Emily Musil Church, Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE shares why she was drawn to nonprofits, XPRIZE, and how her parents influenced her upbringing.  Listen to the full episode "Emily Musil Church On How Change In Education Technology Can Empower Children & Society | Evolve 35" in you podcast app. Or you can visit EvolveThe.World to hear the full episode.

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Why Emily Musil Church Was Drawn To The Nonprofit XPRIZE? | Evolve 35 Minisode

Emily Musil Church, Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE shares how she started working with the nonprofit XPRIZE and transitioning in her career.Listen to the full episode "Emily Musil Church On How Change In Education Technology Can Empower Children & Society | Evolve 35" in you podcast app. Or you can visit EvolveThe.World to hear the full episode.

How Emily Musil Church Became Prize Manager Of A $15M XPRIZE? | Evolve 35 Minisode

Emily Musil Church, Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE shares how she started her career in research  of African studies & gender equality and her time teaching as a professor.Listen to the full "Emily Musil Church On How Change In Education Technology Can Empower Children & Society | Evolve 35" in you podcast app. Or you can visit EvolveThe.World to hear the full episode.

How Did Emily Musil Church Get Started In Education? | Evolve 35 Minisode

Dr. Emily Musil Church is strategist, thought leader, writer, public speaker, Fulbright Scholar, and former professor who is now taking education and learning to a whole new level as Executive Director at the groundbreaking XPRIZE which harnesses technology to address global challenges for social good. Connecting over 700 teams to radically transform access to education and learning worldwide, she led the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, funded by Elon Musk, to address the quarter-billion children that cannot read, write, or do basic math. The competition resulted in 5 teams developing open-source, scalable software that empowers children to teach themselves, returning $300 million worth of research, and positively affecting the lives of 3000 children in 170 villages across rural tanzania. For more visit Evolvethe.World Links:XPRIZE:https://xprize.org/Code Games:http://codegameschallenge.org/Connect website: http://connect.xprize.org/XPRIZE Data Collaborative: https://data.xprize.org/ (click on “Learning” category for Global Learning results, including social-emotional)XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance: https://www.xprize.org/fight-covid19 Social:Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @XPRIZEOur blog: https://xprize.org/blogYouTube: XPRIZELinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/x-prize-foundation/

Emily Musil Church On How Change In Education Technology Can Empower Children & Society | Evolve 35

Patrick Cook-Deegan is a serial social entrepreneur, educator, writer, wilderness guide, former lecturer at Stanford, and an education innovation fellow, who has adamantly been focused on re-designing the American high school for the 21st century to help students craft meaningful lives. Starting in Stanford’s d.school, he launched Project Wayfinder—a year-long curriculum combining the best of social emotional learning, mindfulness education, design thinking and 21st-century skills for schools. Their programs have been taught to over 15,000 students in 200 different school programs throughout 25 states in the U.S. and 18 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Ireland and Japan.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Patrick Cook-Deegan On How To Find Your Purpose | Evolve 34

Brett Hagler is an author, speaker, cancer survivor, and Co-Founder & CEO of New Story, one of the most innovative and impactful charities in the 21st century. He has raisedover $25 million dollars creating 25 communities filled with over 2,300 homes in 4 countries and changing over 11,000 people’s lives forever. They were the first Non Profit to go through the world's top startup accelerator Y Combinator, accomplishing a challenge of 100 homes in 100 days, and have continued the startup mentality by innovating the world’s first 3D printed home which only takes 24 hours to build, and costs $4,000, a fraction of traditional construction costs.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Brett Hagler On Telling A New Story During COVID-19 | Evolve 33

After 15 years teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior courses in the traditional college system, Michelle Jones set out to create a one-of-a-kind educational experience designed to help you find your way, stretch your mind and grow your skills so you can live life on purpose. With 5 years in operation, Wayfinding Academy has over 100 years in faculty experience leading students ranging from 17 to 46 years old through courses titled like “the good life”, through 100’s of community events and partnerships, and learn and explore trips to places like Spain, Hong Kong, & Portugal. Yet this college has no grades, no textbooks, and no english 101 course. Instead students weave classroom and applied learning together with their own interests in a portfolio-based program.  For more visit Evolvethe.World

Michelle Jones On How College Can Help Students Uncover Their Passion | Evolve 32

Ben Nelson is an education revolutionary who is going head to head with the ivy leagues to lead the transformation of global higher education for 21st century students. Enrolling it’s first students in 2014, this innovative university has a 1.2 acceptance rate, tens of thousands of applicants from over 180 countries, and currently serves about 630 students across 7 major cities around the globe including San Francisco, London, and Taipei. While many have speculated how to reform higher ed, this entrepreneur has actually created a program using effective pedagogy, technology, and immersive experiences to equip a diverse group of students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation for less than a ⅓ of the cost at an Ivy League university.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Ben Nelson On What Higher Education Means | Evolve 31

Infamously known for making CEO’s cry, Jerry Colonna is a wildly successful entrepreneur, tech investor, and highly sought after executive coach to leaders such Gimlet Media co founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, Former CEO of Etsy Chad dickerson, and CEO of Twililo Jeff Dawson. He is the CEO, and co-founder, of Reboot.io, which is committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity. His newest book Reboot: Leadership and The Art of Growing Up is one of Inc’s Top 20 Business Books for 2020, and has been critically acclaimed by authors such as Seth Godin, Adam Grant, Angela Duckworth, And Parker Palmer.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Jerry Colonna On How To Become A Leader Through Radical Self Inquiry | Evolve 30

