Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Recent Episodes

Chrissy Nichols, Life Coach for Teachers

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself. To learn more about Chrissy and book a free consult call, head to www.thechrissyconcept.com. One call can change your life!

In this episode "Why Bad Days Aren't Your Fault & How to Feel Better at School," I show you:
-why your experience of bad days is not on you: how neurochemicals like dopamine and epinephrine work for and against you;

-how to feel better even when you’re having a hard day;

-how to use the Add-On Method to create deliberate dopamine;

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

As teachers, is our worth only what we DO for others?

Does our value lie in what we can perform and how we can give to others?

In this episode, I tell the story of working with a client who said it feels selfish for her to think about herself. But I challenge you to think about you. The more you can pour into yourself, the more you have for the world.

So how can you be self-FUL? Don't miss this episode to find out!

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Enjoy Episode 110 with Amber Harper of www.burnedinteacher.com. In this conversation that we recorded together, we discuss using real time hacks at the start of your year like batching your work and simply deciding how much time you want to spend at school. The mindfulness piece that I brilliantly add to you and Amber’s listeners is: YOU ALWAYS GET TO DECIDE. Enjoy this podcast swap.

In this Episode you will learn:

How to find your own power not only with time but with burnout
How to become your own hero and be the change for you
Time Management: how we can choose to spend our time more efficiently
Concrete Thought Plan

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want more spaciousness, ease, and calm when it comes to your relationships? OF COURSE! We all do. In this episode, I explore the Let Them concept. It's simple but not always easy. Letting others be exactly who they are at school and in life will give you peace and greater ease, particularly if you identify as a "control freak extraordinaire." Let your brain be your brain and your emotions be your emotions.

Let them.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

What's your SHABLAM?

What does that even mean?

What makes you tick? What are your special gifts? What helps you feel at home inside yourself?

In this epsiode, Chrissy shares her own personal shablam.

**Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

*** More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Join this amazing interview with published poet and English teacher Eve Ellis, who works in an international school in London. Eve tells us what it is really like to work in live in a vibrant city and still have to grade your essays. Eve also touches on work-life balance and how time thoughts are the same that we all seem to have. Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Sure : we all want to change new habits but will they last 6 months from now?

In Part 2 of How to Create Habits that Last, using the research of Dr. Kelly McGonigal's work (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/kelly-m-mcgonigal), I emphasize why coming from a growth mindset is the key to changing any habit.

In this episode, you will learn:

• the 3 E's: ENVIRONMENT, EASE & ENJOYMENT

• how these three tools can set you up for success

• the secret of the 10 minute rule

• how to feel or "surf" any urge.

• how to define success--it's not in creating the habit itself but catching yourself and your mind when you don't.

Enjoy this episode of Teacher Talk!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want a habit that will go the distance?

Want a new habit that will actually still be working for you 4 months from now on a random Wednesday?

YES! We all want that.

But you need to ask the right questions.

In this episode, How to Create Habits that Last, Part 1, you will learn: * why habit change is hard * how to find your motivation that goes deeper than you thought * how using your values is important in habit creation Leaning on the science of psychologist Kelly M. McGonigal (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/kelly-m-mcgonigal), learning about habit formation can help you change and create new habits...that last!

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

It's normal to feel weird about the lack of structure summer brings. But don't second guess yourself. You can want what you want. I am here to help you. In this episode, you will learn: • why it’s normal for us as teachers to have positive and negative thoughts about summer: • 3 strategies to use to help you have your own back about summer;

In today’s podcast I want to focus and share some of the intuitive practices that have not only helped me at school but in my life as well. This is when I turn to Francesca McCartney’s work on intuition.

I highly recommend McCartney’s book “Body of Health” and the grounding practice I share today comes from this book. In this episode, I am going to share visualizations that I use to ground myself.

What is grounding and how is it beneficial?

A strong grounding connection provides a stable base from which I can feel safe, centered, aware and clear.
I know when I am grounded because my inner voice is accessible.
My decisions are clear because I trust myself. In essence, I belong to myself when I am grounded. Tune in to find out how to ground yourself in and out of school.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Do you belong? To what? To whom? For years, I was a pleaser. I flexed and bent myself to "FIT" into what I thought others wanted of me. But I was a liar. No one got the authentic me. I was so caught up in what I thought others wanted from me, I forgot to belong to myself. In this episode, we do a deep dive into how to belong to YOURSELF. Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 81, I gave you the first part of how to self-coach yourself in any challenging relationship and that first part is to take responsibility for your thoughts and feelings about this person.

(Do not underestimate this step, my friends! Responsibility means getting out of victim mentality and it is HUGE!)

Step 2 is to INTENTIONALLY decide to be in a relationship with this person. You heard me. You need to deliberately decide to be in relationship with them.

To decide to be in a relationship, ask yourself:
1. Who do I want to be? (NOT WHO DO YOU WANT THEM TO BE, who do YOU want to be?)

How do you want to behave?
How do you want to think about this person?
How do you want to act?

There is SO MUCH power, especially at school, to decide that you will be a CERTAIN way no matter how someone else acts.

So Step 1 is doing your own work of taking responsibility.

Step 2 is deciding ahead of time who you want to be so that you are not a helpless victim without any power with this person.

Step 3: Realize that everyone gets to act exactly as they want. It is EXHAUSTING to even think we can control others and we know we can’t.

To repair any relationship, only one person needs to clean up his/her side of the street.

Ready to clean up yours? Don't miss this episode which is right on time for teachers and the school year!

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More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Teachers, are you celebrating YOU?

This bonus episode is not your typical gratitude episode.

In this episode, I remind all teachers to celebrate what is going right-what can you celebrate about you?

What makes you, well, YOU?

I am so grateful for this mind thought work and I celebrate YOU. I celebrate your wins and losses, the tough moments, and yep, the fails.

But please be sure you are celebrating yourselves!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, we are going to look at WHY a relationship at school is tough and how you can identify if you have certain thoughts about a person at your school or in your life that no longer serve you.

You'll learn:

• How to identify your thoughts;

• The one action we all do to help identify if you have thoughts about a colleague;

• What taking responsibility for your thoughts really looks like;

• Why thought responsibility is essential to staying in your power;

By owning our own thinking, we can ask ourselves these very important questions: What am I thinking? What am I feeling in this relationship that is creating challenge? Notice it. That is your homework.

