(upbeat music) - Here's what's coming up.

- Next on "You Oughta Know."

Learn how becoming a camp counselor can help our teens unplug and reconnect.

- [Mitchell] The Ladybug Festival returns to Wilmington.

We have a sneak peek of the lineup.

- [Shirley] A local doctor shares his formula for a happier life.

- [Mitchell] And Cooks Who Care are dishing out recipes for your stomach and your mind.

(upbeat music) - Welcome to the show, I'm Regina Mitchell - And I'm Shirley Min, thanks so much for joining us.

- Isn't it nice?

Outdoor events are coming back again.

- I know, and it's about time.

- I love it.

- Yes.

- Well, one of those events is the Ladybug Music Festival.

Back in action and now in its 10th year, the Wilmington event takes place on May 20th.

And with over 40 female acts, it's a chance to not only hear great music, but also check out local businesses along Market Street.

(upbeat music) - Ladybug festival started 10 years ago.

It is our effort to elevate women in the music industry.

(upbeat music) We are hoping to bring more people and bring awareness to the fact that women can front an entire festival.

(upbeat music) What started as a block party and a thank you to people coming down to Wilmington to see live music has really morphed into something much larger.

(upbeat music) - You're gonna see either full women female bands, or female lead bands that range from rock, to jazz, to hip hop, to rap.

Today we have Sug Daniels and Lauren Kuhne.

Both Lauren and Sug are solo artists and they each have bands of their own.

The bands are the ones that are gonna come play at Ladybug Music Festival.

♪ Hey friend ♪ ♪ I appreciate you ♪ ♪ Meeting me so soon ♪ ♪ Probably had better things to do ♪ (gentle ukulele music) - It is super important to give women opportunities to shine independent of any other forces around them.

♪ And you've invaded my mind ♪ (gentle ukulele music) [Gayle] We hire as many female acts to run our sound.

We have a event managers and stage managers that are women ♪ I guess I just need to say thanks ♪ (gentle ukulele music) - [Gayle] There's a number of businesses on this street that are completely owned by women.

Liv is just an amazing artist.

And we're so happy that we could be here in her space and that she's supportive of the Ladybug Festival.

♪ You've just been heavy on my mind ♪ - Love the music, love the vibe, and love the visitors.

And as a shop owner, that's a huge benefit, because it has so many people from out of town who .come and see a shop that's really unique.

(gentle guitar music) ♪ It's easy to judge from the outside ♪ ♪ To call me the bad guy ♪ ♪ For breaking it all.

♪ - [Gayle] Every single business on this block, every single performer is a small business.

Everyone feels the benefit of having free live music up and down Market Street.

When you come out and you support it and you buy a CD or you buy a t-shirt, you're supporting a small business.

♪ Well, maybe in time ♪ ♪ You'll see I was just right ♪ - And when we work together and we elevate each other, we rise to different heights.

♪ Have ♪ ♪ And all the good on paper ♪ - [Gayle] The more we support our creative economy, the better we're all gonna be.

A good opportunity to hear some great new music and support it.

It is very much a community gathering.

Listen to music, be in that present moment, and enjoy it.

Music is what brings us together.

(gentle guitar music) - Nashville's own Sweet Lizzy Project is this year's headliner.

Here's how you can learn more about the festival.

(upbeat music) - I wanted to hear the rest of some of those songs, didn't you?

Well, I'm gonna have to go and check that out.

Now, get ready for another exciting season of thrills at the Cowtown Rodeo in Salem county, New Jersey.

Since 1929, the rodeo has pleased the crowd with the taste of old western ranching and cowboy and girl competitions.

(upbeat country music) - We're the longest running weekly rodeo in the United States.

The series started 1955.

67 seasons later, we're still doing it every Saturday night.

(upbeat country music) - Yee-haw!

Ready?

- [Crowd] Yeah!

(upbeat country music) - [Grant] My great grandfather started a livestock auction market here in Woodstown.

A rodeo farmer's market.

We're a part of the activity generated by the livestock market.

(upbeat country music) A rodeo is a series of cowboy contests that have been formalized into a professional sport.

(upbeat country music) Bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, team roping, and my favorite, cowgirls barrel race.

This is a family show.

There's a lot of spills and thrills.

- [Man] It's a part of Americana.

(upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) - The core of the rodeo performance is our animals.

We take a great deal of pride taking really good care of them.

And the very last thing that we would want to happen to any of them is that they become aggravated or injured.

The bucking horses and bulls, the bulls you see at the rodeo were raised here on the ranch.

- They're born to buck.

We cannot make them buck.

It's a soft flank rope.

