
My Circus, My Monkeys
My Circus, My Monkeys supports supervisors on every level working in education or any field focused on growth and development. Discover how to manage the chaos by learning essential supervisor skills, increasing employee engagement, and using the CliftonStrengths framework to empower you and your team. We’ll dive into the latest research in fields like psychology, sociology, neuroscience, education, and beyond to help you maximize yourself and your team to make an even bigger impact on your students and clients lives. Just as importantly, you’ll improve your own sense of well being as you decrease the chaos and stress and increase the balance in your life.
Podcasting since 2020 • 160 episodes
My Circus, My Monkeys
Latest Episodes
How to Use Your Team's Superpowers to Slay Back-to-School
It's that time of year again. You and your team are swamped prepping for the fall semester. But you don't have to let things get overwhelming because you and your team can use your superpowers to slay the stress and chaos. In this episode, we d...
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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34:36

What We Wish We'd Known About Supervising
In 2017, Alicia and I founded Strengths University to help supervisors feel more confident, empowered, and less stressed. Alicia joins me on today's episode to talk about what we wish we would have known about supervising before we started Stre...
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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28:49

Why Differences Are an Advantage
If you’ve ever had conflicts on your team, encountered problems you need to solve, or need to accomplish the right things to help you students succeed, you'll want to listen to this short episode. We'll dig into one of the Guiding Principles of...
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Season 1
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Episode 159
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12:55

Honoring Neurodiversity in the Workplace: An Interview with Dr. Carolyn O'Laughlin
One of the great things about using a Strengths-based approach, is leaning into the unique differences each one of us offers. In this episode, we dive further into that idea by honoring the neurodiversity of those who might be on your team, inc...
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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52:37

Addressing Complex Trauma in the Workplace: An Interview with Laura Jarvis Brackett
For many of us in Higher Ed, this semester has risen to the level of traumatic. Now we are used to dealing with trauma to a certain extent, but today I want to tackle a new topic for us - complex trauma. And to do this I’ve invited my sister, L...
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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59:54
