Heidi: This is episode 250 of Teacher Approved.
You're listening to Teacher Approved, the podcast helping
educators elevate what matters and simplify the rest. I'm
Heidi.
Emily: And I'm Emily. We're the creators behind Second Story
Window, where we give research based and teacher approved
strategies that make teaching less stressful and more
effective. You can check out the show notes and resources from
each episode at secondstorywindow.net.
Heidi: We're so glad you're tuning in today. Let's get to
the show.
Emily: Hey there. Thanks for joining us today for a very
special episode. Today we are celebrating 250 episodes as well
as our four year podcast anniversary. We will take a look
back at our past favorites and talk about what we hope the next
four years will hold.
Heidi: But first, let's start with a try it tomorrow, where we
share a quick win that you can try in your classroom right
away. Emily, what is our suggestion for this week?
Emily: Well, this week, try boosting your mood with a two
for one good deed. So think about one of your teacher
friends and a problem that you know they're struggling with in
their classroom right now. Then you can send them a link to one
of our podcast episodes that might have tips they need to
manage the situation.
Heidi: So not only are you helping out a friend, but you
are helping us out too. Recommendations from friends are
one of the top ways that new listeners find podcasts. So
every time you share our podcast, it really is such a
lovely gift to us.
Emily: Yeah, and we don't take it for granted when listeners
enjoy our content enough to share it with others. We are
truly so grateful every time you do.
Heidi: And if you do that and you find that you need an even
bigger helpers high to just, you know, get through the day, after
you recommend an episode to a friend, you could swing by the
rating section on your podcast player and consider giving us
five stars and maybe a review. It would be our favorite gift.
Emily: Yes, that is the traditional podcast anniversary
gift is a rating and review. So as we've already mentioned, not
only is today's episode special because we made it to 250
episodes, but it also happens to be our four year podcast
anniversary.
Heidi: I keep trying to make podcastiversary a thing. But so
far, Hallmark has just refused to play the game.
Emily: Stop trying to make podcastiversary a thing. And if
you were wondering about our math, you would probably be
wondering four years, seems like it'd be closer to 200 episodes,
but we do double episodes in the summer in recent years, so
that's what's given us a boost in the numbers.
Heidi: And in honor of this milestone, we wanted to do
something special with this episode. So we're doing
something that we just invented, called a podcast time capsule.
We're going to reflect on how far we've come, celebrate all of
the good things happening now, and talk about what we hope the
next 250 episodes bring.
Emily: And someday, when we get to 500 episodes, we can revisit
today's discussion and see how well we did on our goals.
Heidi: But before we can think about episode 500, let's go back
in time and look at how we got started in 2022. Emily and I had
talked about doing a podcast for a long, long time before we
actually jumped in. So Emily, how is having a podcast
different than you imagined it would be?
Emily: This going back in time makes me feel like we need to be
going, do do do, do do do. Is that from Wayne's World?
Heidi: Flashback, flashback.
Emily: There we go. I would say that having a podcast is
different than I imagined, because it is a lot more work
than it seems like it should be. Because it seems like we're just
getting together to chat for half an hour every week. How
hard could it be? But we care a lot about making sure that this
is a valuable use of your time. So the prep is fairly involved.
Heidi: It really is. It takes so much time, and we love doing it.
It just was not the commitment we thought we were signing up
Emily: No, it was a big commitment for sure, and
for.
sometimes it also feels a little remote from the listeners, like
we know you're out there, hello, and we hear from you sometimes,
but we would love to hear from the listeners even more, so that
we can make sure this podcast is as valuable to you as it can
possibly be. What about you, Heidi, what are you thinking?
Heidi: Well, I just could not conceive of lasting this long
when we started. Like, back in 2022, making it to 2023 seemed
impossible.
Emily: Right.
Heidi: And 100% we have only made it this long because of
Sara and her amazing team at Podcasting For Educators.
Emily: Yes.
Heidi: They are the ones that handle all of the technical work
that comes with having a podcast. Like it is, there are
so many steps that it takes to get, just to get it into the
player, let alone edited and fine tuned and all of that. And
without her help, and the pressure of knowing we have to
get her the episodes in time, we would not have stuck with this
for probably even six months.
Emily: Which is ironic, since we are recording this today a day
later than it is due to her.
Heidi: She loves us anyway.
Emily: The pressure is what's making it so that it's not a
week late.
Heidi: Yes, thank you, Sara.
