Welcome to The Trailblazer Podcast…

Paul Smith, Touchstone Education co-founder and The Trailblazer Podcast host, sits down to talk about his own values: how they first formed and the role they've played in shaping who he is today.

Highlights from this episode:

• Why you need values to blaze your own trail
• Morals, ethics and values are often considered to be the same. They're not.
• Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can lead to great things
• Your values versus others' — whose matter more?
• Self-belief and arrogance — is there a difference and does it matter?
• Independence of thought
• What a bad day really looks like
• Why 'It's the norm' should not be so normal
• You need a 'not-to-do list'
• Information is not knowledge — so what is it?
• Why a 'calling' feels so personal
• Aligning your values with a profession
• The theory of 'linking'