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Season One Episode 32 Musical Health TRANSCRIPT NOTES Please note: these are notes from the podcast episode, but not a completed transcript. I hope you’ve enjoyed the summer health series so far!  Today’s topic is all about our musical health. As musicians and educators, we spend much of our time thinking about what we will teach, how we will teach it, what resources we need to create to aid in the learning of students, and choosing repertoire.  These are all supports for helping students see themselves as musicians and continuing to be musicians ourselves. We spend so much of our time creating lesson materials that support the musical learning in our classrooms and that is important. I would say that spending time developing the musicality within students and continuing it ourselves, is equally if not even more important.  Sometimes I’ve found that I’ll spend more time creating the visuals for my board or manipulatives than I would on thinking through the ...

Season One:  Episode 31 Telling Your Story with Karen Dustman Karen Dustman is a California-based journalist and author.  From home improvement to history, natural health to self-help, she's written about it during her twenty-year career.  "The best part of being a writer is I get to write about whatever I'm interested in, and I'm interested practically everything!" she laughs. Early in her writing career, a pair of successful home improvement books landed Karen on some top television shows including Discovery Channel; the Weekend Edition of the Today Show; Good Day New York; Woman's Day TV; HGTV; and the Howie Mandel show.  Her freelance magazine articles have appeared in a wide range of national publications including Ladies' Home Journal , Family Circle , Natural Health , and Westways . In recent years, Karen's passion for history led her to launch Clairitage Press , a small indie press devoted to preserving California/Nevada history an...

Season One Episode 30 Anxiety and Depression We've got four more episodes of the summer health series before I shift towards wrapping up the half year point (how did that get here?) with episodes about my Kodåly Levels training, mid-point yearly goal check-in, and turning the focus back to music education topics. Today's episode on anxiety and depression is something that is very personal to many of us.  I know it is for me.  There are ranges of these experiences and we can see it manifest in our lives in similar ways, but to different depths and in different areas.  I'll focus on how I've experienced these things in my life and what has helped me to become healthier in these areas.  I realize that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.  This is just a peek into it and it's vulnerable for sure, but I hope that you gain encouragement and find hope if you're facing this or know someone who is. I have experienced depression and anxiety and dealt with...

Season One:  Episode 29 Mental Health I hope you're enjoying the summer health series so far.  For me, I feel as though these episodes have helped bring perspective and some healthy changes that were needed to my life.  We've had guests on the show to share about fitness, nutrition, detoxing, vocal health, and today I'll be talking about mental health.  An article in Medical News Today describes mental health as the way that we think, feel, and behave.  In a podcast episode of The Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo on mental health - from September 24, 2017 - Brooke talked about an interesting thought about how mental health is often looked at in terms of what it isn't.  if I'm not mentally ill, then I'm mentally health.  But what does mentally healthy look like?  It's being the best version of a human as you can be.  Not perfection.  Not constant happiness.  And dealing with the hard things that come our way - ...

Health Series Season One:  Episode 28 Part II Vocal Health with Darlene Jebson Darlene Jebson is the Director of Worship at Brightmoor Christian Church as well as the Vocal Music and Drama Teacher at Novi Christian Academy.  She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Music Education with a focus on voice and her Master's Degree in Education - both from Marygrove College.  She lives with her husband Mark, daughter Molly, and son Max in Commerce Township, Michigan. TRANSCRIPT OF THE SHOW Jessica:  So I'd love to shift gears because you sing so much and not just with students in the classroom, but you're leading worship on weekends at church and you do some of the productions at church so you sing a lot.  And I don't know if it's been a year or two years - it's been a little while I think, but you had some things happen with your voice.  I'd love to hear about your experience with your vocal health. Darlene:  It started - gosh... probably I was ...

Season One:  Episode 28  Part I Middle and High School Music with Darlene Jebson Darlene Jebson is the Director of Worship at Brightmoor Christian Church as well as the Vocal Music and Drama Teacher at Novi Christian Academy.  She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Music Education with a focus on voice and her Master's Degree in Education - both from Marygrove College.  She lives with her husband Mark, daughter Molly, and son Max in Commerce Township, Michigan. TRANSCRIPT FROM THE SHOW Jessica:  Darlene I am so glad to be talking with you. Darlene:  Well, it's great to talk to you Jessica.  I'm excited to do this! Jessica:  Yes!  I'm excited to have you and it's just been too long. Darlene:  Yes.  I agree. Jessica:  I've been looking forward to it. Darlene:  Yes. Jessica:  So I would love for you to share kind of your musical background, how you came to be at the position you're at, you know,...