Episode Description:
The corner office can be the loneliest place in a school building. Even the most gregarious, people-focused principal finds themselves eating lunch alone while teachers bond in the cafeteria—a painful reality that reveals a deeper truth about educational leadership. In this honest, thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Greg McElwee, Senior Director at Northwest Georgia RESA, to explore the invisible isolation that many of your best leaders experience, and more importantly, how to break the cycle.
Greg brings decades of perspective on what it takes to lead schools with purpose and authenticity. He addresses the real challenges keeping education leaders up at night—from teacher retention and school safety to early childhood literacy—while offering a refreshing reminder that leadership is ultimately a calling rooted in putting kids first.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why maintaining focus on your “kid first” mission is non-negotiable, even when everything else feels chaotic
- The hidden struggles of educational leaders and what your principals might not be telling you
- How to recognize which students need you most—and why you can’t always see it on their faces
- The critical role of team alignment and shared purpose in navigating today’s education landscape
- Red flags that tell you whether educational leadership is truly your calling—or if it’s time to reconsider
Key Takeaways:
✓ Leading with purpose requires intentional focus – In a complex environment with competing demands, remembering that you’re in a “kid first business” becomes your north star.
✓ Loneliness is part of the job—but it doesn’t have to be isolating – Understanding the unique position principals occupy can help organizations design better support systems.
✓ Every student needs you, even when they don’t show it – Behavior and facial expressions can deceive; consistent care for all students is non-negotiable.
✓ Educational leadership is a calling, not just a career – You’ll know quickly if this is where you belong, and authentic leaders make all the difference.
✓ Team unity around shared goals transforms schools – When leaders deliberately remind staff that everyone is on the same team working toward the same mission, magic happens.
Notable Quotes:
“You gotta maintain consistent focus and remember this is a kid first business.”
“The loneliest experience you’ll ever have as a principal is when you are a social person and the first day of teacher planning and everybody goes to lunch. Because guess who’s not getting invited to lunch? Nobody wants to go with the principal.”
“Sometimes you just can’t look at a kid and tell by their facial expression or their behavior how much they need you. We’ve got to remember that they all need us.”
“I feel like my job as a leader sometimes when I do touch so many different pockets of the world is to make sure that everybody still remembers we are all on the same team and the goal is always going to be the same. It’s always going to be about kids.”
If you’re a school administrator navigating the pressures of modern educational leadership, this conversation will resonate deeply. Greg’s candid insights about the realities of school leadership—and the power of purposeful, unified teams—offer both validation and inspiration.
Listen now to discover how the best school leaders can break free from isolation and build the kind of teams where everyone remembers why they showed up in the first place.
Subscribe to never miss an episode that speaks directly to your challenges as an education leader.
FULL PODCAST Transcript
Lighthouse Therapy (00:02.139)
Hello everybody and welcome to the brighter together podcast. My name is Jana Courtney and my special guest today is Greg McElwee. Greg is the senior director at the North rest Georgia regional education service agency, which is in Rome, Georgia. Greg, thank you for coming to the show. I’m glad that you’re here.
Greg McElwee (00:22.629)
Thanks so much for inviting me Janet.
Lighthouse Therapy (00:25.497)
So tell us a little bit, Greg, about your journey and a little bit about what’s happening at Northwest Georgia, RESA. I know it’s RESA now, I’ve learned.
Greg McElwee (00:35.15)
Yeah, yeah. Anybody around the state of Georgia will automatically recognize that and I understand you guys being national, but but RESA what we do under our umbrellas we do several things. We work with schools on school improvement, professional development. We help maintain teacher certification hours. We offer all types of professional learning. We have a data warehouse here where we will take individual school districts data, analyze it for them.
help them with strategic planning. So we have a lot of different things that go up under our RESA umbrella. It’s not just one thing. We have multiple departments that fall within our.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:17.521)
So how did you become, you’re the senior director. So you’re the boss of everybody, right?
Greg McElwee (01:20.558)
Okay.
Well, have a, I have a, much like everybody else in this world, be it a spouse or at work, we all have a boss and I have a boss and we have an executive director. He is a retired superintendent from Pauling County. Wonderful, wonderful to work for. He’s employed as a 49 % executive director as he retired as a superintendent. But I would say
Lighthouse Therapy (01:28.975)
Ha!
