Episode Summary:
“If you don’t decide or name the intention, the season will decide for you.”
How do you move from chaotic, catch-up summers to ones that genuinely renew your family and your leadership? In this behind-the-scenes episode, Chanie shares the intentional framework her family uses to plan summers that serve as a map for the year ahead—grounding their values, relationships, and rhythms.
Key Takeaways:
- Why summer can’t just be a break—it needs to be a blueprint.
- Treating summer as a time to reset isn’t enough. When planned with intention, it becomes a map that shapes your family and leadership for the rest of the year.
- The I-R-E-R method: Intention, Reflection, Experience, Rhythm.
- Anchors over goals: the power of seasonal rituals.
- Planning for joy—on purpose.
- How memory-making experiences build generational impact.
🎧 Tune in to explore this reframe and how you can design your summer with intention, reflection, and rhythm—so your leadership starts at home, not on the calendar. Want to discuss what’s next in your leadership journey? Let’s explore it together: Click HERE to learn more
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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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