The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Nestor Cayanan is a software engineer but before he made the switch, he was a middle school teacher with a focus on theology. He taught through the pandemic and noticed he was ready for a change after the differences in education. Join us as we discuss hard skills, determination and how to be prepared for difficult situations. Find Nestor on LinkedIn.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you?Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Fuller is the founder of The Workflow Academy, a RevOps consulting agency + bootcamp to teach RevOps and CRM skills. Peter has been running his own business in this space since 2018. He also is an adjunct professor at a community college. In this episode, we discuss how to get your foot in the door with a career in revenue operations. Find Peter on LinkedIn.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you?Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Vandenberg is a former AP Lit & Comp teacher who transitioned to sales in 2022. She is currently a Senior Manager of Business Development. In this episode, we discuss her career transition and learn all about what it means to be in sales.Find Catherine on LinkedIn.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you?Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay Muller is a former 5th grade teacher who transitioned to EdTech in 2019, bringing a wealth of educational insights to his sales role. In this episode, we discuss how to stay afloat during the job search.Find Jay on LinkedIn.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carly Agar is a customer success coach, and she shares skills that teachers already have that will help position themselves for a CSM role.Find Carly on LinkedIn and at her website carlyagar.comFree Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach CourseDiscover more information about a career in Customer Success with Orchard: https://orchard.careers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former middle school teacher Kristina Cruz shares how, with hard work, perseverance, and motivation, she went from a contract role to Senior Customer Success Manager at a major EdTech company.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Gabriele Silvey shares all about enterprise sales, selling artificial intelligence, and the connections she makes between teaching and sales.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kait Evans went from elementary school teacher to Youth Programs Manager at a nonprofit that serves refugees and migrant families in Kentucky. Listen in as we talk about how teaching skills can translate to a nonprofit role and how Kait's work life balance has changed.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amar Kumar was a former school teacher in India and is the founder of KaiPod Learning, which is an organization that helps teachers start their own Microschools. In the past few years, Kaipod Learning has become the fastest growing Microschool network in the country, supporting dozens of teachers, and bringing their education dreams to reality.Learn more about KaiPod at kaipodlearning.comFree Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Reed has been a teacher since 1994 and a union rep for over a decade. Mary shares with us the basics of teachers unions, how they can help you, and how you can get involved.Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices