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All right, all right. Feeny talks
with friends.

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Episode 159 what's up?

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Christina. Hi.

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How are you?

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Thank you for having me.

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It's fun to be here in your classroom.

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I know you beat me to it.

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We're in a very special place
with a special person.

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We're here at Wolcott School.

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What's Wolcott School mean to you?

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I went to walk at school.

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Should I say how many years ago?

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Let's see.

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I graduated high school. 91.

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So we're going back 40 something years.

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Nice.

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Yeah. Wolcott school, 71 Wolcott Road.

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I'm in my 13th year here.

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13th year teaching at Wolcott School.

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Oh, really?

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It's flying by. My daughters went here.

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It was an amazing time to teach
and have my kids at the same school.

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It was a dream come true. So.

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Yep. We're in room 115.
I teach third grade.

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My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeny.

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I use this podcast,

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Feeny talks with friends,
and I talk to a wonderful people

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in the community
that are doing great things.

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And you have so much stuff going on.

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You're a keynote singer, workshop
facilitator,

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author, CEO, music music
educator, creator,

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massage therapists, soulful songstress,
and songs for the soul.

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Yes. My goodness.

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Where do you want to start?

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First off, I want to start.

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Gee, where do I want to start?

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Yeah.

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So, I mean, I've always been called
to help people.

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My mom came to this country
when she was 25 from Sweden, and,

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she was an umpire for a Swedish family
in Hartford.

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And most of my cousins in
Sweden are work in daycares, or so

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I think it's kind of in my genes
to care for people.

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It started out caring for people
through singing.

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I found I loved

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how people felt when I sang songs
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joyful, and I realized how healing it was,

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just to be on a stage and sing to people.

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And then, you know, after about 15 years

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of professionally singing,
I wanted to put down some roots.

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And that's when I discovered massage
therapy, because it was such a perfect,

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compliment to my performing career
because it was flexible.

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And one thing I noticed is no matter how

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wealthy someone was, or everyone kind of

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fell back to old patterns of stress,
I've had clients that came to me

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every week, sometimes
a couple times a week, and just never

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were able to sustain that relaxed state.

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And I realized that people need tools
on a daily basis

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to help them find their center,
and so that they don't get caught

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in the chaos of the world,
because we need to be present

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for each other or for ourselves.

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And it's it's challenging these days,
for sure.

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That's great.

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That's a wonderful background story.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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What, 
what do you been up to now recently, like?

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Yeah.

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So, a dear friend of mine,
David Friedman, is,

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an incredibly successful,
accomplished composer.

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He conducted a lot of the Disney movies.

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He's he's incredible.

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He's a platinum songwriter,
and he's just author.

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Yes. And author of The Thought Exchange,
something that he teaches and transforms

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lives through.

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So he's not just an incredible composer.

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He's also a teacher and a healer.

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And, being able to work with him and,

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create programs for children
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an incredible opportunity
and a great gift for both of us. So.

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So he's like a mentor, role model.

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Yeah, well, it's interesting.
So he was a mentor.

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I can back up a little bit.

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I really have a really cool,
meeting of David Friedman story.

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So I was, in my 30s, living in Manhattan,
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And, until I heard the song,
my roommate at the time played me.

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This song was called Listen in My Heart,
sung by the late Nancy Lamotte.

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And it stopped me in my tracks.

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It was like it just spoke to me.

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I was like,
oh my gosh, this song is amazing.

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And it was a song of David Friedman's.

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So I was in maybe in the city
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and I pivoted my,
my passion was to meet David Friedman.

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I wanted to meet this composer.

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I wanted to sing his music.

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I was just loving it. And,

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he was in the cabaret scene at that time.

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And, I remember my music director
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you want to meet David Friedman? No way.

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He's too busy.

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He's on Broadway.

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And I didn't give up on that dream.

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And, I did a one woman show in Manhattan
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And Listen to My Heart
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And after that happened,
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and did what a lot of people have to do.

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And I had to move back to Connecticut
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Before that, I was a massage
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just focus on my massage career
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and I didn't give up the hope in the dream
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And about a year later, my mom was on
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And she said, gee, you know,
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You're, you know, you stop singing.

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And I said, okay, so I found out
a Unitarian church

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was in Norwalk, Connecticut,
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And I walked up the stairs.

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I sit in the back row and who's
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David Friedman.

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Come on, I kid you not. Wow.

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And if there's a

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message today that I want to give people
is you have no idea

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if you just let go
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that it works out.

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But the hard part is trusting

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and having to deal with
what comes up in that trust.

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You know, we all want to control, right?

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We're all in fear
and we think that our dream is there.

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But you know, we don't know.

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And that's something that I learned, you
know, trust the unfoldment of your life.

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And it will guide you not only to your
highest dream, but also to your healing.

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Because life isn't just rainbows.

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And you know, lollipops.

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Life can be hard,

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but that is a part of life,
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and that is part of who
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that leads to stress when we
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Well, so you saw them in church
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So David
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series called Christina's Cottage,
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So we have, gosh,
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It's kind of like the new version of Mr.

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Rogers Got a woman.

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I want to come as you are. Yes.

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That's right, that's right.

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And so I wanted to create something,
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to do something together.

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Because that's the thing I think nowadays
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you know, in communities,
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And I wanted to create a program
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Know, you know, kids can sit in
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and do exercises to help regulate
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And that was what was important to me.

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So, so from that, you know, David
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My first album, I came out
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It's called the, Dream Bigger
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It's it's a curriculum for healing
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that's more in alignment
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And so I wanted to create a musical kind
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but a journey,
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So, yeah, we're launching, early, early
March, and we're really excited about it.

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It's,
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and it's really to help support them in
helping them find their center.

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We all have inner resources we need to
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But a lot of people disconnected
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And I want to bring them back to that.

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And that's what this course does.

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I yeah, I'm excited. We'll show the video.

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But before the video,
back to work at school.

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So, we did a little tour.

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What'd you think we did?

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Because I got some pictures.

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It's changed a lot,
and yet it hasn't changed.

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You know,
like the main structures are all this.

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The same girl,
which is now our Esol room. Yes.

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Yeah, a lot of the. But, you know, it's.

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I love the murals on the wall.

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I love the positivity.

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The halls got smaller,
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Just fun.

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And it's. Yeah, a lot. 
A lot is the same.

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It's fun.

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It's been, it's been a joy, too.

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I got some surprises and some games.
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But this is the first surprise.
I got a picture of you. Yearbook.

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Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, that's Connor Maria Connors.

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Yeah. Let's see. Won't go into words.

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Feels like music.

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Lacks.

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So you play lacrosse? Yeah.

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There's a lot of other

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little. Yeah.

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And of course that's what you do.

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Talked in code.

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Yes. Talk to go. Well should we post that.

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Oh yeah.

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Go ahead to wear the see a yearbook
photo. Yes.

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That's my high school yearbook. Yeah.

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But Richard's maybe.

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Yes, yes she is in that we are.

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We graduated together. Good friend.

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Yes. Any inspirations from Wolcott School
that led you down your path?

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That's where it's all started.

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Miss Betty, in that music room
you just showed on the screen?

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I sang in music
class, and a dear friend of mine

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that I just recently reconnected with
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He was mentioning a song that we

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she played a lot,
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We sang a lot.

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We did a rainbow connection,
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So we did a lot of Jim Croce songs
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she noticed that I not only love to sing,
but I was good at it

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and called my parents up and set them down
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is really good at this, and you should
support it and nurture that talent.

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And they did. They listened.

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And I think when I went to Sedgwick's

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seventh, seventh grade, it was actually
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the hard school music, and I did
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All the way through high school
and went to hard school for college.

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Man, it

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all started here and it started and ended.

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And we're here.

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We're back in the West
Hartford school systems.

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All right.

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We're going to play this wonderful songs
for the Soul by David Freeman.

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So it's like directed towards

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caregiving caregivers and parents.

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A ten week

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musical journey
to help you find your center

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not through more information, but through
music speaks directly to your heart.

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Your transformational mentor,
Christina Connors,

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David Freeman, multi-platinum songwriter,
Broadway

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and Disney.

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Cool.

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David Freeman is going to come by monthly.

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Christina will be there weekly.

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Everyone wins and take care of you.

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Oh, there's a waitlist and starts
February 26th.

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Next month, people
sign up at Christina connors.com.

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Yeah, I know it's going to start in March.

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Okay, March.

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But get it in by February.

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I know, that's cool.

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It's really smooth.

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So, yeah, you noticed, a lot of kids

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you mentioned are overstimulated,
disconnected.

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Mental health is a huge issue, you know,

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how does how can music heal a nature
that nurture that?

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Well, I think that once again,
because our world is so,

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so much information
and so much information

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overload and stress in the devices,
and everyone's just.

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And we were just talking about it
in the hallway.

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You know, I had my first boyfriend
in sixth grade, and I have friends

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who've got kids who graduated high school
and never had a boyfriend.

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It's like, how was that happening?

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You know, it's like they're
just in their own in their own worlds.

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And I guess it's a different time.

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But I what music does, it really helps us
get out of our head

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and drops us into our heart.

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David's songs are really timeless.

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They're unique.

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They contain messages that are healing

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in a way it how
they help us see ourselves in the world

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and in a way that's less stressful
and more loving and more healing.

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Like, for instance,
the first week is his song Trust the Wind.

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And what Trust Wind is really about
is surrender.

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Letting go of control
and trusting invisible support

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and trusting that we are being guided
if we pay attention.

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Right.

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And, the next, the next week
will be the song The Gift of Trouble,

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which is one of my favorites of David,
and it's really hard sometimes to swallow.

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However,
I do believe our adversity helps us grow

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and to learn if we're willing to
look at it from that perspective.

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And, yeah, seeing challenges

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as teachers
and discovering hidden strengths.

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And then the third week is
help is on the way about recognizing

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you're not alone
and learning to receive support.

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And something I tap into quite often
in the ten week journey.

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By the way, it is self-paced.

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I decided that

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it would be self-paced
because, you know, everyone's busy

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and they got things going on and
I didn't want someone to be discouraged

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and hopping on board on this incredible
process because they don't have time.

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You do it whenever you want.

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And so once a week
we do a different song. And,

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each day of that week on audio,
I, record a two minute

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reflection on that theme of the song
throughout the week.

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And I do have worksheets
for the deeper dive.

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If a if a parent or caregiver
chooses to dive deep, you know,

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because some of these songs
might bring up stuff

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and some people just might not want to go
there, and that's totally fine.

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Maybe you'll take the course,

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you know, the journey a few times
and it's it's going to be evergreen model.

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So it's I'm not launching
it. It's just going to be available.

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So you can sign, you know, you know,
you can take on this journey

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the ten week journey
and finish it in a year.

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I don't care as long as you take
the journey. That's great.

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And so I thought that was a really,
really important thing.

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And, you know, this work
really is about reconnecting parents

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and caregivers to their inner resources
so they can feel safe within themselves,

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connect to themselves
and unconditional love themselves.

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They can break unhealthy generational
patterns that we've all taken on, right?

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Subconsciously.

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And that's another beautiful thing about
David's music is, you know, will reflect.

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We know during the week,
I'll say so, you know,

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how did your parents show you
how they received or did they not?

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You know, how you know.

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And so we really because when we're kids,
we learn,

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you know, we learn through our parents
and caregivers modeling to us.

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And we take on those patterns,
not even realizing we are.

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And because of that, just what's so great
about this music, it kind of like

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it just makes you think, you know,
you could be dry, you could be waiting

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in the line to pick up your kids,
and it's a two minute reflection.

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Play it and just kind of sit
there and reflect a little bit

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is amazing things that will resurface.

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And the great thing about it is
we don't have to fix.

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It's just amazing
how when it's just bringing it

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to the light of consciousness,
awareness can actually help.

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Just release it.

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It's just bringing it out.

