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Episode 40: Overcoming Obstacles
Guest: Cristina Prestin-Beard

In this episode, Dewhitt interviews one of his most respected colleagues, Cristina Prestin-Beard. Professor Prestin-Beard speaks of how she was able to overcome peer pressure, statistics, fear, being a high school dropout, losing her virginity at the age of 15, and many other obstacles to become one of Central Illinois’ most loved and respected educators, mothers and wives. Dewhitt and Professor Prestin-Beard discuss her newly released nonfiction book entitled “Finding Mercy in the Madness” and the following: 

• Rising above statistics
• Kids from divorced homes
• Conquering Labels
• Overcoming fear
• Relationships
• Peer pressure
• Conductor of the "hot mess express"
• Decision making
• Professor Beard’s career path
• Constitutional rights
• Roe v. Wade
• Being infected with COVID
• Black Lives Matter
• White Supremacy
• What she would like to see the Biden Administration accomplish

 Finding Mercy in the Madness Link
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Mercy-Madness-Cristina-Prestin-Beard/dp/B0B4KCX9X5/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?crid=1JIXA2IUSE2P7&keywords=finding+mercy+in+the+madness+christina+preston+beard&qid=1657580725&sprefix=%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1-fkmr3

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