EP113 How teachers can conquer anxiety, overwhelm, and the pressure to always do more (with Dan Tricarico)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
During today's episode, I am excited to feature an interview with Dan Tricarico as part of my Truth for Teachers podcast. Dan and I met when we were both speaking at a conference a couple of years ago, and I remember walking away from the conversation with him thinking, "This guy is the real deal." That's the phrase that stuck in my head because he just came across to me as being so grounded and so sincere in everything he said -- he was truly passionate about everything we spoke on and had a pure heart for helping kids and teachers.
Last February, I was out in San Diego for another conference, and he and I sat down together and hashed things out a bit. We've been working for the past 7-8 months on creating something together that addresses teacher anxiety. It's called Finally Free: The teacher toolkit for conquering anxiety, overwhelm, and the pressure to do more.
Today, we're going to give you some of our favorite mindset shifts and advice from the toolkit and talk about some ideas that will really make a big difference in how you feel.
Dan and I are making one of the modules in the Finally Free toolkit available to you for free. It's Module 1: Freedom from Comparison, which is designed for you to listen to when you're feeling not good enough and comparing yourself to others. You can go to finallyfreetoolkit.com to learn more about the toolkit, and scroll down to the preview where you can download the audio and PDF for that first module on comparison right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 113 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, |
| 0:09.0 | encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. and |
| 0:15.0 | the truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. Today I'm talking with Dan Tricco about how teachers can conquer anxiety, |
| 0:20.0 | overwhelm, and the pressure to always do more. |
| 0:23.5 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get a transcript of this episode |
| 0:27.0 | or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:29.5 | I am super excited to have Dan Tricorico back on the show today. |
| 0:35.0 | Dan and I met a couple years ago when we were both speaking at this conference. |
| 0:39.0 | And I remember walking away from the conversation with him thinking, |
| 0:43.0 | this guy is the real deal. |
| 0:46.0 | I don't know why that phrase, that's someone that stuck in my head, |
| 0:48.0 | he's the real deal. |
| 0:49.0 | He just came across to me as being so grounded |
| 0:51.7 | and so sincere in everything that he said. |
| 0:54.6 | And we had a pretty in-depth conversation on the day. |
| 0:56.7 | To me it was just so obvious that he was truly passionate about everything that we spoke |
| 1:01.0 | about and he just had a pure heart for helping kids and |
| 1:06.8 | teachers. |
| 1:07.8 | So Dan had published a book at that point. |
| 1:09.2 | It's called the Zen teacher, creating focus, simplicity, and tranquility in the classroom. And I'm |
| 1:14.8 | telling you there aren't very many people who could pull off writing a book like |
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