28 min
Episode 2 - Eric Ling: The Power of Empathy Soul Teachers
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- Spirituality
As a musician, he tempers a powerful drive for success in the classroom with hard-earned empathy — transforming the lives of his students.
Eric Ling has been teaching school in Ohio for a decade. He’s a certified Rock Star, first as a member of the folk band Bethesda with a “rootsy rock vibe,” and now with an “indie pop band”: By Light We Loom. He’s also married to his creative partner in music, Shanna Delaney.
Eric says he's "just a teacher," but his insights on what it takes to empower young people — who are working with genocide survivors from Rwanda — have helped him create a business philosophy that inspires young people to take risks. It is, as Eric says, "hypermotivating," getting his students into college, and helping them create meaningful careers.
Shanna Delaney is Eric Ling's partner, musically as well as in marriage. In his interview with Soul Teachers, Ling noted that Shanna's honesty is what makes their music (and relationship) work. "We knew that we still loved doing music and we really loved that full band sound," Delaney said in an interview on Cleveland.com, "so Eric locked himself in a room for seven hours and learned the entire Ableton electronic program, and we started writing really bad songs. And then, we eventually got better."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degl5ofF2IA
Of course, what drives Eric is his love for music, his past childhood experiences of "unabashed freedom" in a family of eight, and most of all, Eric's passion to change the world and his love for people.
Originally published at Soul Teachers on June 22, 2019
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As a musician, he tempers a powerful drive for success in the classroom with hard-earned empathy — transforming the lives of his students.
Eric Ling has been teaching school in Ohio for a decade. He’s a certified Rock Star, first as a member of the folk band Bethesda with a “rootsy rock vibe,” and now with an “indie pop band”: By Light We Loom. He’s also married to his creative partner in music, Shanna Delaney.
Eric says he's "just a teacher," but his insights on what it takes to empower young people — who are working with genocide survivors from Rwanda — have helped him create a business philosophy that inspires young people to take risks. It is, as Eric says, "hypermotivating," getting his students into college, and helping them create meaningful careers.
Shanna Delaney is Eric Ling's partner, musically as well as in marriage. In his interview with Soul Teachers, Ling noted that Shanna's honesty is what makes their music (and relationship) work. "We knew that we still loved doing music and we really loved that full band sound," Delaney said in an interview on Cleveland.com, "so Eric locked himself in a room for seven hours and learned the entire Ableton electronic program, and we started writing really bad songs. And then, we eventually got better."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degl5ofF2IA
Of course, what drives Eric is his love for music, his past childhood experiences of "unabashed freedom" in a family of eight, and most of all, Eric's passion to change the world and his love for people.
Originally published at Soul Teachers on June 22, 2019
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soulteachers/message
28 min