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This week on the podcast we are joined by CEO and founder of Live Lingua, Ray Blakney. Ray joined us all the way from Queretaro, Mexico to share his story of growing up living around the world, traveling to Mexico in the Peace Corps, and starting 3 language schools in Mexico.
Ray shares how the business, Live Lingua, went from being a brick and mortar teaching only Spanish to an online business teaching students from around the world 11 different languages. He shares what it’s like to run an online language school, some of the challenges, and what’s next for him and his wife.
Enjoy!
What we talk about in this episode:
- How Ray ended up in Mexico
- Why Ray and his wife based themselves in Queretaro
- What it was like to grow up in Turkey and then move to America as an “American”
- What it was like starting Live Lingua
- The things that Ray and his wife sacrificed for Live Lingua to be successful when first starting out
- What Live Lingua does and how taking language classes with them works
- Taking the business from brick and mortar to entirely online classes
- Some of the biggest problems and challenges that Ray experienced when taking Live Lingua online
- How Live Lingua finds teachers for all the languages that they offer
- What the student experience is like with Live Lingua
- What’s next for Live Lingua
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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