In this episode of Build Momentum, our guest, Samuel Reed III a.k.a Reed, shares his expertise in teacher-preneurship.

Reed is a teacher-preneur. He specializes in not just in teaching but also helping studetns and adults learn how to start a business and get it up and running.

Sam Reed, after getting his MBA, joined the Peace Corps as a Business Development Volunteer in Botswana. After finishing his tour, he started an information service and training company in Africa and Botswana but went bankrupt before they could make it on their fifth year mark. So he came back to the US and decided to become an educator and he realized that he has this entrepreneurial mindset and wanted to bring his entrepreneurial background into teaching.

Some Questions I Ask:

• Tell us more about your background. (1:06)
• What is he up to now and what role has innovation played in what he’s doing now (4:33)
• What are some of the themes that you see arise out of those conversations you have with both the adults and the students, challenges, positive outcomes or transformations you're witnessing?  (8:01)
• How did COVID impact your program? (10:44)
• How has the pandemic impacted your organization and how are you moving through that? (12:59)
• So how has failure impacted your career? (15:39)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Designing and developing and formation of the business one on one side hustle acceleration program. (10:53)
• Start of the Medium Blog post showing the intersection of like innovation, intersection of teaching, and the intersection of just like living a life. (11:56)
• The word of mouth is actually more powerful, because those folks are going to spread the spread ability of what I'm doing. (13:49)
• Celebrate your failures and juice people up and make you feel amazing (15:56)
• Learning about the disposition of an entrepreneur (17:57)

Quotes:

“I want to teach young people because I think it's going to have more impact and I want to teach young people to not necessarily have to chase money.”

“I'm an entrepreneur, how can I bring this entrepreneurial background into teaching?”

“Don't go big, go focus.”

“If you're going to pitch your business, your data, your story has to be there. But you have to have some numbers that go with your stories. And those numbers need to be able to tell a story.”

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