Ep #209: Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

The Empowered Principal Podcast with Angela Kelly | Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

It’s the end of the year, and it’s been a long one. In so many ways, it was amazing. But in so many other ways, it was incredibly challenging. So, you’re in the middle of a break right now, and I think this is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and start looking ahead.

In today’s episode, we’re closing out 2021 and welcoming in 2022. You’re going to review everything you enjoyed, everything that challenged you, and by the end, you’ll be able to look back with a newfound appreciation for one of the most difficult years in history and look forward with anticipation and excitement.

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Holiday Bonus: When Someone Bugs You

The Empowered Principal Podcast with Angela Kelly | Holiday Bonus: When Someone Bugs You

As a gift to all of you listeners, I have decided to drop an extra holiday bonus special to help you through the festive season. If you know you’re going to have to deal with someone who bugs you this holiday season, you’re in the right place.

This time of year can be highly stressful and we have to deal with a lot of people, and we all know someone who gets on our nerves. So whether it’s somebody at work or someone in your personal life, this episode is all about how to deal with that one person who triggers you, and how you can choose to react when they bug you.

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Ep #208: Take a Real Break

The Empowered Principal Podcast with Angela Kelly | Take a Real Break

How much do you actually enjoy your holiday break? One of the questions I love to ask myself is, what would feel like a miracle for my school leaders this month? Well, I believe that my work in this area is showing you how to actually not work over the Christmas and New Year period and instead take a real break.

If you know you’re going to struggle to make it through the holiday break without feeling the itch to do some work, this episode is for you. I’m walking you through how I personally developed a way for me to get my work done before a break and decide what a real break looks like for me, so I can fully enjoy and be present during my time off.

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Ep #207: Creating Balance

The Empowered Principal Podcast with Angela Kelly | Creating Balance

What is balance? This is such an important question. We’ve all said before, “I wish I had more work-life balance.” And typically, what people are thinking about when they say this is the way that they’re spending their time. They want to spend less time working and more time engaging in their lives outside of work.

Often, it feels like we’re spending our entire time working and not enough time doing what makes us feel happy and rejuvenated, and that is imbalanced. We want to think of it as a mathematical equation. But the truth is, balance is something that we feel. And even if you spend equal time working and playing, that feeling of balance isn’t guaranteed.

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Ep #206: Staff Meetings

The Empowered Principal Podcast with Angela Kelly | Staff Meetings

How often do you leave your staff meetings feeling like they were completely unproductive? My clients come to me perplexed about how to get their teachers on the same page when it comes to a staff meeting agenda, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this quandary play out. 

You might feel like you and your teachers just don’t have the same goals at a staff meeting. What you want to accomplish and what they want sometimes aren’t aligned. They might want to hash out nuts and bolts, or have questions they need answering, and the desire to find the balance here can often lead to everyone walking away with nothing, tired after a long day of work.

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