Healthy Teacher Happy Teacher

About Healthy Teacher Happy Teacher

Teaching can be an emotionally and physically stressful career. I've been in the classroom for 14 years and my body has kept score: weight gain, migraines, health conditions, and burnout. This podcast is where I share real stories about trying to feel better in my own skin while figuring out what that means as a teacher. You’ll hear plenty of honesty, a little humor, and maybe a few whimsical detours along the way.

Publisher

Jessica Martin

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Nov 2018

Latest episode

17 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 85 episodes have a transcript.

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   17 Mar 2026

   We Talked Everyday Until We Didn't

   Send a text What happens when a friendship you thought would last forever… just ends? In today’s episode, I’m sharing something I never expected to go through in my 40s—the sudden loss of a best friend of many years (a span of decades). This wasn’t a slow drift or a mutual fading out. We were talking every day, sharing life, making plans… and then it ended in two emails. No conversation. No closure. Just silence. In this episode, I walk through what that experience has actually felt like—the ...

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   16 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Quiet Season - Reasons I've Stepped Back Emotionally and Mentally

   Send a text In this deeply personal episode, I share the story behind my quieter presence over the past six years. Since moving to Las Vegas, I’ve taught at three very different schools and experienced a wide range of leadership, support, and challenges. Teaching in new environments reshaped not only my professional life, but my emotional capacity and creative energy. This episode is an honest reflection on how difficult seasons, leadership experiences, and personal growth can change how&nbsp...

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   3 Dec 2025

   When It’s Time to Leave a Toxic School And How to Do It with Dignity

   Send us a text “When It’s Time to Leave And How to Do It with Dignity” Sometimes the healthiest choice is the hardest one: leaving a toxic school. In the final part of this series, we talk about how to recognize when it’s time to go and how to do it in a way that protects your mental health, your finances, and your future. In this episode, we cover: Signs it’s time to leave: when the environment is harming your health or identityPreparing to exit: emotional, financial, and logistical steps to...

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The Quiet Season - Reasons I've Stepped Back Emotionally and Mentally

Published 16 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's sort of how I was going to imagine my first school, which was a magnet school. I kind of imagined that it would be like that. And the teachers were wonderful there, but there is just a certain – there is a certain classiness to the teachers at this school. They're some of the best coworkers I've ever had. They're very thoughtful, polite, respectful. Everyone, like, celebrates everything. Like, we celebrate – Every birthday we celebrate – like the principal buys everyone tacos from a taco truck. Like a taco man comes to school with a skillet and makes us fresh, authentic Mexican tacos for her birthday, right? […]

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