Join Angie Austin as she dives into meaningful discussions about the role of attitude in success, sharing insights from coaches and personal experiences that highlight the power of positivity and humility. The episode touches upon the impactful decisions made in the world of sports, emphasizing how attitude can often outweigh talent in crucial situations. Angie also explores the intriguing world of unique Airbnb rentals, offering listeners a glimpse into extraordinary vacation opportunities across the globe.
welcome to the good news with angie austin now with the good news here’s angie
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Hey there, friend. It is Angie Austin and Dr. Cheryl Lentz, the academic entrepreneur with The Good News. Hey, friend.
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Hello, hello, hello.
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Okay, you are a professor as well as a writer, and you are talking about people needing to find some motivation to get back to school, etc. I always have to find that, you know, after a vacation, per se. And then I wanted to start off, if you don’t mind, with just this interesting coaching thing that I found. Sound good? Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So we can tell our kids over and over again that when they are on the bench or when they’re on a team, how important attitude is. And we’ve talked a lot, especially to our son, just about not telling other kids what to do, not reminding them of when they made a mistake. Because hello, everybody knows when they made a mistake. It’s like, okay. Oh, did I just lose a point? Oh, thank you for showing me that. I wouldn’t even have known that I made the team angry, you know. But I saw this coach, and she is a Division I coach, and she was talking about her first year arriving at a school. And what she said she likes to do is not wear any of her gear. Because, you know, when we’re at these events, and you’ve been to sporting events, you know who the recruiters are, right? I mean, you can tell by their… Their clipboard, you know, their garb that they’re wearing and how they’re wandering around from court to court. Okay, she says she sneaks into a game that she knows is going to be a blowout. In other words, the D1 player that she’s watching, she knows they’re going to be the winning team and that means they’re going to get benched for a while because they’re going to let some of the other players that normally sit get some time out playing. She doesn’t wear anything from her college. She just hides up in the stands. She comes before the game starts to see how she interacts with players you know, her family, her, you know, teammates, et cetera, and especially her family afterwards. And then how she, how they act on the bench, you know, because a lot of kids are real pouty, you know, then as if the coach cares, you think the coach cares you’re pouting on the bench. I mean, they only cared that they’re not going to put you back in again if you’re pouting, but they don’t really care. They couldn’t care less how you feel about being benched because they just benched you, right? So anyway, she said that there was this one recruit and she said, I was new to the college and I knew when I told my team that we weren’t going to go after this recruit how much criticism I’d get. But when I saw the way that she treated her parents after the game that she was approached and just heard the way that she talked to them and she said, these parents make a lot of sacrifices for these kids. And, you know, they pay a lot of money for these sports. They travel around the country. They get up early to take them practices. They pay for privates. There’s all sit during hot games. If you’re playing outside, you know, and she said the way that she treated her family and, you know, some interactions with teammates that she thought, you know, because when you’re that good, sometimes they act a little superior and, you know, a little snotty or sometimes. So anyway, I just sent that to my kids and we reminded them of, you know, the attitude when you get put on the bench because everybody gets put on the bench, you know. And so I just thought that was interesting that a coach would let go of a really top notch player and not even go after them. because of attitude and knowing how they might interact with their team. And I feel the same way about employees. Like, you know, if you are hiring someone, I remember some guy came in and he was complaining about his current job, which would have been his former job if he was hired at my TV station. And it’s like, who wants to sit there and interview, interviewing a guy that tells you how much he hates the people he currently works with? Hello.
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You know, it’s funny. I hear I go to a lot of events because I sit on a board with the Suburban Illini Club. And I hear this from the coaches. It’s so much easier to teach skills. It’s so much easier to teach. time management attitude comes along for the ride with the personality. And that’s a tough nut to crack.
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Yes. Yeah. Cause that’s something that’s like inherent in them that their parents have allowed or, you know, and, and I, and I do look at my son cause he’s a little critical sometimes of his teammates cause he has been on a team where he is one of the better players, but he’s been on a team where he’s like the worst player too, you know? And so it’s, I don’t like him being critical of other kids or showing his emotions when he gets really angry when something’s missed or whatever. And they look on his face.
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Well, let’s back up for just a moment because I’m not sure that it’s inappropriate to show some kind of emotion when we look at this. I think it is more important to show a control of that emotion. For example, if, you know, a kid comes and strikes out at the plate, right? You expect them to be somewhat disappointed.
