The biggest risk isn't being WRONG, it's being CONFUSED - John Healy

About this episode

John Healy discusses the importance of decision making and execution in education entrepreneurship.

Want to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help. "Make a decision about which direction you wanna head towards. Start walking and don't do anything else for 30 days" - John Healy We chat with John Healy about education businesses, how indecision stagnates us, and what teachers can do to execute as entrepreneurs. John Healy is the founder of My Speaking Score - an AI-powered platform that helps non-native English speakers prepare for the TOEFL Speaking test with confidence. From building a consulting business to teaching in Korea to now founding an edtech company, John's career in ELT is vast. He joins us to talk teaching and education businesses. In our discussion, we dive into: navigating self-doubt analyzing risk - and why people should take more of them why people are reluctant to make decisive decisions outcome businesses vs hourly rates balancing passion and profit in education powering through early business struggles how ideas are easy and execution is difficult being obsessive over getting your customer their results FOR MORE FROM JOHN HEALY: 1. Connect on LinkedIn 2. Check out My Speaking Score Thank you for listening. Your…

People in this episode

Guest: John Healy

Topics covered

• education businesses
• entrepreneurship
• decision making
• self-doubt
• risk analysis
• passion vs profit

Keywords

• monetize skills
• indecision
• education technology
• TOEFL Speaking test
• business struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: My Speaking Score, learnyourenglish.com

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