As educator moms, we often pride ourselves on being “right”—whether it’s about parenting choices, classroom strategies, or what needs to change in education. Being right gives us a sense of security, control, and even empowerment. But true empowerment isn’t only about being right—it's also about wanting to be wrong about our limiting beliefs. Listen in to learn a mindset shift that helps you stop defending what’s not working and start embracing what might just change everythi

Delight can be a powerful addition to your empowerment toolkit—one that helps you meet tough moments with calm, patience, lightheartedness, and laughter. In this episode of the Empowered Educator Mom podcast, we explore four aspects of delight and how you can use them to shift your mood. You’ll walk away with strategies you can use right away to infuse your life with more delight, fun, humor, and liking.

Adding is our natural default when it comes to solving problems and striving to improve our lives. We add organizers to manage clutter. We add diet plans to lose weight. We add programs to help struggling students. And we add meetings to implement the programs. What if real empowerment comes not from adding…but from subtracting? Listen in to hear stories, research insights, and practical examples you can try right away to simplify your life at home and work.

Empowerment makes it easier to handle challenges and stress, push harder on your goals, strengthen your relationships, and positively impact all areas of your life. But what happens when you don’t use it? This episode of the Empowered Educator Mom podcast addresses the hidden costs of disempowerment.

Ever feel like you're a puppet and other people are pulling your strings? If you want to feel more in control in your life, to feel more empowered, this episode will teach you where and how to get started. Empowerment (or lack of it) makes a real difference in how you approach your life, the different roles you play, and your relationships, so it’s worth your time to figure out how to have more of it.

Confidence doesn’t come easily to most women. Listen to learn about challenges women face and 6 things they can do to improve confidence.

Everyone experiences hard things in life. Listen to learn a strategy to reframe how you think about challenges so they're easier to handle.

Your brain actively collects "evidence" to help you survive, but it over-collects negative. Learn how to override that to improve your life.

We think quick progress is good and slow is bad. Listen for another way to think about slow progress that will motivate you to keep going.

Most people abandon resolutions within a month or two. Learn a different way to think about goals that will make them easier to achieve.

Perfectionism pretends to help you improve, but it really just keeps you overwhelmed and stuck. Part 3 of the Lies of Perfectionism series.

Perfectionism pretends to help you improve, but it really just keeps you overwhelmed and stuck. Part 1 of the Lies of Perfectionism series.

Most of us have painful, limiting thoughts that we automatically accept as true. But what if you could change those? Listen to learn more.