Discuss early childhood learning, starting a business in a busy field, starting a marketplace, and solving new problems with Andrea Christie-David from Leor.

Andrea is a mother of three young herself and a Lawyer by profession. She is passionate about high quality standards of education and care and applies to Leor's operations.

She Leor to allow families the opportunity to access an innovative method of meeting the ever-changing demands of a busy family life and make life easier for everyone in the home.

Andrea chats about solving new problems, breaking into a crowded marketplace, and her early struggles.

Links mentioned in the show

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https://leor.com.au

Ashleigh is one of the driving forces of Rainbow Sky Creations, an Australian based store that sells teaching resources. Ashleigh gives a step-by-step rundown of what you need to do in order to sell teaching resources online.

Ashleigh (and her partner Alisha) are the duo behind the educational resource centre, Rainbow Sky Creations. Their journey began in Dubai, UAE where they met whilst teaching in an international school.

Since then they have returned to Australia, and are selling their teaching resources, along with managing a successful blog and social media presence.

Their curriculum aligned resources are designed to save teachers time and energy while still providing their students with the best possible learning experiences. Their philosophy is to keep it simple, creative and reduce, reuse, recycle whenever you can.

Ashleigh drops a lot of value in regards if you want to start selling teaching resources online, or even just learn a thing or two from one of the best, as she discussed would do if she was to start again. We also talk blogging, as teacher blogs are one of the biggest opportunities in the online space.

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Where you can find Rainbow Sky Creations

Website

Instagram

TPT store

Youtube

Facebook

Adam is a founder of OpenLearning.com, a social learning platform. Over one million students have joined courses, including the first massive open online courses (MOOCs) from Australia and Malaysia, where it is the national MOOC platform for public universities and polytechnics.

OpenLearning now employs 65 people and is headquartered in Sydney with its Southeast Asia head office in Kuala Lumpur. In recognition of the impact OpenLearning has had on the education sector in Asia, Adam was named one of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in the Consumer Technology category in early 2017.

Adam and I chat about a range of topics including

• The need for education to be social

• The 'new learning' processes we need to instil in our students

• 'Learning how to learn'

• The process of learning design

• The new 'Netflix for teachers' PD'

Where you can get in touch with Adam and other links

https://www.openlearning.com

https://teach.com.au/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambrimo

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The internal and external pressures on teachers is greater than ever. In a world where we need to seemingly do more than ever before, taking time to 're-fuel the car' is more important than ever.

Among a few other side hustles (which we discuss) Ellen Ronalds Keene is the host of the popular Self Care For Teachers podcast. Ellen and I chat about a range of topics, both business and self-care related such as.

• How to organically start a freelancing business

• Podcast hosting

• The 'tells' that you may need to focus more on self-care

• The steps you can take if you're burning yourself out

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Jane Thompson was able to turn her experiences with Coeliac Disease and "some of the most atrocious meals we have ever eaten in our quest to find good gluten free places" into a popular niche blog and become a local foodie celebrity in her home city.

Jane explains that you can leverage you local community in an online business, especially in your early days. From there, Jane goes into the future plans for Gluten Free Joy and how she is intending on growing her business.

https://glutenfreejoy.com.au/

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Megna Murelli started with a problem on where to buy her favourite spices in amounts suitable for the kitchen... not the restaurant. With that problem, she created a spice subscription model, which, over the years organically grew.

Megna now helps other budding food entrepreneurs to start their own food business.

Megna and I discuss so much about starting your food business, and also how to slowly grow your business.

Megna's Website: www.startyourfoodbusiness.com.au

Megna's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/startyourfoodbusinessaustralia/?ref=br_rs

Megna's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/startyourfoodbusiness/

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Yvette Salvaris is a teacher who has turned her side-hustle into a full-time business where she creates online courses and helps other course creators.

- Yvette's journey from teacher to online course creator

- Why you need to have an established audience before creating your course

- How to test your online course and edit on the fly

- Why face to face networking is still key

www.ethicaltrainingsolutions.com

www.vincemassara.com

www.vincemassara.com/toolkit

Johann Nogueira started like we all start, looking to teach others. With dreams of being a university lecturer, Johann became a bit discouraged by watching classes of dis-engaged uni students. As a side-hustle, he started an eBay store, which quickly turned into a highly profitable business

From there, Johann went from strength to strength in building a series of different businesses. Now, along with Johann's companies, he teaches business owners how to develop their perfect life.

Johann is incredibly gracious in his time and reveals his ten steps to building a business empire. Along with this Johann covers the following:

- How he manages his day

- Why it is essential to prioritise your goals

- How to network at events

- And a whole lot more.

www.businessauthorities.com

www.vincemassara.com/toolkit

https://anchor.fm/teachers-side-hustle

Felicity Dougherty turned her side hustle into a full-time hustle where she helps other small business owners manage their web presence and let her clients focus on other parts of their business.

With a focus on e-commerce, Felicity and I chat about why outsourcing your website is a good idea for someone with limited time.

For those DIY-ers, we also cover a lot of tips and tricks for how to manage your own e-commerce store including how to write product descriptions.

You can catch Felicity at www.smallsites.com.au

And you can see me at www.vincemassara.com

If you want all the tools I use for my side hustles, download my FREE ebook with all the recommended products that I love. www.vincemassara.com/toolkit

Keeta Williams went from communications to education, and back to marketing with her own business where she helps small business owners manage their web presence.

Hear how teachers can use their existing skills and knowledge to start a side-hustle.

Keeta drops some massive tips and tricks for starting your own business.

- Ways you can start small

- Always look for feedback, and how to act on that feedback

-Why it is important to fail early in business!

Check out Keeta Williams at www.keeta.com.au

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