There Will Be Smoke

Teachers, you know it's gonna be a weird week when you're prepping comedy for a room full of principals— including ones you still have to work with. Am I nervous? Yes. Am I planning to open with “remember your why”? Also yes. Let chaos reign.
This week, I’m sharing my behind-the-scenes prep for the wildest PD gig of my life… plus two fire-filled fan submissions, literally. One backpack goes up in smoke, and another student brings lint specifically to start a fire during class. And no, that’s not a euphemism.
Also, I’ve got two ELA-friendly resources that won’t make you scream into the void, thoughts on classroom routines that actually work, and a major update on my teacher survival guide book (coming soon to save your first year and your mental health).
Fires. Comedy. Forced inspiration. And a dress rehearsal for getting heckled by superintendents. Let’s go.
Teachers, you know it's gonna be a weird week when you're prepping comedy for a room full of principals— including ones you still have to work with. Am I nervous? Yes. Am I planning to open with “remember your why”? Also yes. Let chaos reign.
This week, I’m sharing my behind-the-scenes prep for the wildest PD gig of my life… plus two fire-filled fan submissions, literally. One backpack goes up in smoke, and another student brings lint specifically to start a fire during class. And no, that’s not a euphemism.
Also, I’ve got two ELA-friendly resources that won’t make you scream into the void, thoughts on classroom routines that actually work, and a major update on my teacher survival guide book (coming soon to save your first year and your mental health).
Fires. Comedy. Forced inspiration. And a dress rehearsal for getting heckled by superintendents. Let’s go.
Takeaways :
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I’m performing stand-up for a room full of local principals—and yes, I plan to give them “the gift of time.”
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A student lit lint on fire inside a classroom drain. And that’s not even the worst part.
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Another student's backpack combusted mid-class—so naturally, he just shrugged and said “You’ll smell smoke.”
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A resource that turns writing prompts into a literal game—and somehow still helps students actually write.
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I’m writing a book for new teachers that starts with everything I personally screwed up. (You’re welcome.)
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Andrea: [00:00:00] Where did he get the lint? So he took a bunch of paper, which chore from your backpack, but he's just like carrying lint to light on fire. That is terrifying.
Hi, teacher besties. Um, I am so freaking excited about this next week, you guys. I am doing something that I never. Ever thought I would have the opportunity to do. I have been invited by the local principals. This is a meeting of like not a couple principals. It's a multi-county principal meeting, and the local principals, like in the county that I live in and work in, they know that I do comedy because when I was selling my tickets for Indianapolis, I like sent out the announcement.
It was like, Hey, I'd love to see some of the teachers from the local county here, all of that. So I sent that all out. So one of the principals [00:01:00] who's at a school that I at. Let me just say I cannot destroy these relationships, but I am gonna be at this meeting with quite a few principles, and they have asked me to do about 15 to 20 minutes of comedy at the beginning of this.
And I, I don't know if I can stop myself from beginning the meeting. Um. By asking them number one, like before we get started, I think it's really important that you guys take a second, um, while you're waiting for your food and for your personal time to just remember your why. Just take a beat and, and really dwell in your why.
And then whoever thinks they have the whys of the whys, I would love it if you could just whisper it to your, to your, to your elbow partner, because they make us do stuff like that. You guys, they make us do stuff like that all the time. Um, and then, you know, obviously, um, [00:02:00] after doing that, I'm going. To tell them that I was gonna take a page out of the admin playbook and just give them the gift of time and sit down and do absolutely nothing for them because I didn't feel like preparing anything because I dunno about you guys.
I have a strong suspicion admin out there. I want you to tell me if this is for real. Um, I just suspect that there have been times where the admin was getting ready for the meeting and they were like, I can't, I can't, I cannot, I cannot deal. With the very near retirement teachers looking at me for one more day, I am just gonna tell them they get the gift of time.
I cannot try and teach them something right now because I know they're like, there's nothing I can say during this comedy thing I'm doing with them that is gonna hurt their feelings because these teachers have faced some of the meanest humans alive. When I say the meanest to human's life, people who aren't in [00:03:00] education might think I'm talking potentially about parents who can be very mean or students with bad attitudes, who can be really mean.
Um, but there is no one quite as Bitingly.
