So Shines a Good Deed Podcast
1) Ep. 7 So Shines a Good Deed "Some Good, Sacred Memory"
In December 1993 I was sitting at home early one morning, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper while still in my sweats, when my work phone rang. A teenage girl with a history of suicide attempt...Show More
2) Ep. 6 So Shines a Good Deed "I Am Not Dumb"
Starting a charter school, from scratch, in about six month's time, seemed impossible to do. What one 11-year-old girl wrote on her application was what kept me going.
3) Ep. 5 So Shines a Good Deed "On My Own My Whole Life"
This is about one of the first young men I met at Spectrum Youth and Family Services who in one sentence revealed what so many of our young people believe and feel about themselves.
4) Episode 4 So Shines a Good Deed - Resilience and Relationship
I've been director of Spectrum in Burlington, VT since 2003. We work with homeless, runaway and at-risk teenagers and young adults. This is the story of one young woman who had nowhere to live and a...Show More
5) Episode 3 So Shines A Good Deed - Rodney King
It was only my eighth day as the new director of a campus for at-risk teenagers. I walked to my car at the end of the day, ready to drive home, tired, when someone shoved a flyer in my hands that rad...Show More
6) Episode 2 So Shines A Good Deed - Epiphany
I was asked to direct a shelter for homeless teenage males in a high-crime section of New York City. At first I said no....
7) Episode 1 So Shines A Good Deed - Afterlife
My first podcast episode. About one of the first homeless young adults I ever worked with, and how our lives intersected over the years.