Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.

Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.

By Suzanne Dailey

This weekly podcast is designed to help anyone working in schools incorporate small shifts. These small shifts, practiced over time, will make a positive impact in school AND at home. In these 5 minute episodes, Suzanne will share a little story and invite listeners to incorporate a small shift in their upcoming week. At the end of the week, listeners can reflect to see if it increased their happiness at home or at school.
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Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.Dec 19, 2021
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What’s Saving Your Life Right Now?

What’s Saving Your Life Right Now?

As we wrap up season 6, we are asked to consider the small things that bring us great joy.

May 10, 202608:31
Tips for your to-dos

Tips for your to-dos

In this episode, we learn three simple ways to keep little dopamine hits headed our way as we accomplish tasks in our personal and professional lives.

May 03, 202609:15
Always Hit Send

Always Hit Send

In this episode, we acknowledge when it’s sometimes difficult to gauge the exact right thing to say to someone we care about and give us the permission to show how much we care.

Apr 26, 202606:55
Don't Let The Things Win

Don't Let The Things Win

In this episode, as we recognize this busy time of year with endless to-dos, we also recognize our agency in how we approach them. 

Apr 19, 202608:19
Find Your Counterweights

Find Your Counterweights

In this episode, we are inspired by Shannan Martin, author of Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World. She invites us to consider how to find the balance in heavy seasons.

Apr 12, 202607:57
Purposeful Pause

Purposeful Pause

In this episode, we honor the times in our life when we honor a fragile time and take a purposeful pause.

Mar 29, 202604:18
Plan Backwards from Your Retirement

Plan Backwards from Your Retirement

This episode invites us to consider a small shift in future thought that can impact our present actions.

Mar 22, 202605:49
Reclaim Your Algorithm

Reclaim Your Algorithm

This episode is for those who are struggling to stay informed with the world’s happenings, but not become consumed by them.

Mar 15, 202607:56
Treat Your Family like Colleagues

Treat Your Family like Colleagues

This episode explores a small shift in action that can help strengthen our presence with our home team, even after a tiring day at school.

Mar 08, 202610:24
Because It Is

Because It Is

This episode shares a small shift in language that helps those we work with, live with, and love feel heard and validated.

Mar 01, 202606:23
There is No Work to be Done

There is No Work to be Done

This episode is a small shift in thought that can help us feel empowered by doing a little less.

Feb 22, 202608:04
Live a Lifetime in a Day

Live a Lifetime in a Day

This episode is inspired by a recently read and loved book, The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Dr, Aditi Nerurkar.

Feb 08, 202608:43
Hallway Goodness

Hallway Goodness

In this final episode of our mini-series of good, we will explore the value of slowing down to listen and hear the ordinary good things happening in our schools that make us extraordinarily proud of our important work.

Feb 01, 202606:49
GOOD Gossip

GOOD Gossip

In this episode, we consider a small shift in action and language that can help us be messengers of what’s GOOD.

Jan 25, 202606:40
GOOD Eavesdropping

GOOD Eavesdropping

In this episode, we get crafty as we learn a way to speak good about those around us in a way they’ll remember.

Jan 18, 202607:55
Capture & Remember the Good

Capture & Remember the Good

In this episode, we learn one way we can hold onto the ways people show up for us, reminding us of the good. 

Jan 11, 202606:23
Tell Them Something Good

Tell Them Something Good

In this episode, we consider the way we use our language with those we teach, work with, live with, and love.

Jan 04, 202614:52
Holiday Hello From Suzanne

Holiday Hello From Suzanne

In this episode, Suzanne shares some quick updates and encourages us to find peace in our pace.

Dec 14, 202505:25
A Good Thing Is...

A Good Thing Is...

In this episode, we consider a way to strengthen or simplify the practice of gratitude.

Dec 07, 202509:28
What Is As Is

What Is As Is

In this episode, we learn a small 4 word shift in thought that can help conserve our limited time and energy in the busy holiday seasons and the ordinary days in between.

Nov 30, 202506:55
Slow-Vember

Slow-Vember

This episode encourages us to intentionally slow down a bit before the hustle and bustle of the holiday season begins.

Nov 16, 202506:39
Look Around Your Room

Look Around Your Room

This episode is an extension of last week’s when we honored those we’ve lost. This week, we consider how to express gratitude to those we get to share life with.

Nov 09, 202507:24
Bring Them Back into the Room

Bring Them Back into the Room

In this tender episode, we consider how we can honor those we have loved and lost and support those we care about to do the same.

Nov 02, 202512:59
Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

In this episode, we learn 2 ideas that can help create some distance from the “cheap dopamine” we find from our phones and get closer to the things that make us feel genuinely happy.