Can you just be with it?

Enjoy this part 1 of a two part series!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 80, I describe some real life scenarios that I have experienced or seen in classes and ask you, "Do you have a Thought Plan for this?" Scenario: A student pulls out his/her phone without permission. Scenario: A student refuses to sit in his seat and says "This f****ing class is BS," and leaves class without permission. Sound familiar? The point is you can prepare for that. You can create a thought plan for yourself. Thought preparation, like all of our preps, involves preparation and practice. Have you practiced your thoughts? Here's one: I have a plan for that. Enjoy this valentine for your ears. Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 79 starts with one simple question: Would you date yourself right now?

Would you?

If you are a teacher who is looking for a partner who is kind, are you speaking to yourself with kindness?

If you want a partner who is FUN, ask yourself, "Am I fun? How do I know that I am fun? Do I have fun with myself?"

If the answer is "yes," great. But if the answer is "no," keep listening to this episode for ways to date yourself, ways of seeing yourself with new eyes, ways of evaluating what you have to bring to the table.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Why did Teddy Anderson leave teaching?

In this episode, you'll find out how this inspired teacher of math and physics felt the kind of fatigue that left her, well, exhausted.

But, the silver lining?

Teddy reminds us we all have power. We are not powerless.

Enjoy this conversation about burnout, fatigue, and why teachers need to use our power.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 77 "How to Slow Down & Shut Up" I show you why it is ESSENTIAL to listen to the words you are using.

The easiest way to do this?

The trick is PAYING ATTENTION TO our thoughts and changing our words to SERVE us is to notice them.

This episode reminds you that your thoughts are the super-highways to anything you want.

And language, our WORDS, make up our thoughts.

Remember, if you want to teach your mind, you are always your own first student so show up and pay attention to how you talk to yourself.

So, get quiet and pay attention to your thoughts and words.

In this episode, you will learn:

• why the word "I want" or "I need" create lack and scarcity

• why taking a breath of 3 before you speak can give your mind "think time" before you speak

• how changing your words to "I can," "I choose" and "I create" is a game changer.

This episode also references episode 76 "Rejection Therapy." Want to know more about Rejection Therapy? Tune into the previous episode to find out more about the big moves I am making at The Chrissy Concept.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life.

Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Rejection Therapy? What is that?

In this episode, I talk about my own journey to fall more in love with my own sense of rejection and fear as I apply the tools I am learning from actively seeking rejection in my own life and in my business.

My inspiration comes from Jason Comely and Jia Jiang who shared his own powerful journey with rejection in a TedX that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZXgApsPCQ.

Impressed by Jia, in this episode, I share how I have started to create a closer relationship with rejection by simply asking a question. I am able to collect a no and it doesn’t kill me. The fear of what people will think, the fear of a no, the fear of disapproval: it no longer hurts me as it may once have.

But these things don’t have to be big asks for us to experience big change.

Asking for what you will change your life.

So where can you ask for what you want?

Where can you feel nervous about a rejection but ask it any way?

Enjoy this episode about fear and rejection.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Every wonder what our principals are actually thinking about? In Episode 75, I am in conversation with high school principal Ingrid Gustavson.

In this episode we discuss the highs and lows of her job, the way she models and cultivates balance in her work, and the pitfalls of trying to "do it all" as either administration or faculty.

Ingrid describes the importance of teacher time and "working around the edges" of our daily time and reminds us claim time for ourselves because, "there will always be one more paper to grade."

Ingrid also describes how she says teachers have come through Covid, why and how they are frontline workers, and how we rebuild mental health for students and teachers. The key, says Ingrid, is play and her suggestions might surprise you. Enjoy this conversation!

Ingrid joined the Rowland Hall community in summer 2016. For three years before her move, Ingrid served as director of studies at Darrow School on the New York-Massachusetts border overseeing all things academic, from curriculum development and scheduling to faculty and student support. Prior to Darrow, Ingrid worked at three schools in California including, most recently, Sage Hill School in Orange County. Ingrid wore many hats there over 11 years, including dean of faculty and history department chair. She has also taught World History, AP Art History, and French, and coached volleyball and basketball. Ingrid and her family enjoy exploring Salt Lake City and the surrounding areas. They especially love road trips, hiking, birding, and skiing.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want more trust, a greater class culture and a better vibe? It is possible to create it NOW, even when the year is underway. In this episode, I lean on the amazing Brene Brown and her work on vulnerability for teachers.

I describe my "a-ha" moments from two of Brene's talks: her keynote address at South by Southwest for Educators (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVD8YRgA-ck) and in an interview on her Daring Classrooms Hub (https://brenebrown.com/dc-interview-series/).

In this episode, you'll see that it is never too late to create vulnerability and safety for your students by doing your own work with it first. Where do you need to feel like you belong at school? Where do you feel like you need support in your learning and career? How can you be more like "a turtle without its shell"?

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Hard days at school actually do not exist without your mind. It's true! The hard or bad is not made by the day. The hard or bad is made by our thoughts about the day.

A day at school is neither hard nor easy without your thoughts making it so!

In episode 73 you will learn:

-how coaching your mind helps you to get to the cause

-how to have a more neutral stance about your day

-how to make a thought choice about the kind of day you want to have

-how you can take responsibility for the kind of day you want to have

I reference the thought leader Marianne Williamson. For more about her, go to https://marianne.com.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Gary Mackelprang is a writer, seeker, reader and my favorite traveling partner. Gary is not only the love of my life but my favorite bibliophile as he added 5,000 books to our home when we merged households. Gary is the proud father of four amazing daughters and loves ideas, cozy naps, and a good cigar.

In this episode, my husband and I discuss how coaching has changed me and his experience watching my journey as a coach. Gary talks about both my struggles and celebrations and describes how he sees the practical application of coaching in education. Gary also shares his own thoughts and experiences of going back to school at age 61 and the power of a good teacher.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want a better relationship with yourself? Want to set your future self up for success? In Episode 71, I teach you a tool that I use to help my teacher clients (and myself!) grow into the future that they want for themselves.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Questions to ask your future self so that you can live a more rich present moment
How to create the future that you want for yourself
Why writing and thinking about your future comes naturally to teachers already
How thinking about yourself in the future is the ultimate form of self-care.

Episode 70 also can help you create the week that you want one Sunday at a time.

