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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army and normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation

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Speaker 1: with Don Wetrick. Right after these brief messages from our

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Speaker 1: general sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Well, it just dawned me when you're telling about this

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Speaker 2: awesome organization, Society of Entrepreneurs here in Memphis. That was

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Speaker 2: my rule three. Your rule three was my rule three.

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Speaker 1: It is the same rules. It's one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why last, because we had three rules and they're not

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Speaker 1: that dissimilar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like, it's your real three. And I think

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Speaker 2: that that was also when students, especially it's current generation

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Speaker 2: Z is awesome. I really like gen Z. They really

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Speaker 2: if you point them in the right direction and you

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Speaker 2: can kind of bring back things to first principles. They

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Speaker 2: do want to make a difference, and or sometimes in

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Speaker 2: the process of making a difference, they realize, oh what

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Speaker 2: am I fighting for here upon further inspection, this is

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Speaker 2: maybe not what I thought.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you are more apt to help other people

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Speaker 1: and engage in society and places that need help when

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Speaker 1: you're engaged in things that actually interest you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah everything, yeah, yeah, me duh. Although I will say

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Speaker 2: so I was having this debate about like some classes

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Speaker 2: you have to take in college. Easily one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite classes I never would have taken unless I had

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Speaker 2: to get a certain credit, and I took World Mythologies

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Speaker 2: and Religions, and it was there I learned about Joseph

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Speaker 2: Campbell and my life has forever changed.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna have to enlighten me.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, you don't, oh oh, oh man. We're going

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Speaker 2: to become friends now for life. Joseph Campbell was a

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Speaker 2: historian and literally kind of an I won't say authority figure,

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Speaker 2: but like he was very acknowledged and understanding of world

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Speaker 2: mythologies from endig myths to you know, Grecianity and Christianity

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Speaker 2: and everything else like religions and mythologies, and he really

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Speaker 2: found a lot of commonalities. The Hero's Journey is the

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Speaker 2: same movie we've seen again and again and again, whether that.

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Speaker 1: Luke Scott Walker's with the protagonist Darth Rader.

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Speaker 2: And they have to leave their home to go to

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Speaker 2: when they win, that's not good enough. They have to

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Speaker 2: have to get into what an open source learning was

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Speaker 2: because this is where the magic started happen, Like from

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Speaker 2: a public sense, kids are starting to work on things.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone, by the way, I'm not going to glorify

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Speaker 2: it this. There are some kids that just.

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Speaker 1: Are slackers and everything well I mean, or there kids

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Speaker 2: Absolutely right, absolutely, and and God bless those kids. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand why I have to do this, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I got it. Which is interesting as you say that,

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Speaker 1: because you think about in high school, we all went

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing in your class. Really, it's just

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Speaker 2: Learning how to fail in a place where failure is

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Speaker 2: I think everybody knew where they were when they first

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Speaker 2: Right. If they can use you learn how to use

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Speaker 2: So I'm not trying to say that like life is

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Speaker 1: Because I can get it now. I didn't get that.

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Speaker 2: when I was I'm fifty two and I just turned

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Speaker 2: fifty two, so what was I saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

434
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Speaker 2: So ironically know these these girls were from Gary, these

435
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Speaker 2: other girls arerom Gary. So in the curriculum, we're like,

436
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Speaker 2: solve a problem. And so they were working with their

437
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Speaker 2: their teacher, who was a legendary teacher, Dan Schultz from

438
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Speaker 2: Hobart High School, and they said our problem is our

439
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Speaker 2: our Humane Society is a no kill shelter and they're

440
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Speaker 2: lacking funds. It's a no kill shelter, so so what

441
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Speaker 2: are they doing just mounting up animals everywhere trying to

442
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Speaker 2: get them adopted and like begging fosters like they it's

443
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Speaker 2: it was a problem. That was a problem, and so

444
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Speaker 2: Dan was like, all right, what are you gonna do?

445
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Speaker 2: And the like we want to like sell like dog toys,

446
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Speaker 2: and maybe we'll take the money from the dog toys

447
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 2: sell and then that'll we'll give the money to the

448
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Speaker 2: Humane Society. And so what they decide to do is

449
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Speaker 2: Dan asked, and I'm I'm I'm maybe getting some of

450
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Speaker 2: the facts on what they came up with, what mister

451
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Speaker 2: Schultz came up with. So I apologized to the patch

452
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Speaker 2: Balls girls, but they said second problem was that they

453
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Speaker 2: also didn't like upsych they didn't like fashion that you

454
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Speaker 2: throw away. And so the girls went to the farmer's market.

455
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Speaker 2: Because this is factually I'm getting this correct, So they

456
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 2: wanted to start selling at their local farmer's market. But

457
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 2: the first thing they started asking for is donations of

458
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 2: jeans and old t shirts that you were going to

459
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Speaker 2: throw out, and so they started shredding the T shirts

460
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: and the jeans pattern they'd cut out to make a

461
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: little bone pattern, and they were stuffing them with old

462
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Speaker 2: shirts and using the jeens, and then they'd go to

463
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Speaker 2: the farmer's market and sell out immediately, so much so

464
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Speaker 2: that people were giving them money even though they didn't

465
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Speaker 2: have any bones. So their problem was they couldn't keep

466
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Speaker 2: up with capacity. So this is where it gets really

467
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 2: fun why I like using tax dollars for good. Part

468
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 2: of the process is if you make it past round one,

469
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Speaker 2: you are required to meet with your Small Business Development Center.

