We often forget about one of the most important types of communication when interacting with people. You ever hear of the old saying, "It's not what you say, but how you say it"? That's because as humans, we scan our environment and other people for signs of acceptance or threats and what we hear feeds into our conclusion. We often use our tone to cover up our authentic feelings. The challenge in the video is about being true to ourselves, speaking our mind in the moment, and using honesty to bu...
Mar 28, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 53
Meet Mike, a passionate coach, mentor, and leader dedicated to fostering positive change through the principles of MIRA: Mindset, Intention, Right Action. With 17 years of experience in guiding, leading, and building national programs designed to teach, train, develop, and inspire, Mike brings a wealth of expertise. His goal is to instill positive psychology principles and inspire communities of all sizes to become organizations for good. Recently venturing into Social and Emotional Learning (SE...
Mar 25, 2024•44 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Procrastination creeps into a persons life in ways that make it a habit before being noticed. That makes it all the more difficult to combat so we can all more efficiently achieve higher levels of success. Creating consistent, distraction free activities and then utilizing systems to help organize your time are ways to combat the ever present urge to procrastinate. Take the challenge and let me know how it works out for you! Don’t Forget to Review the Show! I appreciate you checking out the epis...
Mar 21, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Meet Mike, a passionate coach, mentor, and leader dedicated to fostering positive change through the principles of MIRA: Mindset, Intention, Right Action. With 17 years of experience in guiding, leading, and building national programs designed to teach, train, develop, and inspire, Mike brings a wealth of expertise. His goal is to instill positive psychology principles and inspire communities of all sizes to become organizations for good. Recently venturing into Social and Emotional Learning (SE...
Mar 18, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Habit driven behaviors create habit driven results! I had a recent run in with some artillery fungus and considered how it relates to smoothing over habits that may be detrimental to your overall success. We can always add a new layer of action on top, but if we don't solve the underlying issue the need to "do the work" will eventually arise. Artillery fungus leaves small marks that become recognizable when there are a lot of them. But by then it's too late to easily get rid of them. Our habits ...
Mar 14, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 49
Meet Mike, a passionate coach, mentor, and leader dedicated to fostering positive change through the principles of MIRA: Mindset, Intention, Right Action. With 17 years of experience in guiding, leading, and building national programs designed to teach, train, develop, and inspire, Mike brings a wealth of expertise. His goal is to instill positive psychology principles and inspire communities of all sizes to become organizations for good. Recently venturing into Social and Emotional Learning (SE...
Mar 11, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 48
We don't stop playing games because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing games! We are all busy. Often with pretty serious things. Unfortunately, it eats up all our time and we forget to step back. While our lives are serious we shouldn't always take ourselves so seriously. This week brings a message and challenge designed to help increase joy and connectedness in your life by not just building relationships, but maintaining them at a deeper level. We all desire fun at various levels...
Mar 07, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Meet Mike, a passionate coach, mentor, and leader dedicated to fostering positive change through the principles of MIRA: Mindset, Intention, Right Action. With 17 years of experience in guiding, leading, and building national programs designed to teach, train, develop, and inspire, Mike brings a wealth of expertise. His goal is to instill positive psychology principles and inspire communities of all sizes to become organizations for good. Recently venturing into Social and Emotional Learning (SE...
Mar 04, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Excuses are bad, but incredibly powerful! We often use excuses to get out of things we don't really want to do. We also use them to make ourselves feel better for having fallen short of a goal or not doing what we need to get there in the first place. But what if we could use the power of excuses for good? What if we could use them to help us reach our goals instead of not succeeding? We can if we just flip the excuse around! Next time you are going to make an excuse to get out of doing somethin...
Feb 26, 2024•5 min•Season 3Ep. 45
This is an old phrase, but still relevant every day. How can we keep from not matching what we value with the time we spend doing it? I offer a strategy to find out what our actions say we value rather than what we say in the video. Take the challenge by examining what you currently do and comparing it to how that shows what you value through action rather than speech. Then take the steps to align your actions and words. Let me know your thoughts and how the challenge works for you! Don’t Forget...
