The Exit Interview Has Won The Best Education Podcast Award from The Black Podcasting Awards!!

Videos

July 20, 2025

Math videos Black kids can connect to

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
July 19, 2025

Are you on the right side of history?

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
July 8, 2025

The Price of Being Passionate with Dr Mary Hemphill

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
July 8, 2025

For the Kids, Not the System with Akil Parker

What does it cost to teach with integrity in a system that demands your silence? In this powerful episode of The Exit Interview, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Akil Parkera former finance major turned math educator, tutor, and founder of All This Mathto explore his 20-year journey through classrooms…

Watch the Video
June 24, 2025

The Price of Being Passionate with Dr. Mary Hemphill

This episode is a masterclass in reclaiming purpose, honoring your calling, and choosing wholeness over hustle. If youve ever been called too much for simply doing whats rightthis one is for you. In this episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with …

Watch the Video
June 13, 2025

Will Black excellence save Black women ? Exit Interview Podcast

This is a question I've asked and answered so many times but really didn't want to say out loud to others for fear of pushback. Well, it's time for that conversation. #rest #excellence #women Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedI…

Watch the Video
June 11, 2025

Does burnout cause people to abandon their communities Amanda Mille…

Burnout causes so many people to stop engaging with their communities and family members. How do we reengage with others so that we can heal from burnout and move forward in our wellness journey? #burnout #wellness #healing #community #family Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinter…

Watch the Video
June 10, 2025

Reclaiming Rest & Thriving Beyond Burnout with Amanda Miller Littlejo…

This episode challenges us to reflect: What traits define us? Who are we outside of productivity? In this deeply affirming conversation, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Amanda Miller Littlejohn—executive coach, journalist, and author of The Rest Revolution—to unpack burnout, identity, and the system…

Watch the Video
June 10, 2025

Can a lack of creativity be a sign of burnout with Amanda Miller Li…

We've all been there. Burnout causes us to not want to do anything that we enjoy. What are your other signs of #burnout #wellness #wellnessjourney Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ …

Watch the Video
June 10, 2025

Reclaiming Rest & Thriving Beyond Burnout with Amanda Miller Littlejo…

This episode challenges us to reflect: What traits define us? Who are we outside of productivity? In this deeply affirming conversation, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Amanda Miller Littlejohn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#) executive coach, journalist, and author of The Rest Revolutionto u…

Watch the Video
June 9, 2025

Black kids are more likely to be identified as gifted by Black educat…

Check the facts. Black children are more likely to be identified as gifted and talented if they have a Black teacher. https://hechingerreport.org/bright-black-students-who-are-taught-by-black-teachers-are-more-likely-to-get-into-gifted-and-talented-classrooms/ Check out the podcast's website: htt…

Watch the Video
June 1, 2025

Will financial literacy classes in high school be a solution we are l…

From The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, former educator and Colorado State Representative Jen Bacon passionately calls for a mandatory financial literacy class in all #colorado high schools. As education leaders talk about post-secondary and workforce readiness, Bacon asks a critic…

Watch the Video
May 29, 2025

Is rest possible when your trying to change the world for our kids #p…

How folks in government navigate the beliefs of their colleagues so that our kids can win? Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https:/…

Watch the Video
May 27, 2025

When mushrooms are growing from your classroom walls #teachingcommuni…

What do you do when you have so much water in your walls mushrooms start to grow? The answer, join the union but what happens next? Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more abou…

Watch the Video
May 27, 2025

The Cost of Reform and the Power of Community with Representative Jen…

What happens when a Black educator survives a natural disaster, a political awakening, and a broken school systemall in the same year? In this deeply moving episode of The Exit Interview, Colorado State Representative Jennifer Bacon recounts how her early teaching career in New Orleans during Hurr…

Watch the Video
May 21, 2025

Advocating for Black Educator Wellness with Dr. Asia Lyons on Integra…

I hope that you know that I believe you, the community of listeners believes you, and that's good enough.” Dr. Asia Lyons Dr. Asia Lyons is the host of 'The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators' where she practices archival justice by sharing the stories of Black educators who have left…

Watch the Video
May 20, 2025

how do families heal when harm happens in the workplace?

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
May 16, 2025

stop teaching social justice or get pushed out

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
May 16, 2025

Studying in Cuba changed her perspective SXSWEDU

Check out the podcast's website: https://www.exitinterviewpodcast.com/ Instagram: @hellodrasia LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/asia-lyons/ Learn more about combatting racial battle fatigue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7KXbRlf6Dpnl4PffXHvuIlLE0CKUEa8/view?usp=sharing #teachers #educ…

Watch the Video
May 15, 2025

Retention over recruitment in teaching should be the priority #teachi…

Why should retention be prioritized over recruitment in education? It's time to challenge school boards and administration to retain Black educators. Let's address and prevent harm, not just offer shiny recruitment perks. #RetentionOverRecruitment #SupportBlackEducators Instagram: @hellodrasia L…

Watch the Video
May 13, 2025

Black educators come to a job with community and leave the job becaus…

In this clip, Dr. Asia Lyons reminds us that Black educators never move through this profession alone. When we get the job, we text our people. When the job starts to break us, we call those same people—and they’re the ones who say, “F that job, I got you.” Too often, HR teams and school leaders f…

Watch the Video
May 13, 2025

Youth at the Core with Joy Delizo-Osborne Live at SXSWEDU 2025

What happens when you're doing everythingleading a school, serving your community, answering the phones, teaching mathand still feel like you're drowning? In this Exit Interview live show, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Joy Delizo-Osborne, who shares the real reason she left her role as a founding p…

Watch the Video
May 13, 2025

When the bar is in hell...

Joy Delizo-Osborne shares the moment her body, her doctor, and her wife all said enough. In this raw and real clip from our SXSW EDU live episode, Joy opens up about the toll that school leadership took on her health—mentally, emotionally, and physically. Teaching math, running a school, serving lu…

Watch the Video
May 12, 2025

When your middle schoolers can't read, and no one wants to help them …

In this clip from The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, organizer and educator Jalisa Evans recounts a pivotal moment early in her teaching career that revealed how deeply bias is embedded in schools. Faced with a group of brilliant, eager 7th graders reading far below grade level, Ja…

Watch the Video