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We are here to help empower parents to live a happy, healthy life with their kids. You want happy, healthy kids. Who doesn’t? But something always seems to get in the way. There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to challenging behavior which is why we created this podcast to bring together experts in this area to share with you proven methods, guidance and solution-oriented strategies so that you can live empowered to help your family live a happy and healthy life. Dr. Karin Jakubowski, founder of Educational Impact Academy, is on a mission to inform, support, educate and provide tools for parents in a safe and encouraging community. Follow her at www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Episodes
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
If we spend time with others' stories and lived experiences, we can better understand the who, what, and why of them.
Dr. Kristen Donnelly is a TEDx speaker, international empathy educator, and researcher with two decades of experience in helping people understand the beauty in difference, and the power in inclusivity. She is one of The Good Doctors of Abbey Research, Chief Operations Officer of their parent company, and an unapologetic nerd for stories of change. Kristen lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, where they are surrounded by piles of books and several video game consoles.
In this episode you will learn:
- How she started a research institute on the back of a napkin
- Emotional intelligence - why does it matter?
- How tolerance flattens diversity
- What being a 2nd generation family business owner has taught her about empathy
- Mandatory books to read for empathy building
- Why people, as a rule, are so exhausted
- Curiosity is the greatest super power humans can cultivate
Watch Kristen’s TEDx Talk on inclusivity, trauma, the lie of 'back to normal', and how no one is replaceable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9kx1MUI3Bk
More about Kristen
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Dr. Russell’s passion is providing support to frustrated students and weary parents. Her work is fueled by her own experience of raising two complex children who are both neurologically atypical autism, mood disorders, ADHD, giftedness, and learning differences. Dr. Russell knows firsthand the exhaustion parents face as they day in and day out seek solutions for their out-of-the-box child.
Dr. Russell is dedicated to walking beside families and helping them turn chaos into calm.
In this episode you will learn:
- About her recently published book, "Asking the Right Questions about ADHD Before, During, and After Your Child's Diagnosis"
- What you will be able to take away from this book?
- Why it is a must read right now for parents
Buy Dr. Russell’s NEW! Book - “Asking the Right Questions about ADHD Before, During and After Your Child’s Diagnosis
Follow Dr. Russell at
https://russellcoaching.com/adhd-book-release
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
With each pregnancy, Shannon experienced different challenges and during her fourth and last one, she had a lot of anxiety. It was unexplained. She had a constant underlying anxiety regardless of the baby doing great and no big life circumstances. She talked with her husband, doctor and God and took medication for a short time for postpartum, which really helped. The day she came home from the hospital with her fourth child, Covid started and we were all in quarantine. Then, her sister unexpectedly passed away right after that and she had a peace that surpassed her understanding. Shannon went from having anxiety for at least 10 months to extreme peace during a time of life, when most of the world didn’t have peace.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Shannon’s story of helping others find peace and purpose among the trials
- All about collagen - that inhibits fat storage, improves muscle tone, restores youthful skin
- A lesson Shannon is learning in motherhood right now
- How to take control of your health and get in your best shape
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
After losing her husband to pancreatic cancer, Alison designed new ways to re-engage, reinvent, and rebuild. Her new book, “The Bad Widow Guide to Life After Loss: Moving Through Grief to Live and Love Again,” supports people grieving and those who love them. Alison Pena, aka Bad Widow, is a Grief Resilience Coach, #1 Amazon bestselling Author and Speaker and Affluence Code® Consultant
In this episode you will learn:
- What Alison did when she was told her husband had 6 weeks to live
- Why Alison says, “When you are watching someone who is leaving, there is not much to be afraid of.”
- Handling your emotions, how to take care of yourself when you are the caregiver
- Alison’s experience…how difficult it was to get out of bed after the loss of her husband, going through a ‘wasteland of grief’ as she calls it
- How Alison got her name ‘Bad Widow’
- How everyone who wanted to get it right kept getting it wrong. The way they were talking, treating her, and more
- Alison’s turning point after feeling broken and people treating her like she was broken
- The difference between devastated, not broken
- What you do, when you have no idea who you are. Reinventing yourself.
People want to give you what you ask them for, but they don’t want to get it wrong, especially if you are a widow. Alison found out that as long as she could be SO clear with others about what she needed, so they could not get it wrong and it wasn’t too much of a stretch for them, she got it about 80% of the time.
https://www.amazon.com/Widow-Guide-Life-After-Loss/dp/1737790505/
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More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
When we equip kids with the tools they need to develop positive peer relationships, we cause a ripple effect of prosocial behaviors resulting in not only more emotionally secure kids but stronger communities as well.