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No, I’m talking about him being disappointed in his teammate and making it very obvious that his teammate messed up. That’s when I get furious. And we have told him, Cheryl, no less than 100 times have we said, please make sure that you’re kind to your teammates and you’re not criticizing them or overreacting when they make a mistake and making it clear how disappointed you are in them. And he’s a great kid, but boy.
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Did he watch? Did he watch the Olympics recently with the men’s gymnastics team? Because exactly what you’re talking about happened yesterday. I don’t know if you’ve watched it.
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No, I did not see it. I haven’t been watching it because I’m irritated with something about them. Go ahead. Oh, not what you’re thinking. They didn’t bring Caitlin Clark.
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The first time in 16 years before the men’s gymnastics medaled. And you could see for a split second when they – only got the bronze, that there was a fleeting eye that just went across them and they made the choice going, no, we’re not going to be disappointed. We didn’t get the silver. We’re going to celebrate that we got the bronze ever so slightly. You could hear the hesitation. And then they bought in and they bought in hard of how excited they were because of their teammates and every one of them made that. But you could tell for a split second that They could have chosen, because it wouldn’t have changed it. They were getting the bronze, however they accepted it, right? But they chose to celebrate them and their teammates. Not a, you screwed up, but you helped us get here. Same thing, different perspective, all attitude.
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You know, when I was saying that I was irritated with the Olympics, I said I’m irritated with them. A lot of people would think it was the opening ceremonies. No, that’s like artistic and something I begin to expect that happens. You know, I might not agree with how they artistically put together some kind of show involving sports in the Olympics. So it wasn’t that it was that they didn’t choose Caitlin Clark to be in the Olympic team. And one of the big time coaches just came out that was on the committee and she won the national championships this championship this year. She’s a Christian. And Cheryl, I’ll think of her last name in a minute. Anyway, she talked about Caitlin Clark and she said, well, the Caitlin Clark today versus the Caitlin Clark two months ago. Yes, I think she would have been in high consideration to go to the Olympics. You know, we’re trying to pick the best team. And someone said something like. It’s not like showing off all the aging stars of the WNBA. This is a national team. You know, this is supposed to represent the U.S. It’s not a WNBA team. It’s an Olympic team. It was, I’m sorry, Dawn Staley, who I really like. And so she was speaking out about how they chose this team and how Kaitlyn would have been considered now because she has all these rookie of the year stats that are like blowing people out of the water, in particular for passing. She’s like a master passer. I know people know her for her three-pointers stats. But this chick can pass the ball like I’ve never seen. And in the beginning, her teammates didn’t even know what was coming. So they were missing her passes because they had no idea that anyone could pass like that because they’d never worked with someone that passed like that. So they were never expecting the ball when she was running forward and she’d whip it behind her back. But anyway, to make a long story short, to me, it was a no-brainer to bring this woman who has thrown the WNBA into… such a financial stratosphere that they’ve never been in before, selling out stadiums. I think she sold more than she, but her jersey sold more in one day than some team in Texas sold in an entire season. And you know how big Texas is for sports. I just read that in an article. I can’t even remember if it was the Mavericks or what team it was. But anyway, to make a long story short, she would have brought so many fans and so much money and so many eyeballs. To me, it’s like, why on earth would you not bring her? It was such a stupid move to me. So that’s why I’m not really watching the Olympics because I was just like, really? So dumb.
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Well, no, I just think it’s political might be the word we’re looking for.
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Yeah, because they are irritated she’s getting so much attention.
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Well, and that’s part of, you know, what are we looking at? Are we looking at for the love of the game, for the love of the athlete, for the love of the skills? Not the what they can do, but how they can feel inside. And that proves your point with regard to attitude and all that stuff. I’m not convinced. I mean, every four years, it’s the best of what humanity has to offer. not necessarily the politics, because I hate the politics when it enters the Olympics. Somebody’s boycotting something. Somebody’s doing this. It’s like focus on the athlete and let those types of things go because it shouldn’t be the politics of the game. It should be the celebration of the humanity of the athlete.
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Yeah, and what’s best for the American team. So South Carolina, that’s where Dawn Staley coaches, and she’s won two national championships. But I did want to say one thing I really liked about her is that she, and she didn’t, she was on the committee that chose the team. She’s not the coach for the Olympic team. Anyway, she, when she won, she was like sobbing and she like couldn’t even speak. She like leaned over when they won and she was just talking about how good God is, how great God is and how she felt just this, you know, wonderful feeling about, um, all the blessings that, you know, she’d received in her career. And she’s quite articulate in expressing herself, but at that moment she could barely speak. Yeah.
