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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Traditional education is broken in the USA, and Adam Braun is here to fix it

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Adam is a New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur. He is the Founder of Pencils Of Promise, the award winning organization that has built nearly 400 schools around the world. In 2017 he is focusing on our broken college system by launching MissionU, a college alternative for the 21st century.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation?

0:04.7

A JLD here in Welcome to episode 1619 of EO Fire.

0:10.8

We're right y'all with today's most inspiring entrepreneurs.

0:13.7

Seven days a week in Fire Nation.

0:16.7

Everybody's scared of losing.

0:17.8

But in my book, I teach you how to finally win, visit howtofinalewin.com to learn how

0:24.4

to create your dream life.

0:26.2

One step at a time.

0:28.0

And I'll show you what today's featured guest, Adam Braun.

0:31.6

Adam are you prepared to ignite?

0:34.2

Yes, I am.

0:35.2

Yes.

0:36.2

Adam is a New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur.

0:40.2

He's the founder of Pencils of Promise, the award-winning organization that has built

0:44.4

over 400 schools around the world.

0:47.2

In 2017, he's focusing on the broken college system by launching Mission U, a college

0:54.0

alternative for the 21st century.

0:56.7

But I'm taking a minute, fill in some gaps from that in-shown, give us a little glimpse

1:00.6

of your personal life.

1:01.8

Sure, yeah, I was born in the Northeast.

1:05.4

I'm kind of born bread in the Northeast, actually.

1:09.2

Born in New York, raised in Connecticut, and I ended up spending a lot of time traveling

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