Ordinary Meets Extraordinary

Come along with Abby, Kathryn and Jenna as we talk about our upcoming 2024 goals! We discuss our giveaways, how to apply for our workbooks, our new teen and young adult program, our parent program and our sensory bottles we're planning on giving away!

Come along with Abby as she interviews Miss Ali, one of our twos preschool teachers! She asks the same questions as last week with Jess, so welcome to this new series!

Come along on today's episode as I ask one of my Directors some questions about why she likes working for me versus the other childcare centers in our area. This will be part one of this series, as we'll be going around asking our teachers the same questions so stay tuned for the next part!

Come along with us as Abby goes over this past week, any updates we had, and how our Labor Day weekend went at her new lake house!

What do you do when you are already overstaffed and really amazing applications keep coming in? How do you keep turnover under industry standards? Come along with Abby as she discusses how we have become overstaffed with teachers, with high quality applications coming in weekly. Having a business that succeeds and grows on the “family culture” community aspect is so important to us. We know that our teachers have lives outside of work, and their family comes first. Which is one of the top reasons why our turnover rate is under the usual standard for teachers. Listen today to learn more about staffing your center!

Join us as Abby talks about how our first week of the new school year went! She talks a lot about the behind the scenes during that first week, and how great our teachers handled all the transitions! Stay tuned next week to learn more about staffing.

On this weeks episode, Abby talks about how to use others passions and strengths to create value. She has always been known for creating new job titles for her teachers. When a teacher shows that they want to move up on the ladder, what better way than to create a new job for them with something they're passionate about! Have you ever heard of a Marketing Director for a childcare center? What about the Event's Planner, or Cultural Team? Come along with Abby while she discusses new job titles she has made for some of her teachers!

Come along with Jenna and Kathryn as they go into full detail on our Behavior Workbooks and our Social Emotional Workbook! Hidden inside is a coupon code available for all our products to help you get ready for the new school year!

On this next book series of OME, we go through the first chapters of Crawling Behind: America's Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It by Elliot Haspel. This book explains all the challenges that parents face when it comes to childcare. We discuss challenges such as how to pay for childcare, different options and situations that childcare puts families in and more.

In this episode, Abby discusses the most important things on her to do list as the owner for the start of the new school year, while Jenna and Kathryn discuss their portion of what needs done in the eyes of our Leadership Team and teachers. Come along with us while we list out how our Open Houses work, what lists we give our teachers, what we do on our Teacher Inservice day, and more!

Join us as we finish dissecting America's Childcare Crisis. We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing this book with you and will continue to touch on the brokenness of our system in further episodes. This is a topic that is near and dear to our hearts and we hope you continue on this journey with us as we attempt to change the world of childcare as we know it. Now, let's dive into the final chapters and learn about childcare desserts, {chapter name/topic}, and more.

Come along as I explain the roles of my leadership team! For each leadership member (9), i've even written them a short love story about their time with me since day one, how much they mean to me, and how much they have helped me grow and built my center.

This episode we are hitting Chapter 4 of America's Childcare Crisis by Sarah Taylor Vanover. Vanover dedicates a chapter to the lack of respect educators get. As a whole, its pretty well known that educators are not paid enough and that childcare is expensive. I'm excited to be talking about something I am personally very passionate about with you this week: The Professional Perception.

Join us for part 2 of our Diversity and Inclusion episode! In this episode, we sit down with Meagan McKitrick to talk about the new diversity and inclusion program she has started at C&M Play Studio. Meagan talks about why the cultural representation program is so important to her, and how being a part of the LBGTQ community has impacted herself as a child and now adult.

This week we are talking about Chapter 2 of Sarah Taylor Vanover's America's Childcare Crisis, Achieving a Livable Wage. We hit all aspects of high job expectations, low wages with few benefits, turnover rates, and government assistance for providers. Let's stop expecting our nation's teachers to do an incredibly difficult job for the bare minimum.

Come along with us while we discuss diversity and inclusion in an interview with one of our teachers, Terrian Konate! Diversity is everywhere and only becoming more prominent.  To expect young children to not notice color is obtuse.  Of course children notice color– all around them, all day, every day and if you think they don't then you are insulting their intelligence.  We have to teach children to continue to notice and instead of moving on, start to appreciate.  Learn more.  Discover.  Befriend.  Love.

