

Schauer Thoughts
Sarah Schauer & Studio71
Left and right brainers are often pitted against each other but here they’ll be given the time and space to collaborate. So strip away the day and step into the steam, it’s time to open up your pores and perspectives for a truly immersive, imaginative, and information-rich experience that’ll leave you refreshed and ready for whatever life throws at you next. Welcome to Schauer Thoughts, hosted by comedian and student-of-the-world Sarah Schauer!For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
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Jul 23, 2025 • 1h 22min
How To Start to Build Trust Pt. 2
Another wonderful week in the communal Schauer, this time we’re discussing how to develop trust with others! Please keep in mind that this is the structure for trust (the frame) and that your interpretation and expression of trust (the art) are complimentary, not negating one another. I will be doing a part three to cover some accessibility nuances since we did discuss “work value.” Hopefully you finish this episode feeling refreshed and able to build trust in your own life.
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Resources
How to Get Into Research as a Hobby
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahschauer/p/how-to-start-to-researching-as-a?r=3yb1cq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Neural Correlates of Trust
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0710103104
Revisiting the Morphology and Classification of the Paracingulate Gyrus with Commentaries on Ambiguous Cases
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8301833/
Affective Regulation
https://www.drmitchkeil.com/glossary/affect-regulation/#:~:text=Affect%20Regulation%20refers%20to%20the,for%20addressing%20trauma%20and%20distress.
Trust Me: Social Games are Better Than Social Icebreakers in Building Trust
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309024508_Trust_Me_Social_Games_are_Better_than_Social_Icebreakers_at_Building_Trust
Definition of Contingent Trust
https://lsd.law/define/contingent-trust
Create Your Own Personal Constitution: A Blueprint for Living Your Best Life
https://medium.com/storyangles/create-your-personal-constitution-a-blueprint-for-living-your-best-life-fb6fc2da39fe#
Why Personal Boundaries Are Important and How to Develop Them
https://fearlessliving.org/why-personal-boundaries-are-important-and-how-to-develop-them/
Levels of Measurement
https://byjus.com/maths/scales-of-measurement/
Faith, Truth, and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thought:
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/abstract-thought.html
On the Art and Craft of Doing Science - Kenneth Catania
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - Shawn Wilson
Your Brain on Art - Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Chapter 5: Amplifying Learning - for my breakdown of saliency & it’s importance when learning
Thank you for checking the resources, it means a lot to me. Have a great week.
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Jul 16, 2025 • 1h 10min
How To Start to Build Self-Trust
Howdy y’all! This week we’re starting to build some self-trust and next week we’ll be establishing trust with others. Like always, we will be taking the long way around the subject, going full third person, but that is necessary to survey the land (self) we are working on. Hopefully a little outdoor Schauer will loosen up the soil and make your excavating a bit easier.
Resources:
Humanities Blast Courses
https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/programs/humanities-blast-courses/
Self-Trust and How to Build It
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201909/self-trust-and-how-build-it
How to Find Free or Affordable Therapy
https://therapist.com/resources/free-affordable-therapy/
Includes: therapy w/ or w/o insurance, employee assistance programs, student wellness programs, organizations for marginalized groups & more
Life In Three Dimensions - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 9, 2025 • 1h 5min
Let’s Keep Decentering Gender! Pt. 2
I told y’all that we were keeping it moving! This week we’re going over how the brain indexes abstract thought, how emotions are expressed across cultures, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of gender. Please excuse the tangents this week, Rite Aid closed and I am without Vyvanse. That being said, very happy to have you in this week’s communal Schauer!
Resources:
Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neuroscientist-shattering-the-myth-of-the-gendered-brain-gina-rippon
Sex versus gender associations with brain structure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682400105X
Two Minds: The Cognitive Differences Between Men and Women
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different/
Faith, Truth and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thought
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/abstract-thought.html
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Jul 2, 2025 • 1h 5min
Let’s Decenter That Gender! Pt. 1
Well you heard it here folks, we’re decentering gender this week in the communal shower. What does it mean to decenter? What is gender? Are pronouns “real?” Sit back, relax, and enjoy the musings of a single, 30 year old, childless lesbian.
Resources
Is Gender Fluid? - Sally Hines
What is gender, anyway: a review of the options for operationalizing gender
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2020.1729844#d1e351
Concrete vs abstract language
https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/student-success/tutoring/handouts-writing/editing-and-mechanics/Concrete-and-Specific-Language.pdf#:~:text=But%20first%2C%20it's%20important%20to%20understand%20what,refer%20to%20intangible%20qualities%2C%20ideas%2C%20and%20concepts.
Pronouns - What Are They?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun
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Jun 25, 2025 • 1h 7min
Schauering Y’all With Pride!
Happy Pride my beautiful LGBTQIA! Please join me for this very special episode of Q & A & LGBTI (that’s clever, you should give me that.) I hope you enjoy this episode, I hope you enjoyed the communal gay Schauer, and I hope you dance.
Resources:
BDS - Say No to Pinkwashing
https://www.bdsmovement.net/pinkwashing
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
https://pendlehill.org/product/queer-palestine-and-the-empire-of-critique/
Bi - Julia Shaw
Ace - Angela Chen
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality - Sherronda J. Brown
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us - Ivy Ross & Susan Magsamen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 18, 2025 • 1h 4min
Why You Should Hate ICE
This episode of Schauer Thoughts is going to get frigid, we’re discussing ICE and their inhumane targeting of immigrants across the US. Please make sure to check out all linked resources, time is of the essence and your help is vitally needed. Thank you so much for listening.
