Everyone on the internet says, follow your dreams, start your business, take the leap.

But what they don't tell you is that there's a lot of gravity on the way down.

In today's Q&A Wednesday, I'm going to answer Grant's question,

how did you make the leap from your job to starting a business?

And I'm not going to hold back.

I'm going to give you the raw truth, the good, the bad, the ugly of how I left my

teaching career and started my first business.

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My first career was teaching.

I was an English teacher.

I taught English as a second language.

My first five, six years, I was in the classroom teaching my students. But later on, I became a

manager. I was the head of department. And then I became the chair of my department at the

university I was working at. But education was my jam. I had a good paycheck. I had great

benefits. I had a long summer break. But all my free time was spent building businesses on the side. I was building side hustles, small experiments. Some made me money. Some didn't do so well and I failed. But I learned a lot in that process. Even during my long summer breaks, I would invest that

time into trying to invest in my businesses and try to become better at this game of entrepreneurship.

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