Join me as I chat to Leanne about her transition from Early Years teacher to working for an educational publishing company. After leaving to pursue a Masters and securing some part-time work, lockdown hit and sent Leanne's plans into a spin!

She set to find a job and secured an interesting role as a video content creator for Twinkl and Leanne has been with the company for several years creating and editing videos for YouTube. 

Leanne talks about how the flexibility of the role has allowed her to complete her Masters, forge a path in voice over and write and publish her own children's books! 

In this episode we also explore:

• How lockdown led her to her current role.
• Finding more energy despite having several jobs.
• The flexible day-to-day of a video content creator.
• Balancing working from home and being part of a supportive team.
• Developing voice-over roles and building a portfolio.
• Writing and publishing her own children's books.

Links and Resources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Bugs-Leanne-Marie-Herring/dp/B08KH2K5ZM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sad-Santas-Leanne-Herring/dp/B09KN2QC9D
https://www.spotlight.com/7015-6725-1836

For plenty of FREE resources giving you practical ideas and next steps for leaving the classroom, head to www.adventuresafterteaching.com

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

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Join me for this interesting chat with Helen Woodhams as she explains her journey from education senior leader to working for the National Trust. Helen enjoys a varied day supporting multiple departments within the organisation and loves working across different estates and land-based projects. 

In this episode Helen shares how valued she feels and how she loves being part of a supportive team, focused on employee wellbeing. 

There are always a wide range of job opportunities within the National Trust and they recognise your transferable skills as a teacher. This episode is well worth a listen!

In this episode we also explore:

• The importance of varying your job search.
• Taking risks with temporary contracts.
• Opportunities to develop with large organisations. 
• The transferable skills welcomed by the charity sector.
• Being appreciated and part of a team.
• Finding volunteering opportunities.
• Making it work financially.

Links and Resources
https://www.nationaltrustjobs.org.uk/jobs/
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/volunteer

For plenty of FREE resources giving you practical ideas and next steps for leaving the classroom, head to www.adventuresafterteaching.com

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

Do you enjoy coaching and mentoring colleagues? Like evaluating curriculum needs? Perhaps you still enjoy training? In this episode we talk to Alison Dale, who went from Secondary English teacher to HR & Learning and Development professional.

Alison has worked for an animal charity, a large accountancy firm (where she created their apprenticeship scheme) and now in a large law firm. Currently studying for her Level 7 certificate focusing on Diversity and Inclusion, Alison shares her route into the industry and gives advice on the best training courses to explore. 

I genuinely believe HR and Learning and Development are two industries for which teachers have amazing transferable skills and I can't wait for you to listen to this golden episode! 

In this episode we also explore:

How Alison used a temping agency to find work in a charity. 
How her role developed into learning and development.
The differences and similarities between HR and Learning and Development.
The courses that she's taken (and those she'd suggest if you're thinking of a career change).
How she enjoys the variety of her day-to-day and what it involves. 
The transferable skills teachers should be highlighting for employers. 

Links and Resources
CIPD
Prospects Graduate Schemes

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

Isobel Kent has had a fascinating journey which began with a background in law and music, before running a school library. She explains her path to becoming an editor and proofreader and the courses and associations available to support you to do the same.
 
Isobel's company specialises in editing children's books and supporting authors to get their work into schools. We chat about the ups and downs of working for yourself, the path to creating a business that makes you happy and the importance of networking. 
 
If you have a love of language and are happiest with your nose in a book, this is a must-listen episode!

In this episode we also explore:

What proofreading and editing really are.
The professional bodies and associations which can support your retraining.
What the training course to qualify looks like.
How your teacher skills will help you!
The significance of networking from the start.
Employed opportunities vs working freelance.

Links and Resources
https://www.isobelkentproofreader.co.uk/

“Don't put too much pressure on yourself - you won't know everything.”
"I'm only going to do the things that make me happy."

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

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I talk to Susan about her move from teaching English and Journalism in a high school to retraining as a copywriter. We explore the course Susan took, how she secured her first clients and how her niche developed over time.

This is a great episode if you've ever wondered if you could make money from writing online and clearly explains the difference between copywriting and content writing. 

In this episode we also explore:

Finding the perfect copywriting course (3:30)

Getting her first clients (6:30)

Niching her business to clarify her services (8:30)

The best bits about working as a copywriter (11:00)

Challenges of growing a business (14:40)

The difference between writing copy and writing content (18:50)

Top tips when you're starting out (26:00)

Links and Resources
mycopypro.com

“You can't be shy about promoting yourself!”

