200th Milestone Episode with Majid Samadi (Returning Guest) from EPISODE 1 on ”Why We Began This Podcast”

<p>All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.”― Simon Sinek, <a href='https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/7367737'>Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action</a></p> <p>Watch the interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/hP854mDG9do'>https://youtu.be/hP854mDG9do</a></p> <p>On this episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎  The vision for The Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast, from Majid Samadi's eyes, watching the podcast grow from the early days when it was just an idea.</p> <p>✔︎  Why SEL skills are important in today's classrooms, and Emotional Intelligence training in our corporate workplaces.</p> <p>✔︎ How Andrea held her vision for interviewing high quality guests with an experience over 12 years ago, of running The Teen Performance Magazine.</p> <p>✔︎ The TOP 3 Guests from Majid's point of view in the past year.</p> <p>✔︎ How to monetize a podcast, and why this step is crucial to sustain any idea.</p> <p>✔︎ The "behind-the-scenes" of this podcast, from someone whose office is next door to where all interviews are conducted.</p> <p> </p> <p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, for our 200th episode milestone, with a reflection back on “The Why Behind Our Podcast” which is the #1 question people ask me when I share that I host this podcast. I hope that we can all learn something about “why we do what we do” as we reflect back on the past 100 episodes (that covers 2021 and the beginning of 2022). I’ve asked a special returning guest from episode #1<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>, Majid Samadi, senior regional sales director at Lexia Learning<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>, and my husband, to join me as we reflect back on “why we do what we do”, as Simon Sinek would say.</p> <p>Welcome back.  I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding and applying the science behind