Brandon Stover On Life

Happy Thanksgiving! This episode will give you tangible advise from entrepreneurs we have had on Evolve who are reflecting back the values that empower them in their life and business and the ones that should not be forgotten today. I am grateful for you as listeners and hope you have a wonderful holiday.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Co-founder of Make School, Jeremy Rossmann. Jeremy is a MIT college dropout who went on to be a pioneer in redesigning higher education in the 21st century, being widely recognized as the creator of the anti-college. Started in 2012, His disruptive college called Make School has educated over 2,000 students over the last 7 years in-person programs in locations such as San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, New York City, Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong, and over one million students through online content. Inside an over hundred year old industry, they have become one of the first to establish a new college with an accredited degree and physical campus in San Francisco, with blueprints in the works for New York. In this episode he talks about how he started make school in his Palo Alto living room, how make school is radically disrupting the education space, and what the future of education looks like.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, and keynote speaker born and raised in Silicon Valley, Jonathan Levi. At the age of 16, he started an eCommerce company that would go on to become one of Inc.’s 5,000 fastest growing companies in America before being sold in 2011. Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top-performing instructors on online learning platform Udemy, and has snowballed this success into the launch of his rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces such products as the award-winning SuperHuman Academy Podcast; the bestselling "Become a SuperLearner®” print, digital, and audiobooks; and numerous other online courses through its own online training portals, SuperHuman Academy® and Branding You™ Academy. Jonathan’s media products have been enjoyed by over 250,000 people in 205 countries and territories. His latest book, The Only Skill That Matters, was published by Lionscrest in 2019 and details his own journey and the techniques that anyone can use to learn faster. In this episode he talks about the struggles he faced with learning growing up, how to tackle any learning project, and what the future of education looks like.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Paul Shapiro. Paul Shapiro is the author of the national bestseller Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World,  former Vice President of The Humane Society of the United States, the world’s largest animal protection organization, the co-host of the Business for Good Podcast, and long-time leader in food sustainability. He has CoFounded the Better Meat Co, a disruptive B2B startup with ingredients in products on 7,100 American grocery store shelves, partnered with industry giants such as Purdue, and created to address concerns from climate change and poor public health to food insecurity and animal welfare. In this episode he talks about the problems with animal farming today, the future of food with clean meat, and what it means to build a business for good in the world.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Amy Buechler. Amy is a trained psychotherapist who has logged over 3,000 hours in-session with psychotherapy clients, worked with thousands of the world's best startup founders as a transformative executive coach, and former batch director of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious seed accelerators, Y Combinator which has funded over 2,000 startups including industry juggernauts Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, & Door dash, has a community of over 4,000 founders with thousands more in their Startup School, and a cumulative valuation of $155 billion. In this episode she talks about her insights into the high-stakes, high-pressure chaos that accompanies startup life, lessons from working with Y Combinator for 5 years, and the power of having a coach as an early stage founder.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is David Wood. David is a wildly successful coach, author, and entrepreneur who after leaving his cushy Park Avenue job as a consulting actuary for fortune 100 companies like Sony Music, Proctor & Gamble, Chanel, And Exxon went on to build one of the largest coaching businesses which has served an audience of over 150,000 coaches, and has personally coached for thousands of hours across 12 countries around the globe. In this episode he talks about the transformative moments in his life, how to have tough conversations with others and yourself, and how CEO's and prison inmates have more in common than we think.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Justin Lafazan, the founder of two multinational consulting firms, best selling author, 3x Tedx Speaker, startup investor, & Cofounder of the critically acclaimed, award winning, venture backed NEXT GEN HQ which is the premier business hub providing the knowledge, mentorship, and resources to a community of 20,000 of the world's most accomplished and inspiring entrepreneurs. In this episode he talks about how hacked getting his first business mentors, the importance of networks and relationships for founders, and what being an entrepreneur truly means.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is serial founder, educator, philanthropist, mentor, and venture capitalist, Danielle Strachman of the 1517 Fund. Her disruptive 20 million dollar venture fund in San Francisco offers 250 thousand dollar investments to teens and twenty something year old dropouts, makers, hackers, and scientists who embody conviction to go against the grain of societies one path for all through college. 1517 has proven this radical thesis with a portfolio of over 30 young founder startups, watching small 1k idea investments turn into Series B companies, and 17 year olds starting 5 person teams that scale to 400 employees and are making the best autonomous driving tech on the market.

In this episode she talks about her journey in entrepreneurship of starting a school, working with Peter Thiel on the Theil Fellowship, how young founders can follow their passion and express that authentically, and what she believes the future of education looks like.

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Before starting Evolve I ran a podcast called Hustle N Happiness which I started during I time that I was working a 9 to 5 at a job I hated, depressed with my life, trying to find an escape, & decided to seek answers from successful tv stars, millionaire CEO's, lifestyle entrepreneurs, & musicians in order to evolve my own mindest.

This episode will give you tangible advise for how you can start identifying who you are and what you want in life, how to start taking action against your dreams, facing the fear of failure, finding happiness and fulfillment in your pursuits, and most of all, evolving yourself.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is a women’s health and lifestyle coach who has dared to lead hundreds of women down a path of radical self acceptance. Joanne Encarnacion is the Founder & Editor of GOFITJO, which has amassed a following of over 80,000 people, a thriving blog of 20,000 readers a month, all following the road to radical self-acceptance and redefining wellness on their terms. She has also competed in 3 body-building competitions, was the director of curation and community at the $500 Million Startup VSCO, and still manages to juggle being a loving wife and mother of 2 while managing a creative business, photoshoots, brand deals, and workouts. In this episode she talks about startup culture inside VSCO, how fitness empowered her career and life, and the power that self acceptance, wellness, and vulnerability has for entrepreneurs & startups.

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