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
600 The Secret to Strong Childcare Teams
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How can collaboration transform your childcare center and strengthen your leadership?
In this episode of The Child Care Director's Chair Podcast, Erica Saccoccio celebrates the podcast's 3-year anniversary with special guest LaTroya B., founder of The Preschool Posse, for an inspiring conversation about why collaboration beats competition in early childhood education.
If you're a childcare director, childcare owner, preschool director, assistant director, instructional coach, or early childhood educator, this episode will help you build stronger teams, develop meaningful professional relationships, and lead with greater confidence.
Together, Erica and LaTroya discuss how moving from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset can transform not only your leadership but the entire early childhood profession. They explore the power of networking, authentic collaboration, shared leadership, staff retention, business growth, advocacy, and supporting one another as leaders.
In this episode, you'll learn:
✔️ Why collaboration is the key to stronger childcare leadership
✔️ How to build meaningful professional relationships in early childhood education
✔️ The difference between networking and true collaboration
✔️ How to shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset
✔️ Leadership strategies that improve staff retention and workplace culture
✔️ Why business strategy is essential for childcare owners and directors
✔️ How collaboration creates lasting impact for children, families, and educators
Whether you lead one childcare center or multiple programs, this conversation will remind you that leadership is not meant to be done alone. The strongest childcare leaders don't compete—they collaborate.
🎙️ Hosted by Erica Saccoccio
Multi-site childcare owner, leadership coach, national speaker, and host of The Child Care Director's Chair Podcast, where childcare directors and early childhood leaders gain practical leadership strategies to build stronger teams, grow successful programs, and elevate the profession.
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