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Unfortunately, not everyone is going to accept your passion. For years, guest Tapanga Lee felt she needed to hide her love of heavy metal for fear of getting ridiculed.

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Happy Monday Academics! The theme for this week is passion 💃, the thing that can propel us from bed in the morning and inspire us to do greater things than we could ever imagine. Guest Amy Lerie was drowning in her life as a teacher. Unfulfilled and burned out, she…

Giving freely to others can provide a great deal of fulfillment and joy to the giver. In some cases, people may give so much that they end up neglecting themselves. This is where self love can be crucial. Guest Jennifer Menendez recounts how tragically her own mother succumbed to cancer…

As a culture we might focus on romantic love or parental love, but love can come in a lot of different forms and we can struggle to express them all in our lives. Guest Niloo argues that the closest opposite to love is fear, and that fear can block us…

Happy Tuesday Academics! This week we are sharing another theme from the podcast: love. The past two years transformed how we showed our love for others. In the absence of being able to see people in person, we were all faced with the dilemma of figuring out how to maintain…

To finish off our week of mental health all-stars, guest Jordan Delagrange serves a lesson on mindfulness, i.e. the ninja move to get you out of your own head. Thoughts, emotions, or circumstances can easily overwhelm us to the point where we can't see a way out of them. While…

thetragedyacademy.com Talk therapy can be life-changing for those suffering from mental illness or trauma. However, therapy still has a large stigma attached to it, especially in certain cultures or traditions. Guest Glauco Araujo praises the efficacy of therapy, but he waited until leaving his native Brazil to pursue help with…

While The Devil Wears Prada may be fun to watch, we can probably all agree that we don't want a boss like that *in real life*. Cruelty or explosive temper tantrums are horrifically unprofessional, and Meryl Streep's iconic character definitely could have used some advice from our guest, Mike Barker,…

We are still learning about the huge impact mental health can have on our physical wellbeing, but this concept has a long-standing tradition in Chinese medicine. Guest Jordan Delagrange sees this connection all the time with patients in his practice. These physical manifestations of your mental health are no less…

Happy Monday, Academics! While we are on hiatus brewing up better and brighter things, we will be posting some of the show's greatest highlights to tide you over until our return. This week, we will be celebrating one of the show's main themes: mental health. Many of us can fall…

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This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better. Jay covers some of the highlights from the…

This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better. Jay covers some of the highlights from the…

This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better. Jay covers some of the highlights from the…

This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better. Jay covers some of the highlights from the…

This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better. Jay covers some of the highlights from the…

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Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…

Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…

Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…

Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…

Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…

Listen to the full episode here: https://thetragedyacademy.com https://thetragedyacademy.com This week on The Tragedy Academy, Jay welcomes back musician and executive producer, Gary DeFranco, for a very special episode: The Tragedy Academy’s season finale! This is TA’s last episode before taking a short hiatus to come back even bigger and better.…