Choosing to Pivot Story Time! Teacher Business Ideas! - By Nancy Taylor
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| 00:0-1 | how everyone , it is nancy taylor here from hey | |
| 00:01 | , nancy taylor dot com . And on this channel | |
| 00:04 | you will see videos all about teaching online , growing | |
| 00:06 | your brand and becoming the best version of you . | |
| 00:09 | And in today's video , we are talking about choosing | |
| 00:12 | to pivot in your business or in your life and | |
| 00:15 | check the time stamps below because I'm going to be | |
| 00:17 | sharing stories , specific strategies and then examples examples of | |
| 00:21 | other educators that have chosen to pivot in their business | |
| 00:25 | and in their life . And I hope that you | |
| 00:26 | leave inspired and I hope you leave with specifics on | |
| 00:30 | how to implement these strategies and I cannot wait to | |
| 00:33 | share them with you . So with no further ado | |
| 00:35 | , let's get into the video . All right . | |
| 00:38 | Speaking of pivot , I could not get my camera | |
| 00:40 | to focus on my face . So we have my | |
| 00:42 | backup camera filming and I went and got this plant | |
| 00:45 | . This isn't it cute . So I wanted to | |
| 00:47 | start with two stories of a moment where I chose | |
| 00:50 | to pivot in my career and I hope that by | |
| 00:54 | sharing them , that maybe it sparked something for you | |
| 00:57 | and maybe it's a moment when you're choosing to pivot | |
| 01:00 | in your business as well . So the first one | |
| 01:02 | was five years ago , I was a mainstream classroom | |
| 01:04 | teacher . I would teach for maybe six months of | |
| 01:07 | the year and then we would have to move from | |
| 01:08 | my husband's training . So then I would teach for | |
| 01:10 | six months in a different school in different state . | |
| 01:12 | I did this twice . And the third movie , | |
| 01:14 | I was like , I'm substitute teaching . I'm not | |
| 01:16 | starting mid school year and I decided I need to | |
| 01:20 | start looking online . There's got to be an option | |
| 01:22 | online . So I started to choose to pivot my | |
| 01:24 | mainstream classroom teaching two online and it took over a | |
| 01:28 | year , There was a year where I was teaching | |
| 01:30 | as a contracted position and earning $13 a week . | |
| 01:35 | I'm not kidding with that contracted position . I was | |
| 01:37 | like , it's got to pick up , I have | |
| 01:38 | to do my time and then it will pick up | |
| 01:40 | . I was substitute teaching and then I decided maybe | |
| 01:43 | I'm going to apply somewhere that's not education and it's | |
| 01:46 | just online . I just need to work from home | |
| 01:48 | and this is when I was pregnant . So I | |
| 01:50 | was preparing to be home with my first child , | |
| 01:53 | Eva and I applied for , it was a reservation | |
| 01:56 | position for hotels and I drove an hour to the | |
| 01:59 | interview and I remember I did not prepare enough for | |
| 02:02 | it . I did not research customer service and I | |
| 02:04 | remember in the interview , one of my answers was | |
| 02:07 | I like to talk on the phone because it was | |
| 02:10 | a call . You would work as a call center | |
| 02:13 | , but you would do it in your home . | |
| 02:14 | I did not get that position and I'm grateful because | |
| 02:18 | it allowed me to continue searching and I was able | |
| 02:20 | to find the kid . So I started teaching online | |
| 02:23 | . I also found an online company , energy Up | |
| 02:25 | that teaches fitness classes and I started filming videos for | |
| 02:28 | them . And it was like , it was the | |
| 02:30 | pivot that I had been searching for and I worked | |
| 02:33 | and waited long and hard for that moment and I | |
| 02:35 | had doors closed . I had knows I had $13 | |
| 02:39 | a week and I did that for a year saying | |
| 02:42 | it'll pick up , it's worth it . I gotta | |
| 02:43 | pay my time . And so I'm so grateful that | |
| 02:46 | I took the time to learn and to apply into | |
