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Second, our professional training and development do not include business sense. This makes us amazing humans, but it does not help us pay the bills. If we self-select a conference or professional learning workshop, we do so because we want to get better in our practice. First, educators work incredibly hard for reasons that are not financially motivated we work so hard because we care about the impact our work has on children (big and small). I believe this to be true for two primary reasons. That sounds great, but it is much harder to achieve than it sounds, especially for educators. I am proud to stay we are still here in our home and it has almost been ten years! How did I pull it off? I learned what most wealthy folks already know: you need multiple income streams. I replied, “Baby, we will only ever leave if we decide to.” At about three years old, he was hanging from our lemon tree in the back yard and he asked me, “Mama, do we ever have to leave this house?” By his age I had lived in about ten different homes, my parents were also already divorced, and in that moment in our backyard, I so connected to the longing he had for certainty. At the heart of this struggle, I was truly in a concerted effort to keep a sacred promise to my son. Truly, all my money went to bills, groceries, student loans, and my mortgage. I made up some white fib, called the power company, and put the power bill on a nearly maxed-out credit card. I was mortified one day when my mom and three-year-old son called me in my classroom to tell me my power was off. For those of you unfamiliar with this practice, it’s when you pay certain bills one month and others the next month. That worked well, but amazingly, I still found myself hopscotching bills. My first official side-hustle was converting my garage into a studio and becoming an Airbnb host. To supplement, I rented out my spare bedroom, but that proved challenging with a young son. When those solutions still weren’t enough, I became the queen of side-hustling! I was broke.Īt first, this led me to learn simple solutions to survive on very little money.

So, it wasn’t long before providing became one of those seemingly insurmountable challenges. And, I was pretty sure I would find a partner to share it all with, which is to say, I couldn’t actually afford my mortgage myself. With all this extra work, I scraped together money to buy a car that fit my son’s car seat. I earned the maximum credits to move across all the steps and I took on every leadership role I could for additional stipends (and because I love leadership). There was so much to do and so many pieces to put back together. About five years into my teaching career, I was divorced and a single mom to a one-and-a-half-year-old precious baby boy. During my year of student teaching, I was also planning a wedding for a marriage that would eventually fall apart. Once upon a time, I was a high school and middle school English teacher.

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