As a teacher who is almost retired, the one who has already turned in her form that says she has no intent. I remember my first year teaching. I sat next to a woman who had been teaching for 34 years, and it was my first year teaching and we had a brand new admin come in and you could tell he was like putting it all out there on the line, like he was trying so hard.
He brought us. Donuts, which is about as much of a gift as they can, you know, afford to get us because they have no funding either. And he is trying so hard. He's calling us team, he called us a family and he goes through all of this and he's selling it. And I'm a new teacher, right? So I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so beautiful.
Like [00:04:00] this is the moment I've been waiting for as an educator to have somebody who's leading us with so much passion. And I'm just so inspired by it. And I'm sitting next to this woman and she is listening completely still. And then she just leans over to me and she goes, I'm gonna make that man cry.
Ma'am, there is nothing I could say to these administrators that could be. Anything meaner than retiring teachers. Um, because we tend to be kind of some of the worst students of all time. Um, and I'm really excited because I'm also gonna talk about all the superintendents in the area, um, and, you know, talk about how much classroom time that they've had all that experience, all that class, you know, management stuff that they've had experience with.
And you know, between all of the superintendents classroom time and my nine years of classroom time, I mean together, that would be nine years. That we've all had of, [00:05:00] of classroom time. And as we know, it is always wonderful when people who have no understanding of a job are in charge of making all the decisions for that job.
So I'm very excited guys. Um, that tho those are some of the beats from my intro to what I'm gonna be saying to them. So I'll, I'll circle back after I do it and let you guys know if they ever let me play students in their classrooms again. Because, um, I think that they'll, they'll have, you know, a good sense of humor about it, because otherwise, why would you bring me there unless you were ready to laugh.
But it is kind of one of those really weird things because these are not, this is not like a group of administrators. I'm never gonna see again, this is a group of administrators that. I will be seeing with some regularity. Um, but hopefully they like it and have a sense of humor and maybe even have me come and speak to their whole faculty because that would be really exciting to get to help also support the teachers and the community and do a little comedy for them because, um, there's just something [00:06:00] to being able to laugh a little bit in the midst, especially of, of, you know, the stress of a new year or anything like that.
My whole thing though, is. Surprise. Comedy is like a violent attack to people. Like if I'm gonna do comedy at like a professional development, like number one, I want all of the retiring teachers not to come. Don't bring them. There's so many, like don't bring, if you're a retired teacher, you're excused. You can go.
I, you, you don't wanna be here. I, it's fine. I'll, like anybody else who wants to be here can stay, but like, it's gotta be optional. Like, I don't want anyone there who doesn't wanna be there because there's nothing more terrifying. And I haven't had the, the experience that admin has of dealing with, uh, retiring teachers.
So I don't, my, my skin is not thick enough yet. I've been bullied by high schoolers for nearly a decade. But dealing with, um, retiring teachers is a. Complete [00:07:00] different experience. Um, and on the same admin front. So I've had Eugene Williams on my podcast before, early, early days, um, when we were working under a different name.
And he was my first principal, so he was not the one that, that retiring teacher had said, like, I'm gonna make that man cry. Um, because number one, good luck, he, Mr. Williams is not gonna cry. Um, but I talked to him this last week because he just started a podcast of his own and I, it's gonna be great. He's had a very, like storied life.
He has had like. Relationships, friendships with these very hugely famous historical figures. Um, and his podcast is called Talk to Me. Um, so we'll, we'll link it. I don't think it's coming out for another, you know, maybe month or so. So it might come out when this comes out, honestly. Um, but we will link it once it's out there because he is, you know, he asks a lot of really tough questions, and I appreciate that he's not ever guarding anyone's feelings, which kind of made him a perfect admin because he didn't really care about your [00:08:00] feelings, but he cared about you.
You know, which is kind of the perfect balance for an administrator, so you should check it out. Eugene Williams, he's amazing, very, very funny, um, and saved me from a lot, a lot of scrapes when I was, uh, doing my first year of teaching with him. Um, okay, so I do wanna jump in to the first fan submission. I'm very excited to listen today, um, and hear what insane things you.
Voicemail: Okay. Um, calling from Fort Collins, Colorado. I teach family and consumer science, and this happened yesterday. Uh, we were doing a cake war competition and they were putting the crumb coat on their cakes. And, um, I had a student about two minutes left of class come over and I. Oh, way across the kitchen. I'm in, I'm in different kitchen helping, and he's like, Hey, just so you know, teacher, um, I, there's gonna be some smoke.
