Mini Maestros - Thrive 0 to 5: Recent Episodes
Mini Maestros
Mini Maestros Thrive 0 to 5, is your go-to podcast for supporting your baby or toddler to thrive.
Tune in as they interview leaders in the education space, business owners, parents, and experts in early childhood development and explore the critical issues in raising and educating young children.
Hosted by Esther Bertram, Mini Maestros Chief Marketing Officer.
In this episode, you'll meet Susie Davies-Splitter, a music educator, composer, and co-founder of Welcome to Music, a wonderful collection of resources for children, teachers, and parents. Susie has created and performed countless songs, musicals, and choral works that are loved and used worldwide, including many of the songs in the Mini Maestros program. You'll hear about her musical journey, her enthusiasm for music education, and her advice for making music fun and engaging for everyone. Don't miss this inspiring conversation with Susie Davies-Splitter, who champions the importance of singing for both adults and children alike.
LINKS
Susie & Phil's Website
Susie & Phil's YouTube Channel
Susie and Phil offer a membership program for educators that includes various professional development courses in the fields of Early Childhood and primary education. They also teach how to play the ukulele.
Learn more here.
Our guest today is Donna Wright, a passionate and extremely experienced leader in education. Donna has been the recipient or finalist for multiple awards including
Australian Principal of the Year (2020). Australian Primary Principal of the Year (2020), Australian Primary School of the Year – Finalist (2021), Australian Best Covid Programming – Finalist (2021), just to name a few.
This is testament to her commitment and passion for education and it is an honour to have her on our show today.
In this episode Mini Maestros interviews Gavin McCormack. Gavin is a rockstar in the education world. Tune in to hear his thoughts, feelings and approaches to educating the next generation, both in Australia and abroad.
A bit more about Gavin; He the co-founder of Upschool.co - an online platform to bring free schooling to children around the globe, Kindbox.com - a fundraising experience for those who care about changing the world, and educationInfluence.com -a global network of influencers driving education standards worldwide.
Gavin was nominated for Australian Principal of the Year 2020, is a TEDx speaker, was nominated for Australian Author of the Year in 2017, is an Australian of the Year Nominee and was named as the 10th Most Influential Educator in the World by LinkedIn.
On a quest for educational equality, Gavin has worked tirelessly to raise money to personally build many schools, libraries and teacher training centres in the Himalayan region of Nepal across the last 5 years, all this whilst successfully running one of Australia’s best Montessori primary schools. Gavin is also a Montessori Australia Ambassador, School Principal of the Year finalists 2020 - TEDX Speaker - 6-12 Montessori Teacher- Australian LinkedIn Top Voice 2019/2020 – and Best-Selling Author.
Tune in to episode 6 to hear what this ambitious and inspiring man has to say on various topics about education and children in today’s world.
Learn More About Gavin Here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmccormack
In this episode, Mini Maestros interviews Filipa Bellette, Co-Founder of Chris & Filly Functional Medicine. Filly is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist & Functional Medicine Practitioner, a PhD thought-leader, and award-winning writer. Together with her husband Chris Bellette, Filipa has worked with over 2,000+ busy, burnout clients in the last combined 20+ years, and specialises in producing healthy, productive and happy Mums & Dads...or as she calls it, a Power Parent! Filipa’s own passion for producing high-performance Power Parents came from her own personal experience of Mummy Burnout, after having babies, and juggling the demands of business, family, and her failing health. Chris & Filly are on a mission to change the trajectory of the future of our planet, by forging a tribe of POWER PARENTS around Australia…and the world! They believe that no amount of success can compensate failure in the family. It is every child’s human right to grow up healthy, happy and loved. And they believe it starts with YOU the parents. Their vision is to see a world free of abuse, where all children grow up in a home with a loving, connected and healthy family - children led by POWER PARENTS!
