After leading 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. 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 Williams. In this episode, I interview Angela Watson.

Angela is one of the most highly regarded productivity and mindset specialists for educators. In addition to being an author and a motivational speaker, she's also the host of the very popular

Truth for Teachers podcast. In this interview, Angela shares all of her best strategies for

making teaching a more sustainable profession. Hi, Angela. Thank you so much for joining us here

today. Hey, Daphne. Thanks for having me.

I have been a huge fan of yours for a really long time. I'm so excited and actually kind of nervous

to even have you on the podcast. But for anybody who's, you know, this is the first time they've

ever heard your name, I'd love if you just take a couple

seconds to introduce yourself and just explain why you're so passionate about helping teachers

manage their workload. Sure. So I was a classroom teacher at the elementary level for 11 years.

And I just loved sharing my ideas online with other teachers. I would go into message boards

and post links to things that I had done and systems I had set up. And as much as I was sharing

like logistics and routines and things like that, I realized that we were spending a lot of time

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