470
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Speaker 2: And these girls were like, we got a problem in

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Speaker 2: our hands. People love our product. They love that it's

472
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Speaker 2: helping the local humane society, and they love because it's

473
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Speaker 2: getting fast fashion out of landfills. How wholesome is this? Waight?

474
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Speaker 2: It gets better? So this SBDC counselor goes, so your

475
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 2: problem is assembly in production. They go, yeah, and there

476
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Speaker 2: she is, Oh my gosh, about ten miles from your

477
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Speaker 2: I don't only think is that far very close proximity

478
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Speaker 2: to your high school. There is an organization called trade Wins,

479
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: and they hire special needs adults to sow and assemble

480
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Speaker 2: things together, two fifteen year old girls solved three problems,

481
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Speaker 2: helping your main society, getting landfill off of landfill, and

482
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Speaker 2: helping employ the most underemployed. I couldn't script a better

483
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 2: movie than that. And they wins the first time freshman won.

484
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Speaker 2: That may be forever hard to beat that story. That's

485
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Speaker 2: I'll start shopping phenomenal. I'm hoping to try to shop

486
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Speaker 2: that to like NBC's making a difference.

487
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Speaker 1: That's a great story. And so all of this comes

488
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Speaker 1: from was that part of started up? Yeah, that's from

489
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Speaker 1: this thing.

490
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: Yes, part of our curriculum, see a problem, solve it,

491
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: And because of great teachers, like part of that's from us.

492
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Speaker 1: They had ten year old girls go on to do

493
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Speaker 1: it their life after that, they're still in high school.

494
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Speaker 1: They're still hitting yes.

495
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Speaker 2: Oh you keep asking the most great questions because now

496
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 2: it's going to sound even better. They haven't participated in

497
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: innovate within because they already won. And so their mentors,

498
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 2: their mentors for students that are older than.

499
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Speaker 1: Them, teaching them. How started up? Stuff amazing and and

500
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Speaker 1: and and one of the universal was started up? Now

501
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: an organization that you're the executive director of or whatever

502
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: how's that work, the CEO, and so that you're now

503
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Speaker 1: running this is it an annual competition? Yeah?

504
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Speaker 2: Man, I wish I could always do interviews this accommodating. Yes,

505
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: our big, our big, one of our big things is

506
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: innovate within that is the big Pitch competition that is statewide.

507
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 2: We have six regions. So if you took a map

508
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 2: of Indiana and you bowled it in half and you

509
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 2: cut it in thirds, those of our six regions. So

510
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: we get thousands of teams to apply and then we

511
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: boil them down through a rubric and a lot of

512
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: judging that we break down a top ten in every region.

513
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Speaker 2: We have those in now we have sixty groop okay.

514
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Speaker 1: And then.

515
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Speaker 2: Those competitions are pretty I bet they are amazing once

516
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 2: you boil it down to them again with our partners

517
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 2: at the Small Business Development Centers, they all like help

518
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: coach them. A lot of legacy teams like these kids

519
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: come back and coach up their schools. Right. And so

520
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: from there we have six finalists and we have four

521
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: wild cards. And luckily for us, there was a consistent

522
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 2: judge at all six with the SBDCs and the IDC,

523
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 2: and so we basically have four because in some cases

524
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Speaker 2: second place it's too good, So we have a top

525
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Speaker 2: ten team. My favorite thing is those kids. I'm hoping

526
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: to know that. By the way, if you made it

527
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: to the top sixty, we have an alumni association. I

528
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 2: hope to know them for the next twenty years, which

529
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: will make me seventy two. You kid, no no no.

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Speaker 2: By Governor Holcombe asking for it slight turn again, people

531
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: are like, dear god, this man's add But one year

532
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: he was listening to this girl. So he shows up early.

533
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 2: And I'll say this about Governor Holkum. He really loves

534
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 2: innovate with them and started up and so he was

535
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 2: talking to this one young lady and he looks at me.

536
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 2: He goes, she just made me feel so stupid. This

537
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 2: is awesome. And he goes, where is she going? And

538
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, don't worry about it. She's going to

539
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: Indiana University. She's going to you no, no, no no.

540
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: In five years. Where's she going? And I was like,

541
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Speaker 2: I don't know. And he goes, are you going to

542
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: keep in contact with her? And I go, actually, this

543
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: was like the year three or four, and I go,

544
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: we actually do stay in contact. Of a lot of them,

545
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: and he goes, you should have like a better tracking

546
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 2: and so we started an alumni association to really refer

547
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: and then when we get into other people we're dealing

548
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 2: with and working with, they want referrals to other people,

549
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: and we do that for them. And then the other

550
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: big thing we do is though those top ten teams,

551
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 2: whether you came in first or tenth, they all go

552
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: to another city ironically to incentivize them to stay in Indiana

553
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: the last two years. So the first year is in

554
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: New York City and we're trying to show them, like

555
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: they got to meet so and so they got to

556
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: meet Seth Godin and John Ford of CNBC and these

557
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: other cool like cool things, and then they're meeting a

558
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 2: great network and we're like we're over their side, like

559
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 2: whispering there, but you should still like stay in Indiana

560
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: because like you know them now and it's cheaper to

561
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: stay here, and your mom and dad love you, so

562
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: don't leave, right, And so that's that's the Crown Jewel

563
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 2: is innovate with then, and that kind of belief.

