Something isn't working. People and organizations don't fail from lack of effort. They fail because the response doesn't match the need. The problem is almost never effort. It is almost always this: the response doesn't match the need. Move Toward: Unlocked is for leaders, coaches, and organizations ready to stop adding more and start asking better questions. Host Jaye Barbeau brings 25 years of experience helping schools, teams, and organizations unlock what's been there all along. 12–15 minutes. One idea. Something you can use Monday. Something is waiting. This is how you find it.
Move Toward: Unlocked
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Something isn't working. People and organizations don't fail from lack of effort. They fail because the response doesn't match the need. The problem is almost never effort. It is almost always this: the response doesn't match the need. Move Toward: Unlocked is for leaders, coaches, and organizations ready to stop adding more and start asking better questions. Host Jaye Barbeau brings 25 years of experience helping schools, teams, and organizations unlock what's been there all along. 12–15 minutes. One idea. Something you can use Monday. Something is waiting. This is how you find it.
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3/13/2026
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April 11, 2026
Why I Built This
<p>The last episode of season one starts with a moment of pride, a building that got Act 20 right, together, for the first time. Staff heard. Administration supportive. A system built by the people who would actually use it. Jaye knows that moment is the exception, not the rule. He built Move Toward to change that.</p><p>In this finale, Jaye traces the journey from accidental teacher to someone who spent over two decades watching good people exhaust themselves on systems that weren't designed for them. He names everyone this work was built for including the year-three teacher who is starting to wonder, the twenty-year veteran whose expertise deserves more than compliance, the specialist who stays late, the principal who is squeezed, the superintendent with an incomplete map. All of them trying. None of them the villain.</p><p>The solution isn't another initiative. It's better questions, honest answers, transparency, and the patience to stay in it long enough for the work to compound. It's getting the people closest to students into the room where decisions get made about them. Jaye has watched that approach fix things that seemed unfixable. The framework exists because it works. </p><p>This is fixable. That's the whole point.</p>
April 8, 2026
Make Yourself Unnecessary
<p>The goal was never to be needed forever. It was to build toward the moment when the person in front of you doesn't need you anymore, and then have the discipline to actually step back. Jaye opens with a memory of his dad on a sidewalk and a celebratory Budweiser. Then a young teacher who had everything she needed except the confidence to use it, and the moment a charming eighth grader named Wyatt met someone who finally wouldn't let him charm his way out of it. The hardest part of helping someone grow isn't the teaching. It's knowing when to let go — and sitting on your hands long enough to let it happen.</p><p></p>
April 7, 2026
The Messy Middle
<p>Jaye almost cancelled a middle school food drive in week three. A student named Julia wouldn't let him. Also: how Post-It Notesspent twelve years almost failing before becoming one of the best-selling products in the world.Nobody talks about the middle. It's not romantic. It's not the inspiring origin story or the triumphant finish — it's the part where the energy has drained, the task list isn't done, and everyreasonable instinct says quit. Jaye tells two stories about what it takes to stay in it: a middle school food drive that nearly collapsed in week three, and the twelve-year near abandonment of Post-It Notes before one more try changedeverything. The work wasn't wrong. The conditions hadn't aligned yet. Stay long enough to find out.</p>
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