people’s interest in calligraphy via graffiti, to the rise of an educated middle class who no longer consider the arts necessary or valuable
Detours and Tangents
- How a timetabling clash led Peter to discover one of the world's oldest signed works of art while working on an archeological dig in Egypt
- How doing a PhD about Edwardian postcards helped Peter to connect with his family's history as immigrants
- Why it is that so many good calligraphers also turn out to be so good at playing golf
Episode Summary
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Recorded 7 October 2021
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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
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Gail develops and runs leadership programs in organisations to help people increase their self insight and become better leaders. We discuss why people can be really intellectually smart, but if they're not aware of the emotional impact they're having on others, then they won't be very effective.
Key Topics
- How emotions drive behaviour and why no amount of intellect, courage, knowledge or motivation can make up for a lack of emotional intelligence
- How Gail challenges people to reflect on their beliefs and behaviour while validating their perspectives and protecting their sense of self
- "No Plan A, just a random set of decisions" – Gail's squiggly career and why she gave the two-finger salute to professional teaching
- What it means to have an 'undeniable experience' and be programmed with possibility
Detours and Tangents
- Why new leaders need to stop getting their sense of self from the what they personally achieve and develop a whole new skillset about helping other people do the best that they can
- How Gail's improv comedy experience helps her be a fearless facilitator
- The time Gail designed and facilitated a business expo program for teenagers to make a realistic business pitch for not-necessarily-realistic products. “It was chaos, but it was exciting”
- Why the most satisfying lightbulb moments Gail has witnessed in her clients are often simply about people becoming better listeners
Episode Summary
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Recorded 1 October 2021
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Carl is a games producer and podcaster. We talk about how learning to make short gameplay montages of Call of Duty 4 during high school set him on a squiggly path from film to social media content creation, and eventually into the games industry.
Key Topics
- Why learning how to edit gameplay montages of Call of Duty 4 as a teenager helped Carl more than anything he took from studying at school
- How Carl's passion for storytelling took him from film to being a social media content creator and eventually into the games industry
- How Carl overcame his self-doubts by taking action, following his curiosity and putting himself out there
- How Carl uses keeps himself energised by finding a community of people who share his curiosity and excitement and motivate him to keep taking action
Detours and Tangents
- What's involved in being a games producer
- Skills necessary to succeed in the games industry
- Games for education
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e4-carl-leducq/
Recorded 28 September 2021
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Sitting Power: why the won game is the easiest to lose - John Fawole | S3E3
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Planning for a Positive Future: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Climate Change Adaptation - Lara Clarke | S3E2
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“I’m crafting a story to get something done” - Sam Hoffman | S3E1
1:14:04
Combining parenting, adventure and outdoor education with Erich Leidums from That Mountain Life | S2E13
56:47
From guilt at leaving teaching to designing student wellbeing at scale, with Maria Fernanda Puertas | S2E12
1:09:31
Living life out of sequence, with engagement and experience leader Grace Liaw | S2E11
1:12:44
How we design conscious, creative and caring virtual learning - Seth Fleischauer | S2E10
1:07:16
Navigating the passing of a loved one with estate planning lawyer and author Robert Kabacy | S2E9
1:04:46
From classroom to corporate with TESOL teacher and instructional designer Diego Boada | S2E8
1:04:30
TikTok teaching and activism with philoso-rapper Nathan Dufour Oglesby aka 'Nathanology' | S2E7
1:15:12
From hating math to being a data analyst - Cristina Huidiu | S2E6
51:46
James Birt - mixed reality, computer games and e-sports educator | S2E5
1:13:35
Why I refuse to sacrifice my curiosity for the sake of passing a test - Danu Poyner | S2E4
24:18
Ann Collins - executive coach and language school owner | S2E3
1:04:36
Amanda Young - Service Delivery Relationship Lead and Hobby Enthusiast | S2E2
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Still Curious – Trailer
0:59
"I'll give that a crack": a squiggly story of science leadership - Maxine Bryant | S2E1
1:03:15
“I just need to know them very well”: connecting with young special needs students - Travis Yuan | S1E11
1:02:45
No time to be curious when you're constantly at the grind - Kat Daley | S1E10
1:02:03
"Don't start demoing, start listening": Why the salespeople we trust are experts in their clients' needs - Bo Alroe | S1E9
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"Tell someone who cares": a shout-out to caring people who move within uncaring systems - Danu Poyner | S1E8
20:52
I moved to the middle of nowhere and found everything I'd been missing - Kathryn Harris | S1E7
59:59
Creativity, classrooms, calligraphy: "You never know what it's going to be until it's finished" - Peter Gilderdale | S1E6
1:07:48
"Whose rule is that?" Examining the self-talk that limits our potential - Gail Reichert | S1E5
1:04:58
Turn your curiosity into action before inspiration fades - Carl Leducq | S1E4
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