| 02:49 | research position so that I was able to take that | |
| 02:52 | pivot so I could work from home . And it's | |
| 02:53 | been a huge blessing I've done that for the past | |
| 02:55 | five years and that brings us to a recent pivot | |
| 02:58 | and this recent pivot maybe you know the story . | |
| 02:59 | But in july my contract with the kid was terminated | |
| 03:03 | . It was such a huge part of my identity | |
| 03:04 | . I had built my Youtube channel , a lot | |
| 03:06 | of content was based off of the I . P | |
| 03:08 | kid . I had done tons of training . I | |
| 03:11 | had gone to their journey conferences . I looked back | |
| 03:14 | and I realized I am so grateful for that experience | |
| 03:16 | . I was able to learn how to teach english | |
| 03:18 | as a second language . I was able to learn | |
| 03:20 | how to teach online , how to build a brand | |
| 03:23 | , how to start doing youtube . I was so | |
| 03:25 | passionate about it . That was my vehicle , was | |
| 03:27 | here to teach others about it . So I was | |
| 03:29 | so grateful for that . And when this door was | |
| 03:33 | closed , this portion of my business was gone , | |
| 03:36 | I was able to take that same energy and poured | |
| 03:39 | into the other parts of my business where I coach | |
| 03:41 | teachers . I'm able to mentor them and it's so | |
| 03:44 | rewarding to see that they can take those skills and | |
| 03:47 | teach their students and I may teach students in the | |
| 03:49 | future . I know that right now I am very | |
| 03:52 | content with continuing to serve teachers , continuing to show | |
| 03:55 | up and build positivity and inspired . That is my | |
| 03:59 | goal right now . And so my pivot , it | |
| 04:00 | was not by choice necessarily , but it's how you | |
| 04:03 | choose to react . And I'm going to go over | |
| 04:05 | three types of pivots , pivot pivot . Who else | |
| 04:09 | is the heat of ross geller in France pivot . | |
| 04:13 | That's like the word of the air , right ? | |
| 04:15 | I'm going to go over three types of pivots and | |
| 04:18 | the very first one is choosing to play a bigger | |
| 04:21 | game . And perhaps you're a mainstream classroom teacher or | |
| 04:24 | an online teacher and you're wanting to build your own | |
| 04:27 | brand . Maybe you want to start your own Youtube | |
| 04:28 | channel or maybe you want to start teaching students under | |
| 04:32 | your own name , your own brand and you want | |
| 04:34 | to market yourself and have it all under your name | |
| 04:37 | , that maybe you're bigger game , whatever it may | |
| 04:39 | be . Maybe you're choosing to pivot to something that | |
| 04:42 | is bigger . There's a nurse that would often ask | |
| 04:46 | her patients , she worked with a terminally ill and | |
| 04:48 | she would ask them , do you have any regrets | |
| 04:50 | ? And one of their top answers was that they | |
| 04:53 | regretted not reaching their full potential . They regretted not | |
| 04:57 | going after their dream or really developing a skill to | |
| 05:01 | the best of their ability . So maybe this playing | |
| 05:03 | a bigger game , could be your step to reaching | |
| 05:06 | that full potential and stepping into where you feel called | |
| 05:09 | to go . That first pivot is a little bit | |
| 05:12 | scary scary to go outside of what you're comfortable with | |
| 05:15 | . Or maybe a comfortable paycheck . Or perhaps it | |
| 05:18 | could be comfort in your knowledge base . Maybe when | |
| 05:20 | you step into a bigger shoes or a bigger game | |
| 05:23 | , you're learning new skills and it can be frustrating | |
| 05:26 | and scary , but you still do it , you | |
| 05:28 | still do it . The second pivot is to refocus | |
| 05:31 | on your priorities . Perhaps you are able to take | |
| 05:34 | time to reflect and look and see . Where am | |
| 05:37 | I spending my time on myself with my family on | |
| 05:40 | my business or for my work ? How is that | |
| 05:43 | ? Is it out of balance ? And you can | |
| 05:45 | pause and stop and re prioritize and decide I'm going | |