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Oh my gosh, my parents didn't do that
or whatever I did.

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Just from that realization alone.

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It's incredible.

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That will transform. It's incredible.

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And anything from our past is
as long as we accept it, I think problem.

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The problem with a lot of us,
we've had hard

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times is we're not able to get through,
is because we never really accepted it.

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Once we accept

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what happened, that's
when we can release it.

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We can't we can't let go of anything
that we're not accepting.

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So that's
so also important in this program.

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And that's how we transform, you know,
and loving ourselves through it.

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It's not about it's
not about feeling shame or whatever.

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It's about just loving ourselves,
accepting our humanity.

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Where humans, you know, we have hard days.

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One of my favorite, parent teachers
is, Doctor Becky Kennedy.

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She wrote a book called Good Inside

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that I recommend all parents
to read and caregivers.

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She's amazing.

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And she talks about when you have a moment
when there's a rupture, right?

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When there's a rupture,
you know, you're cooking your dinner

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and the kid does something and you,
you flip your lid, right?

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And everyone's going to flip their lid.

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We all flip a little bit.

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That's okay.
We all flipper lid. We're human.

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We're good people.

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We just flip our lid and then her, her
next thing is just then just go repair,

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go into the room and say,
hey, I am so sorry.

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I just want you to know
that was not your fault.

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It's never your fault.

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Because if we don't repair it
with our child

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or the children in her care,
or a friend or a partner,

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especially children, they live in that
and that doesn't get repaired.

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And then they take it
and they internalize it. I'm bad.

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And then they grow up thinking
they're not enough.

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Hence, here we are as adults, 98% of us.

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None of us think we're enough.

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And it's from that lack of repair.

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And I think that's another big thing
for me in this course is just to just

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create a community.

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So it'll be a community
like my dream would be

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literally the parents and caregivers
of the town of West Hartford.

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I will literally have a community for them

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to talk through stuff,
you know, connect with one another.

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And it's like, I feel we need to just

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let each other off the hook, because
when you let someone else off the hook,

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guess what? You let yourself off the hook.

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If you think that you know by,
you know, saying,

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you know, you did this or whatever,
that's going to bring you peace,

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maybe for that second.

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But ultimately, you know, there's
this one spiritual teacher I love.

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He said,
if you didn't, whoever you damn damn,

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whatever you damn, damn zip back.

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And I love that.

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Because really, we're all connected

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and, you know, and I love the work
you do with Fenian friends.

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I mean, you help people who are going
through tragedy, who had tragedy.

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I personally feel we're

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under tragedy
all the time with the mental health crisis

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that our youth and people are facing,
and this is why I'm doing what I'm doing.

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And David is so beyond excited
to lend his songs to this,

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because they're transformed,
then they're transformational.

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They truly are.

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I yeah, you meant mental health
and you shared some stats in Connecticut

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54,000 youth experience major depression
this past year.

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Yeah, it's 599,000

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adults are struggling with mental illness
and the youth are multiply Health's

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mental health diagnosis
increased to 24% in just four years.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, mental health is,
definitely coming to the surface.

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And you're seeing it more and more.

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And that's why I feel

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that parents and caregivers
do not have enough resources and support.

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And that's why
this program, in this course,

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this journey is important to me
because this is something I can do.

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And, and it's not requiring me

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to massage anyone, you know?

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And I'm just I'm just

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so honored
to have created this course with David,

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because I really think
it's a game changer.

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I think it's not only going to help
people reconnect with their own inner

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selves, their own heart, their own

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piece.

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Yeah, but life is too busy.

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They don't have time for it.
We have to make the time.

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There's this amazing quote.

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I have it here somewhere and it's

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it says children are not a distraction
from more important work.

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They are the most important work.

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C.S. Lewis and I'm like that is amazing.

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Yeah. You know,
and I love doing the little metaphor.

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So I want you to take out the,
1972 silver

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dollar out of your pocket.

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Oh. You don't have one.

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Oh. You don't.

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Okay,
so I guess we can give what we don't have.

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And that includes care,
unconditional love, kindness,

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anything we can't give from an empty cup,
we don't have it.

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And so my job and my passion is to fill
the cup of the caregivers and teachers.

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So that they have enough
to pour out the unconditional love.

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So they work through all of these songs.

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I promise they will not be
the same people. I promise.

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I love it,

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I know you said music cuts through
the noise and brings us back to ourselves.

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Yeah, I like that. Songs for the soul.

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Yeah, and I do in weeks.

427
00:20:46,328 --> 00:20:49,873
Yeah, it's ten weeks
because my daughter just did Driver's Ed.

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00:20:50,123 --> 00:20:51,917
I had to do
driver's ed every Wednesday night.

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00:20:51,917 --> 00:20:53,293
Yeah, 6:00 on the dot.

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Did you do triple AA or what did you do?

431
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Somewhere in Waterbury,
I don't know. Okay.

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00:20:56,630 --> 00:20:59,466
But she gets it. It's on your own.

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Do the classes as you can.

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So they have to.

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00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:06,640
Nowadays, with people being so busy,
I think you hit it on the head with,

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do it on your own pace.

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I like that, and it's kind of funny.

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00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:14,022
So my husband and I, we just finished
watching Land Man to watch it.

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00:21:14,231 --> 00:21:16,024
I started it, so it's.

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And it's so funny because
when a series just starts, they drop it

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once a week in my husband and I'm like,
we have to wait a whole week.

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When I was a kid, Fridays
and went the Muppets,

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The Love Boat, and Fantasy Island
every Friday wasn't Saturday,

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it wasn't Tuesday,
was it Monday? It was every Friday.

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You missed it.

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And it was funny.

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00:21:34,584 --> 00:21:37,004
We're so spoiled, right?

448
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I mean, we are so spoiled.

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And one of the things that that I think
is a powerful tool is the heart.

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We do it in the soul for for us, we
we really utilize the power of the heart.

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And I'm going to I'm
going to say something here.

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So the heart creates
an electric electromagnetic field

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that's actually 60 to 100 times stronger
than the brain's research from the heart.

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Math Institute has shown this when we
teach children or adults heart magic,

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which we called heart magic and gratitude
practices and heart focused breathing.

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So we basically place our hand
on our heart and we breathe.

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We're tapping

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into the most powerful
electromagnetic force in the body.

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And this is why music is music and heart
centered work are so transformational.

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They bypass the analytical analytical mind
and activate this incredible

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and energetic resource that can shift

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not only our own state, but potentially
the energy of those around us.

463
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So let's do one right now.

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All right.

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I would put your hands on the floor

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and you're going
to put your hands in your heart.

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And what I know as a massage therapist
is where attention goes, energy flows.

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So when we place our hands on a body part,

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that's subconsciously
where our attention goes, okay.

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Got it. Another synapse
are you going to take.

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We're going to take just a couple calm
breaths in, ideally through your nose.

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And breathe out.

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And you're going to put your attention
to your heart center.

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And from that place I want you to think of
something or someone

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that you're grateful for,
or someone or something you love

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00:23:05,175 --> 00:23:08,678
so much that when you think of them,
you're like, heart explodes.

477
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,639
See, I think of buddy or a family dog.

478
00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:13,433
As soon as I think of buddy,
my heart explodes.

479
00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:14,601
So I go right there.

480
00:23:14,601 --> 00:23:17,604
It's wanting to think of something
or someone you're thankful for.

481
00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,109
And just relish in that feeling.

482
00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:25,112
So you really focus on the feeling.

483
00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:32,285
And then bring your attention
back to your heart center.

484
00:23:32,285 --> 00:23:35,288
You can feel the beating of your heart.

485
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:40,127
All right.

486
00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:41,545
And that is a hard focus.

487
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,506
Breathing exercise is breathing in.

488
00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:47,008
What happens here?
Who I was thinking about. Yes,

489
00:23:48,343 --> 00:23:49,261
I know

490
00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:53,515
I have twin girls that was going through
all the pictures today and I saw baby

491
00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:57,769
a baby video
and, man brought me back to tears almost.

492
00:23:57,769 --> 00:23:59,646
And that's and it's amazing.

493
00:23:59,646 --> 00:24:03,400
You know, Shauna Shapiro,
she is an incredible mindfulness

494
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,571
teacher and scientist,
and she does a huge TEDx talk in it.

495
00:24:07,571 --> 00:24:11,408
And she says, what we practice grows
and what happens,

496
00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:14,536
there's a thing called neuroplasticity
with the brain.

497
00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:14,953
Right.

498
00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:18,748
And so let's say you created trauma
or your conscious set point is,

499
00:24:20,167 --> 00:24:23,920
if you do that heart breathing exercise
several times a day,

500
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,716
you actually change the
the neural structure of your brain

501
00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:31,094
and create new neural pathways to give you
a little higher of a set point.

502
00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:35,056
And that's something what's so powerful
about those heart focused

503
00:24:35,056 --> 00:24:36,183
breathing exercise.

504
00:24:36,183 --> 00:24:38,977
And that's why your heart and breathing
think capital.

505
00:24:38,977 --> 00:24:39,644
Yeah.

506
00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:42,355
Just think of something
thankful for someone's like,

507
00:24:42,355 --> 00:24:43,273
you should look in the mirror

508
00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:46,276
and say good things to yourself
every morning to that too.

509
00:24:46,818 --> 00:24:50,363
If you can exercise, exercise,

510
00:24:51,865 --> 00:24:52,491
I don't know.

511
00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,535
One and one thing
I always suggest to people every day,

512
00:24:55,535 --> 00:24:58,538
do something for 15 minutes
that brings you joy.

513
00:24:59,414 --> 00:25:02,167
Something like, for me, I love to sing,
as you know, and I love music.

514
00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:05,420
So I'll sit in my car when I'm driving
somewhere and I'll listen to music.

515
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:08,048
That's my 15 minutes.
Like something or a podcast.

516
00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:11,051
It uplifts me or something
that gets me into that state

517
00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:14,679
is very important
for all of us to fill in up our cup.

518
00:25:15,388 --> 00:25:17,557
Yeah. You gotta, you know,

519
00:25:17,557 --> 00:25:18,642
you guys need a pick me up.

520
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:20,310
You should for 15 minutes.

521
00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:21,645
Listen to the Feeny talks with friends.

522
00:25:21,645 --> 00:25:21,978
There you go.

523
00:25:21,978 --> 00:25:24,981
Guest I highly suggest
it's really good for your heart.

524
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,068
Yeah,
like and subscribe on YouTube and Spotify.

525
00:25:28,068 --> 00:25:29,194
That's right. There you go.

526
00:25:31,154 --> 00:25:32,239
No. You're doing great work.

527
00:25:32,239 --> 00:25:35,492
You got a wonderful testimonial
from Angela.

528
00:25:35,492 --> 00:25:38,495
Santa mero. Santa Myra. Yep.

529
00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,915
She created Daniel Tiger and Blue's Clues.

530
00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:43,124
Steve from Blue's Clues.

531
00:25:43,124 --> 00:25:46,127
That's what people used to call me
Steve for Blues Clues.

532
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:47,921
I don't there, but no.

533
00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:51,091
So the wonderful, testimonial. You.

534
00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:52,842
She ends it, right?

535
00:25:52,842 --> 00:25:54,427
I trust her completely.

536
00:25:54,427 --> 00:25:55,804
I love that's a good ending.

537
00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:59,140
But, 
authentic voice in a world full of noise.

538
00:25:59,432 --> 00:26:01,601
What she offers doesn't come from script
or trend.

539
00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:02,310
It comes from deep.

540
00:26:02,310 --> 00:26:05,564
Well,
passion, presents and lived integrity.

541
00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:08,275
If you feel it the moment she speaks.
Yeah, you.

542
00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:10,151
I just felt that a minute ago.

543
00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:12,696
Her voice alone is grounding,
nurturing in a real way.

