When you look back on your time in school, is there a particular teacher or staff member who stands out? One who made a big enough impact, good or bad, that you still, to this day, remember how they made you feel and what you learned from them? Truthfully, when we think back, most of us can recall at least one person from this time in our lives.

In today's episode, I have a very special guest on the show. Educator, coach, mentor, and someone I’ve known for over two decades, Ms. Kelly Beavers. She joins me today to share her professional journey in, and overall perspective on, education. As someone who spent over twenty fulfilling and impactful years in education, Ms. Kelly is an inspiration to me, and she can be one to you too.

Tune in and listen to the sixteenth episode of I Can Do This Show Me How! to listen to Ms. Kelly’s story and her perspective on what it means to bear the responsibility of shaping the minds of future generations.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What research shows about what happens when teachers foster a ‘growth’ mindset in their students (1:37)
• What sparked Ms. Kelly’s interest in education and, more specifically, educating children (5:28)
• About a time in Ms. Kelly’s life when she felt discouraged as a teacher, and what helped her carry on (12:04)
• How Ms. Kelly believes educators can be a little more creative (16:01)
• About one of the profound things that I learned from Ms. Kelly (28:12)
• Why the 3rd and 4th grade are pivotal for a child (31:42)
• Ms. Kelly’s advice for parents on helping their children learn and grow (34:45)
• What parents and teachers can do to reconnect to their purpose and make a difference (42:20)

Resources

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Freedom’s Teacher by Katherine Mellen Charron

Let's connect!

• My Email: ldroseconsulting@gmail.com
• Mentor International: www.mentorfoundationusa.org
• Mentor: www.mentoring.org
• Ashoka Changemakers: www.ashoka.org
• Women’s World Banking Mentorship Program: www.womensworldbanking.org
• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) www.score.org
• Big Brothers Big Sisters: www.bbbs.org
• Cherie Blair Foundation for Women: www.cherieblairfoundation.org
• Toastmasters International Mentorship: www.toastmasters.org

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As we grow into adulthood and progress through life, many of us start to better understand that a blueprint for success does, in fact, exist. That’s not to say that the blueprint shows us the exact steps we need to take to live the life we want, but rather it shows us how to do the inner work needed to reach success.

In today's episode, I talk about three things that I believe are crucial to being able to get what we want out of life: energy, effort, and courage. Three simple words that hold a magnitude of power. I discuss how each of these words has applied to my life as well as the lives of three monumental and influential African American women: Mary McLeod Bethune, Anna Julia Cooper, and Septima Poinsette Clark.

Tune in and listen to the fifteenth episode of I Can Do This Show Me How! to be inspired into your own journey, led by energy, effort, and courage.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What three words we can use to shape our future (0:50)
• What courage meant for me (6:04)
• What courage meant for Mary McLeod Bethune (6:58)
• About the importance of practicing self-reflection (12:52)
• What energy is and how to find ways to replenish it (15:19)
• About Anna Julia Haywood’s journey (17:11)
• How I define courage and what it’s meant to me through the years (24:32)
• About how Septima Poinsette Clark understood the power of sustained effort (25:40)

Resources

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Freedom’s Teacher by Katherine Mellen Charron

Let's connect!

• My Email: ldroseconsulting@gmail.com
• Mentor International: www.mentorfoundationusa.org
• Mentor: www.mentoring.org
• Ashoka Changemakers: www.ashoka.org
• Women’s World Banking Mentorship Program: www.womensworldbanking.org
• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) www.score.org
• Big Brothers Big Sisters: www.bbbs.org
• Cherie Blair Foundation for Women: www.cherieblairfoundation.org
• Toastmasters International Mentorship: www.toastmasters.org

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Think back to a time in your life when you were going through something difficult. A time when the tides weren’t moving in your favor and things may have felt overwhelming or uncertain. Most of us have been there at least once in our lives. So how do we cope in these instances? How do we drown out all the noise, listen to our inner voice, and pave a path forward that’s intentional and aligns with our own best interests?

In today's episode, I continue the story of one of the most difficult times in my life. Reconnecting with a past boyfriend, and eventually marrying him despite all the warning signs and red flags, was not an easy journey for me. The silver lining is that it taught me a lot about resilience and what it means to learn and grow from these experiences. Today, I can look back and easily pinpoint all the ways in which I ignored my intuition, hoping against hope that my story, our story, would turn out the way I’d written it in my mind.

Tune in and listen to the fourteenth episode of I Can Do This Show Me How! as we continue to explore what it means to be resilient and how to harness adversity and use it to learn and grow.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why I think it’s important to talk about money (5:30)
• What I began to develop when I started to manage my finances the right way (6:58)
• How you navigate relationships when you don’t have positive role models growing up (8:54)
• About my story of reconnecting with my future (at the time) third husband (9:25)
• How my friends reacted when I told them I had plans to get married imminently (16:03)
• Why the realization that I wasn’t responsible for repairing cracks in my relationship didn’t come easily (26:55)

Resources

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Let's connect!

• My Email: ldroseconsulting@gmail.com
• Mentor International: www.mentorfoundationusa.org
• Mentor: www.mentoring.org
• Ashoka Changemakers: www.ashoka.org
• Women’s World Banking Mentorship Program: www.womensworldbanking.org
• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) www.score.org
• Big Brothers Big Sisters: www.bbbs.org
• Cherie Blair Foundation for Women: www.cherieblairfoundation.org
• Toastmasters International Mentorship: www.toastmasters.org

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.