We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Olgitta Woods . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Olgitta below.
Olgitta, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career
Being an educator myself, I have my online school, ESL teacher for immigrants worldwide, producer who teachers people to get into entertainment business and manage social media. And recently I have started launching a parenting class “ how to raise happy kids” with my spiritual like minded friends and parents. So being an educator for Almost 15 years I m homeschooling my son because I don’t believe in the USA education I m a strong believer that USA education is weak, primitive, gives knowledge they don’t even need especially now about 4 genders, “ them”, “they” etc it s shocking to me that they even put this in kids heads at such young age, but more importantly modern schools public or fancy private train kids one thing I never want my son to be :
To be a convenient citizen, a yes person. If you think about it: schools awfully remind jails : same regime, lunches, buses, system…
Modern schools train you to show up at the same place at the same time every day regardless of your mood, will, desires sit there for hours and do what you are told to do so that later in life you do the same for years at your job calling it a norm..
My approach is opposite.
Modern education is severely behind and retard in many ways and I would change a lot in it : starting with emotional intelligence, why there is no such class? You can speak 5 languages, be brilliant at math etc but if u can’t control your emotions, anger, stress, u have zero coping skills you won’t be happy in life and make other around u miserable too…
In todays world kids are not prepared to constant drastic changes, conflicts, wars etc .. kids have no skills other than stick to the tablets, screens, video games …
Teaching them the power they are born with, teaching them that their thoughts create their reality, that there is energy, frequency, quantum field is way more important than 4-5 genders. So I would transform the educational. This is why my son will never go to a regular school, this is why he is so multitalented as I let him thrive and lead me as a teacher, I didn’t try to put him in a social frame of convenient standards.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I m Olgitta, i m a mother to an instagram sensation @chefmaxcancook, I have online ESL school, I teach how to get into entertainment industry and recently started teaching parenting classes “how to raise happy kids”, I have a master s degree in linguistics, used to be a personal interpreter, life style manager for affluent people and celebrities, studied in UK, then opened my translation company, I never wanted to live in Russia but didn’t like the USA either and here I am haha Out of curiosity I decided to go to California but I didn’t want to just go there I wanted to have a purpose so I entered ucla for producing in entertainment industry and they gave me two weeks to move to Los Angeles !
I literary flew at new year s eve)
I graduated ucla, loved the weather, people, nature in California, got married, gave birth to my wonderful son and my life has never been the same ever after!))
I m at a very peaceful and happy stage of my life but it hasn’t been always like that ..
I had a rough years of divorce, retaliation, law suits against me and we were at the brink to be homeless with my son in the middle of pandemic… there was a moment when my son who has been obsessed with cooking since he was 2 could be at a place with no kitchen but that would have saved us from being sued I chose my son and his passion which has recently proved to be the only right choice as despite being sued and revenged and threatened and intimidated and harassed for years I kept my son s sanity and decent life style and kept supporting his cooking passion. Now his channel is close to 200k followers and keeps growing daily , it s our mission with him to transform parenting and inspire kids and parents to make healthy meals at home and educate about nutrition, vitamins and healthy lifestyle especially in the USA where food is the worst in the world ..
We have kids and parents from all over the world supporting us and making our recipes and even opening their own cooking channels !!
I m very proud of what I m doing both as a teacher and as a single mother.
I help people to improve their lives as when they speak a better English they get promoted, move, find partners and live happier. My main pride and achievement is my son of course who is fully bilingual, learning 3 more languages, has his cooking channel, is really good at martial arts ( almost a brown belt at 7 yo), tennis, swimming, singing, plays the guitar and keyboard, but most importantly he is an amazing kind and a happy kid who understands this world and universe and is more connected to himself more than majority of modern kids and shares his wisdom on his cooking channel as well : https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0Ht0T9PXLv/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
As I mentioned it was extremely hard for me having no relatives or any support to sustain as a woman and a single mother through lawsuits against me from two men who were fighting hard to ruin me …
Can you share one of your favorite marketing or sales stories?
I had been launching my new video course and me and my team were recording it, organizing, etc etc I was supposed to be my first passive income one to be sold on it s own and people would study without me there, as it was very short, effective and designed for immigrants to fast track speaking about 7 basic topics: tell about urself, talk to the doctor, teacher etc – critical basics when u have just moved to the country. By the time we finished it Russia attacked Ukraine and we had a huge wave of refugees flooding to the USA which are my clients …I was so devastated, shocked by the war and felt so helpless as I was born and lived in Russia but both of my parents are ukranians and all my summers I spent in Ukraine I felt connected to both counties equally. So even though I would have made a lot of $$ by selling this course these refugees desperately needed at that time I didn’t feel right about it and desperately wanted to help support anyhow instead of just watching the news and crying
So I gave this course away absolutely for free to thousands of immigrants !! It was crazy, my phone and emails went wild as people kept coming and joining this course and all my groups where I teach and post the materials were joined by thousands of people !!! My team couldn’t keep up with the demand
On top of that I organized donations and all neighbours donated clothes, shoes, books toys and brought to my place, it was like a warehouse here, people came daily and got the stuff they needed, cried, told their stories and thanked me …I also raised a lot of $$ on gofund me for refugees I have never even met …
I earned $0 but what did I get ?
Tons of blessings, gratitude, love, support, kind words daily from these grateful people in need who took this course for free and it tremendously helped them to communicate here… and guess what ? When they got jobs here they turned into my paying clients and joined my other courses !!
What did I learn?
If ur only target in business is to make money u may get $ but May be not
But if ur target is bigger than just money, u want to help, make a difference, support – it s a different kind of energy and it creates way more …
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0pG2T8vkA_/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5CegmqPg-s/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Yelp: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLkMYvER/
- Other: If u were to publish after April 22 you can mention that my son had a segment at Kelly Clarkson show !! She reached out to his instagram and invites. Regardless of the date mention that he also was invited to master chefs jr Should I have gave in to lawsuits and moved him to a place with no kitchen would he be where he is now ? Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLkMULw3/
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