544
00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:15,282
It makes you instantly
feels like you're being held.

545
00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:17,242
Oh, that's cute. In my work,

546
00:26:18,493 --> 00:26:21,496
voices
are warm up and I'm reading to myself.

547
00:26:21,496 --> 00:26:23,582
That's exactly it. This is good.

548
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:24,833
This is good. Thanks.

549
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:25,125
Yeah.

550
00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:29,504
No, I mean, it's, It's important to do
this work we're doing right now.

551
00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:33,967
This musical journey to me
is a passion of mine

552
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:37,012
to help as many people as possible.

553
00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:42,225
Because I think, in a world right
now, it's so divided and so chaotic,

554
00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:46,771
I think people need to tap back into that
inner resource within themselves.

555
00:26:47,814 --> 00:26:50,817
And, 
a lot of people don't know how to do it.

556
00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:52,986
And then.

557
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:54,946
Oh, we mentioned this last time.

558
00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:57,490
Yeah. I'll mention it again. Yes.

559
00:26:57,490 --> 00:26:58,783
Christine and the love bugs.

560
00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:01,453
We can be kind, I love it. Yes.

561
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:04,122
David Friedman,
it's based upon David Friedman song.

562
00:27:04,122 --> 00:27:06,583
We can be kind and, Yeah.

563
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:10,754
I mean, that's, a message
we want to scream on the rooftops is just.

564
00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:12,339
We can be kind, you know?

565
00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:14,215
And it starts with being kind
to ourselves.

566
00:27:14,215 --> 00:27:15,425
Right?

567
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:18,219
Take this ten week
self-paced journey and be kind.

568
00:27:18,219 --> 00:27:19,596
Art can be kind to yourself.

569
00:27:19,596 --> 00:27:22,599
So that way, I mean, because, you know,
we can't give what we don't have.

570
00:27:22,724 --> 00:27:26,436
And, you know, when we take care of
ourselves, everyone wins. And

571
00:27:27,896 --> 00:27:29,481
it's not it's not really necess.

572
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,441
It's it's not.

573
00:27:31,441 --> 00:27:32,233
We have to do it.

574
00:27:32,233 --> 00:27:35,236
It's it's necessary now we have to

575
00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:38,365
and, and it's fun and it's, you know,

576
00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:41,951
we created an amazing community
because I don't have to do it alone.

577
00:27:42,202 --> 00:27:44,371
And I always
I want to encourage book clubs.

578
00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:47,248
I have a good friend of mine
who Scott little kids.

579
00:27:47,248 --> 00:27:48,166
And she's in a book club.

580
00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:48,416
Okay.

581
00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:49,584
Well, what if for ten weeks

582
00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:52,587
and you didn't do the book club
and you did this together?

583
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:53,797
That's a good one. Yeah.

584
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:57,592
You know, or all of the teachers
and parents of walk at school, you know,

585
00:27:57,592 --> 00:27:58,510
they do it together.

586
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:01,930
You know, I think creating a community
through this practice into this

587
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:04,933
work is powerful unity and community.

588
00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:08,853
You know, it is I mean, the end
of the day, something tragic happens.

589
00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:09,896
You know,

590
00:28:09,896 --> 00:28:13,858
it's the community and those who love you
and who are going to be there for you.

591
00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:14,317
Yeah.

592
00:28:14,317 --> 00:28:19,030
And so we have to reconnect each other
and we need to reconnect to ourselves

593
00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:22,242
so that we can model
how to reconnect to ourselves.

594
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:23,743
Right.

595
00:28:23,743 --> 00:28:26,830
If we're we're constantly looking outside
ourselves, our child is going to think

596
00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:29,833
that it's normal, that we
they look outside themselves. Right?

597
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:31,584
We do have an inner compass.

598
00:28:31,584 --> 00:28:33,962
We've a lot of people have lost it.

599
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:38,466
And, that inner compass
will help you trust the wind and learn

600
00:28:38,466 --> 00:28:42,262
to help you understand, you know,
the gift of trouble within your own life.

601
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:46,182
So you don't become victim of it,
but rather learn from it and grow from it,

602
00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:50,520
and let life teach us how to be better
humans

603
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,734
and better friends
and a better community coming together.

604
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,235
That's what we need.

605
00:28:57,235 --> 00:28:59,320
And that's what this course is about.

606
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,780
This is what is with friends for.

607
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:02,449
Yeah, absolutely.

608
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:07,120
Purchase the soul for the songs,
for the soul ten week program.

609
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,705
Learn as you want.

610
00:29:08,705 --> 00:29:11,708
Worked with David Freeman, I love it.

611
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,209
Anything else you want to share?

612
00:29:13,209 --> 00:29:15,503
It's at Christina connors.com. Yep.

613
00:29:15,503 --> 00:29:19,215
So, yeah, you can just get on the waitlist
right now at Christina connors.com,

614
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:20,800
and we'll have you on that way.

615
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,887
Listen, soon as it's released
and as soon as it's available, we'll

616
00:29:24,012 --> 00:29:27,974
email you and you'll get the early bird
rate and, yeah, grab,

617
00:29:27,974 --> 00:29:31,478
grab your friends, grab anyone you know,
and let's, let's do this together.

618
00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:34,689
It's takes a village and I'm ready.

619
00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:35,982
We're ready. And we're excited.

620
00:29:35,982 --> 00:29:39,903
We're excited to share these songs
and help people drop into their hearts.

621
00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:43,615
And, during the process
of making this soul for the soul,

622
00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:46,826
were there any challenges?

623
00:29:46,826 --> 00:29:50,163
Was there a moment where you learned
something about yourself or,

624
00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:52,749
or learned something new about David or.

625
00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:55,752
Well, one thing I know for
sure is it's a lot of work.

626
00:29:56,753 --> 00:29:57,295
We're talking

627
00:29:57,295 --> 00:30:01,925
hours and hours and hours of work
and creating this program,

628
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:05,178
you know, and having to come up
with the different reflections.

629
00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:07,347
I had to reflect on my own.

630
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,724
You know, I think of,

631
00:30:09,724 --> 00:30:11,684
you know, we lost my brother
six years ago.

632
00:30:11,684 --> 00:30:14,145
He had an epileptic seizure
and passed away.

633
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:15,980
He was 47.

634
00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:18,233
And one gift

635
00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:22,987
from his passing is, I have so much grace
and compassion for those who are going

636
00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:26,115
through tragedy and hardship,
because I know what it's like

637
00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:29,869
to get to go pretty low
and to have a really hard time.

638
00:30:29,869 --> 00:30:31,746
So now I really can relate.

639
00:30:31,746 --> 00:30:36,042
It inspired me to become the voice of the
Healing Chickadee, Terry's nonprofit.

640
00:30:36,042 --> 00:30:39,963
So Terry has, my friend
Terry Murphy has a nonprofit called

641
00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,966
The Healing Chickadee,
in which I lend my voice

642
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:46,094
as the bird to help,
children and families through grief.

643
00:30:46,094 --> 00:30:48,429
I'm glad you mentioned that.
I wanted to reach out to her.

644
00:30:48,429 --> 00:30:51,057
She said that if we have families
that we need help

645
00:30:51,057 --> 00:30:52,559
she would send a chickadee to.

646
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:55,144
And we just helped a couple families.

647
00:30:55,144 --> 00:30:59,232
So I got to follow up with
that is an incredible program.

648
00:30:59,232 --> 00:31:00,775
We had a father and son,

649
00:31:01,776 --> 00:31:03,528
got into a car accident together.

650
00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:04,904
We help the mom.

651
00:31:04,904 --> 00:31:08,950
We have a family, three
different families in a three family house

652
00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:10,034
at a house fire there.

653
00:31:10,034 --> 00:31:11,411
All three of them are displaced.

654
00:31:11,411 --> 00:31:14,163
We helped all three families.
It's amazing.

655
00:31:14,163 --> 00:31:18,334
So, yeah, you're doing amazing work,
you know, and I this is this is.

656
00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:21,796
And the work that you're doing through
Friends of Feeney

657
00:31:21,796 --> 00:31:24,799
is something that I feel that's a calling.

658
00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:27,552
This songs for the soul is a calling.

659
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:30,388
And I believe, you know,
there's a definition that I.

660
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:34,267
That I love for life
purpose is finding that intersection

661
00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:37,645
where what the world needs and what
you love to do and what you're good at.

662
00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:38,646
Merge.

663
00:31:38,646 --> 00:31:41,441
And so I love to sing
and I love to help people

664
00:31:41,441 --> 00:31:44,444
and to be able to create this journey,

665
00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:49,240
a safe space and a community
to help people find their center and learn

666
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:55,371
to navigate life's challenges with grace
and responsiveness rather than reactivity.

667
00:31:56,956 --> 00:31:59,500
That's my purpose.

668
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,419
I like it and, you know, purpose.

669
00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:04,130
Thank you,
thank you. Yeah. I mean, it's, powerful.

670
00:32:04,130 --> 00:32:06,633
Thank you. I'm. I'm excited.
I feel very aligned.

671
00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:08,259
This is the most I've aligned.

672
00:32:08,259 --> 00:32:11,304
I've felt in a pro in a program
or a project in a long time.

673
00:32:11,304 --> 00:32:12,764
So it's a good feeling.

674
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:15,725
Yeah, it's a really good feeling.

675
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:18,144
What about, any.

676
00:32:18,144 --> 00:32:20,146
Are you singing anywhere? You singing?

677
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:23,149
Yeah, I'm
singing downstairs on my on my studio

678
00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:26,152
creating this, this journey.

679
00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:28,321
Yeah. Right now
when we're in the recording stage.

680
00:32:28,321 --> 00:32:29,530
Not right now.

681
00:32:29,530 --> 00:32:30,281
Not right now.

682
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:34,160
I'm focused on this program,
and I'm focused in the recording studio

683
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:37,372
we are putting together,
which I'm really excited about.

684
00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:41,501
This is another project we're doing,
we're creating, posters

685
00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:46,255
for pediatric offices with QR codes
of our songs and the characters.

686
00:32:46,255 --> 00:32:50,218
So, because,
you know, it's scary for a child

687
00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:52,971
or even a parent to be sitting there
waiting in a pediatric office,

688
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,848
whether it's a physical
or if they're sick.

689
00:32:55,848 --> 00:32:57,976
And when they click on a QR code, it's

690
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,270
one of the characters, buddy,
which is based on our family dog.

691
00:33:01,688 --> 00:33:04,691
He talks and sings a little song about.

692
00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:08,820
Yes, that's funny about, the instruments
the doctors are going to use

693
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:11,990
to kind of ease their minds a little bit,
and then we're going to be

694
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:14,450
doing a song called, happy. And.

695
00:33:14,450 --> 00:33:18,204
Oh, so there's going to be a lot of fun
QR codes to help support the kid in the in

696
00:33:18,204 --> 00:33:18,746
the parent

697
00:33:18,746 --> 00:33:20,415
need to calm down
while they're waiting in the

698
00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:22,750
in the waiting room,
which we're really psyched about.

699
00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:25,169
That's awesome.
Yeah, yeah. No, it's it's fun.

700
00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:26,629
It's a lot of fun. To the best of luck.

701
00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:30,591
And if there's anything I can do,
I can reach out to a pediatric.

702
00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:33,011
I could try to connect you
with some West Hartford schools.

703
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,180
Great. Yeah, let's try to get it.

704
00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:40,601
Let's try to onboard as many parents
and caregivers we can for this program.

705
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:45,189
How fun would it be for,
you know, to get grants and funding

706
00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:49,569
so that actually, for instance,
someone grants all of the parents

707
00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:53,614
and teachers of Wolcott Elementary School
to take this program for free.

708
00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:56,534
You know, that would be amazing.

709
00:33:56,534 --> 00:33:59,537
So because we have a nonprofit,
we have obviously the healing charity

710
00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:03,124
to nonprofit
we can go through or friends of Feeney.

