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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

117: The Principal Pro Helps Parents, Teachers Educate for Hope

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Kristina MacBury is a high school principal, mother of 11, and bestselling author of The Principal Pro, a collection of real life case studies based on her decades of educational experience. She is co-founder of Educate 4 Hope, an organization with a strong passion for coaching future leaders and supporting students. “I was so lucky to have had great teachers and role models. People go into education for two reasons: they had poor teachers and poor counselors, or they had excellent, amazing teachers. Not a lot of people go into education who had mediocre teachers.”

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0:00.0

Hello, world.

0:11.0

Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 118.

0:16.0

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

0:19.0

Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

0:29.5

Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Christina McBerry.

0:34.7

Christina, welcome.

0:36.2

Thank you, Don.

0:39.5

Christina, are you using your talents doing work that you love? Gratefully, yes, I am. We want to hear everything. Christina McBurray is a high school

0:46.9

principal, mother of 11, and best-selling author of the principal pro, a collection of real-life

0:53.8

case studies based on her decades of

0:56.2

educational experience. She has worked as an educator for two decades and is now co-founder of Educate

1:03.3

for Hope, an organization with a strong passion for coaching future leaders and supporting

1:08.8

students. Christina, that's a pithy summary of your very interesting career today.

1:14.1

Take just a few minutes and tell us what has you engaged and fascinated right now.

1:19.0

Thanks, Don.

1:20.1

Well, first and foremost, as you mentioned, my most important project is our family.

1:26.4

You know, doing right by our family and helping guide them

1:28.7

towards happy, fulfilled lives and supporting them by modeling them and helping them find

1:34.0

what they're good at and what their passion is by doing that ourselves, living what you love

1:41.9

and then working hard at it to do their very best.

1:45.3

That's a full-time project for us and for me.

1:48.0

And our children and my wife never seemed to amaze us.

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