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Welcome to a "Let's Talk Life" episode with Emily Ott. Professionally, Emily is a American Sign Language interpreter at The Ohio State University and is also a mother of 2 daughters. We discuss her professional life and what she does, the vast majority of outside professions she experiences all through sign. Our conversation includes discussing the deaf community, parenting, the power of excercise, and much more. Hope you enjoy! Got a comment on the Episode? Leave us a voicemail! (614)721-5192 Show Timeline: 0:00 - Housekeeping 1:20 - Guest Intro 2:37 - Episode Start 3:20 - Emily, who are you? (professionally & personally) 4:40 - Finding something that I was interested in (Acroyoga), and persevering in something I suck at 6:35 - Why Acro vs. something else? 7:00 - Getting out of your comfort zone... Let's talk about David Goggins, AGAIN :) 8:00 - Deciding to have kids, and the impact it has on us and our identity 9:00 - Back to the draw of Acroyoga 10:00 - Meetup -- meeting and connecting with new people 10:50 - I'm overly trusting -- my scalping story 12:00 - Working with deaf kids at OSU 13:00 - Deaf vs. hearing impared? 15:00 - Deafness being an identity 17:00 - How did you get into sign language? 17:50 - The life of being an interpreter and how in a way you become a "Jack of all trades" 18:25 - The linguistic structure of sign? 21:35 - How universal is American Sign Language as compared to English in the world? 22:10 - How ASL came to be and its influences 23:40 - Being bilingual 25:05 - The "Emily Renaissance" 26:05 - The difficulty of discussing faith without getting caught up in radical christians (being a liberal christian) 27:30 - The catch of getting guests of doing the podcast and how those who have come are fairly religious 29:20 - What does pull you to Christianity? 30:00 - Dmitri's "Are you saved" experience 33:07 - How when someone says "believe", it's usually followed by something untrue 35:00 - The trolls of the internet 36:40 - More on the "Renaissance" 38:40 - Back to reconciling your identity after having kids 43:20 - The idea of our life growing up vs. how it ends up once you get to 30+ yrs old 45:40 - Trying and failing to relate to other mothers 46:40 - Talking about being a mother (a parent) and being away for you kids for work 49:40 - Is there something more you want to pursue right now? Are you scared? 50:25 - Breaking up with friends 52:07 - What do you want to instill in your kids? 53:00 - Carol Dweck's 'Mindset' and how it applies to having kids and being a parent 55:10 - The controversy among parents on teaching your kids to sleep 57:20 - "ABA is child abuse", letting your kids cry will supposedly make your kids serial killers.... which is totally counter to reality and facts!! 1:00:30 - "children don't have language"... the language of children is crying, that's how they communicate 1:05:55 - When my kids had a fit at the grocery store and how I responded... "let me tell you how it is to be a person" 1:11:10 - Dimitri's wasn't the most pleasant child, and he explains why 1:13:15 - The idea that if something benefits the parents that by default it's bad for kids 1:14:25 - How did the conversation about having kids with your partner unfold? 1:17:00 - How are you helping you kids recognized and deal with success/failure? 1:18:50 - Teaching to the skill... what's developmentally appropriate? 1:22:10 - How do you feel about public education? 1:26:40 - Having challenging teachers 1:29:00 - Wrapping up... Emily's guiding principles to having a happier life We'd like to thank you for listening to the show and giving our podcast a try! Please contact us so that we can get YOUR story. facebook.com/behaviortalk behaviortalk.net Intro music by Bensounds Outro music by BehaviorTalk

