Episode #6: Deconstructing Reality with James Porritt

UK Educators Community Podcast with Syd.

#6: Deconstructing Reality with James Porritt
Understanding How Humans and the World Works
Welcome to the UK Educators Community Podcast, with your host, Syd.
Syd is an award winning science communicator, serial entrepreneur and educational consultant.
On this episode, Syd chats with James Porritt; a highly successful Business coach who specialises in stress management and conflict resolution. Whilst James isn't an "educator" in the classic sense, his work definitely educates his clients and helps them find clarity in life. You'll find many useful nuggets in this chat, including:

• In order to become truly successful, you must fail along the way, and learn lessons as you go. The modern mentality of "wanting tomorrow's results yesterday without doing the work today" is not realistic
  
• If you don't succeed, rather than class it as a failure and ask yourself why you failed, reframe the question and ask yourself what lessons you can learn from the outcome, how those lessons can be used to avoiding the same outcome again, and then use these lessons to teach other people.
  
• Emotional maturity and resilience is of massive importance when coaching. Being too emotional leads you to offer too much assistance, which stops people from learning lessons themselves. Being too detached leads to a lack of connection with people. It's all about balance.
  

For show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/
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More about Syd.
Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!
She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.
Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade. Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.