The Empowered Principal® Podcast

Discover how I’m helping my clients build a culture of resilience through a very testing time for you, your staff, and your students. I’m sharing where a lack of emotional resilience shows up the mos…

Discover how to plan your data meetings in a way that ensures they’ll be worth your time and the district’s money. I’m showing you how to prepare to make sure they’re purposeful and they move in the …

This week, I'm sharing my personal experience of navigating grief and how I used life coaching tools to lean into those feelings. Truly holding space for any personal crisis that comes up for us as l…

If you’ve been trying to ignore the hard parts of your job, tune in this week to discover how you can start embracing the 50:50 positive and negative that school leadership was always meant to encomp…

To celebrate 200 episodes of the podcast, I’m bringing you a conversation with some of my longest-serving clients. Discover what empowered leadership looks like and how to help yourself, your staff, …

We’re taught all our lives that things happen to us, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Discover why predetermined outcomes are 100% available to you right now. I’m sharing where we try to control t…

Discover the value of playing it safe, and why it’s also safe to go big. I’m sharing how to see the way you’re currently operating as a school leader, how this approach is currently impacting your st…

This week, I'm sharing how to stay motivated by tracking progress. Focusing on the growth that we are achieving as school leaders in the moment when it’s happening is something I’ve been working on f…

Tune in this week for an insight into the pressure that our students are under during this difficult time, and how focusing solely on academic growth is only adding to the problem for both kids and s…

Listen in this week as Daniel gives us the lowdown on what professional development means, why there’s so much resistance to it, and what makes it so transformative. We’re all leaders in the pursuit …

Tune into this bonus episode to discover how to move forward with your schoolyear making morale a priority among your staff. I’m sharing the problems my clients are facing around the morale of their …

Tune in this week to discover how to be new. I’m sharing why being new is such a challenge for us mentally and emotionally, how we make it worse by trying to resist the emotional experience as a whol…

We are a nation going through COVID fatigue, and so many of us are in resistance to our current reality. So, tune into this bonus episode for a little reality check. We don’t know where the finish li…

Discover what I believe are the top four leadership assets that every principal needs to learn how to utilize. I’m sharing how to use these resources as tools that will help you do an amazing job and…

Discover how to do an amazing job as a principal without being busy. I’m sharing why this is such a common trap that human beings fall into, and instead how to slow yourself down and avoid the trap o…

This week, I’m inviting you to slow down on purpose. This might sound strange, considering you’re just getting back to work and probably feel pumped and ready to be super productive, but I promise th…

This week I show you why it benefits everyone in your community when you build a resourceful team. We would all love to delegate with confidence so we can focus on our role as a leader, and when you’…

You do not have to trust every single human on campus in order to be an effective leader. This week, I'm sharing how to navigate leading untrustworthy colleagues. I’m diving into the reality of trust…

Discover how to build a successful year on a foundation of trust. I’m sharing how to see where increasing your trust in yourself and others will serve you as a school leader, and how to start this wo…

Kate takes us through the interview preparation and coaching we did that landed Kate her first school leadership role. She's sharing her process of cultivating intentional self-belief so she could be…