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The CEO Teacher Podcast
3 Business Ideas for Teachers: Which One is Right for Me? (Hall of Fame Episode)
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What a beautiful day to be alive. And friends, you are in for a very special treat. On today's show. I am interviewing three of our CEO teacher trailblazers. And guys, I was completely blown away. These women are absolutely amazing. These are teachers, some of them current teachers, some of them former teachers who are now stay at home moms who are completely killing this CEO teacher game. Now, as I get these women to introduce themselves, I'm going to ask them a question. I'm going to say, which CEO teacher do you most resonate with? And I want you to pay close attention to their answer. One of them is a membership mastermind. The other one is a course creator. And finally, we have. We have someone that resonates with our coach model. So there are 10 different ways that our CEO teachers are making income in today's day and age. And these women are going to show you exactly how they're doing it, but but also show you how you can do it too.
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So stay tuned.
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You don't want to miss these amazing women. And I can't wait to hear what you think about today's show. Welcome to the CEO Teacher, where educators turn what they already know and love into a successful and sustainable online business. With actionable strategies, simple business tips, and mindset shifts. It's a weekly lesson plan for teacher business owners. Whether you're teaching full time in the classroom or rocking the small business from home life. I'm your host, Kasey Morris, a former Georgia English teacher, mamatafor turned seven figure online teacher, business owner and founder of the CEO teacher movement. Three teaching degrees got me a few extra bucks each year, but what I will show you will help you make that every single month. If you have a heart for education and a passion to use your experience to help more teachers and families, you belong here.
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Hey, CEO teachers, I have for you today the best of the best. We have chosen three of our amazing CEO teacher trailblazers to come show you how they have paved the way for teachers in the online education space. It is my honor and my privilege to introduce to you all these amazing women. Courtney, Tara, Desiree, welcome to the show.
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C
Thank you.
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D
Thank you.
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C
Casey, you.
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B
I'm so thrilled that you're here and I want the world, I want to like scream at the rooftops who you are, but I would love for you to share just a little bit about yourself and what you currently do and in the education space. And then at the very end, if you'll tell me what CEO teacher trailblazer you most resonate with. Tara, I'll start with you.
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C
All right, well, I'm Tara Tuchel and I'm a speech language pathologist and I've specialized in autism for 20 some years. And I create resources and materials to help busy parents and teachers that work with young children with autism. And I relate most to Maggie, the membership mastermind.
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B
Awesome.
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E
I love it.
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B
Desiree, tell us a little bit about you.
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D
Hello, I'm Desiree McGee Green, and I'm currently a stay at home mom, CEO of Teacher. But before I became a stay at home mom, I was an elementary teacher for about nine years and then an instructional coach for about seven. And so now in my teacher business, I help teachers, literacy teachers, coaches, administrators even. I help them become stronger at conferring with readers and writers. So small group instruction, individual conferences, all of that.
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B
Oh, so good. And which one of the CEO teacher trailblazers do you most resonate with?
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D
I definitely resonate with Katie the coach the most.
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B
I didn't realize you were an instructional coach before all this too. So this is like the perfect job for you.
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D
Absolutely. I'm loving it.
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B
I love it. Courtney, tell us you've been on the show before. We did like a one on one coaching session. It was so much fun, but I'm so glad we get to spotlight your greatness in this show. So tell us a little bit about you.
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E
Oh, thanks. That was really fun. So my name is Courtney Morgan. My business is the All Access classroom, and I was a second, third and fourth grade teacher for 15 years and then moved into teaching English learners. And now my focus is to support teachers who are serving English learners and helping them know how to make grade level content accessible to them. And I would say that I probably identify the most with Kesha, the course creator, which was an unexpected turn in my business that I am currently enjoying quite a bit.
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B
So we picked three different types of CEO teachers. We have a membership mastermind, we have a coach, and then we have a course creator, just to kind of show you the different options that are available to teachers. But let's get real. You all sound like you have it all together. Okay. You sound like you've got it all figured out. You're so well spoken and so exact about who you are and who you serve and which I love. And it makes me so proud. But I want to hear about what life was like before you found that confidence when you were first starting your journey. Desiree, I'm going to start with you ladies. I want you to all chime in and kind of share your stories too.