Emily: Well, what would you keep exactly the same from what we
did with the podcast?
Heidi: Well, I I really like our format. We wanted it to feel
like chatting with your teacher besties after school, but not
get so lost in like tangents and asides that you didn't have
anything to take away. And we never take it for granted that
teachers have a limited amount of time. So we want to make sure
that the time you're giving us is meaningful, but, you know,
also fun.
Emily: Yes. And I would say my favorite segment is the extra
credit segment, and we've done that from the beginning, and I'm
so glad that we've done it, because it's just a nice way for
us to share something that we're loving, that usually has nothing
to do with teaching.
Heidi: Yes.
Emily: What I like about that is, obviously it helps you all
get to know us better, but more than that, I think it's a good
reminder that we're more than just teachers, and all of you
listeners are more than just teachers, too. So it's a nice
way to end the episode on a light note that just humanizes
all of us.
Heidi: Yes.
Emily: Heidi, is there anything you wish we would have done
sooner with the podcast?
Heidi: Well, I think it took us probably about six months to
find the right tone. I remember, so we started in the spring, and
I remember finally in the fall, feeling like, Okay, we figured
this out. And at the beginning, bless our hearts, we basically
wrote a blog post for each episode, and then we would just
take turns reading like each paragraph.
Emily: Yeah. And we also tried times too, where we just had a
super loose outline, and then we would just try and spit ball it.
But that didn't work well either. We need somewhere in the
middle.
Heidi: Yes, yes. But once we got more comfortable with what we
were doing, we could have more of that conversation flow
without feeling like it was a lecture or, you know, wandering
into the weeds. And if you have been with us since those early
days, thank you for sticking around through the growing
pains.
Emily: And if you didn't listen to those early days, it's okay.
You don't need to go back and listen to them. It's fine.
Heidi: Okay, Emily, do you have a topic that we've covered that
was a total flop that you thought would be a hit?
Emily: Well, I couldn't think of anything that was necessarily a
flop, but I do think one of our hidden gems is our three episode
series on transitions.
Heidi: Yes, I love those.
Emily: We have so much good content packed in those episodes
that I think if you haven't listened to it, you definitely
should. Putting some extra thought into how you handle
transitions actually like will have a big impact in your day.
So those episodes are nice hidden gems. What about you,
Heidi?
Heidi: Well, I'm still really salty about this. I don't know
why I'm so mad, but back in episode 27, Emily and I talked
about choosing a one word theme before the new school year. It's
something we had done in January, is at the start of the
new year, and we thought this would just like, be such a good
fit for the new school year. And I remember we spent so many days
trying to find a format that we thought would fit with teachers
and the start of the school year, and it was kind of a bust
of an episode. And I thought, Okay, well, Everyone's just
really busy going back to school. It's fine. And we tried
it again the following January. Nope.
Emily: No, that just is not speaking to you all, apparently.
And that's okay.
Heidi: But it's so weird, it seems like something our
listeners would be into. Maybe we'll try it again in the fall,
or maybe, maybe we've been burned. We're just gonna walk
away.
Emily: And what's something about podcasting today that
would have surprised you four years ago, Heidi?
Heidi: Well, I think what we focus on is not what we intended
to focus on.
Emily: No, when we started this, we just assumed we would have a
bunch of literacy episodes, a bunch of math episodes, just
kind of like all through the different teaching things, and
we just didn't realize we were going to eventually, and not too
far into it, land firmly in the classroom management, work life
balance, that kind of an area, which was not at all what we
thought we were going to talk about.
Heidi: Yeah, we just had no idea how much we enjoyed helping
teachers figure out how to manage their classes. This was
not something that was on our radar. And the funny thing is,
like, I don't think we have a single math episode. I also
think we would be surprised that that pivot to like talking about
classroom management would then springboard us into a book.
Emily: Right.
Heidi: So Emily and I had talked about writing a book someday,
but we definitely did not have any plans in the works. We
didn't even have a topic. And then after recording episode
165, I just remember saying to her, I think this might be a
book, but that was kind of it. But a couple months later...
Emily: No but that wasn't kind of it, because you immediately
wrote an outline for the book.
Heidi: Oh that's true.
Emily: Because you were like, I got to do it now, while it's
fresh, I don't know why, I'm just going to do it. And then a
few months later, we randomly, like, heard from a publisher.
Heidi: Yeah, they're like, Hey, do you have any book ideas? And
we said, as a matter of fact, we do. And it was so nice to have
an outline, because the turnaround time was pretty
tight, so we could just be like, Here you go. Now our book's
coming out in July. It's crazy.
