# The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Life Lessons and Tales of Little MisFit: Book 1: Life Isn’t Always What It Seems by Dr. S K Grunin Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-491577/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isn-t-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-491577/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isn-t-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin.md Podcast: [The Chris Voss Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-491577) Published: 2026-06-13T23:09:51+00:00 Episode link: https://thechrisvossshow.com/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isnt-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin/ Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/media.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/ins.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/Podcast2774.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chris-voss-show-491577/episodes/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isn-t-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin Duration seconds: 5087 ## Resource Life Lessons and Tales of Little MisFit: Book 1: Life Isn’t Always What It Seems by Dr. S K Grunin https://www.amazon.com/Life-Lessons-Tales-Little-MisFit/dp/B0G63HGY6T Ivy Sue Klutz (Little MisFit – LMF) finds one of her first memories confusing. This is when she is three and a half years old and is at her sister Lynn’s birthday party. Their cousin, Janet, asks the partygoers to guess what Lynn’s birthday present is as the truck delivering the present is backing up to the front porch of their house. Unbeknown to LMF, Janet told the other kids not to really guess that it’s a bike. You guessed – LMF guesses that her sister is getting a bike for her 5th birthday present. But instead of everyone being happy that LMF guessed the right thing, everyone is mad at her and none more than her mother. LMF runs off to her soon-to-be baby brother’s bedroom and tries to hide behind his dresser, with her mother hot on her heels, yelling at her all the way. From this experience and many others through her 4th grade years in school, LMF learns the Life Lesson that Life Isn’t Always What It Seems. Many people growing up are often made to feel inadequate or not to fi t in in situations, as a former probation officer, executive/life coach and professor, Dr. Susan Grunin, learned through humor and working with others – particularly children and young adults, how to fit in those uncomfortable situations. She believes that it is important that children learn at a young age how to manage these issues and to use humor to build their own self-esteem. Thus, she created, Little MisFit, (LMF) a fictional character, who through humorous tales, shares life lessons that she learns as she is growing up. Through these stories, LMF describes how she… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chris-voss-show-491577/episodes/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isn-t-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-491577/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-life-lessons-and-tales-of-little-misfit-book-1-life-isn-t-always-what-it-seems-by-dr-s-k-grunin.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.