You're gonna smell, but everything's fine. [00:09:00] So I was like, what are you talking about? We didn't use the stove or the, you know, range, whatever. So, um, he's like, well, I accidentally leaned up against the stove with my backpack and turned a burner on and I burned like a 10 inch hole through the bottom of my backpack.
You know by now there's like of gray smoke forming everywhere, so that was cool. High school, you know, school. We are, we are sophomore boys, so that's great.
Andrea: That is like my literal nightmare. I feel like my husband lives in constant fear that that's gonna be me, that I will have accidentally burned down the house.
'cause I, I do often leave candles burning, um, because they smell so nice. Um, and we don't have a gas stove, so we're kind of a little bit safe from that particular danger. But I just, the. I can just see that student coming in and being like, Hey, you're gonna see some smoke and everything's fine. Like, we're fine.
[00:10:00] You are fine. Everything is actually fine. I cannot fathom like that. Call home and just be like, Hey, so Billy today did set his backpack on fire. Everything is fine. He's fine. Everything is fine. Um, he will need a new backpack, unfortunately. I am so sorry about that because. Oh, and Fort Collins, Colorado Family and Consumer Science.
I do wonder 'cause I got to speak to them, um, this past fall. Um, they called me and were like, Hey, would you like to talk to family and consumer science teachers? We have a statewide conference for like this organization we have. It's gonna be great. And I'm like, yes, absolutely I will. And then I was like, I dunno if they know that I've never taught.
Family and consumer science, or if they are unaware of the fact that I've also never taken family and consumer science. And so my whole speech was essentially couched in the perspective of like, Hey, so. I [00:11:00] had a great childhood and family growing up, like lots of support and love and all of that. And I, there were still some things that got missed along the way and that's why we need family and consumer science.
'cause had I had that class, perhaps it could have saved me some things. Like food poisoning along the way. Um, which, you know, I think it went really, really well. So I do wonder if that person who submitted it is somebody who I got to meet, uh, because Fort Collins, I dunno if you guys have been to Fort Collins, this is completely unrelated to that message, but Fort Collins is, and I've been told by people from Fort Collins, not to say this too loud, but it is such a magical, beautiful place like it is.
Like a lot of the areas are newly developed and my friend lives in a neighborhood that's like 10 minutes from like a, like a ski hill that they like manufacture the snow. It's not in the mountains. Lemme just establish that like you're not in the mountains. You can see the mountains and they have like just.
A little like snow park there that they manufacture the snow [00:12:00] for and like a bar and grill and some really good food. And yeah, it's a beautiful place. So if you guys haven't been to Fort Collins, um, highly recommend. It's great. And apparently family and consumer science is popping off there because that's where I got to do my speech and it was really, really fun.
So, um, thank you so much for sending that in because. It's nice to kind of have a moment to think about what my poor husband has to deal with on a regular basis. So, um, okay. Let's listen to the second audio that was sent in this week.
Voicemail: I teach at a high school in New York and about 12 years ago I was helping some students with a piece of writing.
There was a student. In the back of the room who is kind of a behavioral problem, but I had a reasonably good, uh, relationship with him and he was having a bad day. I made the mistake of turning around and turning my back to him after he had said something rather inflammatory. And in the 30 seconds [00:13:00] or so when I wasn't paying attention to him, he stuffed a bunch of paper and lint into an unused.
Drain for a no longer functional shower head. 'cause my classroom used to be a lab and then he set it on fire. So he started a fire in the back of the classroom in 30 seconds while my back was turned. We were able to put it out and I had to send him to the main office. I bumped into him years later and he was really apologetic for doing it.
But things turned out.
Andrea: Turned out okay. Can you imagine that phone call? Oh my gosh. And the admin that, that got called and be like, Hey, so again, like what is with the fire this week? Um, there was a fire. Uh, it, it's out. Everything's fine. Where did he get the lint? So he took a bunch of paper, which chore from your backpack, but he's just like carrying lint to light on fire.
That is terrifying. That he was just like at the, and he, [00:14:00] which is not like. It's not as weird. 10 years ago I think is what he said. It was like, that's not as strained. 'cause kids were, you know, still smoking non-electronic cigarettes and so everyone kind of had a lighter all the time. But that is legitimately terrifying.
