The Unfiltered Truth About Entrepreneurship with Adam Braun, Chase Jarvis

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About this episode:

I love this conversation because we got into so many of the issues with the traditional education system– for example, the oftentimes inadequate curriculum and insane cost that leaves so many saddled with crippling debt. But more importantly, we talk about solutions – this is really about two founders who are passionate about making education work for all the people it currently isn’t serving sitting down and comparing notes. If you’re a student or parent of a student this stuff is already top of mind for you, and in a world in which we’ve all got an increasingly urgent mandate to educate ourselves these topics are relevant to anyone – not just traditional students and their families.

• Why he walked away from a career in management consulting – at Bain, no less – the elite of the elites – to dedicate himself to his passion of giving the rural poor access to education via Pencils Of Promise
• We get into a topic I’ve been touching on a lot lately which is balance. As a new father and entrepreneur, this is a big challenge for Adam – like many people listening to this I’m sure – and he speaks very candidly about the real tradeoffs he has to make between his company, his family and his health
• On that note, he also shares some of the habits and hacks he’s developed to minimize those tradeoffs – some great stuff that I’d highly encourage putting into practice in your life such as his journaling routine and practice of putting his phone in airplane mode in another room before going to bed

About Adam:

Adam Braun is an author and entrepreneur who you may know from his work with Pencils of Promise, an organization that creates schools and other projects that bring education to underserved populations living in rural poverty. He’s also the author of the book “The Promise Of A Pencil” and later the founder of the education startup MissionU (acquired by WeWork in 2018)– he’ll get into more detail but tell me if you think this sounds interesting: 1 year of intense, skill-based education with NO upfront tuition – instead, you give them a percentage of your income once you land that sweet job.