63. Ordinary Moments: The Cost of Doing it All with Jessica Kelley

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the video interview of this episode:</span> <a href= "https://schoolsofexcellence.com/ordinary-moments"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://schoolsofexcellence.com/ordinary-moments</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> Get all the details about the 2022 Summit of Excellence here: <a href= "https://schoolsofexcellence.com/ordinary-moments">https://schoolsofexcellence.com/ordinary-moments</a></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Owning a school of excellence is a constant practice and process. It isn't something that's one-and-done. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s episode is another episode in my six-part series of what it takes to build and sustain a school of excellence. I get to interview school leaders from across the nation to share the real, the raw, and the messy. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in to hear Jessica Kelley, a Childcare Center Owner, and I talk about the cost of doing it all. Jessica takes her time to share about her company organization chart and the process that she went through to create her team. We talked about some of the hard moments in her family life where she was forced to make some really difficult decisions and how you can learn from them.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through this series of Ordinary Moments, I hope that you will walk away with true insights into what it takes to lead an extraordinary center. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In a nutshell, we talk about:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What it means to carry the mental load of a director, but for someone else to carry out the execution.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Some of the shifts that happened when Jessica realized certain tasks were taking too much of her time.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level