Carol Pelletier Radford is the founder of Mentoring in Action, an organization dedicated to the success of novice teachers and their mentors. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she focused her studies on mentoring and teacher leadership. Carol is an experienced classroom teacher, university education administrator, and certified yoga instructor. Her best selling books, Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers and The First Years Matter: Becoming an Effective Teacher offer coaches and novices a common language for purposeful conversations. Carol’s most recent book, Teaching With Light: Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration includes inspirational podcasts and practices for living mindfully. Her new book, to be released in Spring 2023, is titled, When I Started Teaching, I Wish I Had Known… Weekly Wisdom For Beginning Teachers. Visit https://mentoringinaction.com/ to learn more about her podcasts, resources, and free courses. She lives with her husband David and you can find her on the beach in Venice, Florida or Falmouth, Massachusetts.