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In “Marketing #Unfiltered," you don’t just learn awesome stuff to help you figure out marketing, you get the BTS scoop of building a business — the hilarious, the traumatic, and the “omg thank god I’m not the only one.” Hi! ✋🏻 I’m Sophia Parra and I’m a social media strategist for coaches. For years I ran an agency where I helped multiple six figure and seven figure coaches create content and strategies that build their following and drive traffic to their offers. My guests and I swap biz ho ...
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Welcome to “It’s the Human EXperience” Podcast. So many times we isolate, compartmentalize, and self sabotage as we work on becoming our best self. It's time we redefine the way we approach self improvement, self help, personal development, growth, goals, Emotional Intelligence, success, self care, faith, self worth, and balance as we work towards becoming our highest self! Be prepared to be uplifted, inspired, and empowered as you become fearless in pursuit of the life you desire & deserve. ...
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Hi, I'm Abu. Here we talk about life, business and sports. I invite interesting people to ask them the deepest questions about their success and failures. For you and I to learn. This podcast's objectives are to inspire, educate and push you to do the next level. My aim is to familiarize yourself with uncertainty and fear. We are here to create the best applicable guide from my experience that is derived from practical steps which is normally not covered in media. Stay tuned and subscribe to ...
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Want to love walking into your ELA classroom each day? Excited about innovative strategies like PBL, escape rooms, hexagonal thinking, sketchnotes, one-pagers, student podcasting, genius hour, and more? Want a thriving choice reading program and a shelf full of compelling diverse texts? You're in the right place! Here you'll find interviews with top authors from the ELA field, workshops with strategies you can use in class immediately, and quick tips to ignite your English teacher creativity ...
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Do you feel like you keep adding things onto your plate that are supposed to be “good” things like a new workout routine, a side hustle, a new job, or habit, but they just leave you feeling tired and overwhelmed? If you don’t stick to the goals you set for yourself perfectly do you feel that guilt creep in more and more? And does this cause you to slip into comparison because you feel like your confidence or routines doesn’t look like the girls that seem to do and have it all on social media ...
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THE GRITTY COACH - Accountability Strategies for Entrepreneurs

Erika Borden | Accountability Coach | Veteran | Mom

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Hey Gritty Friend! Starting or Taking your business to the next level can be challenging without stress, anxiety, fears, lack of focus and clarity much less adding all these together. If you are feeling overwhelmed, unfocused, stuck with obstacle after obstacle and you have the grit to hear how to make changes, then you are in the right place. Hi! My name is Erika and I am super excited you are here for some gritty advice where I focus on helping CEOs and Coaches increase their client’s resu ...
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Maybe you've heard the story of how I almost quit teaching on my first first day of school. Despite the fact that I had spent three months preparing moment-by-moment lessons for fall. Despite the fact that I was wearing my super cool white embroidered top from Bass and carrying my first ever leather shoulder bag. Despite the fact that I had asked a…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to share my top strategy for taking the pressure off you while delivering a great experience for parents on back-to-school night, stations. Back-to-school night, like the first day of school, can be a stressful time. You’re trying to get a lot of information across quickly, and it can feel like the only way to ge…
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Send us a Text Message. What if your beliefs about money were the key to unlocking your highest potential? Join me, Hazel Brown, as we explore how a money mindset profoundly shapes our emotional intelligence and ability to achieve our ambitions. In this episode, you'll discover why emotions like fear, guilt, and shame often dictate financial decisi…
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If I told you the elective we’re about to dive into has an “awkward party” unit, would you believe me? Well, it does, and I can’t wait for you to learn about it and start planning an awkward party lesson of your own. Today on the show, we’re continuing our creative electives series with veteran teacher Lisa Blake, who's been teaching for 33 years i…
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What is a habit? Is it different from goals? How come it's so hard to maintain a habit? Is there a 'hack' that can help you maintain and stay consistent with healthy habits? The golden question, right? Habits form your days, weeks, months and years. They have the opporunity to push you into growth and expansion or hold you back and keep you in a cy…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to answer a question from our community about reading in class. Here it is “ Hi all. Next year my middle school will be implementing a 45-minute every-other-day reading block for all students. All teachers (ELA or not) will be required to cover the class. I am wondering…what you do with it…” In today’s episode, I…