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More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want to make Sundays calmer, more peaceful and less stressful? This episode will help you feel more in charge of your week as I share:

Three ways to make your thoughts less scary on Sundays
Mindset shifts to help you look forward to your week
Ways to think about "finishing" at school
A strategy you can do on Friday to make Monday feel MUCH more peaceful

Tune into Episode 71 to take these future tools to the next level!

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Do you ever wonder what happens on a coaching call? Or how is life coaching different than therapy? Tune to Episode 69 where my client Kate Murphy explains what her experience is like.

In this call, Kate, who had never done any kind of coaching:

describes her experience as a client
explains some of the tools she has learned
describes how coaching has already transformed her life.
explains why every teacher needs a coach.

Kate Murphy teaches first grade in Helotes, Texas and has been a teacher 16 years. Her superpower in teaching is collaboration: parents request r child to grow in reading and writing, you would want to be in Kate’s class. She is that go-to teacher that principals tend to give their hardest behavior students to. She is a mom and a wife and loves nature: camping, fishing, and anything outside. She is an avid traveler.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Part 2, I give teachers my best, most helpful tips about how to handle Parent-Teacher Conferences.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why having a plan and being proactive will SAVE you time and energy
How communicating with parents can actually help you in the long run;
How not to create welcoming energy that will also serve you;

Announcing "Weight Loss for Busy Teachers," my 5-week coaching course for teachers beginning on OCTOBER 17. If you want to lose weight for the last time, this group is for you where you’ll be with no more than 4 others like-minded teachers, encouraging you along the way. To sign up, go to my website www.chrissyconcept.com for details. You must sign up October 13th to get this unbeatable offer.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, I give teachers practical tips about how to handle Parent-Teacher Conferences and to calm the brain's automatic fears when faced with parents like,

"Will my students' parents put the blame on me for poor grades? Will they question my instructional methods? Will anyone even show up?"

In the 22 years I've been teaching, I've seen just about everything and I want you to feel calm and at ease as you conference with parents now or at any time.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why having a plan and being proactive will SAVE you time and energy
How communicating with parents can actually help you in the long run;
How not to create welcoming energy that will also serve you

Announcing "Weight Loss for Busy Teachers," my 5-week coaching course for teachers beginning on OCTOBER 17.

If you want to lose weight for the last time, this group is for you where you’ll be with no more than 4 others like-minded teachers, encouraging you along the way. To sign up, go to my website www.chrissyconcept.com for details. You must sign up October 13th to get this unbeatable offer.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 66, I am in conversation with Mary Granick about what happens when teachers are faced with trauma.

Mary and I recorded this interview soon after the the May 2022, school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and while we don't go into detail about school shootings, Mary does help us understand as teachers what happens in our bodies when we, as teachers are faced with trauma.

In this episode, we discuss:

• why it is important for teachers to seek help themselves when faced with a traumatic event;

• how trauma makes it impossible to think clearly in class;

• how a pre-organized emotional lesson plan for yourself can help you in the moment.

• why caring for our students and ourselves in the moment is not only enough, it's essential.

Mary Toth Granick is a licensed marriage and family therapist who currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mary is licensed to practice in New Mexico and California, and has clients from both states in her in-person on online private practice. Mary has been a therapist for over 25 years. Before that, Mary received her Masters Degree in Education and taught in middle school, high school, and community college for over 10 years. She taught English, History and writing before making a mid life career change. Mary currently works with adult individuals and couples, with a focus on somatic and trauma informed therapeutic approaches.

Weight Loss for Busy Teachers: my 5-week coaching course for teachers beginning on OCTOBER 17. If you want to lose weight for the last time, this group is for you where you’ll be with no more than 4 others like-minded teachers, encouraging you along the way. To sign up, go to my website www.chrissyconcept.com for details. You must sign up October 13th to get this unbeatable offer.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

I made up the word "Successing" for Episode 65 to help us remember that that success in teaching is messy. Successing means trying, failing, adjusting, trying, failing and learning.
Successing also means asking for help when you need it and receiving that help.
Successing means giving yourself a break and letting go of perfectionism.

Announcing Weight Loss for Busy Teachers, my 5-week coaching course for teachers beginning on OCTOBER 17.

If you want to lose weight for the last time, this group is for you where you’ll be with no more than 4 others like-minded teachers, encouraging you along the way.

To sign up, go to my website www.chrissyconcept.com for details. You must sign up October 13th to get this unbeatable offer.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Ever noticed that the way our society describes that incredible feeling of new love as "falling in love" and never "rising into love"?

It's funny when you think about it.

In Episode 64, we discuss how the concept of rising into love with teaching can help you think about your classroom in a different way.

I also give you tips and strategies for thoughts to think and actions to take to help you rise into love for teaching.

Want to rise into and create more love for yourself? Announcing my 5-week coaching group for five teachers only: "Weight Loss for Busy Teachers" beginning October 17. Sign up at my website www.thechrissyconcept.com for this incredible course that will help you create a more loving relationship with your body.

You can hear Alan Watt's song "Falling in love" here: https://genius.com/Alan-watts-falling-into-love-annotated

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Episode 63 is a great conversation with Laura Cheney, an a secondary academic math coach in public school in Utah. Laura and I spoke last spring before teachers left for the summer as she notes the exhaustion and fatigue that teachers in her district were feeling post Covid.

Laura also describes the challenges of going from working with students to working with adults and how each are unique. Laura brings heart and passion to her work in Math and she is also the proud mother of two boys

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In this episode, I tell the story of one of my teaching clients called into the principal's office and her thoughts about the situation.

This event actually helped her:

• Crystallize her WHY: why she was a teacher

• Made her realize that she was not at school for the adults but to server her students

• Empowered her to keep calm and carry on with decisiveness and power.

So what is your teaching WHY? Who are you in the classroom to serve? Why do you do what you do? The answers could change the way you view your job, your week, and your year.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Think self-pressure is working for you in the classroom and raising your game? Think again.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why putting the pressure on yourself increases stress;

• Why pressure keeps you in a spin cycle of "not enough"

• How if you feel pressure at school, most likely you are creating it for yourself at home;

• How self-pressuring leads to you beating yourself up, not teaching better;

Compassion is actually the key to feeling better at school and in life. Can you give yourself just a bit of a break? After this episode, you will.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Think students can't tell what's going on with us and the challenges we face day in and day out in the classroom? Think again.