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And I think that’s amazing. Didn’t I was watching the Olympics and there was a Kelly Clarkson had that same moment when she was watching Celine Dion. And it wasn’t just because of the transcendent of the musical experience at the time. Kelly knows how much Selene had to fight to be there with the disease that she’s fighting. And the fact that Selene was like, I would have crawled on my knees to get there. And she did it for the love of the game. I mean, that choked up Kelly Clarkson more than anything. And it was just so. overcome with the emotion of the music, the emotion of the moment, and the emotion of the history, which is all about all of these athletes, right? It was emotional.
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She looked like she was going to cry. All right, so I’ve used up most of your time. Let’s talk about motivation, how to find it. Kids going back to school, because I know my kids are bummed to go back to school. My daughter just got back from Young Life Camp, and get this. She said she didn’t miss her phone at all, and now she finds her phone boring.
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I love it. I love it. And that’s all it is. Motivation is the finding something better of connection. And this is the part that I think we’re looking at is we loved the connection on the family vacations. We loved all the experiences that we have had. And now we’re going back to a lesser excitement level, more of a routine, less of connection of experiences if we choose to let it. And therein lies the idea of motivation. The motivation is a perfect Olympic metaphor because these are the folks who didn’t get up when times got tough. They didn’t quit because it was boring. They didn’t quit because there wasn’t anything exciting maybe in their studies. If we show up differently, they show up differently. So if we can show up of going, man, I’m excited for the school year. I know it was really cool with the summer, but look at all these things I have to do. Just like we had before, it’s a matter of how you’re going to tell the story in perspective. You could choose to see glass half empty. Or we could choose glass half full. Or there is that third option. Fill the glass. Life is what you make it. And sometimes we forget that part.
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Okay, so the motivation to go back to school. Explain that again. Like celebrate the connections with the people.
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Yeah, celebrate all the things that you came from this summer. victim that it’s over, oh no, we’re starting another school year, yawn, yawn, yawn. But just like your daughter, I didn’t miss my phone. I loved it because it had to have been whatever she was experiencing was way more exciting than the passive activity of her phone. Get excited about the activeness in life. To be able to recreate those. And so let it be more of what she had, not less of. And if she can just say, yeah, I don’t need my phone, but I’m looking for that high, that dopamine hit, that things that aren’t coming from my phone. I think that’s where it is. So get a little excited and life will get a little excited back.
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Yeah, I like that idea. That’s kind of a Jim Stovall way of thinking. You know, Jim and I talk all the time and I feel so blessed because, you know, he probably gets like a hundred grand for his speaking events. Like, it’s just unbelievable the auditoriums he fills and the fact that I get to keep with you speak with him so often. But he reminds me of some of the greats, you know, that we’ve heard in history, like Lou Holtz and Coach Wooden. Um, uh, out of California. And, um, I’m thinking of, oh, I told him yesterday, Will Rogers, like people, um, or, um, remember, uh, Paul Harvey, you know, he’d do that little, so these are all like, even I was young when some of them went away or not even born when you think about some, you know, Will Rogers, um, But anyway, to make a long story short, I love that wisdom and the way he looks on the bright side of life. And he always says, today’s the day. Today’s the day. And the next decision you make, what would you do if you were great? If you were really great or you were just really fabulous, what’s the next thing you would do? Well, I would give your website. Give your website, Cheryl.
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DrCherylLentz.com Awesome.
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I appreciate you, friend.