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:34.943)
okay.
Greg McElwee (01:51.907)
Being senior director, I started out, when I first came to work here, it was as a G-NES director. And as we know, acronyms are what they are. That’s the Georgia Network for Educational Services and Therapeutic Support. It works with high intensity, emotional behaviorally disturbed students. So that’s another thing that falls up under our RESA umbrella. And through time, I absorbed human resources, and then I started working closely with finance and certification, and I kind of…
Lighthouse Therapy (02:04.217)
Okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:09.551)
Okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:13.38)
Ow.
Greg McElwee (02:21.742)
been around a while here. is my 14th year at Riesling. I feel like Dr. Ohtot, just out of longevity, gave me that title because I kind of had my fingers in everything that was going on anyway. But my journey started, I actually started out as a self-contained EBD teacher and emotional behavior disorder student.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:25.106)
Mmm. Wow.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:35.756)
Everything. Yeah. Yeah, that’s it. That’s.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:46.274)
EBD is emotionally.
Yeah, just want to make sure.
Greg McElwee (02:53.038)
Yeah, and I did that and then went through in another school district that’s actually still in our RESA catchment area. I started there teaching, taught, did a little coaching and then moved into an administrative role in their special education department. And then transferred to the special education area here at RESA.
then went back to that same school district and served as a principal for a number of years as elementary school. Probably one the best jobs I ever had, elementary school principals. It’s like being a rock star. The kids actually, it’s one of you. you know, by the time they get into middle high school, you’re not that cool anymore, but at elementary school, it’s great.
Lighthouse Therapy (03:33.07)
Yeah, the kids love you, yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (03:38.704)
Yeah, love that. I always thought that principals at elementary schools, the kids just love love other than other than the ones that are maybe maybe naughty one day, they can be intimidated, but it’s it is it’s a it’s a great job. It’s a great job.
Greg McElwee (03:47.375)
I AM!
Greg McElwee (03:54.978)
Yeah, yeah, I think the only three elementary kids that came through my building that weren’t real thrilled about me being principal or my three daughters.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:03.248)
Haha
That’s awesome. I love that.
Greg McElwee (04:08.418)
But I didn’t find out until after I’d left that they actually enjoyed it because when I left to take the job to come back up here to take one of the director positions, the first day that they came home from school, they were in the fourth and the fifth grade respectively. they told me, said, we were just regular kids today, Dad, thanks.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:33.425)
are they grown?
Greg McElwee (04:34.016)
Yeah, think they still hold grudge a little bit about that and they’re in their 20s now so. Yeah, yeah absolutely.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:39.279)
Yeah, I was going to say they’re grown now, aren’t they? You and I probably aren’t that far away in age, I bet.
Greg McElwee (04:45.398)
No, we’re not. When you disclosed that, I thought, yeah, we’re the same peer group.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:51.279)
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I’m fighting it with all I got, Greg. I really am. I’m like, everything I do, I hate.
Greg McElwee (04:57.422)
yeah, I’m trying to hang on. You you ask about the career path though, and the unique thing is I’m going into year 27, 30 in Georgia you can retire, and I’ve got some sick leave, so I’m not planning on going anywhere because I just enjoy the people I work with. But I say all that to say, 27 years I’ve basically had two employers. I’ve either worked for this RESA or I worked for the
Lighthouse Therapy (05:03.387)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:07.642)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:15.109)
getting there. Yeah.
Greg McElwee (05:26.542)
school system where I grew up.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:28.465)
within that same recess still. Yeah, wow. In 27 years, that’s amazing. Yeah, yeah, that’s amazing. Yeah, it is a blessing when you love your work and you love what you do. It’s not work. It’s not work. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (05:30.68)
Within that, yes, absolutely. Been very fortunate, very blessed.
