The Rebellious Educator: My Breakthrough Story

Before

I was the girl who couldn’t bear sitting in a high school classroom. Not because I was unruly, but because I could feel the life draining out of me while teachers recited lessons that meant nothing.

I asked questions no one wanted to answer and was labelled non-compliant and told I was “wasting my potential.” I was bored, unchallenged, restless, hungry for something real.

So I skipped classes to make music and art with the other creative rebels, or hid in the trees to question the world and swap intuitive downloads with friends who, like me, sensed there had to be more.

Needless to say, I failed high school, not from lack of intelligence, but from an inability to pretend it made sense. Deep down, I knew the system wasn’t built for curiosity or expansion. It was built for obedience and control. I just didn’t yet know why.

Crisis

That quiet knowing never left me. It burned inside... a need to make education make sense.

Decades later, as a respected school principal, I found myself facing the same machine from the inside. The spark that began in that teenage classroom met its wildfire in 2021.

When covid mandates arrived, I refused to surrender my sovereignty for safety theatre. I kept hoping reason would return... that someone, somewhere, would wake up and realise none of it made sense. But the time to comply ran out and the punishment was swift: credentials stripped, locked out of my own school, packing my office at night, forbidden to say goodbye to the teachers, parents, and children I’d devoted my life to.

It was the same lesson all over again: obey, or be exiled.

Chase

For thirty years I’d fought to make education human again... teaching teachers how to lead real learning, leading communities with trust and sovereignty, speaking on world stages about visionary leadership and learner sovereignty. I believed I could change the system from within.

But when it finally cast me out, I realised it was never built to be changed. It was built to keep us small, compliant, trapped inside the matrix... by design.

So I turned that fire toward something new. I created The Rebellious Educator to help parents and teachers reclaim the essence of learning: curiosity, autonomy, soul. I began with homeschooling families, then entrepreneurs teaching online who were unknowingly recreating the same old classroom in digital form.

Conflict

At first, I thought the online world would be different. But I saw the same pattern there too: information instead of transformation, dependence instead of empowerment, “sages on a stage” preaching from slides.

I wrestled with the fear of not fitting in, grief of my previous "casting out", and knowing that there would be people from my past thinking I was crazy. Yet underneath it all, a deeper truth was too strong to ignore: I was never here to fit in. I have always been here to question, speak up, and work to build something entirely new.

Breakthrough

Reflecting on those decades inside the system, I saw it clearly: all the meaningless rules I’d shielded my teachers and students from weren’t accidents, they were architecture. Control disguised as education.

Line up. Sit down. Don’t speak. Stay out of the sun.

Grow up. Get a job. Keep quiet. Repeat.

It was never about learning... it was about containment.

A cycle of work, pay your debts, choose distractions, numb out, repeat... energy feeding a machine.

One night, sitting in silence with no title, no institution, and no certainty of how I’d pay the mortgage, I finally understood my role.

My purpose was never to teach within the system. It was to architect a new one.

Teaching isn’t telling or performance. Learning isn't about outsourcing your authority. It’s about critical thinking, awakening, empowerment. And real learning sets people free.

From that moment, I vowed to bring learning that liberates, rather than controls, into the online business world too.

After

Today, I stand as The Rebellious Educator, a learning architect for the New Earth.

I’m here to disrupt the old ways because traditional teaching methods were built for covert compliance. And right now, a split is happening... not political, not religious, but energetic.

It’s the choice to live awake or stay asleep. To reclaim your inner authority or outsource it to the next guru, government, or algorithm.

Most are still trained to be busy, distracted, entertained, disconnected from their own knowing. But if you can see through it, if you feel the pull between the old and the emerging, then you already sense the revolution isn’t loud. It’s subtle. It’s lived.

My work now is to help teachers, coaches, and creators lead that shift, designing experiences that awaken sovereignty, self-trust, and embodied transformation.

I’m not here to tear the other system down. Some will choose to stay there.

But I’m here to remind you (the ones ready for the new paradigm) what true learning feels like, and build the portals that make it possible.

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