The Executive Function Podcast

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Ep 31: 2e Twice Exceptional Kids: Strategy Brainstorm with Author Emily Kircher-Morris Nov 10, 2021

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Team,

This week we get to hear from the brilliant Emily Kircher-Morris who specializes in supporting kids with Twice Exceptional brains---meaning they are highly intelligent and also needing support with executive function! Sound familiar? She shares some great strategies and perspectives with us, all the while letting her love for our innovative kids shine! You will love her insights and her personal story (she challenged her teacher about the utility of rewriting spelling words after she'd mastered them! Sounds familiar again, right?)

You can find Emily's Neurodiversity Podcast here, and order her book, "Teaching Twice Exceptional Learners in Today's Classroom" here.

In the show, we talk about the Book, Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn (none of these are affiliate links; just sharing great info).

All my love,

Sarah

Ep 30: Our Challenges are Invisible! Oct 22, 2021

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No one would be cool with shaming someone who had a visible disability, yet the assuming, blaming, and shaming is loaded onto people with executive function challenges. Jump on this ride as we explore how to rethink our approach to invisible struggles. This week's pep talk is one of my BEST, and it starts at 13:25.

All my love, Sarah

sarahkesty.com/groups

Audience: all ages and contexts

Ep 29: The Executive Function-Friendly Home! with Seth Perler, our special guest! Jul 27, 2021

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Let's make your home executive function-friendly! If your brain just kind of organizes itself, it may be tricky to understand the types of supports your child needs for their executive function growth. Conversely, if your brain is naturally disorganized, you may know what to do but have difficulty doing it. Either way, there's a strategy for that struggle too, my Tribe! Seth Perler is our honored guest on the show today, where we dive into his top recommendations for making your home executive function-friendly.

Want more of this awesomeness? Join us at the Executive Function Online Summit August 2021!

Seth on YouTube

Seth's website

P.S. Thank you to all who reached out while the show was on an unplanned break. My health took me by surprise, but it's getting better every day. Thanks for the love! I won't leave you hanging again. In fact, I'm strategizing to make future episodes as a just-in-case we hit health bumps in the road again. You are amazing, Tribe! All my love to you!

Audience: all ages and contexts

Ep 28: Hack Motivation to End the School Year Well! Apr 27, 2021

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Lacking motivation to finish the school? Maybe not! Let's massage your perspective a bit with exploring why you and your child may be feeling low "motivation" these days---and what to do about it! There's a strategy for every struggle! All my love, Sarah

Audience: Students and parents, school context

Ep 27: Organizing your child's mind: the Bullet Map strategy Jan 31, 2021

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Team, I want you to meet and learn from my friend Darius Namdaran. He's brilliant, and his simple-but-profound method of brain organizing will empower you today! Hear his thoughts on dyslexia, executive dysfunction, and a brilliant kid whose brilliance was allllmost overlooked, for poor handwriting! Darius has his own podcast, Dyslexia Explored, and a program called Bullet Map Academy. He's also offering our tribe a free session with him, just to share the love! I'm still learning with Darius, and we have some exciting collaborations in the works! In the meantime, enjoy a listen to the calm brilliance of a man driven to make a difference for neuro-diverse humans! All my love, Sarah

PS Go to bulletmapacademy.com/beginner for an example! And, email Darius@bulletmapacademy.com for your session!

Audience: all ages and contexts

Ep 26: Kid, You're Gonna Fail. A Pep Talk Jan 24, 2021

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Turn that frown upside down! Fix your attitude! Stop crying! We do a lot to prompt our kids to feel better, and it makes sense: we don't want our loved ones to hurt. But, could it be that when we try to "fix" what we think of as negative emotions, we make them more intense and long-lasting? This Pep Talk is for any kid who's had a rough day, week, or school experience. It's for parents and teachers who feel like they are never good enough. It's a pep talk for humans, and it starts with this truth: Kid, You're Gonna Fail!! All my love, Sarah

Audience: Students and parents, school

Ep 25: Winter of Wonder: Detective Perspective Will Stop the Yelling at your Kid Jan 18, 2021

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Hey Team,

Kids are frustratingly human all the time. They do the thing you said not to do not two seconds after you told them not to do it. Oh, these tiny humans. Today's show will teach you how to embrace a "Detective Perspective" so that you can approach patterns and problems with a problem-solving lens, making yelling a tool you just don't need any more. The paradox of being perfect and super-flawed can really get you thinking, so jump in this episode with us! Pep talk is at 11:38. All my love to you, Sarah

PS Remember to share the show! It's helping so many families! Who do you know who could use some executive function love?

Audience: Students and parents, school context

Ep 24: BeeLine Reader Makes Reading Easier! Jan 16, 2021

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Have you ever read something, only to realize your focus had floated away? Or, have you lost your spot when switching lines of text? This week we talk to Nick Lum, founder of BeeLine Reader, an assistive technology designed to make reading easier. It is proven to help alleviate some of the mental tasks of reading, improving comprehension, and extending focus (when our brains use less juice on just reading, we are free to think about what we are reading!) Nick will tell us how BeeLine came to be, why he quit his day job for it, and how he uses executive function to manage his business. Learn more about BeeLine with the links below. All my love, Sarah

BeeLine Reader website

BeeLine Reader on iOS

BeeLine Reader on Chrome

BeeLine Reader for PDF

Insight Browser Beta (will be launching in January 2021 with BeeLine capability)

Audience: all ages and contexts

Ep 23: Top 6 ways to Coach Your Child during Finals Week Stress Dec 11, 2020

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If you had a dollar for every time someone told you or your child to "just study" or "study harder," you'd be rich, right? But, what does that even mean? And how can you study harder if you never learned how to study anyway? This episode has study tips AND how to coach your child to actually USE them, now, to improve their grades on last-minute work and final exams. Disclaimer: grades are not who your child is. While this episode explores ways to improve grades, take grades in general as one measure of the 1,000 things your kid is and does. Grades matter a lot and grades don't matter at all. Intrigued? Jump in the episode! (Pep talk for your amazing kid is at 16:19)

All my love, Sarah

Audience: Students and parents, school context

Ep 22: Do your genes determine your destiny? An interview with Geralyn Spiez Nov 25, 2020

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Tribe,

This interview will rock your brain! Geralyn is an Occupational Therapist, writer, and mom who challenges the medical and educational systems to do better for everyone. You will love her story and unique perspective. She writes on Medium and is the founder of the Down Syndrome Action Plan. Listen to show to find out why Geralyn says, "we have to leave space for our kids to reach their full potentials" and why she passionately proclaims, "your genes are not your destiny." All my love, Sarah

Audience: Students and parents, school context

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