The Empowered Principal® Podcast
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The Empowered Principal® Podcast
The Empowered Principal® is designed to offer tools and strategies that no other elementary principal resource provides - exercises that strengthen your emotional fitness as an educational leader. Former teacher, principal, district administrator, and Certified Life Coach Angela Kelly discusses why...
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Ep #407: When You’re Accused of Lying
I recently had a client schedule a one-on-one after a particularly challenging incident where a student admitted to a behavior during the investigatio...
Ep #406: When Your Staff Feel Unappreciated
As educators and school leaders, we often pour our hearts into our work, only to sometimes feel that our efforts aren't fully appreciated. This tensio...
Ep #405: Why Teaching SEL Starts with the Adults with Lori Woodley-Langendorff
When was the last time you thought about your emotional fitness? Just like physical muscles need regular exercise to stay strong, our social-emotional...
Ep #404: Work-Life Balance Is a Myth with Steven Langer
School leaders everywhere know the feeling – you've been pushing the boulder up the mountain since August, giving 200% to launch the school year succe...
Ep #403: An Unconventional Path to School Leadership with Deepali Deshmukh
Here's something that might surprise you: Some of the most innovative educational leaders come from unexpected backgrounds.
This week, I...
Ep #402: Leadership Breakthroughs From EP Alive 2025
I just returned from hosting my first-ever EP Alive event, and let me tell you, it was nothing like your typical education conference.
I...
Ep #401: Ownership vs. Responsibility
As a school leader, do you often feel responsible for everyone's happiness, success, and challenges?
If you're nodding your head, you're...
Ep #400: How to Take Relentless Responsibility When Leadership Tests You
School leadership often brings us to our knees in ways we never anticipated.
When everything feels like it's falling apart, when the bl...
Ep #399: One Thing at a Time: A Principal's Guide to Productivity
The beginning of a new school year brings a familiar flood of tasks, responsibilities, and mental chatter that can make you feel like you're drowning...
Ep #398: Drop the Rope: How to End Power Struggles
Have you ever found yourself caught in an endless back-and-forth with a challenging staff member? You know the type - where no matter what you say or...
Ep #397: The Adventure of Creating Impact
The business of education is the business of creating impact.
School leaders step into their roles with dreams of transformation, yet im...
Ep #396: Everything Planning vs. Focused Priority Planning
School leaders everywhere face a critical decision as they plan for the upcoming year: tackle every problem that needs fixing or focus on what truly m...
Ep #395: From To-Do to True Purpose: Outcome-Based Planning
Are you caught in the endless cycle of deadlines, to-do lists, and meetings?
If you're like most school leaders, you probably measure yo...
Ep #394: Asking “How”: 3 Ways to Shift from Questions to Action
School leaders constantly face situations where they need to expand their skills, build new systems, or navigate challenging conversations. The natura...
Ep #393: An Empowerment Meditation for School Leaders
The chaos dial in your mind is turned all the way up. Your nervous system is hijacked by the latest crisis, your thoughts are racing through solutions...
Ep #392: The Purpose of Conflict
When parents storm into your office demanding that you eliminate all conflict from their child's school experience, they're operating from a place of...
Ep #391: How School Pulse is Keeping Students Safe Year-Round with Iuri Melo
Disclaimer: Please be advised that this episode contains content related to crisis situations. If these topics are challenging for you, you may wish t...
Ep #390: The Rage of Injustice
Leadership requires processing both professional and personal experiences, particularly when faced with injustice.
As school leaders, we...
Ep #389: Why Test Scores Don't Define You as a School Leader
Test scores rolling in can trigger intense emotions and identity crises for school leaders. As principals, we intellectually understand that standardi...
Ep #388: Instruction After Testing
Find the full episode show notes and transcript, click here: https://angelakellycoaching.com/388
Ep #387: Tips for Meaningful Year-End Closure
As we reach the end of another school year, I'm focusing on an essential leadership practice that many principals overlook - creating meaningful closu...
Ep #386: Flow and Focus Hacks to Transform Your Principal Productivity with Steven Puri
In this episode, I sit down with Steven Puri, a fascinating guest who had an extremely successful career in Hollywood, but has traded that in to help...
Ep #385: The Teacher Attachment Cycle: Shifting Parent Expectations
Have you ever faced backlash from parents when announcing teacher changes or reassignments?
This is a fascinating dynamic in education t...
Ep #384: Why School Leaders Gain Weight and How to Lose It with Jena Damiani
Have you ever wondered why so many school leaders gain weight after transitioning from teaching to administration?
This week, I sit dow...
Ep #383: Brand New Leaders: What You Need to Know
Are you stepping into your first year as a school principal?
The excitement of landing that leadership position can quickly collide wit...
Ep #382: Sick Day Guilt: A Permission Slip for Principals
Are you overcome with guilt whenever you need to take a sick day? And even then, do you try to brush it off, pretend it isn’t happening, and attempt t...
Ep #381: The Need to Know
Do you ever feel that pang of anxiety when you realize you've missed an important meeting or weren't included in a crucial conversation?
...
Ep #380: Balance School Leadership and Life: The Empowered Principal Approach with Jeff Linden
Have you ever felt like you're drowning in the demands of school leadership?
Like you're constantly choosing between being a good leader...
Ep #379: Raise the Bar
As we enter April and the final season of this school year, this is the perfect opportunity to examine our intentions and how we're showing up in our...
Ep #378: Creating Problems vs. Solving Them: A Fresh Approach to Staff Collaboration
Do your teachers ever come to you with perceived problems they want your help solving? It's easy to get caught up in trying to solve every issue that...
Ep #377: Times of Uncertainty
As a leadership coach, I've observed various leadership styles and approaches, and I've noticed that many school leaders are feeling distressed, conce...
Ep #376: People Who Want Conflict
I share an excerpt from my Relationship Mastery program that dives into how to identify and approach people who engage in conflict for their own perso...
Ep #375: Your Two Voices
I dive into the concept of the two inner voices we all have - the voice of truth and the voice of fear. Understanding the role and purpose of each voi...
Ep #374: A Teen's Guide to Self-Love and Authenticity with Kristi Simons
I sit down with Kristi Simons, a former teacher turned life coach who specializes in helping teens develop emotional intelligence and essential life s...
Ep #373: Your To-Do List
I dive deep into the psychology behind our to-do lists and shares my insights on how to create a list that truly serves you. Let's explore the emotion...
Ep #372: Acknowledging Pain
In this deeply personal and vulnerable episode, I share a raw and unfiltered message that I recently posted in my public Facebook group for school lea...
Ep #371: Blamed the Villain
In this raw and personal episode, I dive into what it feels like to be wrongly accused and labeled as the "bad guy" in leadership. I share my own expe...
Ep #370: Embracing Change
In this episode, we'll explore why change is essential and how it can lead to innovation, creativity, and evolution in our schools. I share my own per...
Ep #369: No More Sunday Scaries
In this episode, I'm diving deep into the root causes of the Sunday Scaries and offering practical strategies to shift your mindset and approach the w...
Ep #368: The Purpose of Defensiveness
As a principal, it's easy to swing between being too nice and too strict in an attempt to avoid conflict or prove your authority. But what if there wa...