Juliet Adloune has over twenty years of experience in Primary Education as a teacher and leader. She is a qualified Instructor for Adult Mental Health First Aid [MHFAEngland], alongside working for Cambridgeshire Local Authority as a Professional Development and Improvement Adviser. In this candid conversation, we talk about the importance of promoting mental health in schools, particularly when supporting our schools leaders and teachers. With 52% of all educational professionals having considered leaving due to pressures on their mental health and wellbeing, can we really afford, as a profession, to overlook this need for not only training but more importantly, reducing the stigma?

Juliet is a delightful, knowledgeable and passionate educator, who deeply cares for her colleagues in the profession. Another must-listen candid conversation!

You can find her here: LinkedIn Profile here www.facebook.com/mhfa.julietadloune

Catherine Hulme is an advocate of Pure coaching. Her passion for person centred approaches which is founded upon trusting relationships, teacher’s inspiring self-change and autonomy are the tenets of this candid conversation.

“Schools are communities and not factories!”

Her commitment to enable and empower others to develop and reach their potential in her teaching and senior leadership role has ultimately been the catalyst in her own career transition.

She shares the difference coaching made to her personally “I felt heard, believed, advocated, encouraged to meet my potential and enabled to maintain my own self-belief.”

We also take this opportunity to share all about about ‘Leadership Edge’… Find out more!

Emma Cann is a former Primary School teacher who left the profession after nine years of being in the classroom due to suffering burnout. She raises some very thought-provoking points around how we normalise our own less than satisfactory standards as teachers.

Is it really ok that we normalise working 60-70 hour weeks? Why is it ok for a colleague to make us feel guilty for leaving at 5pm? These unrealistic expectations are exactly what drives us out of the profession!

Her personal story of burnout is incredibly powerful as it is deeply disturbing. She takes from it, the positive fact that she is still in the profession giving back to colleagues. Her mission is to talk about this honestly and openly, in order to help other teachers avoid burnout. This is a candid conversation not to be missed!

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Vicki Maguire is a former highly experienced deputy head teacher and head of department. Now head coach at Transform Education Coaching. She set up her own business to coach teachers and leaders in education. Her own “We Lead Well” podcast is full of insights into perceptions, views, controversy within education is well worth signing up to!

She understands the challenges that leaders and teachers face and has through her own experience learnt the importance of wellbeing. In this podcast, we discuss the power of coaching in relation to managing our own wellbeing and recognising stressful situations. “Coaching creates that space to give yourself time and understand why you’re doing, what you’re doing and what your values are. In teaching we don’t get that space, so we need to create it!”

She is authentic, humble and on a mission!

In this special episode Steve Waters interviews Suneta Bagri the founder of the Every Teacher Matters Project about her latest initiative. The Teacher's Pet is a diary, planner and self development journal all in one. It aims to provide a systematic approach on a daily basis to help teachers plan for their own well-being before they plan for their students'. There is no pupil well-being unless there is teacher well-being. Let's put that oxygen mask on first!

Ivy Wong is an inspiring teacher, originally from Australia. It was an absolute pleasure to speak to her about her wonderful experiences of teaching. She candidly shares the not so wonderful reality of what can happen when anxiety takes a hold and how this influences the teacher’s overall mental health. As a life-coach herself now she reflects on what made her reach out to a coach when she was a classroom practitioner.

The coaching experience realigned her to her values, reconnected her with why teaching was her calling and gave her back her confidence, ultimately bringing her back to her purpose.

This is a must listen!

In this episode I speak to Chrissy, a retired teacher with a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise in teaching and coaching. “As teachers, we are givers!” She explains how coaching is an essential tool for wellbeing and how as teachers we can get way-laid. Chrissy, eloquently describes that those teachers who embark upon coaching, can prevent burnout and reaching a point of total break-down. Coaching also keeps us connected to our “why” – our passion and our purpose and creates a “win-win” situation!

If you are curious about coaching – must listen!

This candid conversation with Steve Waters, is a real pleasure to listen to!

Steve is a former teacher with over 40 years of experience in the teaching profession. Now he champions the well being of teachers through supporting schools to implement a systemic and cultural change towards improving wellbeing within the organisation. Steve is founder of the Teach Well Alliance.

Personally, Steve is a mentor, supporter and partner to me in many areas of my work. Professionally, he is an inspiration and an advocate for us all in the teaching profession.

A must listen podcast – where you will find out all about his “why!”

Dr Victoria Carr starts by sharing her values, of which two are ethical leadership and integrity. Throughout this candid conversation, we hear her echo these characteristics in what she shares, passionately and honestly, displaying her servant leadership style. It is with these noble attributes she shares her personal experience of navigating COVID-19.

Everyone working in a school should listen to this podcast, there is so much to be learned from this inspiring leader!

In this conversation with Alan Beale, headteacher of an inner city school in Birmingham (an area with high deprivation) speaks about the need to support the real issues facing his school community. This interview truly captures the experience of a headteacher fire-fighting on a daily basis, concerned about ensuring his staff's wellbeing through this pandemic. He shares how this is not the time for competition, comparison or controversy. Instead, an opportunity to think about collaboration, consistency and cohesion.

Raw and honest. A must listen!