EP 314: Discovering Who You Want To Become With Modern Leaders Co-Founder Melissa Emler
b'In This Episode:\\n\\n\\n\\n* How Modern Learners Chief Learning Office, Melissa Emler, grew to meet the challenge her business faced leading thousands of educators through adapting to online learning* Why she continues to work her day job\\u2014and how it serves her as a business owner and leader* The 3-part framework she used to lead her community through the frantic pace of change this year* Why she\\u2019s prioritizing difficult conversations about systemic oppression and racial injustice in education\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThere\\u2019s a little cartoon that I\\u2019ve seen pop up again and again over the years.\\n\\n\\n\\nA caterpillar and a butterfly sit at a cafe table, each with glasses of wine.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe caterpillar says, \\u201cYou\\u2019ve changed.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd the butterfly replies, \\u201cWe\\u2019re supposed to.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cYou\\u2019ve changed\\u201d is often wielded as negative feedback. And sure, I guess there are times when people change for the worse. But more often, \\u201cyou\\u2019ve changed\\u201d means something more like, \\u201cYou\\u2019re not playing small like me anymore.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nNo matter how much you know you\\u2019re supposed to change, no matter how much you want to change and grow\\u2014leaving people and their expectations behind can hurt. But this is the process we\\u2019re called into as business owners over and over again.\\n\\n\\n\\nThis week, we\\u2019re wrapping up our series on leading ourselves by taking a closer look at who we\\u2019re becoming\\u2014and how we\\u2019re changing\\u2014to lead ourselves into the future.\\n\\n\\n\\nIf you haven\\u2019t heard the other episodes in this series, I highly recommend making to time to do so! The first episode was with Emily Thompson from Being Boss and Almanac Supply Co\\u2014and we talked about how she used a \\u201cfull body yes\\u201d to make a big decision.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe second episode was with coach & strategist Valerie Black about how she surfed the ebbs & flows this year as the pandemic rocked her business and her ego.\\n\\n\\n\\nLast week\\u2019s conversation was with Alethea Fitzpatrick about how she\\u2019s led herself & Co-Creating Inclusion, her DEI consultancy, by focusing what she can control and letting go of what she can\\u2019t.\\n\\n\\n\\nToday, we\\u2019re talking to Melissa Emler, who leads a community of educators & administrators over at Modern Learners.\\n\\n\\n\\nAs you might guess from the name of her company, Missy has been through the wringer this year! The pandemic brought an intense urgency to the work she\\u2019s been doing and the change she\\u2019s been trying to create in education for years. Suddenly, schools all over the world knew they needed a new approach to learning.\\n\\n\\n\\nBut that wasn\\u2019t the only thing creating twists & turns for Missy this year.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn this conversation, you\\u2019ll hear how Missy balances leading her company with working in the \\u201clab\\u201d of a day job, the 3-part framework she\\u2019s used to lead educators through big change, and how she created space for conversation about injustice and systemic racism in education.\\n\\n\\n\\nPlus, you\\u2019ll hear how Missy uses a key question about change and figuring out who we want to become to meet the moment to lead herself and others.\\n\\n\\n\\nNow,'