Hey there Reader,

On Wednesday I talked about the feeling of outgrowing your current container.

Of realizing all of the many skills you have been honing for years as an educator (some of you decades!) COULD be used somewhere other than your classroom.

So today, I wanted to share more about those skills and what it could look like if you “re-potted” them. (I may have outgrown this metaphor 😁)

Because it’s true that I used to think the only thing I could do with my teaching experience was… teach.

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That I'd only get paid for my time in the classroom (you know, but excluding all the work—and stress— I took home with me each weekend)
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And that my salary was capped at what entry level business majors make in their first year—even if I taught for the next 30 years...

And that I’d never, ever be able to… JUST PEE WHEN I HAD TO without either running to find someone to watch my class or risk returning to chaos and mayhem.

(I know it’s not just me, Reader.)

But…then I started hearing stories about other teachers who had figured out a way to use all of their years of experience and education doing something other than teaching.

As it turns out there are so many ways you could take your plethora of skills and use them elsewhere!

The truth is Reader, with your years of teaching experience and—for so many of you that I’ve spoken to—your multiple degrees—you’re an expert:

🪜 An expert at taking big, complex, "birdseye view" ideas and breaking them down into digestible, incremental steps so people can learn.

👈 An expert at understanding what the end goal is in order to then work backwards to make sure every skill needed is addressed and every gap is filled.

🥹 An expert at managing many different types of people at once:

• the ups and downs of your students' emotions
• the expectations of parents and colleagues
• the demands of everything everyone else outside your classroom needs…

And here’s the thing I want you to know—

Education companies are already paying people (former teachers actually!) for their expertise and experience.

(and they are paying them well 🤷🏻‍♀️)

👉 to write content marketing materials infused with a teacher's nuanced experience and deep understanding of what they would have wanted and needed from teaching tools

👉 to write emails and social media copy that appeals to the audience they used to be part of

👉 to interview teachers and administrators in order to write customer success stories highlighting the real growth happening with real kids in real schools.

I know this is true because I've done all of these things… and much, much more.

And if you already know you are ready to use your expertise outside the classroom Reader, I want to show you how you can too.

<<I’m thinking about offering a free webinar to walk you through some specifics of what you need to know in order to make a change like this— if you’re interested in something like this, will you reply with just the word “ME” ? >>

If enough people want this info, I’ll put something together in the next few weeks!

In case I haven't said it lately, I’m so glad you’re here.

Meredith