Heidi DeCoux is a serial entrepreneur who’s built four businesses with 50%+ profit margins, sold 3 of them, including a 7-figure exit, and has appeared in magazines and websites like Forbes.  She’s become known as “The Optimizer” because she’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs optimize their businesses and life. She’s now gearing up to launch her newest company, Alchemized Teams, designed to help small businesses build winning teams.     Show Highlights   Unleash the “genius” of every child with learning guides instead of teachers. Revolutionize K12 education across the planet with micro schools or pod schools that offer customized learning experiences for every student. Motivate students to learn how to innovate themselves regularly. Wipe the slate clean of traditional factory system education and redesign the school experience for today's world, emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship for a rapidly changing future. Create a customized learning experience without grouping students by grades or ages.  Incorporate a 3 part phase program for deep financial literacy and life skills into student programming. Help students navigate both their personal and work lives in an ever-changing world. “We need to create something new for today and how the world is quickly changing.  I'm coming in saying, ‘No, wait, classrooms don't exist. Chalkboards don't exist, desks don't exist.’ When you've been in education for a long time, it's hard to break that mindset. And so they tend to just default to innovating the existing instead of wiping the slate clean and saying, ‘If we were creating school for the first time today and you had never seen a classroom, you had never seen anything that existed today, how would you do it? What would you create that meets students with today's world?’ And that's designed to innovate itself.” -Heidi DeCoux    “I would say the one thing that we know for certain throughout history is that the only real progress has come from the Ruckus Makers. So if not you, who, and if not now, then when.” -Heidi DeCoux    Get the episode transcript here! Heidi’s Resources & Contact Info: Website: Alchemized Teams Illuminated Life School Linkedin Twitter Instagram Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   How We Serve Leaders   The School Leadership Scorecard™ Identify your highest leverage areas for growth this year in 10 -minutes or less.    https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/scorecard   Month-to-Month Principal Checklist As a principal with so much to do, you might be thinking, where do I even start?   When you download The Principal Checklist you’ll get 12-months of general tasks that every campus need to do Space to write your campus specific items. Space to reflect and not what worked as well as a space of what didn’t work Go to https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/principal-checklist to download now.   Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™ The “secret” to peak performance is ot complicated.  It’s a plan on how to optimize the five fundamentals found in The Ruckus Maker Mindset Tool™. https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/mindset   The Positive Spotlight Tool™ Energy flows to where attention goes! If you want to get more of what you want, when you want it as a school leader I have a tool for you…   Download The Positive Spotlight Tool™ for free here: https://betterleadersbetterschools.com/positive   The Ruckus Maker 8-Step Goal Setting Tool™ Are you ready to accomplish more? With less effort and in less time? When you