Welcome to episode 127 of this podcast

feed, which is now called the educate and rejuvenate

podcast. Let's go.

Welcome to educate and rejuvenate, the podcast to help you

revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your

passion for life. I'm your host, Kelsey Sorensen, a

former teacher, current homeschool mom, published author, and certified life

coach. Whether you are a teacher in a traditional classroom, homeschool from

your kitchen table, or anywhere in between, I am on a mission to help you

not only survive as an educator, but thrive. Get ready to

up level your skills with incredible insights from guest experts and

discover the missing piece, rejuvenating yourself. Are you

ready to both educate and rejuvenate? Let's

go.

We are back. Honestly, we didn't even really go anywhere because

just last week, I revealed that it is the end of

Wife Teach Your Mommy the podcast and the ending of Wife Teach Mommy the

brand as we know it. And I shared a lot of reasons behind that and

a lot of reflection on that on last week's episode. So if you didn't hear

it yet, feel free to go back and listen to that one as well because

it shares a lot about the journey we've come on together, especially for those who've

been listening to the podcast for any length of time. If you're not just barely

starting on this episode, you'll want to listen to that because it kind of

shares what we've gone through to get to this point together, and how this

is the next step of the work we are going to continue to do together

here on the podcast, with our events, with the book, and

everything else that's going on to help you not only educate

the kids that you teach, the students that you teach, but rejuvenate yourself.

And you might recognize this name. When we said that there was a new name

coming, some people even guessed in the chat, like, oh, is it educate and

rejuvenate? And that's because it's the name of the conference that we've been

doing. We're actually on our 3rd year of the Educate and Rejuvenate

conference. So we've had that name for a while, but here's the really funny thing.

So, last year, honestly, about a year ago from now, in

last May, my team and I, we went to Park City, Utah

for a retreat. Most of us are in Utah, but we flew out our

employee, Kelsey, from Arizona to come and join us. We were all together for

2 days in Park City. And one of the big

things on our agenda for that retreat was well, 1, we were, like,

doing some planning for educate and rejuvenate and for our club members. But one of

the big things is that we really wanted to come up with a new name

for our membership. Because wife teacher mommy club, what we found is a

lot of people would be like, I'm not a wife or I'm not a mommy,

and it just didn't feel inclusive enough to me. Like, I wanna make sure that

everyone knows that whether or not there are any of those things, they are welcome

in the club. And as long as you're an educator and you want to teach

and you want to rejuvenate yourself, this is for you. But at that time, the

thought of using the educate and rejuvenate name hadn't even crossed our minds. So we

came up with different ones, but we'd realized they were either taken or they might

be confused. And we just didn't come up with something, and I didn't wanna just

settle on a name for the sake of changing a name. So we're like, you

know what? We're just going to leave it. We're not gonna do anything. We'll just

make sure people know they don't need to be all of those things. Now fast

forward to I'm working on my book, and teacher goals publishing,

they've been amazing to work with. But they did recommend, like, it

would be good for you to come up with your book title. Because if you

do that, then we're able to, like, put a mock up on the website and

actually have a book listed under your name and everything. And I'm like, I

know. I know. But I was really dragging my feet because they didn't again, for

the same reason, I didn't wanna pick a name. And then just for the sake

of picking a name, I really wanted it to mean something. And

so it was February. We are getting to my first deadline where I'm turning in

the entire manuscript, and I still don't have a title for the book.

So I'm a week from this final deadline, and my family, my husband and

I, we decided to go on a road trip to California so I could really

work on the book and just kind of get out. Sometimes when I get out

in a way, I actually my creativity goes up. So

I was, like, able to not focus on any of the other work or even

the homeschooling and everything, take a break from all of that and just pour my

heart into the book, and also just enjoy being in California with the warmer

weather, because it's cold here in Utah during the winter. So we went

there. And while we're driving down there, all of a sudden, just a big epiphany

came to me while discussing with my husband. And I can't remember whether he said

it first or I said it first. We were like, what about educate and rejuvenate?

Or I think I don't even know. I feel like I was like, maybe I

could call the book that because I feel like we were just talking about names,

and he was talking about the event is educate and rejuvenate. I was like, wait.

