Stumbling Through Work
Working in education is to stumble through your everyday! We love what we do, but staff, families, policies, regulations and sometimes even the children make us quit everyday then come back the next day. Just remember, you are not in this alone.
Podcasting since 2022 • 70 episodes
Stumbling Through Work
Latest Episodes
Circle Time w/ GiGi Wynn
With veteran coach and trainer Gigi Wynn, we explore ECE in different positions with what real support looks like when safety, behavior, and policy collide.
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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41:32
America Loves Kids Like I Love My Gym Membership
A country that can regulate crib slats but can’t protect classrooms has its priorities backwards. We start by tearing into the ritual that follows school shootings—thoughts, prayers, half-staff flags—and ask what it would look like to put child...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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38:02
Child Care Math Is Rude
We call out the broken childcare math, the lazy myths about greedy centers, and the way policy failure pushes women and caretakers out of the workforce. Then we go inside preschool life under immigration fear, answer tough listener questions, a...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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40:28
Inside A Preschool Scandal: Abuse, Oversight Failures, And The Fight For Safer Childcare
We confront a big-brand preschool scandal, then widen the lens to expose how staffing, oversight, and culture create the conditions for harm—and how to fix them with real accountability, funding, and courage. Along the way we answer listener qu...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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41:20
We Came For Goldfish And Got Bleach Instead
A water pitcher, a cleaning bottle, and a rushed routine turned snack time into a health scare—then a bland corporate statement tried to make it disappear. We pull back the curtain on how incidents like this happen in real programs: thin ratios...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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41:58