| 05:49 | to write this on the calendar to have this family | |
| 05:52 | night , whatever it may be to refocus on your | |
| 05:54 | priorities can be a pivot where maybe you're spending last | |
| 05:58 | time teaching , Maybe you're not teaching as many hours | |
| 06:01 | because you're dedicating that time and energy to your family | |
| 06:04 | , whatever this pivot , maybe it also may be | |
| 06:06 | scary and this brings us to the second top answer | |
| 06:09 | that many of those patients answered and it was not | |
| 06:13 | spending enough time with their loved ones . And so | |
| 06:15 | maybe your pivot can be to refocus on those things | |
| 06:18 | that truly matter . And I hope that if you're | |
| 06:21 | nodding your head and saying yes , I needed to | |
| 06:23 | hear that . I hope that I was able to | |
| 06:25 | word that correctly to where you didn't feel guilt or | |
| 06:29 | angry at yourself but recognize that this is so important | |
| 06:32 | to develop those relationships and that time with my family | |
| 06:35 | . I am so excited after this video which took | |
| 06:38 | me a lot longer to film because techie issues , | |
| 06:40 | we're going to go for a family bike ride . | |
| 06:42 | I am so grateful for being able to schedule that | |
| 06:44 | into my day and to spend that time with my | |
| 06:46 | family . I am not perfect at this . I | |
| 06:48 | am not , I think that I would work all | |
| 06:50 | day if I could , but it's so important to | |
| 06:53 | me to keep that as a priority . So that's | |
| 06:55 | number two . Number three is to have a complete | |
| 06:58 | change . So let's say that you're in a job | |
| 07:00 | or in a position in your life where you're not | |
| 07:02 | quite content or you don't feel like it's as fulfilling | |
| 07:06 | as you wanted it to be . Perhaps you have | |
| 07:09 | a job and you choose to quit that job and | |
| 07:12 | start something completely different . A student of mine was | |
| 07:15 | an attorney and now she's a teacher building her brand | |
| 07:17 | and business . What could be that complete pivot that | |
| 07:20 | complete change ? Maybe in 2020 maybe you or a | |
| 07:25 | family member has lost a job and the choice wasn't | |
| 07:28 | yours to leave it , but it opened up an | |
| 07:30 | opportunity to develop a new skill to learn how to | |
| 07:33 | do something different that you wouldn't have otherwise because you | |
| 07:36 | would have been spending your time on your current job | |
| 07:39 | , use these as opportunities to step into a window | |
| 07:42 | a door , take that leap to doing something that | |
| 07:46 | is fulfilling and fun and it gives you purpose . | |
| 07:49 | The third top answer for the question , what is | |
| 07:52 | your biggest regret was that they wish that they had | |
| 07:56 | allowed themselves to be happier ? Are you happy where | |
| 07:59 | you're at ? I love the concept of even if | |
| 08:02 | this isn't where you want to say , maybe you're | |
| 08:05 | in the mainstream classroom and you long to be home | |
| 08:08 | and to work from home , Are you loving where | |
| 08:10 | you're at ? Are you appreciating the skills ? Is | |
| 08:12 | giving you the experiences , the relationships , the networking | |
| 08:15 | love where you're at , because it gets you to | |
| 08:18 | where you want to go , it gives you the | |
| 08:20 | skills and the experience to get there . And even | |
| 08:23 | if you don't want to stay there , maybe you | |
| 08:25 | are looking for a job in the mainstream classroom and | |
| 08:28 | you're not content with where you're at , but what | |
| 08:30 | are you learning ? What are you doing ? What | |
| 08:31 | skills is that current state giving you to get to | |
| 08:34 | that place ? So make sure that you love where | |
| 08:36 | you're at and choose to be happy . We don't | |
| 08:39 | want to get to the end and say , I | |
| 08:41 | regret these three things . I just wanted to highlight | |
| 08:44 | those , I think that they're inspiring and really helpful | |
| 08:46 | to hear , because how often do we pause in | |