What if I call the book educate and rejuvenate? And then we kept talking. I

was like, wait. We wanted to re name the club. What if we call it

the educate and rejuvenate club? And then I was like, wait. What if, like, the

brand becomes educate and rejuvenate? And I just got so excited

and lit up about this. And I was so glad that I didn't, like, try

to force a name before, right, when I wasn't ready and we were just

trying to come up with a name for the sake of coming up with a

name. And that when this epiphany came and I was like, wait. This name, this

name is already resonating in the hearts of educators everywhere who are like, yes. This

event, this is the one that's personal development or professional

development meets personal development, where I'm able to develop as a teacher, as

an educator, but also rejuvenate myself. And I realized that that's really what we're

doing as a whole. We have all these resources. We do these events that have

professional development where you're up leveling your skills in teaching, but you're also

rejuvenating yourself. And I realized that this name described what we do so

much better than that wife teacher mommy. And I explained on the last episode really

where that name originally came from, but the short version is I was literally just

describing myself. I had just become a mom. I was making a TPT

store. I was really excited that it was a wife teacher mommy. It was describing

me, and that's what a lot of people do when they're creating a TPT store.

But I now want this. It's not it's not about me. It's about community. It's

about each other, and it's about us together learning how to

develop as a teacher, develop as a professional, or develop in your

homeschooling abilities or your online teaching or your professor, like, whatever

kind of educating you're doing. Developing that, yes, but also rejuvenating

ourselves and listening to our needs and tuning in

with our thoughts, our feelings, and everything. And so I was just

really, really excited about this new name and

everything we're doing. And I'm so glad that things come in due time, that

this name came at the right time. It's the appropriate time for us to change

the name of the company of the book is releasing, and that's the title

of the book. And it's really going to the book is really kind of encapsulating

this whole shift in the company. Like, the process of writing this book

that I wrote has really been helping me to refine my coaching,

refine my vision for what I want to do with all of

you, and how I want to support you and

help you, and how we can come together and do that. So I'm

just really thrilled about this new direction of the company. And,

really, it's just the direction we've already been going, and it's just a name that

helps to really explain what it is that we're doing.

And this is not going to be an immediate transition. Like, right now as this

comes out, it's still wife teacher mommy.com. It is going to transition to educate and

rejuvenate.com, and the website is going to shift. And we're going to figure out

our socials, but that's actually a little bit complicated and everything. So things

are going to be shifting over the next few months. And rather than, like, a

rocket launch, like, I was actually talking one time to my life coach, Lizzie. I

was kind of stressed about like a business launch and just having to like, boom,

do it all at once. And she's like, what if you think about it more

like a flower blooming? And that's how we can think about a lot of things

in life. Right? Like, we don't it doesn't always have to be go go go

boom boom boom. It can be like, oh, I'm just, like, letting this blossom, letting

this thing in my life, like, slowly blossom into what it's going to be. And

that's what I envision this and what we're doing together here at educate and

rejuvenate to be. So you'll slowly see the name transitioning

over on the website. This week, we're already going by the time you're listening, we

probably already changed the header on the website, and the home page probably says, did

you hear why teach mommy's becoming educated in Rejuvenate or something like that? It'll

slowly be transitioning over the next while, and we have some really fun

stuff coming up. We have our educate in Rejuvenate, our 3rd conference. The book is

coming out. We have some big announcements to come of more ways we're

going to be able to support you, and this podcast is not going

anywhere. In fact, now that I've written this book and the book is done, but

also I've gotten so much clarity about everything I want to do, I

just want to make this podcast even better than it's ever

been. I want to give you my all right here. I want to give you

everything that I can give you in this format, in this container that we have

here where you're just listening to me, and we're not able to talk face to

face, but we're I'm able to share it with you here. And I want to

give you my all right here. So even if you're already a club member and

you're engaging on the calls each week, this is going to be an incredible

compliment, and my goal is to make this podcast better than it ever was with

this new name, with this new transition. And I'm really excited. The new

podcast cover art you see, it actually very closely matches the cover of the book.

