186 - From Teacher to Business Owner with Carly Clusserath

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Carly Clusserath was a middle and high school science teacher before leaving. She landed an edtech SDR role. However, a few months into the role she started to realize that sales, and really the for-profit, corporate environment, wasn't for her. She missed education and left that role to pursue education related non-profit roles. Now she owns and runs Carly Clusserath Learning. Join us as we discuss the first job out of the classroom and how she found her passion with running a business that has roots in education. Find Carly 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.
0:06.1	She started her teaching career in 2014.
0:09.3	She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:15.2	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations
0:22.0	manager for a tech startup. Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions,
0:28.3	interview prep, addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more. Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:36.9	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your
0:41.8	social channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Welcome back, everyone.
0:51.6	Today we are joined by Carly Clusscerus. Carly was feeling extremely frustrated
0:58.3	and undervalued through her rounds of job applications to non-profit and education-related roles.
1:06.5	Instead of continuing to apply for jobs indefinitely, she saw an opportunity to pursue self-employment.
1:14.6	With that, she's been able to build her own business.
1:18.4	Today we discuss alternatives to the traditional job search process.
1:23.5	Hope you enjoy.
1:25.1	Welcome back, everyone.
1:26.4	Today, we're super excited to have Carly Clusserith with us. Welcome, Carly.
1:31.5	Thank you. Thanks for joining us. I know you are currently traveling. If you want to share, it sounds like you're in a really neat location.
1:41.1	Yeah, I'm in Tito, Ecuador right now., did a couple of weeks of like mountain climbing.
1:46.2	And so now we're relaxing in the city before heading back to the States.
1:50.6	Oh, that's amazing.
1:51.8	I can't wait to hear more about that.
1:54.0	Well, we're excited to learn from you today.
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