Do “The Burnout” test on their website: https://www.chrisandfilly.fm/
Filly Recommends: “Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abw43kcLrbg
“The Four Tendencies” - By Gretchen Rubin
https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/
Tests You Can Do:
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Stress Hormones: AdrenoCortex Stress Profile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psvlHdm0eP0
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Gut Health: Complete Microbiome Mapping stool test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1jspvb2_uQ&t=13s
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Energy, Mental Health, Gut & Detox Health: Organix Acids Profile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FogB9BHuUo
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Gut Health: SIBO breath test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNCNurILB6M
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Sex Hormone Health: 28 Day Female Hormone Profile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6CPzdDp0QQ
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Food Allergies/Sensitivities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anQIBprHcqU
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Vaginal Microbiome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b29uzDkS09w
"Will I ever use this when I grow up?" This single question from one of his students changed the direction of Ramesh's life. He boarded a plane to Australia to grow and learn as a teacher. He wanted to provide education that had a real-life application for his children.
Today, Ramesh works as an Early Childhood Teacher and Environment Rating Scale Observer at Goodstart Early Learning Jerrabomberra. He also volunteers a lot of his time to promote educational equity, conduct community welfare projects and empower at-risk and disadvantaged communities.
To date, Ramesh has conducted over 250 projects, events, workshops and fundraisers while pursuing his goal to build a more fair, caring and kind society. He was also awarded the Best VET/TAFE Student of the Year 2020 Award for his works by the Council of International Students Australia.
In 2020 Ramesh was a finalist for NSW international student, the highest recognition for international students. Ramesh is founder of the 'Shakti Scholarships', a scholarship program to empower at-risk and disadvantaged young girls of Nepal through education. He also manages two FB groups 'Thriving as Male Educators' and 'Educators Wellbeing Hub'.
Ramesh's dream is to open his own school in Nepal that promotes the holistic development of children and provides an education that has real-life application. In this podcast interview you’ll hear what Ramesh has to say about early childhood education here and abroad.
FURTHER INFO BELOW
Shakti Scholarships: https://www.facebook.com/shaktischolarships
Thriving as Male Educators Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/906163170005567
The Ron Clark Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwR9dCqjSY
Ramesh Shrestha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-shrestha-64398a139/
In episode 3, Mini Maestros interviews Shae Cox an Infant & Child Sleep Consultant and Parenting Coach.
Shae is the founder of Connection Village, where she supports families from conception and beyond to raise connected children. The Village helps parents to nurture meaningful bonds with their children across every age and stage of parenting. Her approach is holistic, collaborative, non-judgemental and through educating and coaching she supports people to be the best parent they can be.
Shae offers free 15 minute consultations – head over to her website here. https://www.connectionvillage.co/
Shae finds sleep deprived parents respond well to podcasts as opposed to books, so she has created a list of both books and podcasts she recommendations below.
BOOKS
Listen By Patty Wipfler & Tosha Schore.
Anxious Mums & Anxious Kids by Dr Jodi Richardson
The Father Hood by Luke Benedictus, Andrew McUtchen & Jeremy Macvean
PODCASTS:
The Aware Parenting Podcast by Lael Stone & Marion Rose.
Hand In Hand Parenting by Elle Kwan and Abigail Wald
Well, Hello Anxiety with Dr Jodi Richardson
In this 2nd podcast episode, Mini Maestros interviews Katie Fleet, Partner and Education Director at Eds. Eds. supports schools, education institutions and organisations to demonstrate their impact through clearer evidence of learning and wellbeing outcomes. Katie has a very impressive resume in the field of education and shares the Mini Maestros mission of supporting the next generation to thrive. Katie is doing all she can, in her company and working with the government, to help shape the education system in Australia. It was wonderful to pick her brains about what’s happening on a State and National level in education in Australia and how it compares to other places of the world.
Learn More: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-fleet-a02003a4
https://edschange.com/
Movie: Inside Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/ Extreme Love - Louis Theroux: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qzv4j
Mini Maestros interviews Leisa Papa for the debut episode of Mini Maestros Thrive 0-5 Podcast. Leisa is Founder of Little Kids Business, she's an Inside Retail Top 50 Small Business Leader, Public Speaker, Blogger and Children’s Author. Leisa provides great insights of what it is like to be a mother in business and how to get your child to ditch their dummy with less stress. Her latest book "Daniel and the Dummy Fairy", is a story that may help you transition your child to not needing or wanting a dummy.