Heather Hansen O'Neill - Of Course It's Non-Linear!

About this episode

Heather Hansen O'Neill joins Mac Bogert to discuss non-linear learning, friendship, and self-discovery.

"Doesn't work up to expectations" was inscribed repeatedly on my report card. Heather's too. She's danced professionally, I coincidentally, and we both love it. We talk about raising thinkers, loving what is whether we like it or not, discovering and working the shift that makes us feel better, and moments of humanity. A community of two, old friends rediscovered, two people finding themselves in the same lifeboat and figuring out how to row, though not identically, together, and, of course, ...

People in this episode

Host: Mac Bogert

Guest: Heather Hansen O'Neill

Topics covered

• non-linear learning
• friendship
• self-discovery
• community
• raising thinkers

Keywords

• non-linear
• learning
• friendship
• self-discovery
• community
• raising thinkers

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