Referrals are The Cornerstone Method Of Growth For Your Tutoring [Or Any] Business When was the last time someone sent a referral your way? If you can’t tell me today, yesterday, or this week, then you are leaving money on the table and not utilizing a low-cost opportunity to easily...

If there is one thing I really don’t agree with in the educational field, it’s the use of labels. I think labels can be detrimental for growth, for learning and for being our very best. Labels can hinder us from growing, improving, and even succeeding in life. And I’m not talking about...

When It Feels Like No One’s Listening… I am… This was one of the things that I’ve been told made me a great teacher in and out of the classroom. I listen. Elena, an amazing 18-year old I once worked with, told me that most adults don’t even see her, acknowledge her, let alone talk to ...

When I was a teacher in a classroom I was given a mentor. An older teacher, who’d been around the block a few decades and was there to give me the support I needed as a new teacher. Or so I thought. A little back story is needed here. I did not plan to teach, never went to schoo...

Recently, I sent out a Scoop email about my mentor and his favorite question - Who Are You Being? Well, this question resonates in everything I… you… do. Who we are being determines our doing. See, if you don’t feel like someone who can be an awesome tutor, you can’t do the job of t...

Dear Trello, you get me. You really, really get me. I think I’m in love... I am a tech girl and I’m not. There is a part of me that loves gadgets and I won’t lie... When the new cell phones used to drop, pre-iPhone days, I was right there, the first day, getting the latest-greatest model. Remembe...

Why Teaching Kids How To Make Quick Decisions Is Important To Their Happiness And Not Just Their Future Success I just made a quick decision. Throw your hands up in the air, wave ‘em like you just don’t care. Yes, I’m celebrating. Why? I never learned how to make quick decision...

If you suffer from brain fog, I get it. It’s not fun. If your child does, well, yikes. Our kids should not be suffering like this. And bottom line, if we take a bit of time, we can make this right. As someone who has studied health and wellness (for fun and for necessity), becam...

I was never going to be a lifer. When I made the decision to leave my job in my fourth year of teaching, in the public school system, I was pulled aside by many. I heard things like: “Are you sure?”“What will you do?”“Why would you leave? This is the year you get tenure!”
“I thought you were a li...

So, you’re building up a tutoring business. Congratulations! You’ve gotten the courage to start sharing with people that this is what you do. And you’re excited. Sweet! Maybe you listened to my free 3-Part Audio Class on How To Start a Successful & Profitable Tutoring Business and put some of t...