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From teacher to now CEO, it is time to embrace your leadership role in education.

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As you transition from an educator to an educational leader,

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you're going to be honing so many leadership skills.

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You're going to be delegating effectively. You're literally going to get to drive your vision forward.

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So as you've dreamed of stepping into the role of a visionary leader in education,

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you already possess the passion, the expertise, the dedication to make a difference

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in the lives of your students. But what does it take to transition from teacher to CEO, to embrace your leadership

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role and drive your vision forward? Today, we're exploring the journey from educator to educational leader.

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Get ready to hone in on your leadership skills, delegate effectively,

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and truthfully unlock your full potential as an awesome, beautiful,

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visionary leader in the world of education today. Let's get it!

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Parents and teachers, the time has come.

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The time for us to gather together and create the ultimate learning environment

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for those of us leading the movement in education by creating micro-schools

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and and homeschool hybrids. Now introducing Micro School Masterminds, the one and only program for those

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of us who are dedicated to making a change and creating such incredible opportunities.

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Not only for our community, for our own families, for our own life.

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If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed and isolated in your journey of building

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a micro school or homeschool hybrid, Micro School Masterminds is here to support you through the fresh.

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Music.

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Finances, the wondering how to grow what you already have.

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Your answer is here. You've been asking for this and we've created it.

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Microschool Masterminds, the one and only ultimate solution to transform your

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dream into your reality. Boost your success with efficient time management, financial planning,

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strategic marketing, and systems and processes to streamline all your wild and

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amazing ideas so you can actually move the mountains standing in your way of

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your greatest to success. We know what it's like to struggle with analysis paralysis, financial insecurity,

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and marketing challenges in your micro school or homeschool hybrid.

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Music.

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That's why we created Microschool Masterminds, an online community with weekly

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support to help the beginner, current micro school owner, and the person who

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is ready to grow their existing business and mindset.

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With Microschool Masterminds, you'll receive monthly group coaching sessions

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with me, McKenzie Oliver, private support, community access,

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and weekly content filled with templates, videos, and printables to help you

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with all of your business building tasks.

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If you're feeling stuck in a rut, battling time management issues,

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needing clarity over your budget or your finances, if you're struggling to hire

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the dream team or craving accountability and inspiration, Microschool Masterminds is your answer.

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We've helped hundreds of teachers pave the way to their microschool or home.

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Hybrid dream. We've created 733% of growth in our own micro school.

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We're not letting stagnation, overwhelm, or miss opportunities hold you back.

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Act now and join micro school masterminds to unlock the tools,

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the guidance, and the community you need to thrive.

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Don't miss out on this chance to transform your educational business and secure your success.

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Visit teachersletyourlightshine.com slash masterminds to sign up today and lock

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in introductory pricing for life.

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Again, that's teachersletyourlightshine.com slash masterminds.

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I will be waiting for you on the other side.

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I literally did it again. Right before the music started playing,

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I said, let's get it like I did in the last episode,

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which really is an invisible, but yet auditory indication that I'm excited to be here.

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I'm excited for what's to come in the Teacher Let Your Light Shine community

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because we are literally a week away, a week away from the Microschool Masterminds opening up.

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I'm so excited, not only for you to get this information, like it is a work of love.

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It is a work of art. it is a work of my highest self.

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Truthfully, praise God, it is my highest self that operated in this realm.

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I'm so grateful to put it out into the world.

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I'm so grateful to have Lighthouse Learning, our micro school, out into the world.

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And I cannot wait for you, whether or not you've started your school or not,

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whether or not you're in the middle of just really transitioning from,

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from, okay, I'm a teacher, now I'm a CEO.

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I've been here for about two years, but now I'm hiring a team.

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What does this actually look like? It's big, it's huge.

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It's huge, you all. And it's worth a really great episode about.

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Because as a teacher entrepreneur, you have the opportunity to step into a new

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level of leadership, the CEO of your own educational enterprise.

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But what does it really take to make this transition successful?

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Let's uncover the key strategies. First and foremost, honing your leadership skills.

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Leadership is not just about managing tasks. It's about inspiring and empowering

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others to achieve a shared vision. That's why it's so important that you have

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your mission, your vision, your belief statements. You give that to the people that you hire. It's in your introductory packet.

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You take the time to develop your communication, the systems of operations that

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I just explained in the previous episode, help with decision making,

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problem solving abilities, investing in leadership training.

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And if you're going, oh my gosh, I just want to work by myself.

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I work really well by myself. I'm an introvert. Oh gosh, I just started this school.

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Now I gotta start learning how to hire people. Now I gotta get into this leadership

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role. Yes, you do. You do.

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Own it, baby. Get ready for it. Let it ignite you.

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Let yourself be heard. Let yourself be helped because you're not only helping

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other people when you become a leader, other people are helping you.

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You have so much professional development development at your fingertips to

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enhance your skills and confidence as a leader, especially if you join micro school masterminds.

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You're really going to learn the art of effective delegation.

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When you become a leader, you've got to learn how to delegate.