Emily: We just got the edits back two days, so we've got work
to do.
Heidi: Okay, Emily, let's shift gears here and move into the
present moment. What is one thing that you wish every
teacher listening right now could really hear?
Emily: Oh, I would just want to tell them that you are doing so
much better than you think you are. Teachers are often so hard
on themselves, but I just want you to know that you are doing a
job that is so incredibly hard. You have to be on all day. You
have so many students that you have to keep track of, all of
them with their individual needs. And you really are doing
so much, right? It's it's really easy to dwell on where we fall
short, but the fact that you are spending your free time
listening to a teacher podcast right now is all the evidence
that I need for me to tell you with confidence that you are
doing a great job. Any teacher who desires to keep improving
every day is already knocking it out of the park, so give
yourself a pat on the back, please. I'm certain you deserve
it.
Heidi: Oh, absolutely.
Emily: And what do you know now, Heidi, about teachers or
teaching that you didn't fully understand when you started?
Heidi: Well, when we started the podcast, I hadn't really
considered how hard teaching is, like going off what Emily was
just saying. When you're in it, you know you feel like you're
being pulled in a million directions, but you don't really
have the time to stop and think about all of the layers of
intention that have to go into every single minute of the
school day and just to have every student have a sharpened
pencil at the right moment.
Emily: Yeah.
Heidi: That is, it requires so much thought and work, and doing
this podcast has made me really stop and reflect on how insane
this job is. It's like trying to play 3d chess in the middle of a
dodgeball game, and teachers do not get anywhere near enough
credit.
Emily: No, they don't, and I do think that while we were in it,
we knew it was hard, but I actually am so much more
protective of teachers now that we're not in the classroom,
because we're still so involved with everything that's going on
with teachers as we continue to serve them, and now it's not
about me, it's about you guys. I'm just so protective of you
that when I ever hear anyone say anything that is slightly
disrespectful to a teacher. I was getting in someone's
comments last week because they said something about screen time
and what are the teachers even doing? And I was ready to throw
hands, like first of all, the amount of screen time that
happens at a school has so little to do with the teacher
deciding what's going to be done on a device and what's not going
to be done on a device. They got a whole earful, and they were
like, oh, no, no, that was not a dig at a teacher. I'm like,
Yeah, but you were! So I will always be there to elbow someone
in your behalf if they are ever talking bad about a teacher,
because we know how hard this is and how hard you're all working.
Heidi: Yeah, you worry about the kids, and we'll do what we can
to worry about you.
Emily: That's right. So Heidi, if a brand new teacher
discovered the podcast today, what episode would you tell them
to start with?
Heidi: I think I would choose episode 158, I'm sure you all
remember exactly what one that is.
Emily: Oh, I do definitely.
Heidi: Yeah, I had to look it up. So don't feel bad.
Obviously, I didn't expect anyone to remember that. But
this is about making sure your management system is not making
your job harder. I think it's such a good encapsulation of how
Emily and I approach most things. Think about what you
want to have happen, consider what it will take to get there
and then invite your students into the process. I wish that
was a framework I had understood back in my early days. It really
would have saved me from so many headaches, because I think it's
something that new teachers could really benefit from. What
about you, Emily, what would you recommend to a new teacher?
Emily: Well, I totally cheated, because I said episode 200 which
was like a very special episode that we did for, you know,
celebrating 200 episodes. And so we shared five of the best tips
from the first 200 episodes of the podcast. So I'm sort of
cheating, but I already know those are, like five really good
tips. And so that's the episode that I would tell people to
start with. And if you're new to our podcast and you haven't
listened to Episode 200 yet, go start there, and then it's a
good place too, to then you can go on some rabbit holes after
that, after you hear those tips, you might be like, oh, I want to
go hear more about that, or listen to that whole episode. So
episode 200 would be my choice.
Heidi: It's a little bit of a choose your own adventure. Like
start here and then, figure out which path you need to go.
Emily: Definitely. Well, what makes you most hopeful about
education right now, Heidi?
Heidi: I am so proud of how teachers are starting to push
back against the extra demands that are put on them. For so so
long, there was this sense that if you were not murdering
yourself for your job, you weren't a good teacher. It's for
the kids, right? Remember your why.
Emily: You're not here for the money.