Oct 26, 202509:34
Is it Time for a Breakup?
Oct 19, 202509:52
Shhhhh

Shhhhh

In this episode, we are inspired by the new book Radical Listening to learn of a small shift in action that can help us in our conversations at school and at home.

Oct 12, 202508:30
Be a Flight Attendant

Be a Flight Attendant

In this episode, we consider a small shift in action when life hits us with inevitable turbulence. 

Oct 05, 202507:43
Toxic Stress to Tolerable Stress

Toxic Stress to Tolerable Stress

In this episode, we acknowledge when stress in our lives becomes toxic and examine how we may be able to make it a bit more tolerable.  

Sep 28, 202509:33
 Can the Kids in Your Life Answer These 3 Questions?

Can the Kids in Your Life Answer These 3 Questions?

In this episode, we slow down and simplify. When we become overwhelmed with all of the small things we have to do for our students at school or children at home, let’s ask ourselves these 3 big questions to know that we are on track for doing a good job. 

Sep 21, 202506:58
Kindness Matters
Sep 14, 202506:53
Rich because...

Rich because...

In this episode, we choose to find and celebrate the uniquely special things that come with our job as educators. 

Sep 01, 202507:17
What's Your Reentry Plan?

What's Your Reentry Plan?

In this episode, we are inspired by the book Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid and the The Deep Dive podcast with June Diane Raphael and Jessica St. Clair as we envision a small shift in our actions that can help us reenter our upcoming school year with intentionality.



Aug 01, 202507:49
What's Your Battle Plan?

What's Your Battle Plan?

In this second summer bonus episode, we identify what kind of time we are in and consider what we would need in our "Battle Plan" during a fragile season.

Jul 01, 202508:38
Say Yes to a No Day

Say Yes to a No Day

In our first summer podcast, we consider a small shift in thought that can help us squeeze the heck out of our well-earned summer.  

Jun 01, 202507:18
Keep Happy This Summer

Keep Happy This Summer

In this final episode of season 5, we wrap up and consider how we can squeeze the heck out of our upcoming summer. 

May 18, 202507:32
2 Ideas to Try: Social Wealth & Mental Wealth

2 Ideas to Try: Social Wealth & Mental Wealth

This is our final preview of The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom. We learn a strategy to help grow our social wealth and our mental wealth. 

May 11, 202509:54
2 Ideas to Try: Time Wealth

2 Ideas to Try: Time Wealth

In this episode, we learn to strategies shared in the time wealth section of The 5 Types of Wealth. 

May 04, 202510:28
Summer Reading! An Introduction to the 5 Types of Wealth

Summer Reading! An Introduction to the 5 Types of Wealth

In this episode, we hear an overview of The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom as an invitation to read it over the summer as we rest and reflect. 

Apr 27, 202510:11
Give Yourself 90 Seconds

Give Yourself 90 Seconds

In this episode, we learn why 90 seconds is an important timeframe when it comes to regulating our emotions.

Apr 13, 202508:09
7 Words to Brighten Someone's Day

7 Words to Brighten Someone's Day

In this episode, we learn seven words we can use in our busy lives that can help brighten someone’s day. 

Apr 06, 202503:28
What is NOT Yours to Do?

What is NOT Yours to Do?

In this episode, we examine our lives to celebrate the work that ISN’T ours to do.

Mar 30, 202506:07
What is Yours to Do?

What is Yours to Do?

In this episode, we consider a small shift in thought that can help us discover our agency when life gets “life-y”. 

Mar 23, 202505:50
Say What?

Say What?

In this episode, we learn a small shift in language that can help us support others during times of uncertainty and worry.

Mar 16, 202507:08
Fix Your Face

Fix Your Face

Mar 09, 202508:00
Take Notes

Take Notes

In this episode, we are invited to consider a small shift in action that can help us capture some good, and find a little bit of sunshine this time of year. 

Mar 02, 202508:26
Who's Your MVP?

Who's Your MVP?

In this episode, we are inspired by 2024 NFL MVP winner Josh Allen. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged those who support his success. Our invitation is to consider those we work with that support our success and share some gratitude. 

Feb 23, 202504:51
Lessons From a 15 Year Olds

Lessons From a 15 Year Olds

In this episode, we are inspired by a bunch of regular 15-year-olds as they make the decision to lift each other up again and again.  

Feb 16, 202509:43
5 More Minutes

5 More Minutes

What would you do if you had 5 extra minutes in your day? In this episode, we consider put our answer to action. 

Feb 09, 202508:50
Mid-Week Podcast Pop-In

Mid-Week Podcast Pop-In

Popping in your podcast feed with an invitation to be part of an upcoming project!

Feb 05, 202502:27
Take Notes

Take Notes

In this episode, we are invited to consider a small shift in action that can help us capture some good, and find a little bit of sunshine this time of year. 

Feb 02, 202508:26