We are excited to try out a new podcast format called GPS Community Table Talk! The concept is simple, we invite some interesting and fun people to answer the same 2 questions in 5 minutes. It is a fun way to examine a topic in a quick way and get several different viewpoints from different people. The name comes from the idea that we are all part of a larger community and during the last year sometimes it has been easy to forget that. The table reminds us that some of our most favorite conversations take place over sharing a meal or a cup of coffee. So as you listen, imagine we are asking each other questions while we are sipping on a delicious oatmeal latte in a cozy coffee shop. Hopefully we can all do that for real sometime soon.

You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Breaker, and Anchor.

This first edition of Community Table Talk we invited several friends to be on and talk about what they have learned both professionally and personally during covid. What I loved about these interviews is that sometimes it is simple things and for others it is big worldly lessons that come to the surface. Not that anyone needed a reminder, but it was a reflection about how much we really have been through the last year. Each of our guest really took time to reflect on what we need to keep doing even after covid and I hope to listen to this same podcast in 2022 and see how much we all do continue to take with us going forward. It was fun to hear what people are excited to get back to and it made me feel very normal and I could relate to all of their excitement about hugging, going to lunch, traveling etc. It made me reflect on an old saying that my dad starts a lot of family meals with and it goes something like, “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They're people and places, memories and pictures. They're feelings and moments and smiles and laughter.”

We had a really great roster of guests for this first episode. You will hear from:

Tanguler Gray, Deputy Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Human Services
Lee Fisher, Assistant Director, Ventura County Child Support Services
Liesa Stockdale, Child Support Director, State of Utah
Charles Smith, CRS Consulting (With apologies… I believe we announced it in the recording as CSR — You can find his company HERE)
Lisa Skenadore, Vice President, Systems and Methods, Inc and NCSEA President
Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding, the Implicit Bias Institute

You also hear responses from some of the GPS team at the end.

We hope you enjoy this podcast format and we would love to hear from you!

Podcast Episode - Community Table Talks I