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

I talk to Emily Mills who has been out of the classroom for 10 years now building her hypnobirthing business and private hypnotherapy practice. After her own positive birth experience, Emily trained as a practitioner herself and has niched to support mothers. 

In the last few years Emily has successfully franchised her classes and expanded to offer mindset support for mums in her membership and 1:1 coaching.

This is a really helpful interview for anyone interested in supporting new parents, mental health and building a community. 

In this episode we also explore:

Finding the "performance" of teaching incompatible with having children (2:00)
Retraining as a clinical hypnotherapist (5:00)
Discovering hypnobirthing and growing her business (8:00)
Niching to support parents and new mums (9:30)
Emily's decision to franchise and what to consider (10:00)
The business structure of Babies in Waiting (14:30)
Building an online community during the pandemic (17:30)
The challenges of being an entrepreneur (23:00)
Enjoying the flexibility to be there for her own children (25:00)

Links and Resources
Babies in Waiting

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

I chat to the fabulous Nikita who is the creator of the brand Story Sense. Nikita left the classroom after having her first child and when weighing up what to do for childcare realised there were no baby and toddler classes locally.

Nikita's classes are based around books she writes and provides early education opportunities, as well as lots of support for parents around issues such as feeding, sleep and metal health. Her brand is going from strength to strength and she's now franchised. Listen to how she started and her top tips for others wanting to provide classes locally. 

In this episode we also explore:

Finding a gap in the market parents were willing to pay for (2:00)
Building the business in the early days (4:00)
Niching her classes and creating her brand (8:00)
Writing books and how Nikita structures her classes (12:00)
Continuing her training to support parents (14:00)
The main challenges Nikita's faced and what she's learnt (20:00)
Her plans to scales by franchising (27:00)
Nikita's top tips for those of you wanting to start classes (29:00)

Links and Resources
Story Sense

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

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I'm joined by Joanne O'Connor who went from teaching Art to growing a property portfolio which allows her now to work very little day-to-day and have plenty of time for all the passion projects she'd been dreaming of.

Joanne is keen to share how other teachers can start to invest in property and create financial freedom for themselves and their families.

In this episode we also explore:

• Joanne's first steps into property renovation (2:30)
• Building her business while working (5:45)
• Creating her own pension (7:20)
• Learning to have more time (8:40)
• Teacher transferable skills for property development (10:40)
• A year in the life of a property developer (12:50)
• Creating her training programme specifically for teachers (15:58)
• Three top tips for want to be investors (23:49)

Links and Resources
6 Questions to Get You Thinking Like an Investor

Suggested podcasts:
How to Fail With Elizabeth Day

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

Ella talks to me about her interesting journey to retraining as a will writer and how this has changed her work life balance for the better. She explains the ins and outs of studying and choosing her hours to spend more time with her children. 

In this interview, Ella talks about the challenge of leaving teaching and we explore how easy it can be to look back with rose-tinted glasses! 

In this episode we also explore:

• Balancing leadership and family (2:00)
• Coming to will writing and retraining (4:05)
• Ella's day-to-day and how she gets work (6:30)
• Working flexibly around family (8:47)
• Missing the classroom (10:45)
• Using her transferable skills to train others (13:20)
• The challenges of leaving (15:25)
• Advice for anyone interested in doing the same! (20:10)

Links and Resources
https://thewillguys.co.uk/
https://www.willwriters.com/
https://www.ipw.org.uk/

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨   

I speak to Chloe Savage who has had a fascinating Adventure After Teaching retraining as a professional embroiderer! 

Chloe Savage trained as a hand embroiderer at the Ecole Lesage in Paris and the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace. Her work has featured on international catwalks with couture houses as well as in prestigious restoration projects. 

We chat about her transferable skills and how she adjusted to working online. Chloe's business is a great example of diversifying with multiple incomes streams and passive income including postal pack, courses and memberships.

In this episode we also explore:
Growing up in a house of tutus (1:00)

Her fascinating work with museums and National Trust Houses (6:00)

How Chloe uses her transferable teaching and leadership skills (8:00)

Ideas for providing extra curricular workshops and courses (11:10)

Navigating new ways of working and making networks (12:40)

Diversifying your income online and creating passive income (14:50)

Creating an income while teaching (20:00)

Links and Resources
Chloe's Website
Facebook Page

“Don’t underestimate yourself! You have an amazing skill set that individuals and companies are looking for.”

If you're looking for step-by-step support to find and secure a new job or start your own business, check out the Adventures After Teaching Academy which will help you successfully leave the classroom! 

Interested in exploring a career in Project Management? Sign ups for the September cohort of our Project Management Fundamentals course are now OPEN! Limited spaces available ✨