Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols

Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols

Hosted by: Chrissy Nichols, Life Coach for Teachers

Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is...

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33. What Happens in Coaching? A Client Tell-All

Tanya Morsell grew up in Washington DC. She currently teaches kindergarten in Maryland and her superpower is creating a fun and enjoyable kindergarten experience for her students. She loves learning and laughing, all...
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32. Why Hire a Coach?

Why hire a coach? Hiring a coach is the fastest way to achieve anything that you want for yourself. Hiring a coach is the most effective way to look inside your brain and ask, ‘Are these thoughts helping me or not?” A...
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31. Wedding Dress Shenanigans

In this episode, I share how my own personal thoughts about weight, body image, and fitting into a dress can create drama in my own brain. Listen to see why everyone needs a coach (yep, even the coach!) and why it’s...
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30. French Chickens with Perrine Voisin

Perrine Voisin grew up near Chamonix, in France. She has lived in the US since 2008 and has taught Dual French Immersion at the elementary level for 5 years in Park City, Utah.  She was a professional skier, competed...
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29. Results NOW

In Episode 29, we look at the final component of the Model: Results. Results are the effects of our actions. We may think results are circumstances that have been handed to us and they are beyond our control. The...
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28. Actions from Clean Fuel

Episode 28 returns to the five components of the Thought Model: Circumstance, Thought, Feelings, Action and Results. In this episode, we look at Actions and uncover why you may be taking action (or not) and what to do...
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27. Padmashree Rida: Woman of Science

Padmashree grew up in India, and then moved to Singapore where she earned a PhD in molecular biology. After a 15 year career in cancer research, Rida just spent first year teaching at a high school. In this...
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26. How to Invite Feeling Guests In

I love pausing for poetry and we do it today in episode 26 as we think about our feelings as guests that can come into our lives and stay a while. This episode features 13th century Persian poet Rumi’s “The Guest...
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25. Feelings, Why?

In this episode of Teacher Talk, I tell you why I believe feelings are SO important. As someone who tried to avoid her feelings for years, I’ve seen the negative impact of not feeling and have found so much more...
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24. The Power of Struggle with Tanya Hale

Tanya Hale is a middle school teacher who loves working to help her 8th grade students become better readers.  After being a stay-at-home mom for over 15 years, she began her teaching career. Tanya is also a certified...
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23. Thoughts on Thoughts

In “Thoughts on Thoughts” I describe an idea I call “thought layering.” Thought layering is very common with those who are new to the Coaching Model and may use the Model against themselves. In this episode, I...
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22. Circumstances or Thoughts?

Episode 22 dives more thoroughly into the Coaching Model as I describe the difference between a Circumstance and a Thought. You won’t want to miss the nuance of this episode where I show you that all problems are...
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