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Send us a Text Message. Imagine discovering that the key to a fulfilling life lies not in chasing endless opportunities but in taking a step back to reassess what truly matters. This episode of The Human Experience Podcast takes you through my personal journey of identifying what no longer serves me and the profound impact of prioritizing genuine l…
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What would you do if you had nine weeks to help ELA students imagine the real-world use of ELA skills? Inside the unique elective wheel program at Lisa Jones' school, students explore each discipline for nine weeks before moving onto the next. To show them literacy in action, Lisa has crafted an elective with three real-world projects to help them …
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Losing Friendships/Relationships never gets easier, especially as you get older and enter different seasons of life. There might be relationships that expect you to be your "old" self when you're on a journey of growth and expansion, so what do you do? How do you approach the "tough" conversation? In this episode we talk about how relationships can…
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This week let’s talk about careers. I don’t know if you can relate, but I graduated from high school with a general awareness of maybe six careers - law, medicine, teaching, ministry, science, and business. Let’s talk about how we can show our students a broader view of what’s out there - and build in some ELA skills to the process. A fun way to st…
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Anyone who’s getting ready to launch, take notes! Lacey is on to talk about launching, more specifically: Launching with a webinar (even though she’s helped clients launch in all kinds of ways). We discussed things like: ➡️How has launching shifted during this challenging, economic time ➡️Her go-to launch tech stack ➡️The bare minimum you must do t…
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Today on the show, we’ll find out what happened when an administrator attended a student’s genius hour project presentation about a new elective she wanted to see proposed Teaching African American Literature. Spoiler alert, magic. We’re continuing our elective series today, and I’m delighted to tell you we're hearing from passionate veteran teache…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to answer a question sent in by a member of our community. Here’s what she writes: Hi Betsy, I have classes of 10th graders who are SO divergent in skill levels. Some are reading Murakami for fun, and some are reading at a 5th grade level. I am struggling to differentiate for them and provide challenge for the st…
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Hey Friends! Let's get back to what you find most important in your life- but wait, do you even know what that is? A lot of times we might be putting our efforts towards something that ends up coming up short and not really providing any sense of fulfillment. What I DON'T want for you is to watch your life pass you by and not experience a sense of …
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In the spirit of the holiday, I felt called to reshare this episode. This story STILL gives me chills one year later. —-- Jessica Buchanan is an American woman from Ohio who was kidnapped on October 25th, 2011. She was abducted by Somali parities and held for ransom for 93 days before Seal Team 6 rescued her on January 5th, 2012. This is a story ab…
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Today on the show we’re hearing from Valerie Boehm, who teaches a Dramatic Writing elective in Georgia as part of the state’s initiative to help more students find their way to good jobs in the film industry. So cool, right? This episode is part of our continuing series on electives, which has been SO MUCH fun to record. I hope you’re as excited to…
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Send us a Text Message. What if the narratives you've carried since childhood aren't actually true? Join us on "It's the Human Experience Podcast" as we explore this transformative concept with empowerment coach Rhonda Wynn. Rhonda opens up about her deeply personal journey of confronting negative childhood beliefs through therapy, and how she rede…
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Send us a Text Message. Season three has been a journey of self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-actualization, and as we wrap it up, I'm excited to share that we're building an even stronger foundation for season four. Ever wondered how some people manage to break free from fear and achieve their dreams? We’ll uncover these secrets through can…
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Grab a notebook, ‘cause you’ll want to take notes. Ashley is a launch strategist for some of the biggest coaching brands on the internet. We discussed things like: ➡️Why are launch conversions taking such a dip in 2024 and what should we do about it? ➡️What are the 7 + 8 figure brands that are killing it doing differently? ➡️With all her experience…
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Join me each week for innovative teaching strategies you can use immediately in your ELA classroom, from choice reading help to book clubs, project-based-learning to AI, student podcasting to genius hour, we cover the good stuff. Whether you're trying to figure out how to engage your eighth graders, trying to help your 11th graders through the coll…
