182-The Value of Hiring Teachers with Denae Biscoe

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Denae Biscoe spent 12 years as a 2nd-3rd grade school teacher, where she honed her skills in communication, problem-solving, and leadership. Seeking new challenges and opportunities, she decided to step outside of education and pursue a career in sales. She began as an entry-level Sales Development Representative and quickly found her footing. After just one year, she was promoted to Business Consultant, where she leveraged her teaching experience to excel in her new role. Her efforts paid off with a record-breaking year, leading to another promotion to Senior Business Consultant. Today we discuss her growth and how her company reacted to seeing what teachers could bring to an organization. Find Denae 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.
0:13.8	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.
0:22.8	Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions,
0:27.1	interview prep, addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.7	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
0:41.1	at Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Hi everyone and welcome back.
0:51.1	Today I'm excited for you to get to know Denae Biscoll.
0:59.0	Deney was an educator who made the transition into sales.
1:05.2	She started as a sales development representative and was promoted to business consultant.
1:09.1	In this episode, we talk about all things growth.
1:13.8	From there, she received another promotion to senior business consultant. Alongside growth, we also discuss her company and how they value teachers. They actually
1:22.3	launched a recruitment initiative to bring more teachers into sales roles. So if you are interested in the sales
1:30.6	profession and interested in learning about Deney's journey, please tune in and I hope you enjoy.
1:38.6	Well, welcome back, everyone, to our next episode. Today, we're very excited to have D Dene Biscoe with us. Welcome, Deney.
1:46.5	Hey, thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us. We'd love to kick this off by hearing a little bit
1:53.4	about your education journey and kind of what got you into the education space originally.
1:59.6	Yeah, of course. So, you know, always knew I had a natural
2:04.0	pool towards mentoring and teaching, just even as a kid. And so it really just came easy to me.
2:11.2	And it was an easy decision to go into the education space. My husband and I, we got married young and started a family really
2:20.3	young. And so a teacher to offer, you know, not only the chance to get to spend summers with my
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