Podcasts about growing room

Kris is joined this week by the incredible and accomplished Shana del Castillo, owner of a Growing Room Learning Center. Shana has two large locations with about 200 kids at each school and is dedicated to maintaining a high culture and leadership team that is engaged and on fire. Shana shares some tips for success in hiring the right people and keeping them, marketing to make your brand stick out, and getting in the right mindset to help yourself and support your team around you. Shana talks about overcoming challenges by pouring time and energy into herself, and she gives some great resources for other books and podcasts that have been super valuable to her professional and personal growth.   Key Takeaways: [9:09] Growing Room is a small franchise, and Shana has been there for seven years and counting. [9:38] Shana is a single mom and very busy with three teenage daughters! Soon, there will also be a cute puppy added to the mix. [13:12] Shana talks about best practices in a hiring process that helps others stay passionate about their training and better define their goals and dreams. [15:41] Shana's team maintains a super high level of culture, so what makes it so good? Shana said a few of the things her team appreciates most is a quarterly bonus, competitive pay, and regular staff appreciation. [25:55] Shana is also a pediatric sleep coach and has worked with parents all around the world. [26:30] Shana talks about pouring a lot of time and energy into her self-growth and how it has all paid off. She also attributes part of her success to coaches. [31:23] If teachers are excited about what's going on outside the classroom, they're going to bring that energy right back into the classroom. [32:03] Fun Fact: Shana's first job was at Magic Kingdom on Main Street, USA! [35:26] You've gotta keep yourself strong, healthy, and in a positive place if you're going to be a good parent, business owner, or even just a good friend. [36:03] A child care rockstar to Shana is someone who is on the cutting edge of always learning, growing with new ideas and situations, and looking for new resources. [36:56] At the end of the day for Shana, it's about consistency, servant leadership, and love.   Quotes: “It is an honor to have so many people really want to work with our company.” — Shana [14:31] “It's very important to me that the experience that the teachers have at work is one where they feel appreciated and loved.” — Shana [14:36] “I have to have people that I can trust with my eyes closed.” — Shana [18:12] “I'm kind of walking myself home. It's like, to the person that I am, that I didn't even know who I was.” — Shana [25:52]   Sponsored By: ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) Use code CCSC5 to claim a free course!   Mentioned in This Episode: Kris Murray The Child Care Success Company The Child Care Success Academy The Child Care Success Summit Growing Room Awaken Your Life

What Makes Growing Room Child Development Center a Good Neighbor...The Growing Room opens the door to a secure, quality, fun, nurturing educational environment based on a balanced partnership with parents. Our children excel with enhanced enthusiasm, literacy and creativity that lead them to be successful, considerate achievers throughout their lives.Your child’s safety is always of the utmost importance. The Growing Room environment is designed with safety in mind, and only the kindest and most dedicated professionals are charged with your child’s care. Our skilled teaching team, in a fun yet peaceful setting, ensures your child’s safety at all times. An unshakeable sense of security is crucial for their overall development, well-being, and future happiness.To learn more about Growing Room Child Development Center, go to: www.growingroomchilddevelopment.comGrowing Room Child Development CenterBonita Springs 239-495-0045Ft. Myers 239-466-6646Support the show (https://goodneighborpodcast.com)

The original plan was for Kai Cheng Thom and I to talk while she was in town to deliver the keynote at the Growing Room literary festival, but plans change, don’t they? So we talked on Skype instead, about creative ways to sustain communities in midst of crisis, the importance of choosing love, and the … Continue reading Episode 4.16 Choosing Love with Kai Cheng Thom

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Jess Johns, Executive Director of Growing Room Festival 2020, talks about the origins of the festival and it's current iteration. ABOUT JESS JOHNS Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory of Northern Alberta. She is the managing editor of Room magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series, a collaborative series between Room and Massy Books celebrating Indigenous women/2SQ storytellers. She has been published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Glass Buffalo, CV2, SAD Magazine, Red Rising Magazine, The Rusty Toque, Poetry is Dead, and Bad Nudes, among others. Her short story, “The Bull of the Cromdale” was nominated for a 2019 National Magazine Award in fiction and her debut poetry chapbook, How Not to Spill, is out now with Rahila’s Ghost Press. ABOUT SEAN CRANBURY Sean is the Executive Director of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. A life long independent bookseller, Sean is also the Founder and co-host of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series, an independent reading series that began in 2010. Sean was also creator and host of Book on the Radio, an early literary radio show and podcast that ran from 2009 to 2015. You can find out more at seancranbury.com. ABOUT THE PODCAST Community Voices is a segment of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Podcast that features interviews and discussion with people who are members of the writing and publishing community in BC and Yukon. It is hosted by Sean Cranbury and it compliments the segment called Writing the Coast which is hosted and produced by Megan Cole. For more information please check out bcyukonbookprizes.com.

Our final week of highlighting the Growing Room Festival features a visit from Onjana Yawnghe as they chat with Kevin Spenst and our new co host, Beni Xiao.

Indigenous Brilliance reading series co creator, Jonina Lynn Kirton along with Zofia Musiej joins us to talk about the Growing Room Festival and how the power of poetry helps heal past traumas.

We kick of with two interviews - Meghan Bell for the Growing Room literary festival, and Olivia Davies for Vancouver International Dance Festival. To taper off, we play a lovely tune, review Manual Cinema's No Blue Memories, and shoutout the Coastal Dance Festival and our own Fundrive Prizes.

Two poets performing/reading at the Growing Room Festival, Cicely Blain and Chantal Gibson join Kevin Spenst and RC Weslowski to talk about poetry, race, and pushing the boundaries of poetry.

2018 Vancouver Poetry Slam Team Member, Rabbit Richards visits with Kevin Spenst and RC Weslowski to share some poems and promote the Growing Room Festival.

Chelene Knight joins co-hosts Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley to read poems from her books Dear Current Occupant and Braided Skin, as well as discussing memoir in poetry and prose. Originally recorded June 4, 2018. Aired August 1, 2018.

With three interviews dealing with everything from the commodification of oxygen to UBC improv, we've got a packed show today! We start by chatting with Andrey Summers and Fiona Revill about their Brave New Play Rites show, mOXY, then chew the fat with Megan Fass and Alain Tahir regarding the Eternal Theatre Collective's production of Seven Minutes in Heaven. We close with a review of Arthur Holden's The Past, a technically-slanted interview with comedy duo Hip!Bang regarding their upcoming Just for Laughs debut, At Home, and close with a shoutout to the Growing Room feminist literary festival.

Jonina Lynn Kirton joins Pam and RC to talk about the Growing Room Festival as well as her recent trip to Iceland to read poetry and meet long lost relatives.