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#79 (5/17/21) Field Recording: Shannon Shannon is a middle school counselor with over three decades of experience, and a divorced mother of two boys, both in their twenties and in college. The younger boy has autism. Topics discussed include the impact on middle school students of schools being shut down, the difficulty of counseling over Zoom, parenting a child with autism, the lack of west coast college programs aimed at helping students like her son to become independent adults, being a Mamma Bear in her son's IEP Meetings (Special Education), and helping our kids make realistic decisions.

Conversation was recorded on Sunday, May 2, 2021, at 1:14 PM in Laurie & Matt's backyard in Tulare, California, United States of America.

We've been guests on other podcasts a couple times, and in fact our first ever experience with podcasting was as guests on the very popular Intermittent Fasting Stories with Gin Stephens (episode #68), where we talked about our foray into and continuing experience with, you guessed it, intermittent fasting.

We also got together with our new best friends Kyle & Ben on their podcast, The BeerEDU Podcast (episode #91), where we talked about, you guessed it again, beer and education.

Chris Evans' new show, Lit Matters (episode #4), is a gem for book lovers. Laurie & Matt were invited on and each brought a book that has had a big impact on them...listen to find out which books they chose.