564
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Speaker 1: There's kids standing in line to be part of this.

565
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: Oh, at some schools, this is this will go down

566
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Speaker 2: as my favorite interview ever.

567
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: Thank you dude.

568
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: You're just serving and you weren't.

569
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Speaker 1: We weren't.

570
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: We didn't rehearse. We not rehearsed, you would think. And

571
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: at some schools it is becoming popular.

572
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: By the way, because of what you just said. I

573
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: will not be flying to your house and washing your floors.

574
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: Okay, A good, good, good. This is the thing that

575
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: this one of the reasons why we now have this

576
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 2: teacher fellowship. In the beginning, when we put out the curriculum,

577
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: we started to see some growth in certain schools. When

578
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: we looked at it, it was not the school, it

579
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: was an individual teacher that was absolute trojan horse. I

580
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: was talking about Dan Schultz, says Sarah Ackerman. Jose Mota.

581
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 2: These absolute sellar and so we then started having more

582
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: conversations with them on how do we grow it? And

583
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: they were the pied pipers, and I will say our

584
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 2: Secretary of Education and just our doe in general, they

585
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 2: take some risks. We had some changes in our new

586
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 2: requirements and we're being criticized for them, but in a

587
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 2: lot of ways they're very friendly towards the trades. So

588
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: I personally think that people are I think what Ada

589
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: is doing is wonderful. But I asked her, hey, I'm

590
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: starting to identify these unbelievably great teachers. Let's start a fellowship.

591
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 2: Plus a friend of ours and now one of our

592
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 2: newest board members, he is a White House fellow, and

593
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: he's telling me about if you make things like fellowships

594
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: are powerful, and so we propose that we have this

595
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: fellowship of innovative Educators. It's exclusive. Like I'm talking, we're

596
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: trying to get some awesome things for you. It's a

597
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: bad business model, but it's good for teachers. So a

598
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: lot of times I'll bring in money and I'll pay

599
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: them more because and it's not a whole lot, but

600
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 2: it's better than working thirty forty football games and basketball

601
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: games at the gate. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

602
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: You should still work the gate. But we also gave

603
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 2: them other incentives. Every now and then it'd be like

604
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: a panel speaking thing, and we wanted the teachers to go.

605
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: We had a couple and this is where hopefully people

606
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 2: are like you, lucky son of a We're in Indianapolis,

607
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: so it's the motor sports capital. There is a wonderful

608
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: company called Delara. They're the innovation leaders and motorsports, and

609
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,239
Speaker 2: they're in the Italian motor Valley, and so they liked

610
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: some of our teachers and students and we went out

611
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 2: to Italy. Teachers didn't pay for that, and and you know,

612
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 2: we've had other opportunities where we would get crazy relationships

613
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 2: and we wanted to make sure the teachers got to

614
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: work or talk to them. Just this last year, thank

615
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 2: you Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis. The Indiana Pacers hosted the

616
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game this year and they broke her

617
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: tot awesome biod this with fifty and fifty cent sponsored

618
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 2: one to sponsor two teams from certain high schools around

619
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: the Indianapolis era, and so some teachers and students got

620
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: to meet fifty. We want we want to celebritize great teachers.

621
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: And if you celebritize them enough, they get picked up.

622
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: So you're like, all right, let's bust our butt to

623
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: have better incentives for them, because like, schools can't pay

624
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 2: you for like ironically, schools normally don't do like bonus

625
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: pay for turning out amazing stuff. But I can.

626
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be right back, all right, So last year,

627
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: let's just take last year all right.

628
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: Last year, there's the sixty teams.

629
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or are they teams? Yeah? All right, sixty teams? Sorry?

630
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: That is that usually two students? Is this gonna say?

631
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: Sometimes they're solopreneurs. We actually pay out a little bit

632
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: more if you're a team.

633
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So there's sixty competitors, all right, do they

634
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: all present at the same place? And who do they

635
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: present to?

636
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: Uh So, depending on the location. A lot of times

637
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 2: they're at universities. We had wanted a maker space this year,

638
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 2: but they all top ten teams for that region won.

639
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 2: The consistent judge was Anne Marie. She was from the IDC,

640
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: and then a lot of times it was like a

641
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 2: university president or provost or sometimes like the business department lead,

642
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 2: but they weren't us. So yeah, so they would these

643
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: top ten teams would make that pitch, and again a

644
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: lot of these people had business backgrounds, so they were

645
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: asking him real questions. Yeah, and it it. I think

646
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: that's why it has gotten so competitive. It's also where

647
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 2: it breaks my heart because competitions make everything better. But

648
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 2: they also like like I hate see you know, kids

649
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: like walk away to dejected. Like last year, I started

650
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: freaking crying at state finals because I felt so bad.

651
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: It's like like all ten teams were amazing and I

652
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: was like the second police team. I was like trying

653
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: not to because I'm way emotional.

654
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: Okay, So how long are these presentations that they did? Yeah?

655
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 2: Six minutes with four minutes Q and A.

656
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: So these kids could work conceivably all year, and they

657
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: first identify an issue, and then they come up with

658
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: a solution, and then they implement that solution.

659
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: And then they get shot down by their teacher fellow.

660
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: I think what they have the superpower is is they

661
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 2: have them the power to say this is not good.

