Everything Early Childhood
by Leeza Browne
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Director File: If i walked into an underperforming service tomorrow…
Director File: If i walked into an underperforming service tomorrow…
About this podcast
Welcome to the Everything Early Childhood Podcast, designed for Approved Providers, Nominated Supervisors and other child care business leaders. This fun, light-hearted and very serious podcast features weekly episodes on strategy, advice and conversations with fascinating and inspiring people from across our sector. Join the journey and have access to the tools and inspiration you need to create high performing child care businesses.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 144 episodes
- Director File: If i walked into an underperforming service tomorrow, here's what i would do first · 1 h 14 min · Episode 144What would you do first if you stepped into an underperforming early childhood service or began leading a brand-new centre? When everything feels urgent, it is easy for a new…
- The wonderings of Nature-Learning from the land with: Birdwings Forest School · 1 h 0 min · Episode 143What if the greatest classroom was never a classroom at all? This conversation with Jennifer and Narell from Birdwings Forest School challenged the way I think about childhood…
- What If They’re Right About You? · 33 min · Episode 142What If They’re Right About You? What if the people around you can see something in you that you can't see yet? We are so quick to see the gap. The conversation we could have…
- Building a Business Rebuilds You · 57 min · Episode 141In this deeply personal episode of Everything Early Childhood, host Leeza Browne shares a conversation she almost talked herself out of recording. As a coach, mentor and leader…
- Mud, Magic & the Mama Tree: Reimagining Childhood Through Nature with Amelia · 55 min · Episode 140Mud, Magic & the Mama Tree: Reimagining Childhood Through Nature with Amelia What happens when we slow down enough to truly see childhood? In this week's episode, Leeza travels…
- AI in Early Childhood: Tool, Threat or Turning Point? with Adam Hucker · 1 h 19 min · Episode 139AI in Early Childhood: Tool, Threat or Turning Point? Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. Some people are excited by it. Some are overwhelmed by it. Some are using it every…
- The belonging conversation we're not actually having - Part 4 · 35 min · Episode 138🎙️ Everything Early Childhood Podcast The Belonging Conversation We're Not Actually Having ### Why Team Building Isn't the Same as Building Community Part 4 of our series: **The…
- The question that started it all: Why dont people want to show up to work anymore? - Part 3 · 34 min · Episode 137EPISODE TITLE The Conversation That Started It All: Why Don’t People Want to Show Up to Work Anymore? EPISODE SHOW NOTES This week’s episode of the Everything Early Childhood…
- When Survival Mode Becomes Team Culture - Part 2 · 16 min · Episode 136When Survival Mode Becomes Team Culture What happens when “hard” stops being a season… and becomes the identity of the profession? In this deeply honest and reflective episode…
- The Early Childhood reset everyone's talking about - Part 1 · 30 min · Episode 135Something has shifted in early childhood… and everyone can feel it. In this deeply honest and confronting episode, Leeza Browne unpacks the growing exhaustion, pressure and…
- Culture is more than a checklist with Jessica Staines · 50 min · Episode 134Culture Is More Than a Checklist with Jessica Staines In this week’s episode of the Everything Early Childhood Podcast, I sit down with the incredible Jessica Staines from Koori…
- Your questions Answered - Q&A April 2026 · 52 min · Episode 133PODCAST SHOW NOTES Q&A: You Don’t Need More Time… You Need a Different Way of Leading This month’s Q&A episode is built completely from your questions — real challenges coming…
- Director File: Holding It All Together · 12 min · Episode 132“I feel like I’m holding everything together… and I don’t know how much longer I can keep doing it.” In this month’s Director File, Leeza shares a powerful and deeply relatable…
- The Director’s Day: The Work No One Sees · 9 min · Episode 131What does a Centre Director actually do all day? This episode answers that question… honestly. In this powerful and deeply relatable episode, Leeza walks you through the real…
- Are You Actually Ready to Solve It… Or Do You Want to Stay in the Fire? · 13 min · Episode 130You say you’re overwhelmed. You say you’re burnt out. You say you can’t keep going like this… But when the opportunity comes to do something different… You stay in the fire…
- Director file: I refuse to work with her · 23 min · Episode 129Director Files 🎙 Alright… this month’s Director File had me laughing out loud when I read it. Not because it’s funny, but because I know so many directors dealing with this…
- The Real Leadership Questions Directors Are Asking Right Now (Q&A Episode) · 59 min · Episode 128Directors & Approved Providers… these questions might feel familiar. Each month inside our Everything Early Childhood community, I ask one simple question: “What leadership…
- We Want to Do the Right Thing - Let’s Talk About the Changes · 48 min · Episode 127Early childhood leadership comes with significant responsibility, especially when laws and regulations change. In this episode, we unpack the latest updates to early childhood…
- Why leaders struggle to make decisions · 29 min · Episode 126Head vs Heart: Why Leaders Struggle to Make Decisions Is there a decision sitting quietly in the background of your mind right now? In this episode, Leeza unpacks why leaders…
- The 5 Questions Directors Are Asking (But Rarely Say Out Loud) · 16 min · Episode 125There are questions most child care directors carry quietly. Not because they don’t care. Not because they aren’t capable. But because leadership can be lonely — and saying these…
