Quitting My Teaching Job & Going All In On My Coaching Business

It’s been a journey to this point sitting here, at my place on the oceanfront of the Gold Coast, and writing this to you.

4 years ago, I was an English high school teacher. I loved what I did back then. But I didn’t completely understand that just because a job was good, doesn’t mean it was good for me.

I had a hard time tussling with the programming I had in my head when I was questioning whether teaching was what I wanted to do …

“Don’t through something good away”

“Don’t waste your degree” 

“It could be so much worse”

I think a lot of young professionals have these thoughts because they are confronted by a workforce that is burnout, jaded & numbing themselves from stress with overeating, gossiping & political gameplay and don’t want a part of it. For me, I was one of those people.

As time passed, I isolated myself. I felt indifferent. I felt this widening gap that I saw was only going to increase and lead me to spend my 20s resined, disengaged & uninspired. 

Sounds pretty depressing … and it was … but there was still a light in me … a whisper of guidance saying “There is more out there for you Jessey”

So I knew I needed some help & I hired my first life coach for a 4-week program focused on gratitude. 

At the time, I was also going through my first real breakup with my first real love. It was such a mix of emotions that got me to deeply question “What do I really want?” 

I felt like it was the first time that I acknowledged me … my desires … and I felt a groundswell of ideas beginning to rise. 

I told my coach at the time. I wanted to learn more, I wanted to travel more, I wanted to live more. I didn’t want to let myself nestle into a life by default laid out for me by others’ expectations & opinions. 

I wanted to create a life by design. 

And that was the beginning of my journey. The journey thats has me sitting here now, with a thriving, online, global life coaching business that supports a life that I adore, I cultivate & I share with other conscious people. 

I remember my coach asking me, “What’s your worst-case scenario?” - if I was to go and pursue my real desires …

I said to her, “I guess I would just come back to teaching - what I was doing at the time” 

She looked at and me & asked, “Well … how does it feel to be living your worst-case scenario right now?” 

That rocked me to my core because I realised how little I was risking. I was playing it so safe. I was so unaware that I could go out into the wilderness of life & fend for myself. Learn, play, protect, hunt & gather a life that I loved.

I decided to risk more and over the course of a few years, I slowly started teaching less and coaching more.

2020 was the real kicker. I put together free group programs to help people stay accountable to their habits and it just continued to grow. From there I landed my first 1:1 client for $1,400 AUD … she paid in full & I almost lost my mind . I couldn’t believe that someone just signed up for my 12-week program … it literally changed everything from there. I had a piece of evidence that I could do this. I can go out into the wilderness of life & fend for myself.

Since then, I have just stayed the course. Played in my lane. And always always always just taken small brave baby steps. That’s been my secret. 

What I have done, and what my coaching does, is helps people stop outsourcing their decision-making process, but instead turn inwards, seek answers from their journal, meditation & inner compass to move forward with clarity & self-trust. 

This is the ethos of my next FREE 3-day challenge, Brave Action Bootcamp.

This experience is designed to help you channel your spirit of courage, clarity & commitment. We will be digging deep into your personal experience of life, and how you can to get more out of it each day.

It’s designed for depth with each member who joins & you can expect a space of conscious & creative people who are ambitious to live well, to live courageously & to prosper. 

Although this is a ‘free’ challenge, I don’t expect to hold back. You’ll be included in high-level coaching. I bring my expertise to help you have a powerful kickstart to taking bold action with a support group of people who get what its like to face uncertainty with courage, faith & trust. 

If you have any questions, sit with them yourself. Journal on it. Meditate. Then join if you feel the call.

I invite you to join using the link in the show notes. We start on the 19th of February 2024. 

You can join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/357649867054935/

See you in there.

Be brave,

Jessey