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Marissa Teeter

Marissa Teeter

Executive coach, keynote speaker, and podcast host; Founder & CEO of Marissa Teeter - Executive Coach & Advisor

Jun 10, 2026

8:07
act this way.
8:08
CEOs act this way.
8:10
Yeah.
8:11
Instead of stopping and pausing, which for a lot of people I realize is very hard to do, it's a privilege in a lot of ways to be able to stop and self-reflect and go, what do I really want to do and how do I make this what I want it to be? And you and I were talking about this earlier is that you may be someone who craves and wants to teach people and wants to educate, but you don't have to be a teacher to be an educator.
8:31
Exactly.
8:31
right i wanted to just help people and when i was applying to universities i was originally doing it pre-med i wanted to be a doctor and switched at the last minute thank goodness um i love doctors but that was too much schooling for me and but i realized wow i don't have to be a doctor to help people and so i think we get caught in these personas that number one we start to identify with what i should be doing in this role the expectations are of someone in this role And then I think we really get stuck in the idea of, well, I'm a teacher.
9:00
I could never be a insert crazy idea or goal or passion that you might really have.

6 MINS LATER

14:52
Where would you suggest that they could start building an exit strategy?

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