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nannycast: NannyCast 33: Networks vs Communities  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast // What is a network? What is a community? Are they the same? What critical differences are there between the two that can protect you from an untimely tattling/firing? In the Newborn Care Solutions’s Real Talk Education on 19 April 2020, Hope Schachter recommended connecting with nanny community using online Facebook groups. DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Don’t do that before you listen to our episode on the difference between networks and communities. Make sure you seek community where community is. If you are curious about The Nanny Relief Fund, please take a look at our statement on that fund.

NannyCast 40: Nanny Exploitation with Ask The Nanny  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  On the 23rd of March 2020, Nanny Jen appeared on Ask The Nanny with Angela Johnson. This podcast is an edited-for-time version of the appearance. If you want to see the entire no-longer-live video, click here.

nannycast: NannyCast 30: Nanny Burnout  In this episode, Nannies Jen and Laura explore the complex topic of nanny burnout: where it comes from, how to tell if you have it, and how to fix it. // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast // accompanying slide show // Voices for the Nanny Burnout Inventory come from the following generous voice actors: Seamus the Gentleman | [email protected] Maria Micklasavage, Voice Actor | [email protected] & https://mariamicklasavagevoiceover.com/ Creed CobaltBlue infotroph FancyOctopus from the Buried Gems Podcast | The internet is a treasure trove of original fiction! At Buried Gems we comedically dig through and try and find the next big thing.  Additional Show Notes: International Nanny Association // Nanny Support Groups by Locality Vulnerability Hangover Audio from Over My Dead Body Ep 4 Parasympathetic Nervous System Audio from Crash Course A&P Serenity Prayer Audio from The Anxiety Coaches Podcast Guided Meditation for Stress Relief Chronic Stress Audio from TED-Ed Why Mess Causes Stress from Psychology Today 2008 Monitor on Psychology from the American Psychological Association Fight, Flight, or Freeze? What is your Stress Style? Additional Bibliography: Stress and Hormone Basics Hacking Your Brain at Any Age Letting Your Body Turn Down the Stress 6 Ways to Clean Your Child’s Bedroom Once and For All Mommy Burnout (book) We know that with a pandemic in the mix, nannies are currently working jobs that are tremendously more difficult than what they signed up for. Hopefully you can find some relief in our episode on Nanny Burnout. While we advocate for having a vent session in person with a community nanny, due to social distancing that makes it harder, but not impossible, to find an online community. Listen to our episode on Networks vs Communities for the key steps to find an online community so you can find a sympathetic ear to vent to. In addition, Newborn Care Solutions hosted a trauma therapist to talk about coping through this pandemic. CLICK HERE to view the video on that topic. And CLICK HERE to view the NannyCast press release on the topic of the Nanny Relief Fund.

Some Great Community-Focused Announcements: // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast // view FB Live //  Join Nannies Jen and Jazz as each of them tells you about something cool that we are doing for the nanny community. Jen – https://discord.gg/7hjQhw4 Jazz – http://nannyposse.com/giving-back Nanny Jen’s Trivia Team @ https://www.facebook.com/events/244423759967255/

NannyCast 39: The Ethics of Nannying Through a Crisis Pandemic  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  Some of you have seen the post floating around from the Georgetown ethicist writing an advice column about what to do for COVID-19. A lot of you wish it were better fleshed out or addressed the full range of situations that are being faced in the nanny industry. As happens, I know a professional ethicist who happens to have experience with having employed a nanny, so it isn’t hypothetical to her. She is, quite conveniently, my mother. And in light of the “hurry, hurry, we need answers now” of the situation, I got her to chat with me on the phone - social distancing and all that - and recorded it. Additional Show Notes:Call for questions for this episode.Episode 10Ask the Coronavirus Ethicist (Georgetown Ethicist)National Domestic Workers Alliance Care Fund Episode 37

