Vermont’s Spitting Lyon with Chrissy Lawler

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Chrissy Lawler of The Peaceful Sleeper, joins Sharon to hear the story of Matthew Lyon, one of Vermont’s most eclectic historical figures. Lyon, a “redemptioner” from Dublin, made a name for himself as a fierce Democratic-Republican when he got into not one–but two–scuffles with a congress member of the opposing party… during an active House session. His story gets more bizarre from there, as he became the only person to be elected to Congress while in jail. Follow along as Sharon tells his larger-than-life tale of public service during some of the U.S.’s earliest years as a new nation.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, always delighted to have you along and today I am sharing a really
0:06.6	interesting story with my friend Chrissy Luller. This is one of those stories where
0:10.8	you are going to be like, what? You're going to be like, that is wild!
0:17.1	I did not know that. So buckle up. I have a great story for you straight out of the Green Mountain State of Vermont.
0:28.0	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:35.0	Yay, I'm so excited to have my friend to Chrissy with me today.
0:39.0	Chrissy, thank you for doing this.
0:41.0	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
0:43.6	This is so fun.
0:45.0	Tell everybody what you do because you have a very unique job
0:48.8	and I love unique jobs.
0:51.6	I started out as a licensed marriage and family therapist. I still do that, but I've pivoted into the world of sleep, specifically baby sleep and motherhood.
1:03.0	So I'm a big believer that if we can sleep well,
1:07.0	then everybody thrives.
1:09.1	And I'm also a big believer that there is no one size fits all solution. So I empower moms and dads to
1:17.2	tune into the cues of their baby figure out what their baby needs and help them
1:22.1	optimize sleep in a way that works for them.
1:25.0	I love that because this is not a like listen if your baby isn't sleeping
1:29.0	11 hours a night by the time they're nine weeks old then you're failing.
1:33.2	Exactly. It's not that but yet it is also recognizing that we all do better
1:39.9	when we're sleeping well. Yes, and so really just like,
1:44.9	I kind of see myself as linking arms with parents
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