I make myself known in places not because I want your businesses because I know I can help. My focus right now is child care and I'm bridging a gap between a 24-hour child care with our community. If the parent has to work while I'm predominantly at night, I'm that village that can step in and help with that emotional tellage. Renee Everett is a dedicated community-focused entrepreneur and the visionary founder of the Renee Everett Collective. Through her integrative services in child care excellence, staffing solutions and family empowerment, she creates safe, structured environments where both children and adults can truly thrive. Well now we're living in a world of change, so we do have to adapt. We're living in technology now, but so the best thing for us to do is figure out how can we incorporate that in teaching and learning. You can teach a kid 20 times on paper. They're not going to learn it, it's going to take up to 60 times. You can teach them as a game it, six to 12 times they're going to understand and learn. We just have to monitor it in the correct way. It spans the globe like a super high as cold, into the eldest, ready to fight. Today Apple is going to reinvent the fall. It's not over until I win. The Living Your Legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy. That's extraordinary. It is possible. Oh, that is sensational. Open. Chicago with the lead. You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream. Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast for Insight Success. I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining me today is quite an amazing, powerful woman. Please introduce yourself. My name is Renee Everett. Renee Everett, we just finished your session. Oh gosh, introduce yourself. What are you about? What do you do? What brought you here? Well, my name is Renee Everett. I am originally from Miami, Florida. Always been here, born and raised. Well, my focus right now is childcare. And I'm bridging a gap between a 24 hour childcare with our community. I'm glad you introduced yourself because this is something that's very close to my heart. I always do the guff, the song and dance thing where it's like, hey, check it out. But this is a serious topic because I'm also a, I was born and raised in Miami, you know, but was, was, uh, uh, sort of adopted by my grandmother. And then I didn't learn in emotional intelligence until like a year ago. So I, I, I was hoping that we can kind of dive deeper into, you know, what you do today with children and how you're seeing a common issue with, with children that don't have the emotional intelligence. And you want to kind of nip that in the butt as early as possible. Talk about this journey. I know this journey would not be an easy one. I don't expect it to be actually. But I'm doing something that I love kids absorb. And that's very, very important. So with the kids being in my care, let's say the parent has to work while I'm predominantly at night. So the parent sees the child, you know, in the morning, I'm that village that can step in and help with that emotional intelligence. Let's say homework topic, the easiest topic that we can think about right now, homework with a child. Of course, frustration will come. I'm there to build frustration can happen. I want to teach them to leave that you can feel it's okay to feel, but let's react differently about it. I have a calm down corner that I'm putting in the child care center for the adults. And also the kids just to calm down. The calm down corner. Back in my day was called the timeout zone. So no, you don't go there by yourself. No, we're not going there by yourself. I love it. I love it. So. No, he just driving. It's crazy. It's awesome. So, no, so the calm down corner. It's the calm down corner. You go and you're able to pick out your emotions. So I have pictures where you can go and actually figure out because, you know, once you're angry, you're sad, you might be feeling everything, but you want to identify each and every one of them. So we go to the calm down corner together and you can identify each and every one that you're feeling. And we calm down. Okay. Why do you feel this way? Now we have to identify the problem now we can fix it and find a solution because we are a solution base that is the mindset that I have. It could be a problem, but let's be solution based. So let's really, really when I'm pushing for it for the kids to start thinking that way. How do you combat the tick talks? How do you combat social media? The device? See. I used to work at PlayStation, take a shot every time I say that. And back then there was no social media. Now PlayStation's losing the battle to your attention span. Netflix, you've got to name the topic of the movie what's happening six times in the movie because people's attention spans, they just forget what they're watching. How do you combat that now with kids that are armed with their devices, especially kids that come from pain that are like, well, I don't want to experience this reality. I can just be here in Fortnite or watch someone else play Fortnite. How do you combat that? Well, now we're living in a world of change. So we do have to adapt. Just like my mother, she, I have older parents. I'm blessed. Thank God my mom, she'll be 70 actually this weekend. And my father turned 70 last year. So they have a, you're always on your phone. You're on and I'm telling them like, I can write a paper on my phone if I need to mom. Because it's true. So with this, I will like to push it in the correct direction instead of taking it away and saying, no, we're living in technology. Now the kids does growing up. This is technology based. So the best thing for us