Entrepreneurial Mindset for Transformative Education with Stephen Carter

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 shows up--that is not the time to plan and prepare. This requires having a readiness mindset, developing our skills, creating systems and habits, and preparing both financially and emo...

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 (as opposed to fragility). First, this means we need to lean into redundancy and second this means we need to actively get rid of the things making us fragile. If we work toward building our own antifrag...

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 return to our normal state. What if, however, there was a way for us to go beyond resilience and build a mindset of antifragility so that the volatility and stress we will inevitably encounter i...

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?" These five questions will guide into meaningful conversation and allow you to get to impact through connecting with other people: they will enable you to be both interested in...

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 an entrepreneur. The one common theme through it all is movement--he keeps going and trying new things and growing his business. You can follow Ezekiel on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

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 will be able to steer and course correct along the way, but we if never act, we never make movement, which leads to the ongoing regret of inaction.  Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneur...

The famous "don't break the chain" system is famous because it works--once we identify our high return habit (the habit that creates enormous momentum toward our vision) then we can use this system to create accountability around our daily completion of this habit.  Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symposium today by visiting https://www.seedtreegroup.com/20...

The irony is we want both comfort and growth and yet comfort and growth cannot co-exist--which is to say we have to make intentional choices regarding how we will pursue growth. Growth does not come naturally--our natural inclination is toward comfort and ultimately the path of least resistance, but when we embrace growth, we find a higher sense of meaning and purpose to our lives. Join the moveme...

We will drift--the only way to avoid drift is to stay out of the water, but with the entrepreneurial mindset, we are biased for action which means we will be getting in the water and chasing down our dreams. It also means we will fall victim to longshore drift and regularly get off track. With a system of calibration, we can ensure we get back on track and progress toward our goals. Join the movem...

When it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, Jacob Kantor has lived this since coming to America at the age of five. As he tells his impactful story of entrepreneurship, he touches on the importance of effort and the role of having a growth mindset. Throughout this conversation, he showcases the power of helping other people along the way and how this plays into his own journey of success in the...

Knowing what you don't want is not the same as knowing what you do want. When it comes to vision, it is essential that we look at what we want to be true in our lives and then craft a plan to bring that truth about. This involves determining what we want and then determining why we want that--once we do that, we can establish the habits and daily actions necessary to bring it about. Join the...

When we focus on continuous improvement, day after day after day, what we are really doing is fine tuning our system. Our system, or our daily habits, is the engine that will drive us toward our goals. By establishing a goal, we are essentially putting a destination into the GPS of our life, but the vehicle to get us to that destination is our system.  Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entr...

When we focus in on grit with intention, we begin to move the needle. When we do this with consistency, it leads to impact. When we create impact, we change the world. Taken from a keynote talk on the topic of grit, this episode gets into clear tangible ways we can work on becoming grittier in our own lives. Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symposium today by visiting http...

When we start with a growth mindset, we understand that grit can be taught and developed-it is not a fixed trait but rather something we can foster through intentionality in order to create lasting impact. This episode is taken from a recent keynote talk I gave to a group of educators around how to intentionally teach grit to students. Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symp...

Entrepreneurs are biased for action and this means going out and SEEKING opportunity--not just sitting back and waiting for opportunity to come to them. Armed with a growth mindset, with the necessary grit, and a redefinition of failure, we can all look at problems and see them as opportunities. Once we do this, we become unstoppable. Let's Go! Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepr...

Curiosity is a skill and like any skill, it can be developed. But in order for it to be developed, we have to remove the blockers that often keep us from embracing a curious mindset. When we tackle three blockers in particular (our phones, our routines, our comfort zones), we are poised to ask the key questions of curiosity in order to fully seek opportunity. Join the movement - sign up for the 20...

If we are to develop our entrepreneurial mindset and experience the transformation that comes from the renewing of our mind, then developing our grit is essential. But moving from become gritty for the sake of being gritty, we must tether our growth and development of grit to a larger purpose, which Angela Duckworth defines as "intention to contribute to the wellbeing of others." When th...

You are an average of the five people you hang around with the most--this stems from the law of influence. If you could directly influence your overall happiness, your net worth, and your quality of relationships, would you do what it takes? It is really just about surrounding yourself with the right people. Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symposium today by visiting http...

"To have more than you've got, become more than you are" - Jim Rohn's words of wisdom ring as true today as when he first said them years ago. This principle goes alongside his seven strategies for wealth and happiness which become powerful tools for helping us make ourselves as valuable as possible. Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symposium today by v...

Charlie "Tremendous" Jones is famous for saying "you'll be the same person you are now in five years with the exception of the people you hang around with and the books you read." So, what are you reading? Are you reading books that align with the vision of who you want to be in five years? Are you moving from BELIEVER to "EXPECTER" to ACHIEVER? Join the movement...

The entrepreneurial mindset is rooted in movement, in momentum. It is about being biased for action--take the leap, step into the unknown, go for it. Too often planning becomes its own form of procrastination that keeps us from going after the things we need to do in order to create lasting change in our lives.  Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship Symposium today by visiting...

“Principles are concisely worded statements of truth that transcend circumstance” (quote from Alex Judd of Path for Growth) and as a result, it imperative that, as educators, we work to point out principles for our students and teach them to leverage these principles in their lives. In other words, principles are always at work regardless of our acknowledgement of them—consider the principle of co...

We focus a lot on investments and getting a return on our investment but often we don't focus on the return we get by investing in ourselves. Through making ourselves more valuable, we become more valuable to others (and therefore to the marketplace and to society at large). Let's focus some intentional investing in our personal growth to become as valuable as possible. Join the movement...

Empathy is the superpower of the person with the entrepreneurial mindset--after all, understanding the customer's problem is at the root of what it means to be a successful entrepreneur. When it comes to empathy in action, I can think of no better example than Sara and the way she inspired an entire crowd at a high school track meet.  Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrepreneurship...

Sometimes you just have to say yes and then figure it out after. When it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, we have to be willing to take certain acts of faith and embrace a certain degree of risk that says "we may not have it all figured out and we may not have a fully developed plan but we are going to say yes and move forward anyway." Join the movement - sign up for the 2026 Entrep...