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. 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 left teaching, I waited until the very end of the school year and started applying right around April. I hung in there. I stayed until the very end, and that was a huge challenge for me. Well, I didn't personally break my teaching contract, I would be a pretty

big liar if I wasn't honest that I thought about it pretty much every day for that last, I don't

I don't know, like four months of the entire year. The truth is I didn't land a job until late June

or else I probably would have left sooner. If someone would

have offered me a job in mid-April, I don't doubt for a second that I would have taken it.

Things had gotten so bad with my mental health, and it was a toxic work environment, and so I

found myself breaking down daily on my commute to school just going there. And one day I remember

I had to leave abruptly in the middle of the school day because I started sobbing uncontrollably at

recess and I just couldn't control it and I knew I didn't want my students to come in and see me.

Leaving mid-year wouldn't have been an easy decision for me. I didn't want my students to come in and see me. Leaving mid-year wouldn't have been an

easy decision for me. I didn't want to break a contract. I didn't want to leave my colleague

scrambling. But honestly, me being in the classroom wasn't what was best for those students

either with the state that I was in. In this episode, I'm going to discuss the

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