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Everything Early Childhood

Welcome to the Everything Early Childhood Podcast, designed for Approved Providers, Nominated Supervisors and other child care business leaders. This fun, light-hearted and very serious podcast features weekly episodes on strategy, advice and conversations with fascinating and inspiring people from across our sector. Join the journey and have access to the tools and inspiration you need to create high performing child care businesses.

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74:01

Director File: If i walked into an underperforming...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/09/09

What would you do first if you stepped into an underperforming early childhood service or began leading a brand-new centre? When everything feels urgent, it is easy for a new Director to start changing rooms, rewriting documents, fixing the roster, chasing enrolments and carrying every problem themselves. But lasting service improvement does not begin with a dramatic overhaul. It begins with understanding the truth. In this Director Case File, Platinum Education founder Leeza Browne shares

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60:46

The wonderings of Nature-Learning from the land with:...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/07/29

What if the greatest classroom was never a classroom at all?This conversation with Jennifer and Narell from Birdwings Forest School challenged the way I think about childhood, learning and our connection to nature. Together, we explore what happens when we slow down, become learners alongside children, and begin to notice the stories the land has been telling all along. From ecological storytelling and dynamic risk assessment to wonderings journals, connection to Country, and trusting

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32:55

What If They’re Right About You?

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/07/15

What If They’re Right About You?What if the people around you can see something in you that you can't see yet? We are so quick to see the gap. The conversation we could have handled better. The boundary we still need to hold. The things we haven't finished. The person we haven't become yet. Meanwhile, the people around us might be looking at our impact. In this episode of Everything Early Childhood, Leeza shares a very personal reflection on growth, receiving the good and what happens when

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57:12

Building a Business Rebuilds You

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/07/08

In this deeply personal episode of Everything Early Childhood, host Leeza Browne shares a conversation she almost talked herself out of recording. As a coach, mentor and leader in the Early Childhood sector, Leeza admits she questioned whether sharing the fear, doubt and messy parts of business might somehow take away from her credibility. But then she realised she was doing exactly what she sees leaders do all the time. When we don't feel like we're nailing it, we retreat. We go quiet. We

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55:21

Mud, Magic & the Mama Tree: Reimagining Childhood...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/07/01

Mud, Magic & the Mama Tree: Reimagining Childhood Through Nature with Amelia What happens when we slow down enough to truly see childhood? In this week's episode, Leeza travels north of Sydney to experience Mama Tree Farm firsthand before sitting down with founder, educator and mother, Amelia, to explore the story behind this extraordinary community. Together, they unpack Amelia's journey from early childhood teacher and primary school educator to creating a space where children,

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79:22

AI in Early Childhood: Tool, Threat or Turning Point?...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/06/18

AI in Early Childhood: Tool, Threat or Turning Point? Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. Some people are excited by it. Some are overwhelmed by it. Some are using it every day, while others are doing everything they can to avoid it. But regardless of where you sit, AI is already changing the way we work, communicate, access information and make decisions. In this episode of Everything Early Childhood, Leeza Browne is joined by Adam Hucker from Policy Pass to unpack one of the biggest

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34:52

The belonging conversation we're not actually having...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/06/10

🎙️ Everything Early Childhood Podcast The Belonging Conversation We're Not Actually Having ### Why Team Building Isn't the Same as Building Community Part 4 of our series: **The Conversations We're All Having... But Not Properly Unpacking.** --- How do we bring our teams together? How do we get everyone on the same page? How do we create a shared vision? How do we build a culture people actually want to be part of? These are some of the biggest questions I'm hearing from educators,

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33:45

The question that started it all: Why dont people...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/05/28

EPISODE TITLE The Conversation That Started It All: Why Don’t People Want to Show Up to Work Anymore? EPISODE SHOW NOTES This week’s episode of the Everything Early Childhood Podcast is unlike any episode I’ve recorded before. No polished script. No “5 tips.” No perfectly packaged answers. Just me, a whiteboard and one question I genuinely cannot stop thinking about: Why don’t people want to show up to work anymore? And the deeper I unpacked it, the more I realised this conversation is

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15:48

When Survival Mode Becomes Team Culture

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/05/21

When Survival Mode Becomes Team Culture What happens when “hard” stops being a season… and becomes the identity of the profession? In this deeply honest and reflective episode, Leeza explores the emotional weight many educators, leaders and owners are carrying right now — and the uncomfortable truth that exhaustion has become normalised in early childhood. This is not an episode about pretending everything is fine. And it’s not another “just stay positive” conversation. This is a real

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29:43

The Early Childhood reset everyone's talking about

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/05/13

Something has shifted in early childhood… and everyone can feel it. In this deeply honest and confronting episode, Leeza Browne unpacks the growing exhaustion, pressure and uncertainty being felt across the early childhood profession right now. From workforce shortages, rising operational costs and child safety reform, to emotionally overwhelmed teams, shifting family expectations and the increasing weight of compliance… this episode explores the question so many leaders are quietly asking