662
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 2: Start over, and.

663
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: So they do until they come up with a problem,

664
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: a solution, and an implementation yet worked yep. And then they,

665
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: in six minutes, after working conceivably a year on this,

666
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: stand in front of some adults that are judging them,

667
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: and they have six minutes to sell you on this

668
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,959
Speaker 1: is a real problem. This is the way we're going

669
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: to innovate to solve the problem, and here is how

670
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: we implemented it. I don't think you could learn any better.

671
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: Could I add just one more thing on that please

672
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 2: the harsh real First of all, this is every pitch competition, right,

673
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 2: you boil things down and you have to be concise.

674
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: But most of the top teams, and this is again

675
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: I'm not pandering to my governor, but he pointed it

676
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: out last year. He goes, he took the stage and

677
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 2: after all of them, he says, all ten teams had

678
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 2: advisory boards and they weren't moms and dads and aunts

679
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: and uncles. That's also part of our curriculum. Understand your network.

680
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 2: Who do you reach out to, who you get advice from?

681
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: Good advice, not like my dad says. You know, of

682
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 2: course I had.

683
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: That's the reality of the world.

684
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 2: But they have gotten to be so savvy. We've had

685
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 2: several kids this year as they were going through their

686
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: slides and they'd show a graph on expenses and like,

687
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 2: here's basically a snapshot of our expenses. I'd love to

688
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 2: go into more detail. In Q and A, they're baiting

689
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 2: the judges to ask.

690
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: What is wrong with that?

691
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 2: I love it. It's again you watching like I am

692
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 2: stupid at this age. I was trying to impress my girlfriends,

693
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 2: who thank god is my wife now. But like you

694
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: go like what and and and why? Actually there's like

695
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 2: two or three teams that they go later and they're

696
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 2: all live stream because like all of ours are live

697
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: streams and there's other so man first mover advantage is

698
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: not a first mover advantage. So God bless the kids

699
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: in Region one because I know that Region three they're

700
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 2: literally like popcorn watching. Maybe they don't starve popmarn, but

701
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: that they're all watching and they're like, ah, that's good.

702
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 2: And so they there's been a couple of kids that

703
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 2: blaze the trail of I'd love to go into more detail.

704
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: You can ask me that in Q and A later,

705
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 2: you know, follow up, But that's like it.

706
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: So after they make the espressation, then there's a panel

707
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: of judges that then get to do the shark trait drilling,

708
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: and they've got to snap off answers and if they

709
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: if they try to, if they try to snow it

710
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 1: or don't have real answers, it's it shows.

711
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, we've even kind of coached them up

712
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: of like there's nothing wrong with admitting I don't know

713
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: that answer.

714
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's better than a snow job.

715
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: And and then I think the other really interesting part

716
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: of the the Q and A is just I think

717
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: it's worth it's one and lost.

718
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: That's what I would expect, especially anything body can make

719
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: a nice power point, how.

720
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 2: Do you respond to the real questions? And and those

721
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: who have really had mentors that are in this and

722
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 2: and and then there's certain high schools that it has

723
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: become so competitive, like that's their that's their sport.

724
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 1: Now has any of these become ongoing entities?

725
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 2: Tell me one my oh, again, not trying to show favoritism,

726
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 2: but probably one of our bigger success stories. And the one,

727
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 2: the one that you're talking about, like it it doesn't

728
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 2: have to be good looking slides and well, first you

729
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: just have to have something that makes sense. We had

730
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: two young men. I mean this lovingly. They would start

731
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: They're the kind of young men they would start off

732
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: a sentence with I'm tell you what, I'll tell you what,

733
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 2: tell you what. They were they're good country boys, got it.

734
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: And this was at the state finals where things were polished,

735
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: slides look good. A lot of times kids were in suits.

736
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 2: These young men were in car hearts.

737
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: Right.

738
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: Their problems by the way, all right, oh that's my guy.

739
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 2: What would I say?

740
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: What?

741
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: Like you'll get what their problem is? So their problem

742
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: was their problem was uh the lures you get at

743
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 2: the walmarts. Ye aren't right. Color and consistency for crappie

744
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: fishing in the spring in Indiana.

745
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: Well that's a problem.

746
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 2: So they started SIBCO, which stands for Southern Indiana Bay Company.

747
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: And what they were doing is they were listening to

748
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: fishermen and what color combinations work best for crappie and

749
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 2: then bass and then so I think now they're point

750
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 2: of sale. They have like fifty different products.

751
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?

752
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 2: They made their own plastic injection molded chad worms, crawdads,

753
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 2: I mean, like yes, frogs.

754
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: The problem they made themselves problem is the tackle out

755
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: there available to attack crappie. You're telling me the people

756
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: that made those for a living had not figured out

757
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: the best scholar combinations.

758
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: Probably had in a general mass market. But they started

759
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 2: off hyper niche. They started off wanting to help Southern

760
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 2: Indiana fishermen.

761
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: Southern Indiana fishermen for the crappie and those fonds.

762
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 2: And now they have sales in all fifty states in Europe.

763
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: You are hitting me, by the way.

764
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 2: He also, I am if I'm getting this wrong, Zion,

765
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: I apologize. I think that he also started the best

766
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 2: team at his high school and now he is among

767
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 2: the I don't know, I don't know if he's the president,

768
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: but he also helps run the Beast team at Purdue.

