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Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.

This weekly podcast is designed to help anyone working in schools incorporate small shifts. These small shifts, practiced over time, will make a positive impact in school AND at home. In these 5 minute episodes, Suzanne will share a little story and invite listeners to incorporate a small shift in their upcoming week. At the end of the week, listeners can reflect to see if it increased their happiness at home or at school.

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  1. 226

    Beginning with the Ending

    In this episode, we go back to the end of 25-26 to shift our perspective as we begin 26-27.

  2. 225

    What’s Saving Your Life Right Now?

    As we wrap up season 6, we are asked to consider the small things that bring us great joy.

  3. 224

    Tips for your to-dos

    In this episode, we learn three simple ways to keep little dopamine hits headed our way as we accomplish tasks in our personal and professional lives.

  4. 223

    Always Hit Send

    In this episode, we acknowledge when it’s sometimes difficult to gauge the exact right thing to say to someone we care about and give us the permission to show how much we care.

  5. 222

    Don't Let The Things Win

    In this episode, as we recognize this busy time of year with endless to-dos, we also recognize our agency in how we approach them. 

  6. 221

    Find Your Counterweights

    In this episode, we are inspired by Shannan Martin, author of Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World. She invites us to consider how to find the balance in heavy seasons.

  7. 220

    Purposeful Pause

    In this episode, we honor the times in our life when we honor a fragile time and take a purposeful pause.

  8. 219

    Plan Backwards from Your Retirement

    This episode invites us to consider a small shift in future thought that can impact our present actions.

  9. 218

    Reclaim Your Algorithm

    This episode is for those who are struggling to stay informed with the world’s happenings, but not become consumed by them.

  10. 217

    Treat Your Family like Colleagues

    This episode explores a small shift in action that can help strengthen our presence with our home team, even after a tiring day at school.

  11. 216

    Because It Is

    This episode shares a small shift in language that helps those we work with, live with, and love feel heard and validated.

  12. 215

    There is No Work to be Done

    This episode is a small shift in thought that can help us feel empowered by doing a little less.

  13. 214

    Live a Lifetime in a Day

    This episode is inspired by a recently read and loved book, The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Dr, Aditi Nerurkar.

  14. 213

    Hallway Goodness

    In this final episode of our mini-series of good, we will explore the value of slowing down to listen and hear the ordinary good things happening in our schools that make us extraordinarily proud of our important work.

  15. 212

    GOOD Gossip

    In this episode, we consider a small shift in action and language that can help us be messengers of what’s GOOD.

  16. 211

    GOOD Eavesdropping

    In this episode, we get crafty as we learn a way to speak good about those around us in a way they’ll remember.

  17. 210

    Capture & Remember the Good

    In this episode, we learn one way we can hold onto the ways people show up for us, reminding us of the good. 

  18. 209

    Tell Them Something Good

    In this episode, we consider the way we use our language with those we teach, work with, live with, and love.

  19. 208

    Holiday Hello From Suzanne

    In this episode, Suzanne shares some quick updates and encourages us to find peace in our pace.

  20. 207

    A Good Thing Is...

    In this episode, we consider a way to strengthen or simplify the practice of gratitude.

  21. 206

    What Is As Is

    In this episode, we learn a small 4 word shift in thought that can help conserve our limited time and energy in the busy holiday seasons and the ordinary days in between.

  22. 205

    Slow-Vember

    This episode encourages us to intentionally slow down a bit before the hustle and bustle of the holiday season begins.

  23. 204

    Look Around Your Room

    This episode is an extension of last week’s when we honored those we’ve lost. This week, we consider how to express gratitude to those we get to share life with.

  24. 203

    Bring Them Back into the Room

    In this tender episode, we consider how we can honor those we have loved and lost and support those we care about to do the same.

  25. 202

    Breaking Up is Hard to Do

    In this episode, we learn 2 ideas that can help create some distance from the “cheap dopamine” we find from our phones and get closer to the things that make us feel genuinely happy.

  26. 201

    Is it Time for a Breakup?

    In this episode, we are inspired by two young adults and the author of How to Breakup with Your Phone to see if our time on our phones is impacting our time elsewhere. 