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Absolutely. Take good care of me.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin here with the good news. I just love to share kind of quirky good news stories with you, and I came across this one. I thought it was so cool. Do you stay in Airbnbs or, you know, VRBOs, rental houses, apartments, whatever? You know, I find that oftentimes when I’m traveling, which I do a fair amount, especially for these tournaments, that sometimes we’re better off with a home because you get a kitchen and then you don’t have to eat all your meals out because so many of the hotels now, especially like the hotels that think they’re high-end. They don’t even give you a microwave because, of course, they want you to spend so much money downstairs in all their overpriced restaurants and their $15 coffees. I remember once there was a s’mores packet at one of the hotels we stayed in, and it was $15 for two marshmallows, graham crackers, and then a piece of chocolate. And then hot cocoa was like $20. Are you kidding me? So if you can get a VRBO or an Airbnb with a kitchen. It’s kind of cool. But one thing I’ve noticed like a trend is like quirky rentals, right? You know, a chance for you to stay in like a yurt or an RV on a farm or some, you know, really unique structure on a really big piece of property. Well, here’s one that I thought was completely unique and what a great moneymaker. So This dad took a 1970s private jet and he turned it into an Airbnb complete with the original cockpit and the decorating. And so kind of like fixing up an RV to some degree. Right. I’m sure they have to somehow, you know. change the restroom facilities to some degree. But kind of cool whether you’re an aviation enthusiast or not. So the original cockpit is maintained from the days it flew oil executives to and from different countries for meetings. So it was an oil executive private jet. It has two bedrooms, sleeps two adults and two kids, so I guess four people. It has a fully functioning kitchen, a bathroom and a shower, and an outdoor seating area. And so I’m sure they had to really redo it. But I’ve seen some of the most cool, unique homes, and it’s just neat. I know that they get rented a lot just because people want to have that unique experience. I remember there was one, it was like – a potato and it was like in idaho it was like a home shaped like a potato and if you look up like unique airbnbs they’re like crazy and you know the reason that they’re sold out obviously is because people want this unique experience of like staying in a jet a couple of times um i’ve looked into like houseboats um we did get one once where you actually were on a houseboat that worked and that you went out on the lake in kentucky but i have to tell you that was out outrageously expensive i thought especially because you know they don’t smell the best as you can imagine a houseboat but um there’s some that are like spaceships if you look up like unique airbnbs there’s one like the old woman that lived in a shoe right there’s a yellow submarine there’s a spaceship and the yellow submarine is uh in a new zealand redwood forest The UFO is in the UK and then they’ve got tree houses as well. If you’ve ever seen that show about the tree house guy and he builds tree houses, there’s also and I saw this when we went to go see a decommissioned Titan missile facility. Someone took one of these Titan missile facilities and And I think it’s Roswell. And he turned it into an Airbnb. And you really do go down the like, you know, 300 steps or whatever down into the ground to get into the facility. But I don’t know. I think that’s kind of cool historically as well. All right. A silo. That one looks like that one’s in Texas. uh i just think these are so cool like just do like a search of you know like unique homes uh there’s like hot next to um a pool with a waterfall like little tiki huts i don’t know if you each get a hut or what and then there’s one that reminds me of star wars you know in star wars where they’re like out in the sand dunes and this one’s in phoenix it’s an earthen home i don’t know it Yeah, anyway, I’m kind of curious to check out, too, some of the tiny homes because I just think those are cool anyway. So many of those, what do you call them, the ADU units, those units in California, they’re becoming really big now because they don’t have much real estate in some of the older homes. Even in Boulder, I think ADUs are getting more popular because they don’t have as much property and land anymore. And so people can just add on. In fact, that happened to my sister-in-law in Los Angeles. They actually put a giant a view in the backyard. So the parents moved into that and it blocked like her complete view. I mean, it was really, it was a whole house really in the backyard and she had a pool. So like their windows were like overlooking her pool. And it was so big next to her fence that it was just like a skyscraper next to a fence next to her fence. I mean, obviously it wasn’t a skyscraper, but yeah, It was like three stories high. So it was like this monstrosity next to her bed. So anyway, she sold soon after that because she didn’t really want all of these windows like right, like exactly looking over her pool. I mean, that’s kind of a bummer when that happens. All right. So anyway, I just thought that these are kind of cool, unique homes to look up like unique Airbnbs and see some of the cool little hideaways and tiny homes that you can get. There’s a field of tiny homes in Hawaii. That’s pretty cool, too. All right. So changing gears now, if you’re just joining us, this is Angie Austin with the good news. Did you know that one in every 110 babies in the U.S. is born with heart disease? Well, I had no idea the numbers were that high. And there are now innovations in cardiac care that can save lives and improve the lives of children with heart disease worldwide. And joining us is an expert in this area, Dr. Matthew Elias, an attending pediatric cardiologist in the Cardiac Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Welcome, Dr. Matthew Elias.
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Oh, thank you so much for having me. It’s great to be here today.
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Well, I do know that you guys are like cutting edge, top of the top, like the mothership of pediatric care. I’ve interviewed Dr. Adzik on numerous occasions and the work you do there is truly amazing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, well, thank you. Dr. Adzik is fantastic and everything he does. It’s very fortunate to work with some of the world experts in pediatric care and specifically pediatric cardiology.
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you know i’ve interviewed i’ve done tv news all around the country for and radio for like 30 years and i’ll never forget like there’s some things you never forget he told me once that after operating on all these babies before they’re born in the womb and then to go to these anniversary parties they have every year and to see these 20 year old kids like tossing the football and having fun at the parties that you guys have in the summer for them he said it’s like That is the most moving moment for him. And I’m like, I can’t even imagine knowing that you operated like a baby’s heart, like in utero. And then like they’re there.