| 08:50 | our day to day life and think about these and | |
| 08:52 | so we can implement them in our business , in | |
| 08:54 | our life and all that good stuff . Now we're | |
| 08:56 | gonna jump into some strategies for you . I'm gonna | |
| 08:58 | take you outside for this one . So let's go | |
| 09:00 | , hey , the good news is I can take | |
| 09:02 | you outside with this camera , it's small and I | |
| 09:04 | can just hold it . Hopefully the wind participates , | |
| 09:07 | but I want to go over three steps to pivot | |
| 09:09 | . So the very first one is to get the | |
| 09:12 | training . So if you want to change , let's | |
| 09:15 | say that you want to play a bigger game in | |
| 09:16 | your business . The first pivot , then purchase a | |
| 09:19 | course . Look for a mentor that's done , that | |
| 09:22 | follow the footsteps of those that have met that success | |
| 09:25 | that you also want to do . So make sure | |
| 09:27 | that you get the training for the second one to | |
| 09:30 | refocus on your priorities . Maybe you need to schedule | |
| 09:32 | out in the calendar family night or maybe it needs | |
| 09:34 | to be your morning routine . Have you established a | |
| 09:37 | morning routine where you start with your exercise , your | |
| 09:41 | spiritual , maybe meditation or maybe it's scripture study , | |
| 09:45 | whatever that may be . I love the morning routine | |
| 09:48 | , I live by that . It's how I fuel | |
| 09:50 | my day and I'm so grateful forward the morning time | |
| 09:53 | and then if you want a complete change , let's | |
| 09:55 | say that a job loss or maybe you're completely changing | |
| 09:58 | your career path , the law of proximity . So | |
| 10:01 | getting within proximity of those that you want to study | |
| 10:05 | and you want to learn from and potentially you want | |
| 10:07 | to do that job . That's how you're going to | |
| 10:09 | learn . It's the law of proximity , ken Coleman | |
| 10:12 | shares this and it's very powerful to know that you're | |
| 10:15 | interning , you're learning , you're putting in the time | |
| 10:18 | to learn if that's something you want to do . | |
| 10:20 | So make sure that you , number one Get the | |
| 10:23 | training . Okay . Number two is to take action | |
| 10:27 | . My kids are talking to the chickens over there | |
| 10:30 | . How often do we sign up for courses or | |
| 10:33 | sign up for a gym membership and we don't implement | |
| 10:36 | or take action ? So what is your action plan | |
| 10:39 | ? Is it in the calendar , make sure that | |
| 10:41 | you take action towards your pivot ? Oh my goodness | |
| 10:46 | . Oh my goodness . Oh boy . Number three | |
| 10:49 | . And the final one is to reflect , look | |
| 10:52 | at what you're doing . Are you enjoying it reflect | |
| 10:55 | and decide if you want to keep doing that . | |
| 10:57 | Is that the pivot you want to take ? And | |
| 10:59 | sometimes you do something for a year or less and | |
| 11:02 | it's not the pivot you wanted to do , but | |
| 11:04 | it got you to where you want to go and | |
| 11:06 | it gets you to that end goal . And is | |
| 11:09 | there an end goal ? I don't know , there's | |
| 11:11 | just always a path , a continuous path . I'm | |
| 11:14 | back inside . It was risky going outside . I | |
| 11:17 | got sprayed by the host . I had changed my | |
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| 11:41 | so you can check it out . I want to | |
| 11:43 | finish with three examples of teachers that have pivoted in | |
| 11:47 | their career and where they're headed and I'm so excited | |
| 11:50 | to share these . The very first one is teacher | |
| 11:52 | Haley and Haley is a yoga instructor . She also | |
| 11:56 | teaches mandarin and she taught in person and she was | |
| 12:00 | moving . So she was moving before the school year | |
| 12:03 | began and moved in the summer . Just recently . | |
| 12:05 | I met her in southern Utah as she was moving | |
| 12:07 | . She wanted to continue teaching and she decided that | |
| 12:10 | she was going to tutor and teach chinese online and | |
