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Martin Altersitz: Growing himself by being a HOBY Volunteer and Habitat for Humanity

Martin Altersitz HOBY, Habitat For Humanity volunteer!

Listen as Martin talks about how he transformed his life from being an introvert
to becoming a teacher!

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Episode 10
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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welcome to jerz podcast on your most Joe
part of and today I’m interviewing for

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it was living history through
volunteering at each welcome to the show

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Martin

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Hey Joe thanks for having me today
thanks for being on let’s get started by

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giving the audience some background
about yourself

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well I’m 29 years old went to kings bay
regional high school from there went to

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stockton state college where I studied
communications from there wasn’t really

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sure to do and moved home i got involved
with a couple of volunteer programs

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which led me to the education field and
now I’m an educator so what would you

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say inspires you the most

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what inspires me the most is probably
the just helping out when I see the way

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that people’s faces light up and the
things they learned and can do after

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we’ve worked with one program or another
whether it be Hopi which is the hero

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Brian youth leadership or habitat for
humanity

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they’re both very different
organizations but I mean that inspires

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me because I’m helping someone either
change their life or I’m changing their

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life as far as education being a teacher
goes just the satisfaction I get from

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you know a child learning a new concept
just seeing their their eyes lit up

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because they grasp fractions or they
grasped the concept of an adjective

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versus an adverb so it’s just nice to
see that I’m making a difference

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somewhere that’s really nice how did
your dream come about

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like i said when i graduated from
stockton with my communications degree i

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came home and was very very unsure what
I wanted to do i got involved with a

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couple different jobs if I’ve had a lot
but eventually I i got involved with

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your body needs leadership which is a
leadership seminar for high school

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sophomores I’m where they learn
different leadership abilities and

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skills they get to meet people from the
media political figures other volunteer

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activists and that sort of gave me this
drive to to want to change children’s

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lives and I want to be a guidance
counselor I went to visit my old

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guidance counselor she was like well you
know if you want to be a guidance

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counselor should probably in the
classroom first I said ok what do you

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