Teach Happier! Small shifts. Big gifts.

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

Reclaim Your Algorithm
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.
Treat Your Family like Colleagues
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.
Because It Is
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.
There is No Work to be Done
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.
Live a Lifetime in a Day
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.
Hallway Gossip
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.
GOOD Gossip
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.
GOOD Eavesdropping
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.
Capture & Remember the Good
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.
Tell Them Something Good
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.
Holiday Hello From Suzanne
Dec. 14, 2025

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...
Dec. 7, 2025

A Good Thing Is...

In this episode, we consider a way to strengthen or simplify the practice of gratitude.
What Is As Is
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.
Slow-Vember
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.
Look Around Your Room
Nov. 9, 2025

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
Nov. 2, 2025

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
Oct. 26, 2025

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?
Oct. 19, 2025

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
Oct. 12, 2025

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
Oct. 5, 2025

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
Sept. 28, 2025

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.

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