S02E06 A day in the life of a Trader turned Tutor with Julia Brand Welcome to Season 2 of the UK Educators Community Podcast, where you'll get a sneak peek into Educator's diaries, as Syd asks her guests to run through one of their typical days. On this episode, you'll meet Julia Brand. Julia came to teaching, after becoming disillusioned with a high powered career in the city as a stocks trader. She spend almost 10 years working in Primary schools, and doing some private tutoring on the side, before phasing out traditional schooling and concentrating on her tutoring business full time. It's a great chat, with many takeaway points, including:

• Your career needs to align with your personal values. The more mature you become, the clearer this is and more important it becomes.
• The importance to adapt in business can't be underplayed. For example, any tutoring businesses who didn't go online in 2020 would have had a hard time surviving. Whereas the ones who embraced the change get a chance to thrive.
• Once you've been tutoring for a long while, preparing for each session isn't always needed. Often students will speak about their concerns and struggles, and the sessions will go in different directions anyway. It's all about being flexible with your plans.

As well as the above, there was MUCH EXCITEMENT about the upcoming Retreat for Educators in Marrakesh that the UK Educators Community has organised. To find out more or to join us, head over to : https://ukeducators.com/retreat/ For full show notes and more details about this and other episodes, please check here: https://ukeducators.com/podcasts/ To join in the conversation with other educators, here's the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukeducators _________________________________________ More about Syd. Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results. Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade. Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.