INTERVIEW: Dennis DiNoia - Do What You Love And The Money Will Find You
The 10 Minute Entrepreneur
Sean Castrina
4.8 • 308 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Dennis, AKA Mr. D Math, is a former public school teacher who found a market in developing video math lessons for homeschoolers which he provides through mrdmath.com. He is the author of "TEACH: Creating Independently Responsible Learners"
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the 10 Minute Entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm excited about today's podcast. I have an entrepreneur and a very unique business, |
| 0:15.6 | but you know, with the pandemic that we've just gone through, the need for this is just |
| 0:20.2 | skyrocketed. I have Dennis DeNoia with me here, Mr. D. Math and we're going to talk about |
| 0:24.2 | the homeschool market because it is huge. I have a friend in Minnesota, I'm just going |
| 0:28.4 | to say this to you, Dennis. He says 50% of the population there are homeschooling. Wow. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah. That's huge. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. 50% where he's at, which is supposed |
| 0:43.5 | to be close to a river that separates Minnesota from Wisconsin, wherever that is. That's where |
| 0:49.0 | my buddy is. And so he was tell me about it because he's a youth director and works with |
| 0:53.3 | teenagers. That's awesome. Yeah. You know, homeschooling, there's all the things that went |
| 0:59.0 | on with the pandemic that were, you know, that were not great. But one of the things that |
| 1:03.3 | the pandemic did was it opened people's eyes to what homeschooling is and how it works |
| 1:07.4 | and gave people a choice. And I think that's one of the biggest things that people are |
| 1:11.4 | looking for in education is the ability to have choice. And when they discovered that |
| 1:15.4 | homeschooling can work and work for their families, it just doesn't work for everybody. |
| 1:18.8 | So for the families that it does work for, it is, for me, it is the best way to be able |
| 1:23.5 | to educate young people because we're focusing on the individual and not in a classroom. |
| 1:28.1 | And I used to be a classroom teacher. So I came from the classroom. I came from the |
| 1:30.9 | public school system and then started left the public school system to start creating |
| 1:35.5 | homeschool programs. And I just turned out I was a math guy. So I started making math |
| 1:38.9 | programs. Yeah. My, my daughter's a third grade school teacher. And she's even talked |
| 1:43.0 | about potentially, you know, working online, you know, doing education online. Just the |
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