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Connecting to our unique design through Color Analysis with Kim Bass

Have you heard of color analysis? In today's episode, Kim Bass shares how color analysis and styling help shift how we feel and see ourselves and reconnect us to loving our natural design and how we were created. Our conversation also dives into how color analysis and styling have helped us belong to ourselves and offer ourselves self-acceptance as an AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) person.

Kim grew up in the Bay Area and still lives there to this day with her husband of 14 years and their two kids. She worked in HR for a couple of tech companies before becoming a full-time SAHM. After 10 years of being a homemaker, she went back to the workforce in 2021 and joined a virtual color analysis business called Created Colorful, where she manages the blog content for the company.

Connect with Kim on Instagram @kimstigrams

Learn more about color analysis @createdcolorful and at www.createdcolorful.com

Schedule your color analysis consult here

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Supporting Teacher Emotional Wellness through the SEL lens with Rachel Bacosa

Welcome to our last episode during Teacher Appreciation Week to celebrate and honor you, the teacher and educator who is making the biggest impact on our future generation.

In today's episode, Rachel Bacosa and I chat about how tending to our social-emotional needs, modeling it, and including our students in that practice build you and your students' self-awareness and self-management skills.

Rachel’s #1 passion in education is to serve educators! You will find her having soulful, reflective conversations, helping an educator identify, first and foremost, what is going well in their classroom. Rachel is a strengths-based educational coach who builds from strengths and creates training and tools to help teachers develop their SEL awareness and self-management skills.

Rachel has served fifteen years in education as an elementary teacher, teacher mentor to teacher candidates at SJSU, & an instructional and programmatic coach for Social-Emotional and Culturally Sustaining Learning in the Pre-8 grade school district.

When she is not coaching at the district office, she creates and leads professional development as a consultant with the Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC). With CRTWC, she partners with a small but mighty team of 4 who have made it their goal to embed a framework that focuses on Social-Emotional and Cultural Anchors and Teacher Moves into Teacher Prep programs in the United States. Rachel has been a consultant with the CRTWC for over 10 years and has co-presented in northern and southern CA conferences.

When Rachel is not strengthening systems toward building resilient teachers and students in the Pre-K-8th grade school district system or for teacher prep programs at the university level, you will find her out in nature hiking or writing in her journal, and most of the time spending quality time outdoors with family and friends, and enjoying human being.

Educational change starts with how we care for our teachers! If you want to make systemic change where students are socially-emotionally and culturally responsive, you need to meet the needs of our teachers with that same goal. Start with what teachers are doing well and see them light up! It is all about building from strengths, not weaknesses. https://crtwc.org

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Honoring rest and emotional needs as a teacher with Erika So

Welcome to another episode during Teacher Appreciation Week to celebrate and honor you, the teacher and educator who is making the biggest impact on our future generation. In today's episode, Erika So and I chat about the importance of rest, addressing your emotional needs as a teacher, and reaching out for support.

Erika So is a Happiness Coach and Middle School Teacher who has learned how to turn her High Sensitivity into her superpower. She is the Founder of Begin Branching Out, which empowers changemakers to create space for rest and play instead of pouring endlessly from an empty cup. When she's not working with clients or students, she's playing games with her family, journaling, or cuddling with her animals.

Check out Erika's free GRACE resource that'll help you decompress from an exhausting day. As a friendly reminder, go and check out the free Teacher's Corner Wellness Resources, where the link to Erika's free GRACE resource will also be available. Connect with Erika: Instagram: @beginbranchingout

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Soul Care for Teachers with Meredith Newlin

Welcome to another episode during Teacher Appreciation Week to celebrate and honor you, the teacher and educator who is making the biggest impact on our future generation. Being a teacher and educator is one of the most rewarding and also challenging careers. It's hard to find time to prioritize our well-being.

In today's episode, Meredith Newlin and I chat about how taking time to tend to our well-being is beyond simple self-care; it's called soul care and what it means to take care of our souls so that we can connect and be grounded in our teacher essence and thrive.

Meredith Newlin's passion and purpose are to help motivate and inspire educators to rediscover—and keep—their joy for the teaching profession. In her 18th year of teaching, she is the author of Captured Fireflies: Truths, Mistakes, And Other Gifts Of Being an English Teacher, Freed To Teach: 7 Keys To Thrive In an Era Of Uncertainty, and creator of “The Transformed Teacher” podcast and workshops. She lives in North Carolina with her two children.

