Do you tip at Starbucks? I was chatting with a friend yesterday about this - help us settle something? I'm very interested in what my North American comrades say. I only added two options in the poll, but please drop your thought process in the comments. Very curious!

What have you achieved this week? Both big and small wins count 🤓 Comment below and share your win 👇 Let's motivate each other 🤝

Can you design a course in 60 minutes or less? @Leonardo Gomes and I tried - and succeeded. Did you know we do bi-weekly workshops for this TSN community? These are all based on what we do at Learn YOUR English: Helping teachers escape precarity and build a teaching career on their own terms. In most cases, this means generating your own income in some capacity - in addition to your teaching job. In this workshop, Leo and I walked through the process of designing and conceptualizing your own course in 60 minutes or less. If you're going to earn more money, you need to sell something. And that shouldn't be your time. And most of the time we see teachers take a very long time to design a course. Weeks, months, even years. Here, we show you how to do it in under an hour. Remember: designing a course doesn't matter if - it sucks - no one wants it - no one will pay for it Plan it, test it, and decide from there. Don't build it with all the bells and whistles without assurances of an ROI. We tackled two important aspects of course design: 1. What transformation can a course offer? 2. What problem will your course solve? After all, people pay money to have problems solved. Do you have a course you already sell? Are you looking to create one? Let me know below and I can offer some suggestions on your ideas.

Have you also waited for the perfect moment? Do you resonate with what we experienced? Are you trapped in the consumption wheel?

I'm Charlotte and I'm a language trainer (English and French) living in Central California, USA. I joined this community because I've realized seeking out mentorship and a community is much better than trying to launch myself as an independent consultant all on my own! I've taught French for two years in a university as a graduate student, English for one year in three French K-5 public schools, and I'm finishing up my first year as an independent contractor developing and running an online EFL-teacher training program for a group in France. I feel like I have a good handle on the academic parts of teaching English (but always with room to grow!) - I've got "the academic qualifications," classroom and virtual teaching experience, a website/blog and linked in page I try to post on 1x/week, a few current clients, but I'm not sure how to keep the momentum going with the work I've already done over the last year to scale a long-term business I love. Any and all advice in this area would be greatly appreciated! My business goals for the next 30 days (June 4-July 4) are to onboard three new clients for summer English or French training, revamp my website to incorporate some new branding I've had made, put together a program summary of what I've done over the past 8 months with my current client, and commit 12 hours minimum to building a course that I can offer on my website. I'm not sure what all this community offers, but I'm excited to have found a community to learn from and contribute to on this journey! Best and bon courage ("be of good courage"/cheers) :) Charlotte