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Tell Me This

by Carey Borkoski, Ph.D., Ed.D.

This is a podcast about belonging, what it means, why it matters, and how we cultivate it. Through stories, interviews, academic research, and discussions we will explore the ideas of belonging and how to develop and growth it in your classrooms, workplaces, and other personal and professional spaces.

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Episodes

  1. Season 7: Introduction and Welcome

    Happy Fall, Everyone! Brianne and I are thrilled to share our first installment of Season 7. It is a combo - trailer, introduction, and reflection and hopefully entices you to listen all season. We have some great guests lined up. Thanks for listening!! Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is...

  2. Season 6 Tell Me This: Last Episode - Our Reflections on the Season of Grief and Belonging

    Thanks to everyone who has been listening to Season 6 of the pod. It has been quite a journey and, yet, we feel like we are just getting started. Today marks the end of Season 6 and the start of our deep work to review, reflect, code, and try to understand the stories and experiences of our…

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  3. Season 6: Tell Me This, Living With and Through Grief with Steve Zuckerman and Debra Meyerson

    Hello Listeners. We are excited to share a conversation we had with Steve and Deb. We talked about Deb's book, Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke, their nonprofit, Stroke Onward, and their carepartnership journeying with Deb's stroke and aphasia. We know you are going to enjoy...

  4. Season 6: Grief and Belonging with Renee Beavers

    Hello Everyone! Brianne and I are excited, grateful, and truly in awe of today's guest. Renee Beavers is an exceptional human being with expertise and experience working with kids and families experiencing trauma. She supports family and helps them to access critical support to begin their…

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  5. Tell Me This, Season 6 with Kate Holden

    Hi Everyone. We are excited to welcome Ms. Kate Holden to the podcast. We have heard from several folks living with aphasia who work with Kate and her team at the Loyola Clinic. We were so excited to finally chat with Kate. We hope you enjoy this episode. Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network…

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  6. Tell Me This, Season Six: A Short Bikeride

    Enjoy this short from our own Dr. Brianne Roos! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by...

  7. Season 6: Tell Me This with Peg Drew

    Brianne and I are so excited to share our conversation with Mrs. Peg Drew. Peg brings beautiful stories, amazing poetry, and expertise and experience to help us better understand grief, belonging, and learning to live with our losses. Enjoy! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by...

  8. Season 6: Tell Me This with Carol Vales

    Brianne and I had a wonderful conversation with Carol Vales and her husband. She shared her journey of living through a stroke and managing aphasia. It is an incredible story of grace, hope, and resilience. She describes not only her personal journey but also her deep connections within the...

  9. Season 6: Belonging and Grief, A Conversation with Mr. Varnis Whitley-Knight

    Brianne and I had a wonderful and eye-opening conversation with Mr. Varnis Whitley-Knight. As you will hear in the episode, Mr. Whitley-Knight suffered from multiple strokes that resulted in aphasia, a language disorder that causes difficulty in communication. Over the course of our conversation,...

  10. Season 6: Belonging and Grief with Dr. Es Swihart

    We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Thank you, Dr. Swihart, for your generosity and wisdom. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating...

  11. Season 6: Belonging and Grief, A Story of Hope

    Brianne and I are so excited to share our conversation with Dan Baum. We are so grateful to Dan for his generosity and willingness to tell some of the story of his journey with grief. Please take a listen and let us know what you learn. Thanks, Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be...

  12. Season 6: Tell Me This with Dr. Jennifer Attonito

    We are honored and thrilled to share our conversation with Dr. Jennifer Attonito. Jennifer recently lost her partner and generously shared her experiences, emotions, and perspectives on grief. We know you are going to learn so much from this conversation. Thanks for tuning in. The Be Podcast...

  13. Season 6 Tell Me This: A Conversation with Dawn Tippett

    We hope you enjoy our conversation with grief counselor and expert, Dawn Tippett. Her experiences, perspectives, and personal stories provide powerful insights about how to think about our grief. She invites us to consider how natural grief is, and yet, it evokes discomfort, avoidance, and…

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  14. Season 6 Tell Me This: A Conversation with Anna Ruby, a former Division 1 Lacrosse Player

    Hello Everyone! We are so excited to share a beautiful conversation we had with Anna Ruby. Anna is a graduate student and former Division I college athlete. She shares her grief journey related to an early lacrosse injury, her journey back to playing, and then her eventual transition out of…

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  15. Season 6 Tell Me This with Dana Reinhardt

    As parents and care givers we imagine and reimagine our lives and our kids' lives. We also know that one certainty in life is that plans do and will change. In these moments of change, we find love, hope, possibility, worry, fear, and grief (and many other emotions!). Dana Reinhardt joins us…

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  16. Season 6: Tell Me This with Dr. Aviva Moore and her personal journey of grief.

