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What does a TPT product made by a third-year teacher in 2014 have in common with one made by a 15th-year veteran in 2026? More than you'd think — and less than you'd expect. In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda and Jess go all the way back to their very first TPT products and trace how they've grown as sellers over more than a decade — what they've changed, what they wish they'd done sooner, and what they're surprised still works exactly the way it did on day one.
Amanda pulls up her original government simulation — a simple PDF that's been her bestseller for over 10 years — and debates whether to revamp it or leave it alone. Jess shares how her approach to product creation has completely changed now that she's a veteran teacher with 1,000 students and a paper allotment that wouldn't cover a single week. The result is an honest, reflective conversation about what actually matters when you're building a TPT store for the long haul.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's original government simulation as her Zoom background (backwards eagle and all), her Suzuki Celerio reveal from Uruguay, and Jess's giant green Band-Aid heart.
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TPT just launched a powerful new search analytics tool — and most sellers don't even know it's there. In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda and Jess open their TPT dashboards on screen and explore the new My Search Analytics feature together in real time, uncovering which keywords are actually driving traffic to their stores, which products are converting and which ones nobody's buying, and what all of that data means for product strategy.
This isn't a tutorial from someone who's already mastered it. It's two veteran sellers clicking buttons, discovering data, and brainstorming what to do with it — exactly the way most teacherpreneurs will experience this tool for the first time.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda and Jess's matching TPT analytics screenshots as their Zoom backgrounds and their live screen-shares of the new dashboard.
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Amanda hasn't posted on Instagram since September 2022. She still has 5,000 followers. She's still getting 70 views a month from people she's never met. So should she delete everything and start fresh — or can she bring it back from the dead? In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Jess (who went through this exact process over the past six months) gives Amanda a full Instagram audit and revival plan, complete with the one piece of advice Claude keeps giving her that she doesn't want to hear: be consistent.
This episode is for every teacherpreneur who built an Instagram presence, abandoned it during COVID or the TikTok era, and is now staring at a dormant account wondering if it's too late. Spoiler: it's not. But there are some things you need to know first.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's fuzzy winter jacket (it's July in the Southern Hemisphere), Jess's tank top in 110-degree Las Vegas heat, and the debut of the unnamed blue puppet with devil horns.
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She actually did it. Amanda sold her house, got rid of nearly everything she owned, packed a cat into a tiny carrier (which went about as well as you'd imagine), and moved her family from the Bay Area to Uruguay on a one-way ticket.
In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda gives Jess — and the audience — the unfiltered, chaotic, very real update on what the first weeks of expat life were actually like.
This is not a polished digital nomad vlog. This is an episode that starts with three false starts because Amanda's kid is yelling from the next room and Jess's blind, partially deaf dog with dementia is barking in Las Vegas. The bloopers stayed in because that's literally what life sounds like right now.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's Uruguayan flag background, Jess's Zoom conveyor belt, and all three false starts they refused to edit out.
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Jess went to TPT Forward 2026 in Las Vegas — and came back with a notebook full of takeaways, a renewed love for TPT, and intel that every seller needs to hear whether they were there or not. In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Jess debriefs Amanda on everything: the sessions that blew her mind, the data TPT shared about what's actually driving (and killing) sales, the platform's strategy for fighting AI search engines, and the emotional moment when she realized 60–70% of the room was still full-time classroom teachers — just like her.
This is the conference recap episode you've been waiting for. If you couldn't make it to Las Vegas, consider this your crash course.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's and Jess's TPT storefront screenshots as backgrounds — and compare their follower counts if you dare.
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What if every TPT product you've ever made could also be a book? In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Jess shares everything she learned from a published author in her sci-fi social club who created an entirely new genre of fiction, self-published it across multiple platforms, and built a business around it — and Amanda asks the questions every teacherpreneur is thinking: how hard is this, how much does it cost, and could we actually do it?
From Amazon KDP royalty splits to Audible's ruthless quality audio standards to the trilogy strategy that e-book millionaires use to hook readers and build income, this episode is a crash course in digital publishing for teacherpreneurs who are looking for revenue streams beyond TPT.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's e-reader background and Jess's science fiction club enthusiasm in full effect.
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Jess said she might not go. She went to Germany for a month. She was worried she'd come back with a "weird disease." But Jess is officially going to TPT Forward 2026 — and in this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, she and Amanda go through the entire 27-page conference guide, session by session, debating what's worth attending, what to skip, and how to make the most of three days at the Las Vegas Hilton at Resorts World.
Whether you're heading to TPT Forward yourself or living vicariously through Jess from your couch (like Amanda, who's watching from Uruguay), this episode is your unofficial conference companion — complete with honest takes on most of the sessions, insider tips from someone who's been to six of these conferences, and a sprinkle pool!
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TPT Forward 2026 takes place July 7–9 at the Las Vegas Hilton at Resorts World — and Jess lives in Las Vegas. So she's going, right? Maybe. In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Jess and Amanda go through the entire TPT Forward 2026 conference guide session by session, debating which ones are worth attending, which ones sound like recycled advice, and whether the conference is still valuable for a seller who's been to five or six of them already.
What starts as a simple "should I go?" turns into one of the most honest conversations about the TPT seller community you'll ever hear — covering the haves-and-have-nots dynamic at conferences, the role of generational wealth in TPT success, why the advice that changed Jess's career came from her very first conference, and whether blogging is dead in the age of AI.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's AI-generated entourage of conference-ready ladies and Jess trying not to sneeze on camera.
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Most people don't listen to full podcast episodes anymore — they watch the 10-second clip that got pulled from it. Welcome to the clip economy. In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda and Jess dive into one of the biggest shifts in content distribution right now and figure out what it means for teacherpreneurs who are creating long-form content but getting almost no traction from it.
Inspired by a recent episode of The Atlantic's Galaxy Brain podcast featuring Ed Elson on the rise of the clip economy, Amanda shares what she learned about why short-form clips have become the primary way people consume content — not just a promotional tool, but the content itself. She and Jess then do what they do best: open up Claude, research tools live on screen, and try to figure out how teacherpreneurs can actually pull this off without losing their minds.
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Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda in front of the Golden Gate Bridge for one of the last times before she moves to Uruguay, and Jess's wall of colorful books.
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You've built a course, a membership, or a year-long curriculum — but how do you actually get a school to pay for it? In Part 2 of the Selling to Schools series on Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda screen-shares the actual one-pager she created to sell her Empowered English Classroom course to schools, and she and Jess break down what goes on it, why it works, and how teacherpreneurs can use the same approach to get their offerings in front of principals — even if the idea of cold-emailing a school district makes them want to hide under a desk.
This is a short, practical episode focused on the nuts and bolts: what to include on a one-pager, how to handle purchase orders, why you should go through teachers instead of approaching administrators directly, and where the hidden money in school budgets actually lives.
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This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Listen to Part 1 first for the big-picture overview of selling PD to schools, pricing tiers, real contract numbers, and whether this pivot is right for your personality.
Watch this episode on YouTube to see Amanda's screen-share of the actual one-pager, her poppy-sized-head background, and Jess's brick wall vibes — plus an unexpected detour into Arizona mobile home real estate.
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