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As a teacher entrepreneur, it literally can be so tempting to try to do it everything

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by yourself because we're teachers, we're caretakers, we know how to run a classroom, we got this.

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But true leadership means trusting and empowering your team to take ownership

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of their roles and contribute their unique talents and perspectives.

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For an example, when my mother-in-law first came to work with me at our house

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the very first year of our micro school, I was just like, take it, girl.

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Take those kindergartners. Yep, take them.

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And I loved them. I actually wanted to teach the kindergartners more than I did the third graders.

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I only had kindergartners and third graders and two seventh graders,

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which they were on their own, more independent. One was my daughter. One was the the sister of another student.

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My daughter, Juliana, she was in third grade. I was like, please let me take

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the kindergartners because as much as I want to teach my own daughter.

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Yike-a-rumba! Yo! We are still together, friends.

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We are moving into year five next year and she still wants to be here. Praise God.

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I'm so grateful because I'm so glad she did not just want to run away. Let's just be honest.

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I mean, I thought I was a good enough teacher. I thought I was a good enough mom.

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And then I put them all together and I was like, wow, this is something I never

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thought I would have to do. But I wanted to. So here we go. Let's make the most of this.

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But I went to my mother-in-law. She was like, I'm not teaching third graders. And I had always taught third

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graders. But I was like, oh, I love the kindergartners.

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And she's like, but I'm really great at teaching kindergarten. I know how to teach sounds. And I know how to teach them how to read.

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And she just, she went with it.

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And I was like, Grandma Val, this is my mother-in-law. They got to know. And they got to know.

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And I gave her all of the things that they needed to know. And she's like,

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they're going to know more than that. And by God, they did. They totally knew more.

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I let her go. She was playing superheroes with them. She was making up worksheets for them.

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She was making up little note paper cards with stories with their name in it,

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with their specific sight words and their specific sounds.

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It was unbelievable. But that was her gift and talent. And I let her go with it.

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I did not need to boss her around. I just needed someone to help me.

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So I know what it's like to try to do everything yourself. And I was trying

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to market. I was trying to take kids on field trips. It was a lot. lot.

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But true leadership really does mean trusting and empowering people to take

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ownership of their role. Delegating tasks and responsibilities strategically, providing the support and

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the resources. I'm telling you, I had a teacher this year, straight up from public school.

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She was like, oh my gosh, this is like a whole nother career.

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And I talked about this on one of the videos I made in Microschool Masterminds

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is about my curriculum and how I quickly found out in year four that my curriculum

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did not align with my purpose and vision because my purpose and vision had changed for our school.

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So literally in October, we chucked our math and she found a new math program and just went with it.

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I'm like, get it girl. High five. Let's go. Yes.

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It does not need to be my way or the highway. Heck no. That road will come to a dead and real quickly.

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So I love empowering people. I don't think it's always come easy to just let it go.

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But I'm here to tell you that I'm learning real quickly that if we want to get

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higher and we want to get more impact and we want to get more bold and more

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courageous and more time freedom, we got to give things up.

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We have to drive our vision forward with passion and with purpose.

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This because when you are a visionary leader, you have a very bold and compelling

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vision for the future of education. When you share your vision with enthusiasm and you have this conviction and

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this inspiration for others to join you on this journey, it really does help

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you stay focused on your long-term goals. You get to lead by example as you work, sometimes tirelessly,

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to bring your vision to life.

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So one part of our Microschool Masterminds, one module is all about hiring your dream team.

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Now, when you get into Microschool Masterminds, you're not going to get every

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single little little thing that there is to know about a micro school or homeschool

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hybrid, that would be completely overwhelming. It would take you years to get through all of the information,

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but we've given you just the right amount.

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We've given you enough to get your satisfaction, to get your questions answered.

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You can get in, watch the videos, start downloading, start learning.

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And then every month we have our group coaching. We have our live questions and answers.

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We've got got our online community and our school platform. It's an app that

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you download and you've got all your modules right at your fingertips.

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You got your online community asking questions and it is going to be so good

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because we've got to hire a dream team. We do.

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We have to be able to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement,

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especially for people who've never been in alternative education teaching models before.

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So we get to encourage creativity. We get to to encourage experimentation.

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I had a teacher this year. She created our entire social emotional behavior management system.

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It is on fire. We're telling her, you've got to patent this. Is that the word patent?

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You got to put this on teachers pay teachers. Girl, you need to write a book

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about a year and make millions of dollars. She'd go to our Facebook page, Lighthouse Learning Microschool. It is so cool.

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I think I posted about it last week. It's about social emotional learning.

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Oh, oh, she's got a mailbox. She's got all these little stuffed animals.

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All the kids get them. They get to earn a crow.

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They got MVP. Even our middle schoolers are into it.

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Even our middle schoolers are into it. But I am so thankful,

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We have been able to embrace new ideas, new technologies. I would have never

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been able to think of all that on my own. No way.

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Order new curriculum. Find the new curriculum. No, I hired people to help me with that.

