🎙️New Episode: From Delivery Business to English Teachers Entrepreneur Mindset, Career Change & Business English Stories | Real English Conversations Podcast for Global Professionals
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🎙️New Episode: From Delivery Business to English Teachers Entrepreneur Mindset, Career Change & Business English Stories | Real English Conversations Podcast for Global Professionals

B1IntermediateAugust 5, 202620 min

Have you ever wondered what your English teacher did before becoming a teacher? In this special re-released episode from the Real English Conversations Podcast archives, Curtis Davies and former co-host Amy share the story of their entrepreneurial journey long before they began helping English learners around the world. Before teaching English full-time, they owned and operated their own delivery business in Canada. Running a small business taught them valuable lessons in communication, customer service, problem-solving, leadership, and calculated risk-taking, skills that continue to shape how they teach English today. Whether you're an entrepreneur...

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This is a special episode from the Real English Conversations podcast archives. We used to have a business and run a business that was a delivery business. And what is a delivery business all about, Amy? Well, a delivery business or a delivery service is actually a service that we provided to people

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to bring things to their home that they needed. So for example, if somebody needed something from the grocery store, maybe they needed a few ingredients like some milk and butter and a loaf of bread, they could call us and we would bring those things to their house. And some of the other things that we received orders for were food from restaurants that didn't deliver and also for drinks, specifically alcoholic ones, beer and wine, for example. There are so many different people that use a delivery service. So there are people who are old and people who don't get around as easy as the rest of us. But primarily, I think it was for lazy people.

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Yeah, exactly. The people that we delivered to, a lot of times they actually had their own car and they literally just didn't want to go out and get the things themselves.

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