Kolbecast

173 A Deeper & Greater Joy

AMDG.  Good Catholic priests come from good Catholic men, and many good Catholic men begin as little boys with lots of energy.  Kolbe alumni Fr. Ambrose Dobrozsi and Dcn. Charles Ohotnicky visit with Bonnie and Steven in this episode about their Kolbe educations and their vocations.  From standout memories of their Kolbe years to the current lives they lead, today’s guests share their insights on men laying down their lives for the love of God and His Church.  They also offer thoughts on the complementarity between parochial schools and homeschooling families along with pragmatic advice on how to encourage vocations without demanding them. 
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
170 A Spiraled Art featuring Fr. Ambrose’s mother Mrs. Beth Dobroszi 
31 Veteran Homeschoolers with Jon & Chris Bates, Kolbe staffers who have homeschooled their children while serving in the military 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

172 A Gift-Laden Voyage with Philip Kosloski of Voyage Comics

AMDG.  Keeping young minds wondering, active, and curious can sometimes feel like a struggle.  With pop culture always debuting new ways to capture attention, strewing our homes with examples of the good, the beautiful, and the true is one of the best ways to raise well-rounded young adults who are in the world without being of it.  In this episode, writer Philip Kosloski—often found on Aleteia.org or in his series The Voyage Comics—visits with Bonnie, Steven, and Josh about discerning our charisms, the specific gifts God calls us to, subtle parallels to Catholicism in pop culture, and his work bringing inspiration from the saints into modern media. 
Find Philip and his work on the Voyage Comics website and at Aleteia.org. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
71 A Sight for Sore Eyes with Chris Lewis of Baritus Catholic Illustration 
146 Stepping into the Arena: Bobby Angel on Our Call to Holiness 
170 A Spiraled Art 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

171 Forming Financial Disciples with Jonathan & Amanda Teixeira of WalletWin

AMDG.  Many of us aren’t familiar with what the Catholic Church teaches on money, finances, and possessions.  We think of missionaries as being poor, but that isn’t always the case—from hair shirts to heiresses, the saints have had a wide range of financial situations and gifts.  In this episode, Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira of WalletWin join the Kolbecast crew to discuss handling money virtuously.  From discerning how we can best use our resources and give them back to God with increase to the idea of “maximum fruitfulness,” the Teixeiras share how helping young people say yes to God’s call in their lives includes financial literacy. 
Episodes of The Catholic Money Show mentioned in the conversation: 
3 More Saints for Financial Help 
Sts. Louie and Zélie Martin – Catholic Entrepreneurs Par Excellence 
3 Saints to Pray to in a Financial Pinch 
Heiress to Religious – The Story of St. Katherine Drexel  
Holy Disinterest with St. Louis Martin 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
92 Protect, Guide, Prepare, Empower 
96 Adults in Training
121 Roots & Wings 
146 Stepping into the Arena: Bobby Angel on our Call to Holiness 
166 Dr. John Cuddeback on Dwelling Together Richly 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, including the “Life after Kolbe” tag, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

170 A Spiraled Art

AMDG.  Thinking well is important.  Communicating those thoughts well is too.  As the school year kicks off, English and Literature department teachers Kim Crawford, Amanda Hayes, and Beth Dobrozsi share insights and tips for helping students learn to put thoughts to paper.  They describe the progression of writing approaches and skills throughout various grade levels, challenges for students with ADD or ADHD, and the importance of physicality in writing.  Their encouragement and tricks, coupled with the Kolbe support options they describe, are a launch pad for developing nuance, style, and clarity. 
Related Kolbecast episodes: 
61 Middle Ground with Amanda Hayes and Alex Pischke 
70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service 
87 Home Base featuring homeroom teachers  
160 A Legendary Occasion, highlights from Kolbe Academy’s in-person 2023 commencement  
164 This Is Not a Kolbe Infomercial 
145 Subsidiarity, Support, and Resources 
Writing resources recommended by our guests: 
Kolbe Academy’s new Writing and Style Guide is now available! 
Purdue OWL   
Guide to Grammar and Writing from Capital Community College 
The Excelsior College OWL  
Writing@CSU (Colorado State University) 
The Writing Center at UNC (especially the tips & tools section) 
Grammarly 
 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

169 No Made-Up Answers

AMDG.  Kolbe teachers educate their students, sure, but their bigger role is to help their students’ formation.  Today mathematics chair Wes Stratman and theology teacher Brendan Murphy share their own roads to Kolbe and how those roads prepared them to help their students explore for themselves rather than check boxes in class.  Along with their teaching philosophies and a few favorite stories, Wes and Brendan also share tips for getting the school year off to a good start. 
Relevant links: 
Kolbecast episode 132 Monday Morning Assembly featuring Wes Stratman and others affiliated with Kolbe’s Monday morning schoolwide gatherings 
It’s Back to School Time from the Kolbe blog with links to several Kolbecast episodes that might be helpful as the school year gets underway 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

168 The Adventure of a Lifetime featuring Melissa Dee of Saints Alive

AMDG.  If the saints have ever felt inaccessible or unrelatable to your family members, hearing their stories in a different format may help them come alive.  In this episode, Melissa Dee—homeschool graduate, mother, and producer of the Saints Alive podcast—joins the Kolbecast to share how she, her husband Alex, and their team produce episodes that she describes as watching a movie in your mind.  Melissa highlights the heart of each saint’s mission and explains how learning about the holy individuals who came before us is a way to learn about virtue played out and real-life role models.   
This episode includes a brief reference to self-harm in the context of challenges current teenagers face.
Visit the Saints Alive website for resources corresponding to each episode and ways to get involved with the Saints Alive mission.  
Kolbecast episodes relating to St. Maximilian Kolbe: 
100 In the Beginning with Kolbe Academy co-founder Mrs. Dianne Muth 
134 For Tinkerers of All Ages 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

167 Sanity & Sanctity with Johanna Seagren of Interior Kingdom

AMDG. How we respond to meltdowns and dysregulation is as crucial to family life as praying together, eating together, and extracurriculars. Catholic licensed professional counselor Johanna Seagren visits the Kolbecast on this episode to describe the importance of emotions and the Interior Kingdom program that she developed to co-regulate emotions in parents and children. The conversation highlights how God created emotions, how the morality of emotions is not in the feelings themselves but in the actions growing out of them, and how happiness is not our goal—peace within ourselves based in the peace of Christ is. Johanna also offers practical tips on fight/flight/freeze mode, addressing test anxiety, and developing both playfulness and safety. 
Use coupon code Kolbe15 through August 31, 2023, for 15% off the Interior Kingdom program.  
Related Kolbecast episodes: 
45 Grace Perfects Nature 
136 Cura Personalis – The Sequel 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

166 Dr. John Cuddeback on Dwelling Together Richly

AMDG.  John Cuddeback, a philosophy professor at Christendom College, family man, and homesteader, visits with Bonnie and Steven this episode about relationship, friendship, and home life.   With the insight of an ethics professor and the experience of a family leader, Dr. Cuddeback describes the importance of living well together, the distinction between education and academics, and the richness of our common stock of stories, images, and questions.  From Aristotle to agriculture, today’s episode highlights the expansion of experience and the experience of wonder available to families. 
Check out Dr. Cuddeback’s musings, videos, and courses at his website LifeCraft. 
Kolbecast episodes cover a range of topics relating to school at home, the life of faith, and Catholic education. Using the filters on our website, you can sort the episodes to find just what you're looking for. If you listen to the Kolbecast via a podcast app/player, we'd be so grateful to you for leaving a rating and review. That helps us reach more listeners. However you listen, please spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
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