Diana is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and former Special Education teacher dedicated to helping kids develop the 21st century social skills that will lead them to happier, healthier lives.
As both an educator and mom of two boys, she is deeply invested in the type of culture we are creating for our kids. She developed and facilitated social skills groups in public schools at every grade level from preschool to high school. She believes so much in the power of social connection. She even created her own Social Skills Groups at South Bay Kids Connection!
Diane has used this as a model in creating the first of its kind - Social & Play Skills Group course.
Teaching the "soft skills" is more important than ever in today's fast paced, dynamic and nuanced social environments. It's frustrating when our students don't transfer these social skills outside of the classroom. Especially after pouring so much time and energy into teaching them.
Our students all have differing abilities. It can be exhausting and time consuming trying to piecemeal a social learning curriculum together on the fly. How can we make sure that we are teaching the right social skills, in a way that kids will enjoy and retain when there is no one size fits all curriculum?
“All children can and deserve to succeed. But the skills to achieve success today have changed,” says Diana.
In this episode you will learn:
-What are soft skills?
-Why are they so important now more than ever before?
- What our kids need to have to develop these skills?
- Why we explicitly teach social and play skills? (instead of just waiting for them to develop)
-How we can teach social skills to our kids/students in a way that doesn't feel like work (for them)?
Check out her website for free activities -
https://www.teachsocialskills.com
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Shanti Hershenson is a teenager who advocates for anti-bullying, and you may find her at open mic-nights, performing her spoken word poem, Needles & Thorns, which is about the struggle of bullying in middle schools.
Shanti Hershenson’s first two novellas were published when she was in the sixth grade, although her writing journey started long before then. Ever since she could hold a pencil, marker, or crayon, she was creating stories. They started from pictures, mere scribbles, and eventually, turned into captivating tales.
Shanti lives in California with her parents, sister, and furry friends. Besides writing, she enjoys skateboarding, Beyblading, free-running, falconry, and of course, reading.
She writes in a variety of genres, including Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction, although she mostly sticks to Sci-Fi.
In this episode you will learn:
- How Shanti started writing
- What to do with writer’s block
- Her experience being bullied
- What parents can do if their child is being bullied
- Bully prevention in schools
Shanti’s books:
The Chronicles of Ziel DeLaine
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
A 2019 study of more than 6,500 12- to 15- year-olds in the U.S. found that those who spent more than three hours a day using social media might be at heightened risk for mental health problems.
In this episode you will learn:
- At what age kids should have a social media account
- Which apps to stay away from that are not safe for kids and teens
- 5 Ways to protect your teen when it comes to social media
Richard Capriola is a mental health and addictions counselor and has been for over two decades. In 2020 he published, “The Addicted Child, A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse” and a workbook for parents.
Learn more at Richard Capriola’s website -
https://helptheaddictedchild.com/
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow her on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
There has never been a time in history when educators have felt such overwhelming levels of stress, burnout, and exhaustion. Still, we depend on teachers to be a positive guiding force in our children’s lives – often playing simultaneous roles as educator, parent, mental health counselor, and caring friend. For educators to fulfill these vital roles, it’s abundantly clear that they need to develop resiliency both inside and outside the classroom.
Lisa is a published author of Self-Compassion for Educators as well as, the creator of the AWE Method — Awakening the Wellbeing for Educators — which merges self-care, mindfulness, and self-compassion.
Lisa has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. She has taught internationally and locally. Much of her vast teaching experience was gained in classrooms across British Columbia — from Fort St. John to the Comox Valley. Currently, she is a high school counselor in the Greater Victoria School District.
Trained by mindful self-compassion pioneers Chris Germer and Kristin Neff, Lisa is also a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. You can learn from her by taking an eight-week online MSC course, explore a half-day AWE retreat, or join her Year-Long Mindfulness for Educators program.
No matter the setting — classroom, counseling session, or teacher development — Lisa incorporates concepts of positive psychology, self-compassion, and mindfulness.
Check out her blog for ideas on how to incorporate aspects of mindfulness, and positive education into your classroom and the new curriculum.
Within Self-Compassion for Educators, busy and overwhelmed teachers can learn how to:
- Reduce feelings of shame, criticism, and self-doubt
- Anchor themselves to the present moment
- Develop greater compassion for themselves and others
- Mitigate the effects of chronic stress and develop resilience
- Cultivate a sense of gratitude
- Practice self-care routines that create sustainable well-being
- Avoid exhaustion and burnout
Lisa Baylis has been sharing wellbeing strategies for the last 20 years. A natural born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is an instructor, a counselor, a facilitator, and a mother.
