Kristin + Hillary share snippets of their personal journeys from classroom to online business owners. They discuss the mission of the Teachers Make the Leap podcast, which is to help teachers who want to exit the classroom explore entrepreneurship as a viable career path, and share personal examples of why they left teaching and how online business ownership has provided them with the lifestyles they were looking for.

• 1:14 | Motivations for leaving teaching as a profession, including financial constraints and a desire for a better quality of life
• 3:12 | Personal stories of leaving teaching to start online businesses
• 6:08 | Why Kristin and Hillary started this podcast 
• 7:08 | What “entrepreneurship” looks like for teachers who don’t think of themselves as entrepreneurs.
• 9:44 | Kristin and Hillary’s hopes for their listeners: To crack open the possibilities of what’s out there for teachers who might want to leave the classroom.
• 10:46 | Comparing what life is like now to what life was like as a teacher.
• 12:39 | The earning potential of online business ownership.
• 15:18 | The physical and mental toll of teaching, and the freedom from those things that online business ownership can give you

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