Welcome to a "Let's Talk Behavior" episode with Bryan Droesch. Bryan is a Behavior Analyst pursuing his Doctorate. He had a great message to put forth on being more consistently in a mindset of accepting and open to learning new things and ideas. He talks about how he got into the field, what the science has to offer, and where we see it heading/where we want it to go in the future. Show Timeline: 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - Start of Episode 2:20 - How'd you come to Behavior Analysis 3;40 - Getting some work experience during college (Group Home) 5:00 - Becoming the Manager of a Group Home (supervising adults) 6:30 - Time to go back to school (masters in Counseling) 7:40 - Behaviorism v. Cognitivism 9:10 - Falling into Behavior Analysis (ABA therapy) 10:00 - Behavior Analysis is Everywhere 12:30 - Changing the negative opinion of Behavior Science with other sciences 16:50 - The Sciences need to compromise (Behaviorists need to demonstrate humility when dealing with professionals of other sciences) 18:55 - We're creatures of narrative - Methodologies - the training of upcoming analysts 23:00 - We're so tied to Developmental Disabilities that our science can't break the threshold 25:20 - Being open to other ideas/fields 26:20 - Philosophy - meta ethics/metaphysics/epistemology - applied to Behavior Science 28:35 - Skilled v. Mastery (cultivating it in others -- when mentoring) 30:00 - Not micromanaging people 31:20 - Behavior Analysis is a craft 32:00 - Supervisor-supervisee relationship, giving them more freedom - there's no one way to do this 33:45 - Learning from life experiences vs. from being lectured about life 35:55 - Trying to articulate relationship building with supervisee/mentee 37:30 - When a teacher was attending in a way she should not have been -- and getting her to see it the way I did 40:10 - Starting with 'Why' 40:40 - Breaking people down to build them up when mentoring someone (being real/honest in a relationship, in a constructive way) 42:30 - 'Everybody gets a trophy' study 44:00 - This is the Science of ALL human behavior - applying it outside of developmental disabilities 48:40 - Why do we do what we do? Why do you do what you do? 50:25 - Does your behavior perspective conflict with your personal beliefs? 52:26 - Learning to control your emotions - self awareness 54:04 - Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards - people are self centered 55:37 - how can we as a society change that narrative? 56:49 - Let's check on Georgie 57:28 - Fostering openness, living your truth, finding fulfilment 59:10 - the good & bad of up and coming professionals seeking more job satisfaction/fulfillment vs. monetary reward 1:01:40 - Real satisfaction is freedom! 1:02:45 - Tangible outcomes v. personal development 1:03:20 - Decide by Steve McClatchy - Prioritizing by gain & pain 1:05:10 - Personal development/emotional pain/suffering 1:07:10 - What was your journey to get to your Doctorate? And why pursue it? 1:10:30 - Being open and 'newness' - the inner-voice we all encounter 1:11:20 - We're obsessed with David Goggins 1:12:50 - building momentum/we all have winding roads 1:13:50 - Where do you see things going? 1:14:48 - Learning more about the theory of leadership 1:18:00 - Learning happens when you come to the point of you don't know - "the more I learn the more i know nothing" 1:19:20 - Georgie brings up A.I., so let's talk about an automated future and the culture shift in a possible jobless world 1:21:40 - Focusing on self development 1:23:35 - Either Mad Max or Star Trek 1:24:25 - Art doesn't have value today -- will make a comeback in that world 1:27:15 - Black Mirror 1:28:45 - What's your personal mission? 1:30:10 - What I'm doing today could be TOTALLY WRONG, and that's Okay! We'd like to thank you for listening to the show and giving our podcast a try! Please contact us so that we can get YOUR story. facebook.com/behaviortalk behaviortalk.net Intro music by Bensounds Outro music by BehaviorTalk

Welcome to a "Let's Talk Behavior" with Lee Geer. He is a behavior analyst who dedicates himself to service and is an exceptional person in that regard. He has gone through quite the journey of choice throughout life, wanting to make significant social change from a young age and satiating that appetite with Behavior Science. He is currently involved in parent training. Show Timeline; 0:00 - Housekeeping 3:50 - Intro 5:35 - Start of Episode 8:00 - Lee on Behavior 10:00 - Lifestyle (Nutrition, Mental, Physical) - change the behavior of your thinking 12:00 - Stop using the word diet 13:20 - I wanted to learn something new - school/career 15:00 - How we got into ABA and being Behavior Analysts 17:00 - Behavior Analysis applies to EVERYONE 19:00 - Let's open the dialogue - We need to work with other professionals 20:15 - Speech Pathologists & Communication 21:35 - Something major that's missing in our field 22:35 - How do we shift to that mindset? 24:30 - Lee's response 25:44 - What's the biggest change you've made to this point? 26:35 - How do you get an unwilling participant to make significant behavior change? 28:40 - Law #3: Will is the most powerful force in the Universe (behavioral momentum) 32:20 - Why Behavior instead of everything else? 35:30 - Breaking News by RadioLab 37:06 - CRISPR 39:30 - Martial Arts background: Wing Chun 41:10 Why I want my son to do Martial Arts & Yoga 44:40 - Importance of Physical Routine/Wing Chun/Principle of Centerline 47:50 - How do you do your centerline? 50:00 - The application of Behavior Change is HARD WORK!!! 51:30 - Y.A.W.Y.A.W. You Are Who You Associate With 52:00 - Being realistic about goals is KEY 52:55 - People think winning the lottery is a viable retirement plan (Study) -- Good Luck Buddy 54:40 - I am now a Parent Trainer 57:35 - The billion dollar industry of "Self Help" is Behavior Science 59:10 - Problems going on in Behavior Analysis 1:06:00 - Outro We'd like to thank you for listening to the show and giving our podcast a try! Please contact us so that we can get YOUR story. facebook.com/behaviortalk behaviortalk.net Intro music by Bensounds Outro music by BehaviorTalk

Welcome to a "Let's Talk Life" episode with Lucas Gorz. Check out Lucas talk about his journey of spiritual transformation, cognitive behavior therapy. Let us know how we're doing! Send us your story www.behaviortalk.net ! Share you Passion Project on our facebook group https://www.facebook.com/BehaviorTalk/ Intro music by Bensound Outro music by BehaviorTalk