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Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Turning Bugs Into Features and Reimagining Education with Wes Kao

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 156: Flash back to high school, and imagine you could take courses in crypto, content creation, audience building and product management. Well, you may not be in high school anymore, but it is not too late to learn about the subjects you were actually interested in and build your passion into a business. Today’s guest, Wes Kao, is the co-founder of Maven, a cohort-based course platform that is turning conventional education on its head. Natalie and Wes discuss the various subjects and teachers available on the platform, and how content creators can begin designing their own courses and monetizing them in no time. Wes has the kind of resume any entrepreneur dreams of, and her strategies for reframing your mindset are gamechangers. Grab a pen and paper, because you’re going to want to take notes! Today’s episode dives into: How to foster a loyal community and encourage bi-directional learning Why your Spikey point of view could help your brand and make you stand out Ways to reframe your mindset and turn bugs into features The future of the creator economy Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Wes on Twitter @wes_kao and Maven @MavenHQ Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: METABOLIC REDS – Go to getreds/real to unlock your offer of a free Metabolic Greens with your purchase of Metabolic Reds. TAILOR BRANDS – Go to www.tailorbrands.com and use the code realreel40 for 40% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:04.0

Whatever negative thing that you see about yourself or any error or liability or

0:16.8

disadvantage that you see something that you normally would want to gloss

0:19.7

over. What if you swung the pendulum and assumed that it was a strength instead?

0:26.3

That it was actually an asset, that it was actually a feature?

0:29.1

Welcome to the Real Rail where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of

0:37.4

entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

0:50.1

Hello everybody welcome back to the real real Podcast. It's your host, Natalie Barboo.

0:55.6

And I'm coming to you from Miami and I have never been as happy to say that because I'm

1:01.8

going to talk about what happened this week. Last weekend I went to

1:05.2

Houston and I've never been to Houston before so it was my very first time but it was actually

1:10.0

unintentionally my third time in Texas this year so I've been to Texas like every

1:14.4

single month this year or actually no I went once in January and twice in March

1:19.2

so I've been spending a lot of time in Texas which it's not a place that I usually go to, but this year, you know, I've just been traveling there, and I do like it, but I don't know, I like the East Coast a lot better, but it's fun, it's fun to travel there, it's fun to see new cities and kind of see how other people live and

1:34.4

Houston was definitely interesting I thought that it was kind of similar to Oklahoma City

1:40.5

but much much bigger but that was kind of like the vibe I got,

1:43.9

because if you guys didn't know, Kion,

1:45.4

you still live in Oklahoma City,

1:46.6

so we would do long distance,

1:47.8

and I would visit him a lot in Oklahoma City.

1:49.9

So that's why I am very familiar with OKC. So it kind of gave me that vibe, but just a lot more people and a lot bigger, but like same look and feel to it.

1:58.0

So that's how it was. It wasn't I wasn't there for long. I was only supposed to be there for like 48 hours. I flew in on

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