Heidi: Yeah, like, why are you expecting to be compensated? But
that attitude is how we burned out a lot of really, really good
teachers. Now we are still so far, far away from having a
system that respects teachers like the qualified professionals
they are. But every time a teacher says no to an
unreasonable expectation, I think we get a little bit
closer.
Emily: Yeah, for sure. And one of my friends was saying the
other day, like, are you worried about, you know, the future of
education because of everything that's going on? And I was like,
no, because yes, there are policies right now that don't
align with best practices, and there are demands being put on
teachers right now that are not fair and that don't have the
best, students' best interests in mind, and yet, I am so
inspired by the way that teachers are able to make the
most of those difficult situations, because they don't
just throw up their hands and say there's nothing they can do.
They find ways to work within their constraints, to give their
students the best education they can. And so I am confident that
as long as we have smart, caring, hard working teachers,
like we do, education is always going to improve, and I could
never lose faith in education, because I know teachers and I
know how much they care. I may not always have faith in
policymakers, but I do always have faith in teachers.
Heidi: Oh, absolutely. Like they're going to show up with a
roll of tape and some pencils and paper, and they're going to
make miracles happen, because that's just what teachers do.
Emily: And they'll keep advocating for their students,
and hopefully, like you said, advocating for themselves and
for the way that they deserve to be treated.
Heidi: Yeah, I hope, before too long, we see, like, such a huge
shift in the way we treat teachers so that we can give
students everything that they deserve.
Emily: So now let's shift to looking forward into the next
future episodes of the podcast, Heidi. So what do you want to do
with the podcast in the next 250 episodes?
Heidi: Like you mentioned, Emily, sometimes being on the
podcast feels a little one sided, because like we're doing
all the talking. I don't always get to hear from our listeners,
and I would really love to expand the sense of our
community that we have. We want to make sure that what we're
doing is what is most valuable to our listeners and what meets
your needs right now. And so I hope that as we go into the next
few years, that's something that we can continue building. What
about you, Emily, what do you see happening for us in the next
250 episodes?
Emily: Well, I just hope that in those episodes we keep unlocking
ways that teachers can elevate what matters and simplify the
rest. So that's the tagline for the show, right? And I think it
sounds cute, but it actually is really everything that we stand
for here. It's the most accurate representation of what we're
trying to do, and it's because we care so much about making
your teaching life easier. We know there are too many demands
on you, and we want to help free you from some of that weight
that you're under, but we also know that there are some things
that matter a lot, and we're never going to tell you to just
phone stuff in.
So while we want to help you simplify everything you can, we
also want to help you put the appropriate amount of emphasis
on those parts of your teaching that really move the needle, and
that might be classroom management strategies that help
you have more time for teaching, or instructional strategies that
help students retain what they learn, or even just ideas to
make your day more fun, so that you can still enjoy your job
when it's really hard. So I hope that our next 250 episodes
delivers on that promise.
Heidi: I love that.
Emily: Well, what do you hope listeners say about Teacher
Approved in another four years?
Heidi: I want it to be something like, Oh, I knew you gals would
have just the tip I needed. Obviously, after 250 episodes,
we have a pretty robust library of content. So hopefully, with
250 more episodes, we can cover every possible question anyone
might have. It's just always so nice when someone asks us a
question, and we'd be like, oh yeah, we have a whole deep dive
on that in this episode here.
Emily: Why yes, we have a three part series about that. I just
hope that they will say that the ideas we have shared have helped
them remember why they love teaching. So I just hope that
we've somehow helped reduce even a little bit of the burden
that's been placed on them as a teacher, and that really that
we've always made it worth your time to listen to our episodes,
that we never waste your time here.
Heidi: Yes, absolutely. So as we look ahead to the next four
years, Emily, what do you hope that we could say about the
podcast by episode 500?
Emily: I mean, is it too much to say that I hope we're the number
one podcast in education by episode 500?
Heidi: No, let's do it. Do you know what my goal is?
Emily: Let's hear it.
Heidi: I want to hit a million downloads.
Emily: I mean, obviously, like, those things would be so
exciting to say, because they would be such a fun achievement
for us. But like, more than anything, I know that we both
hope for those things because we want to reach more teachers,
that like, we're passionate about what we're doing here, and
we really want to help as many teachers as we can with the
ideas that we're sharing here.