In this episode, 11th grade student Isabelle, and 8th grader James, describe what qualities create a truly great teacher and describe some bad teaching moments they have experienced in their education.

James Anthony is an 8th grader in Cincinnati, Ohio. James loves planes (and can tell you the plane you are traveling on just by looking at it), travel, and soccer. Born in Chertsy, England, James began his international travel career early as he accompanied his mother (as he was still in utero) to Florence, Italy and Amsterdam when his head was roughly the size of a Dutch tulip.

Isabelle Anthony is a junior this year and is an avid actor, ballet dancer, art enthusiast, and lover of flowers. Izzy can be found studying for her AP classes, speaking French, dancing to Taylor Swift, and loves to roam Manhattan with her cousin.

These two dynamic students remind us:

-the characteristics that make a great teacher

-the qualities that they see that create a "bonded" classroom

-how teacher energy affects learning

-how technology can play a positive and negative role in the classroom

-why it feels so important to have teachers ask about student lives outside of school;

-how disappointing it can feel to students when teachers care more about the curriculum than student thoughts.

As we listen to these two student voices, we are also reminded that they can see (and feel) the challenges that teachers face. As James reflects on the childrens of teaching after Covid, "I feel like a lot of the children have not been paying enough attention during remote learning...and so it must be hard for teachers to get children back into the learning phase.”

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode I give you 3 free tools that you can start now to start losing weight. I also share a BONUS tool (also free) that will help you see exactly where you are in your relationship with your body.

This episode connects to my FREE course called Weight Loss Live where we go in-depth into these concepts in a way that is specific to teachers. To sign up, simply text the word "Teacher" to 66866.

You can also sign up simply by sending me an email to thechrissyconcept@gmail.com.

Since one of my tools relates to sleep, check out Episode 55 called "The Power of Sleep."

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Episode 55, The Power of Sleep
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How can writing words on a piece of paper create weight loss?

In this episode, I show you how writing down your thoughts can help you achieve weight loss. I also give you details about how to sign up for my FREE Course Weight Loss Live. Simply text the word "TEACHER" to 66866 or send me an email at thechrissyconcept@gmail.com.

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Irish lovers in Teacherland, you are in for a treat! Today I am in conversation with Aoife Crowne who teaches traditional Irish Gaelic in Bantry in southern Ireland.

Aoife and I discuss the mindset she uses each day to motivate her 16 year-olds to learn Gaelic and how she battles time in the go-go-go Back to School pace alive and well even in a small town.

Aoife also describes what she would do if she was Minister of Education in Ireland for a day and could fix some of the problems that Irish teachers face.

Don't miss this very beautiful conversation with Aoife Crowne.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Maybe you have that special space that a teacher can create, maybe it’s your reading rug, maybe it’s a corner with plants that serves as a place of mindfulness and mediation, quiet time, or a class circle.

But I urge you to use this podcast to create a Comfy Corner for your mind.

This is A SPACE to wash your thoughts, to connect deeply with yourself (even if it’s only for a few seconds or a few minutes.) This is a space that is JUST FOR YOU. I help you create that space that is all your own.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

What if I told you that there is an amazing thing that exists, especially for teachers that:

• Creates more efficiency, especially as you grade

• Helps you lesson plan in half the time

• Will save you hours of coming up with test or quiz questions

• Helps you stay at healthy weight

• Helps you get along better with people, your partner, loved ones

• AND YES...elevates your mood...

It’s SLEEP!

Listen in as I show you why sleep is a teacher's very best friend, particularly during at the beginning of the school year.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Part 3 of How to Feel Better and Create a New Belief is not-to-be-missed. How do you believe something you don't yet believe? How do you grow into a new thought goal? I describe all of this and more as I help you move through the steps that you learned in the previous episodes.

I am also reference the work of the great Brené Brown. Like this podcast, I love how she keeps it "awkward, brave, and kind." You can connect with her research here: https://brenebrown.com/

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In Part 2 of How to Feel Better, I explain the next steps after seeing your Problem Reveal or Thought Download before you.

I explain the power of being with your emotions and why it is vital to understand that our emotions are 50% positive and 50% negative: it's all wisdom.

This podcast also explains the pitfalls of pushing down, ignoring, reacting to or resisting your emotions. Here, I also give you the tip that you need to neutralize any thought.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, I explain the very first step of feeling better is to eavesdrop on your mind in an exercise called a Problem Reveal or Thought Download. This episode is an interactive one so please do this work using a pen and paper.

Giving you powerful questions to ask yourself, I guide you through this exercise in thought hygiene so that you are clear on where you are --today.

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Join us in this episode as I speak with French teacher Claire Rouquette as we discuss the challenges that French teachers face such as salary, resources, and materials. Sound familiar?

Claire shows us that many of the teaching challenges we face are the same for all of us around the world.

Listen for Claire and Chrissy's discussion of how a TWO HOUR lunch and no school on Wednesdays feels both dreamy and scarce. Turns out, our thoughts about time are optional!

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Today I share the great words of Jen SIncero, one of my favorite thought leaders and teachers on the power of words and how they can change your life at school. You won't want to miss this empowering episode.

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You Are a Badass at Making Money, Jen Sincero
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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

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If Back to school is rough right now, I want to teach you this fast but mighty tool that I use in meditation and that I learned from my meditation teacher and you can use it many times throughout the day at quick intervals.

Imagine yourself zooming out of your school day. Zoom back.

You’re hanging out with the sky rather than the clouds moving through the sky.

In meditation, the feelings that come up and even each breath we take are the clouds. But you remain in the sky.

For you now, at school, step back, zoom out and hang out in the sky.

Look down on your worries or annoying moments recently about back to school: that unkind word you heard a colleague say, that administrator who seems incompetent, the time you think you don’t have, the forms to fill out, the meetings to attend, mandatory videos to watch, the students you have: they are the clouds.

Simply watch the clouds float by. Just hang out in the sky itself. Let your mind rest in that blue turquoise and all the other school stuff floats by.

We are hanging out with the sky itself. Watch things come and go, those clouds passing through the sky below you, not getting too interested or focused on it. You are just relaxing into the blue, into the awareness.

You can come back to this practice many times a day.

“Small moments, many times.”