Feb 19, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Reaching our goals is about more than just setting them and then making a plan. It is often about how we approach the small steps that present themselves every day. Follow the steps I outline to make progress on those small steps that make the bigger picture a reality. Distractions come in many forms, minimize them. Putting lower priority tasks first halts our ability to complete what is needed at the time. Taking on extra when it isn't aligned with our goals makes us do multiple things with les...
Feb 12, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Key Points: Focus is not the product of our environment. Instead our environment is the result of our ability to and level of focus. Things like anxiety , poor relationships, and low self-esteem can be improved when we learn to increase our focus in certain areas. Anxiety comes with feelings of being overwhelmed. If we take a step back, focus on the things we can control and narrow down what we try to accomplish, we will notice that progress is being made and what lies in front of us is not so o...
Feb 05, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Key Points: Walking the line between empathy and problem solving is difficult. Try this strategy to help support those facing difficulties and the trap of the negative self talk cycle. Then maybe they will return the favor when you need it. After all, we will always face negative circumstances. The question is how do we move past them so we can be positive and realize greater levels of success. SEEing to Lead Extras! Like the content, want to be a guest, or know someone who would? Reach out to m...
Jan 29, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Through 23 years in Education, Jonathan has been at the bleeding edge of learning how digital tools (STEM, AR/VR, AI, environment sensors) and a focus on our humanity can boost the success of students everywhere. He has also learned by working with luminaries such as Dr. Rubin Puentedura (SAMR), Dr. Larry Johnson (NMC) and Prof Stephen Heppell (Learnometer), the FutureWe Community, and his current role as Chief Futures Officer at STEM Punks, how tools alone are not enough - but must be combined ...
Jan 22, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Dr. Rachel Edoho-Eket (Ed-oh-eck-it) is a wife, mother, principal, public speaker, and author. With decades as a teacher and leader in public education, she has earned the reputation as a strong instructional leader, passionate educational advocate, and dedicated mentor. As the Principal of a top ranked school in Maryland, she is a life-long learner who strives for excellence not only for herself, but also for everyone she serves. Dr. Edoho-Eket’s belief in fostering meaningful relationships ser...
Jan 08, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Sam Tarell is a serial entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He's the founder of Divergent U, a one year alternative to college in Orlando, Florida to help students discover their professional purpose and achieve their dream lifestyle. Key Takeaways: Setting a quick timer to design or reach a goal turns off the critic in our head and silences the negativity so that we can enter a state of divergent thinking quicker. The less we talk when leading workshops or lessons, the better the learning is for stud...
Dec 25, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Sam Tarell is a serial entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He's the founder of Divergent U, a one year alternative to college in Orlando, Florida to help students discover their professional purpose and achieve their dream lifestyle. Key Takeaways: Nine limitations, we all face. Clarity Discipline Beliefs Culture Location Rules Connections Money Time The first three are internal. The second three external. The last three are the strategy. We need to invite students in to be part of their educational ...
Dec 18, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Sam Tarell is a serial entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He's the founder of Divergent U, a one year alternative to college in Orlando, Florida to help students discover their professional purpose and achieve their dream lifestyle. Key Takeaways: Values, goals, and process is a key framework to follow when getting into Divergent thinking. This is an important framework because it teaches leaders, or encourages them, to stay hands off when it comes to process. This is another way to enact empowermen...
Dec 11, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Sam Tarell is a serial entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He's the founder of Divergent U, a one year alternative to college in Orlando, Florida to help students discover their professional purpose and achieve their dream lifestyle. Key Takeaways: Divergent thinking is what's required for complex problem solving and discovering personal values and philosophies and passions. You can tell what someone is passionate about by analyzing their time spent. Where they spend their time the most is what is mo...