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D
So when I started out before becoming a CEO teacher. My life was crazy. I did not have a main thing. I had a lot of little things that I wanted to do and I was passionate about. And so I was spending long nights and weekends just trying to figure out what to even create. So when I finally narrowed down that main thing, it was. It was so much easier to create that content. I was spending more time with my family now, not working on weekends anymore. But before I got into a routine and all of that, it was. It was a lot because I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know how to create a TBT product digitally. I didn't know how to protect it. I didn't know how to create awesome graphics to go with it. So all of that, I was trying to figure out on my own, and it was difficult.
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B
And the graphics thing blows my mind because in our Facebook group, Desiree shares her graphics, and they are scroll stopping good. I remember the first time I was.
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C
Like, wait, who is this?
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B
Hold on, let me see.
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D
What?
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B
This is the most amazing graphic ever. And I shared it with the team, and they were like, we know she's so talented. So to hear that you struggled in, like, graphic design is crazy to me.
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D
Yeah, it was. It was hard, Casey, at first, but you made it so much easier.
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B
You're so sweet. Okay, ladies, tell us about the beginning and the struggle, please.
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E
I know for me, I jumped in and I was completely clueless. Like, I literally Covid had started, and I was like, what's this thing? I mean, I guess I could kind of try making some stuff for TPT maybe, and just, you know, what else am I going to do during COVID I need. I needed kind of like a hobby, right? But once I started, I just started loving it and soaking it up and realizing that it was. It was tweaking something really deep inside of me that I told people. Looking back at the experiences that I had had over the course of my life, things like enjoying art class or being in theater in high school, or just my past teaching experiences, my mission trips to Latin America, all these different things all of a sudden were suddenly coming together into what was becoming this vision of a way that I could share all of it. And it was so much bigger than just making some things on tpt. And it took me joining the course and seeing what was possible to realize, oh, my goodness, this could be become an actual business. I have so much more to offer than I even realized. I went from completely clueless, like, let's just check this out to a couple of years later, having so much clarity on how I'm serving, who I'm serving, what I want to do, and it's been so exciting.
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B
That is so profound, what you just said about, you know, all of the things in life, the things and places in life that you enjoyed, how it was preparing you for this amazing opportunity that you now are rocking. So that was good. I enjoyed that. Thank you, Tara. Let's talk about the stroke. I don't know if Tara struggled. I'm just going to be honest, because she came in like a wrecking ball, y'. All. She has just been killing it from day one.
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D
I am just.
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B
I'm honored to just sit back and watch. I don't feel like, I mean, you were going to find success regardless if you joined our program or not, so. And all of you were. But this has been a fun to watch. Tara.
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C
Thank you, Casey. That's so nice. I. What Courtney just said speaks to me so much like, the way you sum that up. I started out maybe a couple years before I started. I was like, oh, I kind of. That'd be fun to do TPT because with my little 3 to 5 year olds with autism that I work with, there's nothing that's at the right level. So I created materials all the time, but I thought I should learn how to do that because I can't be the only one that is having this trouble finding materials for that young, young level. And so in 2019, after I lost my dad to leukemia, I was grieving. And Casey knows this part of the story, but the grief was really, really bad. And so I kind of channeled that. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to learn how to put these resources that I create on tpt. So I did that and kind of got rolling. And I didn't know, like Courtney said, I had no idea what was in store for me. I had no idea what was possible. And as things started selling and I started to, I Googled everything, I YouTubed everything to figure out how to do it. So my advice would be, don't do that. Join a program where they can walk you through it, because you will save yourself a lot of hassle and stress. But once I kind of figured those things out, like you guys said, the securing and flattening and just all those little things, you don't need to go through the turmoil of figuring that out, like, follow someone that's gone before you. So when a friend of mine that I met in the online space said, have you heard of Casey Morris? And I was like, no, because I was so new still. I was a year in or so, and once I checked her out, I was like, oh my gosh, this is for me. This is for me. This is what I need. And Casey opened my eyes to so many things and looking back, wishing I would have had it earlier, but going, okay, that's okay. I'll just take the nuggets that I still didn't know and improve. And that opened up a world that I didn't even know was possible for me. And the gratitude I have for Casey and the community is so much. I can't even put it into words how much it's changed my life.
