204-Teaching in Higher Education with Charles Fournier
The Teacher Career Coach Podcast
Daphne Gomez
4.4 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | After leaving teaching because of some serious burnout, she vowed to build the community she wished existed when she needed it most. |
| 0:08.0 | She went from classroom teacher to an educational consultant, instructional designer, and six-figure business owner. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, she's here to help you achieve happiness and work-life balance, whether inside or outside the classroom. |
| 0:20.0 | Come join our discussion as we talk |
| 0:22.1 | about managing teacher burnout, career transitions outside the classroom, starting a side hustle, |
| 0:27.5 | and everything in between. Here's your host of the teacher career coach podcast and your new |
| 0:32.0 | personal cheerleader, Daphne Gomez. Hi everyone and welcome back. I'm Elizabeth Sudo and today I'm very excited. We're here with Charles |
| 0:43.3 | Fornier and we dive into his experience in education, where he is now, and his thoughts on the |
| 0:50.7 | state of education currently. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, welcome, everyone. Today, |
| 0:57.2 | we're super excited to have Charles Fournier with us. Welcome, Charles. Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:03.0 | Thanks for joining us on this lovely Friday. We love to kick these off by hearing about your |
| 1:08.8 | experience in education. Why did you get into education |
| 1:12.4 | and what did you teach? So I taught English and, you know, I got into education. I think for |
| 1:19.4 | the reason a lot of folks said I had wonderful teachers that I was really inspired by and just |
| 1:24.9 | I liked the idea of being in the classroom setting. I loved English and I also |
| 1:29.3 | really liked it of coaching. So I think especially as a young person, education was the track. |
| 1:36.3 | It seemed like I had a great time in there and I wanted to go back. And then I taught, let's see, I want to say 12 years, maybe 13 years in high school. |
| 1:45.6 | And so I taught in a small rural town in Wyoming and jumped kind of to another town. |
| 1:50.6 | In between there, I got my master's in literature and I taught at the University of Wyoming. |
| 1:55.9 | And now I have moved on from the high school setting and I am teaching community college. |
| 1:59.9 | So still teaching, still teaching English, but just in a new setting. |
| 2:03.3 | Thank you for sharing that. |
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