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Creating a safe and supportive environment. And then, you won't even believe this, in November,

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God brought me a curriculum designer that came in and designed our school's

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curriculum in the middle of the year to make it better and created this entire

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curriculum for next year, our integrated trades program, our careers pathway.

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Oh my gosh, our project-based learning.

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She's, it's like Jesus take the wheel, it's Jane take the wheel.

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That's what she's doing. And I don't wanna do that anymore. I don't want to.

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That's a part of becoming a CEO is I found other things now that I'm passionate about. I have.

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I love the admin side of running the school.

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I love popping into the classrooms. I love taking care of boo-boos.

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I love being able to hug kids if they're sad.

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I love being able to put together community events and open houses. That's what I love.

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Maybe you don't. Maybe you wanna hire someone to do that for you.

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What I don't love is the enrollment process.

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And I used to do that on my own. I hired someone else to do that for me.

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We've got a very good communication, very good system together that we work through.

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And she gets people, she gets their interest form, she gets their enrollment

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form, she gets their payments, she sends them the emails. I don't want to do that.

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I want to work on all the things that I love to do.

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I want to work on inspiring people. I want to work on creating a warm,

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peaceful, nurturing school atmosphere. I absolutely love marketing. I love being able to work part-time and still be

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able to earn an income, a significantly more income than if I were a principal in a school.

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And I love being able to do micro school masterminds. That's what I love.

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What do you love? Because whatever it is that you love, let me tell you,

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God will bless your courage and your passion to step out and do it if you'll

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release the control and you'll help other people step into their purpose.

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Empower them, give them the opportunity.

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Finally, leading with integrity and authenticity. And sometimes that's hard.

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Being true to yourself, not trying to be a people pleaser,

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not withholding your values your principles as you

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navigate navigate the complexities of leadership people are going to ask you

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hard questions parents are going to want things from you that you can't give

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them but if you build trust and credibility with your team with your students

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with your community and you demonstrate honesty i don't know transparency i'm

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working on it or no i don't do do that. Accountability, I'll get back to you. In all your actions, you will have true leadership.

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And it's not about titles. It's not about authority.

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It's about making a positive impact and leaving a legacy that inspires others

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and fuels your lifeline.

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When you embrace your leadership role in this area of alternative education,

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you hone your skills as a visionary leader, you'll not only transform your school,

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but you will inspire others to do the same.

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So you step into your power, you lead with courage and conviction and unleash

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your potential to make a lasting impact on the world of education.

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I'm so happy for you. So happy that you're even listening to this,

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even if you haven't started yet. Let me tell you, the road is paved in gold.

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Let's start thinking abundantly let's start

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envisioning a new life not just

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for students but for our own families for our world i

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love you i cannot wait to see you in micro school masterminds head

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on over teacherslayyourlifeshine.com slash masterminds parents and teachers

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the time has come the time for us to gather together and create the ultimate

16:56

learning environment for those of us leading the movement and education by creating

17:01

micro-schools and homeschool hybrids.

17:04

Now introducing Micro School Masterminds, the one and only program for those

17:10

of us who are dedicated to making a change and creating such incredible opportunities,

17:17

not only for our community, for our own families, for our own life.

17:22

If you are tired of feeling feeling overwhelmed and isolated in your journey

17:26

of building a microschool or homeschool hybrid, Microschool Masterminds is here to support you.

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Music.

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The wondering how to grow what you already have. Your answer is here.

17:45

You've been asking for this and we've created it. Microschool Masterminds,

17:50

the one and only ultimate solution to transform your dream into your reality.

17:55

Boost your success with efficient time management, financial planning,

17:59

strategic marketing, and systems and processes to streamline all your wild and

18:05

amazing ideas so you can actually move the mountains standing in your way of your greatest success.

18:10

We know what it's like to struggle with analysis paralysis, financial insecurity.

18:16

And marketing challenges in your micro school or homeschool hybrid.

18:19

That's why we created Microschool Masterminds, an online community with weekly

18:24

support to help the beginner, current micro school owner, and the person who

18:28

is ready to grow their existing business and mindset.

18:32

With Microschool Masterminds, you'll receive monthly group coaching sessions

18:35

with me, Mackenzie private support, community access, and weekly content filled

18:40

with templates, videos, and printables to help you with all of your business building tasks.

18:46

If you're feeling stuck in a rut, battling time management issues,

18:50

needing clarity over your budget or your finances, if you're struggling to hire

18:54

the dream team or craving accountability and inspiration, Microschool Masterminds is your answer.

19:01

We've helped hundreds of teachers pave the way to to their micro school or homeschool hybrid dream.

19:06

We've created 733% of growth in our own micro school.

19:11

We're not letting stagnation, overwhelm, or missed opportunities hold you back.

19:17

Act now and join Micro School Masterminds to unlock the tools,

19:20

the guidance, and the community you need to thrive.

19:23

Don't miss out on this chance to transform your educational business and secure your success.

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Visit TeachersLetYourLightShine.com slash masterminds to sign up today day and

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lock in introductory pricing for life.

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Again, that's TeachersLetYourLightShine.com slash masterminds.

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I will be waiting for you. Music.