Why are teachers EXCELLENT entrepreneurs? 

Why is starting and building a business a perfect match for teaching skills? 

And magic? What??! 

This week on the Teachers in Business podcast my guest, former ELA teacher and now AMAZING life and business Stacey Andon and I talk about ALL the reasons why owning a business is a GREAT fit for teachers. 

We share our own experiences at making this transition ourselves - the things that helped AND the places we've gotten in our own ways on the way to business success! 

Having a goal is a good idea, right? 

I mean...it seems like a good idea, BUT. 

Here's the thing. It's easy for goal-setting to go terribly wrong. 

And when it does, we get FRUSTRATED - it sucks to set goals and not reach them, AND doing this over and over again KILLS your confidence. 

Who wants to set themselves up for failure over and over again? I get it. I see you. 

And I'm here to offer you an alternative. 

This week on Teachers in Business I'm sharing how to set A goal - one goal - that will actually work for you. 

We'll talk about why having a goal matters, why I very much advocate for 1 vs. multiple, and how to think about this whole process of setting (and hitting) a goal differently. 

It CAN work, and it doesn't need to feel like banging your head into the wall! 

Teachers have a deep understanding of how people learn. 

And this understanding? This is a business ADVANTAGE (because if you've ever taken a boring course, you know that NOT everyone just gets this). 

This week I'm talking with Dr. Carrie Graham about creating effective learning experiences as a teacher IN a business. 

My business model is 4 words.

Nope, not 4 steps.

It's 4 WORDS.

Talk to more people.

Period.

This model is exactly what has created ALL of my business success, and it's ALL you need to create yours.

And yes, you're probably thinking "That's crazy. It's NOT that simple." - but I'm here to tell you it is.

The MODEL simple, but what you GET from the model is way more than 4 words.

In this episode of Teachers in Business we're talking about CONNECTION and the insane amount of growth/reward that comes from focusing the most simple approach to business there is.

Special Guest Alert! 

This week the AMAZING Deb Stanley shares her story of moving from the teaching world to the worlds of business AND book authorship. 

Deb is a great example of what it looks like to do it YOUR way, to make your own rules, and to find your way to clear purpose and consistent growth. 

She has created a business where she gets to focus all of her time and energy on doing what she LOVES - and you can too! 

Teachers LOVE learning...and so we buy a LOT of courses. 

Some of them we start AND finish, some we just start, and then there are the ones we buy and NEVER even touch - yikes! 

This week on the Teachers in Business podcast I'm going to share the questions I ask myself BEFORE I decide to buy a course (or really, anything related to my business!). 

Before you buy that next course, try these on and never waste money on a course that you don't need, won't finish, or that won't actually solve your problem EVER again!

Genius hour has long been a thing in schools. 

It's a tool to help motivate and engage students, and one that helps them build critical thinking, problem solving, and connection skills. 

On this episode of the podcast I'm going to make the case for YOU to have genius hour in YOUR business (spoiler alert: it's good for you the same way it's good for students!), and how exactly you might put it into place and create MORE GROWTH as a result. 

Conventional wisdom is to be patient, to let it all come with time, and to wait when we aren't sure. 

And I think when it comes to waiting conventional wisdom should take a hike. 

Waiting, particularly in business, is a sneaky progress killer.

It keeps us 'safe', small and NOT creating the life and business we actually want. 

This week we're going to talk about WAITING... 

I'm going to share a few of my favorite tricks you can use to notice when you are waiting and then three strategies that you can use immediately to move forward. 

No more waiting. Let's GO!  

Everyone needs a vacation sometime - even just a day or two - ESPECIALLY business owners. 

But if you own your own thing, and you wear ALL the hats, how do you walk away, even just for a day or two? 

This is a HUGE topic with my coaching clients right now, so this week on the Teachers in Business podcast we're going to talk about what you can do NOW so that you can actually take a vacation from your business in the next few weeks or months, and NOT drown in work either before or after as a result! 

One of the MOST common issues teachers in the business world face is that we PLANNERS.

In the teaching world, we plan weeks (months!) in advance, and have a clear path of what's going to happen when from the start of the year to the end. In the business world, planning FEELS productive. 

It's laying out all the details and the steps and the flows - it's AMAZING. 

But in so many cases this is OVER planning rather than planning - and there is a BIG difference. OVER planning is planning for perfect. 

It's planning from FEAR and need to control rather than just planning and then DOING. 

On this episode of Teachers in Business I'm laying out the differences between planning and OVER planning. 

Then, I'm sharing 3 SIMPLE strategies to plan effectively (without OVER planning OR ditching plans all together!)