Brandon Stover On Life

Shireen Jaffer is the Co-Founder of EDVO & Founder of Skillify. She went from working multiple part time jobs since the age of 14, even being fired from a yogurt shop, to helping over 50,000 people in their careers over the last 10 years, from recent grads to executives. She is a Forbes 30 under 30, an active angel investor in several successfully growing startups, and a founder of 2 startups...

James McKinney is the Founder & Host of the Startup Story, a weekly podcast for entrepreneurs with over 65,000 monthly listeners worldwide. However James has his own amazing startup story. Imagine you are launching a business in the middle of a recession, you score the biggest government contract of your career, leverage 300,000 dollars worth of your own assets, and then lose it all… Would you...

Scott J. Miller is the Executive Vice President of Thought Leadership at Franklin Covey and has spent the last 25 years championing teams within the world’s best leadership firm, serving under the tutorage of Dr. Stephen Covey. He now leads the strategy, development, and publication of Franklin Covey’s world-renowned content & bestselling books including one of the most impactful nonfiction bu...

Madison Campbell is the Cofounder & CEO of Leda Health & Creator of the MeToo Kit. Her company within 1 month of starting received 16 ceases and desists, 5 subpoenas, and 2 statewide bills introduced to ban a product that has aimed at helping the millions of sexual assault survivors across the globe which includes an estimated the 2 million a year in the U.S. alone. This young sexual assau...

Colin Keeley is Co Founder & CEO of Avocado Audio, Host of the Tech in Chicago Podcast, and has been ferociously building & growing internet companies for the past decade. He’s been on both sides of the fence as a serial founder and venture capitalist, and done everything from building a personalized tv/movie guide, a stretchy denim company for men, a sharing economy startup, and a multi-m...

As I mentioned in my last solo episode I was going to start sharing my founder journey as it happens in real time. One of the most important things a founder can do before developing a solution is to truly understand the problem. Well today I wanted to understand the financial problem of higher education from a perspective I couldn't find elsewhere. So after hearing her captivating interview on Th...

Leigh Mathews is the Founder & Expert Consultant at ALTO Global. Leigh is also is an author, speaker, social purpose coach, & highly experienced consultant with over 15 years in Corporate Social Responsibility, philanthropy and international development sectors. Starting in her early 20’s, she founded an NGO in Cambodia working on child rights issues after witnessing children living in ext...

The first solo episode of host Brandon Stover in a long time. He shares the beginning of his journey quitting architecture, failing multiple side hustles and small businesses, and his decision to focus on a market that has not seen disruption in over 100 years... Higher Education. Get more of the Evolve Podcast at https://www.evolvethe.world/

Dan Demskey is the Co-Founder of Unbound Merino. Dan has taken not one, not two, but four companies to 6, 7, & 8 figures over the last decade. From starting a digital video agency in his mom’s basement to selling funky socks, this entrepreneur has consistently seen the heights of success and the lows of trying to keep the lights on in the business. Even though his digital agency had reached 7...

Eric is the founder of Beardbrand, author of the Book of Reminders, and is the forefather of the urban beardsman movement which turned a $30 investment in a side project into a 7 figure eCommerce business dominating a market. With a value for freedom, this bearded entrepreneur and his team have bootstrapped the entire way by focusing on community, experience, and educational content which has amas...

Tony Loyd is a leadership development expert, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and executive producer & podcast host for not one… but three podcasts including Social Entrepreneur which has shared the stories of over 250 impactful entrepreneurs and has been downloaded more than half a million times in over 180 countries. He also produces the Thrive Connect Contribute & Anti Racist Vote...

David Katz is recognized as one of The World’s Top 100 Compassionate Business Leaders as number 4 between Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Elon Musk. Being a steward of the earth and a champion for the poor, he is the founder of Plastic bank, a social enterprise committed to stopping ocean plastic by turning plastic into gold with store chains in the poorest parts of the world that accepts plastic waste as...

Lisa Carmen Wang is the Founder & CEO of The GLOW (Global League of Women) providing world-class executive leadership training for ambitious female leaders. She is a former USA National Champion and Hall of Fame gymnast, turned serial entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. She has been named Forbes 30 under 30, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Woman, Red Bull Hero of The...

Stephen has 10+ years of experience building successful businesses, including Altrum Honors which had $20 million in annual revenue and a 33% global market share. His most recent venture Journey Meditation was coined the “Peloton of Meditation'' by Tech Crunch, bringing a 5,000 year old practice to the modern age by building the world's largest, most supportive meditation community both online and...

Maren Kate is an entrepreneur, writer, distributed workforce expert, and serial founder who has launched four companies, including Zirtual.com which employed over 450 employees spread across North America and was doing $11M/yr in revenue. From starting her first business in college selling jewelry on ebay to her most recent boutique recruiting firm helping to hire over a thousand fully remote prof...

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...

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 soci...

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...

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 fr...

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 in...

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...

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...

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 t...

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-...

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 wit...