Tips and tricks to help you connect with your middle schooler and help your middle school connect with their teachers and peers.

Erin Hansen is the Owner of Middle School Life Coach and is a nationally recognized educator and parenting expert. Her career spans over 25 years as a teacher, coach, and presenter on the topic of connecting with middle school students. Erin has taught the children of celebrities and public figures.
Erin participates in talks and speaking engagements for parents and organizations. In addition to teaching and coaching, she also works as a professional coach with Tony Robbins’ organization – coaching parents and families on how to connect despite this awkward time between childhood and adolescence. She wants to change lives, connect people, and support them to understand each other better. Seeing people find their joy, their true happiness, and potential, is what makes her feel fulfilled. She has worked with over 1500 parents, taught over 2000 students, presented workshops for over 450 educators, coached over 98 teachers, and spent over 40,000 hours educating teachers, parents, and students.
Middle School Life Coach Podcast is about helping parents understand and connect with their tween or teen. How to help the entire family (siblings included) deal with this challenging time. Our listeners are mostly parents; however, the podcast is often listened to by the entire family since it's important for us all to understand each other.

Podcasts are an easy way to consume information from wherever you are. I do listen to podcasts myself and appreciate short ones for learning tips and tricks and longer ones for more story telling. I aim to help parents with 10-20 minute long podcasts to refresh them on what's happening during adolescence, tell funny stories and keep it real (with the hopes of helping them in the long run) and give some advice for the times we are in now. I started my podcast in Summer 2021 and it was pretty easy to release the first episode. Keeping the podcast to tips and tricks and consumable chunks of information is key. I'm a teacher, so it's important that I apply best teaching practices to my podcast. I usually point things out in 3-4 steps and I make sure to give examples and ways parents can apply the information to their family.

The new goal is to release an episode twice per week (Tuesdays for "Parent Tip Tuesday" and Fridays for "Finally Freakin' Friday"). I record at my home from my phone, so it's very low budget. I fund it myself and use as many free tools as I can. I love learning, so I can usually research and figure things out myself. I lay out my content ideas before hand and usually make a short outline, then go from there. Again, it's in consumable chunks, so it doesn't take that long to record. Editing is non-existent. I am working on not being a perfectionist with content creation and realize that the value is there whether or not is beautifully edited. As long as my listeners can hear me well and my message is clear and to the point, that's what matters!

I am open to taking sponsorship, depending on the mission, values and goals of the company. I do not have any revenue yet; this is purely to provide value to parents. Podcasting benefits me by giving me a quick and easy way to provide value to more parents around the world. It's fun to give back and share my expertise!

I use podbean for everything now. I used something different in the past, but that's it. I have an apple account and upload to all others. I'll be interviewing guests soon and I find them from social media and networking in person through people I know and meet. I prepare by doing an outline, yet, after 25 years in my field, talking about these topics are easy and flow for me...

Marketing is organic right now through all channels.

Just do it! Don't worry about fancy equipment or editing to get started.. that's sure to come! Make sure to provide value and have that be your number one goal. and... don't try to talk about something that you don't know about. ;)

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