Heidi: Yes, that's always what it comes down to for us is,
like, yeah, that's fun to see the growth. But we really,
really want to have that sense of, you know, just being the
teacher bestie that you can turn to in a rough moment and like,
we get it and we can help you through the next steps. It's
what makes all of the hard work worth it every week, because we
just we can picture you listening in your cars on your
way to work or while you're walking your dog, or, you know,
packing up your classroom at the end of the school day, and we
want to be there for you, cheering you on and helping make
this job a little more manageable.
Emily: Okay, so we always end the episode with a teacher
approved tip and some extra credit. So we're going to
revisit some of our favorites. Which tip from the past four
years is your favorite, and why, Heidi?
Heidi: Okay, well, I'm picking a tip that we discussed in episode
26 because I don't think enough people believe us when we say
it's one of the best management hacks that we've discovered, and
that is to turn your students' desks backwards.
Emily: Yes.
Heidi: The most efficient problem solving is preventing
problems from starting in the first place. And if the desks
are turned around, kids can't play around in there during
lessons, nothing is getting lost. You never have to take
class time to clean out desks. And if you're like, Okay, that
sounds so impractical, like, where do they keep everything?
Well, Emily and I did it. We gave each student a pencil box
for their basic supplies, and then notebooks and folders were
kept in stacking Sterilite drawers, specifically Sterilite
because they're sturdy.
Emily: Right.
Heidi: On the counter. And then the day's table captain would
bring the drawer to the table with the materials for that
lesson, and then it was just all put away. Nothing got lost.
Everything held up all year long, because things weren't
getting crammed into the desk. Now, we did have to sacrifice
some counter space for the drawers, but honestly, it was so
worth it.
Emily: Oh so worth it.
Heidi: And then I'd always start the school year with my kids in
tables, but I rarely ended that way, because I usually had to
spread them out some more. So when that would happen, I would
start to let them keep stuff inside their desks, but the
desks were still turned around.
Emily: Right. So, yeah, if their desk is, like, not pushed up
against another one, it can still be backwards, and then
they just have to walk around to get stuff out of it, but then it
prevents them from playing in it.
Heidi: Yeah, or they get really good at, like, reaching over,
you know, and be like, I know what my morning workbook feels
like, and they just pull that out. Or, you know, it just
solves so many problems. And yes, it is unconventional, but
it saved me from having to monitor everything that was
happening in everyone's desks all day long for nine months. It
was worth it. I will take that every single time.
Emily: Yeah, and I had something at least one year that I needed
them to keep in their desk because I didn't have enough
drawers for it, or something like that, and it was something
that we only needed, like once a day at the most, maybe not even
every day. And so we just would slide the desks apart and reach
in from the middle, like there are ways to make it work. Where
there is a will, there is a way, and it's worth it for all of the
management headaches that you avoid.
My fourth grader was just telling me that she got in
trouble because she was messing around in her desk, because they
were moving desks later in the day, and she knew that her desk
was a mess, and so she was like, trying to, like, organize stuff
in there during a lesson. And I thought, well, you know, the
desk didn't have anything in it and was turned around. The
teacher wouldn't even have to deal with that. Which is not a
criticism of the teacher, by the way, like that's just a, I just
wish that teachers had this idea and would give it a try to avoid
that extra stress and time waster.
Heidi: Well and even if it's not something you feel like you can
take on all year long, maybe in the last quarter of the school
year, it might be worth it, just to eliminate some of those
spring headaches when everything's just a little
rougher this time of year. Like, okay, I'm not gonna fight this
battle anymore. We're turning the desks around, and we'll just
make it work for the last few weeks.
Emily: Yeah, for sure.
Heidi: Okay, Emily, which tip did you pick and why?
Emily: Well, I picked, it's from episode 88 and it's having a
class handshake. So, this is one of my favorite little traditions
that I did with my students, and they loved being involved in
making up the handshake at the beginning of the year. So that
was good for building our community. Sometimes they were a
little long, but then it just felt like our own little insider
secret for the rest of the year. And sometimes we would do it as
our greeting during morning meeting, and then at the end of
the day, I always stood by the door and on their way out, they
could do a hug, a handshake or a high five on the way out the
door, and many of them would want to do our secret handshake
on the way out. So I got good at doing it fast. It's just a
really small way to build classroom community, but it's so
simple to do.
Heidi: And while we're talking about preventative behavior
management, a strong student teacher relationship is one of
the easiest, most reliable ways to prevent classroom management
problems, because when students feel like their teacher sees
them and values them as an individual, they're more willing
to cooperate with what you're asking of them. And so something
like that. Yeah, it's a hassle to have to set up and manage,
but it buys you so much goodwill and so much buy in that you
almost couldn't pay for that kind of benefit.
