After leaving teaching because of some serious burnout, she vowed to build the community she wished existed when she needed it most.

She went from classroom teacher to an educational consultant, instructional designer, and six-figure business owner.

Now, she's here to help you achieve happiness and work-life balance, whether inside or outside the classroom.

Come join our discussion as we talk

about managing teacher burnout, career transitions outside the classroom, starting a side hustle,

and everything in between. Here's your host of the teacher career coach podcast and your new

personal cheerleader, Daphne Gomez. Welcome to the teacher career coach podcast. I'm your host, Daphne Gomez. When I

stepped back into this role in August, I updated our mission statement just to make sure it was

really strongly emphasized what I have always personally been trying to achieve with this community.

I updated it to say a community sharing

honest advice for teachers considering new careers. And the reason why I want to really emphasize

that word honest is because the advice and information that I give sometimes might not be what you

want to hear. It might mean that you have to make a really

difficult decision or you have to go through something that's really challenging to get on the other

end. But I'm never going to be the type of person that tells you that a career transition from

teaching is easy, that the only thing that it takes is updating your

resume, because there are a lot of other components of it, and this is a really big hard

project. I know that you are here listening because you're not looking for easy answers.

You're looking for honest ones. And then you're also looking for a clear roadmap of what you can do with the information that you just learned.

So the biggest question that I've been asked is, is this the year to leave teaching? In today's market, is it actually reasonable to assume that I can leave teaching?

And I want to start with a disclaimer.

I have a lot of insight into behind the scenes, closed door conversations with companies. I've

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