185-From Teacher to Marketer with Alyssa Rowan

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Rowan taught elementary school before she decided it was time to make a change. She started upskilling with Aspireship and listening to the TCC podcasts to help her navigate her exit from education. She landed a role as a BDR and has now become a marketer for the same company! Join us as we discuss the first role out of the classroom and how it can really be a standing ground for growth forward. Find Alyssa 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, interview prep,
0:28.0	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.6	Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:35.2	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast.
0:38.3	You can find us on all your social channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website,
0:44.3	teachercareercoach.com.
0:48.3	Hi everyone and welcome back.
0:51.3	Join us today as we chat with Alyssa Rowan. She talks about her journey in education
0:57.4	and how her career path has grown since she first left the classroom. She entered into the
1:04.5	tech world as a BDR, decided that marketing was more of a fit for her. She became a marketing associate and now as a
1:15.0	junior marketing manager. We discuss how upskilling helped, networking, and how her work
1:23.8	life balance is more calm now that she's transitioned out of the classroom. Hope you
1:29.3	enjoy. Welcome back, everyone. I'm so excited today. We have Alyssa with us. Welcome, Alyssa.
1:36.5	Thank you for having me. Well, we'd love to start this off by hearing about your journey and
1:43.2	education and what that was like.
1:46.6	So I started off in third grade and I wanted to be a teacher pretty much my whole life.
1:55.9	I had family members that were teachers and in high school.
1:59.6	I did one of the courses that worked with younger students.
2:03.7	And so that's what helped me kind of get into it in college.
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