Podcast
Doing Mister Rogers
Hosted by Kimberley M Thiel · EN
Discussing Hard Topics Like Loss, Work, Competition, Self-Love, and in the end Ultimate Happiness... Mister Rogers and his little Neighborhood of friends continues to teach us how to approach these hard challenges of life even into adulthood. His simple but effective approach allows even the most "mature" adults to still learn new perspectives on old subjects, and have a few laughs while doing it. On Doing Mister Rogers, two women embark on watching a new Mister Rogers Neighborhood episode each week and pick out the very adult and enlightening wisdom Mister Rogers and his cast of characters still manages to impart to them even at their most successful, accomplished and "enlightened"... and then they talk about it. More importantly, they have some laughs and some fun while doing it. Join us as we go old school. Laugh, Learn and Love a little more... by Doing Mister Rogers.
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How Mister Rogers Supported the Black Community, The Strength and Sacrifice of Officer Clemmons (the Black Officer on Mister Rogers), and Forgiveness
Jun 10, 202000:42:16Tap to summarizeWhat does supporting the black community mean for white people? What does it mean for black people? Learn how Mister Rogers and his friend Officer Clemmons (the Black Police Officer on the Show) give us an idea of one way to do it together. How do each of us do our part for racial injustice? How did Mister Rogers, how did François Clemmons (who plays that black office on the show)? Learn how their quiet, yet powerful actions broke barriers and helped lay groundwork for true integration after the 60s. François Clemmons ... who was he really? Learn all about his life with Mister Rogers, and outside the show, and how he overcame so much, and made a life long friend of Mister R himself. And forgiveness... how would you define it? Find out how differently each of us think about it, what it means in our life, your life, and if it has a role or not in our racially divided country today.Support the show
Transcribe →Talking about Divorce, Listening to Kids, Enabling Narcissists, and Co-Creating Behavior You Hate
May 27, 202000:32:47Tap to summarizeEver consider divorce from your spouse? Ever been a kid of divorce? Are you divorced yourself? Most everyone fits into one of these categories, learn the impact it has on the kids involved, and how deciding to get a divorce or stay married may be the wrong thing to focus on when making sure kids are ok. Do you ask your kids (or the kids on your life) questions in hard times? Do you proactively inquire into what they are thinking or do you "talk" to them when you know something in their life is likely hard? Learn the difference between these things and how you can be a more effective adult in the process. Have someone selfish in your life that gets on your nerves? How do you respond to them when they are behaving selfishly, talking that way? Listen to the hard truths for us all about how we might be enabling these people in our lives and how they may perceive our behavior in return. Is there someone in your life that repeatedly behave in a way you don't like? How do you handle it, what do you do or say to let them know its not ok? Find out how not speaking up can mean you are giving up your power to change things, instead unwittingly co-creating the very thing you hate.Support the show
Transcribe →Being Happy to Be Alive, Who You Spend Time With, Masturbation and Graham Crackers, and Why We Dream.
May 20, 202000:35:32Tap to summarizeIs it a good feeling to know your alive? Do you look forward to doing it again tomorrow? Mister Rogers does, and what he knows, might make us a little happier in our own lives. Appreciating the moment, and learning from loss. Who do you spend your time with? Are they the people you genuinely feel good around, who leave you smiling and fulfilled? Or are they just people to pass the time, something to do something with? Or what about a "new" someone you are hoping will be something more? Where you spend your time matters, hear about what mix of the above might work best for you. What the heck do Masturbation and Graham crackers have in common? A LOT. Listen and you will be surprised, we promise. And why do you dream? Why do we have recurring dreams? What are yours? Learn why they may be important and what they may be telling you. Support the show
Transcribe →A Curious Mindset in Conversation, How You Treat Yourself, What Anger is Signalling, and the Importance of Maintaining Boundaries
May 6, 202000:35:14Tap to summarizeWhen you think about talking to your friend or your significant other, do you enter the conversation wondering what they might have to say, or want to talk about? Or do you enter it with what you want to talk about in mind? Most of us do the latter. But find out how starting conversations with curiosity could change your perspective on everything. How do you talk to yourself when you feel down or make a mistake? Do you call yourself names or berate yourself? You probably wouldn't say the same things to a friend how is feeling down, so why do we say it to ourselves... learn how treating yourself like a friend could change your whole attitude. Why do you get angry? When is the last time? Some experts say anger is simply a signal that something needs to change, to be addressed. Find out confrontation can actually be a good thing, and maybe anger is our first sign. And do you calmly maintain boundaries with the people in your life that you love? Most of us don't. Find out how many negative feelings can be traced back to our boundaries being crossed, and how much control we have around how that happens.Support the show
Transcribe →Breaking Belief Barriers, We are All the Same, The Knowledge Differences of Youth and Age, and When do We Stop Growing
Apr 29, 202000:34:08Tap to summarizeHow should we approach trying to create change? Should we speak up for what we believe, and how? How courage can show itself in many forms, and how change and standing up for what you believe can be accomplished in surprising ways. How different do you feel from your neighbor, what about the guy on social media you "hate"? Find out what you may have in common, and how it might make you feel when you see it. Are you smarter now than you were in your teens? What about in your 20s? Are you smarter than you older parent or relatives? Each stage of life brings something different, its own kind of wisdom. Learn what you might have gained, how you have grown, and what you still have to look forward to, it could change your whole perspective on growing old. And discover how much you're growing even as an adult, hear an interesting way to visualize that growth and look back on it.Support the show