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In Episode 48 Teacher Talk is BACK in conversation with Kelsey Sorensen, owner and founder of Wife Teacher Mommy. Kelsey tells us what is new for her company and describes all the ways that teachers benefit as club members. Kelsey also describes how toxic positivity can be more harmful than helpful in the teaching world and how teachers are still leaving the profession.

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In this episode, you'll learn how to melt the stress-freeze that comes when your brain believes it has SO much to do that it can't start on anything. I share the one question that cuts through the manic spin cycle and how to use this powerful question to get started on B- work.

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Episode 46 of Teacher Talk, Overwhelm + The Grand Canyon
Life coach Corinne Crabtree
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In this episode, I share three lessons that I learned in the Grand Canyon to help you solve for overwhelm. Really? The Grand Canyon can help me in my classroom? Yes. Tune in as I show you how to apply the three thought tools that I came up with on my recent trip to this amazing place.

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Mary Toth Granick is a former teacher and licensed marriage and family therapist who lives in New Mexico and specializes in somatic experience and complex trauma work.

Mary talks about her role when she worked with teachers to help engage students who seemed hard to reach or "tough" learners. Mary is kind, compassionate, and clear. She reminds us all to step back to notice different learning styles and brain types in our student populations.

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Hating Back to School? The solution is value. What do I mean by value? This means more support, ease, and nurturing for you so that your brain may want to return into the classroom.

In this episode I explain:
how to create MORE value (not more To Do's) for YOU;
how to make your classroom more valuable and supportive for you;
*the one question you must ask yourself to create easy value NOW so that you feel more ease about going back.

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In this minisode, we talk about all the lies we tell ourselves
and how these lies erode trust with ourselves. The good news is that it is a habit that you can break.

In this episode I give you:
examples of the lies I tell myself
how to uncover the lies you tell yourself
* the thought tool that will help you see your lies

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Mary Powers has been teaching for over two decades but started her professional journey as a child therapist before becoming a powerful English teacher.

Mary, who graduated from Harvard University, says her goal is to create safety as she cultivates that kind of intellectual play with her students where no idea is off limits.

In this conversation, Mary explains how teaching has been politicized with often confusing and threatening messages for teachers. Mary also gives advice for teachers about how to bring the love and energy they first brought to the job.

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In Episode 41 The Power of Ritual Part 2, you'll learn how to stick to your daily ritual using compassion, not perfectionism. I share my concept of B-/C+ work to show you that you don't need to be perfect to create small and powerful habits. This ritual work is about connecting you to you: it's about learning to trust yourself again.

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Episode 41, The Power of Ritual Part 1

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In The Power of Ritual Part 1, I share the daily ritual that keeps me sane each day. I also share why having a realistic ritual helps me trust myself. In this episode, you'll hear how the power of having a non-negotiable ritual serves you to create more connection with yourself.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

What is ethical education anyway? And are schools educating the whole child or simply turning out "highly educated useless people"? Ryan Hoglund returns to the podcast to talk about the nuts and bolts of social emotional learning as he uses mindfulness.

Ryan's approach is integrative as he helps students tackle big questions like "As a teenager, how do I show up authentically? How do I feel deeply uncomfortable and not let it define my day?"

You will hear strategies you can use in your classroom from the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning at www.casel.org.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 38, I share the second part of my series called "Ask A Coach" in which I share real issues that clients bring inside the membership group at Wife Teacher Mommy.

You'll hear how a teacher is doubting her decision to change schools as well as how another teacher wants to feel her feelings more deeply. I share the coaching wisdom here that I give to all of my clients.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

This episode and next episode highlight my collaboration with Wife Teacher Mommy. Wife Teacher Mommy can be found at www.wifeteachermommy.com and offers elementary teachers not only resources but also life coaching...so if you’re a teacher and you’ve been interested in seeing what I do as I coach and how I do it, it’s a very affordable way to check me out.

In these next two episodes I bring real problems and issues from a feature we have called Ask A Coach. Listen into the brains of teachers as they navigate challenges like finding their bestie at school. I offer solutions to help them think about this differently.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

I am back in conversation with veteran teacher Jill Colaw who shares her best tips about time abundant thinking and some tools about how to get some balance in your life as you head back to school.

Jill is a master elementary school teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio and loves to talk about teaching with other teachers. This is a great episode if you are starting to dread going back to the classroom!

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Many of you are thinking about back to school season. Some of you may already be in your classrooms. You might be excited for the year ahead, or you might be feeling completely burnt out and panicking that your summer has already come and gone. However you’re feeling, this episode will help you feel in control of your thoughts as you think about time. Tune in to hear the two words you should never use about time.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

What is your flow? Where are you truly present with yourself? Where or what helps you connect yourself back to you? In this episode I share how spending time in nature helps connect me back into my flow. Flow for me is about presence as time slows down and bends. It is the place of creativity and innovation. Where is it for you?

In This Episode I share:

Why it’s important to find your flow and connect deeply with yourself
How asking the simple question, “What is your flow?” helps you find your flow, even if you have no idea what it is.
Why having a place of flow will help you as you head back to the classroom

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Tanya Morsell grew up in Washington DC. She currently teaches kindergarten in Maryland and her superpower is creating a fun and enjoyable kindergarten experience for her students. She loves learning and laughing, all things Peloton, and cherishes spending time alone and with friends. She is married and has a 20 year old daughter at college. In this episode we discuss all of the benefits that Tanya has gotten from coaching as she learns how to trust herself, let go of perfectionistic thinking, and achieve her weight loss goals, one thought at a time. Tanya says that she has really learned how to make life easy.

In This Episode I share:

How coaching has created more calm and space in Tanya’s life
How coaching has helped Tanya reach her weight loss goals
How coaching has given Tanya tools she can use in all areas of her life
How one tool (the floor/ceiling tool) has transformed Tanya’s school day

Resources:

Wife Teacher Mommy: www.wifeteachermommy.com

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Why hire a coach? Hiring a coach is the fastest way to achieve anything that you want for yourself. Hiring a coach is the most effective way to look inside your brain and ask, ‘Are these thoughts helping me or not?” A coach helps you reconnect with yourself to remind you that you have everything inside of you that you need. Hiring a coach is the best way to see blind spots that are difficult to see otherwise. Finally, why hire a coach? Because it’s fun!

