Asheesh Advani, President and CEO of Junior Achievement Worldwide on Empowering The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn what it takes to create a Nobel Peace Prize-worthy organization from Asheesh Advani, President and CEO of Junior Achievement Worldwide, in this week’s clip from Office Hours Season 2. Advani and host David Meltzer talk about empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs with problem-solving strategies, the power that comes from a strong self-belief, and why great leaders need to be intelligent followers. — Office Hours features billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers to talk about success, failure, and everything in between. Other guests from Season 2 include: Daymond John from Shark Tank, entrepreneur and best-selling author Ed Mylett, US Olympic beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant Dr Joe Dispenza, "The Iceman" Wim Hof, and Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author of The 10X Rule. Stream Season 2 of Office Hours now on Apple TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our next guest is Shish Edvani, president and CEO of J.A. Worldwide.
0:07.8	Welcome to Office Hours. I got to tell you guys a quick story because there's two things my
0:12.4	mom did for me to change my life. The first is I was a little bit hyperactive and they didn't have
0:17.0	Adderall or any of that stuff back then. So every time I showed too much energy, my mom would tell me,
0:22.9	I'm going to time you run around the block. It helped me become the athlete or an average athlete
0:27.6	that I became, which was close to my potential. But the other thing was that she wanted to have
0:33.2	me focusing on a skill that she saw in me that probably anyone but my mom would have recognized
0:39.4	and that was an entrepreneurial spirit or a creative spirit for economics. And she put me in a
0:44.0	program in San Diego, California called Junior Achievement. And I learned more as a young man
0:51.0	in Junior Achievement there in San Diego. I came up with my own idea. It was a banana split in a
0:58.8	cone, like an edible cone and somebody else obviously stole that, that waffle cone from me.
1:05.4	But that's how you really feel, Dave. As I became a millionaire in a multi-millionaire,
1:12.4	I can't tell you how many times I went back to the value of Junior Achievement. And at that time
1:18.4	was mostly boys, the few girls, today it's over 50% women, one of the top 10 NGOs in the world.
1:26.6	Junior Achievement worldwide has millions and millions of alumni in 115 countries. But most recently
1:35.4	under the leadership of Ashish Advani, who is the president and CEO of J.A. Worldwide. And I found out
1:43.6	a few weeks ago that Junior Achievement worldwide was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
1:51.3	And I wanted to have you on office hours, number one, to congratulate you because I have never been
1:59.0	involved with an organization that I felt was more deserving for the Nobel Peace Prize because
2:05.3	I believe that entrepreneurs are going to save the world. And I'm here to help prove that by your
2:12.2	leadership. And I here to be as grateful as possible to share Junior Achievement worldwide with
2:18.8	all of us. So I'm going to start by asking, why do you think Junior Achievement worldwide was
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