Chip Overstreet has an extraordinary executive career being the CEO of 3 startups, raised over $40 million in venture capital, and has a combined 25 years of experience in the high tech B2B software sector as a marketing and business development executive with an expertise in B2B eCommerce, marketing, business development and helping early-stage companies grow. This growth driven exec has no plans of slowing down as he has now become the President and CEO of the #1 fastest growing spice company in the world recognized by the Inc. 5000 List. Spokane-based, Spiceology, has gone from a Startup Weekend-winning idea in 2012 to a $5.5 million-a-year rocketship inside the spice industry.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Chip Overstreet On How To Dominate & Be The Fastest Growing Company In An Outdated Industry | Evolve 29

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Forbes 30 under 30 serial education technology entrepreneur Jordan Levy. Jordan believes we should get out from behind the textbook and expose students to new circumstances, with real stakeholders, real challenges, real collaboration, and of course real outcomes. His weapon of choice was to start not one but two highly successful EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His company, Capsource, helps educators match with companies and design projects based on narrow academic requirements.  For more visit Evolvethe.World

Jordan Levy On How To Close The Gap Between Education & Employment | Evolve 028

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Michael B. Horn. Michael is a serial founder, education strategy consultant, multiple time best selling author, and much sought after speaker on the future of education and believes we can create education that is more student-centered, helps them build their passions, and fulfill their human potential. What started as a co-authorship of the award-winning book "Disrupting Class" with one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Clayton Christensen, has led this disruptive thinker over a decade long journey to become a leading authority on the future of education, disruptive innovation, and expert on the global EdTech revolution.You will learn:Michael's experiences and the Jobs to be done for him when he was going to Yale and Harvard.How his dad and upbringing influenced his jobs to be done.Why Michael took the opportunity to co author a book with Clay Christensen.The impact Michael wants to have for every student around the nation.What the 5 Jobs To Be done are when choosing college.Where the most potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt higher education is.Where entrepreneurs have a competitive advantage and where they will fail in higher education.How to balance the desires of the students with what they may need to be successful after college.What the value of an accredited degree is to employers.How we could sidestep past it entirely by working with them to create skills needed after college.Why in order to disrupt k-12 education that we should focus on higher ed.What higher ed's responsibility is to make a more beneficial option for students is.Why free college wont work.What business models higher education should adopt.How Michael has integrated life long learning in his life.What Michael hopes college will look like for his 2 daughters.How he is cultivating their education now while he raises them.How education has the ability to promise, to help people build their passion, fulfill a human potential, and live a lifetime of productive struggle and happiness.How higher education can help students tackle the grand challenges of the world.How we can push the world to Evolve.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Michael B Horn On What Is The Future Of Education | Evolve 027

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Manuela Seve, a founder, entrepreneur, triathlete, musician and art lover who is revolutionizing the arts, whilst honoring the profoundly human aspects of collecting. What started as a t shirt competition at an art fair in Brazil has democratized and modernized the art acquisition process through the first crowdsourced art & design platform with over 9,000 artists from around the world. This purpose driven art platform is working across 3 continents, has sold over 1,100 pieces of art in the past 2 years, is the world's biggest inventory free art gallery, and has a clientele from the 6 billion dollar hospitality industry such as Zola, Gilt, and Hilton.For more visit Evolvethe.World

Manuela Seve On Democratizing Art Across Borders | Evolve 026

This bonus episode features Geena Matuson, an arts technologist, educator, author and speaker. As a multimedia storyteller, she work across print, digital, video and social to tell stories. Today we dive into the story she tells herself about being an artist and an entrepreneur.

What Does The Label Entrepreneur Mean? Bonus Episode With Geena Matuson | Evolve

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is founder, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and teacher Ethan Waldman. Ethan is a leading voice in the tiny house movement and with a  combined social community following of over 78.1 thousand people, it’s not hard to see why he is widely recommended by tiny house experts as a go-to source for planning a successful tiny house. Finding himself in his late 20’s, working in 9-5 in corporate america, unfulfilled by life, he craved a more flexible lifestyle where he was not chained to a cubicle desk all day. After taking a month long sabbatical from work, going on over 800+ mile bicycle tour across multiple states, and couch surfing, tent pitching, and crashing in a few tiny homes along the way, he made a decision to embrace the tiny house lifestyle, quit his job, and built his own tiny house on wheels. In this episode he shares how you a tiny home helped him reach financial freedom, how her built a community and business, and what the future of housing in the world looks like.

Ethan Waldman On How A Tiny House Helped A Entrepreneur Realize Freedom | Evolve 025

If you like Mixergy, Tim Ferris, Startup Therapy and other podcasts that focus on the the intense struggles entrepreneurs & startup founders face both personally and professionally, you'll love Evolve. Focused on evolving the world through evolution of the individual, the show is a masterclass in life and business diving into the world's most thought provoking leaders and successful business founders to educate, inspire, and empower your success in leaving impact on the world. The show is hosted by Brandon Stover, entrepreneur and coach, sharing proven strategies and tactics so you, too, can achieve massive results in your business, relationships, health and finances.

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