Disrupt Education Podcast

Navin Goyal, MD, serves as CEO of LOUD Capital, driving the vision of how entrepreneurship, education, and investment can positively impact people, businesses, and society. He emphasizes his physician ethics of treating people equally and well.  He shares his learning journey and how education, investment and entrepreneurship merge in the VC world with LOUD Capital. Learn more at loud.vc The...

Don Wettrick knows the power of curious youth.  He empowers them as the President of STARTedUP Foundation.  He believes not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, but everyone should think like one in this skills based economy.  He shares his educational journey, what the foundation is doing, and excellent nuggets of wisdom for the next generation of learners. Learn More at http...

The Wildlings Forest School in Queensland Australia provides outdoor, nature-based learning that focuses on the holistic development of children.  This episode features the co-founder Nicki Farrell.  She speaks about her path in education and how it lead to the school.  With locations near the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Nicki has created spaces for children...

Brett Taylor recognizes that a one-size fits all approach to education does not work.  He has found a passion for designing innovative entrepreneurial learning organizations that involve students in the work of the real works.  Brett was the founding Principal of the Phillip J. Patino School of Entrepreneurship in Fresno California.  He is now the Executive Director of Secondary Sch...

His love for strategy games led him to the finance world.  Justin Ling then realized how to make a difference in who has access to learning and proving their financial literacy skills. He founded EquitySim in order to scale financial learning experiences to people of all backgrounds.   Check out www. EquitySim.com to learn more. The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp...

From being a classroom teacher to Reading Curriculum Coordinator to the Online Tutoring Coach, Joanne Kaminski shares her educational journey.  She dedicates her life to teaching other people how to start an independent online tutoring business. She now personally coaches teachers and tutors and introduce them to a brand new income.   Learn more at www.onlinetutorcoach.com The Disrupt Ed...

The world is changing fast...education is lagging behind.  Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard have creates the startup teacher playbook to get educators on offense.  Darcy and Michelle, both former teachers in different areas, share their learning journey.  They both know how to use startup ideas and methods to bring ideas to action.     Learn more at www.startupte...

Raheen Fatima is a 13 year old girl from Pakistan. She is a standup-comedian, Theater Actress, interviewer and SDGs Ambassador. Her goal is to empower People around her. Raheen has coordinated and conducted over 300 interviews, sessions, panel discussions on subjects ranging from business, economics, education and co- creation. With participants from diverse professional, social and cultural backg...

Komal Shah leverages her passion for education, business expertise, and personal conscious living practices to shift outdated educational paradigms and transform the educational system for the betterment of all children.  She shares her journey from being a teacher to being an educational consultant, thought leader and author of "Bringing Consciousness to Education"    Learn more ab...

Denis Ocampo has experience working in the New York City Public School system as an educator, where he witnessed the disparities between school systems and the lack of resources for underserved students. Denis brings his experience as an educator serving diverse communities and his passion for helping others. Learn more at OutboxEdu.com The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp E...

Kevin Anselmo is the creator of the Global Innovators Academy.  He is on a mission to teach youth to network and communicate with professionals.  "Interview an Innovator" is the first program experience in the Global Innovators Academy. As part of this online experience, students based on their own interests, interview innovators. The students then write articles published online, thus i...

With 10+ years of experience developing informal and formal educational programs, Dr. Rachel Schechter is at her prime to help your teams incorporate learning sciences and leverage data-driven technology to accelerate student growth (and sales). Her approach is grounded in theory and evidence -- with her Ph. D. in Child Development from Tufts University and M.Ed. in Arts Education from Harvard Uni...

Anthony Parello graduated school early and became a real estate agent after he missed the college registration deadline.  He shares his educational journey and what it is like to become a real estate agent. Connect with Anthony at https://linktr.ee/sunnygtaman Career Night Zoom 4/8/21 -   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqceGvrDwsGNaQOJk9_csthzNFZePJV56C The Disrupt Education...

Arielle Nobile is an American film director and producer known primarily for her documentary work. She has won multiple awards for her film Belonging In The USA: The Story of Michael D. McCarty . These include Best Documentary from Borderscene Film Festival, Award of Merit from the Impact Doc Awards, Excellence award from Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and Honorable Mention from the San Franc...

Michael Archbold is a driven and energetic business educator. Michael has a passion for helping students reach their goals! He has past experiences working in a variety of fields: sales, staffing, customer service & insurance. He continues to look for ways to give his students authentic learning experiences that will assist them now and later in life. BPA and now IncubatorEdu are ways that Mic...

Aarolyn J. Casillas has grown up all over the world.  As the daughter in a military family, she shares her experiences and thoughts on education.  Now moving forward helping others set up businesses around improving education and her Aarolyn's Angels, she advocates daily to raise awareness surrounding the importance of Early Childhood Education, Child Development and Child Welfare, Human...

From fleeing Iran to Stanford Law and beyond, Benjamin Radd is an educator all about simulations.  As the co-founder of Fascination Lab, he creates educational simulations for every type of industry...including schools.  Benjamin shares his learning journey and how he helps create authentic learning through educational simulations.   Check out fascinationlab.co for more.  Twitt...

Lauren Pinto knows how to go Rogue.  As an educational tech specialist, curriculum designer, podcast host and innovative educator knows how to make things better by shaking up systems.  On this episode, Lauren shares her learning journey and how she teaches people that education needs to be social, experimental, applicable and reflective.   Learn more about Lauren at www.gonerogueed...

Beau McCoy is the founder and CEO at SOLcademy . An educational short-format video platform, distraction-free & ad-free.  Beau shares his diverse educational past and what he is doing to help education in the following three areas:  1. Eliminate teacher burnout  2. Bridge the achievement-gap  3. Support learning continuity   Learn more at www.solcademy.com The Disrupt...

Chelsea Robberson was not your typical traditional student.  She shares her educational journey and how she became the founder of Lealyn Growth.  She is definitely an innovative educator who is partnering with those bringing innovation in education to propel their mission forward through strategy and design.   Learn more at www.lealyngrowth.com The Disrupt Education Podcast is a pro...

Shylla Webb loves to inspire people to take action on simple things that can substantially improve their lives. Working with others is like being on a playground for her. Her training helps people understand the 'why' behind this work in an interactive way.  She shares her journey as an educator and a consultant as well as her views on burnout in the field.   Check out Shylla's Reduce Ed...

Tasha Lawton had a challenging time growing up herself, surrounded by drugs and alcohol, experienced sexual abuse, suffered with an eating disorder and sadly lost her brother at 19 to suicide. No one really had conversations with her about those tough topics in her younger years.  She decided to change that by creating Talk Revolution.  Hear her story and more on this epis...

Hector and Jonny met in college.  They both have different journeys and came together to co-found eLearning Partners (formerly VP Legacies). Items discussed are learning differences, edtech prior to the pandemic, and how EdTech companies are looking at learner centered areas.   Connect with Jonny Havey Connect with Hector Simoudis The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The Ed...

On this episode, our guests are Dr. Nick Polyak and Dr. Mike Lubelfeld.  Dr. Polyak is the superintendent of Leyden High School District 212.  Dr. Lebelfeld is the superintendent of Northshore School District 112.   Both have co-authored the following books:  The Unlearning Leader  The Unfinished Leader * Student Voice * *co-authored with P.J. Caposey    Both co-...

Boruch DuBrow has worked his way up the ranks in education. Now an innovative educator, coach, and consultant, he shares his journey in faith, culture, and ideas to change education.  Boruch is truly helping people live exceptional lives by becoming exceptional people!   Learn more about Boruch at www. BSDcoaching.com The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp Experience...