| 12:14 | she was going to do it on her own . | |
| 12:16 | So it would be on a zoom session and she | |
| 12:19 | had to find her own students . So she had | |
| 12:21 | a parent that was one of her students parents , | |
| 12:25 | yes , that she had taught the previous year and | |
| 12:27 | this parent shared in a home school facebook group she | |
| 12:30 | shared and said my child's teacher is teaching online if | |
| 12:33 | you're interested . Um she teaches chinese and so those | |
| 12:37 | that maybe are an immersion programs or maybe they're starting | |
| 12:40 | from scratch . Maybe they're like my daughter who's five | |
| 12:42 | and just starting to learn chinese , her schedule filled | |
| 12:45 | up . So she teaches in the morning slot and | |
| 12:47 | she does it all independently . It's all on her | |
| 12:49 | own . She creates the curriculum and by creates , | |
| 12:52 | she used as a program . If you're thinking I | |
| 12:54 | have to go independent , I have to create the | |
| 12:56 | curriculum , create the schedule . I would make it | |
| 12:59 | as simple as possible . Perhaps you can purchase the | |
| 13:02 | curriculum . Use a program that already works like zoom | |
| 13:06 | cal only the schedule you are able to teach independently | |
| 13:10 | even if you don't have a huge following , a | |
| 13:12 | huge Youtube channel , a huge email us , you | |
| 13:14 | can still do it on your own . I love | |
| 13:16 | that pivot where she was teaching the mainstream classroom in | |
| 13:19 | person tutoring students and was able to take that on | |
| 13:22 | line and I'll leave her information linked below . So | |
| 13:25 | you can check out Haley's instagram , you can go | |
| 13:27 | check her out the second teacher example , I want | |
| 13:29 | to highlight his teacher , Danielle and she is top | |
| 13:32 | for multiple online sl cos she has been a brand | |
| 13:34 | ambassador , a mentor has held a great leadership positions | |
| 13:38 | and she has great energy . I'll leave her Youtube | |
| 13:41 | channel and a video where she explains her pivot down | |
| 13:44 | in the description box . But essentially what she did | |
| 13:46 | was she decided that she wanted to coach those that | |
| 13:49 | spoke english as a second language and specifically business owners | |
| 13:54 | on their presentation skills in english . So she's helping | |
| 13:57 | them with their english but specifically business owners and their | |
| 14:01 | presentation skills . I love her story because there's such | |
| 14:03 | clarity in that specific niche and how specific it is | |
| 14:07 | . How does she find her clients , where does | |
| 14:09 | she go , how does she get started ? She | |
| 14:10 | found them on linked in , she went and set | |
| 14:12 | up consultations and then was able to figure out if | |
| 14:15 | they were a good fit for each other and then | |
| 14:17 | she was able to offer her coaching package and a | |
| 14:21 | lot of times I think that we're unsure , wait | |
| 14:24 | , I want to do this , but how it | |
| 14:26 | goes back to those three steps that we talked about | |
| 14:28 | to pivot , get the training implement , take action | |
| 14:31 | . That's what's so admirable about her story . She's | |
| 14:33 | taking actions , she doesn't know all the answers and | |
| 14:35 | she might pivot from there and learn things and that | |
| 14:37 | brings us to three is reflect , she's able to | |
| 14:40 | reflect on this one on one coaching and decide , | |
| 14:42 | well maybe I want to small group or maybe I | |
| 14:44 | want to do a course in the future , wherever | |
| 14:46 | that takes her , She's learning and enjoying the journey | |
| 14:50 | and I just think that her story is so admirable | |
| 14:53 | . I think it's inspiring and very cool to see | |
| 14:55 | how she was able to take that on her own | |
| 14:57 | and I wish her the best of luck , I | |
| 14:59 | hope it keeps going so well . The third teacher | |
| 15:01 | , I want to highlight his teacher Christina and I | |
| 15:04 | heard of Christina's story when she reached out in my | |