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E
Your momentum has been amazing to watch too, Tara. Just like the ways that you've taken each step and immediately built on that step to take the next one and the next one. And it's just really exciting to see the impact that you're making in a meaningful, truly meaningful way. And you are so you in your business. It's fun to watch your journey.
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C
Thank you. I think for me, I had clarity on my niche right from the start because it's what I do every day still. I'm still in the classroom full time. I'm hoping to reduce my stress by eventually going part time, but thank you. When you find that your main thing like Casey always talks about, it's so much easier to be true to what you're doing and have a vision and like endless ideas. I was on the plane back from Arizona the other day and my friend is sitting next to me sleeping with high school girlfriends. And I'm in my notes in my phone and I have like this huge page of new ideas. So it just keeps coming. When you have. When you combine like your passion with something that you're really good at and where there's a need out there, I.
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B
Think we can all attest to being that person on the plane or grabbing your notes on your phone whenever you are on fire for something and just being like, okay, I have all these ideas. But you mentioned, Tara, you mentioned Googling things. And I think that this is. This is a really important thing for everyone. And some people will tell you that everything in life is Googleable, so you can Google any and everything, which, you know, I can't really say that that's not true. You can Google everything if you know the steps you're willing to take. That's important. But ladies and anybody can take this. How would you say the CEO teacher programs took that thought of everything is googleable and made it kind of disappear with help.
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C
It's more of a linear process rather than finding little landmines everywhere. And so for me, like how do you know to google it if you don't know it's a thing? When I started, my materials were not protected by a password cause I didn't even know that was a thing thing like where would I have learned that? So I wouldn't even know to google it. So if you like to learn this step by step way, you need to go through with someone that has done it before that knows what those steps actually are.
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B
Yeah.
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D
And I to add on to that too, I was googling all over the place before I found the co teacher program trying to figure out what to do and I would get stuck. I try one thing and then I would have all these questions and I had no one to go to. The co teacher program solves that because I have a place I can go when I get stuck or I need a question answered or just feedback on a graphic or a social media post or my opt in, things like that. And it keeps me moving forward and not feeling like overwhelmed and stressed out because I have a place, I have a community I can go to and I have the coaching and support from Casey and Team Casey as well that helps grow me every single day.
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E
I feel like it's really cool too. Like, you know, if you just have one off YouTube videos that you're watching, they could be from a bajillion different people or coaches or presenters.
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B
Right.
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E
But I feel like I connect really well with everything that's presented inside our community because it's all done kind of through this lens of teachers. And so, you know, if Casey is showing us how to find good search engine optimization about something, she show she is using math centers as an example and that's something I can immediately resonate with. It kind of reduces my cognitive load, to use a fancy teacher term in the sense that I already speak that language. It's a common language we all speak and it's what's relevant to all of us. Having everything presented kind of within the frame of education. And I think that's kind of unique to our community too.
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B
Yes, I agree with that 100%. So we have a linear path in the lessons portion. You guys mentioned the community like a safe place to go where everyone has your back. And I will say that it is insane how active our communities are. They're both almost at 90%. That means 90% of our members are asking questions or answering Questions, which is insane because one of our groups has thousands of people in there, but it's a great place just to go and ask. You mentioned the community, you mentioned our programs, the lessons, and you mentioned the coaching. If you had to pick what your favorite part of our programs are, what would it be and why?
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C
I think for me, it's the coaching calls, especially early on, but still, even in the Level 2, having those coaching calls, whether you have a question or not, listening to everybody else's questions, and they're so relatable, and there's always actionable steps that come out of it.
