Breana Jacques and Shannon Finnegan - Finding Your Way As An Edupreneur

The Dr. Will Show Podcast

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Meet Breana and Shannon

Breana Jacques and Shannon Finnegan are innovative and award-winning educators with over 25 years of classroom teaching experience across multiple contexts. Their shared passion and commitment for disrupting and reimagining the education system for and with learners drives their work. Together, they founded The Loop Consulting Collective to disrupt harmful practices, reimagine possibilities, and build pathways for sustainable change in schools and organizations.

Takeaways

• Mindset and confidence are key when starting a business as an educational consultant.
• Doing your homework and talking to others in the field can help you navigate the challenges of entrepreneurship.
• The Loop Consulting Collective focuses on disrupting and reimagining the education system by working with schools and organizations to create student-centered and humane learning environments.
• Their services include curriculum review and development, instructional coaching, and training on restorative culture and engagement strategies.
• They have an adjustable fee structure to accommodate schools with different financial situations.
• Misconceptions about education consulting include the belief that consultants are only in it for the money and that they have nothing of value to add if they are not currently in the classroom.

Sound Bites

• "We're going to be talking about how they got into education, what made them launch their company, and we're going to get into the work that they're doing and get some other gems from them as well."
• "What do you know to be true about yourself? What do you know to be true about your field? And so I think it's really important to really understand your why, what fuels your passion."
• "We knew we wanted to make an impact on the education system. And so it was really about how can we maximize our impact? What position are we gonna put ourselves in to be able to really like push at systems and walk alongside people who are ready to do some disruptive, some necessary disruption in educational spaces."

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the Dr. Will Show and the Loop Consulting Collective

08:18 Mindset and Confidence: Keys to Starting a Successful Consulting Business

11:35 Customization and Collaboration: The Approach of the Loop Consulting Collective

15:34 Services Offered: Curriculum Review, Instructional Coaching, and More

27:31 Challenging Misconceptions: The Value of Education Consultants

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