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Send us a Text Message. Feeling overwhelmed by mid-year stress and not meeting your goals? This episode promises to transform your outlook and equip you with practical strategies to tackle those frustrations head-on. Join Hazel Brown as she guides you through a personal pulse check to evaluate your spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health.…
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This one is JAM PACKED with mic drop moments. If you are looking to collapse timelines and scale your income by … a lot … this is a great episode to listen to. We cover things like: ➡️Every change or shift she made to hit 7 figures: From messaging, to pricing, to mindset, to team management systems ➡️How she has a 7 figure business even with 500 pe…
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Send us a Text Message. What if embracing your unique magic could transform your life? Join us on the Human Experience Podcast as we welcome Portia Michele, an exceptional business coach and client experience strategist. In our conversation, Portia bravely opens up about her journey through self-doubt and the pivotal moment involving suicidal ideat…
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Gabrielle is an embodied entrepreneur coach. She teaches brave, spiritual, female entrepreneurs how to triple their income while honoring their shadow and not spiritually bypassing or falling back into the unhealthy masculine. In this episode we cover: ➡️What is REALLY causing our money glass ceiling? ➡️What is something that women who make 7 figur…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I’m remembering the moment my 11th graders asked me to please, please, please add a book to our curriculum that wasn’t so depressing. Maybe you’ve had a similar experience? Let’s talk about what to do when the curriculum is full of death and despair. We were moving towards spring the year my juniors asked me why all of …
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Send us a Text Message. What if you were told you had only one year to live? Join us as Trent Brock returns (Episode 22 original story) to share his awe-inspiring journey through severe medical challenges, including a groundbreaking hip implant procedure, cancer survivor of multiple cancers. Despite facing multiple surgeries and life-threatening in…
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Hayley is traveling the world thanks to her freedom based business (in fact, as we record this, she’s been on 6 flights in 5 days and is headed back to Tulum for 2 months. Pretty far away for a gal from Wales!) In this episode we talk about: ➡️A super cool low-lift offer that only consists of Voxer / Telegram support. All her boundaries, what she p…
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Last night I dreamed I was teaching in a new classroom, except it had layers of stuff on the walls from three other teachers across twenty years of teaching. I couldn't find anything, and I couldn't change the set-up because I didn't know what was important to my colleagues. It was awful. Am I the only one to ever have a classroom set-up nightmare?…
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On this week’s mini-episode, let’s talk about my favorite online teacher tool, Canva. If you haven’t signed up for their free educator program yet, this summer is the perfect time! You can explore all the design tools this wonderful website has to offer, and be ready in the fall to start using it in class. Plus, I’ve got a free mini course ready to…
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You want the last day of ELA to be special, but what does that mean exactly? And who has the energy to think up this special plan when you're juggling allll the end-of-year things? If you'd like a fast, easy solution to the last day of your ELA classes, today I'm proposing (ha ha, I just accidentally typed PROMposing) stations. Stations are an easy…
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When did life get so serious? From a morning routine that needs to look perfect, to an ideal job role, to how we spend our time, to the products we use. While I am not saying those things shouldn't be taken seriously- sometimes I think we forget to put the fun back into things. In this episode I share how i've been feeling lately and why my word I …
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On this week’s mini-episode, let’s talk summer school. Because I know that if you ARE teaching summer school, you’d like it to be engaging. Memorable. Creative. Superfantasticaliciousexpialadocious. But of course there’s the issue of you’re tired. And so are the students. And maybe they’re not that excited to be there. So let’s run through two quic…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever felt the thrill of embarking on a new goal, only to be met with an inner voice of doubt and a mountain of unforeseen challenges? Join me, Hazel Brown, as we unravel the raw and unfiltered truth behind the pursuit of our ambitions in the latest episode of "It's the Human Experience Podcast." Together, we'll navi…
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As the sun rises a little earlier each day and the cherry trees in our neighborhood fill with fruit, our three years in Europe are coming to a close. With only a few weeks left of this European family adventure, I find myself thinking back over all that we've seen and done and learned. Highs like winter paddleboarding in Barcelona, nighttime tobaga…
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Today I want to talk about a fantastic podcast for you to use in class if you teach Shakespeare. With dozens of intriguing episodes like "Shakespeare and Game of Thrones," "Shakespeare and YA Novels," and "Pop Sonnets," The Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, by the Folger Shakespeare Library, is a great way to bring in modern connections and relevancy …
