Like many college students, Randy Humphrey loved to party. His grades suffered as a result so his dad gave him an ultimatum. He either had to get his grades up or stop school and start to work. Without thinking he chose to dropout of college and has never looked back.

Listen in as he tells Jonaed about becoming a bartender, working as a stock broker, being burnt out and then pivoting into the pay-day loans industry before creating his own, consumer-friendly, version.

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He was physically and verbally abused by students and teachers in school. Growing up in a homophobic town made school especially challenging for Evan Patterson. So much so it made him physically sick and his parents pulled him out of the classroom and placed him in an online high school instead. 

Listen in as he tells Jonaed about getting paid to write at 16, why he decided to drop out of college and how he learned not to shoe-horn himself.

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She didn’t like school although she got good grades. Sophia Lorena was always interested in personal development and it was the personal development events she attended that led to her decision to not go to college.

Listen in as she tells Jonaed about the reaction from her friends and parents and how Loan Officers can make six-figures.

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Dyslexia, ADHD and definitely NOT academic. Those are a few things Sunil Kumar shares about himself in this week’s episode. Most teachers made him feel like he was doomed to failure, except one. 

Listen in as he tells Jonaed about how he owned a snake breeding business at age 12, the challenges he faced early in his career battling Crohn’s disease and how he’s leveling the playing field so that people from around the world can get into sales.

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• Podcast Interview: How I landed 10 interviews and 3 job offers
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He grew up poor on a farm and was home-schooled. Daniel Ogden has been an entrepreneur from the age of eight. Although one of his businesses didn’t make any money for two years, he was determined to not live a life working on the farm. While working at a gas station he did his home-schooling curriculum during his lunch break. He reinvested his earnings back into his business.

Listen in as he tells Jonaed about not having a high school diploma and how learning through experience not by going to college benefited him.

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Books Mentioned:

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• Crossing the Chasm
• Lean Startup
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

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Three semesters into college, the attacks of 9/11 happened and it prompted Randy Warner to introspect. He loved sports. He enjoyed the sports medicine class he took in high school. So he thought pursuing a degree in orthopedic surgery would help him reach the ultimate goal of becoming a team physician for a professional sports team. 

But, like many college students, he went to some classes and partied the other half of the time. Listen in as he tells Jonaed why he decided to drop out, how he got fired from Samsung and how he manages to stay relevant in the ever-changing tech industry.

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He worked in a tire factory, tried out for the Falcons, served in the military, makes music and he’s a personal trainer. To say that Will Barnes has done a lot is an understatement.

He was a great athlete and had college scholarships lined up after high school. But he didn’t accept because he thought he couldn’t do so because he had a child. He went to the military instead.

Listen in as he tells Jonaed about being a young father, adjusting to life after the military and becoming a personal trainer. 

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• Music: Dat Soldier
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Her parents weren’t worried about her education. But it’s not because they didn’t care. Alejandra Ayala is Mexican and says her immigrant parents’ main concern was to ensure they were providing a roof over their kids’ head.

Listen in as Alejandra tells Jonaed why she finally gave up on college and how an unlikely skill helped her to land jobs at places like Adobe, Disney and Google.

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• Company: Puente Tech
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He says he was the nerdiest black kid and got beat up 13 times as a result. Frustrated, Khafre Jay had his own gang by the time he got to high school. Like many kids, especially those of color, he “found his way” from the wrong people. His life changed for the better when a principal let him into an art school.

Listen in as Khafre tells Jonaed how he left gang-life behind, uses his love of music as a tool for his activism and opted-out of college although he was three semesters away from finishing.

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Books & Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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• Know What I Mean?, Michael Eric Dyson

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Like many college kids, Jeremy Leinen worked at a restaurant while going to school. He soon realized that he enjoyed being in the restaurant more than he did his pre-engineering classes. He did not want to spend the rest of his life looking at blueprints so he dropped out.

Listen in as Jeremy tells Jonaed how he became an Executive Chef, without culinary school.

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