The Dr. Will Show Podcast

I have my Master's in Education and over fifteen years of tutoring, coaching, and helping guide others in completing objectives. I started my own tutoring company in 2011 in North Dallas, and now we are an online nationwide provider. We have been contracted for major corporations, homeschool families, and individual families. I love to be active, play sports, travel, explore cultures, scuba dive,...

Will Deyamport, III, Ed. D. is a District Instructional Technologist for Hattiesburg Public School District, serving grades K-12. He is also a digital transformation strategist, writer , and podcaster . Prior to taking on a full-time instructional technology role, Dr. Will was a social media strategist for a career development company. He is best known for his work in assisting educators in going...

Presenter and author Jen Rafferty started her teaching career as a middle school teacher in Central New York for 15 years. She founded Empowered Educator in 2020 to address teacher burnout during the pandemic. Jen is known for bringing her energy, humor, and expertise to her presentations while inspiring educators to stay connected to their "why." Jen is a certified Emotional Intelligence Practiti...

Ildi is the CEO/Co-Founder of Ribbit Learning Company where she’s using her knowledge and experience to create the Learning Hub, a learning experience platform that helps K12 schools develop and retain their educators-- no matter what or where they teach. She’s worked in government, public schools, and non-profit organizations and owned her own small business. As an educator of educators, Ildi und...

Katharine Hsu is on a mission to help children ENJOY reading and writing because these days, being good at something is not enough. If you grow up hating something, you will never use it to your advantage. Enjoyment also happens to be the magical way to improve in literacy and language twice as fast. Growing up, English was her second language, and she hated to read and write. It was hard and felt...

Will Deyamport, III, Ed. D. is a District Instructional Technologist for Hattiesburg Public School District, serving grades K-12. He is also a digital transformation strategist, writer , and podcaster . Prior to taking on a full-time instructional technology role, Dr. Will was a social media strategist for a career development company. He is best known for his work in assisting educators in going...

We believe student-facing staff are key to transformative educational experiences. Folks in instructional and coaching roles are often the ones asked to do the herculean job of ensuring every student is set up for success and graduates on time. And yet, very few tools are purpose-built for their needs. This job is made more challenging as classrooms move online and class sizes grow.  ​At Ribbon Ed...

On this episode, I Zoom in TaRael Kee, Ed. S. and we chat about his pathway to podcasting and how he got started as a content creator. ______________________________________________________________________   The Edupreneur: Your Blueprint To Jumpstart And Scale Your Education Business You’ve spent years in the classroom, leading PD, designing curriculum, and transforming how students learn. Now, i...

Our image of a classroom community in secondary education is rapidly evolving. The experience of remote learning during a pandemic has altered our mental picture of students occupying rows of desks with a teacher nearby, closely monitoring their activities. But even when teachers are able to be in physical proximity to their students, the research is clear that students need to be empowered to tak...

Robert Simmons III, Ed. D. is the Head of Social Impact for Micron Technology . As a noted scholar on education and race, American University appointed Robert a Scholar in Residence and Scholar of Antiracist Praxis in the School of Education, where he teaches doctoral courses on race & racism in society and schools, as well as how social media is a tool for activists and movement building. As a me...

Before her May 2021 transition from the classroom to full-time consulting, Ms. Iantha Ussin ( MAT ) taught for 15 years with the Richmond County School System in Augusta, GA where she was repeatedly named a highly qualified middle grades ELA instructor and model teacher. She is a three-time author with her most recent book being the pride of her career— Your Classroom or Their Playground: Classroo...

Melissa Guller is the founder of Wit & Wire, where she helps creators turn their skills and passions into profitable online businesses. Previously, Melissa was the Director of Marketing Engagement at Teachable as well as the Sr. Launch Manager for Ramit Sethi’s 8-figure course launch team.  To date, she’s taught thousands of students through General Assembly, Skillshare, and her own business Wit &...

Sharif El-Mekki is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development . The Center exists to ensure there will be equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators that reflect the cultural backgrounds and share common socio-political interests of the students they serve. The Center is developing a nationally relevant model to measurably increase teacher...

