cruiseship

Armed with a suitcase full of books, Allan (amazingly!) found the discipline to study onboard cruise ships while sailing around the world. Many years, courses, and ports of call later, he now holds a bachelor’s degree in English and is a writer with Monday Magazine. We talk about...

• Why Allan decided it was time to return to the classroom
• The importance of making a back to school journey work for the whole family
• How Allan connected to Athabasca University and how online learning made his academic dream possible
• How learning technologies have evolved from old school bulletin board services to new online tools
• Learning how to learn again
• How to focus and have the discipline to study while travelling the world
• Studying what you love, broadening your horizons and learning more about the world and yourself
• Writing for Monday Magazine and working on a novel about average people caught in a slightly dystopian, uncertain world that's changing them against their will (sounds familiar!)

A huge THANKS to our season sponsors, Athabasca University, Canada's online university.

Check out some of Allan's work with Monday Magazine.
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Deborah Olson is a women’s emotional health specialist and author of The Healing Power of Girlfriends: How to Create Your Best Life Through Female Connection. 

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She has counseled women for nearly two decades in women’s issues, parenting concerns, and marital struggles. She offers life enrichment seminars and retreats and provides hands-on solutions to enhance life in meaningful, purposeful, and emotionally healthy ways. Her workshops are specially designed for women, and topics include depression, anxiety, life transition issues, empowerment, parenting matters, and romantic relationship problems.
As a mother of four adult children, Olson knows firsthand the challenges women face while balancing the many roles of mother, wife, and professional. She is keenly aware of the struggles that couples face in their marital relationships, and after being married for 40 years, she understands the hard work involved in keeping a marriage healthy.
Olson holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of St. Thomas and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Sam Houston State University.

She lives with her husband in a suburb of Houston, Texas. The mother of two daughters and two sons, she is also the proud grandmother of five and a frequent pet sitter for two granddogs. Her favorite leisure activities are spending time at the beach, shelling, boating, traveling, scrapbooking, golfing, writing, and being with her family.

Learn more about Deborah by visiting:  https://deborah-olson.com/

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