Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.

She started her teaching career in 2014.

She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.

So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.

Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,

addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.

Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.

Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast.

You can find us on all your social channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website,

teachercareercoach.com.

Today, we are joined by Christina Cruz.

Christina was an educator in middle school and served as a teacher in support to administration

during her time in education. She then went to take on a contract role at a major ed tech company.

With hard work, perseverance, and motivation, she moved up and was promoted to senior customer

success manager. She's now in her seventh year with

the company. Join us today as we learn about career growth and customer success and how starting

somewhere can be key to getting your foot in the door. Hope you enjoy. Welcome, Christina. Thanks for

having me. We're so excited to get to know you, and we love to start

these off by asking, how did you get into education in the first place? And what was your experience like?

When I was in undergrad in college, one of my first real jobs was coaching volleyball. So I coached

girls high school, like freshman in volleyball. And I just loved how in like such a

short amount of time, three to four months, I saw how much they grew and developed. And it was really

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