Dec 04, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Harvey Hazen was a public school educator for 37 years. He was a teacher, counselor, high school principal and vice principal, middle school principal and district superintendent. During that time Harvey followed the progress of many students' careers as they went off to college. Many of them were less than successful even though they left high school with great academic records. Over the years he talked with many of them. Many reported two things to Harvey. Their program simply seemed to lack r...
Nov 27, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Dr. Melinda Vandevort is a dynamic educator, career transition coach, and podcast host. With a passion for professional development, she guides educators on their journey to leadership roles through her podcast, Empowered Educator. As a former teacher who successfully transitioned into a leadership position, Dr. Mel offers valuable insights and actionable advice to help educators realize their leadership potential. Her mission is to empower educators to make a lasting impact on education while f...
Nov 20, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 33
I had the opportunity to speak with Charle Peck from the Thriving Educator Podcast about the mental health issues we are seeing in schools and possible ways to assist both students and staff. Charle Peck is not just a podcast host, but also the co-creator of Thriving School Community, co-author of Improving School Mental Health: The Thriving School Community Solution, and a global keynote speaker delivering powerful messages of hope to educators. I really enjoyed this talk and ask that you take ...
Nov 13, 2023•45 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Dr. Karavedas is an experienced leader with over 25 years of executive-level leadership in independent schools and nonprofits. With a Masters in Education and a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Dr. Karavedas actively teaches as a Professor at Bachelors and Masters levels. She currently holds the position of Director of Research and New Program Development at Orange Lutheran High School where she is responsible for development and oversight of the school’s flexible learning options and pat...
Nov 06, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 31
As the CITES Project Director, Christine Fox manages the planning and implementation of CITES activities. In coordination with the center’s Principal Investigator (PI) and CAST Director of Technical Assistance, Christine coordinates the evaluation and reporting, budgeting, and leveraging of internal and external partnerships related to this project. Prior to joining CAST, Christine was the Senior Director of External Relations for the Consortium for School Networking (COSN) where she was respons...
Oct 30, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Charle Peck is the co-creator of Thriving School Community, a revolutionary program designed for schools to improve mental health. With over 20 years of education and mental health leadership experience, she has the unique lens of both a certified teacher and a licensed clinical therapist specializing in trauma. Charle holds an MS in Education and an MS in Social Work. Her role as a high school teacher coupled with her work with children and families in crisis gives her incredible insight into s...
Oct 23, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 29
I had a great opportunity to speak with Lainie Rowell about how we breath gratitude into our lives each day by becoming a grateful person Check out her podcast Evolving with Gratitude wherever you listen.! We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins Univers...
Oct 16, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Innovative business management professional experienced in academics, education, admissions, and non-profit development. An energetic creative visionary and strategic organizational leader, possessing a growth-oriented solution driven mindset, and effective communication, relationship building, project planning, complex problem solving, and change management skills. Analytical, decisive, and influential in driving profitability and creating working cultures where team members thrive. A highly se...
Oct 09, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Julia Briggs was an educator for 12+ years, taught science and chemistry in the United Kingdom and then in Colombia, where she led the Chemistry team. Julia has worked as an adult learning facilitator for the past 3 years and now works as head of operations for Education to Change the World. She has a master's degree in educational leadership from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Some Key Takeaways: We need to be educating students for the future right now instead of using the ...
Oct 02, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Some Key Takeaways Teachers need to be given the opportunity to creatively educate students rather than being told what and how to teach and talk. Help teachers reengage with their why by scaling back restriction and amplifying autonomy General structures need to be present for teachers to act creatively and if we are going to offer autonomy. Increasing opportunities for collaboration among teachers increases like experiences for students across classes. We need to exercise the "less is more" ap...
Sep 25, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Cassandra Williams is an accomplished educator, administrator, and entrepreneur with a passion for transforming education and supporting teachers. She holds a Master's degree in Educational Administration from California State University, Northridge, and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Southern Illinois University. As the CEO and Founder of Educational Innovation 360°, Cassandra leads a successful consulting group specializing in teacher training, adult learning, and instruction...
Sep 18, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 24
