Leadership Identity and Resilience

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How does a leader turn personal pain into purpose that transforms an entire school? In this episode of Transformational Educators, Dr. Matthew Flippen sits down with Jayme Braida, Principal of Columbus Elementary and Iowa’s 2025 Elementary Principal of the Year. Jayme shares her journey from misunderstood student to visionary principal, revealing how faith, reflection, and relational leadership helped her build a school culture rooted in grace, trust, and accountability. If you're an aspiring or current school leader looking for encouragement, practical strategies, and soul-deep purpose, this conversation is for you.

In This Episode:
• How adversity shaped Jayme's leadership identity
• The importance of grace and accountability in leadership
• Building a high-trust school culture with Capturing Kids’ Hearts
• Reframing hardship as an opportunity for growth
• Why faith and reflection sustain long-term resilience
• Supporting teachers emotionally to drive instructional success
• Creating systems that sustain culture even in the leader’s absence
• How student and staff stories reflect transformational impact

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Coming up...
00:01:59 - The impact of childhood adversity on leadership identity
00:04:07 - College struggles, generational trauma, and finding purpose
00:05:32 - A professor’s grace that planted the principal dream
00:06:20 - Early leadership roles and the drive to serve beyond the classroom
00:08:03 - Discovering grace as a leadership value
00:10:58 - Capturing Kids’ Hearts and building relational culture
00:14:11 - Leading through adversity, Covid, and personal trials
00:16:18 - Signs of culture transformation and staff empowerment
00:18:02 - The story of a grieving teacher and the power of presence
00:21:09 - Faith, purpose, and the deeper mission of leadership
00:22:23 - How to connect with Jayme and learn more
00:23:03 - Final reflections and wrap-up

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