711
00:34:03,124 --> 00:34:04,459
Let's try to make this happen.

712
00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:07,754
And let's,
let's get parents and caregivers

713
00:34:08,337 --> 00:34:11,257
this resource
because it's it's it's needed.

714
00:34:11,257 --> 00:34:13,593
Yeah. No, I think it's going to be great.

715
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:15,887
Thank you. So much. Sign us up.

716
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:18,056
Sign me up. I'm going to sing.

717
00:34:19,098 --> 00:34:21,976
We sang last podcast, remember?

718
00:34:21,976 --> 00:34:23,603
So, Christina, you guys don't remember.

719
00:34:23,603 --> 00:34:26,939
Go back and check out 154
with the Soulful Forest.

720
00:34:27,523 --> 00:34:29,442
It was Teri. Tara.

721
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:30,568
Christina. Yes.

722
00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:33,571
154 it was at Sally and Bob's.

723
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:35,406
We talked about Walk It. Minute three.

724
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:37,325
We talked about Christina Cottage.

725
00:34:37,325 --> 00:34:39,619
Christina's cottage at nine.

726
00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:40,620
How's that going?

727
00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:42,121
Christina's cottage. It's going.

728
00:34:42,121 --> 00:34:43,915
I watched a couple today. Yeah.

729
00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:46,918
I love your intro on
how you explain what it is.

730
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:50,880
You know, you got, like,
over 500 subscribers, which is great.

731
00:34:51,798 --> 00:34:54,050
You're posting a lot.

732
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,093
How's that going?

733
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:55,885
It's going good.

734
00:34:55,885 --> 00:34:56,594
It's going good.

735
00:34:56,594 --> 00:35:00,014
So, you know, we're just it's,
it's a lot of work.

736
00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:01,891
So we we have an amazing artist.

737
00:35:01,891 --> 00:35:03,976
So how the process goes
as we go in the studio.

738
00:35:03,976 --> 00:35:07,480
Well, no, actually, first I decide on what
I want the song to be about.

739
00:35:07,855 --> 00:35:09,023
Then I give it to David.

740
00:35:09,023 --> 00:35:12,652
David writes the song,
and then David and I get into the studio.

741
00:35:12,902 --> 00:35:16,405
I write the script, 
a little behind the scenes.

742
00:35:16,405 --> 00:35:18,658
I am the voice of every character.

743
00:35:18,658 --> 00:35:21,285
I am the voice of every bug,
including buddy.

744
00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:22,787
Because buddy started talking now

745
00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:26,082
by the way, in the poster for the,
pediatric offices.

746
00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:30,461
But he's now going to be talking,
is it like a dog or dog?

747
00:35:30,461 --> 00:35:32,213
Dog voice. What do we got?
Let me hear you, buddy.

748
00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:32,839
You'll hear.

749
00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:33,756
Well, that's a thing.

750
00:35:33,756 --> 00:35:35,800
So I'll say I'll like, talk.

751
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,094
And then he tweaks it. Oh, yeah.

752
00:35:38,094 --> 00:35:38,803
Just the mix.

753
00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:41,472
Oh, you mean just the volume?
Yeah. Oh, interesting.

754
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:41,722
Yeah.

755
00:35:41,722 --> 00:35:42,890
So he he brings the

756
00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:46,894
he brings the frequency up so that
it sounds a little bit more playful.

757
00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:47,603
It's amazing.

758
00:35:47,603 --> 00:35:50,439
It's it's incredible
being in the, in the studio.

759
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:50,940
Yeah.

760
00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:54,402
So now we'll actually go in the studio
in a couple weeks to record the

761
00:35:54,443 --> 00:35:57,572
couple of videos for the poster
for the pediatric office of the,

762
00:35:58,030 --> 00:36:00,908
do you have pediatric offices already

763
00:36:00,908 --> 00:36:03,202
waiting for your posters
like you talked with them already?

764
00:36:03,202 --> 00:36:05,413
I have two neighbors on each side of me

765
00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:09,167
that are pediatric nurses,
and I've gave them kind of like a mock,

766
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:12,879
idea of it,
and they're just beyond blown away.

767
00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:15,882
Oh, nice.
Yeah. It's because, you know, I mean,

768
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:20,052
ideally, we don't want kids to be focused
on the screen, right?

769
00:36:20,052 --> 00:36:20,761
All the time.

770
00:36:20,761 --> 00:36:24,307
But like my friend Angela Santa Maria,
you know, Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger,

771
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:27,894
I mean, she's got some amazing programs
that are educational and

772
00:36:28,477 --> 00:36:32,231
and as long as it's healthy, good content
and it's not all day,

773
00:36:32,231 --> 00:36:33,858
I think it can be amazing.

774
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:35,401
She read a book. Gift.

775
00:36:35,401 --> 00:36:35,735
Yeah.

776
00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:37,361
Angela has a book called Life Clues,

777
00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:40,406
and she also wrote a book called
Radical Kindness, which I really love

778
00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:43,409
with a with a foreword by, Deepak Chopra.

779
00:36:43,451 --> 00:36:44,118
She's amazing.

780
00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:45,578
She's an amazing human.

781
00:36:45,578 --> 00:36:47,663
Confirm or deny Blue's Clues.

782
00:36:47,663 --> 00:36:50,625
Steve was asked to leave

783
00:36:50,625 --> 00:36:53,836
because he started balding
and didn't connect with the kids anymore.

784
00:36:53,961 --> 00:36:55,004
Did you hear the story?

785
00:36:55,004 --> 00:36:56,088
Well, let me tell you something.

786
00:36:56,088 --> 00:36:59,300
Knowing Angela, I can tell you 100,000%.

787
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:00,885
That's not the case, okay?

788
00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:02,386
There's no way that's the case.

789
00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:03,971
So I'm going to debunk that already.

790
00:37:03,971 --> 00:37:06,515
You're going to debunk
it. All right, all right.

791
00:37:10,978 --> 00:37:12,563
How about songs?

792
00:37:12,563 --> 00:37:14,649
We can be kind.

793
00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:17,652
So do you want me to sing a little bit?

794
00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:19,570
Save the singing for later?

795
00:37:19,570 --> 00:37:20,780
Okay.

796
00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:21,614
How about your song?

797
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:23,741
You're what?
It was the first song that you sang.

798
00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,660
Do we talk about this or any first song?

799
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:27,536
Last song in the program?

800
00:37:27,536 --> 00:37:29,705
No. Like you personally.
What's your first song?

801
00:37:29,705 --> 00:37:33,584
Your most recent song,
your best song and your worst song to fun.

802
00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:35,795
My first last best, worst.

803
00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:38,547
Shall I say my flagship song is that.

804
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:39,131
Is that.

805
00:37:39,131 --> 00:37:39,715
Yeah.

806
00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:43,010
Flagship I would say
is listen to My Heart, David song.

807
00:37:43,010 --> 00:37:45,972
And that's what led me to him.

808
00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:46,889
Oh, that's right.

809
00:37:46,889 --> 00:37:48,599
Yeah. He wrote it first.

810
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:52,436
Yeah, yeah, he wrote it
and I heard it and was obsessed.

811
00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:55,231
And that's actually it's amazing
when I think about it.

812
00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:58,776
That song is probably the reason
why I'm sitting here right now

813
00:38:00,736 --> 00:38:01,696
and doing what I'm doing.

814
00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:04,240
I would have never met David
if I didn't hear that song.

815
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,326
So once again, that trusting or trusting

816
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:10,579
the flow of our life, it's incredible.

817
00:38:10,579 --> 00:38:12,248
I mean, I wonder where you were
when you heard it.

818
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:14,500
Oh, yeah,
I was in my apartment in Brooklyn.

819
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:15,668
Listen to my heart.

820
00:38:15,668 --> 00:38:16,002
Yeah.

821
00:38:16,002 --> 00:38:19,005
Was it on the radio, TV, movies?

822
00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:20,715
Gosh, we're going back. What?

823
00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:21,215
How many years?

824
00:38:21,215 --> 00:38:22,842
20, 20 something years ago.

825
00:38:22,842 --> 00:38:25,678
So was probably a CD.

826
00:38:25,678 --> 00:38:26,470
At that time.

827
00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:28,347
Oh, yeah, it was probably a CD.

828
00:38:28,347 --> 00:38:30,558
And, I never went back.

829
00:38:30,558 --> 00:38:31,934
That was it. It's amazing.

830
00:38:31,934 --> 00:38:36,731
Like that pivoted my
my focus on where I wanted to be.

831
00:38:36,731 --> 00:38:39,191
And I didn't care about Broadway anymore.
I didn't care about anything.

832
00:38:39,191 --> 00:38:41,235
I just wanted to meet this composer

833
00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:44,196
and sing music
that opens people's hearts and heals

834
00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:46,073
love.

835
00:38:46,073 --> 00:38:47,199
And, Yeah.

836
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:48,743
So, I mean,

837
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,954
I would say almost all my favorite songs
are David Friedman's,

838
00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:56,083
there's two songs in the program
that are not on my album, so they can hear

839
00:38:56,083 --> 00:38:59,503
all the songs that are on the program
on my album Dream Bigger.

840
00:39:00,504 --> 00:39:02,048
Remember you wanted to sing?

841
00:39:02,048 --> 00:39:04,759
Yes. You ready to sing? Oh, yeah.

842
00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:07,261
I said there's a surprise. Oh, boy.

843
00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,096
Ready for your surprise?
You want to go get the door?

844
00:39:09,096 --> 00:39:12,099
Oh, gosh. Who's here? Lord have mercy.

845
00:39:12,224 --> 00:39:13,142
Could be at the door.

846
00:39:13,142 --> 00:39:16,479
Gosh,
is it like an old teacher or something?

847
00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:19,065
Maybe.

848
00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:21,817
You zoom in in.

849
00:39:21,817 --> 00:39:22,568
All right.

850
00:39:22,568 --> 00:39:23,903
I'll see.

851
00:39:23,903 --> 00:39:27,448
Oh, my God, you are not

852
00:39:29,325 --> 00:39:31,744
somebody I know this year.

853
00:39:31,744 --> 00:39:35,706
You did not, I did you tar and all.

854
00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:37,541
Oh, look at that.

855
00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:39,794
Oh my God, how close are you to?

856
00:39:40,961 --> 00:39:42,254
I lost

857
00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:47,551
oh, I know, like, so I can get back.

858
00:39:47,843 --> 00:39:49,387
Well, you are all good.

859
00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:52,390
I000, you get out

860
00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:54,517
Prize.

861
00:39:54,517 --> 00:39:56,352
That's a prize.

862
00:39:56,352 --> 00:39:57,353
Do you do know that they broke?

863
00:39:57,353 --> 00:40:00,523
They they nest up your room,
they post about.

864
00:40:00,606 --> 00:40:02,149
Oh, now you must rest.

865
00:40:02,149 --> 00:40:04,151
They divide it into two pieces.

866
00:40:04,151 --> 00:40:06,362
My room, my closet.

867
00:40:06,362 --> 00:40:07,530
That was a little closet.

868
00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:10,241
Oh. I'll see, like a closet. Oh, my.

869
00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:12,034
Oh my God, I can't believe this is.

870
00:40:12,034 --> 00:40:14,620
Irving is here.

871
00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:16,497
So glad to see you.

872
00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:17,706
Well, we've been in touch.

873
00:40:17,706 --> 00:40:20,835
Yeah, I know we're Facebook friends,
so on Facebook.

874
00:40:21,877 --> 00:40:23,421
Wow. Yeah.

875
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:24,880
Okay.

876
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,299
So, have you been.

877
00:40:27,299 --> 00:40:30,302
I'd p

878
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:33,139
we will put you right here.

879
00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:34,181
You've been here.

880
00:40:34,181 --> 00:40:35,891
This is amazing.

