The episode focuses on the question: "How do you prioritize your mental health as an educator?" We are please to be talking with our first guest, Santa-Maria Rivera, an educator for 20 years. Teaching Spanish, Social Sciences and Academy Skills in Inner City High Schools and Middle Schools. She graduated from UCLA with a Master’s Degree in Education with emphasis in Social Sciences and Spanish. She led and organized Educational & Cultural trips to different countries in Europe and in Japan during the summer, bringing more that 200 students in 5 consecutive years, and teaching Yoga & Meditation to students & parents two times a week during and after school. She is an expert in meditation and conscious leadership as an essential part of the evolutionary life of the human being, and is Co-founder and leader of ABEJA REYNA: a successful c ...