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[00:00:00] Alyssa: You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and in this episode, I got to hang out with my friend Lindsey Simcik. She is a creative force and entrepreneur. A media personality is best known as the co-founder and co-host of the critically acclaimed, Almost 30 Podcast and co-author of the book Almost 30, y'all. We got to chat about when friendships change and life after kids. This was such an incredible convo. In fact, our podcast editor sent me a message while editing it, just s...

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You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I get to share a friend of mine with you. Dr. Patrick Makokoro is a social entrepreneur, an early childhood development practitioner, an educational researcher with extensive experience working in community and international development. I got to meet Patrick when we were both presenting at the World Forum for Early Childhood Education. I met him in Panama, and then we both bound up seeing each other again. We were selected as experts for UNESCO, for United Nations Education Congress, and there were nine experts selected globally, and he and I were each there and just ran into each other. He is a human who I love lea...