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Resources
What is ICE and what does it do?
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-ice-and-what-does-it-do/
- Please read this with a *HUGE* grain of salt, the language is phrased in a very divisive way.
In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5413364/concerns-over-conditions-in-u-s-immigration-detention-were-hearing-the-word-starving
Books
Unbuild Walls - Silky Shah
-Free for Ebook download
- https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls
Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong
Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
Aloha Betrayed - Noenoe K. Silva
Conditional Citizens - Laila Lalami
Our Migrant Souls - Hector Tobar
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H
Survival Takes a Wild Imagination - Fariha Roisin
Thinning Blood - Leah Myers
Community Resources
Anonymous Grocery & Needs Request
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxu-YLp5fv/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
How You Can Help Immigrants Now
https://www.instagram.com/p/DK2lfsmPqXK/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
“We Did it Legally”
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxngmIT6CQ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
A guide to help when someone is being detained by ICE
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKvOGG4SrMH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Nationwide Bail Funds and Immigration Support by State
https://www.instagram.com/p/DK4WXaGRvEh/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Supporting undocumented families that lost their jobs or can not work due to ICE RAIDS
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxyxrayUmG/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
End Trans Detention
https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12nv1J45U/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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Jun 11, 2025 • 59min
Discussing Some Neuromyths
This week we’ll be explaining some common brain myths that keep popping up in movies and online! However, I will still be addressing you all as “left and right brainers” because a little *lighthearted* fun never hurt anyone (it absolutely has but in this context I think we’re fine.) Please enjoy these Schauer Thoughts and let me know your in the comments or DMs.
Resources:
Bend App
Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Brain Myths Are Age Old
https://www.edubloxtutor.com/brain-myths/#:~:text=Brain%20myths%20or%20neuromyths%20are,fluid%20housed%20the%20human%20soul.
Brain Development and Mastery of Language in the Early Childhood Years
https://www.idra.org/resource-center/brain-development-and-mastery-of-language-in-the-early-childhood-years/
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Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 8min
The Nonchalance of it All
Let’s get into this “nonchalant epidemic” that seems to be going around and how to slowly ease into a more “chalant” world. Hope you can handle the heat because these Schauer Thoughts are anything but chill, aloof, and disconnected.
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Resources:
The Nonchalance Epidemic: Why We’re So Afraid of Caring
https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/the-nonchalance-epidemic-why-we-re-so-afraid-of-caring/article_d5c33c42-e9b2-11ef-b9e5-fb98aa8f974a.html#:~:text=We%20have%20become%20so%20obsessed,means%20being%20careless%20or%20indifferent.
Anticipatory Anxiety: Bleeding Before You Are Cut
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/anticipatory-anxiety-bleeding-you-are-cut-0
Reduced Affect Display: What Is It, Signs, Types and Dealing With It
https://therapymantra.co/terms/reduced-affect-display/
Neuroanatomy, Substantia Nigra
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK536995/#:~:text=The%20substantia%20nigra%20is%20a,functions%2C%20and%20emotional%20limbic%20activity.
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us - Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Neurotoggle - Kimberly Kitzerow
Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple -
Stephen Goldberg, MD
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May 28, 2025 • 1h 12min
How To Start To Develop Self-Image
Get ready for a 1-hour self-image development crash course, I will be expanding upon self-image, self-worth, and sense of self in the future so make sure to stick around. Let me know if you all would like more episodes like this, I appreciate your feedback and general presence, thank you for listening in on my Schauer Thoughts.
Resources:
Attention: Beyond Mindfulness - Gay Watson
On the Art and Craft of Doing Science - Kenneth Catania
Research is Ceremony - Shawn Wilson
This Is My Brain! A Book On Neurodiversity - Elise Gravel
NeuroToggle - Kimberly Kitzerow
Connections Over Compliance - Lori L. Desautels, Ph.D.
Clinical Neuroanatomy - Stephen Goldberg, M.D.
Geometry of Grief - Michael Frame
Is Math Real? - Eugenia Cheng
Life in Three Dimensions - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD
The Case Against Reality - Donald D. Hoffman
Your Brain on Art - Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
The Vegetarian - Han Kong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 21, 2025 • 1h 13min
How to Study
For all those asking for a podcast episode on how to study (and my take on studying) here you go! I am so so sorry I posted this after everyone’s finals and trust and believe I will be making a follow up video! Hope this helps you organize and understand your own Schauer thoughts!
Resources:
Mastering the Art of Studying: Effective Study Methods for Success
https://www.tutorssa.co.za/mastering-the-art-of-studying-effective-study-methods-for-success/#:~:text=3.%20Utilise%20Mind%20Mapping%20When%20it%20comes,for%20just%20about%20every%20subject%20and%20topic
Does Classroom Temperature Affect Student Learning and Achievement?
https://www.sitelogiq.com/blog/effect-classroom-temperature-student-performance/
Physiology, Temperature Regulation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507838/
Amino Acid and Protein Requirements: Cognitive Performance, Stress, and Brain Function
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK224629/
Serotonin
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22572-serotonin
What is the Difference Between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
https://pediaa.com/what-is-the-difference-between-deductive-and-inductive-reasoning/#google_vignette
The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627302008309#:~:text=While%20processing%20of%20spatial%20scenes,dependent%20episodic%20or%20autobiographical%20memory
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction - Maia Szalavitz
The Science of Nutrition - Rhiannon Lambert
Mind Mapping: Improving Memory, Concentration, Communication, Organization, Creativity, and Time Management - Kam Knight
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