Like, I don't know what I would even do. Like, I thought you were gonna say that he like hit you or like something like that. That's. I don't know if lighting a fire is better or worse, I guess because nobody got hurt. Um, I guess it's marginally better and he did it in like an enclosed space, so probably unlikely to cause as much damage to the building.
Um, I have only had one instance where there two instances where there were fires at the schools that I worked at. One was. It was after school. It was a bunch of students that were like hanging out before going to swim practice. And my friend was the swim coach and she let them like just kind of hang out [00:15:00] back there.
And there was like this little microwave and one of the kids put in some popcorn and instead of putting in two minutes, they put in 20 minutes and then they forgot about it. And so of course.
Kept cooking and, uh, caught on fire and like caused a, I would say, like a marginally sized fire in that area. And like they did have to use the fire extinguisher, which I think to me is like, that's, that's the moment it becomes an emergency. If you're going to use a fire extinguisher, then, then that's gonna be a lot of paperwork.
You know, like if it's just small and you can just like cover it. Douse it in some way immediately, you're fine. Like it's not an emergency, it doesn't need to require as much paperwork, but at the moment that you have like taken the little hooky thing out, my husband was a firefighter for like six years.
I still dunno what that thing's called, but it's just a hook, right? Just call it a hook. You just de hook the fire extinguisher. Um, at that moment [00:16:00] it becomes, I think an emergency situation and they did have to do that, um, for the popcorn and. I had another student that this was a, this was not an emergency because I didn't have to use a fire extinguisher and they did not put water in their macaroni and cheese, and I have heard of that happening so many times now.
It's kind of insane the amount of kids that go to make like, just like the individual sized mac and cheese and they take out the little cheese packet, but they just immediately put it in the microwave. That will start a fire in case you're wondering. That will start a fire and it's, you know, it's one of those lessons that has to be learned the hard way for some, I guess because it is like that episode of the office where Ryan was making like a cheesy pita or something and started a fire in the, in the microwave that is, and then everyone forever roasts him.
That is exactly what happens if you have a student that accidentally starts a fire. I dunno if it's intentional. If it's intentional, I, if anyone's going [00:17:00] to like. Mock the kid who aggressively burned something in the vicinity of his teacher out of rage. That seems like a, a more dangerous angle to come from.
But if you accidentally start a fire, then yeah, probably you're gonna get mocked a little bit. Um, but yeah, I don't think I've. Personally ever started a fire. I, it's a little bit of a bummer that I don't know for sure. I did use to cook bacon in one of my jobs, but that they had a stove and I think about it and that was the job I've told you guys about before, where I was a tech writer and I was really bad at my job.
And, um, part of that was during lunchtime I brought bacon and I literally cooked it in the kitchen, which is kind of serial killer behavior. If I think about it now. I was. 25. So this was not long enough ago that I could really excuse it, but I would cook bacon in the middle of the day, but I never caught the kitchen on fire.
So you're welcome to that company for the gift of time that I [00:18:00] brought you. Alright, those were amazing. Um, keep a fire extinguisher, I guess, at your house and office and classroom. At all times because you never know when a student is going to, um, violently light your classroom on fire. Defiance of you.
And on that note, we are gonna take a very quick break and I will be back with some awesome resources for you.
Welcome back. And I have to tell you guys about a website I came across. So as far as I can tell, because this is a brand new resource to me, I haven't had a chance to like really deep dive it, but I did send it to all my English teacher friends so that they could play with it a little bit. Um. And it's called We will write.com, and it is essentially like a gamified website to help kids learn to write better and kind of engage them in the writing process so it's timed and you [00:19:00] basically like choose a topic.
So you have the whole class sign on. You choose a topic that you're gonna have them write about, and then there's a bunch of different prompts, and then they're on teams to write about these prompts and in that timed kind of space of like, hurry up and write all of this stuff and try and win. Um. That is like the whole setup.
And I'm so sorry that I didn't get a chance to actually like employ it yet, because with my college students, it is a little bit more difficult to try and justify being like, Hey, right. Because right now the only class I see in person is my honors social media class and be like, Hey guys, who wants to try out this instructional tool?