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D
I say, for me, it's the community. This is hard, Casey, because the coaching and the community is, like, equal to me. But if I have to pick one, I'll pick community. And so the reason why I pick community is because I just get so inspired and my creative juices flow when I see other examples of what other teachers are doing. When I see those different posters, those different questions, it just makes me think, like, oh, I didn't think about that. Yes, I could try that and see how it works for me. So I would say the community.
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E
Yeah, I agree with that, with both of those, actually. I think for me, honestly, it's the accountability. And I know that's kind of like an ew word, but I feel like, Casey, you make it so easy to stay connected and stay plugged in. It's not just like, oh, you buy, you know, buy this course, and then you watch all the videos, and then you're done. This is a journey. And one of the things that you've said in the past that's really stuck with me is like, keep the long game in mind. Like, this is a long game. When that clicked for me, this became way more than just like a course I'm watching. It was like, oh, these are my people. This is my team. I'm walking with them. This could be years that I'm building this business from the ground up. When I chose to stay connected, to stay integrated, like you said, staying active in the community, it was that sense of, oh, all these other people are working on their things, too. You build on that energy. You feed off of that energy, and it kind of propels you forward and keeps you motivated.
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B
I loved hearing these responses. Thank you. Because the community's always been a thing, but the coaching calls have not always been a thing, and now they're consistent. And so to hear that even when you can't show up, just to know that, hey, I know that I have a call tonight. And if I need my people, then I'm going to plug into them and hear what they have to say. So that's so good to hear. And Courtney, you're really good with words. Like, every time I'm like, golly, that sounds so good. Like, it sounds like she practiced that. But you were kind of touching on your mindset for the long game and you were talking about how that really clicked for you. It went from I'm going to just make easy, quick money on teachers, be teachers, to now I want to really focus in on the long game. And so each of you have done that really, really well. And you don't have just one stream of revenue coming in anymore. How would you say that your mind, your mindset has shifted from classroom teacher to CEO teacher?
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D
I would say how my mindset set has shifted is when I was in the classroom, I was making a set salary, right. And that was my cap. And I wasn't going to make any more than that unless I went back to school or did additional jobs and things like that. And so I did. I went back to school. I got my master's degree. Thought that was going to summer school. I mean, I did all the things to make additional income, so I thought that's what I had to do. I thought that's what my life was going to be like. I was just going to work all these additional jobs and hope that I'll have the life I was hoping for. But then when I came into the co teacher programs, I realized I could have more than that and that I can have the type of life where I can use my passions and not be capped with a salary and have multiple streams of income coming in as well and work less hours at the same time, which is crazy to me. That's how my mindset shifted.
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B
So feel good feeling. Tara, I know that you share a lot with me behind the scenes because I'm your biggest cheerleader and recently you shared some numbers with me and we don't have to share those publicly, but to see that, to see that number and to hear that number that you made, you know, in a month's time from your membership, I mean, talk about a mindset, like, total, like. Because what Desiree said is true. Like this we're supposed to make X amount of dollars for the year and now we are complet. Just crushing all of that.
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C
Yeah. That has made. It's still. I feel like I'm still kind of coming along to how to handle all of that, like that, that change. So, Casey, you Talk a lot about having an abundance mindset and you recommend a lot of different books. And so listening to those audiobooks and really believing in that abundance mindset, there is enough money and goodness out there for each and every one of us. It's not a competition between any of us or between any of the people in the niches us. Like, we all bring our special flavor and perspective. And so having that abundance mindset kind of changed everything for me. And before I go into a launch or something, I literally will sit and say, I say I want to serve my people and there is abundance and there's enough out there for everybody. And I guess being constrained, like you said Desiree, to like a teacher salary, like you can literally look ahead and see when I'm 49 years old, I'm going to be making this much. Maybe it'll be a little more when they negotiate a new contract, but there you're bound. And now my love for travel and stuff. I don't have to worry if I want to go to Arizona with girlfriends and if I want to go meet my adult daughter somewhere, I'm like, I am treating you, girl. And just the experiences that having some more financial freedom has brought and not having that paycheck to paycheck worry. And it doesn't matter if it's at the beginning. My first goal of $250 a month like that at the time brought financial freedom. And now I'm like, I don't even have words for like the time I made in February is so absurd. It would be like half of a new teacher salary. It's not anything I ever would have could have imagined for my life. And I think that just keeps the fire lit. And also hearing from people about how your resources or products are impacting people around the country, around the world, like that fuels the fire even more than the financial aspect.