Cornelius Krahn is a Grade 7 classroom teacher from Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada. Currently, in his 19th year of teaching, he has also been a vice-principal, teacher-librarian, and lead technology teacher. His class podcast, Grade 7’s Talk to Experts , is in its third season. He works hard to bring innovation and engagement into his classroom and believes that any teacher could use podcasting in...

Dr. Victoria (Tory) Wobber is a career and leadership coach who helps social science PhDs land roles in the Tech industry. Tory received her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard, secured her first industry role as a data scientist at Facebook, and then worked at Facebook and Google for 7 years before leaving Google to start her own business as a coach.  Tory developed the Academic Exit f...

Kaywanda Lamb is an entrepreneur, educator, coach, author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and The Winning Single Mom. Her journey to being a sought out speaker, advocate for single moms everywhere, and a transformational coach began when her boys were young. Kaywanda had a choice to make: stay in a relationship that didn't honor her or raise her boys as a single mom. She decided to take option B (be...

Olivia O. Cardenas-Trowers, M.D., is a fellowship-trained Urogynecologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida who specializes in treating female pelvic floor disorders. Dr. Cardenas-Trowers is a Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Medical and Surgical Gynecology and an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.  Dr. Cardenas-Tr...

Katharine Hsu is on a mission to help children ENJOY reading and writing because these days, being good at something is not enough. If you grow up hating something, you will never use it to your advantage. Enjoyment also happens to be the magical way to improve in literacy and language twice as fast. Growing up, English was her second language, and she hated to read and write. It was hard and felt...

After being set free from her 6-figure corporate job in January 2017, Lakrisha turned to LinkedIn to market and grow her career services business full-time.  Within 8 months, she hit 6 figures.  Now that Lakrisha has gotten LinkedIn down to a science, she shares the strategies she has personally leveraged to build a profitable LinkedIn brand with other Black women in her signature Left Out to Link...

Anna Dyagileva-Tkachuk is a Language Teacher ( in Kirov, Russia) and has been teaching for over 10 years. She's been teaching students online for over 8 years and also provides online PD courses for schools. She's a founder of #teachersloveEDU and a YouTuber. Anna is an MIE Expert, an MIE Master Trainer, an MIE Fellow, Certified Trainer on Flipgrid, Wakelet, and Buncee. She loves integrating new e...

Jovanka Ciares is a former entertainment executive turned Integrative Herbalist, Wellness expert; detox specialist, nutrition educator and author. She is the creator of the Wellness Smackdown™, an online wellness & learning community for healthy living, which was featured on the first season of ABC’s “My Diet Is Better Than Yours”. Jovanka studied nutrition with best-selling author Dr. T. Colin Ca...

Will Deyamport, III, Ed. D. is a District Instructional Technologist for Hattiesburg Public School District, serving grades K-12. He is also a digital transformation strategist, writer , and podcaster . Prior to taking on a full-time instructional technology role, Dr. Will was a social media strategist for a career development company. He is best known for his work in assisting educators in going...

On this episode, I Zoom in Alexis K. Holman, M.Ed. and we chat about the start of her journey as an educational consultant. ______________________________________________________________________   The Edupreneur: Your Blueprint To Jumpstart And Scale Your Education Business You’ve spent years in the classroom, leading PD, designing curriculum, and transforming how students learn. Now, it’s time to...

Mariah Howard is also known on the internet as The Muva of Marketing™ or “Muva,” for short. She’s a serial entrepreneur renowned for her commitment to close the wealth gap and empower black owned businesses—online and offline—with her enlightening, mindful yet relatable but no-BS approach. In her former life, Mariah studied molecular genetics at Ohio State University. As a proud Buckeye Alumna, sh...

Maverik Education provides professional development, guidance, and support on how to develop and deliver teaching and learning experiences that are academically rigorous, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive. Maverik Education is owned and operated by Erik M. Francis, M.Ed., M.S. , an international author and presenter with over 25 years of experience working in education as...