Hi, I'm Sumantha and I have a confession to make ...

I've never read Harry Potter.
Plus:
I'm an English Tutor, but:
🥱 My brain hurts working out whether to use 'practise' or 'practice'.
🙈 I can't spell restaurant (my version is 'restaraunt').
🎁 I'm a chronic comma overuser!
I'm a Business Mentor, but:
🙈 I don't just work with income goals - I also work with the life people want.
🔥 I help tutors streamline and work more effectively so their growth is sustainable.
💥 I don't do pushy selling.
If you haven't clicked away, you could be my people!
You care deeply about your students. You care about you too.
↳ We keep your students' needs at the core without sacrificing yours.
You embrace being you, even if it isn't with the masses.
↳ This infiltrates how I support business owners - we never follow a formula.
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Here's my journey ...
2004
Meet 22 year-old Sumantha.
This is when I started my first business! I'm proud to say that 20+ years later, it's still going 🎉
It was the best learning experience. With the advent of Facebook and social media not being a 'thing', I had to learn the art of visibility.
2005 - 2011
... but running a business can't be stable.
This was the narrative I grew up with. So, I ran my business on the side while pursuing a career as a qualified business trainer.
I loved the pace, and learned SO much from how the big players do it. Little did I know how much it would serve me in a few years to come.
2011
Enter teaching!
Wanting a change, I entered teaching as a secondary school teacher. It was the best job in the world.
But the reality was: taking work on my honeymoon, working 7 days a week and building pressure.
I left as a burnt out version of my former self.
2017
Tutoring changed everything.
It was time to abandon the narrative that 'running a business wasn't stable' and prove myself wrong!
With some freelance business training on the side, I built my tutoring business to a stage of matching my full-time teaching salary, while working fewer hours, in less than a year.
NOW
Education & business collide!
As an experienced business owner, qualified trainer and teacher turned tutor, I exclusively work with 'edupreneurs'.
Having helped thousands of education business owners to date, I teach non-pushy ways to approach business growth.
Importantly, I know how to show my clients how to form their own strategies instead of following templates and formulas.
My lived experience helps my clients get results.
And I'd love you to join them!
The amazing people in my corner!
Eunice Liwanen
Team Podcast
Rachel Bonner
Team Tutors' Mastermind
Katie Stone
Associate Coach: 1:1 Programme
Sarah Capewell
Associate Coach: 1:1 Programme
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