Greg McElwee (05:43.734)
No, and the people that I work with are what made the biggest difference here at RESA. It’s very much a family. We’ve all been here together for a while. We’ve been through the good and the bad. And I mean, it’s one of those jobs when you really don’t even have to set an alarm clock. You just wake up and you’re ready to go to work.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:01.591)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah when you love what you do, I’ll tell you that’s me I love what I do every single day every and every single day It’s a little bit different a little bit and I love this because I get to talk to the most amazing people all across the country who are Fighting the fight for education and for our kids and that’s the best the absolute best. So tell me like a little bit about What do you see as the strengths of
of education today and what you guys are doing and what are maybe some of the pitfalls that schools should think about to try to avoid.
Greg McElwee (06:38.658)
Well, probably one of the biggest, and this is a big bit, there are tons of bills in Georgia in our current legislative session. And many of them, the real focus in Georgia right now is early childhood literacy, safety, and teacher retention. I would, I would dare say that’s probably a national problem. You don’t see many people, be it education or any other field.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:46.576)
Yay.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:57.233)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (07:01.617)
Mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (07:08.504)
This younger generation doesn’t come in and do the same job for 30 years. And so teacher retention is a huge thing in Georgia. And we’ve got several bills in Atlanta that are being processed to try to help with that. We’ve got numerous things being done by, Brian Kemp is our current governor. And he’s been two term governor, been extremely, extremely supportive of public education and teachers.
throughout his term and one of his big things has been the safety. He’s been getting safety grants and safety dollars earmarking things so that people can put in systems to enhance the safety of the buildings because we all know and I go back from when I started in education, know, having a code or a card just to scan or get in a building that was unheard of when I started.
Lighthouse Therapy (07:37.339)
Love that.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:02.043)
Yeah.
Greg McElwee (08:03.074)
People were coming inside doors and campuses were not at all secure. We know how times have changed. So I think the pitfall there is for years we wanted education to not feel institutional in our buildings. But because of safety concerns, I feel like it’s become a situation where it kind of borders on that to some degree because you have to maintain that safe environment.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:09.361)
Yeah.
Greg McElwee (08:32.065)
or the rest of it is irrelevant.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:32.529)
Yeah, yeah. There’s nothing worse than seeing a school shooting and, you know, I’m in Texas, you know, and it just breaks your heart. it’s, I can’t even talk about it. We need to not talk about it because it just breaks. It just makes me want to cry. And it’s sad that that’s what we have to do. It’s really sad that we have to do that.
Greg McElwee (08:48.45)
Yeah. Well, in…
Greg McElwee (08:54.296)
Why don’t I get back to my time as a building principal? mean, although it wasn’t that long ago in terms of current events, it was a long time ago because we tried to maintain campus safety, but the thought of that happening was just, you know, you’re like, it’s not going to happen in Cedartown, Georgia. You know, that’s something that happens somewhere else. It’s not something I’m going to have to deal with.
Lighthouse Therapy (09:03.215)
Yeah, right.
Lighthouse Therapy (09:13.955)
No. Right.
Lighthouse Therapy (09:21.231)
Right, right. But that’s not the reality that we know now. Yeah, you never know. You never know. Yeah, yeah. yeah.
Greg McElwee (09:23.968)
No, no, no, absolutely not, no.
Greg McElwee (09:31.374)
That’s another thing we do here at RESA. We run basically a safety job alike consortium and we have our regional GMA person come in and does presentations and we coordinate activities. We allow like a lot of our districts have their own police officers that they employ in their district and so a lot of those people will come and it just gives them an opportunity to come together share ideas they’ll coordinate.
Lighthouse Therapy (09:52.945)
Mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (10:01.395)
because it’s difficult for those guys in the education world to have a peer group to talk to. It’s such a different environment.
Lighthouse Therapy (10:05.937)
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, I have to talk to a friend. have a friend that’s a Corpus Christi police department, police officer, good friend, really good friend. Actually had dinner with him last night and his wife. Um, and I’ll have to ask him about that. Cause I, I’m sure that Corpus Christi has something similar and I don’t know how that works here. I’m just, you know, out of curiosity. Cause I remember, um, when the last time I was in a brick and mortar now I’ve been doing teletherapy since 2011, but
We at the middle school and the high school, because I was mostly at the middle school and high school, we always had police presence. And it was just a part of it. It was just the life that you had and how you lived. it was all about keeping the kids safe. We want to keep the kids safe. Yeah.