    Hello Everyone. Thanks for listening to another episode of Tell Me This. Brianne and I are thrilled to share a conversation we had with Dr. Aviva Moore. Aviva shares stories of grief through her journey of what she describes as "medical chaos." She has some amazing insights, ideas, and…

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  17. Season 6: Tell Me This, A Conversation with Dr. Breauna Wall

    I am so excited to share a conversation I had with Dr. Breauna Wall. Dr. Wall's willingness to be open and vulnerable in sharing her journey of grief and hope (yes, I said hope), is an amazing example of the complexity and courage that comes in times of grief. I am grateful for her story and know...

  18. Season 6: Tell Me This with Dr. Carrie Miller

    We are so excited to welcome back, Dr. Carrie Miller. She has been on the pod to talk about belonging in the pandemic, leadership, and now, to share a very personal grief story and journey. We know you are going to enjoy this. Thanks, Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be...

  19. Season 6: Tell Me This with Emily Barnett

    Welcome back to another episode of Season 6. We are so excited to welcome Emily Barnett. We had a wonderful conversation about grief as it relates to our kids growing up and becoming more independent. There are a lot of yes-and moments in this exploration: learning to find joy and allowing space...

  20. Season 6: Grief Stories, An Interview with our own Carey Borkoski

    Hello Everyone. Thanks for listening. Today, Brianne turns the tables on Carey to interview her about her experiences with grief and the journey she (and Brianne) took that brought them to their research and interests in the connections between grief and belonging. We hope you enjoy it. The Be...

  21. Season 6: Tell Me This, Introductions

    Welcome to another season of Tell Me This. Brianne and I are so excited to share our summer research, stories, and plan for the upcoming season. Over the past year or so, our curious around connections between belonging and grief have blossomed into summer research projects, creative writing...

  22. Season 5: Brianne's Spring Reflection

    We hope you enjoy this spring reflection from Brianne. Thanks for listening! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S....

  23. Season 5 Tell Me This: Learning Educators Reunite (Part Two), Exploring AI with Dr. Kristin Barbour and Dr. Paula Clark

    We hope you enjoy our conversation with Drs. Barbour and Clark as much as we did. Picking up on our conversation earlier in the spring, we were interested in exploring AI in education. If you also have questions, curiosities, concerns, and wonders about AI, this might be the podcast for you. We...

  24. Season 5: Learning Educators Reunite

    Hello Everyone. We are so excited to welcome back Dr. Paula Clark and Dr. Kristin Barbour for what we are calling an Education Roundtable. It has been too long since the four of us gathered around our virtual zoom room and talked about the books, articles, and other topics on our minds. In part…

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  25. Season 5: Snowed In! Carey and Brianne Talk Belonging and Rhythms of the Day

    No - Brianne and I are not snowed in but this article and the weather in the town provided an opportunity for one researcher to explore the every day experiences of belonging. We often forget that belonging is grounded in people, places, and our history. Brianne and I share the article and the...

  26. Season 5: Tell Me This, Brianne and Carey Talk School Belonging

    Brianne and I had so much fun revisiting and sharing a very recent article about school belonging. In it, Dr. Kuttner, a professor at the University of Utah, writes about how multiple perspectives inform his definition of school belonging. We discuss the importance of agency, intersectionality,...

  27. Season 5: Tell Me This, Reflections with Carey and Brianne

    Hello Everyone! I bet you were starting to wonder if we were ever coming back. We are BACK! We are so excited to emerge from our six months of deep thinking, coding, and writing. We are grateful for the time and thrilled to share what we are learning from this process. Enjoy the first of many...

  28. Season 5: Tell Me This, A conversation with Dr. Vanessa May

    We are so excited to share our conversation with Dr. Vanessa May. Dr. May is a sociologist and researcher who studies belonging in the context of place. We had so much fun getting to talk with Dr. May and exploring some of the questions she examines in her research. Hope you enjoy. The Be Podcast...

  29. Season 5: A Conversation about Code Switching with Kimberlee Rivers and Es Swihart

    Hello Everyone. Thanks for tuning in for another episode of the pod. Brianne and I are so excited to share a conversation we recently had with Kimberlee Rivers and Es Swihart about code switching and belonging. Hope you enjoy! Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s...

  30. Season 5 Tell Me This: A Conversation about Belonging and Musical Theatre with Janine McGuire

    Hello Everyone. Please take a listen to this beautiful conversation that Brianne and I were lucky enough to be a part of with Janine McGuire. It was an amazing journey into Janine's early music days at camp, sharing ideas and music across the distance, and her current work in musical theatre. She...