Check out her FREE "4 To Soar" Guide at www.thetransformedteacher.com

Connect with Meredith on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meredithnewlin

Order Meredith's books "Freed To Teach: 7 Keys To THRIVE In an Era Of Uncertainty" and "Capture Fireflies"

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Navigating through Grief as an Educator with Jackie Dunlap

Are you a teacher, an educator, or a person who works in a school system? If so, then this is an enlightening and encouraging episode for you. As human beings, we experience a range of emotions, and grief is such an elusive and complicated emotion to experience. As an educator, how can you navigate through grief and hold space for those you teach and lead? Listen in as our guest Jackie Dunlap shares her personal experience, wise insights, and encouraging words to help you navigate grief as an educator.

Jackie is a retired teacher who has spent the last 26 years in the classroom and has chosen to use her own experiences to shed light on the importance of work-life balance for educators. Over the past 15 years, Jackie’s passion to be an advocate for “Teacher Well-being” in her community led to her founding Teachers Supporting Teachers Everywhere Inc., because she believes that “Healthy teachers make better teachers!”

 

Links to connect with Jackie:

Website: https://www.teachers4teachers.space/

Facebook  

Twitter

LinkedIN

Instagram

Random Acts of Appreciation - Happy Monday/Friday Gift Card Giveaway

Anderson Cooper's Podcast "All There Is"

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3 Ways to Support Teachers and Educators

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week 2023! In today’s episode, I’ll share 3 ways you can support our teachers and educators. And through the rest of this week on the Jammin’ with Jocelyn podcast, there will be new episodes every single day to celebrate and honor all the teachers and educators who are teaching, serving, inspiring, and protecting our future generation. Each episode is meant to share real stories from real teachers who can speak directly to what teachers experience and provide inspiration with tips and encouragement to support you, the teacher, and the educator. 

 

And if you’re not a teacher or educator, I invite you to listen in to get a glimpse into what it’s like to be in the education profession right now and how teachers and educators need your support. 

If you know a teacher or educator, I invite you to share this week’s episodes with them so that they can receive inspiration and encouragement to support them as they round out the school year. 

 

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, I’d be so grateful if you would leave a review to let others know about this podcast. If you’re listening in for the first time, I invite you to subscribe to stay tuned for new episodes that drop every Wednesday. Once again, thanks for listening in, and I can’t wait to jam with you next time. Bye, ya’ll. 

 

Grab access to the FREE Teacher’s Corner Wellness Resource by clicking here!

https://jocelynauyeung.podia.com/the-teacher-s-corner-wellness-resources

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Let's Connect!

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Grab your FREE Mindfulness Practices List here.
Learn more about Jocelyn's coaching at www.jamminwithjocelyn.com

Releasing from the Model Minority Myth

We’re starting off the month by sharing my perspective and journey in releasing from the Model Minority Myth as a middle-aged AAPI woman and working mom. 

There are many layers and nuances to the Model Minority Myth, and I won’t take the time in this episode to explain it because I’m not an expert. If you’re not familiar with the term and how it’s affected the various minority groups, then I invite you to get curious and learn about it. There are lots of articles, books, and youtube videos that you can learn from.

This is why in this episode, I’m sharing my own personal experience and journey of how the model minority myth has impacted me, how I’m releasing/deconditioning from it, and how I’m showing up differently now. 

So my hope in this episode is that story and perspective will shed light on the effects of the Model Minority Myth for those who aren’t familiar with the Model Minority Myth AND to let my fellow AAPI community know that you’re not alone and that maybe my story helps you feel seen, heard, and understood. 

Resource:

Permission to Come: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans by Dr. Jenny Wang

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Allowing ourselves Abundance with Alex Dumas

Let's talk about Abundance and how we can embody this energy of Abundance for ourselves. In today's episode, Alex Dumas and I discuss what Abundance is and what holds us back from embodying Abundance for ourselves. He offers us a powerful question that we can ask ourselves to help us harness the energy of Abundance.

 

Alex Dumas is the C.E.O./Founder of Abundance Daily Coaching and Vice-President of the BIPOC Coach Collective. Since 2018, he has worked as a trusted advisor, coaching top-performing leaders in business in the areas of leadership, sales, teamwork, and marketing. The most important things about him are that he's a devoted husband to Sarah and a loving father to Juliana and A.J.

 

Learn more at https://therealalexdumas.com.

Learn more about the BIPOC Coach Collective at https://www.bipoccc.org

Grab your Free e-book titled "What it Takes to W.I.N. Big in Business: 3 Insights to Effectively Lead Yourself and Your Team" http://talk.ac/alexdumas CODE: WIN

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