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49:55

Culture is more than a checklist with Jessica Staines

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/05/06

Culture Is More Than a Checklist with Jessica Staines In this week’s episode of the Everything Early Childhood Podcast, I sit down with the incredible Jessica Staines from Koori Curriculum for a deeply important conversation about what it really means to embed Aboriginal perspectives meaningfully in early childhood. This isn’t a conversation about ticking boxes, adding a few cultural experiences during NAIDOC Week, or “getting it perfect.” It’s a conversation about relationships, curiosity,

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51:57

Your questions Answered - Q&A April 2026

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/04/17

PODCAST SHOW NOTESQ&A: You Don’t Need More Time… You Need a Different Way of Leading This month’s Q&A episode is built completely from your questions — real challenges coming from the floor, your teams, and your leadership right now. Firstly, thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a question. I know how busy you are, and these episodes are designed to support you in real time — not just in theory, but in what you’re actually navigating every day. What We Covered In this

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11:53

Director File: Holding It All Together

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/04/08

“I feel like I’m holding everything together… and I don’t know how much longer I can keep doing it.”In this month’s Director File, Leeza shares a powerful and deeply relatable letter from a director who is caught in the cycle of supporting everyone else… while slowly burning out themselves. This episode explores: • The blurred lines between connection and over-supporting your team • The emotional load of being “the one everyone goes to” • Why creating a safe culture can sometimes go too

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8:59

The Director’s Day: The Work No One Sees

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/04/01

What does a Centre Director actually do all day?This episode answers that question… honestly. In this powerful and deeply relatable episode, Leeza walks you through the real, unfiltered reality of a director’s day, from the 5am phone calls, to compliance pressures, to emotional leadership, to the invisible load that is carried every single day. This episode is for: • Directors who need to feel seen, validated, and proud • Educators who want to better understand the role • Families who

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12:36

Are You Actually Ready to Solve It… Or Do You Want to...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/03/25

You say you’re overwhelmed.You say you’re burnt out. You say you can’t keep going like this… But when the opportunity comes to do something different… You stay in the fire. In this bold and honest solo episode, Leeza challenges one of the biggest patterns she is seeing across early childhood leadership right now, directors and owners who are stuck in reactive cycles, constantly putting out fires, even when they are given the tools to step out of them. This episode dives into: • Why

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22:33

Director file: I refuse to work with her

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/03/18

Director Files 🎙Alright… this month’s Director File had me laughing out loud when I read it. Not because it’s funny, but because I know so many directors dealing with this right now. A director wrote in about something she’s calling educator cancel culture. An educator walked into the office and said: “I refuse to work with her.” When the director suggested they talk through the issue, the response was: “Well maybe I should just resign then.” Over a conversation about pack-up. This one

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59:10

The Real Leadership Questions Directors Are Asking...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/03/11

Directors & Approved Providers… these questions might feel familiar.Each month inside our Everything Early Childhood community, I ask one simple question: “What leadership situation is sitting in the back of your mind right now?” And the responses are always incredibly honest. This month we unpack questions around: • recruitment and second-guessing decisions • educators doing the bare minimum • feeling responsible for everyone’s emotions • navigating difficult team dynamics • the

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47:51

We Want to Do the Right Thing - Let’s Talk About the...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/03/04

Early childhood leadership comes with significant responsibility, especially when laws and regulations change. In this episode, we unpack the latest updates to early childhood legislation and what they mean for leaders, educators, and approved providers.Regulatory change can feel overwhelming, but strong leadership means staying informed, responsive, and focused on what matters most: children’s safety, wellbeing, and quality outcomes. We explore: - What the regulatory changes involve - Why

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28:43

why leaders struggle to make decisions

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/02/18

Head vs Heart: Why Leaders Struggle to Make Decisions Is there a decision sitting quietly in the background of your mind right now? In this episode, Leeza unpacks why leaders don’t actually struggle with decisions because they’re unclear, they struggle because they’re uncomfortable. Through the lens of early childhood leadership, we explore: – Cognitive dissonance (when your head and heart disagree) – Decision fatigue and executive function depletion – Loss aversion and fear of regret –

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16:25

The 5 Questions Directors Are Asking (But Rarely Say...

Everything Early Childhood ·

2026/02/11

There are questions most child care directors carry quietly. Not because they don’t care. Not because they aren’t capable. But because leadership can be lonely — and saying these things out loud can feel risky. In this episode, I’m naming the five questions directors are asking (but rarely say out loud) and unpacking why these questions keep coming up, especially in seasons of pressure, responsibility, and growth. We explore: The unspoken questions that sit beneath day-to-day leadership

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