Bonus: Previewing the Fairy God Nanny Foundation  // download bonus // subscribe to NannyCast // Bonus Feed // View the show notes on our Bonus Episode’s Bonus Feed page. Show notes from that page: On April 13th at 6:30 pm, NannyCast will be hosting a LIVE recording session that you are invited to join! We will be inviting special guest Fairy God Nanny Foundation to come on and talk about their recent fundraising efforts to help the children left behind by nannies who have perished due to COVID-19. Ask questions or just listen in and get an idea of how our process works. This bonuscast provides you with background information about the Fairy God Nanny Foundation so that you know what to expect and who they are. If you feel so moved, you can already make your donation. VIDEO

nannycast: NannyCast 22: Employee (mis) Classification  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  Am I an independent contractor? My bosses think I should have a 1099, should I? What is a W2? Should I be afraid to fill out a W4? What is an I9? How about a W9? What happens if I get a 1099? And your mnemonic: Even numbers are your friend; Iiiiiiiiiiii’m not worried about it. Additional Show Notes: Recourse for Employees Misclassified as Independent Contractors / Link to SS-8 Homework Solutions on Employee vs Independent Contractor Mark Kohler on Employee vs Independent Contractor Hawkins Ash CPAs on Employee vs Independent Contractor Transcript after the break. Keep reading If you are in the United States, even though tax day has been postponed to July 15th, tax day is coming. If you don’t have your W2 in your hands, you need to have this podcast in your ears.

NannyCast 38: The Novel 2019 Coronavirus and the Nanny  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  Wherein NannyCast gives you a timely episode that addresses some of the issues in the nannying world that came about due to the virus formerly known as The 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Additional Show Notes:This Podcast Will Kill You | Coronavirus Episode Ologies | Virology f. CoronavirusesDaily Structure for Trying TimesNannyCast 21: Working While SickNewborn Care Solutions // Announcement of Professional Development SeriesinterNational Nanny Training Day 2020 Update Transcript after the break. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 01] We live in unprecedented times. While we here at NannyCast strive to make evergreen podcasts that will be useful for now and forever, we are going to interrupt our regular pattern by making a special SARS-2/COVID-19 podcast. Because we have a lot of nannying issues related to this outbreak. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 02] Will this ever be useful again? We hope not. Or at least not for at least another hundred years. I’m looking at you Spanish Flu of 1918 and your hundred years ago-ness. So before you write to [email protected] with your complaints that this information is out of date because you are listening to it in 2025 and we recorded it in 2020, just know that we know it will be and we are glad you are listening to our backlog of episodes. Let’s begin with some virology and epidemiological basics. First of all: What is coronavirus? What is the 2019 novel Coronavirus which has recently been named SARS 2? What is COVID 19? How do we keep all these words straight? To answer these and other questions, we have the following guest podcasts popping in with what they know. As always, links to each of their entire episodes will be available in our show notes for this episode over at NannyCast.com. Let’s let them introduce themselves. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 03] The Erins behind This Podcast Will Kill You are disease ecologists and one is even an epidemiologist. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 04] Still they are radical experts with expert sauce on top and more than qualified to talk about all these terms and give us some general background information. But also we have [Ologies Clip 01] [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 05] Now, since they recorded that podcast, the 2019 novel coronavirus strain has been named. [Ologies Clip 02] [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 06] COVID-19 is what happens when you actually get sick with SARS-2. As in have symptoms and that lung infection they mentioned. It is the disease. You can be infected with SARS-2, bopping around your daily life, virally shedding, and never have a fever, no cough, no nothing. That’s called being asymptomatic.  [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 07] And because  [Ologies Clip 03] spreading SARS-2 to all the good little boys and girls without even having a sniffle. This is why you wash your hands even though you don’t feel sick. This is why you cover your sneeze even though you are sure the sneeze came from a charge blowing pepper up your nose. This is why you wave at Grandma instead of picking her nose for her. Because you could be transmitting and have no earthly idea. Sharing is caring, but sharing SARS-2 is NOT caring. [Ologies Clip 04] Why are we at home? Why are the kids at home? Why are the bosses at home? Why is the house so crowded that it is maddening? Why are the parks and playgrounds and libraries closed? [Ologies Clip 05] The short answer is because sharing isn’t caring. And you know what keeps people from sharing? Being caged. Caged in their homes. Now, while there are selfish idiots who know they have COVID-19, are symptomatic with it, and still decided to leave their houses and go to restaurants or concerts or the grocery store where they grossly coughed and sneezed all over the loose broccoli in the produce section, there are far more asymptomatic carriers who are going out in public and touching door handles or

