S3EP19 The rest of my journey from teacher to teacherpreneur
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In last week's episode, I shared how I got started as a teacher, educational consultant, instructional coach, and author. This week, I'll share the rest of my story: how I got into (and out of) professional speaking, the new opportunity that changed everything for me, and what direction I'm going in next.
You'll hear mistakes I made along the way and challenges that forced me out of my comfort zone. I'll also share practical advice and inspiration if YOU'RE thinking about making a change in your career or just want to look for ways to impact education beyond the four walls of the classroom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3 episode 19 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized |
| 0:15.2 | for the week ahead. Today I'm going to share the second part of my story on how I |
| 0:19.9 | transitioned from being a classroom teacher to working as an instructional coach, curriculum |
| 0:25.3 | designer, and educational consultant. |
| 0:28.6 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:36.0 | Now if you missed last week's episode, I encourage you to go back and check that out first. |
| 0:41.1 | Episode 18 shares details of how I first got started in education and |
| 0:45.6 | began my career as an entrepreneur and I share some things that I've never |
| 0:49.7 | shared publicly before. So definitely start with that episode if you want to know how I |
| 0:54.1 | began building a professional reputation for myself online and made that |
| 0:58.6 | initial transition out of the classroom. In today's episode I'm going to pick back up with this story in 2012. |
| 1:07.0 | At that point I had been doing instructional coaching and educational consulting for a couple of years. I'd published three books, two of which |
| 1:15.0 | were written back to back. It had completely drained me and it was a little frustrating that |
| 1:20.6 | I had devoted three years of my life to writing books that I was only making a couple of dollars off of. |
| 1:26.0 | I mean this is something that the general public doesn't always realize. |
| 1:30.0 | The author of a book is lucky to get two, three, maybe four dollars per copy sold. |
| 1:37.0 | My margins were a little higher since I own the publishing company, but let's just put it this way, |
| 1:42.0 | the only authors who make enough money and book royalties to support their families are the New York Times bestsellers who make up for the low price point by selling in massive volume. |
| 1:52.0 | It's very hard to support a family as an author alone. |
| 1:55.0 | So, although it was exciting and prestigious to write books and they did give me one revenue stream, |
| 2:01.0 | it wasn't a major one. And I just didn't have it in me to keep |
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