769
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: Is it a business, sibco is? Yeah, And they started

770
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: from this thing in high school. And let's talk.

771
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 2: About and the boys go to like their other thing

772
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 2: is they listen to fishermen and what do they do

773
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: most of their money is because they do trade shows.

774
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 2: They're on tour during trade shows.

775
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: And these are country kids in cars that and it

776
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: have never ever ever gone down that path that it's

777
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: not been.

778
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: Therefore and ironic, well, no, no, these boys were they

779
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 2: were destined for this. They already started it in a

780
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: minor way and then they kept expanding it. So credit

781
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 2: where credits due. These were inventive young men brothers by

782
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: the way, Zion and Xavier. But their ability to listen

783
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 2: to fishermen and work trade shows and honestly, what is

784
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 2: their secret sauce their age? You made these and then

785
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: the process of learning how to package and make sure

786
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: the packaging looks good and everything else. So uh again,

787
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: like I last year's winners, right, they came up because

788
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: they had a legendarily awesome teacher Craig.

789
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: What was there? What was their problem?

790
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: There was a they weren't a BioMed class, so they

791
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 2: went BioMed. So they went to a hospital and started

792
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 2: asking a lot of questions.

793
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: And what they found was the problem.

794
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 2: Right, So they they they realized that a lot of

795
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: people that had catheters and lots of people at the site, right,

796
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: you'll get infected. And then how do you know you

797
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 2: have infection? It gets it gets warm and it gets

798
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 2: red around where the.

799
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: Body.

800
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: Right, So they're like, yeah, that's a real problem. Right.

801
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 2: And normally when you detective, you're like, why is the sore?

802
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 2: So they're like, why isn't there like a little interceptor

803
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: in the tube you can tell an affection before it

804
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 2: gets bad?

805
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: Wow?

806
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 2: And some people are like, it's actually not rocket science.

807
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 2: Why aren't we weren't we doing that?

808
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 3: And and they they won Are some of these kids

809
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: like patent and yes, as that is And do they

810
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: have help to copywriter platten whatever they're doing.

811
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: Yes, as a matter of fact, so you can tell

812
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: me a high school kid figured out what.

813
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 2: Oh, it still needs more research, make no mistake about that.

814
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: One.

815
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 2: Like the things that are in the BioMed area. You

816
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: have to be careful sure now that what they have

817
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: was basically like an and egen tester, like it's an interceptor,

818
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 2: so it really doesn't affect it's it can be done

819
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 2: a little bit easier. So if they said I've got

820
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 2: a cure for.

821
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: Still the fact that these kids are walking around hospitals

822
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: asking what's the problem and then coming up with solutions,

823
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: that is that's the thing. But that's learning. That's education. Yes,

824
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: that's it's education in standing in front of people. It's

825
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: education entrepreneurship. It's education and being creative. It's education and

826
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: asking questions. It's education developing relationships. It's education on entry

827
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: to market. It's education budgeting.

828
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 2: How to invest in, how to spend investor money in finance.

829
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, fund the kids that

830
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 2: win regional. No, again, they watched the years before.

831
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: They know that.

832
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: One of the statements that all the judges like to see,

833
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: how did you spend your regional money? Research and development

834
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: marketing paid theirselves back because like, if you win the region,

835
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 2: it's one thousand dollars per person per team, plus an

836
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 2: all expense trip to this year's Washington DC. And so

837
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 2: the the prize money should not go to you know,

838
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 2: Mountain dew and whatever. As a matter of fact, at

839
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 2: the state level, it's a twenty five thousand dollars seed fund.

840
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 2: We take zero percent equity. But there was a joke

841
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 2: in year one, what happens when you give a kid

842
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,280
Speaker 2: a twenty five thousand dollars check, he buys a used Mustang.

843
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 2: So now the expectation isn't because sophistication has gotten better.

844
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 2: They know that that's an investment in them, so they're

845
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: not going to go buy a used guard. They're like,

846
00:45:58,560 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: I'm going to grow.

847
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: This thing will be right back.

848
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: Fun fact, this year's crop of Forbes thirty under thirty

849
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: we have two. This year's crop of Forbes thirty under

850
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: thirty two came from this nineteen years old.

851
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: You are kidding me. This should be done in every state.

852
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 2: I would like your help. It's been a lonely, weird existence.

853
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 2: It's it's which is why I was so excited to

854
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 2: do this podcast, because you're leading an army normal people,

855
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: and normal people will go why why isn't my son's

856
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 2: school doing that? And yet it's it's it's been really

857
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: been private schools being homeschool cohort school is awesome. Yes, yeah,

858
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 2: you had a guest on them about homeschool cohort so yeah,

859
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, yes, I I want every high schooler

860
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: to at least have this option. And by the way,

861
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: i'm giving you the best case scenario. We still get

862
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 2: a lot of really bad pitches, but they're thinking, Okay,

863
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 2: who cares. Exactly.

864
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: There's part of education also to be told that's a

865
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: bad goal, that's not a proper dream. But I like

866
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: your thought process, refine it and come back. Yeah, which

867
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: is exactly what a bank's going to say to me

868
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: when I want to start a business. Yeah, and you

869
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 1: might as well learn.

870
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 2: That now exactly. I'm gonna for those watching on videos,

871
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 2: I know it's mostly an audio. I'm gonna do exactly.