It more or less feels like a fly on their back.

If they don't wanna buck, they're not going to buck.

They're athletes.

They know their job.

You put 'em in the bucking chutes and you put 'em in the arena, and they know it's game time.

(upbeat rock music) - [Grant] When you're getting on a bull, focus on him.

- I take my rope, I wrap it around my hand.

It's all you have, is your one hand to hold on.

When you're ready and nod your head and they open that gate.

For every jump he makes you just make a different move to just just stay with him.

(upbeat rock music) - [Charles] You're bucked off.

And that's where our bullfighters come in.

And we're very thankful for them.

- [Announcer] How about the work of our bullfighters?

- The bullfighters, they need to keep our bulls and our bull riders both healthy.

It's their job to step into a situation that most of us would run away from.

- [Grant] When you come off that bull, you're kinda disoriented.

And those guys come in and save your life.

(upbeat rock music) - When the bull rider gets off that bull, it's our job to go in there and distract the bull from the bull rider and take him away.

We're kinda like their bodyguards.

- It is just having to run to danger and having to keep your composure mentally and physically.

You really have to gather your chickens and collect and go.

(Ethan laughs) - [Ethan] Bull fighting is 90% mental and the other 10 percent's in your head.

(crowd cheering) - One thing I'm very proud of is the legacy of my family.

And to have an opportunity to pass that along to the next generation's priceless.

- Growing up on the ranch is really cool, it's really fun.

- On a Saturday night, when I'm standing on the back of those bucking chutes and I look out and there's a couple thousand people here that are cheering and happy and smiling, that means we're doing our job, right?

(upbeat music) We're putting on a good show and making everybody else's night.

That's what it's all about.

(upbeat music) - The Best Show On Dirt starts May 28th, and you can get tickets right now, (graphic whooshes) - Summer is around the corner, and for many kids that means camp.

It is also a great job opportunity for teenagers looking for a new way to spend the summer after two years of just way too much screen time because of the pandemic.

So here with me now is Andy Pritikin.

He is the owner and executive director of Liberty lake Day Camp in Burlington, New Jersey, and RJ Watson, a counselor at Liberty Lake Day Camp.

Thank you both for being here.

- Such a pleasure.

- Thank you for having us.

- Now, Andy, I wanna start with you.

So you also have connections to the American Camp Association, and this year we are seeing camp numbers through the roof.

Explain what's going on here.

- Yeah, all of a sudden supply and demand has really changed.

And I think that's because of parents, the cost benefit analysis of what they felt the camp experience was, especially people who never went to camp themselves.

Who may have thought it was just a bunch of kids outside playing kickball.

After a year and a half of being cooped up with their kids doing virtual learning and all that kinda stuff, all of a sudden the proposition of camp has just woo!

They're like we'll pay double.

(laughs) - [Shirley] Yeah.

But camp organizers like yourself, you're running into this issue where you have all of these campers enrolled and yet you are dealing with a shortage of camp counselors.

- [Andy] Right.

There are actually camps out there that are taking less campers, because they're worried about hiring enough staff.

That is an issue, but like we talked about earlier, that's happening everywhere.

- But this is a great opportunity for teenagers.

And RJ, last year was your first year as a counselor.

Did you grow up going to camp?

- I didn't.

The one camp I remember going to was like inside a school somewhere.

There was like a tiny playground.

It was hot, no air conditioning and we were doing worksheets.

It was horrible.

So to have the experience of Liberty Lake, it's amazing, especially for teens who want to push themselves out there, who have a natural gift with kids, you would love Liberty lake.

- And so I know that growing up in Philly, being around a lake and doing all of these outdoor camp activities is not necessarily like in your wheelhouse, but you loved the experience.

What was it about it that really resonated with you?

- The kids make the experience.

So when you have kids that are super hype about what you're gonna do and they're super into it, it makes it so much better because it draws you in it, forces you to get into it.

Like, I was never an outdoors person, but now all I want to do is be the outdoors.

And I think laying on the grass with just like eating popsicles was probably my favorite part of the camp.

- Aww!

(all laughs) I love that!

Now, Andy, we keep hearing about how the pandemic has taken this mental toll on a lot of our teenagers.

Why do you think that they're not more teens who are rallying around these open positions?

- Well, if you've never been to camp yourself it's hard to understand what it is.

If your reference is "Wet Hot American Summer" or something, and if your parents never went to camp and aren't encouraging you to work at camps, you don't understand the leadership opportunities that you get.

If you can take care of a group of eight-year-old boys, you can pretty much do anything in your entire life.

- (laughs) Right.

- This is tough stuff.