And Tricia Fuglestad, who we actually had on the podcast at one point, you should

go back and listen to that episode, she is an incredible illustrator and artist. She

designed our cover, and we actually utilize the same elements on the podcast

cover. Because what I love about this new direction of the

brand and what the imagery she came up with is that Apple really represents, like,

us as educators. Right? We're educating, but we also need

that rejuvenating, that tree underneath it. So if you don't know what I'm talking about,

please look at the podcast art for this, or look up my educate and

rejuvenate book that's coming out. You'll see it's like a tree with the apple on

top of it. It's not like the apple hanging down from a tree, but it's

actually more like the tree cradling the apple. And this is where where we

rejuvenate ourselves. Our rejuvenating, taking care of ourselves is what is

cradling, what is making it capable for us to be the

educators that we want to be, to be able to help our students

in the best way? But we can't do that without taking care of ourselves

first. So I'm really excited. We kept the picture of me the same

right now so people would recognize it with the new podcast name. We're probably going

to do a new photoshoot. Like I mentioned, again, slow transition. I wanna do a

new photoshoot soon to update the website. I did get some

highlights. They're kinda subtle, but I'm like, I want a picture of my new highlights.

I'm probably gonna brighten them up a little bit more here soon. Gonna probably get

a new picture on there too, but that's just, you know, a little behind

the scenes, I guess. But I'm really excited about this new direction to

really help you more with your overwhelm, your burnout.

Still, again, that's what I've been doing. Right? If you look at the past episodes,

it has been more of that. I'm still bringing on experts about other things. For

example, well, next week, I have Christina Kuzmic, our keynote

one of our keynotes this year coming on, and she's we're talking about mental health.

But then the following week, I have Melia Hollowell, who we're going to be talking

all about the science of reading. So, really, the podcast isn't it's

just, like, you know, with the direction that we're going. So, but according to a

recent Gallup panel, 44% of teachers said that they were always or

almost always burned out, and that was outranking all other professionals. And I'm

honestly not very surprised by that because I felt it too as a

teacher. And my teacher stress, I remember just this time, and I talk about

this in my upcoming book, when I was student teaching. I just remember this pivotal

moment just, like, losing it, crying on the floor over a lost

library book, just thinking if I just didn't have to teach, then life would be

great. And have you ever thought of this before? Just think about that. But

what I wanna tell you is I eventually did stop teaching. Right? I stopped

and I stayed home with my son, and I

started just subbing part time and surprised I was still stressed even when I

decided to sub part time. And the stress continued to build over the years as

I started this company, TPT and everything. And

until eventually and I I've shared this, like, way earlier on the podcast, but I'm

going to just share it again quick. I have my worst anxiety attack

ever when I was postpartum with my 3rd child. This was

in 2019. I had just started homeschooling that school year. I

had my 3rd child, and I had always been an anxious

person. This that's what I called myself. I've been anxious ever since I was

little, and the adults in my life knew it. Everybody knew it. And

I really feel like this postpartum anxiety was just what my whole life had been

building up to. And at that point, I started

therapy. I got on medication, but I also knew I was like, I don't wanna

live like this my whole life. I want to enjoy my life. And so a

few months later, I was doing better than that panic attack when I was in

the hospital, like, thinking I was about to die, thinking I was having a heart

attack, but I just really wanted

to get to a better place than I had ever been. What

happened was at one point, I was asked to do something I didn't know how

to do. Like, hey. Anybody else? Have you been asked to, like, join a committee

or do something that you're like, I don't have the capacity for this, but I

don't know how to say no. I posted a desperate plea in a Facebook group

that led to me finding my first life coach, which started my journey towards becoming

a coach and developing the framework that I'm going to be conti.

I've started teaching you on this podcast and I plan on continuing to do that.

And it's really gonna be a foundation of this podcast from here on

out. It's going to be a combination of me bringing on other experts who

can talk about lots of different teaching subjects. Of course, I'll share about some things

too as I'm still teaching with my homeschooling and everything, but my passion has

really my focus and passion has really been more on the coaching side, but I'll

still be sharing teaching tips too. But But I'll also be bringing on lots of

experts for the teaching tips. So you're still gonna get that full balance of education,

like, up leveling your skills, professional development, and personal

development. That's really the goal of this podcast. And

through this podcast, that framework that is really going to be foundation, it's my 3

step coaching framework. The first step is to be the observer. And I've talked

about this on the podcast, but I'm gonna just do a really quick overview

of it. There's gonna be a lot more, like, even little episodes that fall under

each topic because there's just so much that could be talked about under each one.