This week we are tackling chapter one of America's Childcare Crisis: Rethinking an Essential Business by Sarah Taylor Vanover. In Cost of Quality, we discuss the quality of childcare centers and what that entails. Did you know that a teacher at a childcare center doesn't need any sort of experience, training or degree to work with children? How is this allowed when childcare is the industry that supports all other industries? Let's talk about the ways that centers cut corners to account for the cost of high quality.

Come along with Abby and Autumn as they answer our most frequently asked questions in the perspective as a $4 million childcare center owner and center director! We go over all your questions in full detail and can't wait for part 2 of this series!

In this week's episode, we break down the intro to America's Childcare Crisis: Rethinking an Essential Business By Sarah Taylor Vanover, EdD. Let's dive into the crisis and start discussing the ways in which it's broken. Parents, center owners, and teachers are all struggling to make ends meet while providing for society's most vulnerable. So, why does this problem matter to the general public? Why should this be everybody's problem? Through this series we will outline the issues and why they matter to YOU.

In this episode of OME, Kathryn Lucia and Jenna Sompel join me with their own interview in answering two questions; 1. What are the biggest things you think we have accomplished by thinking outside the box and being daring enough to do things differently? 2. What is the hardest thing about working for someone that emphasizes thinking outside the box? Kathryn and Jenna have very different personalities but mesh so well together. Their answers are totally opposite yet provide an in depth lens into the world of C&M.

Welcome to Ordinary Meets Extraordinary with Abby Hileman! Some of you may have listened to previous episodes and you know during that time I was in the process of opening the preschool side of my childcare center. Well, C&M Prep has been opened now since September 2022, and now that everything has settled with that, I'm ready to relaunch the podcast! I'm happy to announce that we are planning so many new things with the podcast. Stay tuned to learn more about what we're planning!

In this episode I talk about one of the most stressful sides of running a business, and life in general; financials. Join me in discussing how I got started financially with C&M Play Studio and what more formal business things I learned through the process of saving money, getting a loan, and choosing the right building for my childcare center. Be sure to follow us on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahpproachconsulting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Meets-Extraordinary-With-Abby-Hileman-104160962292909 Childcare Business Guides: https://abbyhileman.podia.com/ My Childcare Facility: https://www.cmplaystudio.com/

Join me in discussing the struggles of two unplanned pregnancies and a husband who worked long hours all while starting my childcare business, C&M Play Studio. Creating my business plan while being a mom has opened my eyes to the kind of struggles that working moms face everyday. Stay tuned to find how I was financially able to start my business, and more about all the moving parts during the three years it took to create C&M Play Studio. Be sure to follow us on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahpproachconsulting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Meets-Extraordinary-With-Abby-Hileman-104160962292909 Childcare Business Guides: https://abbyhileman.podia.com/ My Childcare Facility: https://www.cmplaystudio.com/

**Trigger Warning** In this episode I discuss a little bit about my health story. (Please skip 9 minutes 30 seconds through 12 minutes.) Join me while I discuss the transitions from college to the workplace and then to becoming a wife and a mother. Next up will be the ups and downs of my three year entrepreneurial journey leading to the opening of the doors to C&M Play Studio! Be sure to follow us on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahpproachconsulting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Meets-Extraordinary-With-Abby-Hileman-104160962292909 AHpproach Consulting: https://www.ahpproachconsulting.com/ Childcare Business Guides: https://abbyhileman.podia.com/ My Childcare Facility: https://www.cmplaystudio.com/

On our first episode of Ordinary Meets Extraordinary, I introduce myself and give an overview of who I am, my story and my businesses! I talk about the inspiration for my businesses as well as this podcast and what to expect in future episodes. Be sure to follow us on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahpproachconsulting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Meets-Extraordinary-With-Abby-Hileman-104160962292909 AHpproach Consulting: https://www.ahpproachconsulting.com/ Childcare Business Guides: https://abbyhileman.podia.com/ My Childcare Facility: https://www.cmplaystudio.com/

Hi! Welcome to Ordinary Meets Extraordinary podcast. My name is Abby, and I am so excited to finally get into this and tell my story to others. In this podcast you will learn so much about me like the struggles of starting my childcare business during a pandemic, my consulting business, personal and mom life, as well as spotlighting other early educators and the different aspects of their job and who they are as individual outside of work hours. In this first episode I talk a little about who I am and the future of this podcast. Thank you for joining us! Follow along with us on socials! TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahpproachconsulting For childcare business tips: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Meets-Extraordinary-With-Abby-Hileman-104160962292909/?ref=page_internal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahpproachconsulting/