Kelsey reflects on the podcast's evolution and exciting upcoming changes in this finale episode of Wife Teacher Mommy: The Podcast. What is happening to Wife Teacher Mommy: The Podcast? Be sure to listen to next week’s episode to find out! 

Throughout the episode, Kelsey reflects on her journey from when she started Wife Teacher Mommy 10 years ago to today, from initially focusing on teaching tips and strategies to embracing life coaching to help with educators' well-being.

With a sense of anticipation and renewed energy, we bid farewell to Wife Teacher Mommy while welcoming a new chapter. Our upcoming rebranding promises an inclusive space catering to educators' diverse needs. As the podcast prepares to embark on its next phase, the values of community, growth, and continual learning remain at its core, serving as a beacon of support for educators navigating the intricate tapestry of their professional and personal lives.

Resources mentioned:

• Wife Teacher Mommy Club
• Educate and Rejuvenate Summer 2024
• May 13, 2024 Free Masterclass

Connect with Kelsey:

• Follow her on Instagram @wifeteachermommy.
• Join our Facebook group: Wife Teacher Mommies Unite.
• Follow on Pinterest for more helpful resources.

You are listening to episode number 126 of wife teacher

mommy, the podcast. Goodbye to wife

teacher mommy. Yes. You heard me right. I'm going to be telling you

all about it right now.

Welcome to Wife, Teacher, Mommy, the podcast. I'm Kelsey Sorensen, a

former elementary teacher and current homeschool mom. And even though I've been a

resource creator since 2014, I've realized that printables alone

aren't all you need in order to thrive as a teacher or homeschool parent. That's

why I also created this show and got certified as a life

coach to help you finally kick burnout to the curb and feel confident with whatever

challenges come your way. With the right mindset strategies and new teaching

inspiration, you're going to be well on your way to your best teacher

life. Now let's go.

Alright. Hello, and welcome to today's finale

episode of Wife Teacher Mommy the podcast.

This has been such an incredible journey doing this podcast with you

since March of 2021, when I started this podcast.

I have just loved this journey over the last over 2 years now. We've

had thousands of unique listeners. We have had over

70,000 downloads, and I have loved connecting

with all of you. And being here on the podcast, like I've said so many

times, it's one of my favorite parts about what I do. So you

might be wondering, why is it goodbye? Why are you stopping the podcast?

And, here's the thing, I'm not stopping the podcast, actually. I'm

not. I love it so much, and I love being here with all of you.

I love popping into your feed each week, and I love even more connecting with

you when I get to hear your responses to everything in the Facebook group, or

on our coaching calls. It is one of my favorite things. But, what

is happening is the evolution. It's the end of one era and

the start of another. So, let's talk about it a little bit. For

this podcast, and it's not actually just the podcast either, but for this podcast, when

I started it in 2021, I was not yet certified as a life coach.

We were talking mainly about different teaching ideas, how to utilize

resources, what to do, how to teach this, how to teach that, or

whatever. Went through a lot of those. And slowly, you probably

noticed over time this feed evolving from, like, teaching tips and

strategies. And now I do share things like that every once in a while. Like,

a couple weeks ago, I shared about, what to do instead of taking away

recess. So there's still practical education tips as well, and I bring on

lots of different experts. But what I've really honed in on these last few

years is, for 1, as you know, if you've been listening, I've

certified as a life coach. I've written a book called Educate and Rejuvenate that

is all about how to revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your

passion for life. And so really what my goal

here is now is not just to help you with some resources. We

still do that. That's not going away. I still wanna help you with

resources. But what makes us unique is that we are also

here to help you as a whole person. Because as an

educator, so many of us, we have big hearts. We wanna help everybody else around

us, and that's wonderful. That's why we went into teaching. We wanna help people. We

wanna help our students. We wanna help our own children. We want to help

our partners and all the incredible people in our lives.

But a lot of times we do things for others at the

expense of ourselves. We educate, but we don't rejuvenate. Right? We don't

take care of ourselves. And it is so important that we do that,

that we take care of ourselves, that we love ourselves, that we have self compassion

that they talked about in the self love challenge. If you missed that, please go

back and listen to it from back in February, by the way.

Lots of the core concepts that I teach over there. But what I really want

you to know is that this podcast has changed over time, and I have changed

over these last 2 years. I've started that as a coach. I've really dove

in into psychology, both of my certification. Dove in, that's not a word.

But you know what I mean? I really went into psychology. I read every single

self help book I could get my hands on about a book a week over

the last year. And I wrote my own book, and really

writing the book was almost I've told my team and other people, I almost learned

even more from that than doing my own certification because did do a lot of

research. I had to cite every source, and I really had to dig deep

within myself to write this book so I could support you

in the best way. Because what I am here to do is to help you

have an inner transformation that starts from within. That

you can understand yourself and what you need

even better. So you can let your light shine

to the world, to your students, to your children, wherever it is for

you. However you teach, whatever kind of educator. I'm here to help elementary

teachers, home school parents, principals, paraprofessionals,

school counselors, professors, whatever you teach.

No matter what, these same principles will apply to you. So

that is really the reason we are ending this era of wife teacher mommy.

And another one is because, when I

named it wife teacher mommy Okay. Let's just rewind a little bit because

again, this isn't only the end of wife teacher mommy the podcast.

This is the end of wife teacher mommy as we know

it. So when I created wife teacher mommy, it was 10 years

ago. I thought I was just taking a short break from teaching

while I had my baby, and I substitute taught. And I was hoping

that between a substitute teaching and guitar

lessons and starting a little TPT store. That between those

three things, I could help cover our mortgage, which is laughable now

because it was $775 for our mortgage. There's no way

you could get that on that house now, but that was where we were at

at the time. Man, 2012 until now, pretty crazy when we got that

house. But beside the point, this is not a real estate podcast.

But really, I just started the TPT on a whim. I

started my TPT store. And that's how it all started with teachers pay teachers, with

just me subbing and being like, I'm gonna make some sub plans that I can

take with me when I sub in case there's not enough, and then I can

also put them online so other teachers can benefit from them as well. And they

didn't think much of it. Like I shared in a recent side hustle call in

the club, like, I made $0 my 1st month, and then the next month I

made, like, $40, and the next month I made, like, 30. And I took that

whole everything I made and put it to do the TPT premium so I could

upgrade that and really go all in with it. But the reason I called it

wife, teacher, mommy is because I was like, oh, I'm a wife, then

it was a teacher, and then it was a mommy. Again, I had a 7

month old. I was so excited I'd just become a mom, so I called it

wife, teacher, mommy. And and it was fine because

it was about me. Right? A lot of people use just their own name for

teachers, pay teachers. Or they use like the state they're from. Or they, you know,

describe something about themselves like caffeine or they love coffee or whatever. And it's not

like meaning that everybody who buys from them needs to be that. Right? But since

we've expanded, we have our membership, like wife teacher mommy club. It's kind of

like putting that name on everyone. And the podcast, wife teacher

mommy the podcast. A lot of people are thinking they need to be a wife,

they need to be a mommy in order to benefit from this podcast. What about

all the guys out there? What about the single moms? If I have people,

like, comment, oh, I'm a single mom so this isn't for me, and it is

for you. It absolutely is. Or you have no children or you're not

partnered with anyone. It doesn't matter. All that matters is

that you are an educator of some type, and you want to up level

your life. And so we wanted to have a new name that makes it

more clear for everybody, more inclusive for everybody that no matter

who you are, whether you like, again, those other factors don't necessarily

matter. If you are educating, whether it's at your kitchen table, homeschooling your kids,

whether it is in a traditional classroom, or online, or adults at

college, whoever you are teaching. These

principles will still apply to you to help you to live your

best life. So the new name that we're going to have and really the full

evolution of the company that is going to reflect this, and lots

of big things coming like the book. We have an app coming. We

have so many exciting things. It is all going to

be coming under this new name that we are going to announce next week,

and the podcast will be changing accordingly. So

in 1 week you will get to find out. Now, if you're listening live it'll

be a 1 week, if you're not you might be like, oh, I already know

what it is. But I will be announcing it live

on May 13th on a free master class that I am teaching, and there'll be

lots of giveaways. It's gonna be a really fun time. So I would love

you to come join me live. The link will be in the show notes to

this episode, so you can sign up for that master class. I'll be teaching

my full 3 step coaching framework that I've been

teaching to our members, and they've been having a lot of success with it. And

then I'm also going over in my book really in-depth. In my book, it'll be

more in-depth than I've ever taught anywhere. But you don't have to wait for

that book. You can come to the master class next week. And if you miss

it, we will be putting the master class on the podcast, once I've done it

as well. And if you're still listening, I just want to thank you for being

here along this journey with me. And again, this isn't an end. This

is the start of something new. Okay. And now I wanna sing that High School

Musical song. Hello fellow millennials. But I am just

so grateful for all of you who've been along the way. Everyone I met, some

of you have been here since the very beginning, since episode 1, and you were

so excited to listen. Others of you joined us somewhere along the way or

maybe you even hit play on this episode for the first time. No matter what,

I'm just so grateful for you for being a part of this

journey. There have been so there have been tears and heartache behind the

scenes with struggles and stressors and also a lot of love

and excitement and all the different things going on. And I share about more of

this in my book, but we'll just say building a company isn't the easiest thing,

but it is so worth it because of all the educators, all the

incredible people that I've been able to connect with along the way in our team.

And I'm holding space for all of this gratitude and

love that we've built together while walking into a future of what

this work will be as it continues to evolve. As my favorite

artist, Taylor Swift, would say, it is not the end of an era, but

the start of an age. We are just getting started with the

work we will do together here in this space. I am not going

anywhere. But what you are witnessing right here, right now with the shift of the

work I'm doing here with you in the in this company here is the

same thing we all experience in our lives day to day.

One of the big things I talk about in my upcoming book, educate and rejuvenate

is us getting really clear on what we really want.

So many of us, we don't actually know. In my book, I

even joke about this in the notebook. You know that scene with Rachel McAdams' character

and Ryan Gosling's character where he's like, what do you want?

And she's just like, it's not that simple. What do you

want? I I don't know. And she just doesn't know. Right? And

that's really what it is a lot of times in our lives too. We're

so busy going about our day to day lives. The most common answer I see

on a coaching call a lot of what we do on coaching calls as coaches

is we ask you questions to try to help you see what's going on

inside your mind. And one of the really common answers is I don't

know. And it's totally okay to have that answer. There's I'm not

here to shame you about that. But what I believe is that you do know

it is within you, but it might be buried deep inside, and it might take

some time to figure out what it is that you truly want and some conscious

effort, and that's what I'm here to help you do on the podcast. So here's

something you could think about. Just I wanna make sure this episode was actually useful

for you today. As what I've been doing while I've been creating this shift in

my company is really focusing on what do I want and not only what do

I want, but what do I want to help people with? How do

I want to serve? How do I want to show up for everybody who's

here at this podcast or listening to a coaching replay

or coming to our educate and rejuvenate event. What do I want to be able

to give to them? So I want you to do that same thing. I want

you to think what is it you want to create in your life? Do you

want more joy in your teaching? Do you want more abundance? Do you want more

peace? Less anxiety and burnout? Or are you yearning

for like a more creative outlet or just time to sit and read?

What is it that will renew your spirit or reignite that passion for teaching

and life that was once lit but might be a little bit burned out right

now? Especially, as we're at the end of the school year. Right? We know the

end of your fatigue can definitely start coming in a little bit

more. And that's when we just need to figure out what that is, which

don't worry, I'll continue to support here right here on this podcast

feed. And you can just continue to think on it. Just having a question

in your mind, continuing to ponder on it and journal on it a little bit,

even if you just write a little bit, your brain will continue to work on

that question and continue to try to be like, oh, what is it? Because our

brain, like I mentioned on the vision board episode, if you haven't listened to

that go back on the feed and listen to the vision board episode. But,

our selective attention or our reticular activating system, it

really tries to focus on what we're focused on. Right? That's

why like if we're shopping for cars we notice that car more often. So if

you ask yourself a question, your brain will really try to get to that answer.

So that's when we just need to figure out what it is. And

I'll continue to support you on the feed and support you through

all of it. Again, I'm not here to ask you any questions or do anything

I'm not willing to do. So that's why I can speak so much to this.

I've been going through that process and still working on it in my

personal and professional life. And, honestly, the entire process

of writing a book has led to this shift in our brand, in our

messaging, in my coaching that you'll continue to see starting

next week. I'm so excited about what's to come. 10

years in and we're just getting started.

And I feel like a beginner all over again and I love it. And so

you can feel like a beginner again too wherever you're at. I'm learning so much

and I can't wait to continue our professional development

meets personal development journey together. And I can't wait to see

where we go together over the next year, 3, 5, 10 years.

So next week is that big reveal of what's coming for those who are listening

before then. I'll be teaching a masterclass all about my 3 step

coaching framework. So far, the only people who've been able to learn about the framework

this in-depth are our club members. So I'm sharing it publicly for the first

time. It's the framework my book is based on, like I mentioned, but you don't

have to wait for the book to come out. You can come learn a bit

about it on this masterclass. We'll be doing some big giveaways on the call,

and I also have that big announcement to share up with all of you.

Again, thank you so much for listening to this final episode of

wife teacher mommy, the podcast, But I will be back in the speed next week

though with something new. So stay tuned, and make sure you

are subscribed so you don't miss the big announcement. We'll talk

then.

If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to hit subscribe so you don't miss an

episode. And if you are ready to take the next step, I would love

for you to purchase a ticket to join me live at educate and

rejuvenate summer 2024, the education event of the

year happening on July 16th 17th this

year. We have 2 incredible keynote speakers, Gaspar Van Dazzo,

who's a teacher and stand up comedian who was featured on Netflix

on the show The Trust just recently, and Christina

Kuzmic, who is an incredible best selling author, video

creator, influencer, mom, amazing person who

was also our keynote last year. She's back. Everybody loved her so

much. We have an incredible lineup of additional speakers teaching on

topics such as math, language arts, reading, social emotional learning, class room

management, homeschooling, and tackling burnout. This year, we have a super clear

teacher track and a parent track for homeschoolers. And your ticket

gets you access to whichever track you like. We could even watch sessions

from both if you want to. We will start the day altogether with a workout

each morning. We'll have panels with the speakers, plus you'll get to join me

for some live live coaching as well as with some of our other club

coaches. It is the best professional development you could ever attend. There are

prizes, lives, thousands of like hearted

educators, all coming together. And all of this is happening from the

comfort of your own home. So go to educateandrejuvenate

.com now to learn more about the 2024 event. Or if

you're listening to this later, that link will show you what is up next as

we'll continue to do events like these. And I hope to see you

at the next one.