Greg McElwee (10:46.99)
100%. And I can, I mean, they now have in my former dish, actually in the former in the building where they have an assigned resource officer to that bill. That was unheard of when I mean, when I was there, they had a resource officer at the high schools in our district. And that was, that was pretty much it. Yeah. Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (10:56.314)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:03.353)
Yeah. Older kids, older kids, right? Adults, some of those kids get real big, real fast about ninth grade, 10th grade. I remember my brother was, my brother, he’s passed away now, but he was six foot one in sixth grade. And he, and he grew to six foot seven. He was football player and big guy, big guy, big, big guy. But you know, he just, and, and they,
Greg McElwee (11:12.721)
yeah.
Greg McElwee (11:21.39)
wow.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:32.272)
they joked around about, know, was a man and he was a child in a man’s body for a while, you know, cause he just grew so incredibly fast. So anyway, okay. So you have a lot, I want to touch on this because I love special education. I’m a speech therapist, you know, such a huge part of what I do. Where, how did, when you got into this position, into RESA,
Greg McElwee (11:40.579)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:59.26)
coming from a special education background instead of coming from a gen ed backgrounds. How did that influence what you did or how did it have an influence on how you did your job or what you thought about when you were working with the kids or training?
Greg McElwee (12:15.106)
Well, obviously coming from just one building and then moving into this role that served multiple districts. It allowed me two things. One, I could go in and offer some help in areas where they might, know, people that didn’t have a SPED background. Maybe they were having a problem making their master schedule work. You know, could provide some assistance there. Having worn both hats and it helped and it’s funny because
Lighthouse Therapy (12:29.712)
Right.
Greg McElwee (12:41.846)
I mean, as talking to as many people as know, educators, now they’re strange birds sometimes. So, and they’re very territorial, but, you know, having been a principal, I could go in and say, well, when I was in your shoes, this was how we handled these type situations. But I could also look at that SPED teacher that was in that building and they didn’t think, this is just some other admin guy coming in, trying to tell me how to do it. So it really gave me, guess what you would call street credit.
Lighthouse Therapy (12:49.465)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:11.493)
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Because you’ve been there, done that, got the t-shirt, right? Yeah. And it matters. It really matters. It matters because you guys are making recommendations. And if they don’t feel like you have, you know, you have the experience or no, it’s harder for them to believe what you’re saying or to implement what you’re saying. If they don’t trust you, but it sounds like you guys are doing an amazing job. So
Greg McElwee (13:11.562)
on both sides of the table.
Greg McElwee (13:18.059)
yeah.
Greg McElwee (13:37.966)
Well, it helped to I became very active with our G case board and GK being the Georgia Council and administrators of special education services. I actually was president of G case in 2018 for the far statewide organization and that allowed me to have some experiences around the nation by going to case various case conference. The ECE conferences so then I could come back to our area and say, you know.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:43.098)
Hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:00.667)
yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Greg McElwee (14:05.676)
they’ve got these kind of special things going on in Utah or, you know, Oregon, you know, just some different perspective and, and being able to have contacts in those areas. Like if I’d have a person in our recent reach out and I say, well, you know, I actually have a person in Tennessee. Let me make a phone call. G case has been a wonderful experience for me. I’ve been on that executive board for a while and then going through their presidential rotation was also something that I’m
Lighthouse Therapy (14:23.461)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (14:35.01)
I’m really proud of and glad that I got to experience.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:38.329)
Yeah, weren’t we lighthouse therapy was at G case. Both the fall and the spring, I think we just did a present did had a had a booth was fun. had a good time and really good.
Greg McElwee (14:51.618)
Well, and I think that’s how you and I ended up getting connected was because I stopped and talked to an old friend, John Higby, while he was at Gcase. I think that when the ball started rolling towards this meeting.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:54.619)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:57.967)
Yep, yep, yep, yep,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And you know, it’s so fun because there are so many amazing things that that you get when you get to talk to people and you get to network and just be able to have those because we’re all we’re all working towards it. We’re all working towards helping the schools, helping the kids, helping the therapists, helping the teachers, you know, all of it. It’s amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And I love the fact that you are so involved.
Greg McElwee (15:32.142)
Alright, one meeting.
