594. Leveraging Community and Innovation as an Impact Multiplier - Rebecca Bernard
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Overview
Meet Rebecca. She's a fearless educator, strategist, and community builder shaking things up from SoCal to Costa Rica 🌎 As the Director of Innovation at The Teaching Well, she’s crafting bold new ways to support educators nationwide, all while inspiring others to lean into creativity and ditch the fear of failure. If you’re craving fresh strategies to innovate, connect, and build something extraordinary, this one’s for you 💡 Hit play, and let’s get to work!
đź’ˇ Learn
How to navigate the tension between innovation + security
Ways to shift mindsets around failure
Tips for building + sustaining communities
Today’s Guest
Rebecca Bernard, Director of Innovation, The Teaching Well
“There is nothing like trying and failing to minimize your fear of that failure.”
Episode Transcript
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Episode Highlights
Rebecca’s story and journey to today (3:30)
Navigating creativity and security in nonprofit work (8:55)
Shifting mindsets about failure and innovating boldly (11:50)
Advice for breaking out of the "security lane" to drive change (15:35)
Building strong, resilient, and lasting communities (18:50)
First steps for meaningful and enduring community building (23:35)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Rebecca’s life (27:50)
Rebecca’s One Good Thing: Trust in your ability to believe in something bigger than yourself, and allow for that to guide your capacity to see beyond what's inside the box. This is an infinite universe. We have so much potential, and you have all the answers. (32:00)
How to connect with Rebecca (34:50)
Powerful Quotes
“I came to terms with the fact that I’m an educator. I'm a teacher. I've always been a teacher.” -Rebecca
“When you're in a sector that is funded by folks' sense of social good, you walk a bit of a tenuous line.” -Rebecca
“There are so many opportunities for us to partner with each other, maybe not reinvent wheels, but bring our superpowers together.” -Rebecca
“Just keep trying. Just keep doing it. Just keep asking.” -Rebecca
“There is nothing like trying and failing to minimize your fear of that failure.” -Rebecca
“I know that every single time I get it wrong, I'm one step closer to getting it right.” -Rebecca
“Anything that you can do to push past that block towards action is a good thing.” -Rebecca
“There's nothing more beautiful than when a group of people find alignment and synergy on something that they really deeply care about.” -Rebecca
“Trust in your ability to believe in something bigger than yourself, and allow for that to guide your capacity to see beyond what's inside the box. This is an infinite universe. We have so so much potential, and you have all the answers.” -Rebecca
“There's so much possibility that we cannot see.” -Becky
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