In this episode, Sue takes us on a journey through her experience as a teacher and leader of over 30 years and how this led her to write 'Teacher cry too'.

This episode looks at some of the challenges teachers face daily and how we can turn this profession around. Filled with truth, insights and hope, this a great conversation and one not to be missed.

Meet Sue Webb

Sue is a high school teacher in Queensland. Her memoir, Teachers Cry Too was released in November last year. It’s a story about her 30-year relationship with teaching, her struggle to overcome burnout and the period of mental illness that followed. During this time, she realised that the career she blamed for making her sick, also offered her a pathway to recovery.

The Teachers Cry Too project began as a journal—an attempt to make sense of the events that lead to crisis. As an experienced educator, how did she miss the signs that things were amiss?  After realising that so many other teachers were facing similar challenges, Sue felt compelled to share her story. She now engages more sustainably with the job and talks with other Educators about the importance of leading full lives, rather than busy ones.

Sue is an experienced classroom teacher and has held leadership positions in schools across South Australia and Queensland. She holds a master’s degree in Educational Leadership, and was a finalist in the Excellence in Teaching Awards for her work in mentoring Early Career Teachers.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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Wellbeing weeks. Some people love them, some not so much. Sometimes they are great, and sometimes they fizzle out.
Is it time to move on from wellbeing weeks, or do we need to do them differently?
Perhaps it is time to ask our staff not what they want to do, but instead, how they want to feel so we can offer what they need.
Dive into this week's episode to hear more.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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In this episode Amy and Jenny discuss the difference between stress and burnout, and the sliding scale.

Together they explore what true burnout looks like and how to make changes to ensure we prevent burnout from the beginning, rather than wait until we are caught up in it.

Both Amy and Jenny share their own personal stories and strategies they use to support their own wellbeing.

Meet Dr Jenny Brockis

Jenny's favourite story as a child was Kipling's "how the elephant got his trunk Just like the elephant she has always been insatiably curious about things, especially people which led her to a career in medicine.

She is a best selling author and public speaker and today works as a workplace based health consultant and advisor, as a lifestyle medicine physician.

Her mission is to enable workplaces to thrive, founded on a culture of connection and care.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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‘Do you have a wellness strategy to support your desired state of wellbeing or are you hoping that ad hoc, sporadic activities and events will be enough, hence, leaving it to chance?

Your wellbeing strategy needs to be planned, and whilst it may require hard work, it shouldn’t be hard. Yes, you know you should exercise more and perhaps it might feel hard, yes, it may feel a little tricky to initially set boundaries, and yes, it may cause a bit of stress, to begin with as you stop checking emails in the evening. However, as you build these habits, you will realise the hard work becomes easier and once established all these things combine to make up your wellness strategy and support your overall wellbeing.

Your daily actions, habits and rituals are always impacting your wellbeing. Therefore, taking time to consider the wellbeing state you're trying to create and how to do this is essential.

More About Amy

Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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In this episode Amy and David discuss wellbeing science and practical strategies needed for all educators (and everyone else too..)

The topic of resilience is explored in depth, and how we can utilise both internal and external resilience factors as we grow and change personally and professionally.

Meet David Bott

David Bott is a sought-after speaker, author and education consultant who works with government

Find out more about David here.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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In the human behaviour space and in coaching we often refer to a process called integration.

This is where we take what we've learnt and integrate it into our being. We move what we learn from knowledge to practice so it becomes part of who we are.

This is a crucial part of the change process, and one that is valued, given time for and reflected on before moving on to something else.

In schools, however, this valuable step is often overlooked.

In the episode, Amy shares how and why to use integration as a step in the change process.

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In this episode, Emily and I chat about so many things that make up who we are. From unlearning to relearning, questioning everything and how to manage your mind. This episode was a real treat for me as Em has been in my world for a really long time and was one of my very first mindset coaches. She is incredible and this episode is filled with wisdom, insights, and gems everyone needs to hear.

(Also, this episode comes with a language and content warning)

Meet Emily Chadbourne

Emily Chadbourne used to be a bit of an idiot (in her own words).

Emily’s no BS, sassy approach and honest accounts of the REAL world of love, life and business are often hilarious and always valuable.

Find out more about Emily here.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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In this episode Amy explains that it may not be more time we need, but instead the opportunity to reconsider how we use the time we have.

Amy also unpacks 3 key insights she has discovered from her 'Beneath the Surface' days in schools.

She provides 3 real examples to consider when thinking about how schools can use the time they have in a different way.

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In this episode, Mike and I chat about...

Meet Mike Erwin

Mike is an enthusiastic and optimistic leader who was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. He has dedicated his life to serving the nation and empowering people to build positive relationships and become more resilient.

Mike is the founder & CEO of The Character & Leadership Center and has worked with companies including Amazon, PWC, Stryker, Michigan and Virginia Tech basketball programs, Special Forces units and professional sports teams including the Boston Celtics and the NJ Devils. He is co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST (2017), which focuses on how solitude strengthens people’s character and their ability to lead with clarity, balance and conviction. He is also co-author of LEADERSHIP IS A RELATIONSHIP (2021) which details why leaders who prioritise relationships are more effective.

In 2015, Mike co-founded the Positivity Project, an organisation with the mission to empower America’s youth to build positive relationships and become their best selves. With 826 partner schools, the organisation reaches over 500,000 children daily. He served as CEO for four years and remains involved as a strategic advisor. Mike also serves as the founding board chair for Father Vincent Capodanno High School, a private, independent Catholic school outside Fort Bragg, NC. Community service, character and leadership development are integral to the school’s model, accounting for 30% of students’ GPA.

Mike continues to proudly serve the nation as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, assigned to the U.S Military Academy as an Assistant Professor.

Find out more about Mike here.

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Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish. 

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Without the 3 P's you are likely to be hoping, waiting, or wishing things will be different. This isn't enough. Completing a one-day PD and seeing things instantly change isn't common. As an individual, or collectively in your workplace or school, you need to plan, prioritise, and participate long-term if you want transformation to occur.

How you can work with me and my team:

'Leading Staff Wellbeing; A guided enquiry to elevate and transform staff wellbeing and culture' will require participants and all staff to plan, prioritise and participate in the transformation of staff wellbeing and culture in their school. We start term 3. Find out more here.

Free Webinar Opportunity:

If the above sounds good, I am also running a free webinar on Monday May 22nd at 4pm. You can register here.

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