On this episode, I Zoom in Melissa Summerford, and we chat about her life, how she began to reflect on what she wanted, and how that led to a career change.
Feb 2025
Coach Victor G. Hicks - The Intersection of Culture and Code: A Conversation with Coach Victor G. Hicks
Introducing Victor G. Hicks, fondly known as Coach Hicks, the visionary force propelling Coding with Culture, an exhilarating computer science and STEM program based in Atlanta, Georgia. Victor's educational odyssey is deeply rooted in his profound connection to Historically Blac ... Show More
42m 39s
Sep 29
Diana Isern - Money Talks
Diana Isern is an educator, author, and financial empowerment advocate who spent twenty years in New York City public schools, fifteen of them as a high school assistant principal. Along the way she built two finance courses and a girls' investing club that teens signed up for ag ... Show More
42m 12s
Sep 8
Kim Gameroz - Build the Community First, Then Create the Offer
Kim Gameroz is the founder of Teaching Inside Out, SELebrate Good Times, and the VibeEDU Foundation, and the author of Becoming the BISON.Kim works with school leaders and educators to transform the way schools approach behavior, SEL, and school culture. Her work is grounded in a ... Show More
43m 25s
Dec 2020
Mindfulness: Intention, Attention, and Purposeful Living with Melissa Steginus
Melissa Steginus is a mindfulness teacher and productivity coach helping people structure their work and lives to be intentional, empowering, and fulfilling. With a background in social work and over a decade of experience as a counsellor, coach, yoga instructor, and world travel ... Show More
45m 26s
Aug 2024
Leverage What You Have To Hit The Next Level | 016
Melissa Lanz, award-winning entrepreneur and business coach, takes us inside how she blew up The Fresh 20 meal-planning service, starting with just $2,500 and a kitchen table. Ditching the corporate grind to start a business that aligned with her values of connection and communit ... Show More
1h 5m
Jun 2020
Self-Care: Making It Personal, Purposeful, and Practical with Melissa Steginus
Melissa Steginus is a mindfulness teacher and productivity coach helping people structure their work and lives to be intentional, empowering, and fulfilling. With a background in social work and over a decade of experience as a counsellor, coach, yoga instructor, and world travel ... Show More
50m 23s
Aug 2022
Episode 31: Funky Flamingo Friday with Dave Schmittou
Dave Schmittou: As an educator for more than two decades, Dave has earned a reputation for being a disruptor of the status quo, an innovator, and a change agent. Having served as a classroom teacher, school-based administrator, central office director, and professor of Educationa ... Show More
52m 20s
Jun 2023
Episode 83: Teaching for Justice with Lindsay Lyons
Lindsay Lyons is an educational justice coach who helps schools and districts co-create feminist, antiracist curricula that challenges, affirms, and inspires all students. A former NYC public school teacher, she holds a PhD in Leadership and Change, and is the founder of the blog ... Show More
49m 49s
Aug 2024
Fake Work, Mindset Work, and Working Smarter as a Teacher Business Owner
Time Management Skills For Teachers Going Back To School AND Running A Business! Learning new things is great but how many podcast episodes have you listened to without implementing the actionable pieces we gift you on the inside? This week is going to be different, I can feel it ... Show More
9m 41s