to do is figure out how can we incorporate that in teaching and learning if it's something with coding for something small, because, you know, you can teach a kid something 20 times on paper. They're not going to learn it. It's going to take up to 60 times. Oh yeah. You can teach them as a game it six to 12 times. They're going to understand and learn. So I feel like the technology, it will be a good fit for the kids, but we just have to monitor it in the correct way. And of course usage time. I worked with Garth Brooks's team and they were developing music videos and math where it's huge now on YouTube. Talk about some of the philosophies of using modern age and adapting to new ways of teaching. My favorite one. The whiteboard or the chalkboard and smart board. Oh yeah. No question. Very, very effective. I myself still need a smart board. I understand I do not want to push out that way, but I do love a good smart board. I'm going to have both. It's very easy for the smart board to play things for kids to write, for them to do group projects together on the board as far as playing games. A lot easier. The kids can see everything's compact all in one rather than a smart, the regular whiteboard. Just writing, writing, writing. The kids really can't trace unless you write something on there. It can't guide them to pen, but now we have that. Again, technology is growing. We really do love it. I love it. Sometimes it could be a pain because a lot of people don't like change. Adapting is very, very hard for everyone. But sometimes if you could take it in and embrace it, it's awesome. So I can definitely say one of those philosophies is very good with the smart board and the whiteboard. As you can see, we both still have it, but the smart board has taken a lead in effective kids. Oh, absolutely. At school. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little bit of having the future world in real life. And then it's just so interactive. And it's essentially just your iPhone, but just giant. It's quite ironic. The red prince, if you will, like the column, he took my smart board giant screen, which is why there's that empty gap and I had to move the couch. Oh, look at all the books. There used to be a giant Google screen here, and I peeked in and like, oh, he took it. Anyways, we don't mention him. Anyways, so the reason why I spoke about, like, are you familiar with shadow work or understanding like these mythos because you're hanging out with a crew. And the first thing we talked about was Kylo Ritton. And I'm obsessed with Kylo Ritton, not because, you know, the story was nerd, but no, because he defines essentially a generation where, yeah, you've got the kids that had the happy ending, but most of our kids killed off Han Solo. We killed our father. Father wasn't there. And like, that was the symbolism of that. And Disney just nailed it. And when I saw it, I was like, hey. And it's just depressing to see that, you know, sorry, we can Harry Potter nerd out for sure. But I'm just going to give you the reason why I'm like, you're definitely on brand. And for folks that are watching, do you understand the sorcery that you possess or are you familiar with any of that? The reason why I keep pushing, you're from Miami. Like when you say you're from Miami, what is your background? Where did you grow up? What is the sorcery to being born and raised in Miami? Diversity. I will forever stand on that diversity, meeting people the way people think from a child. And that's why it's so amazing to me because I came across so many cultures and people and the way they treat their family, their friends. I learned it. So growing up, it's just like, I was, I completely agree with you because I was born here in the 80s. And then it wasn't until I moved to San Francisco, lived in the bay that I experienced life and then moved to Austin. And then finally that whole like energy that those, all those tribes migrated to Miami, you can just feel it in the air. We're like Diplo is doing his weird five K run. I'm like, that's awesome. But we're like running through the arches, bricles alive and thriving. Tell me more about like, where do you feel like new age of way of teaching? I think of Montessori, but that needs to be updated. What is your approach when it comes to your academy? Critical thinking. I like problem solving. So that will be the main base thing. No matter if it's like questions or we're going to do an illustrious project or just simple things outside. I believe, believe and can see it. Believe it, see it. Let's go. Outside things, normal things, food, plants. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Answering all of those questions. So critical thinking of what can we do? Like let's say, okay, we pour water in a plant. What's next? Oh, the plant will grow, but I won't answer that. I'll have them answer that. But you know, cause and effect to everything. I think critical thinking and problem solution, that's my goal. So what is the common client? Like how does one discover you? Like what is your funnel? Like what is your journey when you want to work with the perfect client? Someone who loves that. I will say that because if I'm taking care of your child, I love you. You love me. It will become of that because we're family now because, you know, it's your child. You will find me. I'm basically everywhere. I'm just going to say that I'm very friendly. I reach out a lot. I make myself known in places. I'm not because I want your businesses because I know I can help. I know your child is safe with me and I know we'll be okay because I have open communication to open line. So either the website of course, social media, but I'm very, very, very big on