| 15:07 | direct messages on instagram , it was a couple months | |
| 15:10 | ago when I was going through lots of change my | |
| 15:12 | own personal pivot with my business and she spoke about | |
| 15:17 | her faith and a pivot that she took in her | |
| 15:20 | life and her story is she had been modeling since | |
| 15:23 | she was 15 and she had been doing it for | |
| 15:25 | 14 , 15 years and she got to a point | |
| 15:27 | where she was at the peak of her career , | |
| 15:29 | at the highest income she had ever met with celebrities | |
| 15:32 | on America's Next Top Model . I mean it was | |
| 15:34 | like a dream that's something you dream about and she | |
| 15:37 | said that she got to that point and she chose | |
| 15:39 | to stop and it was a change of her heart | |
| 15:43 | and the change in direction and she says that God | |
| 15:45 | put that on her heart and he put that in | |
| 15:48 | her mind that that's not where she wanted to continue | |
| 15:51 | to progress or continue to go . And so now | |
| 15:54 | she teaches young girls and helps them with understanding that | |
| 15:58 | it's not always the outer beauty and teaches about her | |
| 16:00 | faith . She does bible studies , goes to prisons | |
| 16:03 | with her husband . I mean it was a complete | |
| 16:05 | change in her path and look at how fulfilling and | |
| 16:08 | how it's hitting that full potential where she doesn't take | |
| 16:12 | any credit . If you talk to Christina and I'll | |
| 16:15 | leave her story . There's a Youtube video with her | |
| 16:17 | story . I'll link below as well as her social | |
| 16:20 | media channels . She gets all all Glory to God | |
| 16:23 | , which is beautiful . She does not take credit | |
| 16:25 | for any of it . And I think that that's | |
| 16:27 | so inspiring of how humble she is and in such | |
| 16:30 | a hard decision to make that she chose to do | |
| 16:33 | for that happiness and for that perspective . And so | |
| 16:37 | check out her story is really inspiring . I'm so | |
| 16:39 | glad I came across it and that she shared it | |
| 16:41 | with me . I was just blown away . All | |
| 16:44 | right guys , we are to the end of this | |
| 16:46 | video . Thank you for being here . I know | |
| 16:48 | that sometimes it's scary to take a little bit of | |
| 16:50 | a pivot in your business , in your life . | |
| 16:52 | I hope that you had to take away and I | |
| 16:54 | would love for you to share in the comments . | |
| 16:56 | Let me know which specific portion of this entire video | |
| 16:59 | because it was rather a broad overview what specifically resonated | |
| 17:04 | with you because I would love to dive deep into | |
| 17:06 | the details of that and have the specific steps and | |
| 17:09 | strategies . And so I really appreciate your feedback . | |
| 17:13 | Let me know what stuck out to you , what | |
| 17:15 | resonated with your heart and maybe the path that you're | |
| 17:18 | choosing moving forward . These videos are for you . | |
| 17:21 | I sit down and think about them a lot , | |
| 17:23 | ponder on them , pray for them . I hope | |
| 17:25 | that I'm able to deliver the message in a way | |
| 17:27 | that is inspiring . I get emotional when I think | |
| 17:31 | about you guys . So thank you for being here | |
| 17:34 | . I appreciate you much love make sure that you | |
| 17:36 | do subscribe . Like the video . It helps us | |
| 17:39 | out a lot helps us to keep making content . | |
| 17:41 | And it also helps us if you check out our | |
| 17:44 | shop , we've so appreciate it . We put a | |
| 17:46 | lot of time and effort . My sister in law | |
| 17:48 | , Amy is the designer , the creator and just | |
| 17:51 | the beauty behind all of it . And so I | |
| 17:53 | just want to shout , I'm so excited for all | |
| 17:56 | of it . So okay , much love . We'll | |
| 17:58 | see you guys remember to choose to be happy and | |
| 18:01 | you've got this and if your camera is giving you | |
| 18:03 | issues , use a backup . Bye guys ! |
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