And working outside, disconnecting from technology, right?

RJ said it himself, laying in the grass and having five-year-olds jump on him was like the highlight of his summer.

- Aww!

- But most kids, most teenagers are so tied to their electronics, to their screens, that disconnecting, it brings a little anxiety with it, right?

And yet, by the end of the summer, most people RJ's age, college students and such, they're thanking us for the opportunity.

- Right, so there are those benefits.

And then also like you touched on, they're getting all of these other skills that you can't really put on paper - Soft skills, right?

- Yeah.

- So at school you learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, okay?

At camp, you learn how to play nice in the sandbox with others, which you know now as an adult working in a workplace is the most important skill that you can possibly have.

So management skills, communication skills, managing your stress levels in a hundred degrees with liquid sunshine, okay?

- Yeah.

- If you can get through that, that's a serious rite of passage, right?

When people go off to college, they say they learn more out of the classroom than they did in a classroom.

- Wow.

- That's what camp's about.

It's all that out of the classroom stuff.

- Okay, so parents and teens look to your camps for jobs, because obviously they are hiring.

Okay, Andy Pritikin and RJ Watson, thank you so much for your time.

- Thanks for having us.

- Thanks for having us.

- Yes, thanks Shirley.

(graphic whooshes) - When the pandemic crippled so many restaurants in Philadelphia, Cooks Who Cares was there to make sure those struggling to stay open had the support they needed, and they haven't stopped since.

Joining me now is the organization's founder, Maria Campbell, on their latest endeavors.

Maria, thank you so much for coming into the studio to join us.

- Absolutely, thank you for having me.

- Well, the last time that we talked, Cooks Who Cares was out delivering free food to the restaurants that were staying open.

You wanted to make sure you fed the staff, because they were just trying to make ends meet.

And now what you said then is the same problem that we're having now, which is, it was always a mental component to it as well.

- Yeah, it's mental health.

I mean, there's no other way around it.

The demanding hours, the service, the grind, it is a really hard career to get involved in.

And when we heard that, "Hey we're gonna have to shut down the city," it impacted us in a big way.

Before all of this happened with COVID, Anthony Bourdain really inspired a new conversation for us to start talking about it.

He was a hero in the food industry and he had the job everyone wanted.

And to realize how can somebody be unsatisfied or just not being well, how can that be if they're doing something like that?

And it really generated an internal, something that was just internal.

Like, I think these things, but I'm not gonna say anything to anybody.

And people reached out and said, "Thank you.

Thank you for the work you're doing."

And so it's necessary and it needs to continue.

- And particularly now, because it's Mental Health Awareness Month, we are looking at a cookbook, a community cookbook that you guys have put together to not only give people recipes from their local restaurants, but also help with mental health.

Talk about that.

- Yeah.

I wanted to see what would our community think about?

Like, resources we can share with everyone.

I put it out there in the world saying like, listen, I think I wanna start a cookbook.

Does anyone wanna share recipes?

And I gotta tell you, restaurants do a ton of stuff for their communities.

I was like, if this is an add on, and they're like, "Maria, I'm stressed, no."

They raised their hands and people were like, "I wanna help my fellow members.

This impacted me, it impacted a friend, a family member that I know," or, "My community restaurant.

Like, I wanna help them."

And that really just, it really connected with me to go, all right.

You know what?

Let's grab our community together to make a community cookbook.

Let's extend that to customers and to go, "Hey get involved in this conversation that we're having and let's share some fun tips, make it light."

We can all learn something from our local establishments and we can kinda up our own games on the home entertaining side.

- I love it.

And so what we have here is one of the recipes that are featured in the book.

From what I understand, it's like a mix of drinks and food and appetizers and desserts.

- Yeah, bites and sips.

We got the bar side, I've got wellness experts.

And this one is from Tatiana Wingate.

She is a business owner in South Philly, in 5th Street from Sprinkled Sweetness.

She's a cake artist.

And anybody who's participated in this cookbook is incredible, by the way.

25 people total, we will have participating in this book.

Four filming locations.

And this is a dessert daiquiri.

- And this looks so good and complicated.

When you say daiquiri, I think of a drink, but this is a dessert that you can make for people.

- Yeah, think about when you put something in a glass, how it really kinda elevates the presentation.

This is a blood orange moose.

This is a blood orange curd.

You add a little more contrast to flavor with like a vanilla Chantilly.

And this gorgeous little dried orange slice, which is a blood orange, has a gorgeous bright color, but you can use a slice of any citrus fruit and you always wanna match that.

It tells the guest what's inside of it.

If it's citrus, the garnish will tell me, but this is just something to add a pop of color.

