I was doing a lot of teaching for one particular project and getting a lot of work, which was great, but not brilliantly well paid. And it was quite a marathon from sort of November to June of teaching over about 300 hours in 10 different schools. I love teaching, but it was quite exhausting.
And I got to the end of two years of doing that, and was really starting to think, you know, This isn’t sustainable. Um, and I’d done a few training courses over the years in CLIL, and I did one which went particularly well. I thought, gosh, I just need to be doing more of this. This is much more sustainable. This is what I really enjoy. But I wasn’t really sure how to make that happen.
I think my big hesitation about joining the course was the financial investment. I absolutely knew that Rachael was going to be able to help me, but I was thinking, oh, maybe I can just watch lots of RU-vid videos and do it myself, um, rather than spending that money, because yeah, it did feel like quite a big chunk of my earnings at that time.
But I think it would have been a very long and painful process on my own, much less supportive, much less enjoyable. Um, and that money and that investment has got me to a place that I wouldn’t have been at without it.
This year, , my projected income is 25 percent more than, , than it would have been last year. So I’m already making that money back. And I’m really glad I made the investment.
I’ve been very lucky this year that there’s a lot of funding available for CLIL training, which is what I do. But I honestly don’t think I would have known about that if I hadn’t had my kind of feelers out in, in those networks. And people have come to me via my professional pages and asking me about my ability to, to do those courses as well. So, that’s been a massive change for me, as well as the kind of mindset change of feeling like a business owner.
I think I would say someone who’s thinking about working with Rachael, it’s definitely not a course that you do and you forget about, so doing the group program, it’s really, really practical.
You start making changes to your business straight away and you start seeing the impact of those as you go along. Rachael really, really knows her stuff. She’s incredibly supportive and perceptive and has this kind of realistic positivity that just sort of stays with you. I think I feel like if I come across something that’s difficult in my work now, I’ve kind of got Rachael’s voice there with me.
Don’t worry too much about the money and think about the benefits of taking part in a program that can really get you to where you want to be in an efficient and practical way.
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Hi, I’m Rachael. Like many people in our profession, I didn’t exactly grow up dreaming of working in ELT, but what made me fall in love with it was two main things:
❤ The opportunity to work directly with people and help them to help themselves change their lives for the better.
❤ The great colleagues I got to work with, as a teacher, teacher trainer, manager and materials writer.
Working as a business and mindset coach with ELT freelance professionals enables me to combine both those things, and to use the skills and experience I have to have a real impact.
One of the things I don’t like about ELT is the way that so many excellent professionals are underpaid, undervalued and scraping by. I also far too often see people working themselves into the ground. This might be OK when we’re in our early twenties with no responsibilities, but it’s no way to run a sustainable and enjoyable professional career.
I want to really challenge the low expectations, and culture of ‘having to’ accept poor conditions and teach ELT freelancers the steps they can take to make their businesses truly work for them.
I have: ⭐ 30 years of experience in the industry ⭐ 13 years as a successful small ELT business owner ⭐ heaps of training and coaching in running a small business, organic marketing and social media, copywriting and more …..as well as being a trained psychotherapist, counsellor, and coach.
This makes me ideally placed to empower freelance ELT professionals to earn more, work less, and live more fully. And that’s what it’s all about.
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28 авг 2024