872
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 2: So round one is a video pitch because we have

873
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 2: to go over a lot of them. Yeah, and this

874
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 2: is one young man from a school that did not

875
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 2: have a lot gave the one thousand yards stare and

876
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 2: the video looked like this. He looked at the camera,

877
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 2: he goes, I've been listening to people complaining I think

878
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 2: I'm onto something. Here's a thousand yards stare. Seriously, in

879
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 2: that moment, I knew that the mindset was there in

880
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 2: his eyes. He was like already reflecting, like this cool,

881
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: and I just love the fact that our theme has

882
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 2: been see a problem as an opportunity. And he's like,

883
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: I've been listening to complain people complain. I think that

884
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: I'm onto something like that was everything to us. He

885
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 2: didn't go on and win, he didn't make it the regionals,

886
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 2: but it's that beginning muscle memory of saying, like we

887
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 2: say this again and again and again in our in

888
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 2: our in our in our curriculum, people of influence solve

889
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 2: people's problems. The gold standard right now for kids in

890
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: entrepreneurship is mister Beast. Is what mister Beast? He is

891
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,959
Speaker 2: the gold standard. This guy years ago was doing dumb

892
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 2: things on I shouldn't say dumb. He was doing stunts

893
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 2: on Twitch like I'm going to watch the Macarena for

894
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,479
Speaker 2: forty eight hours and live stream it. But he would

895
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 2: make money and people would feel sorry, I give him

896
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 2: five bucks here, ten bucks there, a thing and he's like, hey,

897
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 2: I'm going to plant ten thousand trees now from the money.

898
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: And this guy is the biggest YouTube influence, Like he

899
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: makes more, he's making bank I think he may be

900
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 2: with the B now not just the m Wow. He

901
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 2: is making more money than anybody, anybody, And like a

902
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 2: couple of my favorites, he wants to buy here, pay

903
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 2: here a lot. Matter of fact, fact check me. It

904
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 2: may have been in Tennessee a lot of times. They're

905
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, but he wants to buy here, pay

906
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 2: her a lot. Obviously in a buy here, pay her

907
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 2: a lot. Not great area. And he bought every car,

908
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: and he started putting in window stickers that said one

909
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 2: dollar and five dollars, and people are like, they had

910
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: cameras and people like, are you what are you doing?

911
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 2: Is you drive a hard bargain. I'll give you twenty

912
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 2: thousand dollars take it off our hands. For people that

913
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 2: needed it, went to a grocery store like an IgA,

914
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 2: a smaller one, bought, bought the grocery store. Everything in it.

915
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 2: Got the p's like, hey, if anybody here shopping, you

916
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 2: just could go ahead and leave. We're just going to

917
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: pay for all of it one end. Some of his

918
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:06,280
Speaker 2: fans love it. His fans brought in like refrigerated box trucks,

919
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 2: took in all the food and they started making deliveries

920
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 2: to food shelters.

921
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you're kidding.

922
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: This guy has monetized nice got it, so a lot

923
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 2: of times he'll do good things. So people were like,

924
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: you know, he's making all his money off YouTube. No

925
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,919
Speaker 2: he's not. He's he sells merchandise. I have a Mister

926
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 2: Beast hoodie and I'm fifty two years old. I have

927
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 2: a Mister Beasts hat because when people see, like, especially

928
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 2: when he was first like not too popular, it's like

929
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 2: if you know, you know, so when I'd wear my

930
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 2: mister Beasts hoodie, the kids are like, ah, what track?

931
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: All right, hold on, it's time to introduce somebody else.

932
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: If you're a listener of an army normal folks, you

933
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:48,479
Speaker 1: know Alex, who is our producer and often my straight man,

934
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: who I like to make fun of. But there's another

935
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: guy named Cassius who's our videographer. Cassius owns ISF Productions,

936
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: and if this podcast where we do men of our podcast,

937
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: which you can attest to, pretty cool.

938
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, very nice out that right.

939
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: Anyway, when you said mister Bees, that's the first time

940
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: I've ever heard you say a word doing record cash

941
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: Just you know, mister b is you watched him, really

942
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: is he hilarious. All right, So what you're saying is

943
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: your kids are all like mister Bees.

944
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 2: He's the gold standard beast, Like he's the beast, mister Beast.

945
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

946
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 2: But when I go into school sometimes that I want

947
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: to like, I'm making a lot of school business.

948
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: This is my thing.

949
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: I like, I love my team, they're fantastic. My actually

950
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 2: my former students, one of my co founder.

951
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

952
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 2: But I want to go and visit schools and so

953
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: a lot of times like who's this older guy and

954
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, And I'm like, hey, guys, have ever

955
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: heard of entrepreneurship? And I started them off really boring

956
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 2: and I said, you know, ask me who my favorite

957
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 2: entrepreneur is. They're like, is it Elon or is it Jeff?

958
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 2: I guess? I go it's Jimmy. And they because if

959
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 2: you know who Jimmy is, they're like, you know what

960
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many names and so they're like,

961
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 2: what do you mean. I go, he's an entrepreneur and like,

962
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 2: no he's not. He's a YouTuber.

963
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: No, he's an entrepreneur.

964
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: And I break it down. They're like, that's what I

965
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 2: want to do because he because here we go this

966
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 2: episode called because he does Rule number three. Nothing that

967
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 2: he does is about just him. It's about helping others.