- [Mitchell] Is it difficult to make?

- Well, not at all.

(Mitchell laughs) Three components, a couple garnishes.

I can buy these at a local store.

They're edible.

And I can really showcase using a fun glass.

This is party time.

- And so if people wanna learn how to make this, they're gonna first learn it from the digital book launch.

- Yes.

We're gonna release videos.

People can sign onto our community.

We're gonna do special fun stuff, how to make this.

- Awesome.

- Will be featured, in addition to a print book at the end of the year.

- And also you guys are making sure that people, if they can't make it, they can go to the place and pick them up 'Cause we have a lot of things going on this summer, right?

- Oh my God, yeah.

And like, I think the one thing we wanna do is just be with friends and family, if we can, in a safe way.

If it's outside or in our homes, wherever it is, we wanna do the extension part of that.

'Cause we know that all these locations and all these people who serve the community, they wanna be a part of those experiences.

- Oh, well this looks so good, Maria.

And if any of you at home would like to try and make this, we will have a link on our website to the recipe.

Maria Campbell, thank you so much.

It is always a pleasure spending time with you.

- Thank you, you too.

This is fun, right?

- Yes.

- I can't wait to share more about it.

- And all the proceeds go towards mental health awareness.

- Yes, 100%.

- Perfect, thank you so much.

- Thank you.

(graphic whooshes) - May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

And if you find yourself always focusing on the negative rather than the good things in life, you might be experiencing what's called the negativity effect.

A local psychologist and professor has developed a systematic approach to transform that negative thinking into a positivity routine.

(gentle music) - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine is a medical school here in Philadelphia, It's been around for almost 125 years.

And we focus on the whole person approach, which combines the traditional aspects of medicine with the addition of treating the mind and body together and bringing that into your everyday care.

The new master's program is a Master's in Applied Positive Psychology, which focuses on positivity, compassion, kindness, really, the positive psychology approach to mental health.

And this new master's program is spearheaded by Dr. Scott Glassman.

Dr. Glassman has really done transformative work in this space.

The book that he's recently written, "Happier You," which focuses on the core principles of this new master's program, is the impetus for bringing this approach to mental health to the public.

(gentle music) (gentle music) - I'm a psychologist and I've always been interested in health behavior change and motivation, and how we can live healthier lives.

And we know that emotional wellbeing and physical wellbeing are interconnected.

And how the choices that we make and actions that we take each day affects us from an emotional level on a social level, as well as on a physical level.

And so as a psychologist, I'm able to look at practical ways that we can achieve wellbeing across that bio psychosocial spectrum.

"A Happier You," the book, is based on the seven-week program that I developed five years ago here at PCOM designed to help patients in our healthcare centers develop the skills to feel happier, more joy, and more meaning in their daily lives.

As a result of its success in our healthcare centers, we then expanded it into a wellness program here on campus.

And part of that mission involves thinking about happiness as a skill, but also something that cuts across domains of wellness.

So physical wellness, emotional wellness, social wellness spiritual wellness are ways that we can feel more fulfilled in our lives and have greater sense of control over that.

So one of the worst effects of the pandemic has been the isolation that we've all been experiencing.

And "A Happier You," developed as a group program, helps people connect in positive ways with each other.

It was first in person before the pandemic and then we adapted it into a virtual format, which allows people to still connect, make friendships, and develop a sense of positive attentional practice.

We help people focus on how they can be more mindful of the good things that are happening to them each day, whether that's as small as the warm cup of tea that they've had in the morning to a compliment that they receive, an act of kindness that was shown to them by a stranger.

Being able to take those moments out of the stream of daily experience and bring them closer is really essential to building that habit of wellbeing that "A Happier You" focuses on.

And the book really brings you into this process of mindful expansion of good moments and good attributes of the self, and builds on that across the seven weeks.

So I wanted to develop the book after the program had been so successful, because there are many people who couldn't access our program.

And having a self-paced version that people could follow on their own time, was something that was really exciting to me and something that I think can help a lot of people feel empowered around how they feel on the moment to moment basis,.

in each day of their lives.

(gentle upbeat music) - For more information on "A Happier You" workshops and programs, here's Dr. Glassman's website.

(graphic whooshes) - Shirley, I saved this for you.

- Ooh, thank you.

It looks so tasty - And everything is edible, even the flower.

- Oh my gosh!

It's almost too pretty to eat.

- I know!

I knew you'd like that.

- You know me so well.

- I do.

And I also know that it's time for us to say goodbye.

- We will see you next week.

I'm gonna enjoy this beautiful dessert.

Bye.

- Bye.

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