{"podcast":{"title":"Talk of Iowa","slug":"talk-of-iowa-414017","podcast_index_feed_id":414017,"rss_url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9a61a0c/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ffc%2F1e%2F9934f5954530b07ce5909731db38%2Ftalk-of-iowa-podcast.png","author":"Iowa Public Radio (digitalservices@iowapublicradio.org)","episode_count":100,"summary":"Talk of Iowa is a place for Iowans to connect to our shared culture and what it means to live in Iowa. Host Charity Nebbe brings a mix of regular guests and a range of experts to discuss the arts, history, literature and everything else happening in Iowa. Every day brings something new — even if it's in a recurring segment like Talk of Iowa Book Club or comes from a familiar voice on Horticulture Day.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T16:19:10.782815+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-of-iowa-414017"},"episode":{"title":"Iowan explores the interplay between education and mental health in new memoir","slug":"iowan-explores-the-interplay-between-education-and-mental-health-in-new-memoir","published_at":"2026-07-02T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-of-iowa-414017/iowan-explores-the-interplay-between-education-and-mental-health-in-new-memoir","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-of-iowa-414017","url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa/2026-07-02/iowan-explores-the-interplay-between-education-and-mental-health-in-new-memoir","audio_url":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/4c9587f2-e550-4709-b293-ad0300ce922d/3385bb4b-899e-431e-86a1-ad6b00d98a32/53a7ce39-a676-44df-a6b4-b47a01158fff/audio.mp3","summary":"Nicole Terrizzi joins the show to discuss her memoir, 'Learning in Free Fall: A Testimony of Mental Health, Poverty and Race in American Education.' Her book focuses on the crisis in America's education system. Every day school children feel the impacts of increasing budget cuts, teacher shortages and threats to the accessibility of a quality education. Terrizzi shares her path to teaching from growing up in rural Iowa, and asks what happens when those leading our classrooms are in crisis themselves? (This show was originally produced August 6, 2025.)","meta_description":"Nicole Terrizzi joins the show to discuss her memoir, 'Learning in Free Fall: A Testimony of Mental Health, Poverty and Race in American Education.' Her b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2885,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talk-of-iowa-414017/episodes/iowan-explores-the-interplay-between-education-and-mental-health-in-new-memoir/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-of-iowa-414017/iowan-explores-the-interplay-between-education-and-mental-health-in-new-memoir.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}