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Brandon Stover it the founder of Plato University, an alternative, online university that turns your passions into purpose by helping you master skills and launch a career solving global challenges. As a podcaster, he hosts the Evolve podcast. From climate change to education to mental health, he mines the wisdom of visionaries and experts for the tools and tactics to solve these global issues. He is also the founder of the Social Good Media Network, a media group united around the goal of helping listeners understand the global challenges we face and how we can work together to solve them. Before these ventures, I spent half a decade of experience as a designer, marketer, and educator.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
- How to listen to others and TRULY understand them
- How I am changing the higher education paradigm
- And the dark challenges I faced that led me to finding my purpose
- and much more...
Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/75
The Evolve podcast is produced by Plato University and is a member of the Social Good Media Network
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Introduction
(06:36) - How to navigate difficult conversations
(09:01) - How to calm the voice of judgement in your mind
(11:00) - How to connect and recognize other's emotions
(12:33) - How podcasting made me a better listener
(16:20) - How podcasting skills transfer to other areas of life
(20:28) - Podcasting as a container for deeper conversations
(24:09) - Chasing the golden ticket and reaching depression
(28:24) - How I started the path to finding purpose
(32:35) - Does fear play into my decisions
(37:42) - How students start finding their purpose at Plato University
(40:30) - How did Plato University start
(45:03) - How millennials and gen z are demanding purpose in their life
(53:40) - What does Plato University look like at scale?
(57:53) - How do employers look at education?
(52:04) - What does a degree signal in Higher Education?
(1:05:29) - What does compassion mean?
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