Lizness School Special: Liz and Leah do some Spring Cleaning
Satellite Sisters
Mudbath Productions
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today Liz and Leah refresh the big themes of Season 2 and refire their specific goals for the Spring Quarter of Lizness School. Time to FINISH STRONG. Plus, another call-out for listeners who want to share their own Side Quests on the podcast.
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Today we discuss two big themes and the podcast guests who helped us develop them. Relisten to the episodes linked below.
Refirement: Excavating your heart and mind for goals, desires, wishes, and then setting clear benchmarks as you work toward those goals, desires, wishes. REFIREMENT works for anyone coming out of a transition who needs to get fired up about your life.
Intergenerational exchange: Learning and sharing across generational lines
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Special Bonus instead of Homework: A link to Leah's astrologer Chani.
If you are new to Lizness School, we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows.
Season 2 is about how she puts her lessons to work in the wild with the help of her millennial mentor Leah Sutherland.
To listen to Liz +. Leah's recap of Lizness School Season 1, go to our FINALE here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to Lizness School, Season 2, Episode 18. |
| 0:07.6 | Yes. I am Liz Dolan. I'm the Liz in Lizness, and I am joined, as always, by my millennial mentor, Leah Sutherland. |
| 0:17.3 | Leah, how are you doing today? |
| 0:18.9 | I just can't believe we're doing episode 18. |
| 0:21.1 | It's mind-boggling. |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.3 | Season 2, episode 18. |
| 0:25.1 | Where has the year gone? |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, that's why we're doing a little bit of a recap and refire episode today, right? |
| 0:32.6 | Let's just remind ourselves of what we set out to accomplish this year, see how we're doing. |
| 0:39.7 | We've had many guests who have inspired us about, like, setting goals and keeping track. |
| 0:46.4 | And if you can move the sticky note if you want, you don't have to do the exact same list you said you were going to do. |
| 0:53.2 | You know, last week, Lee said we could move it wherever we want to move it, right? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | So we're going to talk about a few things that we had set out to accomplish this year. |
| 1:02.3 | But first, let's talk about side quests. |
| 1:06.2 | I love side quests. |
| 1:07.9 | We love a side quest. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, we do. |
| 1:09.9 | Our whole season one was a side quest. |
| 1:14.1 | That was, you know, my year at the Stanford DCI program, we created this show to sort of be the audio |
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