groundwork. I'm very big on meeting in person and doing it the old school way. Although I still do have social media, which is reneverettcollective.com. Or you can find me at everbrightacademyllc on Instagram. Yeah. I'm really pushing the no more social media. It's social theater. It's social theater. Social theater. Yeah. We've gone beyond now where it's always in play because it's we kind of cheated because we are from Miami. We were born in the environment. The best thing, yeah. Yeah. This truly is Vice City. And it's a lot of fun to kind of be thriving in that. So Women in Power, we just filmed your episode. What are some things that we're going to learn about you? Basically Women in Power. But everyone has their own role. My role in this will be child care. Taking initiative of child care at night. Bridging that gap. Critical thinking. Problem solution based. I know you probably are like, why does she keep saying that? Because it's so big and it lacks in this day and age. And we need help. We need help. And this is the easiest way to do it as we get them little and we can come and their adults. Now we have them. Now they can think for themselves because now they're using what they had as a child, leading questions themselves, understanding themselves. It's funny because in this kind of line of work, you're expecting like these moms that don't dress very well. They just have these weird haircuts or mostly carons. They just want to jump into education. You have a certain class about you. And we can offline it. But we had a moment where we talked about our similar taste in villains. Does that aspire the way you kind of vision, lead with fire? Like we've got a whip of into shape. Like what is your philosophy when it comes to leading the next generation? Carrying, understanding and listening. I believe that if someone was heard, like my lovely lady Maleficent here, a lot of villains you can see they weren't heard. And that is the biggest problem here. They were very misunderstood. And I feel like if you just have one in person to understand you, you got it. You got it. Oh yeah. Mom's story short. Yeah. I highly recommend watching after you watch Barbie, then watch the total opposite of that. Watch Wicked. Like I was in tears last 20 minutes. I was like, this is my jam. I haven't seen the sequel, but Wicked is off the hook. That is amazing. Clearly not a Disney film. It's far too advanced. So talk about that advancement. It feels like kids are ready to be, you know, mature. Like being a kid today is radically different than it was 20 years ago. We have to be armed radically different. You are about sword and shield, very much like Link facing Gadendorf, like right out fourth, four year olds. Like what is your message today? Your mission? Like I said before, this isn't easy. Everyone knows that kids are a tough cookie. They are figuring out themselves. They are finding out themselves. Oh yeah. I have a bunch of nieces and nephews. And I used to teach when I was 18. Putting my age out there or anything those years ago. But speaking, of course, you're going to repeat yourself several times. Cliche, as it sounds, I didn't have problems when I taught my three year olds. I actually was fortunate enough to teach them to read and write. Of course, I had little behavior issues, but it never came to the point where my class was disruptive because I allowed them to express themselves. I never took that away from them. So when it was playtime, it was playtime. And even when it was learning time, I still engaged them in the way that they understood the way we can relate on a certain level. So as far as I want to say is teaching them and the still rod, I'll say, because I'm very stern. So I'm not going to say like it's like a pushover type of situation, but I don't believe in yelling at kids. Are you yelling? I always ask someone, are you yelling because you're frustrated? Are you yelling because they're doing something? No one can answer that correctly because they stop and wait. Hold on, wait. For sure, for sure. Which one is? And I'm like, yeah, because you're frustrated. I'm like, hey, I'm like, I understand like a little raise of a voice with yelling. Let's not because again, you're teaching a child that once you're angry and frustrated, that's okay to do. So that goes into one. So once you start replaying that kids are sponges, yep, the kid will understand you and take that. Okay. Hey, why are you talking? Why are you getting up in the class? Do you understand that about three, four weeks of coming back? No, that wasn't right. Let me sit down and they understand. But I always give kids the space to express themselves because if you don't, it's going to turn into a mess because as an adult, you will like to express yourself. So what do you want as a kid to do? So that's what I always try to like push for people to understand. That's awesome. What an amazing message because I was that spoiled brat that would throw the tantrums of Toys R Us. I just, because I wanted one toy, I just wanted them all. Really? And then unfortunately, well, fortunately for myself, my grandmother just gave it to me. Every Power Ranger, everything. Yeah. And then I eventually realized that Homegirl was just like helping me from my trauma of being left behind by my mom and da da da da da da da. Anyways, here we are now. Everything's good. How can people find you? How can people learn more about you after listening to this episode or watching it? Well, you can find me on Instagram at Everbright Academy, LLC, or Renee Wellness Notary on Instagram as well. Or you can type in ReneeEverettCollective.com. Right on. This is Renee Everett and I am Riga Thierrys. And we are Inside Success.
