Kristin shares her entire journey from what inspired her to become a teacher in the first place to what caused her to want to leave teaching. She goes into the various routes she explored until she discovered a way to start her own online business. Once she got started, she was unstoppable! She talks about what it’s been like her first three years in business and how she went from zero to six figures and tripled her teaching salary.

• 1:21 | Kristin’s origin story: Why she wanted to become a teacher in the first place
• 8:52 | Kristin’s first few years teaching–what she liked and what eventually caused her to want to leave the profession
• 18:25 | Explorations into other career paths and feeling like she needed another degree if she wanted to be able to leave teaching
• 24:25 | Discovering online business and all of the incredible opportunities that came with it–especially the financial opportunities
• 28:37 | Balancing the opportunity and potential of online business with the risk and fear that comes from going out on your own to be your own boss 
• 31:25 | Mindset shifts from classroom employee to business owner boss
• 33:29 | Everything Kristin loved and didn’t love about being a business owner
• 39:35 | What Kristin would change if she could go back in time to when she first started her business

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