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In this episode, Anton is joined by special guest Joseph King to talk about a local composting business, Rust Belt Riders, and the importance of community engagement in nature.

Segment 1: Who is Joe King and What is Rust Belt Riders?

Joe shares his personal story as well as the background to Rust Belt Riders, a Cleveland-based food waste recycling service that makes and sells compost to teach people about sustainability, soil, and climate change!

Segment 2: Metroparks Youth Outdoors Program

From the city to the forest--Anton and Joe discuss the Metroparks' Youth Outdoors Program. It's a great summer program that brings inner city kids into the great outdoors of Northeast Ohio to participate in fun nature-based activities.

Segment 3: Connection with Nature

Doing good for the planet can be good for you too! Anton discusses the importance of experiencing nature first hand for your mental health while Joe encourages everyone to start composting by explaining its many benefits.

To learn more, check out our sources below.

First Segment:
https://www.rustbeltriders.com/
https://www.tilthsoil.com/
https://www.ingenuitycleveland.org/

Second Segment:
https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/education/education-programs/youth-outdoors

Third Segment:
Lake Erie Watershed
https://www3.erie.gov/environment/lake-erie-watershed-protection-alliance

Volunteer at the Natural History Museum
https://app.betterimpact.com/PublicOrganization/c4ba17aa-d53c-42ba-8eeb-7247b94e9429/2

Invasive Garlic Mustard
https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/plants-trees/invasive-plants/garlic-mustard

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In this episode, Jiggy shares her upbringing in a very traditional Korean family, where her traumatic experiences and emotions were not to be spoken of and where expectations of excellence were of the utmost importance. She talks about the effects that this had on her growing up.  After she moved to the United States, she was practicing her english in an online chat room, and came across the words "gay", "lesbian" and "bisexual" which led her to discovering an identity that she felt connected to. She shares how she bravely told a few friends when she was young and received homophobic responses that cost her most of her friendships. Jiggy shares how she eventually ended up attending Pennsylvania State University, and discovered another set of new words - "vulnerability", "self awareness" and "empathy". It would be her time attending some gen-ed classes that ended up changing the trajectory of her life. It opened up a whole new space that she never knew existed and one that went against everything she'd been taught as a young girl. A space where emotional intelligence set her on a healing journey.   

Jiggy is a youth motivational speaker and mental performance coach helping high school and college students increase the longevity of their performance and demand for excellence. Along with her storytelling, Jiggy brings awareness to the importance of mental health and burnout prevention, and teaches practical strategies for students to implement. Jiggy believes that in order to obtain sustainable performance and excellence, we must be both self-disciplined and self-compassionate; both hard working and effectively resting.

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Candace Dunaway is the Host of the All Things Relatable podcast. Candace practices daily gratitude and believes that this practice is the key to living a joyful life. Candace sees the world through an optimistic lens and looks for the silver linings, even in the most difficult of times. She believes that life is a collection of simple moments of joy that compound to create a happy life.

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Renata Porter is Youth Sports Advisor, working exclusively with NPOs, to educate and advise them on how to take their business seriously and the process of building your organization with more clarity and conciseness. 

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Listeners will get a brief, 3 min, introduction to out of school time and our special expert guest for the episode. We then interview our expert Jeff Cole with Beyond School Bells.  Lastly, we take what we have covered and apply it to our daily practice. To go directly to the individual segments, see the following splits: Segment 1 start :33/Segment 2 start 5:52/Segment 3 start 36:05. https://beyondschoolbells.org/resources/toolkits-and-resource-guides.html