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

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Hi everyone and welcome back. This week we get to meet Leslie De DePas. Leslie needed flexibility and control over her time,

which teaching was not quite providing. Her job search led her to apply with a non-profit.

She did not get that role that she applied for, but did get offered a consultant position within the organization.

Now she started her own LLC consulting business and has control of her time and work-life balance.

Join us today to hear Leslie's story.

Well, welcome, everyone. We're so excited to have Leslie with us today. Leslie,

thanks for taking your time to join us. Of course. I'm so excited to be here.

Well, we can't wait to hear your teaching story and hear about what you're working on now.

And we'd love to kind of start this off by hearing about what got

you into education in the first place and what were some of your teaching experiences like.

Sure. I think I was always drawn to teaching and I dabbled in it a little bit in high school

and we got to do some, got to pick some projects that we wanted to try. And so I spent a

couple afternoons here and there with a second grade teacher. And I really enjoyed it.

And when I went to college, that was kind of in my mind, but I wasn't fully set on it until I

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