

Here’s my tale of learning to embrace my difference. Sometimes it seems easier to hide who we are so we can survive.

Who’s Lauren? Who’s Shawna? Key members of the # Weirded and #Weirdede Community.Dig into Doug’s Pop Culture References: Henry Rollins, Steven Tyler, Cloud Atlas – The Movie, Mythbusters – The TV Show, Hunter S Thompson – The Author.Connect with Doug Robertson: On Twitter, YouTube, his blog, and WEIRDED.Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better, it’s not. 18: 39 – Doug’s Not To Be Missed Lorax Quote – including his activism for better work conditions in Hawaii.10:43 – ‘Hit and Miss’ – Learning through Spectacular Failures.7:30 – Weirded – a different sort of Twitter Chat.4:59 – Getting Weird – Owning your weirdness.2:40 – A Bombastic Rock Star Front Man – What’s that look like in the classroom?.Then it’s the Lightning Round, where we’re fuelled by Risk, Boundaries, Passion, Voice, and something that Doug’s particularly well known for – Intensity and Humor.Īnd for the Pop Culture Fans, there’s Henry Rollins, Steven Tyler, Cloud Atlas, Hunter S Thompson, The Myth Busters, and a Not to Be Missed Quote from The Lorax. There’s some top insights in this episode from Doug. You can feel a little vulnerable, and it doesn’t always go to plan. Showing those parts of ourselves that others deem to be weird can be challenging. In this episode, embracing what makes you different with Doug Robertson, an Elementary School Teacher and author of He’s the Weird Teacher. From there, it became a book, and later a highly unpredictable and outside the box Twitter chat, simply called Weirded.