  31. Season 5 Tell Me This: A Chat with Dr. Nick Sousanis about Comics, Unflattening, and Belonging

    Hi Everyone. Brianne and I are extra excited to share our conversation with Dr. Nick Sousanis. He is an award winning comics author, artist, mathematician, and an Associate Professor Humanities and Liberal Arts. We talked about his beautiful creation, Unflattening, his "origin story," as well as...

  32. Season 5 Tell Me This: A Conversation about Gentle Warriors and Belonging with Andrea Dewitt

    Hi Everyone. Brianne and I recently sat down with Coach and Educator Andrea DeWitt to talk about her book and her journey to belonging to self. She shared important insights and tips for living a well-lived life and how to cultivate your own gentle warrior. Hope you enjoy this conversation. Best,...

  33. Season 5 Tell Me This: A Conversation with Dr. Dr. Lisa Schoenbrodt and Kayla Grange from Leadability, LLC

    Hello Everyone. Brianne and I are so excited to share a conversation we had with Dr. Lisa Schoenbrodt and Kayla Grange. Dr. Schonebrodt is a Professor at Loyola University Maryland and co-founder of Leadability, an organization whose mission is to provide services to support programs and…

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  34. Season 5 - Conversation with Jordan Differding

    Hello Everyone. Thank you for listening. Brianne and I are so excited to introduce our guest, Jordan Differding, to the podcast. He is an amazing human being, teacher, and baker. We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did. Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be...

  35. Tell Me This: Episode Replay: Coach Erika Alexander, Summer of Coaching Series

    Hello Friends, I am offering this replay of an episode from a few summers ago in memory and celebration of Coach Erika Alexander who we lost way too soon. Please take a listen. With Gratitude, Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and…

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  36. Season 5 - Pause and Breathe - A Minisode with Dr. Carey Borkoski

    Hi Everyone. Brianne and I are busy getting our conversations with our great guests scheduled, edited, and posted. In the meantime, please take a listen to our latest minisode. Thanks, Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning...

  37. Season 5, Episode 3: A Belonging Conversation with Dr. Kevin Frick

    Brianne and I are so excited about our conversation with Dr. Kevin Frick. He is a professor, former Vice Dean, mentor, and dear friend to many and he stopped by to share his thoughts on belonging, his stories of his personal journey, and ideas on how we can cultivate spaces for belonging to…

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  38. Season 5 - Episode 1, Belonging Stories with Drs. Carey Borkoski and Brianne Roos

    We are excited to jump into Season 5. In this episode we explore our "Why" for focusing on belonging to self, share research on the topic, describe snapshots of our own belonging stories, and a tee up the plan for the season. Hope you enjoy! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by...

  39. Season 5 - Introduction of the Season with Brianne and Carey

    Brianne and I are excited to welcome everyone back. It has been a "yes and" kind of summer with lots of rest AND lots of great work. We have a big announcement and a great line up of guests in store for everyone this season. Please take a listen and if you have never heard an episode, be sure to…

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  40. Season 4 - The Summer Edition - Episode 2

    Enjoy Episode 2 of our Summer Series. Es and I continue our conversation about self-worth, conditional self-worth, and belonging. Hope you enjoy! Carey The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science…

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  41. Season 4 - Tell Me This - The Summer Edition

    Happy Summer, Everyone! Hope you are well and enjoying some much needed, deserved, and cherished down time. Brianne and I are busy working on our Season 5 line-up. In the meantime, we thought we would offer a Summer Series on Belonging and Self-worth. I am joined by Es Swihart. She is a friend,...

  42. Season 4: Book Club with Brianne, Carey, and Kate - Emotional Inheritance

    Surprise! We decided to offer another episode of book club. Hope you enjoy our conversation. Carey and Brianne The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating...

  43. Season 4 - Mixtape Moments: Walk down memory lane, S2 Reflections

    Reflections on our podcasts from Season 2. The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers…

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  44. Season 4 - Final Reflections on the Season

    Thanks to everyone for a great season. We want to send a special thank you to all of our guests who showed up for our conversations, shared so much, and taught us so many things in so many different ways!! We hope that you enjoy our final reflections on Season 4. Enjoy! -Carey and Brianne The Be...

  45. Season 4 - Mixtape Moments: Walking Down Memory Lane, S1 Episode 3

    Enjoy! The Be Podcast Network is thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This is a podcast about belonging, what it means, why it matters, and how we cultivate it. Through stories, interviews, academic research, and discussions we will explore the ideas of belonging and how to develop and growth it in your classrooms, workplaces, and other personal and professional spaces.

HOSTED BY

Carey Borkoski, Ph.D., Ed.D.

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