nannycast: NannyCast 21: Working While Sick  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  The nannies met up at the park to let the children run and to discuss the unique quirk of nannying which is that nannies are expected to work when sick. How do you know when you are too sick to work? How do you know when your charge is too sick for you to work? What happens if you suddenly become too sick to work? What about mental health? What do you need to have in your contract in order to be a nanny who is sick? Keep reading With all the hype going on about the COVID-19 strain of coronaviruses, this seems like a good time to revisit the topic of working while sick.

NannyCast 37: Get Sent to a Nanny Conference  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  This episode is all about how to get your employers to pay your tuition to a nanny conference or class, even if, and especially if, you didn’t negotiate professional development into your compensation package when you were hired. We cover step by step why you would want to go and how to structure the conversation with your employers. And even how to tell if they’ve said, “Please, keep convincing me!” without using those words. Because they never use those words. Additional Show Notes:NannyCast 24: Nannypalooza 2012 Career Talk Podcast: Professional Development NannyCast 11: Let’s Talk About Money, Our Take The Practically Perfect Podcast Swept Together: Episode 47 | All About The Ask The Atlantic | Askers vs Guessers Door Closing Audio Transcript after the break. I’m Nanny Jen, and today we are talking about how to add a professional development budget to your compensation package, after you’ve already started the job. This episode was inspired by the upcoming annual interNational Nanny Training Day event where a multitude of same-day, single-day, local professional development opportunities will be simultaneously attended by nannies around the globe, but is by no means limited to just NNTD. This can also be used for larger, longer nanny conferences such as the International Nanny Association’s conference or NannyPalooza. As a quick aside, NannyPalooza got featured in its own episode, Episode 24, which can be accessed by going to nannycast dot com and clicking on the “episodes” tab in the navigation bar. It will also be linked in this episode’s show notes. Now, in order to be a fully comprehensive podcast episode, and to mirror the pitch you would make to your employers, we are going to start with WHY you would want to engage in ongoing professional development. And to help make that pitch is  [Stephanie Dennis host intro] She runs a podcast called The Career Talk Podcast whose full episode on the topic of professional development is linked in the show notes.  [career talk clip] That last take home was short, sweet, and to the point. It benefits employees and employers. Which leads us in to our next portion: How to have the conversation with your employer. Like we started here, you start with how this will benefit them. And let me repeat that for clarity. THEM. How this will benefit THEM. Go in to this with the understanding that people are inherently selfish so they want to hear about how spending the money to send you to professional development will benefit them. And Steph gave us a good list of five ways which essentially boil down to that you’ll be better at your job which directly benefits them as the people who receive the results of your labor. AND, and how they react to this point is telling of your job overall, it increases employee retention. Meaning you stay working for people who invest in you. In fact, when we called for your nanny confessions as part of our book giveaway contest, we got an excellent confession that discussed National Nanny Training Day admission fee. To protect the anonymity of the confessor, we’ve stripped away the identifying details and substituted a voice actor, but you can still hear her upset which the voice actor faithfully duplicated from the original audio clip we received. [family never paid] It isn’t hypothetical that we nannies will leave jobs over professional development being unsupported, here is one concrete example being bold enough to state it for the record. And by the way, as an aside, if you ever want to contribute thoughts to NannyCast and don’t want your name or your voice used, we have a wide variety of ways to protect you as we protected this nanny. Please do not hesitate to visit nannycast dot com and click on the “share with us” tab in the navigation bar. If you need to when discussing a budget for professional development with your employer, feel free to point them to this