Summer Series Pt 3: Authenticity

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We're taking a break from school-related topics as we continue our special summer series. These 4 episodes in June and July are designed to be a short time together for us to reflect, think deeply, and go big picture.

In this episode, we're talking about AUTHENTICITY. Is it time to get real with yourself that there are certain things you're just not going to pressure yourself to do? Are you conforming to outside expectations about what's most important, or determining those things for yourself?

Make sure you sign up for the special summer series emails! There's one written message to go with each of the 4 podcast episodes. The emails are designed to be short, powerful reminders to help you make the most of your summer break. Just click here to sign up:

https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/summer-2019-series/

Also: there are just a few more days to join the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. It's a great community of teachers who are focused on what matters most, and you'll get all the resources and support you need for living and teaching with intentionality. Last chance is July 15th! Sign up here: 40htw.com.

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0:00.0	I want to thank our sponsor for the summer series which is Smash Boom Best.
0:06.0	That's a free podcast for kids that helps them learn how to make strong arguments.
0:11.0	Every episode of Smash Boom Best uses fun packs and the power of persuasion to help kids decide which is better between two amazing things like chocolate versus cheese or Unicorns versus Dragons.
0:25.0	The podcast uses real facts and teaches kids debate skills
0:29.0	and each episode has an activity sheet at smashboom.org to help your class play along and judge the
0:35.5	debates for themselves. Look for smash boom best wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:48.0	Welcome back to our special four-part summer series of Truth for Teachers where we are taking a break from all things work-related. Every other week in June and July I'm going to bring you a quick
0:54.7	episode to help you focus on what matters most and I'll share some things that have
0:59.0	been on my heart that might be otherwise off topic for a teaching podcast. Let this be our short time together to
1:05.8	reflect, think deeply, and go big picture. We'll explore a different word each time
1:11.8	to help you find the extraordinary within the ordinary.
1:15.6	So each episode in this summer series is quite different in tone as I'm sure you're
1:25.9	noticing by now and today we're exploring the word authenticity. I'm going to share
1:32.3	a handful of sort of random musings and wonderings on this topic for you to think about.
1:37.0	I'm going to touch on the topic of losing weight and body image and physical appearance a couple of times.
1:43.3	But even if these are not issues that are relevant for you,
1:46.0	I want you to stay with me and think about an equivalent pressure
1:49.3	that you have been conditioned to care about
1:51.6	and that you're putting on yourself because we all have
1:55.4	distraction issues.
1:57.6	Distraction issues are things that we don't really want to care about but we feel like we need to. And they cause us to live in a
2:05.4	perpetual state of not living up to expectations, of feeling less than, of needing to change ourselves in ways that we don't really need to be changed.
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