968
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: He has monetized nice, which now we're going to get

969
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 2: to the Kim Kardashian thing. This is a new high

970
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 2: for me and remembering my add and circling back to

971
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 2: something years ago. I had my daughter. She just wanted

972
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: to have a day off school. So I had released

973
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 2: a book and I was starting to speak a little bit.

974
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 2: One of them was going to be in Chicago, so

975
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 2: I was going to drive to it. So Ava was like, hey, Dad,

976
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 2: can I kind of go with you? And here you speak.

977
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 2: I've never heard you speak. She just wanted to get

978
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 2: out school. God bless her. So we're driving and uh,

979
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 2: Celebrity Gossip Brady comes on and they're talking about and

980
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 2: I think it was Kanye and Kim or whatever, and

981
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 2: about somebody getting a divorce. And my daughter turns off

982
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 2: the radio and she goes that that's my generation's problem.

983
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 2: And I go, what what do you mean? And she

984
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: is we're looking up to the wrong people. And I

985
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I agree. She's like gen Z just

986
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 2: needs better mentors, and she went mentors, mentor I should

987
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 2: start a podcast called Mentors with a Z on the end,

988
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 2: and I should interview better mentors for Generation Z and

989
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 2: not just like make it Kim and Kanye stuff. And

990
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 2: she launched it. You're at age sixteen or maybe she

991
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 2: was fifteenth time.

992
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, kid, she.

993
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 2: Thought it was cool because dad was starting to do

994
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 2: and she's like, well, we mean like plus, she's just

995
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: like that person got back to you. Maybe you can

996
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 2: ask him to be on my show, but like, but

997
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 2: she's like it started off by her being dis gusted

998
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 2: and going back to that, my kids were introducing me

999
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 2: to thought leaders who's Gary Vee? Because they were getting

1000
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 2: into this learning advice from people that weren't just show voting.

1001
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: And I think that's why mister B so cool, I

1002
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: would argue started off with her dad, And I would

1003
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: say that disinfectious disease called innovation and creativity can be contagious,

1004
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: but in the most positive, amazing way. Do you ever think,

1005
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: holy crap, I was teaching language arts and now we're

1006
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: doing this. Do you ever think you know I was

1007
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: teaching language arts and I guess, what's what's the fifteen

1008
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 1: twenty years how long from when you started in education?

1009
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: To when I think started up started.

1010
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 2: I think I was in ironically, and I think it

1011
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 2: was in the year twenty or twenty one. So my

1012
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: dad's prophetic words unbelievable. Yeah, I actually think it was

1013
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: exactly that is.

1014
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: That is, Yeah, well you took us advice, but I mean,

1015
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 1: what a trip?

1016
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the true Yeah, what's next? Ironically? Enough, again,

1017
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 2: thank you for asking these questions. They're deeply personal with me.

1018
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 2: In a lot of ways, I'm trying to build what

1019
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 2: I wanted when I was a classroom teacher. In a

1020
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 2: lot of ways, I wanted access to my local mayor.

1021
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 2: I wanted access to great leaders in my community because

1022
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 2: therefore my students had access. And and that's what we're

1023
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 2: trying to do. I've been unusually blessed with having strange

1024
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 2: encounters and now a network of like I can't believe

1025
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: that I get to meet with Blank. It's been strange,

1026
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: like three weeks ago. Never mind, it's just stupid. I

1027
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 2: met Richard Branson met Richard Branson. How cool is that?

1028
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 2: That's a longer story, but like because and by somebody

1029
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 2: even online, like how do you do that? And I said,

1030
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 2: the best thing I can answer is people want it

1031
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 2: was a stroke of series of good luck in a

1032
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 2: board member, but it's something he said. I appreciate what

1033
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 2: you're trying to build where there's trying a lot of

1034
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 2: people are like, dude, you're trying to take on education.

1035
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 2: And so I am looking for one trojan horse in

1036
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 2: a high school. If it's a huge high school, i'd

1037
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 2: like two or three. And so that's what's next. I

1038
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 2: want an army of exceptional teachers that are normal people,

1039
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: because they see their riding on a wall. They see

1040
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 2: that some kids that like just went through it and

1041
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 2: graduated and have all the debt and none of the

1042
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 2: skills to not their fault. And so we're trying to

1043
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 2: build an army of teachers that are our trojan horses.

1044
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 2: They get inside the school walls. To your credit, they

1045
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: make it infectious. Problem solving can be cool, and it

1046
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 2: takes leadership, and leadership means you have to be accountable

1047
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 2: to somebody, and that is your teacher. If I can

1048
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 2: build that army, then I am happy, and I will

1049
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 2: live up to my dad's legacy. And that's what I want.

1050
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 2: I like more than anything. Probably one of the most

1051
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: like and I don't know how much he remembers of this,

1052
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: but like back when there's a thing called them all,

1053
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 2: like kids would see my dad and it was funny

1054
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 2: because like when you're a kid, when you see your

1055
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 2: teacher outside the school walls, you're like, oh my gosh,

1056
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 2: you don't live in school. But I just remember this

1057
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: one encounter where a student stopped my dad and he

1058
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 2: just start talking to him, and he looked at me

1059
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 2: and he goes, it must be so awesome to have

1060
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 2: a dad like you. Wow, And I think that's sorry.

