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Troop Leader Experience: A Podcast about Girl Scouts for Troop Leaders and other Girl Scout Volunteers - Formerly "GS Volunte Sarah Heeter
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4.7 • 58 Ratings
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The first ever podcast of its kind: interviews with GS volunteers across the country & even the world, conversations with goal-getter girls, and panel discussions & debates about all the latest news & information regarding all things Girl Scouts. (This podcast is not affiliated with or sponsored by GSUSA; it is completely volunteer and girl driven.)
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Making STEM Fun and Easy
It seems like these days everyone is always talking about STEM. Also, in an effort to close the gender gap in STEM careers, it seems like Girl Scouts has maybe 'overcorrected' with STEM activities ALL THE TIME. Do you feel this way? If so, this episode is for you.
My guest this week is Alyse Johnson-Chilla, full time high school science teacher and a parent of a new Daisy. We're talking about why STEM programming is important and how we can make it fun and accessible for girls (and for us!)
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What are we doing here? (A Reminder & Refresher)
Sometimes, we need a reminder about why we want to do this in the first place, and why this work matters. Today I'm reflecting on 6 years of this podcast and 112+ years of creating meaningful, safe spaces for girls.
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Healthy Self Expression and Emotional Resilience
Today, my guest is Susan Day. Susan is an art therapist practitioner and a published author living in East Gippsland, Victoria. Susan hosts her own podcast, facilitates creative art sessions, and has over six mindful art therapy books published. Susan is enthralled with the power of art and the written word to change people’s lives.
Connect with Susan:
Website: https://mindfulartstherapy.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfulartstherapy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulartstherapy
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Building Girls of Courage, Confidence, and Character
Connect with Talia Bombola/Talia's resources:
Www.therapywithtalia.com and www.taliabombola.com
@taliabombola on IG and tiktok
https://centerforadolescentstudies.com/how-to-validate-teens-even-when-you-dont-agree/
https://imperfectfamilies.com/50-ways-to-say-good-job-without-saying-good-job/
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Trusting Your Intuition & Building Self Awareness
Girls are taught from the time they are literally babies not to trust themselves and they lose the ability to listen to their intuition. This is reinforced throughout childhood and adolescence, and even adulthood, and it gets more and more difficult to relearn in adulthood. Eventually, it seems like many of us have a definitive experience in adulthood that pushes us back to the importance of listening to our intuition and relearning how to tap back into that.
One of the things that is so special about Girl Scouts is that we can help counteract society's bad teachings and help girls build self awareness and practice trusting themselves and listening to their intuition. This carries into their teenage and adult years to help them make better decisions for themselves.
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Facebook/Meta Ads for Girl Scout Recruitment
A few weeks ago we talked about digital marketing, and you all told me you really wanted to hear more about how to run Facebook/Meta ads. I brought in an expert for this one ;)
Connect with Helena:
https://www.chicago42.com/
https://www.instagram.com/chicago42digital/
https://www.facebook.com/Chicago42Digital/
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Customer Reviews
So informative!
Love all of the ideas and encouragement here! I recent found this podcast and am catching up. I look forward to the Facebook community too. Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge!
Essential podcast if you run a troop!!
Without this podcast, I would be lost as a troop leader. I learned how to really run a troop, drastically reduce my stress and conquer my own fears around planning and asking for help. I love this show so much. I started from the beginning and listened to the episodes from day one during my commute. 5 stars!!
Helpful, Informative, and Inspiring
I am a second year troop leader with now 1st Grade Daisies and, even with 5 years of experience as a girl and a super supportive service unit, I still feel like a complete newbie. There is just so much to know and understand about being a troop leader! Enter: the troop leader experience podcast. It is very clear that this is a labor of love for the host. She cares deeply about girls and about people in general providing hundreds of episodes on any and every topic. For example, I just downloaded tons of cookie related episodes as we move towards cookie season.
It feels so good to be reassured that I am not alone in wanting to provide an amazing experience for these girls and it is awesome to learn from such experienced leaders like our host across the country. I have started a note on my phone with all of the cool ideas and threads I can pull to improve my troop meetings, year planning, and cookie season experience.
Thank you for your amazing work on this podcast! I had truly inspired me to be the best leader I can be for these girls.