The Child Care Business Podcast
This podcast, brought to you by Procare Solutions, is all about giving child care, preschool, daycare, afterschool and other early education professionals a fun and upbeat way to learn about strategies and inspiration they can use to thrive. You’ll hear from a variety of child care thought leaders, including educators, owners and industry experts, on ways to innovate to meet the needs of the children you serve. From practical tips for managing operations to uplifting stories of transformation and triumph, this podcast will be chock-full of insights you can use to fully realize the potential of your child care business.
Episodes
54 episodes
Episode 4, Season 10: How to Find and Keep Insurance for Your Child Care Center with Samantha Phillips
Samantha Phillips is an insurance broker who specializes in insuring child care centers, a job that is especially tough this days as ECE businesses struggle to find and keep insurance. Costs are soaring. Samantha said she has a client i...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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34:37
Season 4, Episode 9: How to Attract New Families to Your Child Care Center, with Molly Hichens
Molly Hichens is a second-generation owner at Bright Beginnings Preschool, which has three locations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is about to celebrate 40 years in business! She’s also an accomplished child care consultant and speaker.&nbs...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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52:18
Season 4, Episode 8: Creative Leadership Ideas to Train and Assess Child Care Center Staff, with Kathe Petchel
Kathe Petchel began her education career working as a public school teacher before opening her own preschool center in 1984. She now owns three sites serving more than 300 families in Charlottesville, Virginia.In 2017, Kathe joined HINGE...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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47:08
Season 4, Episode 7: How to Develop Leaders in Your Child Care Center's Staff, with Beth Cannon
Beth Cannon is the owner of 13 Stretch-N-Grow child enrichment franchises and is an expert in early childhood education working as a speaker, trainer and coach. One of her talents is teaching child care center leaders how to develop talent from...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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44:25
Season 4, Episode 6: Three Tips to Grow Your Child Care Business, with Caroline Jens
Are you ready to take your child care center to the next level? Whether you're a seasoned child care professional or just starting out, the tips from Caroline Jens shared in this podcast will help you grow and succeed in the competitive world o...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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52:06
Season 4, Episode 5: Using Developmentally Appropriate Practices to De-stress Children and Teachers, with Prerna Richards
"We've gone down this path of expecting little humans to sit when they're not developmentally made to sit this long. Brains don't learn like this," says Prerna Richards, founder of Together We Grow.In this episode, Prerna walks us throu...
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45:02
Season 4, Episode 4: From Burnout to Balance: Nurturing Well-being in ECE, with Anisha Angella
As early childhood education providers, your jobs including serving many people, including children and families. But too often, you don't pour enough back into yourselves ... and that's where burnout comes from, says Anisha Angella, founder of...
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39:43
Season 4, Episode 3: The Five Pillars of Financial Success for Child Cares, with Kathy Ligon
Kathy Ligon is the founder & CEO of HINGE Advisors. Trained as a public accountant, Kathy has more than 35 years of experience in educational operations. During that time, she has found there are five pillars to the success of a child care ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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26:37
Season 4, Episode 2: Breaking Down the 2024 Child Care Management Software Industry Trends Report
Procare Solutions recently released our 2024 Child Care Management Software Industry Trends Report...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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58:56
Season 4, Episode 1: How to Help Child Care Staff Embrace Technology, with LaToya Riggins
Technology scares people, and that's true for child care employees."Easing them into it helps, and really slowing it down and teaching them," says LaToya Riggins, vice president of professional development of CRAFT by Better Futures.&nb...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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38:41
Season 3, Episode 9: Why Digital Payment Processing is a Must for Child Care Providers
Tuition collection can be a breeze when families can easily pay you on time and with their preferred method of payment. And for today’s parents, their preferred method overwhelmingly is digital, whether through autopay from their checking accou...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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21:00
Season 3, Episode 8: How to Grow Your Enrollment With Top-Notch Tours of Your Center, with Molly Hichens
A tour of your child care center should be your Super Bowl, says Molly Hichens. Are you doing enough to wow families who tour your daycare or preschool?Molly is a second-generation owner at Bright Beginnings Preschool, which has three l...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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45:12
Season 3, Episode 7: Billions in Child Care Funding is About to Dry Up: What that Means for Providers and Families, with Cindy Lehnhoff
Beginning September 30, 2023, states could be forced to deal with the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding, which will lead to a mass disruption in the child care landscape. The $24 billion that went to child cares was part of...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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48:55
Season 3, Episode 6: Building a Nonprofit ECE Center and the Push for Child Care Funding, with Allyx Schiavone
Allyx Schiavone had intended to start a new elementary school in New Haven, Connecticut, until she listened to her community and saw the need for an early childhood education center. In this episode, she talks about partnering with...