That's why I feel like it could be a whole show with, like, 500 episodes,

this framework. But be the observer. It's

all about observing ourselves, our thoughts, our feelings, our nervous system to gain

awareness of how all of that is driving so much of our lives, in our

teaching, in our personal lives, in our family lives, everything.

And we observe what is going on versus what our expectations

were and how our internal design what our internal desires

are. And We're not focused on making changes. We're really just noticing what's going

on, and this is the most important step because a lot of times we aren't

aware of what's going on. So that awareness is always huge, and we

continue to circle back to awareness. We just always wanna be aware of what we're

thinking, what we're feeling. And then we choose our direction. This is where we

take what we learn from our observations and start to get really intentional about what

we want for our lives. We decide what changes we wanna make based on what

we learn, as well as what we want to keep and what even what values

we want to keep that are we're underneath the surface of thoughts or feelings or

actions we might be doing, but we need to shift, like, the way it manifests

itself. Right? So now that you're starting to observe yourself, you can use those to

choose what you truly want in your lives, diving deep into your psyche to truly

understand yourself and your unique perspective. And we're going to

be enhancing those observational skills while adding on this,

choosing our direction and getting clear on what we really want, where we

want to go creating goals. I really think the process of creating goals is

choosing your direction, and then it's the following through on it that is the next

step, which is aligning yourself. And this is where we have observed ourselves. We

plan with attention where we want to go, and we're looking at our inner compass

and looking, like, are we headed the direction we want to go?

The direction we decided we wanna go and being true to ourselves, being true to

what our inner desires are. And this is where I mean, I've had a

lot of podcast episodes so far, and, we'll have future ones on other things such

as, like, intentional scheduling. We have a podcast episode about that. Definitely

go back and check it out. Vision Born's morning and evening routines. I did

a recent podcast episode about minimum baselines. You'll wanna check that out if you

haven't. Honoring boundaries. I feel like I need to do some episodes specifically on that,

but I know I talked about it during the self love challenge. And finding your

people in community, we've been weaving that into everything I feel like we talk about,

but I do think I should do some episodes specifically on that. So stay

tuned because I do have a lot of research in my book about how finding

your people in community is just huge. Now, like I

said, I don't have time to go super in-depth on this episode today. This is

just a quick one to give you a sense of the direction that this podcast

is going and to celebrate everything we've been through and we'll

continue to do together. But as you continue engaging with

me on this podcast or on social media, in our Facebook group, on

Instagram, or in the club if you're one of our members, or at our educate

and rejuvenate events, you'll continue to learn more and get a deeper understanding.

Like I said, now that the book is done, I have so much more energy,

so many new perspectives, so much new research to share with you

over the next 6 to 12 months on this show. So I think the episodes

that are to come are going to be some of the best yet. I don't

plan on holding back. I wanna give you my all here. Whether or

not you, like, come to our event or whether you subscribe to the club,

I mean, I would love to have you because there's so much more you can

get when we actually come face to face. But I wanna give you whatever I

can in this format. So tune in each week. Even if you're already a club

member, you're going to want to tune in to this podcast each week as well.

And a few more ways you can get free support from me as we go

on this educate and rejuvenate journey. We're really revitalizing

our Instagram as well. And I can't even tell you what the handle is because

we're still figuring out the whole mess of, like, trying to change Instagram handles and

whatnot. But just make sure that you find us. So you should be able to

find us under wife, teacher, mommy, educate, rejuvenate, something similar. And, again, it'll be linked

on our website. Instagram will be a great place to connect. I plan on

checking lots of tips, lots of strategies, stories, reels,

carousels with little tips. You're going to wanna follow along there. You're gonna

wanna make sure you're on our email list if you're not too, because we send

send a coaching clip of the week reminders about this podcast and everything we do

on the email list. Lots of freebies that only go to our email list, so

make sure you're subscribed to that. And finally, our Facebook group. And

as I'm recording right now, it is called wife teacher mommies unite, but we're still

brainstorming a new name for the group as a team right now. We don't wanna

call it the educate and rejuvenate group because there might be some confusion with all

the different groups for the event. So we want it to be, like, some sort

of name by educate and rejuvenate, most likely.