Like they would, um, just look at me and say. No thank you because they're very respectful, but they would be like, I don't, I'm not interested in that in any way, shape, or form. Um, but for me, one of the biggest challenges with trying to get kids to write is like, number one, inspiration for prompts. Because you can go online and you can buy a set of [00:20:00] prompts that is super long and super in depth.
Um. I mean, they've got tons of those on like teachers pay teachers and all of that kind of stuff. Um, but there isn't the kind of community element with it. And whenever I'm doing something on computers, I do like for there to be some kind of like immediate feedback that I can give, because that's the big difference for me with having students do stuff on the computer versus having them do something on paper is that I can visually see if they're engaged or not.
Anytime I would have students that would do stuff on an activity on the computer, it was like the second we started it, that was the moment that they would check out. And so for me, I really. Enjoy having my students write stuff with paper and pen. And I think that's something that has happened since Covid kind of, you know, like has gone into the rear view mirror, is that like when Covid started, everyone was pushing so hard to become one-to-one.
Every single kid should have a [00:21:00] device. Every single kid should be able to have that device in front of them at all times in order to engage in class. And part of that was just because we didn't. Like we were trying to physically keep everyone separate, right? But what we, I think realized is that like we were also mentally disengaging with what was happening.
Um, and our kids were mentally disengaging with what was happening in the class. Because it does not matter what kind of filter you put on that computer. It does not matter what kind of like blocks you have or surveillance you have. They're gonna find a way to get onto a game and play a game. While you have given them time to work on something, it doesn't matter what you do, you can't do anything about it, they're gonna do that.
And so the only way that I found that was really consistent and able to stop them from doing that was by actually having them, like old timey, pull out your scrolls and your quill and you're gonna have to hand write this bad boy. Um, and so the we will write thing does have like a continuous feedback option.
And it's timed, [00:22:00] which is the other way that I keep students engaged is I'm like. You got, like I'll give them like a five minute task and I'll give them three and a half minutes to do it so that way they feel a sense of urgency. Um, it's also how I get myself to do stuff is I'll be like, wow, I only have five minutes to do this.
I better do. All of it right now, right? Like, so I, I do have to trick myself in the same way that I will, like, trick my students. 'cause if we get to the end of that time and then I'm like, oh, I, we, we can take two more minutes, then I'll add it. But they still had that sense of urgency to begin with, which is incredibly helpful.
Um. But I really like that we will write, number one is free. We love that. Um, they do have like a paid version and I don't know if the paid version is like after a certain time, but it looks like there's a continuously free version and then there's like an upgraded version that you could probably look at.
And potentially, you know, as the new year, the uh, new school year is coming closer, we can maybe say like, Hey, could you guys pay for this resource for the ELA classes? Um, but it comes up with all these cool prompts. Some of it is like, [00:23:00] hey. Argue about this or it's, describe what's happening in this photo.
Um, so it does a lot of like the legwork so that way we don't have to, and we can spend more time engaging with our students, walking around, checking on what they're doing and giving direct feedback. Um, one of the other resources that is very related to this is one that I used so much, and this is a very ELA heavy one.
I'm so sorry you guys. If you're not an ELA teacher, you're like. Woof. But this one is called um, 180 Days, which is by Piddle and Gallagher. Um, they are two authors who taught English, both of them in different areas of the country, very different demographics, and they basically created a. Structure for their classroom that made it a lot more sustainable and was able to engage their students in a way that regardless of where they were teaching or how big their classes were, they were able to get their kids writing and reading.
Um, and it's very choice-based, which I [00:24:00] loved. Um, and it's very. Heavy on like routine writing, but it's not a lot of writing at once. So what they say is like, you do a six minute write, which is something that I always did when I was teaching my high school English class. So I'd be like, okay guys, we're gonna start with a six minute write, and then they would write for six minutes and you're supposed to not stop, which.
That was the challenging part is because you did have that time pressure, but six minutes when you're writing continuously actually is kind of a lot. So students would kind of hit a wall about four minutes in and be like, I'm not writing anything else. So you could probably adjust it down a little bit and make it like a four minute write or a three minute write or.
Something like that. Um, but that book has been probably like, was the most beneficial book for me as an ELA teacher and allowed me to kind of engage in the course content in a way that actually really excited me a lot because it took me like, through very specific steps of how to structure my class. Um.
