Today’s Episode with Gretchen Wegner:
Gretchen has been in business for 15 years; she is an academic life coach and creator of the anti-boring approach to powerful studying.Gretchen has many different offerings (too many, she says) including coaching students, a course called “The Art of inspiring students to study strategically” and an online course called “The Anti- Boring Approach to Powerful Studying” for teachers, a course called “Launch Your Biz” for people who want to start academic coaching, and the Anti-Boring Educators Club for people who want to learn and have community in this field. After getting her masters, Gretchen got her first teaching job and hated it! She didn’t feel she could help kids take charge of their own learning the way she has been able to. She was then hired to create a coaching program at an independent school and started to find clients outside of the school context and eventually had so many clients she could not do both jobs and created her independent business. Instead of doing what everyone tells her to do and focusing on one specific niche, Gretchen has many different projects all of which she loves because she knows she is an awesome resource to educators. Before going completely independent with her own business, Gretchen was working part time as a curriculum writer and coached in the afternoons and was exhausted all the time and didn’t see any way to earn more than 50k a year. She knew she could not continue to live comfortably off of this. She joined a year long marketing training system and was attending brain conferences and started to realize how to put it all together.Educators ask their students to do immense amounts of self reflection. But teachers are students too and people who are trying to grow their business or do their job better need to be active learners that self reflect as well.To grow her business and reach a wider audience, she worked on having a consistent blog, but was a very slow writer. So she started uploading videos instead of written blogs. Gretchen often felt most jazzed after a session with a student, so she started making a habit of recording videos right after her sessions to talk about whatever she was jazzed about. She learned to be okay with imperfection and started uploading weekly videos to her blog, and then started a podcast. Gretchen takes on the topic of race. She talks about the journey she has been having over the past year exploring her own identity as a white woman and learning about racism and white supremacy. Gretchen explores the idea of how workers in the after-school industry are supporting that and discusses moving forward with her business how she hopes to change this and be more ethically responsible. You can reach Gretchen and learn more about her business on her website gretchenwegner.com or email her directly at
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