The Unfiltered Truth About Entrepreneurship w/ Adam Braun
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Adam Braun is an author and entrepreneur who you may know from his work with Pencils of Promise, an organization that creates schools and other projects that bring education to underserved populations living in rural poverty. He’s also the author of the book “The Promise Of A Pencil” and more recently the founder of a super exciting education startup called MissionU whose model is 1 year of intense, skill-based education with NO upfront tuition - instead, you give them a percentage of your income once you land that sweet job.
Today on the podcast,
* Why he walked away from a career in management consulting to dedicate himself to his passion of giving the rural poor access to education via Pencils Of Promise
* We get into a topic I’ve been touching on a lot lately which is balance. As a new father and entrepreneur this is a big challenge for Adam and he speaks very candidly about the real tradeoffs he has to make between his company, his family and his health
* On that note, he also shares some of the habits and hacks he’s developed such as his journaling routine and practice of putting his phone in airplane mode in another room before going to bed
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:09.6 | You guys know this show. |
| 0:10.7 | This is the show where I sit down with the world's top creators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, |
| 0:15.4 | and I do everything in my power to give them to share their brains with you. |
| 0:20.4 | And with me, of course course there's a little bit |
| 0:21.6 | of self-service here um i'm also trying to unpack actionable and valuable insights to help you |
| 0:26.6 | live your dreams and career and hobby and in life my guest today old bane guy dropped out did |
| 0:34.0 | some cool stuff with some charity stuff and now has a a new, no, this guy is one of the |
| 0:40.3 | most talented, hardworking, brilliant people. I know. His name is Adam Braun. Adam, he, |
| 0:47.1 | the things that I was just jesting about, he has done all of those things, but he's done up to like, |
| 0:51.2 | you know, what's the spinal tap thing? He goes to 11. |
| 0:58.7 | Adam is the author and entrepreneur that you guys probably know from pencils of promise. |
| 1:03.6 | One of the, I feel like there's a whole new generation of non-for-profits that has, you know, like pencils of promise, charity water that are breaking through using technology to tap into |
| 1:08.8 | not just your wallets either, you're there's storytellers |
| 1:12.1 | they're doing a great job of bringing the work that you do to support these nonprofits are doing |
| 1:17.7 | a great job of demonstrating that through providing access and video telling great stories about |
| 1:23.5 | the work that they do Adam is the founder of Pencils of. This organization creates schools and a handful of other products that bring education |
| 1:32.0 | to underserved populations in rural poverty. |
| 1:35.3 | And this is, I think it's Africa, Asia, all over the planet. |
| 1:40.9 | And he's also the author of the book by the same name. |
| 1:43.7 | Actually, it's a little bit |
| 1:44.6 | different, but the promise of a pencil, New York Times bestseller. And he's the founder also of a new |
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