881
00:40:35,891 --> 00:40:38,352
You started it all I did.

882
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:41,021
You did? Well,
I started my teaching career. Well,

883
00:40:42,022 --> 00:40:43,357
let's talk more on the mic now.

884
00:40:43,357 --> 00:40:44,608
Oh, sorry.

885
00:40:44,608 --> 00:40:45,860
Thank you.

886
00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:48,779
My oh my gosh.

887
00:40:48,779 --> 00:40:49,321
Yeah.

888
00:40:49,321 --> 00:40:50,281
This is amazing.

889
00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:53,033
So did you know this?

890
00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:53,200
Yeah.

891
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,621
Oh, my old, carefully guarded secret, 
surprise.

892
00:40:57,746 --> 00:40:59,206
Right. And this work though.

893
00:40:59,206 --> 00:40:59,457
Okay.

894
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:02,793
So you're you live in Harvard,
so I go all the time, I don't.

895
00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:04,545
Okay. Right down the street.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

896
00:41:04,545 --> 00:41:06,338
You know, I went to church there, right?

897
00:41:06,338 --> 00:41:08,632
I know you are, Lucy. Oh. I'm here.

898
00:41:08,632 --> 00:41:10,050
Yes, I going to you.

899
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:12,970
Oh, my. Oh, sorry.

900
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:15,598
Oh my gosh.

901
00:41:15,598 --> 00:41:17,099
So where are you living now?

902
00:41:17,099 --> 00:41:18,642
I live in Stamford, Connecticut.

903
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:20,603
Oh. Oh, you're a long way from here.

904
00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:21,770
I am a long way from home.

905
00:41:21,770 --> 00:41:23,022
Oh, nice I am.

906
00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:26,066
Wow. Oh, my God, this is zero. Very.

907
00:41:27,234 --> 00:41:28,444
You can call me Kathy now.

908
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:31,322
I can't, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

909
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:32,323
That's how it is.

910
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:34,408
That's how I wasn't my kids friends.
You know me.

911
00:41:34,408 --> 00:41:35,159
You're still Mrs.

912
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:38,162
Rovelli. You are Mrs. Rovelli.

913
00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:40,581
How about the picture?

914
00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:41,499
Oh, yeah. We got.

915
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:45,920
I've got to get some pictures to know
I'm beautiful.

916
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:46,378
I love it.

917
00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:48,464
Reunited you. We just.

918
00:41:48,464 --> 00:41:49,840
Oh, yeah. You guys, are you guys going?

919
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,342
Because I was going to go for it.

920
00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:55,012
So we were talking about the songs
that you'd always play on your guitar.

921
00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:57,556
And, I brought my guitar.

922
00:41:57,556 --> 00:42:00,559
Oh, my God, one of the songs. Oh, God.

923
00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:03,896
So we remember California Dreamin. Okay.

924
00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:05,147
And remember Rainbow Connection.

925
00:42:05,147 --> 00:42:08,108
You were a big Jim
Croce fan, right? Didn't you talk a lot?

926
00:42:08,108 --> 00:42:10,277
I'll. I'm in a bottle.

927
00:42:10,277 --> 00:42:12,154
Last year, I oh, I got to be.

928
00:42:12,154 --> 00:42:13,989
That's actually a depressing song.

929
00:42:13,989 --> 00:42:15,157
Been listening to that.

930
00:42:15,157 --> 00:42:17,618
I was like,
that's actually time in a bottle.

931
00:42:17,618 --> 00:42:19,495
Is like, makes me cry.

932
00:42:19,495 --> 00:42:20,204
Yeah, right.

933
00:42:20,204 --> 00:42:20,746
Right, right.

934
00:42:20,746 --> 00:42:21,872
Oh, my gosh, that is.

935
00:42:21,872 --> 00:42:25,417
So I brought leaving on a song. Leaving.

936
00:42:25,417 --> 00:42:26,794
That was a big one too.

937
00:42:26,794 --> 00:42:29,255
Living on a jet plane.
Yeah. Peter, Paul and Mary.

938
00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:30,047
Oh my.

939
00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:34,468
Jim John Denver actually wrote the,
they made they made it the hit.

940
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:37,388
They really covered his hits.

941
00:42:37,388 --> 00:42:40,474
I mean, yeah, I've heard him sing it,
but I always thought it was Peter, Paul,

942
00:42:40,474 --> 00:42:40,975
Mary. That's.

943
00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:42,810
Yeah, yeah, they made it famous.

944
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:45,479
Oh, my God, I sing. Did not know that.

945
00:42:45,479 --> 00:42:46,272
John Denver.

946
00:42:46,272 --> 00:42:49,066
John Denver. Yeah, yeah.
He wrote it at an airport.

947
00:42:49,066 --> 00:42:52,027
Apparently he was cats between flights.

948
00:42:52,152 --> 00:42:53,195
Oh, and he was.

949
00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,574
Apparently the song was about, him

950
00:42:56,615 --> 00:43:00,035
traveling because he was,
you know, on the road all the time.

951
00:43:00,035 --> 00:43:03,455
Oh, my gosh. Forming
and just missing home.

952
00:43:03,455 --> 00:43:06,750
I thought, oh my God, I'm so, so Mrs..

953
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:07,418
We're very sorry.

954
00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:08,085
I got to call you this.

955
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:10,296
I can't, I can't, I can't sorry.

956
00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:11,380
You're forgiven.

957
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:15,676
So you were the person
who had told my parents that I could sing.

958
00:43:15,968 --> 00:43:17,595
Yes, I remember that.

959
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:20,598
And you were like a fourth grade
or something.

960
00:43:20,889 --> 00:43:24,685
But you do realize you you you were
the reason why I'm sitting here right now.

961
00:43:24,727 --> 00:43:28,188
Oh, and you're
also the reason why I didn't go skiing

962
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:31,191
every Wednesday
in through middle school and high school.

963
00:43:31,191 --> 00:43:32,735
Because I had private voice lessons.

964
00:43:32,735 --> 00:43:35,738
Because you told my mom to give me
private voice lessons, right?

965
00:43:35,946 --> 00:43:39,992
So, I mean, you did a recital,
I remember, I did, you invited me to.

966
00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:41,201
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

967
00:43:41,201 --> 00:43:41,869
Oh, gosh.

968
00:43:41,869 --> 00:43:42,703
With that hard school.

969
00:43:42,703 --> 00:43:45,581
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it was because of you.

970
00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:46,540
Oh, no.

971
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:49,543
I'm dead, you know, and not to be it
what was because of you.

972
00:43:49,543 --> 00:43:51,045
And it was also because of my parents.

973
00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:53,297
That they listened.

974
00:43:53,297 --> 00:43:54,131
Yeah. Yeah.

975
00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:55,174
You had support.

976
00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:59,595
I had and I think that from home
I can only imagine I mean I'm

977
00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:03,515
lucky my whole life since I was little,
little I always knew what I wanted to do.

978
00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:05,768
I always had a passion
and love for singing.

979
00:44:05,768 --> 00:44:09,063
So there was always a place
that I returned to for my joy.

980
00:44:09,063 --> 00:44:11,273
And not everyone has that button.

981
00:44:11,273 --> 00:44:12,399
Yeah, yeah. Really?

982
00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:14,777
You remember telling my parents,
I remember that.

983
00:44:14,777 --> 00:44:15,819
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

984
00:44:15,819 --> 00:44:18,989
And just a little, little one,
you know, fourth grade.

985
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:19,698
All right.

986
00:44:19,698 --> 00:44:20,407
Well, let me say

987
00:44:20,407 --> 00:44:24,453
so I they used to call me something
and I, they used to call me Peabody.

988
00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:26,497
That was like my little nickname
when I was an elephant.

989
00:44:26,497 --> 00:44:29,208
Because I was tiny. You were.
You were little.

990
00:44:29,208 --> 00:44:31,919
I would, like,
feel like one half of a seat.

991
00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:33,837
I was I don't know what happened.

992
00:44:33,837 --> 00:44:38,926
I got plenty of me now, but, I mean,
but I was tiny, Oh, my, I love this.

993
00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:41,053
Feeny talks with friends. I'm a teacher.

994
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:43,555
I always mentioned
my favorite teacher was Mrs. Geral.

995
00:44:43,555 --> 00:44:46,392
I ask every podcast guest
their favorite teacher.

996
00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:47,393
We finally brought

997
00:44:48,352 --> 00:44:51,689
our podcast together with their
favorite teacher on the same podcast.

998
00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:54,066
So this is a remarkable podcast.

999
00:44:54,066 --> 00:44:56,110
159 we're really excited.

1000
00:44:56,110 --> 00:44:57,820
Feeny talks with friends.

1001
00:44:57,820 --> 00:45:00,406
West Hartford walk it school teacher, Mrs.

1002
00:45:00,406 --> 00:45:00,989
Revathi.

1003
00:45:00,989 --> 00:45:02,991
Yeah, and your room was right here.

1004
00:45:02,991 --> 00:45:04,868
That's right.

1005
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:06,078
We took a picture in front of it.

1006
00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:08,163
Well, we'll take a tour later.

1007
00:45:08,163 --> 00:45:09,957
So it's not the music room anymore.

1008
00:45:09,957 --> 00:45:12,876
It's, Oh, thank heavens it was awful.

1009
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:15,254
No windows, real windows.

1010
00:45:15,254 --> 00:45:17,464
I used to have dizzy spells in there.

1011
00:45:17,464 --> 00:45:18,549
Let's just off.

1012
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:21,301
You remember
those transparent things that you used?

1013
00:45:21,301 --> 00:45:21,760
Yeah, yeah.

1014
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,011
Overhead projector. Yeah.

1015
00:45:23,011 --> 00:45:26,849
So it was like the projector, the lyrics
that I would pop up on that thing

1016
00:45:26,849 --> 00:45:27,391
and used it.

1017
00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:28,726
Yeah. On the screen. Right.

1018
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:31,019
Oh my gosh. Yeah.

1019
00:45:31,019 --> 00:45:32,396
Yeah. Then.

1020
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:35,149
So I was here for 19 years.
You're 19 years.

1021
00:45:35,149 --> 00:45:37,985
And then I moved over to Whiting Lane.

1022
00:45:37,985 --> 00:45:38,652
Oh you did.

1023
00:45:38,652 --> 00:45:41,780
And my last 14 years. Was it
Whiting Lane?

1024
00:45:41,822 --> 00:45:42,781
Oh, I didn't know that.

1025
00:45:42,781 --> 00:45:43,991
And then I retired.

1026
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:46,618
Oh. So, 33 total.

1027
00:45:46,618 --> 00:45:49,580
3737. Oh, mathletes.

1028
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:51,165
I forgot about Northfield.

1029
00:45:51,165 --> 00:45:54,960
Got three years,
and Whitman and Elmwood was one year.

1030
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:56,128
Oh, wow. Right.

1031
00:45:56,128 --> 00:45:59,131
I had a child, and, well,

1032
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:01,967
they put me in two schools
when I came back.

1033
00:46:01,967 --> 00:46:04,511
That was not very nice of them.

1034
00:46:04,511 --> 00:46:07,973
But then I went back to Walker
so that that's what happened.

1035
00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:10,893
Yeah. Very nice. Yeah.

1036
00:46:10,893 --> 00:46:11,977
37 years.

1037
00:46:11,977 --> 00:46:14,062
I'm on 22 right now.

1038
00:46:14,062 --> 00:46:16,815
Right. Well, yeah. Did you enjoy it?

1039
00:46:16,815 --> 00:46:17,399
Yeah.

1040
00:46:17,399 --> 00:46:18,525
Yeah, for the most part.

1041
00:46:18,525 --> 00:46:20,611
Did you play guitar all the time too.

1042
00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:22,279
Did you do anything else or.

1043
00:46:22,279 --> 00:46:25,032
Well, I was an organ major in college.