It’s one big team. And I think when you have, I feel like my job as a leader sometimes when I do touch so many different pockets of the world is to make sure that everybody still remembers we are all, nobody’s trying to take anything. We’re all on the same team and the goal is always going to be the same. It’s always going to be about kids.
Lighthouse Therapy (15:37.893)
Yep.
Lighthouse Therapy (15:53.145)
Very good. Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (15:58.758)
Yep. Yep. Absolutely. And that’s, that’s, you know, even for us, you know, our, our mission. I always tell people, it’s like, I’ve got two customers, you know, I’ve got the, the schools that we work for, and that we contract with is one customer and the other customer is the therapist. the, then the special education teachers that we hire, but both of those, the reason that both of those are involved is because we come together for those kids for the betterment. And our mission is to be a therapy company run by therapists for therapists.
for the betterment of students, always, and the great thing, George, is when we talk about success here, it’s how many children have we served? How many lives have we touched? When you’re a servant, and I think that’s the thing about education and about teachers is we have a servant heart, right? We’ve been given that gift of being a servant and serving others is just, it’s a part of your DNA, it really is, I think.
Greg McElwee (16:37.006)
Mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (16:45.368)
No, for sure.
Greg McElwee (16:54.274)
Well, and I feel like, especially when it comes to special education and working with exceptional students, it’s almost like a calling. And you’ll know pretty quickly whether this is the world you belong in or not.
Lighthouse Therapy (17:03.119)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (17:08.219)
Right? Yeah. Yeah. I tell people, was like, I, I’m, I’m, people call me an entrepreneur. People call me a CEO. People call me a business owner. I call myself a speech language pathologist first and foremost, you know? Yup. Because it’s just who I am, you know, even though I don’t get to see kids face to face every single day anymore, like I used to.
Greg McElwee (17:20.398)
Well, I noticed you led with that.
Lighthouse Therapy (17:31.889)
And God made it clear to me you could serve 55 kids as a speech pathologist as the CEO and owner you get to serve 3600 What do you think is the right way to go Janet? Okay, I get it Yeah, it’s but it was hard for me to step away from the classroom. I’m sure probably was hard for you, too It’s it’s it’s a transition when you go into administration for sure
Greg McElwee (17:41.742)
So yeah, yeah.
Greg McElwee (17:49.334)
for sure. mean, and I tell this story sometimes, probably I was, when I was in the classroom and then even when I was still like, it wasn’t like a director position, but it was a coordinator type position when I was at central office. I still say when I got my first principal’s job, the loneliest experience you’ll ever have as a principal is when you are a social person and the first day of teacher planning.
and everybody goes to lunch. Because guess who’s not getting invited to lunch? Nobody wants to go with the principal. So you just, it was kind of like that first, you know, kind of aha, gestaltian kind of, yeah, I’m, you know, I have to fend for myself now.
Lighthouse Therapy (18:19.921)
Mmm. Mmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (18:32.409)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (18:37.711)
Yeah, but that’s when that’s when other organizations become important too, because you do network with other people that are doing the same thing you are and you’ve got to have them. You’ve got to have people around you that that are are fighting the same battle that you are and talk. And I think that’s why this this platform that I’ve created here is so important because people need to know that there are so many other people out there that are struggling with the exact same things.
Greg McElwee (19:04.302)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (19:04.669)
And it doesn’t matter if you’re in Georgia or in Washington or New York or California or Hawaii for that matter. know, it’s all, they’re Alaska. They’re all kids and they all need us and they all need to know that somebody cares about them and that we want what’s best for them. And if you look at social, if you look at the media, they make it sound like we’re out there doing the worst things possible to every single child we can get our hands on and.
Greg McElwee (19:31.049)
yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (19:31.57)
It’s maddening. And that’s why, you know, it’s like, it’s good to hear and it’s good to know that P that, know, you care. And there are so many people that care. So, um, so George, so Greg, where do I said, George, listen to that. Okay. I’m going to start that over. That was at 1945. They’re going to cut that right the heck out. Tell you right now they’re going to cut that up. So Greg, where do people go if they want to learn a little bit more about, uh, Northwest Georgia, RESA and you.