  27. 200

    Shhhhh

    In this episode, we are inspired by the new book Radical Listening to learn of a small shift in action that can help us in our conversations at school and at home.

  28. 199

    Be a Flight Attendant

    In this episode, we consider a small shift in action when life hits us with inevitable turbulence. 

  29. 198

    Toxic Stress to Tolerable Stress

    In this episode, we acknowledge when stress in our lives becomes toxic and examine how we may be able to make it a bit more tolerable.  

  30. 197

    Can the Kids in Your Life Answer These 3 Questions?

    In this episode, we slow down and simplify. When we become overwhelmed with all of the small things we have to do for our students at school or children at home, let’s ask ourselves these 3 big questions to know that we are on track for doing a good job. 

  31. 196

    Kindness Matters

    In this episode, we launch season 6 and consider how we can start this school year being gentle, generous, and kind to ourselves. Teach Happier QuickWins Cards 

  32. 195

    Rich because...

    In this episode, we choose to find and celebrate the uniquely special things that come with our job as educators. 

  33. 194

    What's Your Reentry Plan?

    In this episode, we are inspired by the book Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid and the The Deep Dive podcast with June Diane Raphael and Jessica St. Clair as we envision a small shift in our actions that can help us reenter our upcoming school year with intentionality.

  34. 193

    What's Your Battle Plan?

    In this second summer bonus episode, we identify what kind of time we are in and consider what we would need in our "Battle Plan" during a fragile season.

  35. 192

    Say Yes to a No Day

    In our first summer podcast, we consider a small shift in thought that can help us squeeze the heck out of our well-earned summer.  

  36. 191

    Keep Happy This Summer

    In this final episode of season 5, we wrap up and consider how we can squeeze the heck out of our upcoming summer. 

  37. 190

    2 Ideas to Try: Social Wealth & Mental Wealth

    This is our final preview of The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom. We learn a strategy to help grow our social wealth and our mental wealth. 

  38. 189

    2 Ideas to Try: Time Wealth

    In this episode, we learn to strategies shared in the time wealth section of The 5 Types of Wealth. 

  39. 188

    Summer Reading! An Introduction to the 5 Types of Wealth

    In this episode, we hear an overview of The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom as an invitation to read it over the summer as we rest and reflect. 

  40. 187

    Give Yourself 90 Seconds

    In this episode, we learn why 90 seconds is an important timeframe when it comes to regulating our emotions.

  41. 186

    7 Words to Brighten Someone's Day

    In this episode, we learn seven words we can use in our busy lives that can help brighten someone’s day. 

  42. 185

    What is NOT Yours to Do?

    In this episode, we examine our lives to celebrate the work that ISN’T ours to do.

  43. 184

    What is Yours to Do?

    In this episode, we consider a small shift in thought that can help us discover our agency when life gets “life-y”. 

  44. 183

    Say What?

    In this episode, we learn a small shift in language that can help us support others during times of uncertainty and worry.

  45. 182
  46. 181

    Take Notes

    In this episode, we are invited to consider a small shift in action that can help us capture some good, and find a little bit of sunshine this time of year. 

  47. 180

    Who's Your MVP?

    In this episode, we are inspired by 2024 NFL MVP winner Josh Allen. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged those who support his success. Our invitation is to consider those we work with that support our success and share some gratitude. 

  48. 179

    Lessons From a 15 Year Olds

    In this episode, we are inspired by a bunch of regular 15-year-olds as they make the decision to lift each other up again and again.  

  49. 178

    5 More Minutes

    What would you do if you had 5 extra minutes in your day? In this episode, we consider put our answer to action. 

  50. 177

    Mid-Week Podcast Pop-In

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This weekly podcast is designed to help anyone working in schools incorporate small shifts. These small shifts, practiced over time, will make a positive impact in school AND at home. In these 5 minute episodes, Suzanne will share a little story and invite listeners to incorporate a small shift in their upcoming week. At the end of the week, listeners can reflect to see if it increased their happiness at home or at school.

HOSTED BY

Suzanne Dailey

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