Happy Sunday, everybody. This is Ravi Gupta, your co-host and CEO of Lost Debate. And this is a special drop on this feed. This is the first episode of a new podcast that we have called Sweat the Technique. And this podcast is all about how do you get better, faster at anything? And joining me on this journey are my co-hosts who are a few former school principals and superintendents who had really high results for kids and who have now started to apply those lessons in the K-12 system outside of education.

So how do you become a better parent?

How do you learn your hobbies better?

How do you get better at sports?

How do you become a better manager?

Better in your relationships?

Those are the topics that we tackle on this podcast. And I'm really excited about this first episode. It's an interview with a guy named Doug Lamov, who's a hero of mine. In the intro, I explain all about why he's special to me, so I don't have to go into it again. You're going to love this episode. it's going to change the way you think about a lot of things in your life. And after you listen and you love it, go subscribe to sweat the technique wherever you get your podcast. We already have our second episode up and by Wednesday we'll have our third episode up, which is really special to me. It's all about how do you learn to surf, but it's really about how do you learn any hobby? So without further ado, let's get into that

episode. Students don't just deserve classrooms where they could achieve. First of all, they

deserve classrooms that are radically better. I don't think there's any such thing as social

justice without student achievement. Welcome to the very first episode of the Sweat the Technique

podcast. I'm Ravi Gupta and I am the CEO and founder of Lost

Debate, the network that's putting out this podcast. But before I did all this, I had a few

experiences that inform why I'm even doing this podcast in the first place. First, I was a school

principal and then I was a superintendent of a network of high performing charter schools throughout

the south in Mississippi and Tennessee.

I also designed and ran the largest training operation for progressive political campaigns

that our country has ever seen in an organization called the arena.

Now don't worry, this is not a political podcast at all, so join us no matter

what your politics are. But what we wanted to do with this podcast is create an opportunity

for people to learn about how to get better, faster, no matter what you're trying to do.

Because I and a bunch of my colleagues who are joining me on this journey as co-hosts learned

a lot when we were running schools and then running other

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