Podcast
Inspired Together Teachers
Hosted by Inspired Together Learning · EN
Are you a growth minded teacher who’s felt exhausted and overwhelmed while struggling to balance your best work and your best life? The Inspired Together Teacher Podcast is for you if you are a caring, dedicated teacher with a desire to bring your unique gifts to a world that desperately needs them while still having enough energy to live a fulfilling life outside of school.
Each week you’ll hear strategies and tips that help you navigate life’s challenges as a stronger, more confident, and more joy filled person. You will find a supportive community that is focused on your needs. Inspired Together Teachers will help you to be your best professional and personal self.
Co-hosts Paula Schmidt and Michele Vosberg are award winning educators with experience teaching at all levels. They’ve worked with thousands of teachers in the US and around the world. They ‘ve conducted hundreds of workshops and are authors of a #1 best selling book. Paula and Michele are passionate about living with intention and guiding teachers to experience more of what matters most in their lives.
Learn more about Inspired Together Teachers at
https://inspiredtogetherteachers.com and on Instagram and Facebook at Inspired Together Teachers.
20episodes
Episodes
Newest firstAll episodes
130. Intentional Mental Fitness
Aug 2000:21:48Tap to summarizeMental health- for teachers, for our students, and for our humanity in general continues to be a concern. What is our role in the mental health arena? Can educators be part of the solution? How can we possibly add another thing to our plates? While debates about how to solve the problems around our mental wellness remain at the forefront of discussions in this country, there are no simple solutions. Today, we are following up on last week’s discussion of mental fitness. What is our role? Let’s talk about it! Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
129. Mental Fitness with Alyson Schaefer
Aug 1300:29:14Tap to summarizeEvery day, you pour energy, empathy, and effort into your students—but how often do you check in on yourself?In recent years, mental health has taken center stage in public conversations, classrooms, and staff meetings. The growing awareness is long overdue: stress, anxiety, and burnout are no longer silent struggles—they're now widely recognized challenges in schools across the globe. And while we focus heavily (and rightly) on student well-being, one critical group is often overlooked: teachers.The emotional weight of teaching—especially in today’s fast-paced, high-pressure education system—can take a serious toll. That’s why it’s time to talk about mental fitness—not just for our students, but for ourselves. Building mental strength and resilience isn’t a luxury; it’s a necessity for thriving both in and out of the classroom.Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
128. Conflict Causes and Resolutions: Our Highlights
Aug 600:25:15Tap to summarizeWe all experience conflict and it generally causes us stress. Pretending conflict doesn’t exist doesn’t make it go away.Ignoring issues can lead to missed deadlines, festering resentment, unsatisfactory interactions with others, and projects that don’t get finished. Recent statistics suggest that 70% of us avoid difficult conversations with our boss, colleagues, or others and 53 percent of us handle “toxic” situations by avoiding them. Clearly, there are a lot of us who could use some help with conflict resolution. Stick around today, as we follow up on our two episodes on conflict with business and life coach Mariann Kurtz Weber. We’re going to share our key takeaways and if you are one of the 70% who try to avoid conflict, we’ve got some strategies that you can use when you experience conflict in your life. Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best Self Mentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
127. Conflict Resolution Strategies with Mariann Kurtz Weber
Jul 3000:21:32Tap to summarizeLast week in the first part of our two part series on conflict, we explored the common causes of conflict.In this episode, we expand that conversation with our guest, Mariann Kurtz Weber. We discuss the five conflict resolution strategies to deal with the conflicts that occur in your life. If you loved the last episode, you're going to love this one as well. Stick around and learn how to better handle conflict in your life! Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
126. Causes of Conflict with Mariann Kurtz Weber
Jul 2300:28:15Tap to summarizeConflict is a part of our daily lives, both at home and at work. Today, with our guest Mariann Kurtz Weber, an International Coaching Federation business and leadership coach, we are going to explore the common causes of conflict. This is part one of a two point series that you are not going to want to miss. Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
125. Trauma Informed Practices: Recap
Jul 1600:23:59Tap to summarizeTrauma Informed Practices-there is so much to learn and so much to absorb. In fact, we dedicated the last two episodes to the topic. Our guest speaker, Lee Johnson, gave us both a lot to think about and process. Today, we're going to share some of our key takeaways as well as the connections we made while listening to Lee's expertise and advice. Whether you've listed to the last two episodes or are just joining in now, we can't wait to dive deeper into the topic of trauma informed practices with you. Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
124. Trauma Informed Practices with Lee Johnson, Part 2
Jul 900:31:39Tap to summarizeToday, we are sharing part two of our conversation about trauma informed practices with our guest Lee Johnson. There were so many import ideas that we couldn’t finish in one episode. Today we're discussing what trauma informed practices look like when they are implemented in the right way. This is a topic that many schools are grappling with and if you are looking for ideas, stay tuned. If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, don’t worry you can always go back and listen to it. Feel free to jump in today, because this is going to be worth your time!Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
123. Trauma Informed Practices with Lee Johnson, Part 1
Jul 200:27:03Tap to summarizeIn this episode we are diving into an import topic, trauma informed practices. There are a lot of misunderstandings about this topic, and about what trauma informed practices actually are and are not. We' re not experts in this area, so we called in someone who is. Our guest, Lee Johnson, will share his knowledge and experiences in helping others in this work, which he calls, “doing right by others.” Whether you have had a lot of training in this area and your experiences both personally and professionally are deep and wide, or whether you are new to learning about trauma informed practices or just muddling through trying to figure it all out, today’s episode will give you some new insights. We also know that if your district is working on trauma informed practices, this is an episode you will want to share with others. To see Lee's extensive list of resources, go to our website below for full show notes.Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best Self Mentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
122. Time Shift Takeaways
Jun 2500:24:44Tap to summarizeHow can we align our use of time with our real selves in order to not only make the best use of our time, but do it in a way that allows us more fulfillment and happiness? Last week we had a chance to sit down with business and lifestyle coach Teresa McCloy, who shared how our use of time connects with our real work, real life, and real self. There was a lot to talk about and a lot to digest, and today we’re sharing our insights and takeaways from our discussion. We’re also going to share 4 powerful words that can affect everything in your life. You don’t want to miss this! Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comFind Teresa McCloy: https://www.therealifeprocess.comGet our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →
121. Time Shifts for Busy Teachers with Teresa McCloy
Jun 1800:34:29Tap to summarizeIf there’s one thing every teacher wishes they had more of—it’s time. You’re juggling lesson plans, grading piles that never shrink, back-to-back meetings, and the endless demands of the school day. Then you head home… and the second shift begins—family, errands, maybe even a needy pet or two. Sound familiar?If you feel like your life is a constant sprint from sunup to sundown, you’re not alone. But what if there was a better way? What if you could take back some control over your time—without dropping any of the balls you’re juggling?Today’s guest, Teresa McCloy, has helped countless people do just that. She’s bringing time-saving tips, strategies and time shifts that could change the way you approach your day. So if you’ve ever said, "There’s just not enough time,’ this episode is for you."Full show notes /website: inspiredtogetherteachers.comFind Teresa McCloy: https://www.therealifeprocess.com/Get our FREE Guide Living with Less Stress and More JoyInstagram: Inspired-Together-TeachersFacebook: Inspired Together Teachers | FacebookFacebook Group: Inspired Together Teachers Facebook GroupLinked In: Inspired Together LearningBook: The Inspired Teachers Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best SelfMentioned in this episode:The Enneagram for Educators ProgramLink to the Enneagram for Educators program; https://www.inspiredtogetherlearning.com/enneagram
Transcribe →