Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW

Preacher, Author, #Health & Biz Coach, Entrepreneur, God's Favorite Kid, & Spicy Visionary. 3x Wolverine 💙 #GoBlue. GenX. She/her.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@soapcentral Fast forward through it all.

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@Gendo_e61786 @DannyDeraney Beautiful!

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16! Let's go!

[👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 @WonderKing82]

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[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

Crying my eyes out.😭 Thank you, teachers!
Thank you to my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. L. I will never forget you.🩷

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

The cutest! 🥰

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Ding-dong, it's @MeCookieMonster! You'll never guess what this neighbor needs. 🚪🎥🍪👀

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET to honor President Jimmy Carter on what would have been his 101st birthday! 💙

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

Oh wow--great share. 💙

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

watched this twice. the first time I smiled deeply and gasped. the second time I closed my eyes and I swear it felt warm to my soul.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@Suzierizzo1 Come through White Castle!!

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

🥰 @sesamestreet rocks!

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Keep Calm & Stay Grouchy 💚

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@yourthickbigsis I don't know you but I like you! This is the stand-up the world needs right now. Following!

(And thanks for the waxing reminder--scheduling)

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

Binged the full season today. I can see why! 💙

(No way I'm making any of this but delightful to watch her, her colleagues & her buddies have so much fun!)

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Meghan Markle’s Netflix show has been quickly renewed for a second season

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

Things feel uncertain right now—I hear you. But here's what I know: Michiganders are tough. We show up for each other. And no matter what's thrown our way, we find a way forward. 

I've got your back. We're in this together.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

Unbossed & so unbothered! 💖 Her mother's daughter.

#WeLoveYouMeghan

[Senior Lieutenant Zandi Sussex @ZandiSussex]

Share your favourite photo of Princess Meghan on your timeline with hashtag #WeLoveYouMeghan. Too many favourite photos I know but here’s one of mine.😍

#WeLoveYouMeghan
#SussexSquad

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

✌🏽✊🏽👍🏽 Actionable & very real

[George Lakoff @GeorgeLakoff]

How to keep democracy alive in 2025:

1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

"Your party is in ashes..."
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🤬
Worth the whole 4.5 mins

[Jackie Singh 🇺🇸 🗳️ IWillVote.com @HackingButLegal]

RETWEET THIS

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@VABVOX I appreciate you. 💙

[krewkutz @krewkutzbarber]

Thank you ABC ... good morning America. Much love ❤️ 😍

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@KwikWarren Here here! (Except Mr. Carter is my forever President 😊)

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@TheRyanHamilton Oh my God!! I am so sorry to hear this awful story. No words. Thank you for getting the word out.

[Nicole 🙏🏽😷 MPH, MSW @CoachNicole]

@notcapnamerica What shadiness is happening here? 👀