Maddie Levine-Wolf
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125 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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I think people are always trying to figure out a way to identify or else separate themselves from others. And if you're a type of person that wants to feel special, then you'll find ways to make that happen. I personally, in my personal life, try so very hard never to do that, not to do that. I'm not perfect by any means. I just want to know who you really, really are. I tell people that.
I just want to know who you really, really are. Tell me what you really, really think. For me, that's important because what I want to do, especially in the work that I'm doing around health, all of us need this. It's so important to be able to have an honest conversation so that you don't have to guess about stuff. Even with people that are of different
ideas whatever that whatever those differences are i'm still trying to figure out ways to make it happen now that's that might be cool by ish you know whatever but that's just the way i want to live in in that in that kind of way so uh to me again i know who i am and um I know that other people don't believe or think or act like I do, but that's okay. They're still worthy of being respected.
And that for me is the important thing.
Let me jump in real quick. While Matthew was talking, I'm in the car, and so the record came on that says Loser. And as he was talking, I was thinking about the fact that if we had a worldwide chill out day, some people would fight against it because they would consider us losers because we're looking and searching for some type of peace.
You know, and for me, for me, one of the things that that I seek in my life is I don't do drama. I don't do drama very well because I don't see drama. And I think that, you know, when you when you get to a point where you can you can you can ask a person to seek seek who they who they really are.
Give them, respect them for whatever, wherever they're at, you know, and can be cordial and civil towards them. That's what I seek for. So when I think about this whole topic of labeling and, you know, and stereotypes, I try to find commonality. You know, you don't have to be my friend, but maybe can we be allies is another thing that I use. And so that would be my last comment.
I just, I really do honestly appreciate every comment that was made here. It was open and we were vulnerable and we had a chance to say what we had to say.
So a few things I wanted to reflect on. I came into the team a little bit later than everybody else. I mean, obviously, Barry's latest addition. So at least I'm middle of the pack now. But I just felt so welcomed and immediately respected for my expertise in marketing and communications. And I just feel like we all collaborate really well together.
We all have our own things that we are maybe experts on or maybe know more about others. And one thing I've really valued about our hosts, Stan and Clarence, is they've always made me feel like an expert in my own right. And they've always valued my opinions. And I think that being a younger person and just getting out of you know, your degree in education, it can be a little scary.
It can be a little bit hard to get started. And I think all value of these connections, the networking, the advice, some of even just our chats before and after each podcast episode. It's really a great group of people. I love doing the holiday parties together and stuff. Truly, we have a lot of shared values, but we also have a lot of differing opinions. So it's really beautiful to
be respected for the differing opinions and even being so young and you guys have so much experience. So it's really, it's really a beautiful place to have open dialogue conversation about things that are hard to talk about and be okay. It feels okay to make mistakes in these conversations and learn from each other. And I think you don't get that too many other places other than
educational settings where it's okay to make some mistakes. Once you get out into the real world, it's a little bit more scary to make mistakes. So I really, really value this platform. I think podcasting has always been an interest to me. And now knowing some of the
ins and outs and the deeper workings of it i have an even deeper respect for people that do podcasts um and i and i really really value how much time effort and attention goes into putting out each individual episode and how much it takes to run a podcast as a whole so i think that's me reflecting on where we've been and then where we're going Public health is endless. It is timeless.
I can't see us running out of ideas. We talk about that a lot, that we'll never run out of ideas. I can see us revisiting different topics over and over again. I can see certain things coming up around election cycles and certain things kind of fading into the background.
And I'm kind of just excited to even see what comes up in the next year, two years, however long we continue this, just to see where things go. And even to start taking a bigger lens on things. I know we've focused a lot on Minnesota, a lot locally, a lot on the US, but even we can start looking at things globally. And I'm just really excited to see where we go.
Yeah, I just would echo what Clarence and Barry said about like the pros for traveling, quote unquote. For me, it's just, again, getting outside of my one usual routine, but also connecting with new cultures and having new and different experiences from my usual ones. I think that
ability to step outside of your comfort zone is really important um and yeah i mean i think it's just such a good opportunity to see the world and like barry and clarence said to expand your worldview um and in in that i really don't see a negative obviously um sometimes with logistics and health concerns or whatever it may be.
Obviously there are cons, I guess you could say, but for me, I think in my tax bracket at the moment, the only difficulty is like affording to travel. That's something that I'm constantly thinking about. So that is definitely a challenge for me right now, but yeah,
You know, there are ways there are ways where you can travel that is more affordable than, you know, a two thousand dollar plane ticket somewhere. So I think sometimes when we think about travel, we think of like going around the world or something when really like. I just went to Starved Rock, which is a state park in Illinois, a couple weekends ago.
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