1044
00:46:25,032 --> 00:46:27,701
I did my senior recital on the organ,

1045
00:46:27,701 --> 00:46:31,121
play piano all the way through,
sort of taught myself guitar.

1046
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:35,584
And, don't play a whole lot now, but,

1047
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:38,587
I take voice lessons myself.

1048
00:46:38,712 --> 00:46:42,007
I've been doing that
just for fun and singing two choirs.

1049
00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:44,051
I have a choir rehearsal
a little later tonight.

1050
00:46:44,051 --> 00:46:47,054
Right down the road at Temple Sinai.

1051
00:46:47,763 --> 00:46:47,971
Yeah.

1052
00:46:47,971 --> 00:46:51,016
I sing with the West Hartford Women's
Chorale, and I sing in my church choir,

1053
00:46:51,016 --> 00:46:54,561
which is, Grace
Episcopal Church in Hartford.

1054
00:46:54,686 --> 00:46:57,231
Yeah. So.

1055
00:46:57,231 --> 00:46:58,190
So that's what I do.

1056
00:46:58,190 --> 00:47:00,609
And I'm a director of a food pantry
at the church.

1057
00:47:00,609 --> 00:47:01,693
Oh. That's nice.

1058
00:47:01,693 --> 00:47:04,029
So that keeps me out of trouble.

1059
00:47:04,029 --> 00:47:05,739
Staying busy. That's the best thing to do.

1060
00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:07,032
Will be there tomorrow morning

1061
00:47:07,032 --> 00:47:10,786
setting up bright and early,
and then the people come on Thursday.

1062
00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:15,791
Yeah, we sometimes serve over 300 families
a week.

1063
00:47:16,166 --> 00:47:18,335
It's going to be cold.
This is going to be.

1064
00:47:18,335 --> 00:47:19,086
Yeah, we might not.

1065
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:22,422
We haven't been getting as many in January
just because I think the weather's

1066
00:47:22,422 --> 00:47:23,966
a little colder.

1067
00:47:23,966 --> 00:47:29,346
But it was 361 time not too long ago. Wow.

1068
00:47:29,346 --> 00:47:32,182
Because the Snap benefits were being cut
I remember.

1069
00:47:32,182 --> 00:47:34,935
And people were in a panic.

1070
00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:38,814
And so coming over for food and

1071
00:47:39,398 --> 00:47:42,401
so Thanksgiving we had about 360.

1072
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:45,237
We gave away turkeys and chickens and gift

1073
00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:48,907
certificates and well that's
that's a great thing that you're doing.

1074
00:47:48,907 --> 00:47:51,827
You're being a good friend.
Oh my gosh. Stickers say be a good friend.

1075
00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:52,911
Thanks for being a good friend.

1076
00:47:52,911 --> 00:47:54,246
That's for you. And thanks for being here.

1077
00:47:54,246 --> 00:47:56,957
This 000 my gosh you're kidding me.

1078
00:47:56,957 --> 00:47:59,293
This is like the dream right here.

1079
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:01,753
Oh, Mrs. Rossetti, I mean, when I come to.

1080
00:48:01,753 --> 00:48:03,338
I haven't been here in a long time.

1081
00:48:03,338 --> 00:48:06,466
To an inside
walk at school anyways, I haven't either.

1082
00:48:06,466 --> 00:48:08,552
No, we did rehearse here.

1083
00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:12,556
West Hartford Women's Chorale rehearsed
here one year, but it was before Covid.

1084
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:12,848
Oh, wow.

1085
00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,600
Okay, so I was on the same seat.

1086
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,688
Was broken, and, and the auditorium
had been broken when I was here.

1087
00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:20,856
Wow. Yes.

1088
00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:22,774
I sit in that seat.
I think I know what you're talking about.

1089
00:48:22,774 --> 00:48:24,401
I know which one it is. Right? Right.

1090
00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:25,235
Yeah. Is is dead.

1091
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:28,030
Some of the lights overhead,
we're still burned out.

1092
00:48:28,030 --> 00:48:29,531
So that's like, oh my God.

1093
00:48:29,531 --> 00:48:30,365
Yeah they do.

1094
00:48:30,365 --> 00:48:33,911
And that have been years
and years and years 20 years.

1095
00:48:34,369 --> 00:48:36,371
So I know. Yeah. Yeah.

1096
00:48:36,371 --> 00:48:38,415
We rehearse here one.

1097
00:48:38,415 --> 00:48:41,501
So I saw 
there was an artist who was painting

1098
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:45,464
figures on the wall
as we were rehearsing that year.

1099
00:48:45,505 --> 00:48:49,176
Oh, they Eric was saying that
they do a lot of murals on the walls. And.

1100
00:48:49,176 --> 00:48:50,761
Yeah, I think that's really cool.

1101
00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,055
Yeah, they do that. We're in school.

1102
00:48:53,055 --> 00:48:54,640
Yeah, yeah, I'm just going to.

1103
00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:56,892
And then I got Mr.

1104
00:48:56,892 --> 00:48:58,268
Dick's reached out to Mr.

1105
00:48:58,268 --> 00:48:59,144
Hugh. Rob.

1106
00:48:59,144 --> 00:49:01,980
Who did Rob hue
replace you or replace me. Yeah.

1107
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:03,273
Yeah I moved to white.

1108
00:49:03,273 --> 00:49:09,488
It was sort of a year of upheaval because
they were regrouping, the schools.

1109
00:49:09,488 --> 00:49:13,450
So the fifth grade was also going
to middle school as sixth graders.

1110
00:49:14,117 --> 00:49:17,079
So it was sort of a year to change.

1111
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:20,082
And they said, well,
if you're going to make a change,

1112
00:49:20,415 --> 00:49:23,085
let's make it now,
because a lot of the teachers

1113
00:49:23,085 --> 00:49:26,505
here were moving on
to middle school and Mr.

1114
00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:27,464
Hine and Mr..

1115
00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:29,424
Sorry you remember Mr..

1116
00:49:29,424 --> 00:49:30,550
Carnival Mr..

1117
00:49:30,550 --> 00:49:35,138
Carnival he passed away
I did and wasn't that old either.

1118
00:49:35,263 --> 00:49:38,684
Who was your principal Dave duvall
yeah. Mr..

1119
00:49:38,684 --> 00:49:40,852
Do Mr. Duvall yeah.

1120
00:49:40,852 --> 00:49:42,312
And then Tim Dunn.

1121
00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:43,814
Okay, I remember him.

1122
00:49:43,814 --> 00:49:45,565
Mr.. Dan Plato, Carol fellows.

1123
00:49:45,565 --> 00:49:47,484
Yeah, I remember Carol. Yeah.

1124
00:49:47,484 --> 00:49:48,193
You were here.

1125
00:49:48,193 --> 00:49:51,196
Well, no, but I remember because I grew up
in Barton Street, right down the street.

1126
00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:53,156
Okay. You were here for doctor K?

1127
00:49:53,156 --> 00:49:54,366
I was for a couple of years.

1128
00:49:54,366 --> 00:49:57,202
Oh, wow. Yeah, he was my neighbor.
I live on Brimley Road. Okay.

1129
00:49:57,202 --> 00:49:57,703
All right.

1130
00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:58,537
And then Mr.

1131
00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:01,957
Dunn is our current principal,
and that's Scott Dunn's.

1132
00:50:01,957 --> 00:50:03,792
And that's Tim Dunn's nephew.

1133
00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:04,209
Yeah. Right.

1134
00:50:04,209 --> 00:50:05,669
Yeah, yeah, I knew that. Okay.

1135
00:50:05,669 --> 00:50:08,088
Yeah, I met him years ago.

1136
00:50:08,088 --> 00:50:12,634
We did the Celebration of Excellence
project, out in work

1137
00:50:12,926 --> 00:50:15,804
by campus, and I know Burlington

1138
00:50:15,804 --> 00:50:18,765
and, he was there. Nice.

1139
00:50:18,765 --> 00:50:21,143
And he said, oh, I'm Tim Dunn's nephew.

1140
00:50:21,143 --> 00:50:24,146
And first thing I know, I turn around
and he's principal here.

1141
00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:25,230
Oh, that's so funny.

1142
00:50:25,230 --> 00:50:25,689
Was crazy.

1143
00:50:25,689 --> 00:50:26,273
Remember, Mr.

1144
00:50:26,273 --> 00:50:28,984
Duvall was very tall and thin, remember?
Yeah, yeah.

1145
00:50:28,984 --> 00:50:32,237
And he'd come in with this huge
pile of food for lunch.

1146
00:50:32,571 --> 00:50:33,071
So where are you going?

1147
00:50:33,071 --> 00:50:36,283
To put all I did, I could eat.

1148
00:50:37,034 --> 00:50:39,494
It's very nice. Oh, it was very nice.

1149
00:50:39,494 --> 00:50:40,120
And now Mrs.

1150
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:41,496
Freeman in the in the office.

1151
00:50:41,496 --> 00:50:44,499
Maude Freeman. Yes, yes.

1152
00:50:44,624 --> 00:50:48,336
We used to say
she had roller skates, that she would run.

1153
00:50:48,837 --> 00:50:50,630
Oh, you'd hear somebody running.

1154
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:53,633
I said that white hair, that white hair,
that white hair.

1155
00:50:53,633 --> 00:50:55,761
And then she goes, oh, it's you on.

1156
00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:58,305
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was a kid.

1157
00:50:58,305 --> 00:50:59,306
That's funny.

1158
00:50:59,306 --> 00:51:01,558
So. Funny. Yeah.

1159
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:02,392
Oh my gosh. Yeah.

1160
00:51:02,392 --> 00:51:05,979
And she easily lived to be over 100.

1161
00:51:06,021 --> 00:51:07,939
I'll bet you I didn't stop.

1162
00:51:07,939 --> 00:51:09,566
I mean, she's unbelieve.

1163
00:51:09,566 --> 00:51:10,484
She was amazing.

1164
00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:11,943
She was so nice. Yeah.

1165
00:51:11,943 --> 00:51:13,695
Yeah, really, it was so nice.

1166
00:51:13,695 --> 00:51:16,364
And I had Miss Levine for second grade.

1167
00:51:16,364 --> 00:51:19,159
Oh. Betty levine. Oh. Okay.

1168
00:51:19,159 --> 00:51:20,368
So when did you come?

1169
00:51:20,368 --> 00:51:22,662
Were you all the way through
kindergarten or did.

1170
00:51:22,662 --> 00:51:25,957
Yeah, I went to nursery school
at the church across Market Park.

1171
00:51:25,957 --> 00:51:26,500
That's right.

1172
00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:27,292
So I went to that.

1173
00:51:27,292 --> 00:51:30,879
Yeah, they're from nursery school
and then from here, from kindergarten

1174
00:51:30,879 --> 00:51:33,882
straight up through sixth grade
and then went to Sedgwick.

1175
00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:35,842
And then I went to Conner Conner. Okay.

1176
00:51:35,842 --> 00:51:36,968
And then the hard school.

1177
00:51:36,968 --> 00:51:39,262
And and hard school. Yeah. That's great.

1178
00:51:40,514 --> 00:51:40,722
Yeah.

1179
00:51:40,722 --> 00:51:42,432
I did my music at, at the heart school.

1180
00:51:42,432 --> 00:51:44,226
Oh you did. Yeah.

1181
00:51:44,226 --> 00:51:44,392
Yeah.

1182
00:51:44,392 --> 00:51:46,478
Because I graduated
from Connecticut College

1183
00:51:46,478 --> 00:51:49,606
with a major in music
but not any education courses.

1184
00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:53,610
So it was like having to take
a fifth year of college.

1185
00:51:53,610 --> 00:51:55,570
It was 36 credits.

1186
00:51:55,570 --> 00:51:57,030
Had to take all the instruments.