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I just thought that was so cool.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, whenever I hear hear those stories from him and others see see videos of those reunions and those events. I mean, I certainly have to. dab my eyes and some of those tears away. It’s just so fantastic.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Because some of the work you guys do is so difficult. And then to see the success stories must be amazing. So let’s talk about this. Kids born with congenital heart disease. I didn’t know the numbers were so high. Do we know why this is the case?
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Well, you’re not alone. Most are not aware that congenital heart disease is so common. As you mentioned, it occurs in one in 110 babies in the United States. It’s about 40,000 babies per year. And it’s actually the most common birth defect in the United States. As far as why, we know some answers, but there’s so much more room to expand our knowledge base. We know that some forms of congenital heart disease are associated with genetic conditions. But many, most are sporadic, random, and they don’t necessarily have a clear identifiable risk factor in those situations.
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Now, should we be looking at other symptoms that could be signs of a heart problem in a child? And so how are they diagnosed and then treated? Do we see anything?
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Yes. So many forms of congenital heart disease are now diagnosed before birth. And that’s so helpful to have adequate planning for the families and for their care team. So quite often, congenital heart disease is picked up during that routine anatomy ultrasound around 20 weeks during pregnancy. When families are anxiously awaiting often to find out the gender, we’re looking at everything else as well. And for those children who are born and do not yet know that there is congenital heart disease, all babies in the United States should be having newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease, which is a very quick non-invasive test where we’re looking at the oxygen level to make sure that these numbers are normal. And if not, that could be a sign of congenital heart disease. There’s also different symptoms and other abnormalities on examination that could present later on in childhood. Perhaps that’s an abnormal murmur when listening. The extreme example would be a young baby who’s looking bluer and harder time breathing. But there could be more subtle things, such as the teenager who’s having some chest pain or palpitations or perhaps fainted. And those situations would require further evaluation to determine if there’s a potential heart issue.
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Now, in terms of kids in general, what can kids do to improve their heart health? Any tips there?
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Definitely. There are several ways with children, regardless if they have a heart condition or not, but can really improve their heart health in the short term and really the long term. I always emphasize for my patients and everyone to have a heart healthy diet, sure they have a healthy weight, adequate sleep, which is sometimes quite hard to do. And for our children to make sure that they’re decreasing their screen time, getting outside, playing. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children over six years old have at least 60 minutes, one hour, of exercise or activity every day. And our children should always have their routine medical care, seeing their primary care provider, having all their routine testing done, including routine cholesterol checks between nine and 11 years old. And, of course, it’s always important to make sure children are staying away from drugs and alcohol and tobacco, but also to be wary of energy drinks, which are not recommended in pediatric patients and can lead to heart issues.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that’s a good point. Yes, so many people are oblivious to the unhealthy nature of those drinks and dangers as well. And those are a lot of the things you tell us to do as adults too. So let’s talk a little bit, talk about the future of cardiac treatment and interventions. Where do you see this going in your field next?
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I think the future is still bright in pediatric cardiology and with children with congenital heart disease. It wasn’t that long ago that many of these conditions were sadly universally fatal and there was no treatment option and that is so different now. We have so many different treatment options. We anticipate that more than 97% of children born with congenital heart disease are going to reach adulthood and there are more adults with congenital heart disease than there are now with children with congenital heart disease. We have minimally invasive procedures such as cardiac catheterization that can sometimes replace open heart surgery in certain situations. There’s advancements in fetal diagnoses and interventions before birth in certain situations. And I think it’s really fascinating that there’s really specific advanced imaging techniques using 3D modeling that can help understand each child’s individual anatomy and each individual condition. And lastly, I think when used appropriately and with adequate research, there’s probably going to be a role for artificial intelligence in medicine, including pediatric cardiology. And I’m very optimistic. I think we’re only going to continue to expand our our understanding and our knowledge to improve the lives of our children.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cool. Oh, I love, I just love talking to you guys. You have big brains and it’s fun to learn what’s going on in the medical world. Where do we go to get more information?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, listeners can always learn more at our website, chopchop.edu slash heart. That’s chop.edu slash heart.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thanks for all you do for others. And, you know, I know your work is difficult, but I know you’ve got a lot of success stories in there as well. So thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, thank you so much for having me, and it’s been my pleasure.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
