Ep #165: How to Emotionally Support Your Teachers with Jewelle Bejjavarapu

How to Emotionally Support Your Teachers with Jewelle Bejjavarapu

For this episode, I conducted an impromptu interview with former teacher and Life Coach School graduate Jewelle Bejjavarapu. Jewelle is here to share her insights into how we as school leaders can emotionally support our teachers, helping them to love their jobs and have the biggest impact possible on the kids and our communities.

Jewelle is a life coach for young women struggling with fertility issues. Prior to starting this work, she was a teacher, but after years of putting other people first and letting her perfectionist tendencies get in the way of doing her job, and seeing other teachers doing the same, she knew it was time for a change. She’s looking back on her time in education and giving us her insights into what we can do differently in our schools.

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Ep #164: Cultivating Positivity for Students and Teachers with Joey Mascio

Cultivating Positivity for Students and Teachers with Joey Mascio

This month, I’ve been focusing on bringing you interviews with real educators who are using the life coaching skills I share here on the podcast in their professional lives for the betterment of their entire schools. And my guest this week is an amazing example of that, but he’s taking things a step further.

Joey Mascio is currently a middle school teacher and – at his own request – occupies a special place in the discipline office in his school. Through his time in that role of a ‘disciplinarian with a difference’, Joey was able to hone his skills as a coach for the teens who get sent his way. How he’s stepped into that role and what he has planned for the future is truly inspiring.

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Ep #163: Mental and Emotional Resilience Starts Here with Ben Pugh

Mental and Emotional Resilience Starts Here with Ben Pugh

We’re focusing on mental and emotional wellbeing here on the podcast over the month of February, and this week, I have the perfect guest to talk us through this topic. Ben Pugh is a certified life coach through The Life Coach School, and his specialty lies in parent and teen coaching. He’s passionate about helping parents reconnect with their teens, to help them build rock-solid relationships so they can turn their struggles into strengths.

Ben is a shining example of someone who has used coaching tools to first manage his own mental and emotional health, to then be of service at the highest level to his staff and students. From being labeled a teenage arsonist to becoming a principal, you’ll hear how his story is the foundation of his passion for empowering teenagers, and I can’t wait for you to listen in and be inspired by his drive to help his clients turn their lives around.

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Ep #162: Mental and Emotional Well-being in Schools:

Mental and Emotional Well-being in Schools

This year has already been incredibly challenging for our schools as a whole. Leaders don’t know what is around the corner, and our staff and students are isolated and struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

We are in the midst of an endurance race. Our mental and emotional faculties are being pushed to the limits. Now more than ever, we need tools to help ourselves and to help others thrive in the environment we find ourselves in. So, that is why this whole month on the podcast, we’re going to focus on mental and emotional health. We’re talking about what mental and emotional well-being is and how we can maintain it in our schools.

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