1061
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 2: There's so many teachers out there that are that, and

1062
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 2: I want them to have more, And then I don't

1063
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 2: want to have to them to say I mean, like

1064
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 2: I wish I could do this for every teacher, but

1065
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 2: for right now, I want those creative trojan horses to

1066
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,959
Speaker 2: go in and really disrupt education, maybe in a kinder way,

1067
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 2: maybe in a less of truce way of how I started.

1068
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 2: But if we do that, you get students to really

1069
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 2: work on things that are impactful. And that's what we're

1070
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 2: going to do in time. It just takes me longer

1071
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 2: than what I thought.

1072
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal. Thank you. If somebody listening wants to what's

1073
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: to one support, what you're doing. Or two and even

1074
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: maybe more impactful, wants you to share with them how

1075
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: this all works in Dana for their state. Or three

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Speaker 1: is an educator that just wants to do this in

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Speaker 1: their class. Or four is the president of some big

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Speaker 1: school district that says we need to do this in

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Speaker 1: our city school system or whatever. Because I mean, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: as I listened to you, I think about fifty different

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Speaker 1: places this model could be apply. How do they get

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Speaker 1: in touch with you?

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Speaker 2: There's always email, So d Wetric d W E. T.

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Speaker 2: T or I C k at started up Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 2: Sorry about how long that is?

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Speaker 1: That's good? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Don Wetrick on on LinkedIn. I think those are the

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Speaker 2: two best ways.

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Speaker 1: And how do you find out more about startup foundations their.

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Speaker 2: Website start ed upfoundation dot org. And yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: we're relaunching. I used to have a podcast. It's done

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Speaker 2: a two year pause, so I'm going to be starting

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Speaker 2: that back up the next month. Started up podcast. We

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Speaker 2: have two different segments, so one is today's guest Teacher.

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely going to be a guest teacher and we'll

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Speaker 2: make sure we record that. So we have some people

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Speaker 2: of influence that that they're they're teaching today's lesson.

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Speaker 1: Got it?

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Speaker 2: And then we have another section calling finding Purpose, and

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Speaker 2: we feature teachers because I'm hoping that we have on

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Speaker 2: some really cool guests and the teacher goes, I was

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Speaker 2: on the same podcast as so and so, so.

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Speaker 1: That would be awesome. And you know, on an army

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Speaker 1: normal folks, we do the small blips of chop talk.

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Speaker 1: I thank you. I think wouldn't it be cool if

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Speaker 1: you had small blips of students who've participated just tell

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Speaker 1: their experience too, Ye?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, noted do that? That would be interesting, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, the proofs in that putting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Don Thanks for coming to Memphis, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: telling the story, Thanks for the work that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Was started up, and beyond all of that, there's lots

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Speaker 1: of different ways to get to places, and I just

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Speaker 1: feel like there's so many kids in our school system

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Speaker 1: that just kind of go through the motions that get lost,

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Speaker 1: and this thing creates so much more and it is

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Speaker 1: a different way to learn. And so thanks for all

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Speaker 1: that you do and thanks for starting up, but more importantly,

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Speaker 1: thanks for what you figured out from I'm a ted

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Speaker 1: Talk and then you institute in your school and now

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Speaker 1: you're institutent in your state that genuinely positively affects kids.

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Speaker 1: That is a phenomenal thing.

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Speaker 2: Back at you, last little donism we want. I was

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Speaker 2: wanting our students to be producers, not just consumers. Producing

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Speaker 2: now has never been easier. You can upload your world

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Speaker 2: to YouTube and influence people. I since Weston introduced me

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Speaker 2: to you, when I started digging in your podcast, the

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Speaker 2: people that are sometimes too humble to brag, the people

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Speaker 2: that are doing the real stuff. When I saw that

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Speaker 2: that was a thing, and then I saw that you

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Speaker 2: had the documentary and all this sort of things, like

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Speaker 2: you're giving a voice. I don't want to say the voiceless,

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Speaker 2: but you're giving a voice too. Like people are like

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Speaker 2: you're doing that. So back at you, I just I

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Speaker 2: love that when everybody else has chased celebrities, you are

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Speaker 2: chasing people with purpose and I got you.

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Speaker 1: Man well, I humbly say thank you for that. But

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Speaker 1: it was Alex's idea. And all I do is talk

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Speaker 1: to the people that he worked so hard defined.

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Speaker 2: So it's a lot more than just me say almos

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Speaker 2: on me thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: On an army and normal folks dude, and I will

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Speaker 1: absolutely keep up with you. And next time I'm in Indie,

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Speaker 1: which won't be long from now, maybe we maybe we

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Speaker 1: go get a bite to eat at Saint Alma's. All right, buddy,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us, Boom, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us this week. Guys, if God, Wetrick or another

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Speaker 1: guest has inspired you in general, or better yet, to

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Speaker 1: take action by bringing genius time, open source learning, or

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01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: started up to your commune unity, donating to them, or

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Speaker 1: something else entirely, please let me know. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear about it. You can write me anytime at Bill

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Speaker 1: at normalfolks dot us and ask around. I will respond.

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Speaker 1: If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with friends

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Speaker 1: and on social subscribe to the podcast, rate and review it.

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Speaker 1: Become a premium member at normalfolks dot us. Do all

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Speaker 1: these things that will help us grow an army of

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Speaker 1: normal folks. The more of you out there, the more

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Speaker 1: impact we can have. I'm Bill Courtney. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: next week.