
Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.
By Suzanne Dailey


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Plan Backwards from Your Retirement
This episode invites us to consider a small shift in future thought that can impact our present actions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Is it Time for a Breakup?
In this episode, we are inspired by two young adults and the author of How to Breakup with Your Phone to see if our time on our phones is impacting our time elsewhere.

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.

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

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.

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.

Kindness Matters
In this episode, we launch season 6 and consider how we can start this school year being gentle, generous, and kind to ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

What is NOT Yours to Do?
In this episode, we examine our lives to celebrate the work that ISN’T ours 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”.

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

Fix Your Face

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mid-Week Podcast Pop-In
Popping in your podcast feed with an invitation to be part of an upcoming project!

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.