183-From Teacher to Founder with Lauren Farrow

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Lauren Farrow was former educator who has now dedicated her career to helping educators, parents, and students navigate a safe and successful path into a future of AI integrated education. Her mission is to inspire educators to see AI not as a replacement but as an opportunity to create a future where teachers and technology work hand-in-hand, and harmonize technology with pedagogy. Through Teacher To Techie, she provides PD workshops designed to bridge the gap between traditional teaching practices and modern tech advancements, empowering teachers to adapt confidently to this evolving landscape. She was recently chosen to speak at the FETC (Future of Education Technology Conference)! Find Lauren here: LinkedIn https://TeacherToTechie.org & https://teachertotechie.org/homeschool-consultant/ 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.
0:05.4	She started her teaching career in 2014.
0:08.6	She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:14.5	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role
0:19.2	and now works as an operations manager for a tech
0:22.5	startup. Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,
0:28.5	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more. Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:35.6	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social
0:40.8	channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com.
0:48.2	Hi everyone and welcome back. Today we speak with Lauren Farrow, who is a former educator who started
0:57.7	Teacher to Techie. She now works with educators, parents, and students to navigate a safe
1:07.0	and successful path into a future of AI-integrated education.
1:13.4	We discuss her transition out of teaching, how she still stays connected through her work
1:20.4	and through substitute teaching, and the ends and outs of running a business.
1:26.3	Hope you enjoy.
1:31.2	Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:37.6	Today, we are so excited to have Lauren with us. Welcome, Lauren. Hi, so great to be here.
1:46.3	Well, we're excited to learn about where you are now, but we'd love to hear where it all started. Can you talk us through your journey in education? Absolutely. So my journey is a little bit unique. When I started college,
1:53.8	I was initially on a biomedical track. All I knew at that time was that I wanted to help people.
2:00.7	I wanted to make an impact in the people. I wanted to make an impact
2:01.7	in the world. I wanted to make a difference. And so I was following the footsteps of my mom and trying
2:06.2	to become a nurse. And so I eventually discovered that nursing was not for me. And I took a couple
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