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever felt like a shadow among others who shine? I, Hazel Brown, invite you on a transformative expedition to conquer self-doubt and raise the banner of self-worth high within the intricate dynamics of relationships. With heartfelt candor, we dissect the self-imposed barriers that shroud our potential and the silent …
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Choice reading can sometimes feel like an out-of-reach dream. I recently heard from a busy teacher who wrote, "I love choice reading, but squeezing it in can be tough!" Yeah, I get that. There's so much going on in ELA. In today's episode, we're talking about how to squeeze more choice reading moments into your busy schedule. Even if you don't have…
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Today I want to talk final exams, and specifically, one I’ve really enjoyed giving when I had the leeway to skip the sit-down exam. If you don’t have to involve any Scantron sheets in your final, you might love it too, so let’s dive in. Maybe you’ve seen some of the great graduation speeches floating around the internet - maybe you even analyze som…
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It’s been awhile since I invited you to be a FLY ON THE WALL of one of our problem solving coaching calls. Today we have 2 coaches: Heidi + Eleni Heidi: is a business coach for wedding professionals, she helps them book more weddings & have more freedom & time off. She just had a high ticket launch that didn't go to plan. She thought it might be to…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever felt like you're walking a tightrope between self-doubt and unshakeable confidence? Join me, Hazel Brown, as I share the raw and insightful lessons from my personal rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows. We'll navigate the murky waters of self-discovery, recognize the lies we tell ourselves, and celebrate t…
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Do your students think of the revision process as a combo of spellcheck and Grammarly? Tend to peer edit by scrawling a compliment and circling two sentences that are missing periods? Yeah, they're not alone. Honestly, I didn't really get the revision process as a student either. It sort of felt like I wrote the paper I was going to turn it in, the…
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Today I want to talk about a subject I’m sure you’ve thought a lot about - how much are you willing to do for your job? And what do you do when you’ve hit your wall? I want to start by taking you to the dusty steps of the duplex I shared during my first year of teaching. It’s dusk, and I’m crying. I recently won the award for excellence in new teac…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever found yourself rushing through life, only to realize you're not even sure who you are anymore? I'm Hazel Brown, and I've been there—lost in the hustle until an unexpected conversation during a flight reminded me to appreciate the now. This episode is your personal boarding pass to a journey of self-discovery, where we u…
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We’ve got Caryn Gillen on the show talking about networking. And boy do we get into some nitty gritty detail! We break down her framework step by step to make sure you’ve got tangible tips for: ➡️Making a marketing plan ➡️Doing the actual networking ➡️And making sure the networking actually leads to something So, if growing your audience, collabora…
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With exam season coming up, you're probably looking for some creative ELA review activities. Whether your school requires that students sit a traditional exam, or you have room for something like the graduation speech final or another type of final project, it's helpful to look back over the big concepts, themes, and texts you've covered as the yea…
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Today, I want to highlight a useful tool Amanda Cardenas shared earlier this year on the show called The Sesame Street Quiz. It’s so versatile, so fun, and so helpful that I feel it deserves a show of its own, so here we go. Amanda has already shared with us how these work, back in episode 267. Here’s a quick review: A Sesame Street Quiz gives stud…
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Beth Wood runs an agency that helps you come up with gift experiences for clients, team members, and anyone that comes into your orbit as a business owner. She had such good ideas around how to use gifting strategically and also shared some concrete ways this can up level the experience people have with your community. We cover: When to share gifts…
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Have you ever wished you could get students excited about genius hour, then immediately wondered what you’d do if half of them couldn’t think of a topic? Well, today on the podcast, creative teacher Melissa Moser is here to talk about one of her favorite electives to teach - Genius Hour, and exactly how she sets students up for success - even the o…
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Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, I want to share a fun visual trick for helping students vary their sentence structure.…
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Book talk podcasts can provide gentle choice reading accountability, target presentation of knowledge and speaking skills, and build a library of book recommendations for future students. Not bad, right? Today on the podcast I'm going to walk you through how to launch a book talk podcast with your students, and why it will be fantastic. Example Scr…
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