Brad Montague | Becoming Better Grownups
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Brad Montague is the co-creator of Kid President, the internet sensation featured on Soulpancake Youtube channel. As a writer and director his work has garnered more than 900 million views, been translated into countless languages, and captured the attention of people like Tom Hanks, Beyonce’, and even the Obamas. As an illustrator, his encouraging work is seen and shared daily online. It can also be found on newsstands in Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Journal. Brad is the force behind ‘Socktober’ the worldwide annual drive connecting people with their local homeless shelters and ‘Wondersparks’ - free classroom resources designed to cultivate empathy and imagination. He and his wife Kristi live in Tennessee. They have two small children and operate Montague Workshop, a creative studio working to reimagine the future. His newest book, Becoming Better Grownups, (https://amzn.to/34DqPkx) inspires us to spend more time discovering what matters.
You can find Brad Montague at: Website: http://beabettergrownup.com/|Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradmontague
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine spending a summer, having a blast, being creative, making videos with one of your |
| 0:11.6 | favorite people, then watching those videos go out into the world and become this massive, |
| 0:18.6 | global phenomenon that would lead to audiences with everyone from Beyonce to Tom Hanks and |
| 0:25.7 | even Obama. That was the experience of today's guest, Brad Montague, who along with his brother |
| 0:32.2 | and la Robbie, created the viral phenomenon known as Kid President. Brad never saw it coming |
| 0:39.0 | though, and in today's conversation, we take a step back in time to explore his passions, |
| 0:43.9 | his interest, and experience his leading up to that moment, what it was supposed to be |
| 0:48.8 | when they started out versus what it became, how along with all the amazingness was also |
| 0:54.0 | a lot of struggle and how when it ended, it also left Brad in a bit of a dark place that he had |
| 1:00.2 | to figure out a way out of. And we also dive into how at the same time he became a dad and how |
| 1:06.2 | that really changed him and his lens on life and what he wanted to do, how he reclaimed a new sense |
| 1:11.6 | of purpose and identity, lifting himself back into a joyful and curious and creative place by |
| 1:18.6 | sitting in classrooms around the country and listening to young kids share what life was like |
| 1:24.4 | and what they most wanted from teachers and adults. That journey not only brought him back to |
| 1:30.3 | a place of creativity and curiosity and vibrance, it led to a book called Becoming Better Grownups. |
| 1:37.5 | We dive into this entire miraculous fun and heartfelt journey today. So excited to share |
| 1:44.0 | this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:57.3 | So I grew up on a farm and she's going to go out the back door and you have this just open |
| 2:03.7 | fields to run in and there were no limitations. It was just wide open and quiet and I think that |
| 2:14.3 | I really believe that small town life and especially small southern life breeds a certain type |
| 2:21.8 | of weird. Because people are able to create their own worlds and there's a certain idea too you get |
| 2:31.8 | of how communities work and how important we are to each other because we're so small we |
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