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“Strong in Faith” with LeAnn Southward

“Strong in Faith” with LeAnn Southward

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Topics of discussion in this episode: 

  • Growing up in a household with high expectations and a strong faith in God
  • Finishing college quickly and getting married at a young age
  • Tackling failure and challenges
  • Supporting her husband going back to school to be a pastor while being a teacher and having young children
  • Struggling with the mixed feelings of setting boundaries and balancing the expectations of being a public figure
  • Finding the positive in something that you are experiencing as negative
  • Finding your community of support
  • Having a miscarriage and leaning on her faith to get her through it
  • Introverts versus Extroverts
  • Feeling the calling to lead a campus in a transition to using technology
  • Transitioning to remote learning when schools shut down while supporting her campus
  • Teachers communicating with families 
  • Changing expectations and being flexible while setting boundaries 
  • Transitioning to being a virtual teacher 
  • The strong emotions of transitioning to something you didn’t expect or possibly want
  • PIVOT !!!!
  • Virtual teachers and students : WE SEE YOU, WE HEAR YOU and WE APPRECIATE YOU! 

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