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E
That was how it was for me. I had so much more of this intrinsic shift that happened inside of me when people from those very first Instagram DMs, you get that say this content has been so valuable. This is really helping me do fill in the blank. It happens right there. It's this sense of a new sense of agency that you get, this sense of empowerment, this sense of my goodness. I'm tapping into something that can help me fully utilize all the skills and abilities and passion that I have on this scale that has no limit. It's just super motivating. And I think especially right now, in an age where at least teachers that I talk to and know well are often lacking motivation or lacking a sense of feeling empowered or appreciated or having an outlet to express themselves. This, for me at least, became that outlet. It was so freeing, and it allowed me to be creative and have control over the things that I was doing. And it's just a completely different feel from what I had spent years and years and years experiencing as a classroom teacher. I get to enjoy both of those settings now.
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C
Both.
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You know, I am so passionate still about both of my jobs, and it's awesome because I feel like my whole self is being fully lit, you know.
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B
That'S so inspirational to hear, you know that it's just. It's getting brighter and it's getting better. And being inspired is part of what keeps us going, I think, every single step of the way. Because we're not always going to have the willpower. It goes away. Just like with working out and with eating healthy. I'm like, nope, not going today. But I just force myself to go. I'm just like, okay, I need to go and be inspired by other people. I'll go to the gym and I'll be inspired. So each of you inspire me on days where it gets hard for me, too. Especially right now in this season. I'm working a lot, but I think about each one of you and listening to your stories inspires me. So I would love to know who inspires you in our community. I would love to hear if you have someone that you've chatted with on the side or you've partnered with who inspires you.
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C
Well, besides you. Because obviously you're the bright, shining star in this that we all. You're our northern star, or northern light, whatever you want to call it. But I have had a lot of side conversations with Beth hall, and I think it's because our courses were being developed at the same time. And so she always is super positive and she's on task like I am. She's an action taker. I really appreciated her support throughout developing my course that I launched last month.
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E
Just the past six months, encouraged by some amazing black teacherpreneurs who are doing their thing and shining so bright in this teaching space, particularly Ms. Jocelyn at ITeachcustom and Jay at Joyful Math. The two of them in particular. I'm gonna start crying. They're just. They are so full of light and.
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B
Joy with what they do.
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E
And every time they share something, I'm inspired and I learn something new. So I just want to give them a shout out because they're incredible entrepreneurs.
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D
And the person that I that inspires me is actually Kim. She's in our Level 1 programs, I do believe, but we were meeting almost every month a couple of times through Zoom and it was a group of girls and it was just so good to see. She's been doing the TPT store a lot longer than I was. And so she was giving me lots of good ideas of how to, you know, look at different sales, look at different products and how are they, you know, doing what can I change, you know, what can I add in my descriptions? And she was very positive and encouraging when I first started, you know, doing the digital products. She was very uplifting and just kept me going every month. So I would say Kim, well, thank you.
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B
I know they're going to be excited to be listening to this and hear a shout out. So I know that's special to them. So thank you for sharing. Who inspired you? I think that education took a complete turn during the COVID days. Would you all agree with that? Yes.
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E
Yep.
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B
I think the future of education just completely like stopped and it just changed everything, sometimes for the worse and then sometimes for better. And we all had to kind of rethink that. So this is not related to CEO, teacher or anything. I'm just curious, what does the future of education look like to each of you?
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A
That's a hard question.
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B
I was like, that's like, give me a one liner. But that's a hard thing to do. But I just am curious about your opinions on this because I think this is part of the conversation that teachers need to be having so that they can really prepare for the future of not only education and teachers, but also our children.