Transcribe →How Patience With Yourself Makes For a Better Life, The Magic of Genuine Connection, and Finding Love (In Places You Might Not Normally Look)
Apr 23, 202000:32:04Tap to summarizeHave you ever gotten frustrated with yourself? Wished you could do "better"? Find out why patience with yourself ("giving yourself grace" as some call it) can lead to a happier life. And how letting go, of your expectations and reliance on an outcome or a situation can help you lead a more balanced life. Ever listen to two people talk and find yourself smiling? What about after you talked with someone and you look back at how it felt? If you have, odds are the reason lies in authenticity and vulnerability. How seeing deeper into someone, how seeing their more vulnerable selves, can make us feel happy and connected. Wish you had more love in your life? Feel like you are seriously lacking? There is love all around you to find. Listen to where you might find it, about being brave to look there, and letting yourself acknowledge and enjoy it... even if it comes from some nontraditional places.Support the show
Transcribe →Expanding Your Mind Through Curiosity, Tangible vs Technology, What is Happiness, and Finding Opportunity in Being Wrong
Apr 15, 202000:34:52Tap to summarizeThe last time a random question popped into your mind, what did you do about it? Why not just curiosity, but following that thought can make you smarter. How do you feel when you learn or create something in the 'real world' through touch or contact, vs learning or creating something on a computer screen? Does modern sensory meditation give us some insights into why one may feel more 'calming' or satisfying than another? And why creating in the 'real world' may fulfill you more than online. What is happiness? Some people think there are many forms. Not just the smiling, laughing kind. How focusing on a task, following ones heart, and expressing your deepest self in any way that makes sense, can make you just as 'happy' as laughing with a friend. Hate being wrong? Most people do. But we learn through being wrong, there may be opportunity to show your inner strength to others... making them think highly of you even because of your mistake.Support the show
Transcribe →Growing Through Listening and Observation, The Danger of "Easy" Solutions, and Changing Your Mindset to Positivity
Apr 9, 202000:33:27Tap to summarizeDo you remember peoples' names when introduced? Do you see people and 'things' as they are or how you "classify" them? Your process for how you perceive and interpret the world could be keeping you from changing and growing. Find out two simple things you can do, that will change how you view the people, and world around you. Ever buy something or take time to read something with the promise of it finally giving you that thing you most desire? Most people have. Find out how to NOT be swayed by an easy (but usually unsuccessful) solution, and where you might find your answers instead. Plus, learn a tip on how you might keep calm when those same urges to find your easy answer return. And what do you remember from your day usually? What are your most revisited memories of your childhood? Odds are they majority of them might have something in common. Find out something we all might do regularly to change the review of our day, our past, and our lives... that could change our whole mindset on our future to come.Support the show
Transcribe →Unconditional Love and Where to Find it, Abandonment and its Long Last Effects, and the Story of a Survivor
Apr 2, 202000:37:25Tap to summarizeAre you unconditionally loved? Do you love unconditionally? The concept of unconditional love may not be as simple as we might like, but for those of us still searching for it.... the place to truly find it, may be much closer than you think. Many of us have a memory of abandonment or rejection from something or someone we thought loved us, or at least should have loved us. Many of us carry the effects of that abandonment or rejection with us for years in our thought patterns and in our actual brain and biological make up. Learn what it may take to finally change those ingrained thoughts and feelings, and how simply stimulating your senses could be the key. One of our co-hosts takes time this episode to bravely share her own extraordinary experience of abandonment (as well as abuse) as a child from those she thought loved her, and the impact it has on her own views of love and acceptance today. We relate with our own experiences around unconditional love and our moments of having it taken from us or being rejected by it, and we show patience and understanding for everyone's experience of this most personal, human need.Support the show
Transcribe →The Benefits of Trying New Things, Why Questioning "Authority" is Important, and How Much We Can Learn from Those We Teach
Mar 25, 202000:34:53Tap to summarizeWhen is the last time you did something out of your normal routine? Something that disrupted your normal schedule or got you out of your comfort zone? Find out why it is so critical that you do these things, and how you can hold yourself accountable to do them, while actually enjoying yourself in the process. Should children always listen to adults? Should adults always listen to the "authorities" in their lives (bosses, leaders)? Find out how innovation and even your own happiness depends on us questioning these very things. And maybe have a different perspective when someone questions your authority:). When is the last time you tried to learn from your kids, from someone younger than you, from your pet?! We can be taught at any age, by anyone. Hear about how some of us learn from these non-authorities and how you might too. After all, we are adults learning from a kids show! You can find wisdom and insight anywhere.Support the show
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