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53:53
Season 3, Episode 6: The Importance of Design and Branding in Child Care Centers, with Better Beans Branding
Think about going to a restaurant. That's an experience you have. It's true in other businesses too, from a coffee shop to a doctor's office to a hardware store. So why shouldn't that apply to a child care center?That's the message of B...
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44:36
Season 3, Episode 5: How to Successfully Onboard and Retain Employees, with Kris Murray
Today's millennial and Gen Z workers are mission driven, tech savvy and they expect to be onboarded and given professional development and coaching, says Kris Murray.Kris is the founder and president and founder of
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52:45
Season 3, Episode 4: Why Early Childhood Education Can't Be Delayed, with AJ Crabill
AJ Crabill has strong opinions about early childhood education and he's quick to dispel any notion that it should start around preschool. He is a champion of ECE, and his education experience includes chairing the Kansas City School Boa...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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44:14
Season 3, Episode 3: Insights From an ECE Professor, Including What her Students Want in a Career, with Dr. Rosemarie Allen
Dr. Rosemarie Allen has served as an educational leader for over 30 years and her life’s work is centered on ensuring all children have access to high-quality early childhood programs that are developmentally and culturally appropriate.
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52:19
Season 3, Episode 2: Highlights of the 2023 Child Care Management Software Industry Trends Report, with Jon Pollock
The child care industry is at a crossroads. Many programs are resisting technology to help educate the children in their care and simplify running their businesses. That's why Procare Solutions surveyed over 100,000 stakeholders t...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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46:24
Season 3, Episode 1: Introducing Gen Z! Strategies to Engage our Newest Generation in the Child Care Workforce
Child care centers are seeing five generations of employees working together: traditionalists, boomers, generation X, millennials and now generation Z, who are ages 10 to 24 years old. As this group becomes a larger part of the work...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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57:00
Season 2, Episode 13: Thirty Years of Growing Together: Procare's Founder and an Early Customer Recount the Early Days
The story of Procare Solutions begins with a dad who saw a child care center needed help. That dad was Jeff Blum, and he remembers dropping off his 2-year-old son and watching the center’s owners struggle with their accounting syste...
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47:17
Season 2, Episode 13: Five Tips to be a Successful Child Care Center Director, with Ty'Heim Clark
Ty’Heim Clark, perhaps better known as Mr. Ty, is the founder of The Childcare Whisperer, a consulting business that works with child care center directors to help them meet their goals and take their centers to the next level.His experi...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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42:34
Season 2, Episode 12: Building Resilience Among Early Childhood Educators, with Donna Skea
As child care centers struggle to find and keep good teachers and other staff, building resilience is key. In this podcast, Donna Skea joins us from Quebec to share some tips on doing just that! Donna is the founder of...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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49:57
Season 2, Episode 11: Back-to-School Tips for Your Child Care Center, with Aliya Johnson Roberts
Aliya Johnson-Roberts, an education and business consultant who leads Consulting with AJR, is the executive director of the Bustleton Learning Center and Pratt Street Learning Center in Philadelphia, serving more than 250 children.Her m...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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55:47
Season 2, Episode 10: A Look at Colorado's New Law to Fund 10 Hours a Week of Preschool, with Nicole Riehl
In this podcast, Nicole Riehl, president and CEO of Colorado Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (better known as EPIC), discusses a new Colorado law that will pay for 10 hours a week of preschool for all 4-year-olds, and what that mean...
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48:16