Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in the right place we do it all with humor

and heart so let's dive in. Do you ever feel like you're meant to do more in

this world do you have this deeper sense that you should be doing something that has

meaning that you're meant for big things but you just don't know how to unlock

it if so you are going to absolutely love our show today because you're

going to meet one of my most inspiring and intelligent friends, someone who I'm

honored to know and someone who I work with. Adam Braun is the founder of

Pencils of Promise, an award-winning organization that has built more than 200

schools across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Pop was founded with just $25 using Braun's unique for-purpose approach to blending nonprofit idealism

with for-profit business principles.

Braun graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University and was one of the first 10 World Economic Forum

Global Shapers and has been featured at the United Nations, the Clinton Global Initiative, Wired Magazine's smart list of 50 people

changing the world, and Forbes 2012 30 under 30.

He's the author of The Promise of a Pencil, how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change.

Adam, it is so awesome to have you here.

Thank you for making the time to come on.

Oh, my pleasure.

My pleasure.

So you're one of the people that I admire. You have done so much

in such short amount of time and one of the things I love about your book which I've read twice

already is that it's practical, it's inspirational, and there's so

much spirituality in it, which I just find I feel like we're kindred spirits in that sense.

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