🎉We made it to Episode 100 of The Shieldmaidens!🛡️ 

What started as a simple idea to create honest conversations about faith, life, struggle, friendship, and following Jesus has become so much more than we ever imagined. 

For our 100th episode, we're turning the cameras on ourselves and answering questions that we imagine our listeners might have asked us after walking alongside us for the last 100 episodes. 😂 

We’re talking about: 
🛡️ How The Shieldmaidens started 
❤️ The conversations and stories that have stayed with us 
😂 Some of our funniest behind-the-scenes moments 
🙏 What God has taught us through this podc...

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Within four months, Laura Ferri welcomed her youngest daughter, watched the career she had worked hard to build begin changing, and lost her mother.

Suddenly, the woman who had been working, studying, raising children, and pursuing a new sense of purpose was left wondering who she was beneath everything life required her to carry.

Laura began writing—not because she had a perfect plan, but because she needed somewhere to tell the truth.

What started as a personal blog eventually grew into *My Inner Struggle*, a podcast, a...

What happens when an alternatively graded course moves from the planning stage into an actual classroom? Six weeks into teaching Quantitative Reasoning for Everyday Life for the first time, Sharona goes on the hot seat as Boz asks how the course she spent the summer designing is actually working. They revisit the central idea that finally brought together a seemingly disconnected course in voting, statistics, and finance: the role of human decision-making when multiple mathematically valid approaches are available. Sharona and Boz then dig into the grading architecture built around it. From fourteen learning outcomes and three portfolios to...

Resilience gets thrown around like a compliment, but we’ve all seen how empty it can feel when systems stay hard and students are left to “just handle it.” We sit down with Amanda Brueggeman, Lindsay Prendergast, and Piper Lee to dig into the real science of resilience and their new book, *Habits for Resilient Learners*, a practical framework built around 10 evidence-based habits that support everything from self-awareness and self-regulation to perseverance and problem solving.

We wrestle with a big question teachers are asking right now: are learners less resilient than before, or are they carrying a differ...

Coherent history curriculum is chronological. That’s the conclusion of April Croy and Michelle Palmieri, former English language arts curriculum writers now developing a new social studies curriculum, Tapestry. The sisters, who co-founded Lumina Learning, explain their thinking in an engaging conversation with host Ebony McKiver on this episode of the History Matters Podcast.

The conversation explores how research on the science of reading has shaped their approach to history instruction, in which students build durable background knowledge and vocabulary over time. April an...

This episode offers practical guidance on building a feeding practice that is clinically sound, ethical, and sustainable.

Guest: Jean Hawney, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC

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In this episode of First Bite, host Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, is joined by Jean Hawney, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC, to break down some of the biggest barriers pediatric SLPs face when considering private practice, from mindset blocks and finding your niche to the logistical challenges of getting started. Michelle and...

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Do you ever feel like you already know exactly what your husband is going to say, how he’s going to react, or what he’s thinking before he even says it?

When you’ve been married for years, knowing your husband deeply can be one of the greatest gifts of marriage. But sometimes familiarity slowly turns into assumption. We stop being curious because we’re pretty sure we already know.

And that can quietly contribute to feeling disconnected from your husband.

In this episode of Faithful Mama Ris...

Yesterday the Colonel was back for Part 22 of the CIA Files. This week we were setting the stage for Operation Condor in South America. She talked about the different operations in Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, and the activities of the CIA in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it ties in with different business interests. We also talked a bit about how the operations in South America are a little bit of a preview for events in the US like Waco and Ruby Ridge. You can find the Colonel on Twitter, Rumble, YouTube, and...