Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

I didn't expect to hear this from my ex student... #podcast

28 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief podcast excerpt, the speaker recounts a chance encounter on a walk with a former 7th‑grade student who now follows the speaker on Instagram. The student, now married and expecting a daughter, asks for dad advice. The speaker replies that the same principles taught in class—acting with love and kindness—apply to parenting, especially when raising a girl. The speaker expresses pride in the student’s commitment to a “straight and narrow” moral path.

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I was on a walk and on my walk back, there was a guy that was walking next to me and it was a student that I had taught when he was in the 7th grade. He was like, "You know, I just started following you on Instagram and this stuff about like being a nice guy and being a good man, you know, you used to talk about that a lot inside of the classroom. I got a wife now and I have a daughter that's on the way." He was like, "What's some advice that you would give me as a dad?" And I said, you know, Everything I taught you when you were a student is the same thing I'm going to tell you now. And that is everything that you do, you need to do it with love. You need to do it with kindness, especially if you're having a girl. And he was going down a straight and narrow path. And I was really proud of him for doing that.