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C
I feel like there's more options. So that's a positive. That came out of a really, really terrible situation that we've all been in the last couple years. But I feel like the options, you know, we all know how to work Zoom and Google Meet and all of those things. And I feel like, at least for me at the early childhood level, so many more options for meeting with families and connecting with them and they're really busy, have lots of young kids. So to hop on a Zoom meeting for parent teacher conferences or to show them how to use a strategy with their child, it has really opened up things for them with that because we're typically not available in the evening, that's huge. I think something that's been difficult is just the stress level, like having to teach in so many different ways and it's constantly changing. And I've heard from Multiple educators, that this year is the worst this school year. And I completely agree it's been really, really hard and stressful. And I think it's going to take a couple years to get back on track as far as kids and behavior and things feeling normal.
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E
I think too, it's kind of shined a light on some inequities or just some of the disadvantages that certain student groups have historically had that I think have become difficult to ignore. That Covid really helped to reveal. I think that is an amazing, good, positive thing that needs to happen in education. The, you know, the idea of equity in education is really big right now. I know a lot of of administrator circles are doing a lot of their own professional development on how we can provide more equitable instruction to kids. And so, you know, that trickles down to teachers and kind of like what Tara was saying about just options. I think what goes with that is having options for how to teach kids that are different and have different needs. And I think teachers are building awareness of what those needs are and what are different ways that they can find solutions that work for individual students.
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D
Yeah. And so to add on to that too, a lot of kids, when it comes to not having equitable things, so technology I know, is a big piece. I know a lot of students didn't have a laptop or a Chromebook or access to Internet, things like that. And so when it went from in person to online and back to in person and, you know, kind of going back and forth, that's been a challenge, I know, for a lot of families as well, and teachers, how to communicate with families and how to make sure students have what they need, assignments and making sure they're logging into the zoom and that they're active and engaged. Trying to figure out how to engage kids online has been something that I know a lot of teachers have been doing professional development on and trying to learn how to do that. And when it comes to even, like, what I help teachers in, which is conferring with students, that's even different online versus in person. So things like that. I would say the engagement piece is one thing that's been a challenge for educators.
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B
I agree. And talk about the teachers for just a second.
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C
I think.
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B
I think that teachers found a little bit of free being at home and teaching. I think it was difficult, but I think that people's priorities started to really come back on top of them. And you're at home with your children and you started to realize that, hey, like, man, I kind of like being here and Kind of having maybe my own schedule. So as a teacher or just in life in general, I would love to know what does freedom look like to each of you? Because it looks different for everyone. Some people can say it's financial success, some people can say it's being out of debt, some. I think there's a lot of different answers here. But as teachers find more freedom as we move into the new age of education, what does freedom look like to each of you?
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E
I think for me it looks like sleeping in when I feel like sleeping in. I'm a night owl, so I like to have my sleep in days every once in a while. Being able to choose my daily schedule, do my peloton workout when I want to, you know, have lunch with my husband if I want to. Just that time flexibility would be so nice. After years and years of being locked to a school, they schedule that I think would be the biggest one for me.
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D
I say for me, financial freedom is my husband having time, more time with our son and not feeling like he has to work, work, work, work, work to provide for our family. I also think financial freedom is knowing where we're going to pay our bills, not living paycheck to paycheck and not being concerned about where are we going to get the money for X. So like we had our 10 year anniversary just this past November and we didn't have to be concerned about are we going to be able to go anywhere, are we going to be able to celebrate? But we were on a week long trip to Florida. Things like that is just an end time. I agree with you Courtney. Having time for yourself, that me time, that was definitely something I did not have when I was in the classroom. Just being able to just watch my favorite show, scrapbook do, decorate the house, you know, those are all things that I that give me joy. And just being able to know I can just do that whenever I want, like that's freedom to me.
