Classroom to Copy #8: Former Teacher Charlotte Ellis Shares Insider Tips on Balancing Teaching, Copywriting, and Building a Lucrative Writing Business | Otter.ai

Classroom to Copy #8: Former Teacher Charlotte Ellis Shares Insider Tips on Balancing Teaching, Copywriting, and Building a Lucrative Writing Business

Tania Yeo44min

Tania Yeo

00:00

Oh okay. Hi. Hi everyone so it's Tania back again with another episode of classroom to copy and I have a very special guest with me today and very excited for you guys to meet her because I think she is really interesting story to tell about her experience from transitioning from teaching to copywriting and her name is Charlotte Ellis, would you like to introduce yourself and you know what it is that you do now? To the audience?

Charlotte Ellis

00:34

Sure. Um, yeah, so I'm Charlotte, I, my backgrounds in teaching. I was a teacher for almost a decade and then around this time last year, so like, it was about April 2022. I started thinking about an exit plan from teaching and kind of fell into copywriting started building up my business little bit by little and yeah, in November, I was able to leave teaching and focus on my copywriting business full time. So now I mostly work with entrepreneurs that are trying to stand out from their competition, especially in really competitive niches, where their face their name is their brands that helping them find what makes them unique so they can build their own business.

Tania Yeo

01:24

Cool. Do you want to share like where you're based?

Charlotte Ellis

01:28

Yeah, so I'm American, but I'm based in New Zealand.

Tania Yeo

01:33

How did that come to be? So I mean, your your teaching job? I'm getting ahead, but I know you're like your first was. I stalked you on LinkedIn first. You were a director English school. Director in Cambodia, and then team leader and like a preschool teacher in New Zealand.

Charlotte Ellis

01:54

Right. Yeah. So um, I studied Child and Family Development at university in the US and then afterwards, I know, I knew that I wanted to move overseas and do like charity work. So my husband and I moved over to well, we lived in a couple of different places in Europe, and then we settled in Cambodia. And, yeah, by the time I was 23, I was running an English school, which is for high schoolers and university students who wanted to get into the tourism industry. So they, it was really great that they could learn from native English speakers. So my job was to not only teach in the school, but I trained teams of volunteers that will come over and teach. And then I also like developed a curriculum for the school and everything. And then I lived in Thailand for a little bit into nonprofit work there. And then after I had my first daughter, my family decided to move somewhere that was a little bit more familiar to us. We felt a little bit more like home so my husband's a kiwi and we ended up moving to New Zealand. And that's where I I trained to be a teacher here. So I wasn't trained as a teacher originally, but I trained as a teacher here and was a preschool teacher and team leader for six years.

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