For several years, I've taught adult Spanish speakers. After watching the "Knowing your students" video and reading the "A Niche for the Nichelss" guide, I realized that, in the end, most of them are Spanish women (30-50 and working at big companies). Most of them joined in-company classes at work and were persistent and constant during the course. Would that be my niche? 🤔

Hi @Andrew Woodbury , @Leonardo Gomes @Michael Landry Creating a specific and detailed offer is more difficult than it seems. 🫣

1. Have you used Dogme before? No, I haven't but I started following Thornbury after reading one of his books. 2. What about task-based learning? Yes, I have. I collaborate in a education group whose projects are task-based learning. 3. Have you started to put them together into your own course to sell? My idea is using TBL so I can offer specific tasks to each student. For example, I used to teach a student who loves riddles. I've used TEDed materials in some of my classes and I like to use some riddle videos and this particular student loved them. That gave me the idea that I could prepare tasks for her which have to do with riddles (how they work, how to create one, etc., in English so she can learn the language through something she loves. Or, another example, I've had a student who loves yoga (I do, too), so she could work on tasks focused or about yoga. Yoga is just the excuse, the departure point where she would use English).

Have you also waited for the perfect moment? Do you resonate with what we experienced? Are you trapped in the consumption wheel?

- What advice would you give to your younger self from 5 years ago? You already know enough to go ahead. Of course, it’s important to keep learning new things and keeping training, but girl, do something with it. - Ten years from now, what would that version of yourself be disappointed by?  The fact that I had the tools to change things, and I wasn’t brave enough to do it. - If you keep doing what you are about to do today for the next five years, will you end up with more of what you want or less of what you want?  I hope I get what I’ve been looking for in the past few years: financial and work freedom. It doesn’t mean stopping working or getting rich out of the blue; it’s more about reaching a point where I can choose instead of feeling forced to do something because I need the money or because someone else is telling me what I have to do. - Does what you’re currently doing represent what you’re capable of doing? I can do more, but I get the imposter syndrome quite often.