In This Episode I share:

How a coach can help you see your own blind spots
How having a coach can fast track you to the life of your dreams
How investing in a coach is really investing in yourself

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, I share how my own personal thoughts about weight, body image, and fitting into a dress can create drama in my own brain. Listen to see why everyone needs a coach (yep, even the coach!) and why it’s so valuable to question our thoughts and ask, “Thought/Brain, is that true?” This episode is for all of us to remember that our brains are simply trying to keep us safe and the old adage: “We don’t live our lives, we live our patterns.”

In This Episode I share:

How our brains create drama, yep, even for coaches!
Why everyone needs a coach because everyone has a human brain
Why using the model as an awareness tool is important everyday.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Perrine Voisin grew up near Chamonix, in France. She has lived in the US since 2008 and has taught Dual French Immersion at the elementary level for 5 years in Park City, Utah. She was a professional skier, competed internationally and has an academic background in international business and education. Perrine's superpower is connecting with her students by sharing her French background and her culture. She also has amazing work/life balance and in her spare time, she tends to her chickens, her bees, makes her own bread, and pursues her passions for all things mountains.

In This Episode I share:

How Perrine balances her school and personal life
The challenges of Dual Immersion teaching
Why Perrine sees metrics, standardized testing, and scores as obstacles to her teaching
How Perrine will use travel and her hobbies to rest and rejuvenate this summer

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 29, we look at the final component of the Model: Results. Results are the effects of our actions. We may think results are circumstances that have been handed to us and they are beyond our control. The truth is, we are entirely responsible for our results because they come from our actions and are the result of our thoughts. In this episode, I tell you why this is the best news of all and why acceptance is the key to change! Let’s slow down, pause, accept our models and let wisdom come in.

In This Episode I share:

How Results are not beyond our control
Two questions to ask yourself to better understand your results
Why acceptance is the key to change
How you can use awareness, acceptance, and wisdom to change anything in your life

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 28 returns to the five components of the Thought Model: Circumstance, Thought, Feelings, Action and Results. In this episode, we look at Actions and uncover why you may be taking action (or not) and what to do about it. I define the difference between clean and dirty fuel and why this matters when you decide to take action.

In This Episode I share:

How actions are most effective if you can identify a the thought and feeling first
What happens when you take action with a mismanaged mind
The definition of “clean” and “dirty” fuel

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Padmashree grew up in India, and then moved to Singapore where she earned a PhD in molecular biology. After a 15 year career in cancer research, Rida just spent first year teaching at a high school. In this wide-ranging conversation, we will talk about her experiences, what brought her to teaching, what challenges she (and other educators like her) are facing, and Rida’s view of the importance of seeing a woman of color in science.

In This Episode I share:

What it feels like to be new at school
What it feels like to give yourself grace in a new situation
Why teachers need more money and time to teach
How Rida acts as a role model as a woman of color in STEM

Resources:

Rumi’s poem: “The Guest House”
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

I love pausing for poetry and we do it today in episode 26 as we think about our feelings as guests that can come into our lives and stay a while. This episode features 13th century Persian poet Rumi’s “The Guest House” as I tell you why it’s wise to greet and allow our emotions and feelings into our body houses. If you have a hard time feeling your feelings, this is a must-listen episode.

In This Episode I share:

Why feelings matter and why we must invite them into our lives
What happens when you tell feelings to go away
Why the poem, “The Guest House,” is the perfect metaphor for feeling our emotions

Resources:

Rumi’s poem: “The Guest House”
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode of Teacher Talk, I tell you why I believe feelings are SO important. As someone who tried to avoid her feelings for years, I’ve seen the negative impact of not feeling and have found so much more usefulness in listening to and processing my feelings. As we continue to look at the five components of the thought model, I show you why feelings are so important.

In This Episode I share:

Why feelings matter and the danger of avoiding negative emotion
How Feelings are so important if you want to grow into the next version of yourself
How to process a feeling and listen for emotional wisdom.

Resources:

Episode 21, The Thought Model
Episode 22, Circumstances or Thoughts?
Episode 23, Thoughts on Thoughts
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Tanya Hale is a middle school teacher who loves working to help her 8th grade students become better readers. After being a stay-at-home mom for over 15 years, she began her teaching career. Tanya is also a certified life coach who specializes in coaching middle-aged women on relationships and is the host of the podcast Intentional Living with Tanya Hale. In this episode,Tanya and I talk about the importance of struggle and how blame and victimization erode education and how taking responsibility for ourselves as teachers is essential.

In This Episode we discuss:

The mindset shifts Tanya has seen in the classroom
How taking responsibility is the key to educational change
The importance of positive struggle
How taking responsibility is essential to mind management and one’s power

Resources:

Website: tanyahale.com
Podcast: Intentional Living with Tanya Hale
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In “Thoughts on Thoughts” I describe an idea I call “thought layering.” Thought layering is very common with those who are new to the Coaching Model and may use the Model against themselves. In this episode, I describe how one thought can overlay another thought until it’s hard to figure out the original thought.

In This Episode I share:

How Thought layering can hold you back
How curiosity and wonder can keep us from falling into a thought layer
Why it’s important to notice when you are layering a thought on top of another and how to get out of it!

Resources:

Episode 21, The Thought Model
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 22 dives more thoroughly into the Coaching Model as I describe the difference between a Circumstance and a Thought. You won’t want to miss the nuance of this episode where I show you that all problems are simply thought problems. When we practice becoming aware of our thoughts and “catching them,” finding our thoughts becomes easier.

In This Episode I share:

How to see what you are thinking by doing a thought download
How a thought drives a feeling
Why it’s important to simply notice without even needing to change

Resources:

The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Episode 21, “The Thought Model”
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 21 “My Coaching Model” is a must-listen. In this episode I describe how I learned the Model from my coach, Brooke Castillo, and how I use it in my own life. I describe how the 5 components work together. I describe how curiosity and compassion are the keys to becoming the watcher of your own mind.

In This Episode I share:

How I learned the coaching model and how I apply it;
How the 5 components of the Model work
A real example from one of my clients of how he has used thought work
How to become the curious Watcher of your mind

Resources:

Learn more about Brooke Castillo at The Life Coach School
Episode 1, Makerspace of the Mind
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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

Episode 20 “Planning Power Kaboom” is all about putting your plan in place to make your future self proud. When you decide to do something BIG, a goal that stretches you, doubt and fear will come up. In this episode, I show you how to soothe those emotions, how to create a list of actions and obstacles to get it done. I’ll also talk about my steps of how to follow through so that my future self is already living in that place of success and it feels easier.

