The Child Care Directors Chair Podcast
🎙️ The Child Care Director’s Chair – Where Big Dreams and Bigger Leadership Collide!
Ready to level up your child care career? Whether you're a teacher assistant dreaming of that lead teacher badge, a lead ready to snag that director title, or a director with your sights set on owning your own center (or multiple ones 👀)—this is your seat at the table. And spoiler alert: leadership isn’t a title, it’s an action.
Hosted by the one and only Erica Saccoccio—part coach, part cheerleader, and full-time leadership hype man—you’ll get daily doses of real talk, big laughs, and bold leadership truths. We’re talking practical strategies, mindset shifts, and serious elevation vibes... all served with love (and a little sass 😘).
✨ New episodes drop Monday–Friday at 1 AM EST—so you can sip your coffee, set your goals, and strut into your center like the boss you’re becoming.
This show is a great addition to your leadership toolbox or the perfect resource for your team onboarding sessions—because the best programs grow their teams from within. 💪
Pull up your chair, future leader. Let’s do this thing. 💼💥
The Child Care Directors Chair Podcast
583 Life, Loss, Love & Leadership: An Honest Conversation
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In this deeply honest and heartfelt episode, Erica and Regina Miller come together as two seasoned educators to reflect on the full spectrum of life—what we carry, what we release, and what continues to shape us as leaders in early childhood education and beyond.
Through stories of love, loss, resilience, and growth, they explore how personal experiences inevitably influence leadership styles, decision-making, and the way we show up for children, families, and teams. This is not a surface-level conversation—it’s real talk between two professionals who have lived enough life to know that leadership is never just about titles, but about presence, perspective, and purpose.
Together, they unpack the lessons that only time can teach: how grief reshapes empathy, how love fuels service, and how reflection becomes a leadership tool when the work feels heavy. Listeners will walk away with a deeper understanding of how life experiences shape the way we lead—and how authenticity is often the most powerful leadership skill we have.
This episode invites you to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your own “why” as an educator, leader, or human being navigating both joy and challenge in real time.
Leadership Lessons: Miller, Regina Ruth: 9798340474506: Amazon.com: Books