The way that it relates to like other classes and other structures is that they had [00:25:00] routines that were interchangeable with the specifics of the unit. So for example, you had a six minute write every day, but that six minute write, it could be about fiction, it could be about nonfiction, it could be about poetry.
It could be about something you've put up on the board. It could be the we will write.com thing, right? And so that they knew when they came to class, they were gonna get a six minute write. So you didn't have to think, okay, what am I gonna start with every day? And you can do that kind of a style with every single class, right?
You could have something that you are routinely having them engage in, whether it's a problem, a brain teaser, something that the kids automatically know when they come to class. That's what they can expect to have happen, is like, I'm gonna show up and they are going to present. To me and I'll have to figure it out.
Right. So that was the, the one piece that I really think could be applied across is they had like very specific routines that then people, um, kind of could exchange the content out for. Same thing with like the reading section, the direct instruction section. So there was [00:26:00] a very firm structure for students, so that way when they did get in to the classroom.
Even if they didn't know what they were gonna be learning that day specifically, they knew the kind of beats that you were gonna hit, which is very, very helpful. It's also something I talk a lot about in my book, which is coming out in, um, may of 2026, and that is a teacher survival guide. I've talked a little bit about it on here.
Um, it's still ongoing, as I just said. I need a, uh, timer. To be ticking in order for me to get stuff done. And my editor was just sending me all sorts of reminders that my deadline's coming up soon. So I am putting in the work with this book and essentially the way it's set up is very similar to all the rest of the stuff I do, where I, every single chapter is on a topic of some kind that teachers are gonna deal with in the classroom.
And it starts off with how I screwed it up, right? So it talks about the way that I handled it as a new teacher and [00:27:00] how maybe that wasn't the most helpful way of handling that scenario. And then I go into advice, and then I also am going to have some downloads that are gonna be included with the book.
So for example, if I'm telling you. You need to document student behavior because I didn't document it this time and it went really bad. And here's the things you should document, and then at the end you're gonna have a download that's like, here's a documentation template that you can take and edit and make your own that will remind you of the things that you should be documenting.
Um, so the idea is that like, if you don't have a teacher bestie with you at school to give you some of this stuff and to give you some of this advice that this book will kind of, in. And it's called, they never taught us that. So I'm very, very excited about that. That is gonna be coming very, very soon. Um, I also have a couple of live shows coming up very soon.
So I have a show in, um, Kansas City, Missouri. Are you guys proud of me for knowing which state it was in automatically this time? Thank.[00:28:00]
We'll be out by then, but that is when that is. And then in Topeka, um, I'm gonna be doing a show on May 25th, and then I have a show June 7th in San Diego at Mic Drop. And then I don't have this list in front of me, which is why I am doing the heavy breaths between, so I can try and remember, uh, and then July 26th.
Right now I have scheduled, um, to come to Philadelphia. So I, I'll have all of those linked on, um, educator andrea.com/tickets. Um, but I am so excited about getting to hang out with you guys and getting to meet you at, at every single show that I do meet and greet. We'll always be included because I want to meet you guys and greet you.
So please do, if you come to the shows, please hang back and say hi. Um. And you know, don't tell me if you didn't like it because I'll probably cry. So, um, I'm just really excited about that. And then coming [00:29:00] in August is when the teacher's lounge where Gasper and Phil and I are gonna be all three together again and we're gonna be touring and those dates are pending right now we're firming up some dates, making sure that we can get to as many cities as we can.
Um, and hopefully we will be coming to a city that is near you, so you can come in and say hello to us and hang out because it is a very, very good time. Um. If you have something that has happened in your classroom recently or 10 years ago, kids are lighting stuff on fire. They're doing all sorts. Of shenanigans, I wanna hear about it.
Um, you can submit it to us@podcasterandrea.com. There's one that says like, leave a voicemail. So you can add, add it right in there and then, um, ha be potentially featured on the show because we love these stories. They're so good. Like me and the team have been just cracking up because you guys are sending in just.
Pure gold to us. Um, and if you have thoughts about what we talked about today or you have [00:30:00] resources that you want to point people towards, you can contact us. Um, you can email me, andrea@humancontent.com or at educator Andrea on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook. Um, or you can contact the Human Content Podcast family at Human Content Pods.
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