Greg McElwee (19:43.075)
Yeah.
I don’t know.
Yeah.
Greg McElwee (20:00.302)
We actually have a very, very interactive website they can visit and it’s www.nwgaRESA.com. There’s tons of information. You can see a lot of the different things that we do. You can go through our course catalog and look. And actually some of our trainings are virtual. So they could go through that course catalog and look and just kind of see the different things that we’re offering in this area.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:22.293)
nice.
Greg McElwee (20:29.196)
And we do needs assessments with our districts and work closely with our superintendents. Our board is actually made up of the superintendents that are in our catchment area. And then we have some of the technical colleges and universities and the regional library rep. So that’s where we get, that’s the basis of our board of control. So that’s in theory, that’s who we, Dr. O’Todd is the main person that works directly with our board, much like a superintendent and board set up.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:31.473)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:38.193)
Nice. Nice.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:49.765)
Mm-hmm.
Greg McElwee (20:59.304)
Dr. O’Toole serves as our superintendent and we serve up under him at the will of the board. But we work closely with the board to kind of determine, and the needs in one county may be different than the needs in another. And we try to do a good job of finding a good balance and serving, because we actually have a couple of very large districts in ours, and then we have a couple of districts that hover around that 1,500 student mark.
Lighthouse Therapy (21:10.437)
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (21:23.129)
Mm-hmm. I’ve talked to I’ve talked to superintendents and directors and Special educators and schools of 200 like k-12 200 all the way up to thousands because it’s all the same They’re all but they all have different needs they all have different, you know, but it’s still it’s still education. So I always have Yeah, we are in the we are taking care of the kids. We are growing the next generation. It is so critical what we do so well
Greg McElwee (21:41.836)
We are definitely in the kid business.
Greg McElwee (21:50.808)
And I think sometimes educators forget that because there’s so many things on their plate now. Sometimes you just can’t look at a kid and tell by their facial expression or their behavior how much they need you. We’ve got to remember that they all need us. And so we’ve got to make sure we maintain that focus and not try to have an opinion about what a particular, just because they look happy, they might be struggling with an issue. I think you just.
Lighthouse Therapy (21:58.33)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:05.521)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:18.608)
Yeah.
Greg McElwee (22:19.758)
You gotta maintain consistent focus and remember this is a kid first business.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:26.063)
Yeah, and you never know when that one touch, that one word is gonna change somebody’s day, somebody’s life, somebody’s whatever, you know, you just, gotta, and it’s important, it’s just so important. And we won’t know, the sight of heaven, we won’t know until we get up to heaven and be with Jesus. That’s my opinion. like, I’m…
Greg McElwee (22:28.587)
No.
Greg McElwee (22:43.245)
No.
Greg McElwee (22:47.522)
One of my favorite things is to run into, because the kids that I had when they were in elementary, they’re all grown and many of them are parents now and things like that. And to run into them and still have that positive interaction when you run into them, then you know you did the right thing when they were younger. yeah, they remember.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:54.021)
Growing up. Yeah.
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:03.565)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they remember, they remember, they remember, they remember you and it’s amazing. So, well, Greg, it has been a pleasure. promised, I promised I’d get you out on time. So here’s me keeping my promise. So thank you so much for coming. Thank you for all the work that you’ve done with G case. It’s a, it’s an amazing organization and I’m sure you’re doing the same at RESA and, just keep it up. And when we’re, when we’re at another show, please make sure you come by and say hello.
Greg McElwee (23:33.398)
I will definitely do that. I can’t thank you enough for having us and also for having this platform to bring information out around the country to people. Because I know there are people just like you said, you named off a list of states. They’re great people out there all over this country working to make sure that these kids get what they need.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:39.387)
Thanks.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:47.706)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:54.097)
and enjoy. It’s March 10th and we still got half the semesters left, so enjoy the rest of 2026 and get a break this summer a little bit. I know you won’t get much of one.
Greg McElwee (24:04.558)
It’s okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (24:08.145)
All right. Take care. Thank you so much.
Greg McElwee (24:10.094)
All right. you. Bye bye.
Lighthouse Therapy (24:12.86)
Bye. All right. Beautiful. Okay.
