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Welcome to The Inspired Teacher Podcast! This podcast is meant to help share inspiration, ideas & anecdotes to help educators be their best on a daily basis.
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Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! The thoughts on today's episode were inspired by a text from my wife & words from Marcus Aurelius in Meditations (8.12). I hope you enjoy the show!
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! If you're anything like me you sometimes let external events dictate too much of your attitude and actions. The thoughts on today's episode were inspired by a conversation I had with my wife and the book Win Your Inner Battles: Defeat the Enemy Within & Live With Purpose by Darius Foroux. 
Thanks for joining me for this episode--I think you'll love the guest! In today's episode, I discuss mindfulness and being present with Brian Aikens. Brian is a husband/father, educator, & competitor that walks the talk of mindfulness and his life and teaching have improved greatly because of it.
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! I'm going to be honest, today was a tough day for me in the classroom. I had a few things happen that made me pretty upset and questioning whether or not I was doing the right thing and it's quite serendipitous that this is the message I would record tonight. I hope you enjoy the words of Matthew McConaughy in his book Greenlights and a post on X from Jon Gordon.   
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! The episode today is a quick one--but done is better perfect. Earlier this week I was listening to The Rachel Hollis Podcast and she mentioned a great line about goals being like kitchen remodels so I had to share my thoughts. 
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! Time is one of our most precious commodities, yet too often we waste it. We turn back to the Stoics in today's episode and listen to the words of Seneca the Younger in one of his Moral Letters to Lucilius.
You May Be a Pioneer

You May Be a Pioneer

2024-02-2105:08

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! In his book Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things that Make Us Who We Are, Jedediah Jenkins reminds us that we can be our own pioneers and that we don't always have to follow the paths of others. Today's episode combines the thoughts of Jenkis with the practical wisdom of Admiral William H. McRaven in his book The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy).
Build Momentum

Build Momentum

2024-02-1605:54

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! The thoughts on today's episode were inspired by a passage in Rick Alexander's book Burn Your Couch: A Manifesto for the Average Averse. Rick reminds us to take small imcremental steps towards our goals and I love his message.
Be Like Jess

Be Like Jess

2024-02-1405:28

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! Like many teachers, I've been thinking a lot about balance lately--especially finding an appropriate balance between being a kind and caring teacher and maintaining high expectations in my classroom. The thoughts on today's episode were inspired by Robert Greene's Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature.
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! I was struggling with feeling a lack of motivation this past week and I came across a great book that helped to remind me what's really important--how we respond. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to check out the resources and links I discuss throughout the episode.  Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator's Mindset by George Couros and Katie Novak  The Insight Timer Meditation App Ed Mylett on the Reticular Activating System 
Mind Your Emotions

Mind Your Emotions

2024-02-0703:46

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! We've all fallen victim to our emotions from time to time and could certainly use a reminder of the fickle nature of them. Today's episode was inspired by an episode of the Impact Theory podcast with Tom Bilyeau and Tony Robbins' book Unlimted Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement. 
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! We throw around the term "potential" so callously it seems--but what does it truly mean? Today's episode was inspired by Adam Grant. Grant is an author and professor and gives a fantastic explanation of what potential means in his latest book Hidden Potential: The Science of Ahcieving Great Things.
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! I often spend time mindlessly scrolling X and I came across this simple, yet thought-provoking post. I then turned to Meditations for some of Marcu Aurelius's thoughts on the importance of adversity in life.
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! Today's episode was inspired by Kendall Jenner and Jay Shetty on the On Purpose Podcast. 
Suspend Judgement

Suspend Judgement

2024-01-2604:19

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! I know I can't be the only teacher who often finds himself or herself trying to truly understand the motivations of some of our students. I often catch myself assuming that I know what makes some students act the way they do--and as the message in today's episode reminds us, that can be a dangerous thing. The thoughts in today's episode were inspired by Robert Green's The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature. 
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! I was driving into an early morning wrestling tournament and listening to The School of Greatness podcast by Lewis Howes and this little nugget of wisdom that I share struck me. Today's episode is all about how you speak to yourself. I hope you enjoy it! 
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! If you're anything like me you've found yourself making some of the same frustrating mistakes repeatedly. Today's message helps with just that and it comes from The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art of Living Life as well as Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career.
What is Greatness?

What is Greatness?

2024-01-1903:22

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! Today's episode is a quick one but it's got an impactful message about what greatness truly means. Lewis Howes quotes Olympian,  Shawn Johnson on her ideas of greatness in his book The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide for Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy. I hope you enjoy this quick, yet powerful, episode. As always, please feel free to let me know what you think by rating and reviewing the podcast or leaving me feedback at this site. 
Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! We've been discussing the idea of progress quite a bit lately and I felt like today's message from Laird Hamilton was a great one. Laird reminds the reader that sometimes too much progress isn't always a good thing.  Liferider: Heart, Body, Soul & Life Beyond the Ocean by Laird Hamilton  "Look Up" by Gary Turk 
True Progress

True Progress

2024-01-1206:22

Welcome to the Inspired Teacher podcast! If you haven't figured it out by now I'm clearly on a personal growth journey. Today's episode comes from Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations (with a little help from the Huberman Lab podcast) and serves as a perfect reminder of what we should be chasing. I hope you are progressing towards your goals! 
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