Grief changes you. But so does choice. In this vulnerable conversation, Evelyn Knight shares how walking through profound loss reshaped her identity—and how emotional maturity, faith, and intentionality became the foundation of her leadership.
Key Takeaways:
- Grief can alter your identity—but it doesn’t have to define your future.
- Emotional maturity starts with learning to pause between stimulus and response.
- Intentional living can transform how you lead, parent, and navigate adversity.
- Biographies and lived stories can develop resilience and perspective.
- Integrating spirituality into leadership brings compassion, clarity, and purpose.
This episode offers a rich, heart-forward conversation on leadership, loss, and the sacred power of choice.
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More about the show:
If you are an Early Childhood director or owner, prepare to transform your school and life with the Schools of Excellence podcast. Tune in each week to learn from Chanie Wilschanski, the founder and host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast and a mom of 4 little kids. Each episode will be packed with tools and strategies – equipping you to build schools with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, collaborative culture, and beautiful quality of life.
Every week, Chanie shares the truth about the journey to excellence, the strategies that are working TODAY, and the mindset about the critical decisions and choices that you make every day which impact yourself, your teachers, parents, family, and children who you serve every day.
In addition to weekly solo episodes, she’ll also be inviting industry leaders and the changing makers of the landscape of education to give listeners the inside knowledge of what it takes to sustain excellence.
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