Emily: Yeah, for sure.
Heidi: All right, Emily, what is an extra credit that you still
stand by after all these years?
Emily: All right. In episode 124 I shared about my new puzzle
table, and it is my favorite thing that I own. I use it all
the time. I was just using it this afternoon working on a
puzzle, and I guarantee I have done so many more puzzles since
I got this table, because everything's contained on the
table. I can just take that off of my kitchen table easily when
we need to use the table and then put it back on.
And being able to have, like an easy, contained place for it
makes it easy to just always have a puzzle out. And I
especially like mine, because it swivels, but not just swivels,
it also tilts, so I can tilt it up, which was especially
helpful. Last year, I was working on a puzzle, like, I
think it was like a Rifle Paper Co one that was like a New York
Street in spring, and so the whole top third was, like, pink
blossoms on trees, and they were, this was so hard, like, it
was all the same. It was so hard to do. And I was just like ready
to just quit this stupid puzzle.
But the fact that I could tilt it up to work on it saved me,
because it was the hunching over trying to reach the top part of
the puzzle, because I don't really like to work upside down
if I don't have to. Tilting it up saved my back and made it so
I could finally finish this stupid puzzle that I will never
do again because those blossoms almost ruined my life. But
puzzle table, it's worth it and and there are a lot of swivel
ones out there, but I actually think having the tilt feature is
worth the upgrade, so I will link to it in the show notes.
Heidi: And yours has like, little cool drawers, so if you
want to start sorting pieces by color, you can have them out of
the way, but still organized. It's really a handy dandy little
device.
Emily: So good. And I got one that has, like, some of them are
just plain wood, but I got one that has, like, a little bit of
a felt, doesn't feel like the right word, like a textured
lining, and I find that so much more pleasant. It kind of holds
the pieces together, especially since you're if you're going to
tilt it up, that keeps it kind of in place. Yes, the only thing
is, after every puzzle, I have to get out the lint roller and
run it all over to get all the puzzle dust off, because any
hardcore puzzler like myself knows what a trial puzzle dust
is, and some puzzles are worse than others.
Heidi: Interesting.
Emily: If you redo a puzzle, it's a lot better because you
usually have gotten all the dust out of it. But the first time
you do a new puzzle depending on the brand, sometimes they are so
dusty.
Heidi: I had no idea, whole new world.
Emily: Yep. What's your extra credit you stand by?
Heidi: I've got a two for one, because these two things
together have saved my life. Only kind of exaggerating. So
these are the Luminette 3 light therapy glasses, and magnesium
L-threonate. So they have saved my sleep. I was having such a
hard time falling asleep at night, and one of the reasons
behind that is that you need early morning light into your
eyeballs to reset your circadian rhythms, but it's really hard to
go outside for a half an hour in the morning.
Emily: Especially as, like, a non morning person, and you
don't have to run any kids anywhere. So there's not, like,
a reason that you're out and about in the sun in the morning,
like I am.
Heidi: Or you know, if you're driving, you want to have
sunglasses on so you don't hit anyone on the road. And that
defeats that. Or if you're, you know, different times a year,
sometimes the morning might be sunny when you're out, sometimes
it's not. These glasses just make it so convenient. Put them
on, I get up in the morning, put them on right away. I can get
ready in the morning with them on. I look ridiculous, but it's
fine. It just shines like a little light in your eyeballs.
It's not bad at all.
And then I also started taking magnesium L-threonate,
specifically that form of magnesium, and now I can
actually stay asleep. So the glasses let me fall asleep.
Magnesium keeps me asleep because it stopped my restless
legs, like I would be up for hours and hours every night,
trying to, like, stop doing Irish jigs in my bed. But with
the magnesium, I have hardly had any problems. So those two
things together have saved my life. And if you have sleep
issues, definitely worth checking out. I put links to
both of them in the show notes.
Emily: And if you didn't know before now, now you know that we
are perimenopausal aged, with our puzzles and our magnesium.
Heidi: Well, that is it for today's episode. Whether you
have been here since day one or today was your first episode, we
are so grateful to you for joining us, and hopefully you're
ready to keep with us in seeing what the next four years hold.
We hope you enjoyed this episode of Teacher Approved. I'm Heidi.
Emily: And I'm Emily. Thank you for listening. Be sure to follow
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Bye for now.
Emily: Bye.