The Intentional Encourager

Social Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker and Founder of UP Academy Tanya Sheckley joins this episode and talks about: 

  • Communication and community.

  • The guilt of her school being open during COVID when most were not.

  • Staying true to their school's mission.

  • The inspiration of her oldest daughter and the challenges of finding the right education with her special needs.

  • Finding a different way to be inclusive and do education different.

  • The 2 ways to start a revolution and the 3 parts of starting their school.

  • The conversation she'd have with the Education Director of the United States.

  • Selling beer for 10 years and the lessons she learned from it.

  • Moving along with where the next thing took her.

  • Becoming like the people she surrounded herself with.

  • Her daughter's birth without normal function, the battles with doctors and nurses around her care and how to advocate for her.

  • Losing her daughter suddenly at age six.

  • The different ways of handling grief and having grace and patience through it.

  • Trauma changing her brain.

  • Her daughter's words that became her biggest piece of Intentional encouragement.

Tanya Sheckley