In This Episode I share:

How to soothe your fear and doubt that will come up around your goal.
How to make a list of actions and obstacles.
How to plan for obstacles
How to put it all on your calendar and follow through.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In this episode, we continue our series about how to create the summer that is just right for you. In this episode, I give you three easy steps to use to create whatever goal you have in mind and I show you that you are always your own best guide. By using your future self as a mentor, a teacher, and guide, you can always seek his/her advice. This episode is a great reminder to stop looking “out there” and trust what is inside.

In This Episode I share:

3 easy steps to create what you want;
How to make your future specific and measurable.
How to use your future self as a teacher, as a guide.
How to trust your own intuition: you are always your own best teacher

Resources:

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Do not miss this episode as veteran elementary teacher Jill Colaw gives us all of her best advice for new teachers or anyone changing schools. Jill Colaw, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a master teacher with over 35 years of elementary teaching experience. Jill’s superpower is creating a classroom of safety, structure, and connection. In this conversation, Jill offers thoughts on the importance of the first six weeks of school, connecting with powerful faculty allies, and finding your person in the building with whom you can be vulnerable.

In This Episode I share:

How to build a classroom that works well right from the beginning of the year;
The importance of allyship with those who run the school
Why finding that one friend inside or outside of school is so important to teacher health and well-being
Jill’s tips of what worked well for her

Classroom Resources That Jill Mentions:

www.loveandlogic.com
www.responsiveclassroom.org/

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, we continue our series about how to create the summer that is just right for you. So many of us think that summer “just happens” to us. But, did you know that even if you are already booked solid, you can still create the intentional summer of your dreams? It’s all about the kinds of thoughts you are thinking. In this episode I describe how setting goals is in the present tense and why writing your goal down will give you a greater chance of meeting it.

In This Episode I share:

How to use your thoughts to create the kind of summer that you want;
How visualization and imagination are the key to having the kind of summer that you want.
What to do when your brain STILL freaks out, even when you love your goal.

Resources:

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Yes, summer is here and so is this podcast as we begin this series called “Summer Creation”. You can have everything you want this summer so why not get intentional about it? In this episode I describe how setting goals does not have to feel like pressure and how abundance can help you get clear on what you want to create.

In This Episode I share:

How to create exactly the kind of summer that you want
The power of deciding NOW what you want to create this summer
How abundance is the gateway to creating exactly what you want;
How you don’t need to know the HOW, all you need is the WHAT.

Resources:

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

This episode features a conversation with high school history teacher Dylan Esson. Dylan earned his PhD from University of California at Berkeley and loves to ski, read, race after his two daughters. In this conversation, Dylan and I discuss the challenges that students face with technology, apathy, and self-identity.

Dylan shares what he loves about teaching as well as the challenges he sees in the teaching profession, particularly after Covid. Dylan shares how he would love to shake up the school day by creating a more flexible model, giving more time to teachers to prep, and rethinking sports in education.

In This Episode I share:

How busy students can be after school
Why student apathy is high and motivation is low
How understanding what his students have faced during the pandemic has given Dylan more compassion at school.

Resources:

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Today we are going to talk about a tool that will help you deal with that person in your life that might be hard to love: zoo animal them! What is that? When faced with this person, transform yourself into a documentary filmmaker or researcher and get so present that you notice the person in front of you as if they were a rare species or specimen.

When done in a respectful present way to see the humanity in someone else, to find the rare treasures in another, using this tool to “zoo animal” is a first step to emotional repair and connection. You can even use this kind of curiosity and awe on yourself! What do you notice when you see yourself as a rare species?

In This Episode I share:

How to use this mindset strategy to appreciate the people in your life who push your buttons
How putting on your inner scientist to notice someone else will help you stay present to yourself
How you can “zoo animal” anyone in your life and keep some emotional neutrality with yourself.

Resources:

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More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Today we are going to talk about how to accept others just as they are and find some detachment even in conflict when you believe your colleague or administrator is “going off the rails.”

In this episode, I remind all of our brains that resisting reality and always yearning for other people and our lives to be different creates suffering for us. Using the concept of , “Yep, that’s ‘on brand’ for her/for him” can give you just a bit of space so that you can watch the events in front of you unfold.

In This Episode I share:

Why you can’t change others but you can stay in charge of your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
How to stay present with the moment in front of you without wanting to change it
How noticing how others show up can help you stay connected to yourself

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

My guest today is Ryan Hoglund. Ryan is the Director of Ethical Education at Rowland Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This conversation spotlights May for Men in Education as Ryan talks about how teaching was his antidote to the "spirit murder" he experienced in his brief career in finance.

In this conversation, Ryan reminds us why it's so important to model reflective masculinity for his students--masculinity that can be gentle, vulnerable and centered.

He also describes what he loves about education and why he likes to challenge stereotypes as we chat about the ways education can be gendered.

Resources:

Learn more about Ryan here.
Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Welcome back to part two on my series of how to ask yourself high quality questions. In this episode I give more examples of powerful questions to ask yourself. I also describe why taking responsibility for your thoughts and feeling your feelings is the key to change.

In this episode, I also describe how I use the coaching model to see that thoughts determine feelings which drive our actions that create all of our results. If you want excellent results in your life, take a look at your thoughts. If you want to look at a situation in a different way, redirect your brain to choose a different thought.

Whether you are wrapping up the end of your school year or looking ahead to create whatever we want on summer vacation, use these high quality questions as powerful tools to move you forward and redirect your thoughts.

In This Episode I share:

Why it’s essential to take responsibility for our thoughts and feelings instead of living in “default mode”
How thoughts drive feelings and feelings drive actions
Four powerful questions to ask yourself daily

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Welcome to part 1 of a two part series on how to ask yourself high quality questions. I will explain how to start asking the right questions that will give you the answers to help you steer your school life and personal life in the right direction. Your brain is a powerful piece of machinery that will work for you if you ask it empowering questions.

Whether you are wrapping up the end of your school year or looking ahead to create whatever we want on summer vacation, high quality questions are powerful tools to move us forward and show us what we are thinking.

In these episodes, I will also help you take control of your thoughts by asking a great question every day.

