Entrepreneurial Mindset for Transformative Education with Stephen Carter
Thinking like an entrepreneur leads to more success in life--growth mindset, grit, redefining failure, and opportunity seeking are core attributes of this way of thinking that leads to radical transformation for ALL learners. This podcast is designed for leaders and educators in K-12 schools who are interested in the transformative power of engaging students with hands-on, innovative experiences that provide practical training for success in life.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
What if We Are All Called to be Entrepreneurs? Embracing a New Definition
The word "entrepreneur" is not just hard to spell--it is loaded with meanings both literal and suggested, to the point that we need clarity around what the term actual means and represents.
In this ep…
Go Out and Sell Something: A Powerful Opportunity for Our Students
As part of the foundations of entrepreneurship program as we work to instill the entrepreneurial mindset in our students, we give them a project where they go out and sell something. And the real kic…
Dr. Jen Bennett on The Time for Christian Entrepreneurship Education is Now
Wow--talk about a supercharged podcast episode! Dr. Jen Bennett, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Endowed Faculty in Business Entrepreneurship at Indiana Wesleyan University dives into the…
Creativity and Entrepreneurship with Bella Randle
Bella Randle is flourishing in every sense of the word - since graduating from the entrepreneurship program at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (where she led the flagship business, The Leaning Eag…
Is It Really Collaboration or Is It Just Cooperation?
Understanding the true difference between cooperation and collaboration is key to getting to the heart of the transformative power of working together toward a shared goal. When we embrace true colla…
The Ideal Environment for Entrepreneurial Flourishing
We wouldn't plant seeds in a garden without ensuring the proper nutrients, water, and sun, so why would we attempt to plant the seeds of the entrepreneurial mindset in our students (and ourselves) wi…
The Two Most Important Areas for Healthy Growth
When it comes down to it, the two most important areas for healthy growth are CLARITY and ACCOUNTABILITY. Whether it is healthy growth in a relationship, in a business, in a school, in a classroom, o…
Conducting a Failure Audit: Four Key Questions for Growth
When we take the time to really dig into "failure" we discover that it really isn't failure at all--if anything, it's a key to unlock greater learning and exponential impact. The best tool to do this…
We Must Redefine Failure: Moving from Perfection to Progress
In this episode of the Entrepreneurial Mindset for Transformative Education podcast, Stephen Carter discusses the transformative power of redefining failure and its essential role in growth and educa…
Preparing All Students with a Mindset to Thrive in Uncertainty
In this episode, I include the full audio from my breakout session at the CESA Symposium where I discuss how the entrepreneurial mindset offers a transformative approach to education that takes stude…
Becoming Unstoppable: Taking Stock of Where We Are and Where We Want to Be
When we come to value principles, we can create unstoppable momentum in our lives. This begins when we accept that we must balance our production with our production capacity, what Stephen Covey call…
Collaboration is Key to Entrepreneurship and Life
Entrepreneurship is often seen as a solo endeavor, but true success often hinges on collaboration. In this episode, we explore why teamwork and synergy are essential entrepreneurial skills, challengi…
Transformative Education with Erik Ellefsen
In this episode of Entrepreneurial Mindset for Transformative Education, I'm joined by Erik Ellefsen from Baylor University's Center for School Leadership for an unstructured yet insightful conversat…
Transforming School Culture Through the Entrepreneurial Mindset
The time to teach the transformative power of the entrepreneurial mindset is now--and the age is as soon as we start learning. The entrepreneurial mindset will transform an entire school culture in f…
Pre-Decide to Chase Opportunity
John Wooden famously said, "When opportunity comes, it's too late." If we're going to be the kind of people who think like entrepreneurs, we have to be ready to seek and chase opportunity when it sho…
Two Steps to Become More Antifragile
As we explore this idea of antifragility more and more, it becomes apparent that there are key techniques we can implement into our lives that will help us build systems to encourage antifragility (a…
Beyond Resilience: Building a Mindset of Antifragility
We focus a lot, when it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, on resilience and the development of grit. We like to consider ourselves elastic enough that we can "bounce back" from difficulty and ret…
Five Questions To Use in Conversation with Other People
At a networking event and not sure how to proceed? Want to strike up a conversation with someone but unsure of what to say? Want to avoid saying things like, "what's your name?" and "what do you do?"…
The Entrepreneurial Journey with Ezekiel Rochat
Ezekiel Rochat has lived and continues to live the entrepreneurial journey - starting his website building business in his early 20's, he has experienced all the aspects of thinking and pivoting like…
Always Be Moving: Avoid the Risk of Inaction
To have an entrepreneurial mindset is to have a mindset biased toward action--if we are biased toward action, then when the decision comes to do or to not do, we will lean toward doing. In this, we w…