Open-Ended Callie Wiesner

In this week’s episode, Callie talks all about frustration! When it comes to school or completing projects, one of the most common emotions we feel is frustration. Callie talks all about how we can better navigate frustration and what our frustration means to ourselves. When we better understand why we are frustrated, we can solve problems more efficiently and better understand ourselves. Ultimately, frustration is a completely natural emotion, and this episode dives into the complexities of a seemingly insignificant emotion!

In this week’s episode, Callie introduces the idea and code switching and how it has impacted the formation of her identity. Because of code switching, it is difficult to create who you are to yourself and the type of person you want to be. How can we all encourage authenticity? Callie answers this question and questions like it, and also touches on similar topics so listeners can feel seen. Being your authentic self and developing your authenticity is hard, so Callie brings her most authentic self forward to help others and herself develop their identities and sort out who we are on a deeper level.

In this week’s episode, Callie talks all about what happens when a passion (like a high school sport) ends. Whether you feel depressed or overwhelmed, Callie offers advice on how to feel better but also fill your time in a way that doesn’t make you feel burnt out. Callie touches on replacing a passion with another one or ways to feel less burnt out with all your free time, Callie talks about it all (while also talking about other things too).

In this week’s episode, Callie dives deep into burnout. She explains why it happens to students, especially recently with returning to school, and how we can combat it. Callie also describes why students are so burnout in many ways and how they can’t win, but why we can and the emotions attached to it. She says that we need to experience the hardships that comes with school to ultimately feel better, and that they create who we are as students.

In this week’s episode, Callie talks all about apologizing and forgiveness. Callie works to break down how we think about forgiveness by explaining that in a lot of situations, we need to be able forgive ourselves and others in order to move on and make that relationship better. However, the way we are taught to forgive is flawed, and that we must decide how we forgive ourselves, and the implications it has on the people that apologize to us.

In this week’s episode, Callie discussed what we should do if we are the most egotistical smart person in the room, or if we aren’t and that behavior is making us feel bad about ourselves. Callie also dives into academic competition, self esteem, and the public school system to really show how our egos have been built up academically and why it might not be the best for us. Callie stresses the need to help others in the classroom who are struggling to break down our academic egos, or to focus more on ourselves if we find ourselves comparing ourselves to other students. We need to be able to help others in the classroom, and sometimes being separated by our intelligence isn’t the best thing for us. Callie encourages listeners to remember to think clearly, and show others compassion when they don’t get it.