Did We Really Make It Happen?

About this episode

In this episode, Paul Hardt reflects on teenage dreams and personal growth through storytelling and humor.

Send us Fan Mail DID WE MAKE IT HAPPEN? What if your teenage dreams could look you in the eye and ask the one question you’ve been avoiding? In this moving, funny, and nostalgic episode of Life’s Learning Curve, Paul Hardt travels from a 1975 high school gym to adulthood—through pep bands, basement rock bands, first heartbreaks, quiet fears, and the doubt that never really leaves: Did I become who I thought I would? Through storytelling, reflection and warmth, t...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Hardt

Topics covered

• teenage dreams
• nostalgia
• self-reflection
• personal growth

Keywords

• high school
• heartbreak
• doubt
• storytelling

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