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The Private School Leader Podcast

The Private School Leader Podcast exists to help you go from SURVIVING to THRIVING as you lead your school. Do you ever feel lonely and isolated in your role as a private school leader? Do you wish that you could get back to what really energizes you (making a difference in the lives of your students)? Do you want to have a long AND fulfilling career in private school education? Are you an aspiring Head of School and you want to accelerate your leadership growth? If you answered “yes” to any

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Episode 165: The #1 Frustration Of Private School...

The Private School Leader Podcast ·

2025/12/13

We all have pet peeves. For some reason, most of mine tend to happen at the grocery store.It bugs me when the person in front of me has 35 items in the “10 items or fewer” lane or when someone is walking really slowly or taking up the entire aisle with their cart. My latest pet peeve has to do with the ubiquitous pop up ads that appear anytime I am trying to read something online. Even worse, the X to close the ad seems to be getting much smaller than it used to be. Pet peeves

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Episode 164: Do These 3 Things When A Parent Hijacks...

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2025/12/06

On June 21, 1985, a domestic flight in Norway (Braathens SAFE Flight 139) was hijacked mid-flight. The aircraft was a Boeing 737, carrying 121 people (116 passengers and 5 crew.)The hijacker had an air gun that looked real, and claimed that he had planted explosives on board. His demands: speak to the Prime Minister of Norway and the Minister of Justice of Norway. Everyone remained calm and the incident ended with zero injuries and zero fatalities. According to the report that followed the

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Episode 163: The 3 Biggest Indicators Of A Healthy...

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2025/11/29

Back in the summer of 2021, one of my daughters was driving a Chevy CRUZE with over 110,000 miles on the odometer. She needed to trade it in and get a more updated used car, with less miles on it.We found a car that she liked and got a car wash on the way to the used car lot. We vacuumed the inside and even paid extra to get the shiny stuff sprayed on the tires. It looked great! Unfortunately, on our drive to the used car lot, the check engine lights started coming on, one by one. Our

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Episode 162: When The Best Thing About Your School Is...

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2025/11/22

A little bit of fire, under control, is a good thing.I love grilling in my back yard and a hot dog always tastes better straight from the grill. When my daughters still lived at home, we would really enjoy making S’mores over our fire pit. Once a year, we would go to a Christmas village to look at the lights and we would always warm up with some hot chocolate by the bonfire. Unfortunately, fire isn’t always under control. In just the past few years, the wildfires in Maui and Pacific

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Episode 161: How To Turn Fragile Kids Into Resilient...

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2025/11/15

Do you have any fragile kids at your school?Do some of your students give up easily when faced with a challenging problem or concept? Are your students sometimes too worried about “looking smart?” Do any of your students get extremely upset when they make a mistake on an assignment or get a question wrong on a test? Do any of your students get really anxious about the grades that they get on tests and report cards? This is a very common problem in private schools. Some of the children at

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Episode 160: Luke Skywalker And Katniss Everdeen Can...

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2025/11/08

I know that the title of today’s episode is a little bizarre, but just trust me. I promise, by the end of this episode, you’re going to see how the heroes from The Hunger Games and Star Wars can help your school save tens of thousands of dollars every year.I want you to imagine that every gas station in your town, except one, suddenly started charging $28 a gallon instead of $4. Would you drive across town to buy the cheaper gas? Yes! What if every pizza joint in town, except one, started

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Episode 159: The Emotional Price Tag Of Suspending Or...

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2025/11/01

I was a private school leader for 33 years.When I think back on some of my favorite things about my job, a few things immediately come to mind: Spirit Days and seeing all the kids dressed up and having fun Home basketball games on a Friday night with the pep band playing and lots of school spirit on display Graduation Day, especially watching a kid that came a long way finally get their diploma When I think about my least favorite thing about my job, the first thing that comes to mind is

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Episode 158: Handle Problem Parents By Being More...

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2025/10/25

I want you to use your imagination.Imagine that you are a stick figure. Now imagine that this stick figure has a sponge for a heart. You go through your day and your sponge keeps absorbing other people’s emotions. The grumpy board member on the phone. The teacher who is upset that his curriculum hasn’t arrived yet. The parent that is in your office tears. The new student who is sitting alone at lunch. By 3:00PM, your sponge is getting pretty full. Unfortunately, you have a 3:00PM meeting

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Episode 157: This 1 Framework Will Make You A More...

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2025/10/18

What do the following four things have in common?A meatloaf recipe The 2nd grade math curriculum The NFL rulebook A grading rubric They are all examples of frameworks. Frameworks give us structure. They give us a clear guide on how to do something, but leave a little room for interpretation. As private school leaders we use dozens of frameworks every day, like the bell schedule or the student handbook or your carpool dismissal procedure. On today’s episode of The Private School Leader

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Episode 156: How to Handle a Veteran Teacher Who’s...