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C
I feel the same things as both of you. I feel like I would love to. I found out I never knew this before. I work best in the morning. I never considered myself a morning person. But through the pandemic, not having to have a commute and all of that, I discovered especially when it comes to my business, I'm a morning person. So I would love to be able to work on that in the morning instead of the evening. And I also would love a slow start to the day and then get moving and get my things done. Financial freedom, of course. And I've reached a lot of that I've paid off all my debt. I've paid off my truck. So I am in a spot where I can say I'm feeling the effects of that. And now my next piece is I would like to retire early. That would be freedom to me is to be able to retire at least from the classroom early. How early? We'll see.
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B
Well, I wholeheartedly believe that each of you can have any of those dreams that you dream of. And freedom is for the taking in this day and age, especially for teachers. So I'm so excited to hear that. Okay, I've got one final question for you. You all shared about your journeys, you shared about your inspiration, you shared about what freedom meant to you. But I would love to know if you were going to give someone advice that's just getting started, that's listening to this, if you were to give them one tip or trick or something you wish you would have done, what would it be?
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C
Hmm. Mine would definitely be what Casey says. Action brings clarity. So I think a lot of times you get hung up on like, oh, I don't know, does this look right? Is this right? Like, just do it. And I think Casey's maybe seen, I'm looking at my wall now. I have big calendars and when I plan something out, I have it on post, its on there. And if it's on there, I'm doing it. Like you can be guaranteed that Tara is doing that on that day because it's that follow through. If you don't just do it. Like the Nike saying, just do it. If you don't just do it, you're never going to know what things you need to tweak or change or modify. So action brings clarity. Just jump in and do it.
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E
I definitely agree with that. And I had this analogy that came up as you were talking, Tara, of it's kind of like when you're ice skating, if you're just beginning to learn and you're kind of standing there and you're kind of scooting along, you don't really feel any momentum. You need kind of fall way more easily. Whereas if you just start moving forward, like building some momentum and some speed, you're like, okay, I got this right. It's so like that in our business we just have to kind of do it imperfectly but just to get started. And then I would also just say, you know, be patient and keep your, keep your gaze forward. Don't worry about what the person next to you is doing or how fast they seem to be going or any of that, like, really try to get your. Your mindset game straight as quickly as you possibly can. Build that confidence in yourself from the inside out, and that's really what's gonna fuel and drive you to keep moving forward in your unique business.
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B
Yeah.
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D
And I would say deciding on what your main thing is as quickly as possible, because that will help you to stay focused and you'll be able to accomplish so much more when your brain's not going at 10 different directions of all the different things that you could do. So that would be the first thing I would recommend. And then I also would say to write down what your big dreams and goals are. Like, where do you see yourself or your life in 10 years, five years, two years, one year, things like that. Because when you write it down, and I actually have mine posted right in front of me, when you write it down and have it posted somewhere and share it with your family, your husband, like, my husband knows what I would love our life to look like in 10 years so that you guys can support each other. But when you see it every day, it just helps you to stay focused and it motivates you because you know where you're trying to get to, if that makes sense. And so I would say write those goals, those dreams down, you know, make them into a collage if you want to, but something that you can look at every day to remind you of why you're. Why you're doing what you're doing.
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C
I love that you said that, because I need to go back and. And redo that now. Because I had. I think at first I found a little scrap piece of paper I had written down, and it was my ultimate goal, ultimate years down the line was to earn $250 a month. So I found that now. And then last year, I wrote down, I want to. I'm going to earn my teacher salary in my business. And I did. So now I. I guess I didn't think, what's next? I need to put it on my wall. I do. So thank you, Desiree. You're welcome.
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B
And it's not even of. I'm not enjoying or happy with where I am. It's just, wow, what about this life where I get to just dream bigger dreams and I get to the sky is the limit? Because I think that sometimes when you get stagnant, then you are always looking for the next thing. So just, why not just keep dreaming and keep going? So, man, you all have inspired me. I'm not going to sleep tonight because I'm going to sit here and replay this entire conversation. So thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Desiree, Courtney, Tara, I appreciate you spending your evening with us and all of the CEO teachers that are listening.
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E
Thank you, Casey.
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C
Thank you so much, Casey.
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B
All right, and I'll see you in our coaching very soon.
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A
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B
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A
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