175- Prioritizing Mental Health with Lauren Pasquini

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Pasquini was an elementary school teacher and felt like there was and is a lot of shame and judgement cast down on educators for leaving the profession. She shares with us that it has been the best decision she has ever made for herself and her mental health. Join us as we sit down to discuss burnout, mental health and how doing what is best for you is not something to feel guilty about. Lauren is now an account executive with a major education publishing company. Find Lauren on Linkedin. Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:04.6	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.
0:13.7	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech
0:22.0	startup. Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,
0:28.0	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more. Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:35.1	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social channels at
0:41.2	Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Hi everyone and welcome back. Today we get
0:51.2	to know Lauren Piscweeney. And Lauren is passionate about helping others make these hard decisions to advocate for their own mental health.
1:01.3	Leaving teaching was one of the scariest things she has ever done.
1:06.0	And yet it has been one of the most rewarding choices she has made.
1:10.4	After walking away from the classroom, she's been on a journey to figure out her next steps.
1:16.5	We discuss doing what's right for you, staying afloat during this journey, and how the road
1:23.2	forward is ever changing. Hope you enjoy this episode.
1:30.7	Welcome back, everyone. Today we have Lauren Pasquini with us, and we're so excited for you to take some time out of your day and get to know you.
1:36.2	Welcome, Lauren. Hi, thank you for having me. Well, we're really excited to kind of hear about your
1:42.6	journey to where you are now. But we'd love to hear
1:45.8	what got you into education in the first place. So going back to second grade, honestly,
1:55.3	I had a teacher and we had this day where we got to pick a new name for ourselves, but then also pick what our job was.
2:07.6	And teacher's pet over here, I picked my teacher's name, her first name, to be mine.
2:14.9	And then I said I wanted to be a teacher.
2:20.7	And that's like as far back as I can remember I had always wanted to get into the field of teaching. I ended up doing the child
2:27.4	development route in college. So my bachelor's is in child development, which I loved because it gave me a lot of
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