1187
00:51:57,030 --> 00:51:57,364
Yeah.

1188
00:51:57,364 --> 00:51:58,824
Oh, I know, and I never taught

1189
00:51:58,824 --> 00:52:02,494
instrumental music, particularly
except for guitar and recorder.

1190
00:52:03,161 --> 00:52:04,830
But I remember recorder.

1191
00:52:04,830 --> 00:52:06,832
Remember the recorders in third grade?

1192
00:52:06,832 --> 00:52:08,500
Do they still do recordings for the kids?

1193
00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:09,709
They don't.

1194
00:52:09,709 --> 00:52:10,961
Maybe in second grade now.

1195
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:12,254
Oh, maybe in third grade.

1196
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:15,215
They start, they pick their instrument
at the end of third grade

1197
00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:17,801
and they start their instrument career
in fourth grade.

1198
00:52:17,801 --> 00:52:19,344
I remember hot cross buns.

1199
00:52:19,344 --> 00:52:20,053
Yes.

1200
00:52:20,053 --> 00:52:23,598
Classic doo doo doo doo doo
squeak squeak squeak.

1201
00:52:23,598 --> 00:52:25,934
You do doo
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.

1202
00:52:27,477 --> 00:52:30,272
So is it time to sing the last thing
you want to sing.

1203
00:52:30,272 --> 00:52:31,064
Leave it on a job.

1204
00:52:31,064 --> 00:52:33,400
Oh my goodness gracious.
You know, like I'm.

1205
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,485
The thing is crazy.

1206
00:52:35,485 --> 00:52:38,655
We're like,
oh I like, envision you standing up

1207
00:52:38,864 --> 00:52:41,867
and you have your guitar
or that strap across and just

1208
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,537
have a strap on this guitar crystal
that says, hey, that's okay.

1209
00:52:45,537 --> 00:52:49,624
But I just like my visions,
you know, like, it's so this isn't.

1210
00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:51,042
This is insane.

1211
00:52:51,042 --> 00:52:54,045
Okay, I brought the lyrics.

1212
00:52:54,212 --> 00:52:56,214
How did you get in touch with the
how did you how did that work?

1213
00:52:56,214 --> 00:52:57,549
I know they call me Feeny.

1214
00:52:57,549 --> 00:53:00,343
Gets whatever you need. Feeny gets.

1215
00:53:00,343 --> 00:53:01,887
You need to get in touch with someone.

1216
00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:04,598
You let me know. Oh. For you. For me,

1217
00:53:05,974 --> 00:53:06,766
I guess you guess.

1218
00:53:06,766 --> 00:53:08,059
I'm not singing.

1219
00:53:08,059 --> 00:53:09,144
Yeah. That's fine.

1220
00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:11,646
Do you know I'm leaving on a jet plane?

1221
00:53:11,646 --> 00:53:12,522
You don't know this.

1222
00:53:12,522 --> 00:53:17,652
Oh I do, oh, yeah, I actually
I would sing this in my music class too.

1223
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:20,864
Seriously. At Kingsbury School. Mrs..

1224
00:53:21,281 --> 00:53:23,658
Tullock, Mrs.. Tulane, Mrs..

1225
00:53:23,658 --> 00:53:25,243
Tilak, Mrs.. Tilak.

1226
00:53:25,243 --> 00:53:28,246
Oh my God. Hi. Black tie.

1227
00:53:28,580 --> 00:53:30,832
You know, it's weird, like

1228
00:53:30,832 --> 00:53:34,127
when I'm in, when you're in a place, it's
amazing how old names and everything

1229
00:53:34,127 --> 00:53:35,045
kind of come back. Yeah.

1230
00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:37,547
You know, like it's incredible.

1231
00:53:37,547 --> 00:53:38,924
Like guitars cold.

1232
00:53:38,924 --> 00:53:41,927
Oh, well, I'm not surprised. Me.

1233
00:53:42,427 --> 00:53:44,304
Is this a new guitar?
Have you had this one?

1234
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:48,016
It's probably better I don't sing,
well, stuff several years old.

1235
00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:48,975
I'll just enjoy the show.

1236
00:53:48,975 --> 00:53:50,143
And the one with the strap.

1237
00:53:50,143 --> 00:53:53,271
And we've got kind of warped.

1238
00:53:53,271 --> 00:53:56,107
And so, it's kind of hard to press down.

1239
00:53:56,107 --> 00:53:59,110
So our church was getting a new organ,

1240
00:53:59,569 --> 00:54:03,490
and while they were installing it,
which took like six weeks,

1241
00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:07,619
some of us did, preludes and postlude.

1242
00:54:07,619 --> 00:54:09,162
So I got the guitar for that.

1243
00:54:09,162 --> 00:54:11,081
Oh, my God, did, guitar.

1244
00:54:11,081 --> 00:54:13,124
And another gal played the flute.

1245
00:54:13,124 --> 00:54:14,876
That's amazing.

1246
00:54:14,876 --> 00:54:17,170
I love that you're
you're creating music still.

1247
00:54:17,170 --> 00:54:18,255
You know, you're just.

1248
00:54:18,255 --> 00:54:20,590
I love that it's not just about me.

1249
00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:22,842
right now.

1250
00:54:22,842 --> 00:54:26,096
And my son, my son
plays in the Philadelphia Orchestra, so.

1251
00:54:26,221 --> 00:54:29,349
Yeah, he's a violinist now, so,

1252
00:54:29,349 --> 00:54:32,352
yeah, I just got a text from

1253
00:54:32,602 --> 00:54:37,065
chats over the chat with all of that, say,
all right, you ready to sing?

1254
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:38,650
Oh, gosh.

1255
00:54:38,650 --> 00:54:38,858
Yeah.

1256
00:54:38,858 --> 00:54:41,861
And it change your.

1257
00:54:43,905 --> 00:54:46,283
Oh, my bags are packed.

1258
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:48,285
I'm ready to go.

1259
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:51,997
I'm standing here outside your door.

1260
00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:57,919
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.

1261
00:54:59,713 --> 00:55:01,881
But the dawn is breaking.

1262
00:55:01,881 --> 00:55:05,385
It's early morn. Taxi's great.

1263
00:55:05,385 --> 00:55:08,847
And he's blowing his heart already

1264
00:55:08,847 --> 00:55:13,393
I hold on to my good God.

1265
00:55:13,393 --> 00:55:15,103
Right.

1266
00:55:15,103 --> 00:55:19,107
So kiss me and smile for me.

1267
00:55:19,607 --> 00:55:24,279
Tell me that you wait for me, oh me.

1268
00:55:24,279 --> 00:55:30,285
Like you never let me go on air for us.

1269
00:55:31,202 --> 00:55:35,081
Leavin on a jet plane.

1270
00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:39,085
Don't know when I'll be back again.

1271
00:55:39,544 --> 00:55:45,175
All day by day to go.

1272
00:55:45,967 --> 00:55:50,013
There's so many times I let you down.

1273
00:55:50,221 --> 00:55:53,725
So many times I played around.

1274
00:55:53,808 --> 00:55:56,811
And I tell you now then I'll

1275
00:55:56,811 --> 00:56:00,190
be loving

1276
00:56:01,149 --> 00:56:04,778
every place I go I think of you.

1277
00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:08,656
Every song I sing, I sing for you.

1278
00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:12,494
When I come back I'll break your heart

1279
00:56:12,494 --> 00:56:15,497
every day.

1280
00:56:16,247 --> 00:56:18,249
So it's me.

1281
00:56:18,249 --> 00:56:20,502
And smile for me.

1282
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:23,838
Tell me that you're away from me.

1283
00:56:24,589 --> 00:56:25,215
Oh me.

1284
00:56:25,215 --> 00:56:30,053
Like you'll never let me go

1285
00:56:31,763 --> 00:56:35,683
I'm leavin on a jet plane.

1286
00:56:36,267 --> 00:56:39,729
Don't know when I'll be back again.

1287
00:56:40,188 --> 00:56:45,235
Oh babe, my day to go

1288
00:56:46,569 --> 00:56:47,529
I like time.

1289
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:52,492
It's time for me to leave
you one more time.

1290
00:56:52,534 --> 00:56:55,912
Like he kissed you
for you to close your eyes

1291
00:56:56,287 --> 00:57:00,708
I'll be on my way.

1292
00:57:01,543 --> 00:57:04,963
You dream about the days to come.

1293
00:57:05,296 --> 00:57:08,716
But I won't have to leave alone.

1294
00:57:09,134 --> 00:57:16,391
By the time I won't have to say so.

1295
00:57:16,391 --> 00:57:19,394
Kiss me and smile for me.

1296
00:57:20,019 --> 00:57:23,148
Tell me that you'll wait for me.

1297
00:57:23,898 --> 00:57:28,903
Hold me like you'll never let me go.

1298
00:57:30,530 --> 00:57:34,784
Cause I'm leavin on a jet plane.

1299
00:57:35,577 --> 00:57:38,746
Don't know when I'll be back again.

1300
00:57:39,164 --> 00:57:44,711
All day Monday to go one more time

1301
00:57:45,670 --> 00:57:49,632
I'm leavin on a jet plane.

1302
00:57:50,049 --> 00:57:53,386
Don't know when I'll be back again.

1303
00:57:53,761 --> 00:57:58,641
Oh babe I hate to go.

1304
00:57:58,892 --> 00:58:02,270
Oh, I miss you.

1305
00:58:02,896 --> 00:58:06,149
Oh yes.

1306
00:58:06,191 --> 00:58:07,275
Oh, my God, I love it.

1307
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:08,943
That was amazing.

1308
00:58:08,943 --> 00:58:12,906
Wow. And did you know, because I went to
Sweden every summer when we were kids.

1309
00:58:12,906 --> 00:58:14,741
I saw that on Facebook.

1310
00:58:14,741 --> 00:58:19,662
Yes. And, we sang me and my cousin
sang this one, I would leave.

1311
00:58:20,038 --> 00:58:22,749
Oh, and when my youngest cousin

1312
00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:25,752
got married, I sang this at her wedding.

1313
00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,754
We've been on a jet plane, so.

1314
00:58:27,754 --> 00:58:30,131
But such a perfect example as.

1315
00:58:30,131 --> 00:58:33,134
I mean, I'm not a teacher as far as, like,

1316
00:58:33,176 --> 00:58:38,056
thinking about how you influenced my life,
not just through the songs,

1317
00:58:38,056 --> 00:58:41,100
but just being someone
who recognized my talent.

1318
00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:43,561
And yeah, I mean, that's such a gift.

1319
00:58:43,561 --> 00:58:45,188
So thank you.

1320
00:58:45,188 --> 00:58:47,106
Oh, I realize you were,

1321
00:58:47,106 --> 00:58:49,609
you know, once in a while
there was somebody like yourself that

1322
00:58:49,609 --> 00:58:54,113
just sort of stood out, and, 
and that's what I remember.

1323
00:58:54,113 --> 00:58:56,824
I remember you saying, oh, holy night,
remember that?

1324
00:58:56,824 --> 00:58:58,117
And that's in the concert.

1325
00:58:58,117 --> 00:59:00,745
And I mean, honestly, God,
you brought down the house.

1326
00:59:00,745 --> 00:59:03,248
And it was just
it's really, really amazing.

1327
00:59:03,248 --> 00:59:06,251
And that's why I said to your parents
usually,

1328
00:59:06,543 --> 00:59:10,505
usually we didn't really recommend
voice lessons for people that young, but,

1329
00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:14,801
but you were different,
so you were exceptional.

1330
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:16,219
So thank you. Loud.

1331
00:59:16,219 --> 00:59:17,512
You're pursuing. Oh my gosh.

1332
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:18,763
So what are you doing now?

1333
00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:21,391
God, I know you've written a book.

1334
00:59:21,391 --> 00:59:23,142
Yeah, I wrote a book called
We Can Be Kind.

