Hello, love!
I’m Shana, Senior Lecturer, Level 7 CMI certified leadership coach and mentor, and the person who will tell you the career timeline you were given was never meant for you.
Welcome to Breaking the Timeline, where early-career teachers and ambitious young professionals come when they’re done waiting for someone to greenlight their next move. If you’ve ever felt too qualified for where you are, too early for what you want, or too much for rooms that weren’t built for you, you’re in the right place.
What you’ll find here:
This isn’t just a newsletter. Breaking the Timeline lives here as both a Substack and a podcast, honest, diary-led writing and real conversations on career design, education and leadership, life beyond the conventional script, and what it actually looks like to build something while still becoming someone. No corporate polish. No waiting for your turn, energy. Just real talk from someone in it with you.
My career TLDR:
Started as a PE teacher, became Head of Year, and now train the next generation of teachers as a Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education, while continuing to study and build a name for myself in Education Leadership.
Built a coaching business from scratch, supporting early-career teachers and young professionals to design careers on their own terms.
Avid Gym girly training for hybrid competitions like HYROX, Athx and Turf Games, content creator, and host of the Breaking the Timeline podcast, because yes, you can hold all of that at once.
Let’s be friends
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