Mindful Living with Athea Davis
Are you ready to become the person everyone loves (including yourself)?! Imagine being filled with purpose, joy, and focused energy. Every. Single. Day. Join host, Athea Davis, author & educator, for practical, fun, and relatable mindfully-infused insights, information, and inspiration that you can apply in your life, family, and school or business. Now, let's get started. Choose to be the person today you want to become tomorrow! Follow Athea on social media - @atheadavis on IG, FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Purchase her book, Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents and Families on Amazon
Episodes
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This podcast episode is in collaboration with the Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully (COSEM).
COSEM conducts monthly member-only events and this member event is about how to create virtual calm classrooms.
My special guest today is Anne Kasa.
Anne is an instructional technology coach, an SEL certified educator through Mindful Practices, a certified SEL facilitator, a...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about integrating mindfulness into schools.
My special guest today is Ben Painter.
Ben Painter is a Partner and Co-Founder at WholeSchool Mindfulness, focusing on strategic growth. Ben works with WholeSchools’s supporters, Mindfulness Directors, staff, and Board to support the movement to integrate mindfulness into our education system. In...
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In this podcast episode I’m sharing life lessons from my recent ultra run journey. You can apply these principles to any goal or endeavor. They are principles you can use in any aspect of your life.
If you are looking for guidance and inspiration to grow beyond what you think is possible for yourself, then definitely give it a listen.
I hope you gain tons of value from the episode. I...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about self-compassion for educators.
My special guest today is Lisa Baylis.
Lisa Baylis has been sharing well-being strategies for the last 20 years. A natural born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is a teacher, a counselor, a speaker, and a mother. Lisa is a published author of Self-Compassion for ...
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In this podcast episode, I’m sharing four (4) myths about teaching kids mindfulness. There have been quite a few of them over the decade I’ve been doing this work, but I boiled it down to the top four.
In knowing these myths, you can anticipate other people sharing them, and feel more confident in educating them about mindful-based social-emotional learning and educating the whole child.
These myths might pop up ...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about building community across generations.
My special guest today is Camelia Felton aka Mimi Kids Yoga.
Camelia (aka Mimi) is a Black Yoga Teacher Alliance + a Yoga Alliance 200RYT Yoga Teacher, a KAY (Kidding Around Yoga) Certified Kids Yoga Teacher, a Certified Meditation Instructor, a YBB (Yoga Behind Bars) certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instr...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about how to turn overwhelm into opportunity.
My special guest today is Jana York.
Jana is a Certified Mindfulness and Meditation teacher and has been a mindfulness practitioner and children’s mindfulness educator for more than a decade, at international schools in Thailand and Japan. Her main passion is teaching children how to reduce anxiety and ...
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In this podcast episode, I’m talking about how you may be getting in your own way of experiencing peace even through the chaos of everyday life and what you can do today to shift it.
I’m sharing ten (10) of some of the most common ways you are disrupting the calm factor in your life. Remember to give yourself some grace as we all struggle with these. It’s a practice. Adopt the mantra “progress over perfection”, a...
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On this week’s podcast episode I’m talking about education, policy, and purpose.
My special guest today is Dee Dubose.
Dee is an educator, organizer, and advocate for effective K-12 schools. Born in rural Alabama, Dee’s educational journey was impacted by both federal, state, and local policies that limited his overall school experience. With that at the center of his work, he has spent the last five years gainin...
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In this podcast episode, I’m talking about how to build healthy, positive, and long-lasting relationships that bring joy and fulfillment to your life, and the lives of those you're relating with.
Whether you’re a teacher, leader, parent, or business owner, you’re gonna want to tune into this one because in these roles authentic relationships are key to the success of your family or organization.
Relationship...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about how to prepare our kids for an unknown future by helping them focus on and develop skills for their “future self”.
My special guest today is Shannon Cox.
Shannon currently serves as the 12th Montgomery County Educational Service Center Superintendent, in the organization’s history and is their first female superintendent. Her role includes working directly with an...
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In this podcast episode, I’m sharing some of my go-to strategies that I’ve personally used when I received a big “No!” while on the path to achieving my big, scary goals.
These strategies have helped me keep going in the face of hearing that soul crushing “No!” and to finally get to the “Yes!” that I was striving towards.
I talk about the mindfulness practice of detachment. While working on our goals, it’s import...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about how to successfully share your ideas.
My special guest today is Martine Thomassen.
Martine Thomassen is a marketing and mindset coach. She has a masters degree in digital marketing and a decade of experience in the industry. Working with clients, she discovered that the real reason for succeeding in marketing was not being technically savvy or doing lots of market...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about how you can let go of limiting beliefs, rewrite your inner narrative, and start living more joy, success and peace of mind.
My special guest today is Hector Marcel, the president of Three Jewels, the New York-based global “Enlightenment Studio” dedicated to helping people reach their highest potential through meditation, yoga, public talks and community outreach.
...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about student life, culture, and well-being in my student voices series, Part 2.
My special guest today is 8th grade middle school student, Starr K.
I had the honor of teaching Starr in our yoga + mindfulness classes at KIPP Journey for two years and I’m so thrilled to highlight her voice and story on the show today.
Starr K. is an 8th grader currently attending KIPP Jo...
Happy Day, Friend!
On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about student life, culture, and well-being in my student voices series, Part 1.
My special guest today is 7th grade middle school student, Charles O.
I had the honor of teaching Charles in our yoga + mindfulness classes at KIPP Journey for two years and I’m so thrilled to highlight his voice and story on the show today.
Charles O. Jr. is a 7th grader currently attendin...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about how to get what you want out of your life and your goals, get past the inevitable “Nos”, and finally get to the resounding “YES!”
My special guest today is mindfulness educator and life coach, Christy Land.
While she has been in education for 11 years as a high school teacher, she learned that there was something missing not only in her own life, but the lives of h...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about what you and your kids need to know about the college admissions process and how your teens can navigate college with more clarity and purpose.
My special guests this week are Beth and Greg Langston, creators of the College Flight Plan, a digital program to help teens clarify their values, strengths, goals, and purpose to gain acceptance to college and graduate in...
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In this podcast episode, I’m giving you some tips to get a little more control over those pesky negative thoughts and emotions you might be experiencing.
This episode is a follow-up to an episode I did a while back. It was one of my top 5 podcast episodes of all times. I definitely recommend you listen to that episode. You can listen to Controlling Our Thoughts and Emotions (Part 1) on Ep. 49.
I hope my tips help...
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On this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about discovering your inner spark.
My special guest this week is Jessica Mougis, the creator and host of The Kids Yoga Podcast, a podcast about all things kids yoga!
Jessica Mougis has been working with children and families since she graduated from Connecticut College in 2007. She began by teaching creative movement, ballet and modern dance. In 2009 she took a brief...
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