1335
00:59:23,142 --> 00:59:26,437
And now I'm, I've been
a massage therapist for 22 years,

1336
00:59:26,437 --> 00:59:27,855
so I've merge the two.

1337
00:59:27,855 --> 00:59:31,609
So I created, an online musical journey
Through Earth,

1338
00:59:31,734 --> 00:59:34,988
weaving through ten songs
and helping people self-reflect

1339
00:59:34,988 --> 00:59:37,865
and get back in touch with themselves
through song.

1340
00:59:37,865 --> 00:59:41,619
And, because I feel
that music can be so healing.

1341
00:59:41,661 --> 00:59:45,039
It has, it
not only is just music healing,

1342
00:59:45,039 --> 00:59:46,708
but it also brings people together.

1343
00:59:46,708 --> 00:59:48,001
You know, like choirs, right?

1344
00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:49,752
It brings communities together.

1345
00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:51,629
And you think about the Olympics

1346
00:59:51,629 --> 00:59:54,882
and what brings Olympics together
is, you know, the music and the sports.

1347
00:59:54,882 --> 00:59:59,345
So it's like, I feel like music is, 
a powerful tool for transformation

1348
00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:01,180
for the better. Very much so.

1349
01:00:01,180 --> 01:00:05,435
So that music therapy is
going to be quite, a, quite a field now.

1350
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:06,394
Yeah, I heard that.

1351
01:00:06,394 --> 01:00:06,728
Yeah.

1352
01:00:06,728 --> 01:00:09,731
I sing with somebody
who's a music therapist and

1353
01:00:09,981 --> 01:00:11,316
she tells us all sorts of things.

1354
01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:14,360
She works with all sorts of ages,
you know, older people,

1355
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:18,364
all young children and house babies,
you know, crawling.

1356
01:00:18,364 --> 01:00:21,868
And what's interesting,
I had done several shows at senior homes.

1357
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:26,956
And, what was fun, I would do, you know,
Judy Garland, I would do older musicals.

1358
01:00:26,956 --> 01:00:29,292
Right? Judy Garland
and all that kind of stuff.

1359
01:00:29,292 --> 01:00:31,878
And I remember
one time I sang Over the Rainbow.

1360
01:00:31,878 --> 01:00:32,503
Oh, yeah.

1361
01:00:32,503 --> 01:00:35,048
And there was a guy
that mentioned that on the phone. Did he?

1362
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:37,300
I think you remember.
Did you mention that she was.

1363
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:41,012
Oh, no, Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy,
who were you in a blender?

1364
01:00:41,596 --> 01:00:44,599
I'm sorry, man, I don't remember that.

1365
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:46,017
Maybe. Maybe I messed up.

1366
01:00:46,017 --> 01:00:50,855
No, but,
he started to cry, and after my show,

1367
01:00:50,855 --> 01:00:54,067
I went up to him and he said that
that was him in his wife's wedding song.

1368
01:00:54,734 --> 01:00:55,485
And, you know,

1369
01:00:55,485 --> 01:00:59,864
you just realize it's like music touches
people, like, so many different ways.

1370
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:01,157
Yeah, there's some songs.

1371
01:01:01,157 --> 01:01:04,952
I get me so many different kinds
of musicians who.

1372
01:01:04,994 --> 01:01:08,247
And it's nice to respect
all different kinds.

1373
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:11,501
I know I'm doing voice lessons,
I do classical,

1374
01:01:11,501 --> 01:01:14,671
I also do like this folk music

1375
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:18,216
and pop and so I use

1376
01:01:18,216 --> 01:01:21,219
head voice as well as chess for like,
I know or you mix.

1377
01:01:21,386 --> 01:01:24,138
That's right.
I find you find that that mix.

1378
01:01:25,098 --> 01:01:25,640
Right.

1379
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,141
Right. Oh, well, that's. Yeah, that's.

1380
01:01:27,141 --> 01:01:29,936
I just so glad to see
that you're still doing the music.

1381
01:01:29,936 --> 01:01:32,480
And, Yeah, I had a one point.

1382
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,692
I had an Oregon scholarship from, 
American.

1383
01:01:35,942 --> 01:01:38,236
That was my Covid project. Oh, really?

1384
01:01:38,236 --> 01:01:42,281
So a friend of mine was a certified
organist, teacher

1385
01:01:42,281 --> 01:01:46,369
from a NGO, and,
so she offered to be my teacher.

1386
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:49,122
So I took about four years of organ
lessons, too.

1387
01:01:49,122 --> 01:01:53,668
Just recently I've stopped kind of
because she's traveling along.

1388
01:01:54,460 --> 01:01:57,213
I have a lot on my plate
with the food pantry.

1389
01:01:57,213 --> 01:02:00,883
It's all gone. But, But,
yeah, I keep up.

1390
01:02:00,883 --> 01:02:05,888
I've kept up the voice lessons for about,
almost ten years now, so that's good.

1391
01:02:06,013 --> 01:02:08,766
Benjamin Rausch is,
I don't know if you know him.

1392
01:02:08,766 --> 01:02:10,101
He's a teacher at the art school,

1393
01:02:10,101 --> 01:02:13,813
and he has a private studio,
so he's a countertenor.

1394
01:02:13,896 --> 01:02:16,149
Oh my gosh. Well gorgeous voice.

1395
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:21,154
Well, I walked up the fourth to
the fourth floor every Wednesday for my.

1396
01:02:21,195 --> 01:02:26,242
Mrs. Coleman was my voice teacher, 
Yeah, she lived in Ellington.

1397
01:02:26,242 --> 01:02:29,787
So I remember we went did a couple things
in Ellington, but yeah, she was,

1398
01:02:30,413 --> 01:02:33,332
but I remember at one point, you know,
these teachers are tough.

1399
01:02:33,332 --> 01:02:34,834
And she was like, don't go skiing.

1400
01:02:34,834 --> 01:02:37,295
I don't want you breathing in the cold
air. It's not good for your voice.

1401
01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:38,504
I was like, forget that.

1402
01:02:38,504 --> 01:02:41,674
I was like, I love to sing,
but I'm not going to not I'm not scared.

1403
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:43,676
I'm not going to not ski. Right.

1404
01:02:43,676 --> 01:02:44,594
So wow.

1405
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:47,054
Well, here at Walk school
we give out Buffy's bests.

1406
01:02:47,054 --> 01:02:50,224
Oh my God, for being respectful,
responsible and ready to learn.

1407
01:02:50,224 --> 01:02:52,059
So I like to share it to Buffy's best.

1408
01:02:52,059 --> 01:02:52,602
Oh my god.

1409
01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:53,895
One with Katherine.

1410
01:02:53,895 --> 01:02:55,688
Betty, thanks for coming.

1411
01:02:55,688 --> 01:02:58,399
Buffy is our mascot for the Walker Eagles.

1412
01:02:58,399 --> 01:03:00,735
Were you always an eagle with the Eagles?

1413
01:03:00,735 --> 01:03:01,861
Yeah. Good to know.

1414
01:03:01,861 --> 01:03:04,614
Good to know. He's
spying for good behavior.

1415
01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:07,033
So that's why he has the magnifying
glass ourselves.

1416
01:03:07,033 --> 01:03:07,533
That's good.

1417
01:03:07,533 --> 01:03:10,453
Yep. And the walk
it way. Use the walk it way.

1418
01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:13,331
So respectful, responsible
and ready to learn.

1419
01:03:13,331 --> 01:03:15,082
Oh and love that Christina.

1420
01:03:15,082 --> 01:03:16,167
You work hard every day.

1421
01:03:16,167 --> 01:03:19,545
Today she was a wonderful podcast guest
and she was interesting engaging.

1422
01:03:19,545 --> 01:03:21,923
Great job Christina. Thank you.

1423
01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,217
Thanks for coming in Singing
you are an inspiration.

1424
01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:27,220
I appreciate all that's for you. One.

1425
01:03:27,428 --> 01:03:31,182
Once again, as a teacher, you know, Eric,
don't ever underestimate, you know, the

1426
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:34,936
the influence and the power you have to,
you know, change

1427
01:03:34,936 --> 01:03:38,189
the course of children's lives
like he did to me.

1428
01:03:38,189 --> 01:03:41,192
You know, it's. Yeah, that's very nice.

1429
01:03:41,442 --> 01:03:45,154
I hope I'm sitting on a podcast
in a few years, and some kid says that,

1430
01:03:45,488 --> 01:03:48,533
or I get invited on for a kid
that says I was his favorite teacher.

1431
01:03:48,533 --> 01:03:51,494
So that truly means the world for you
being here.

1432
01:03:51,494 --> 01:03:54,580
That's great. I'll be back here.
Oh my God.

1433
01:03:54,622 --> 01:03:57,291
We usually shoot for 50 minutes. Where?
I think we're past an hour.

1434
01:03:57,291 --> 01:03:59,502
I don't know if you want
any closing remarks.

1435
01:03:59,502 --> 01:04:00,461
I can't thank you enough.

1436
01:04:00,461 --> 01:04:03,464
We can take a tour and chat,
but we're going to shut down the part.

1437
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,967
I did have a the school.

1438
01:04:05,967 --> 01:04:09,095
I was walking the dog once, and a kid
goes, Mr.

1439
01:04:09,095 --> 01:04:11,055
Feeny, I said, hey, how you doing, costar?

1440
01:04:11,055 --> 01:04:13,099
And he's like,
I'm in computer science now.

1441
01:04:13,099 --> 01:04:13,850
I'm like, oh, that's great.

1442
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:16,310
He goes, you gave me a laptop.

1443
01:04:16,310 --> 01:04:21,607
I guess my wife had a donation from
her work and he may have needed a laptop.

1444
01:04:21,607 --> 01:04:22,567
I gave him a laptop.

1445
01:04:22,567 --> 01:04:27,196
So just like you said,
you never know what what, spark

1446
01:04:27,196 --> 01:04:30,825
you're going to flame or, you know,
whatever inspiration you're going to lead.

1447
01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:35,872
So I think kids need you people
to see them and to acknowledge them.

1448
01:04:35,872 --> 01:04:40,376
And recognize their talents
and to, you know, I think kids need that.

1449
01:04:40,626 --> 01:04:43,045
And, sometimes people are just too busy.

1450
01:04:43,045 --> 01:04:43,921
They don't pay attention.

1451
01:04:43,921 --> 01:04:48,885
My husband is actually a para prepare
professional in Darrin's middle school.

1452
01:04:49,010 --> 01:04:49,635
Okay.

1453
01:04:49,635 --> 01:04:53,556
And Bill works with a lot of kids that
the teachers weren't able to connect with.

1454
01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:56,559
My husband would say something like,
how can they not connect with them?

1455
01:04:56,559 --> 01:05:00,187
You know, the kid walks down the hallway
with the Jets hat and I just say, hey,

1456
01:05:00,187 --> 01:05:02,106
how about those jets? And immediately
a connection.

1457
01:05:02,106 --> 01:05:07,236
And and he was like, for my husband, it's
such a natural thing to notice that.

1458
01:05:07,236 --> 01:05:12,992
But apparently not everyone notices,
and that's so important, you know.

1459
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:16,662
Oh, can we can you sing us out
with be a Good friend on the guitar?

1460
01:05:16,662 --> 01:05:19,582
Be a good friend will say, be
a good friend a couple times or something.

1461
01:05:19,582 --> 01:05:21,375
I don't know
if you're attuned to be a good friend.

1462
01:05:21,375 --> 01:05:22,793
Now make one up. Let's go.

1463
01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:25,671
Be a good friend, I love it.

1464
01:05:25,671 --> 01:05:28,716
We are good friends here. If

1465
01:05:30,134 --> 01:05:30,968
we can end with that one.

1466
01:05:30,968 --> 01:05:35,473
The feel good friend.

1467
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:38,100
Be a good friend, right?