In This Episode I share:

Why it’s important to ask ourselves high quality questions
Why the words “I don’t know” block your intuition and wisdom
How one coaching tool, the thought download, can help you answer the question, “What am I thinking?”

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 9 features a conversation with David Colaw, a 34 year math teacher in both high school and college. David describes why he started teaching (and it’s not because he loves math!) and the challenges that he faced during Covid, and how connection is the key to teaching. David dives deeply into his hard why for staying in teaching for so long: connection with his students and watching their discovery “aha” moments in math.

In This Episode, We Share:

Why David became a teacher and how his thoughts helped him stay in teaching
How men can be devalued as educators and how to create more ease for yourself and your students
Advice for teachers who are feeling burnout and who want to leave the classroom
How to not take student feedback personally

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers.

In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Who’s in charge? You are! In this episode we talk about how it’s so easy to accept the thoughts that our brain gives us and to see them as the truth. I share a powerful story about a client who dreaded going to work and how, through coaching, I helped him choose a more helpful thought that created more determination and ease about going to work.

In This Episode I Share:

That you are in charge of your thoughts
That choosing your thoughts each day gives you all of your power back
Powerful questions that you can ask yourself right now to help you choose more helpful thoughts

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

This episode, “Change Grief” explores the inevitable changes that happen for teachers, particularly at the end of the year. I describe some of the changes that teachers experience and why it is so important to feel the emotions that come up around changing colleagues, classrooms or just the end of the year.

In This Episode I share:

Why it’s important, as teachers, to feel end-of-the-year change
How to feel change and allow it
How feeling our feelings around change actually creates more energy and expansiveness in our bodies.

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols:

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 6 features a conversation with former elementary teacher Sara Whittaker who spent seven years in the classroom and then started her own company, Podcasting for Educators.

Sara and I discuss what she misses about the classroom as well the challenges she experienced in terms of fatigue, burn out, inequity in education, and maternity leave.

In This Episode, We Share:

Why work/life balance is so important to master as a teacher
Why extra support for teachers is needed now more than ever in a post-Covid world
How maternity leave needs to be reexamined in education for both men and women

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.
Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.
Listen to Sara’s podcast, Podcasting for Educators.
Follow Sara on instagram @podcastingforeducators.

Let’s talk about fatigue. We’re tired. Some of us are so tired, it feels like a deep, bone tired. We’ve been through Covid and all sorts of hybrid/online teaching modalities. I see it in the teachers in the faculty room and in my clients: an exhaustion that feels physical, deep, and visceral that only rest will cure.

In this episode you will learn:

How to check in with yourself about the difference between physical exhaustion and “thought distortion tired”
Where thought distortion tired comes from
What you can do when your brain indulges in this kind of mind fatigue

Learn more at https://www.thechrissyconcept.com/

Welcome to Teacher Talk Episode 4 ,which I like to call the “I DID IT!” Self-appreciation episode.

As I record this, it’s Teacher Appreciation Week in our world of education and so it got me thinking about self-appreciation. As children and as young children we celebrated A LOT. If you walk into any lower elementary classroom, you can hear little voices exclaiming, “I DID IT.”

As teachers we offer that to our students, but we rarely do it. So today we’re talking about quick ways that you can appreciate yourself.

Reserve your spot for my “Men in May” group coaching program by emailing me at thechrissyconcept@gmail.com by May 16, 2022 and we’ll get you enrolled!

As a teacher, you have so much on your plate. Your day is filled with back to back things to do and other people to take care of. As a result of this busyness, we often forget to let ourselves feel the feelings that come up for us and we’re filled with anxiety.

My guest, Kelsey Sorenson, and I want to help you change that. Kelsey is a former teacher and current homeschool mom. She is the founder, owner, and CEO of Wife Teacher Mommy, a company she began in 2014. Kelsey is also the host of Wife Teacher Mommy: The Podcast. One big thing that Kelsey and I have in common is a passion to help teachers overcome burnout and find their joy again. If you are a teacher who is feeling overwhelmed right now, I know that you’ll really enjoy this conversation.

Resources:

Grab your ticket to Educate and Rejuvenate for only $5!
Join the Wife Teacher Mommy Club and gain access to life coaching
Learn More: https://www.thechrissyconcept.com/

We all want to feel like we fit in with the community around us. Feeling like you fit in at school is no exception. At the same time, a sense of belonging to ourselves is also essential. In today’s episode, I’m going to share the difference between fitting in and belonging. I’ll also give you some key questions to ask yourself around the idea of belonging and connection. To celebrate the launch of the Teacher Talk Podcast, I’m doing a giveaway! One winner will receive an Amazon gift card for $100 and a coaching bundle of two 1:1 coaching calls with me. To enter, screenshot either episode 1, 2, or 3. Add this screenshot to your Instagram stories and tag me @chrissyconcept. That’s it! The giveaway ends on Tuesday, May 24th at 11:59 pm and the winner will be announced on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022. Learn More: https://www.thechrissyconcept.com/

Welcome to the very first episode of Teacher Talk! I’m your host, Chrissy Nichols. Having spent over 20 years in the teaching trenches myself, teaching everything from grades two through twelve, it makes me really qualified to say that I see you, teachers. I am so glad that we’ve found each other and so very grateful that you’re sharing this space with me.

As I began planning for this podcast, I gave a lot of thought to the intention behind it. In doing so, I realized that this podcast will be a makerspace for your mind and for your heart. It’s a place where you can come and work on the questions you have for yourself.

To celebrate the launch of the Teacher Talk Podcast, I’m doing a giveaway! One winner will receive an Amazon gift card for $100 and a coaching bundle of two 1:1 coaching calls with me.

To enter, screenshot either episode 1, 2, or 3. Add this screenshot to your Instagram stories and tag me @chrissyconcept. That’s it! The giveaway ends on Tuesday, May 24th at 11:59 pm and the winner will be announced on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022.

Show Notes: https://www.thechrissyconcept.com/

Welcome to Teacher Talk! I'm your host, Chrissy Nichols. After 22 years as a teacher, the joy and passion I felt for teaching started to fade away. That's when I found coaching and everything changed for the better. Now I'm a life and mindset coach for teachers, and I'm on a mission to help as many educators as possible. If you're feeling burnt out and questioning your ability to continue teaching, this is the show for you. Thank you for being here! For more information, head to https://www.thechrissyconcept.com/