EdCoachU – Everything You Need to Know

What is EdCoachU? Become an Education Coach

EdCoachU is an intensive online workshop designed to help purpose-driven educators build their own unique, passion-based practice. This is a fun, unique, demanding, outside-the-box, yet practical 3-month course that includes:

1. Weekly live coaching with Adrianne Meldrum and Seth Perler
2. Weekly office hours with Seth and Adrianne
3. Weekly in-deph mastermind support & accountability
4. Detailed online masterclasses covering all the topics you need
5. Relevant homework challenges that build key components of your business
6. Printable support sheets
7. Exclusive access to a private Facebook with your cohort, to trade ideas and discuss coursework
8. Your hard work building a solid solopreneur foundation.

The point is to have your ideal business fully up and running by this fall or winter. We’ll empower you to build your own, completely personalized, outside-the-box microbusiness, that’s aligned with your mission, your purpose, who you are and what you believe about helping kids so you can make the impact you want to make in this lifetime. Also, to create a successful, sustainable business without any sleazy “sales tactics” ever. For those of you who already have a related business, the goal is for you to catapult it to the next level by that time. And it’s FUN! This isn’t a typical boring training. Adrianne & I are STOKED to serve you and we will help you succeed. More than 50% of teachers quit by year 5. This is a horrific statistic to me – people who dedicated 9+ years of their lives (including college) so they could help our youth, are so burnt out that they quit. And there are so many others out there with an immense ability to serve families, but who don’t know how to create a viable micro-business while retaining a balanced life. Many burnt out teachers feel they have nothing to fall back on (I felt that way) and leave education entirely, never to work with kids again. This is sad to me that there is so much lost talent that is desperately needed in our world. Through EdCoachU, we coach you through every step of the process of creating your own successful microbusiness, serving the kids you’re “meant” to serve. This is designed to accelerate your journey so you can get started in 3 months, which is a fraction of the time it took me and Adrianne to get going with our businesses. We take the guesswork out of the process for you. The goal is that by the time you finish, you’ll be helping the type of kids/parents/families you are meant to help, your way. You’ll be able to make it your bread-n-butter or a side hustle. You’ll have launched your own micro-business, with a good income, a more ideal lifestyle and the ability to serve the kids you were born to serve, the way you believe they should be served. You’ll never have to be inauthentic with “sales”, and you’ll have customers you love to work with. This is the life I live and I’ve spent years learning how to do it right and how to do it well.

4 Benefits of Being an Education Coach:

1. Make a difference helping the kids YOU are meant to help (Your unique micro “niche”)
2. Make a good living (The sky’s the limit)
3. Balance your life (Freedom to create your ideal schedule and lifestyle so you can take care of yourself WHILE making an impact)
4. Love what you do (Create your practice based on your beliefs)

Who it’s for?

• Passionate and courageous people who are gifted at helping kids in some unique way, but who want the freedom and flexibility of running their own practice. Perfect for educators who are changing direction, tutors, therapists, or other specialists.
• People who want to create their own sustainable, passion-based micro-business serving the students or families they were “born to” serve.
• People who understand that this is not cheap, quick or easy and who are willing to put in the work this July, August and September. Creating my own microbusiness has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and it’s also one of the most rewarding.

What you’ll learn?

How to launch your own microbusiness. Across 9 distinct stages, we will coach you through taking all of the the key action items and building the systems that will set you up for success. Here’s the gist (there are many sub-lessons related to each module): Module 1 – Mindsets: How to adopt the foundational mindsets critical to creating your practice. Move away from limiting beliefs to healthy, positive, abundance based beliefs. Uncover common roadblocks and see how to work with them. Module 2 – What do You Stand For? Your why, your compass. Defining the Brand of YOU.

• Niching down: Effectively identifying your magic power
• What is your “position” in your market?
• Look at the map: Choosing sources of income, how you will set up your practice, creating your personalized business model, determining what services to offer and how to frame them

Module 3 –  Pricing Your Services Module 4 –  Creating Your Offers Module 5 – How/Where to Serve Students

• Locations? Home office, Rent office, Office shares, Online coaching, Home visits/mobile etc.
• Intake methods
• Collecting money

Module 6 – Building a Home for Your Business Online

• Website development – Creating “must have pages” the right way: Homepage, About, Pricing/Services, Blog, etc.
• Social Media – How to build your online presence authentically and manageably
• IG, FB, youtube, podcasts, pinterest, etc.
• Demystify other technical skills so you can have professional content

Module 7 – Marketing – Spreading the word effectively Module 8 – Filling your schedule, launch with a bang

• Networking & outreach
• Sales pages
• Webinars
• Public talks & collecting email addresses
• Framing your messages

Module 9 – Passive Income: Using your talent to make income from different sources

Where?

Online via Zoom. As long as you have an internet connection, you can take this virtual course from anywhere.

How does it work?

There are 6 key components to the program:

1. Live Master Classes: Weekly with Seth and/or Adrianne. We will be using these 2-3 hour classes to teach you, step by step, live via zoom.
2. Homework: In-depth assignments you will use directly to build your business.
3. Mastermind: You’ll have your own small group of 4-5 EdCoachU students to help you along the way. They will support you with encouragement, accountability and will help you get granular with your personalized strategy. You will build powerful relationships and friendships with these people, and some of them you may continue to keep as part of you business support system for years to come.
4. Office Hours: Times to work with Adrianne and me on your personal questions.
5. Facebook support group: Private for the cohort to support each other
6. Bonus: Your own private MasterMind strategy sessions with Adrianne and me. You will receive 3 x 30 minute strategy session calls to get specific coaching based on your situation. We’ll help you break down your most pressing concerns and find solutions. People have blocks with technology, mindset, writing copy, funnels, etc.. We’re here to help with these details.
7. Bonus #2: Live webinar: Exactly how I teach Executive Function skills to my clients

What do we think is the most special thing about EdCoachU? It’s about meeting other like-minded people, developing deep, supportive and lasting relationships with friends who will help you for many years. It’s about community. This isn’t just a how-to, it’s also going to create meaningful connections.

Tentative Schedule for Summer 2018 Session: 

This is an intensive 3-month course. It will demand time, energy and heart. We will get firm dates to you at the beginning of the course. Generally speaking, it will look like this:

1. June 24, Sunday: Applications due
2. June 25-27: Rapidfire Enrollment Interviews (10 min live interview with Adrianne & Seth to make sure this is the right match for you and us and so you can ask us any questions you still have)
3. June 29, Friday: Payment #1 due for enrollees
4. July 3, Tuesday, 10:00AM-1:00PM MST, Kickoff class: overview, mindset & getting started
5. Tuesdays, 10:00AM-1:00PM MST: Live sessions with Seth and/or Adrianne via Zoom where we teach/coach the cohort
6. Fridays or Saturdays, Mastermind sessions for support and accountability with your assignments (your group chooses the day and time, 1-2 hour blocks)
7. Sundays, 5-6PM MST: Office Hours with Seth and/or Adrianne to help with anything you need (These are optional. There will be times you need the feedback.)
8. Bonus: 3 Private strategy sessions for you, with us by appointment, to fit your schedule
9. Bonus #2: Live webinar: Exactly how I teach Executive Function skills to my clients