Teaching in a New Season

The CEO Teacher Podcast

Kayse Morris

Business, Marketing

5.0 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How to navigate a teacher transition with confidence and clarity

Stepping into a new season of life can feel disorienting—especially when you're facing a teacher transition that wasn't part of the original plan. Whether it's a personal shift like divorce, a professional one like leaving the classroom, or simply the realization that your life no longer fits the mold, one truth remains: you are not alone.

In this heartfelt episode, Kayse opens up about walking through one of the hardest seasons of her life—and how it led to the most powerful transformation in her teaching and business journey. You'll discover how the fresh pain of a personal loss became the unexpected doorway to a new beginning—and how your new season, whether chosen or not, can become the start of something beautiful through your own teacher transition.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why embracing a new season in life is essential to finding joy again as a teacher
How to navigate a teacher transition with intention, even when it feels scary
What it really looks like to rebuild after burnout, divorce, or loss
3 simple steps to get refocused when you're not sure what's next
How to move from surviving to thriving through your next teacher transition

Links Mentioned in this Episode about Teacher Transition:

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P.S. Check out our latest CEO Teacher® Podcast episodes and blog posts for more inspiration and actionable advice.

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I believe in you! YOUR best is yet to come!

Kayse 💖

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome back to the CEO Teacher podcast. We have done a little bit of reinventing
0:07.2	ourselves since we last hung out. This is our second show back after taking about a six-week
0:13.7	long break and we are coming back bigger and better than ever. But with a newfound excitement
0:20.2	and love for life, I'm trying my best to just
0:23.0	be me and not necessarily be podcast Casey or this expert that just teaches teachers how to create
0:30.5	an online business because in the midst of all that, I kind of lost myself. And today's podcast
0:35.5	episode is super real and super raw about what my life
0:39.0	has looked like behind the scenes for the last two years. If you're following me on Instagram
0:42.7	at Casey Morris, I'm sharing all of this in a real natural way, not with this podcast voice
0:49.2	that you hear. What if I just stopped doing the podcast voice, you know? I don't like it anymore.
0:53.9	It's not me. It's not who I am. But I just, I don't know. I just feel like this is a time where I am called to just be who God created me to be and follow the path that he's put me on. And I am finally in a new season. And I think that the words that I'm going to share today are, hope that what I'm going to share today can help somebody to know that whatever season you're going through, especially if it's a hard season, that it's just that. It'll just be something that's temporary and it won't last forever. I went through the hardest season of my life in the last two years. And in today's show, I'm going to get raw and real and emotional and talk about it. And I'm also going to talk about what I did to get better,
1:32.1	because in a way, I was sick. I was unwell. I was not myself. I lived the life behind the eyes
1:39.2	that people see, but I wasn't truly living. And I don't want that for anybody listening to
1:43.4	today's show. I want
1:44.4	you to remember who you are and maybe something I shared today can help you. So stick around.
1:49.7	You don't want to miss it. Welcome to the CEO teacher where educators turn what they already know
1:55.0	and love into a successful and sustainable online business. With actionable strategies, simple
2:00.7	business tips and mindset shifts,
2:03.0	it's a weekly lesson plan for teacher business owners, whether you're teaching full-time in the
2:06.8	classroom or rocking the small business from home life. I'm your host, Casey Morris, a former
2:13.0	Georgia English teacher, Momita Four, turned seven-figure online teacher business owner and founder of the
2:19.2	CEO teacher movement. Three teaching degrees got me a few extra bucks each year, but what I will show
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