Backstory Sessions

Perception or Reality?

In a conversation at one of our weekly meetings to discuss our projects, Cat and I got into a discussion on goal setting, and what this entails. The gist of the conversation asked the question: Is it your perception of your abilities, or just the reality of hard work that determines your success, and is there any "cosmic" energy that helps you achieve goals.  A deep conversation for a Sunday afternoon at Cracker Barrel, but these are the things that come up sometimes after eating too much chicken fried everything. We revisit the discussion in this episode, and give a short update on the things we have happening currently.

Degree of Separation

We chat with Joslyn Flynn, whose grandmother became a college graduate at the age of 92! This amazing and inspiring story follows the path or Opal Tye, Joslyn's beloved grandmother. From her youth spent in an orphanage to a chance meeting with a college president, and the twists and turns along her path, to Joslyn's anxiety at being separated from her best friend due to the pandemic, this story has a great conclusion you wont want to miss. We are honored to share this sweet and interesting backstory with you.

Disabled Perceptions 2

Back with another interesting episode highlighting Disability Awareness. Our special guests, Ryan Dunn, and Jeff Arseneaux, share their experiences and insights with Cat on a wide variety of topics. such as dating and relationships, and much more. Both are engaging, thoughtful, and very candid about the challenges they deal with, their successes, and hopes for the future. We are happy to share this episode about such an important topic with you, and hope you enjoy listening.

Song Backstories

In this episode, we introduce a new ,and  potentially ongoing feature to our podcast. We give an update on a few projects, and discuss the interesting backstories of some popular songs. We hope you enjoy this fun new episode. 

Love and Jello

We are back again with a new episode about our first book, Love and Jello, and have a conversation with our friend Sheila Browning, who read and reviewed the book. She share what she likes about, it, favorite characters, and how the idea for the book was developed, and written. You can find the book on LuLu, as well as Amazon, and Barnes and Noble to name a few. We are proud of our first book, and hope you will enjoy hearing more about it, and grab a copy to read the rest of the story.

Unstuck..11 Rules for Moving Forward With Your Life

We are back! After a long hiatus we, Cat and Matt, have returned with this interesting episode where we dive deeper into Matt's past, and how he became unstuck from various situations he faced. Later in the episode, Matt talks about  the strategies that have helped him move forward that anyone can apply to various things in their own lives. We hope you enjoy this wide ranging episode. (Matt was getting over a cold at the time. He also apologizes for the over use of the phrase "You know.".")

Not Weighting

A discussion between Cat and Matt about hating to drink water, developed into a future book idea, and currently this podcast with our guests:
Author Sora Vernikoff, who wrote her best selling book "Eat What You Want, Stop When You Want", after figuring out her thought process surrounding food, and working to change this process to help her make better choices in her effort to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Also joining us on this episode is Santana Rodriguez, who hosts her own popular TV show, "Shaping Up with Santana", which is currently streaming on the Roku app, and Amazon Fire TV to name a few. Santana talks about the connection between the food you eat, and how it make yous feel, as well as motivation, accountability, and what motivates her most of all.
Both ladies share with us their interesting backstories, provide many tips to help start and/or continue your journey towards your goals of getting and staying healthy, and why willpower is over-rated, to name a few topics.   

Teaching Perspectives

Almost everyone has a teacher they remember fondly from their time in school. These are the special ones who can connect with their students, prepare them well for next steps in life, and genuinely care about the success and well being of the students, giving their time, and love to those they teach. Such is the case for the exceptional teachers profiled in this episode. Join us for another special episode featuring our awesome guests Corri Taylor, and Johnathan Stephens. Both are teachers at Lynn Camp High School in Kentucky, who share their backstories of what inspired them to become teachers, the struggles of teaching virtually in the time of Covid-19, how they feel about their students, what their high school experiences were like, and what they would like their students to know. Also joining the conversation is the equally amazing Arthur Canada, who retired from a long career teaching at Lynn Camp a few years ago, but has maintained a close relationship to the school, the teachers, and the students there through his work as the Neighborhood Promise School Coordinator with Berea College. Arthur shares his insights into the past, present and potential future of teaching from his unique perspective. (We had some technical issues recording Arthur during the podcast recording, and there is a great solo interview with him at the end of the podcast.) 

Mothers Day State of the Union

Happy Mother's Day! Matt and Cat talk about recent projects, Mothers Day, and Verizon? Join us for a wrap up of the writing of the short play "In Color" which won the recent Kentucky Theater Association Bake Off contest, , and what the inspiration for that was. We also talk about our mothers, and a bit of the surprising origins of Mother's Day.  

Senior Year Interuptus

Graduation, Prom, Senior Trip, and many other events at high schools around the country have been put on hold or cancelled this year. For seniors entering their last year of high school with high hopes of a fun and memorable year have had to deal with much more than any class before them. The uncertainty of the times, the sudden end to their high school days, and the desire to be together once again, before everyone heads off to their next life chapter are all discussed with our guests: Bethany Smith, Aaliyah Flanley, and Masyn Mitchell. All are Lynn Camp seniors in Kentucky, and amazing young women. They share their thoughts about all from their unique perspective living through this unprecedented period, and much more in this insightful episode.            Here's to the Class of 2020. We want to wish you all much happiness and success wherever the wind takes you!