But the link in the show notes, that is to the wife teacher mommy's unite

group. Luckily, it's just a bunch of numbers, so it'll stay the same. It should

at least We would love for you to join the group, and it's just a

great way for us to be able to discuss the podcast and everything else.

And then other ways to get even more deeper support is, again, the book.

I cannot recommend the book enough. I feel like it's the best piece of work

that I've created in a long, long time, or probably

ever. It is coming sometime this summer. I don't have the date yet, but I

will let all of you know as soon as I know. It is more in-depth

than I could even get, like, in a single episode of the show. And even

just trying to put together episodes, like, oh, you can get, like, tips about this

here, tips about this there, but a book is just like it was really tied

together with a bow. Like, everything you could possibly need to know about this 3

step framework, you'll get it inside the book. It's coming out in paperback and

Kindle really soon this summer. We have a plan to do an

audio as well that will be coming later. There's a benchmark of sales that I

should hit. So, like, before I get an audio they'll produce an audio book for

me. So by preordering the book by ordering the book, you're helping

that audiobook to happen. And if you're listening to a podcast, you're probably like, I

would love an audio. But this is one where I really think it would be

beneficial to have a physical copy to refer to because

there's just so much information in there. There are a lot of books where I

get the physical and the audio, like, audio to listen to and get through the

whole thing, but then that physical to refer back to to really have it as

that guide book, that playbook for you. So I'd really recommend getting the physical copy.

And then when the audio comes out, I wanna talk to teacher goals about making

sure there's some bonus content there as well. So it's really worth having purchased both

copies, and it won't even be at the same time. So definitely recommend

grabbing the book. There will be pre order bonuses too that more than pay for

your physical copy. I don't know what those are yet. We're still in discussion

about that, but I will keep you posted. For right now, you can head to

the link of the show notes for the wait list for the book, and we'll

get you more information about that. And then the next way you can get support

from me really soon is the conference, the educate and rejuvenate conference. This is

the main way right now that you can sign up for our community to come

together because the club is still closed while we make some changes to the website

and everything with this rebrand. The club doors are not open right now for our

weekly coaching that we do. So right now, what you'll need to do is join

us, grab a ticket to educate and rejuvenate. It's happening on

July 16th 17th are the 2 live days where the keynotes and

all the live panels are happening, but you'll also have 10 full days to watch

the replays and the prerecorded sessions and everything.

There's so much more we can do together when we come face to face virtually

with each other. The chat is always hopping. People are connecting with each other. They're

actually making friends with each other. It's not just like you listening to me, but

you can actually engage with me, the speakers, and others in the

community. Other teachers who want to not only educate but also

rejuvenate are at this event. And I will be doing live

teaching, like, full seminars on my 3 step framework at the

conference as well. You'll have live panels with presenters, tons of amazing prerecorded

sessions. I just really make it recommend snagging a ticket to the event. We have

the link to that in the show notes as well. Okay. That is it for

right now, but stay tuned. Next week, I have Christina Kuzmich, who is one of

our keynotes on the podcast. We're talking all about mental

health and what's important for us to know as educators who

work with others who might have like, you know, if our students

have mental health problems or our children or even ourselves. We're talking about

all of it. It's such an important conversation that I think everybody

needs to hear. So make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that

episode. So much more to come here, and we'll talk

soon. If you enjoyed this episode, please

hit subscribe so you don't miss the next episode. And if you're hungry

for more, be sure to check out the book that I wrote. It's called educate

and rejuvenate a 3 step guide to revitalize your teaching, renew

your spirit and reignite your passion for life. It is scheduled

to be released in summer 2024. This book takes all the life

coaching skills we talk about here on the podcast and puts them together in one

easy to understand guide. Plus, when you pre order, you'll receive a

PDF workbook and tons of additional resources and audios to

deepen your understanding and application of the concepts we've covered in the book

and on this podcast. You won't find these resources anywhere else.

Visit the link in the show notes to join the wait list and be the

first to know when the book becomes available for pre order on Amazon.

Let's continue this journey of growth and rejuvenation together. Until

next time.