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2025/10/11

Has this ever happened to you?You are standing in front of your faculty about to introduce a new initiative, policy or school-wide roll out of some sort. Before you even open your mouth, you notice one of your veteran teachers seated at the back of the room. After you say your first three sentences, you notice that this veteran teacher has their arms crossed, they look upset and they are whispering to a colleague while maintaining eye contact with you. Here we go… Just writing those words

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Episode 155: Your 4 Biggest Blind Spots: How To See...

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2025/10/04

About 5 years ago, one of my daughters bought a 2018 Hyundai Sonata.Before buying this car, she did a ton of research because she was looking for one very specific feature. It wasn’t the stereo system or heated seats. It had nothing to do with the engine or if the car had power windows. She wanted a car that had blind spot detection. I had never ridden in a car with this feature, but there are sensors on her car that light up when another car is in one of her blind spots. In fact, the

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Episode 154: Are You Running Your School Or Leading...

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2025/09/27

It was Field Day 2005 and I was just trying to be helpful. I arrived at the field early and asked Mrs. Ankney if there was anything that I could do.She asked me to use the manual line painter and paint the finish line for the 50 yard dash and the 100 yard dash. She had already set up the cones, I just needed to walk in a straight line, from cone to cone, and squeeze the handle on the line painter. So, I painted the 50 yard dash finish line. I walked slowly and looked ahead of me and behind

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Episode 153: When A Parent Says, "If you don't...

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2025/09/20

Several years ago, I was meeting with the mom of a 6th Grade boy. She looked me in the eye and said, "If you don't put my son into Pre-Algebra 6, then I'm going to pull both of my kids out of the school."Immediately, I felt my blood pressure rise, my pulse quicken and I started to get a weird feeling in my stomach. If I told her “no,” I ran the risk of her pulling her two children out of the school. If I told her “yes,” I had to go and face my Math teachers who did all of the 5th Grade

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Episode 152: Private School Leadership Does NOT Have...

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2025/09/13

Just a heads up that the next few sentences are going to be gross.We have all heard the phrase, “death by 1,000 cuts.” This phrase actually comes from an ancient Chinese form of execution called Lingchi, which literally translates to "slow slicing." It was a brutal and symbolic form of torture meant to inflict maximum suffering over time. Of course, in modern language, it describes the fact that thousands of tiny stressors, annoyances, or disruptions that slowly wear you down and lead to

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Episode 151: 5 Strategies To Overcome Feelings Of...

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2025/09/06

Has this ever happened to you?You are at school or at an event and you are surrounded by parents, teachers and students. You are surrounded by hundreds of people, but you feel totally isolated and profoundly alone. I remember this happening to me one year at my school’s holiday concert. I went up to the microphone and cheerfully welcomed everyone and told them how much time their children had spent preparing for the concert. I got down from the stage and sat down near the back of the

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Episode 150: "So, are you saying that you have no...

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2025/08/30

12 years ago, Leo’s mom asked me a question. To this day, her words still send a chill down my spine."So, are you saying that you have no idea where my child is right now?" And I had to say, “That’s correct.” It was dismissal time on the first day of school, in late August of 2013. Leo got on a bus that we thought was the correct bus. It was a small bus and Leo was the only passenger. Five minutes later another small bus pulled up to the school. That second bus was actually Leo’s bus. The

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Episode 149: Are Your Boundaries Written In Pencil Or...

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2025/08/23

On May 21, 2018, 19 year old Cedella Roman, a French citizen, was visiting her mother in White Rock, British Columbia. Cedella decided to go for a run on the beach and she headed south.After running for about 30 minutes, Cedella saw two men walking towards her and they motioned for her to stop. To her surprise, they were US Border & Customs Agents. She had accidentally jogged over the border from Canada into the United States. Cedella was detained because she had no ID and, as a French

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Episode 148: Navigating "The Age Of Outrage" With The...

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2025/08/16

Is it just me or does it seem like more people are getting more angry, more quickly?I am seeing people go from 0-100 in 2.2 seconds over things that didn’t used to be that big of a deal, like: An overcooked steak at a restaurant Someone’s opinion on the Internet The way that the cashier is bagging someone’s groceries An umpire calling strike three at a Little League baseball game. Not a big deal, right? Yet you and I know that all of the above cause some people to turn into ranting and

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Episode 147: Your Most Underrated Leadership Trait...

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2025/08/09

If you have listened to even one episode of this podcast, you know that I really like to talk about a few leadership traits that are super important for you to be successful as a private school leader. especially:Integrity Empathy Emotional Intelligence Resilience But what if I told you that there is a very important leadership trait that most leaders neglect and it is actually holding you back? This trait makes you: 40% more likely to get promoted 27% for effective at work 50% more

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Episode 146: Leadership Lessons From A Professional...

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2025/08/02

About 3 years ago, the 5th grade boys at my school were obsessed with juggling. I don’t know how it started, but about half of them were juggling all the time, especially at recess.I remember thinking: “That looks really difficult.”Recently, I have been thinking about how a professional juggler is like a private school leader. Sometimes we say, “I’m juggling a lot right now” or we refer to how we are “juggling our priorities.” I've even heard people say, "I have a lot of balls in the air

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