Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.
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.
Recent Episodes
30
May 10, 2026
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.
29
May 3, 2026
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.
28
April 26, 2026
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.
27
April 19, 2026
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.
26
April 12, 2026
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.
25
March 29, 2026
Purposeful Pause
In this episode, we honor the times in our life when we honor a fragile time and take a purposeful pause.
24
March 22, 2026
Plan Backwards from Your Retirement
This episode invites us to consider a small shift in future thought that can impact our present actions.
23
March 15, 2026
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.
22
March 8, 2026
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.
21
March 1, 2026
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.
20
Feb. 22, 2026
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.
19
Feb. 8, 2026
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.
18
Feb. 1, 2026
Hallway Gossip
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.
17
Jan. 25, 2026
GOOD Gossip
In this episode, we consider a small shift in action and language that can help us be messengers of what’s GOOD.
16
Jan. 18, 2026
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.
15
Jan. 11, 2026
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.
14
Jan. 4, 2026
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.
12
Dec. 14, 2025
Holiday Hello From Suzanne
In this episode, Suzanne shares some quick updates and encourages us to find peace in our pace.
12
Dec. 7, 2025
A Good Thing Is...
In this episode, we consider a way to strengthen or simplify the practice of gratitude.
11
Nov. 30, 2025
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.
10
Nov. 16, 2025
Slow-Vember
This episode encourages us to intentionally slow down a bit before the hustle and bustle of the holiday season begins.
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