EP 62 | Who Are Your Marigolds? Finding Your People in Education

This is the final episode of The Bigger Than Behaviour Series!

There’s a lot about education that feels heavy right now, and this series has made space for that heaviness - but there’s something else I think we need to talk about: the people we move through the system with.

In this episode, I’m exploring the idea of finding your Marigolds - the people who help us grow, remind us who we are when things get hard, and give us somewhere safe to put the messy parts of this work.

You’ll hear:

✨ Why finding your people matters when you’re working within systems you can’t always change

✨ Who our Marigolds are - and why we need to look out for pesky walnut trees

✨ What my own experiences with both marigolds and walnut trees taught me about whose voices we allow to shape our own

✨ Why I believe I wouldn’t be the teacher I am today without my marigolds

This isn’t a conversation about surrounding ourselves with positive people and pretending the hard stuff isn’t hard. Our people can’t fix the education system, and they can’t remove every barrier or answer the questions we’re carrying.

BUT

They can sit beside us in the messy middle without making us more hopeless. They can help us stay connected to our values, our voice, our hope, and the reasons we chose this work in the first place.

Please note - very (very) mild coarse language in this episode.

Read Find Your Marigold: The One Essential Rule for New Teachers from Jenn Gonzalez

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