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Karin's YouTube Channel
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
When you’re juggling a million things - work, kids, appointments, keeping up with the house, laundry, cooking, not to mention the people in your life and all of their needs—you end up exhausted, stressed and longing for calm or your next vacation.
“The thing is, you have calm inside you, it just gets covered up with the thoughts, worry, and activity. And that’s good news because it means you can bring out your calm, even if you feel like you’re too busy,” says, Sandy Fowler, a Stress-relief Coach, Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra Meditation Guide, and Co-founder of Mighty Parenting. She talks about raising teens and parenting young adults, and discusses the most overlooked parenting strategy - stress relief.
What you will learn in this episode:
- How stress relief is actually a parenting strategy
- Common mistakes parents make when planning their time
- How to prioritize to lower your stress level
- How to employ stress relief techniques when you have a stressed out child
Learn more about the top things parents are struggling with right now:
- Letting their child be who they are
- Communicating well
- Taking care of themselves
Simple Strategies to Relieve Stress & Find Time for What Matters Most sandyfowler.com
Real Talk About Raising Teens and Parenting Young Adults MightyParenting.com
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
Since losing her two-year-old son to cancer Laurie Singer has devoted her life to the field of mental health. Licensed Psychotherapist, Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and author of “You’re Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes” published in April 2021.
What you will learn in this episode:
- How the pandemic impacted mental health in regards to family, friends and work
- Covid’s impact on children and teens and how can parents help
- Anticipatory anxiety and how it relates to issues out of our control
- When is anxiety “normal” and when does it become problematic
- How to help your child with anxiety
Motivated by her own personal tragedy, Laurie has devoted her life to the field of mental health with a clear vision in mind: to create a team approach for helping individuals resolve behavioral and other mental health issues by applying a unique combination of behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies.
Her first book, released in April, 2021, is titled "You're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes.” Using case studies from her successful practice, delivered in a digestible, narrative format and including worksheets designed for the individual to take control of their lives, the book's goal is to help those who suffer deeply from anxiety and mental health concerns. Particularly those which have been exacerbated by the devastating pandemic.
Laurie earned her post-graduate certification in Applied Behavioral Analysis from Kaplan University. She began her college studies at Oxnard College and at UCLA, and completed her undergraduate degree at UCSB. She received her masters from Cal State Northridge in Educational Psychology and proceeded to earn a license in Marriage and Family Therapy. Laurie has been a practicing Behavioral Specialist since 1995 and in private practice since 2004.
Laurie is also an endurance athlete, having made running 100-mile races nearly routine and completing 28 ultra-marathons of 31 miles or longer. She’s a 3-time Ironman competitor and in 2017 was recognized for her accomplishments as an inductee into the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame.
Since losing her two-year-old son Jacob Singer to cancer in 1987, she has coordinated an annual fun run and fundraiser (Jacob’s Run) in support of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’s Child Life Program, which provides playrooms and support for patients and their families. To date, more than $350,000 has been raised in support.
She's particularly adept at discussing mental health issues that are deeply-seeded that often take hold in childhood as well as responses to current societal conditions. Case in point, she can take a deep dive in what's known as "anticipatory anxiety" where a person feels great anxiety around things that they can't necessarily control such as wildfires, climate change and even the ongoing process of the pandemic and political unrest.
As an athlete herself, she has also an intimate knowledge of what competitors go through and can share insight into the "athlete in all of us." Laurie is a licensed marriage and family therapist, board-certified in applied behavior analysis, who leads the successful, Camarillo, CA-based Laurie Singer Behavioral Services, Inc.
Follow Laurie on Social -
https://lauriesingerbehavioral.com/
https://www.yourenotcrazybook.com/about-laurie-singer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-singer-03524b219?trk=people-guest_people_search-card
https://twitter.com/@LSBEHAVSVC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KIfyjiJBq8
Laurie Singer: You're Not Crazy
https://www.instagram.com/laurie__singer
More about the Host - Dr. Karin Jakubowski is an elementary public school principal and certified life coach. She is passionate about helping moms first take care of themselves to be their best for their kids. She helps moms with a problem solving process when their child is experiencing challenging behaviors. She practices mindfulness personally and at school teaching students breathing and awareness techniques to help them manage their own stress to be happy and healthy!
Check out her NEW Course - Happy Kids, Not Perfect Kids (Click Here)
Follow Karin on social -
https://www.facebook.com/educationalimpactacademy
Instagram - JakubowskiKarin
Twitter - @KarinJakubowski
Click here to get her free video course “First Steps to Happy Kids” www.educationalimpactacademy.com