🫣 #88 - The Kids & The Pandemic | Don Palmucci

(***TIMESTAMPS in description below***) Don Palmucci is a therapist, counselor, homeless liaison, and former Internationally-Ranked bodybuilder.

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0:00 - Intro; The negative impact of Virtual learning on kids; The “Lost years” of the Pandemic; Missing Memories; Bad Habits forming during the Pandemic; Abuse victims and Homeless students

32:56 - What made Don get into therapy; Don talks about addiction counseling; Working with sexual abuse victims and suicidal patients; The problems with the criminal justice system; Don talks about an old company he had

56:32 - Post career struggles (pro-athletes and military as examples); Sitting alone with your thoughts; Don talks about tough love mentorship and tells the story of a kid who surprised him

1:18:45 - Don talks about growing up and what got him in weightlifting; Don recalls his career an a bodybuilder; A story about going out to California on a whim; Arnold Schwarzenegger was a beast

1:38:14 - don talks about the afterschool alternative detention program he invented (this is awesome); Growth mindset; Creating energy for your environment; The overkill of “motivation in modern day culture; Weightlifting and the discipline it instills

2:10:17 - They locked the gym for a year  when the Pandemic started; Masks in school; The psychological impact of the iphone on the kids during the Pandemic; Lack of social interaction for kids right now

2:28:39 - Atilis Gym and their pandemic fight against Governor Murphy; Learning a lot about people watching how they work in the gym

2:38:26 - Mental Health problems for kids in the Pandemic; Kids’ growing problem of coping with any stress/struggle/confrontation; Cyberbullying; The resources schools need right now; The School Shootings problem; the long term mass population effects of lost time for the youngest generation’s development

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