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and president of Celebrate Kids, based in Fort Worth, Texas. She's an author, she's a speaker,

an educational psychologist, and a former teacher. an author, she's a speaker, an educational psychologist,

and a former teacher. And today, she's going to discuss five core needs that are essential

for thriving in life. Kathy, thanks so much for joining us.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks for the invitation.

And it's so great because we've done this before via telecommunication, but now we're in

person, and this is so much better. Totally. You've written books that have helped me and my wife

and our six kids, and one of them is this book, Five to Thrive. Eight Great Smarts is another

great book. We'll have to talk about that on another episode, but you talk about how to determine if your core needs are being met.

Kathy, what do you mean by core needs? What is a core need? Something that has to be met or will flounder,

something that has to be met or we won't thrive, we'll be distracted, we won't be fulfilled, we might even be

angry because there's something inside of us that's unsettled and not focused. Not a want, but a

need, and not just a need like coffee, which is actually a want, but a core need. I think with me

it's a need. Well, what motivated you to study this particular topic?

I mean, you discovered these five core needs.

Is that something that was just obvious to you?

Or were you finding, like, people have these things and we have to identify them?

Yeah, great question.

I was a professor at the time that I began working with this model of these five needs.

And I was working with some colleagues colleagues teaching them to public school social workers

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