Mike Wagner shares his unconventional journey from burned-out high school history teacher to dual-market education entrepreneur! He reveals how quitting his job, selling his car, and moving to Argentina with just his German Shepherd led to meeting his wife and discovering his true calling. Wagner now runs both Wagner Prep for private clients and Epic Mentoring for NYC public schools, explaining how COVID's chaos actually became his business breakthrough by normalizing virtual tutoring overnight and expanding his reach globally. Plus insights on why schools prioritize cost over results, his "humans over algorithms" philosophy that uses tools like Notability and Highscores strategically, and how the college admissions arms race creates impossible expectations where students never know when "enough is enough."