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Live your truth with Rick Clemons. LF006

Rick Clemons joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

 

Our guest – Rick Clemons

Rick started his career in the hotel industry in the Southwest USA. He moved to California with his wife and 2 children and changed direction slightly to hospitality operations and then hospitality technology.

What follows is an emotional story of massive life change in both his personal and professional life. He opens his heart in this interview and shares some of the most inspiring wisdom that is a pure gift. You will discover what living your truth truly means and how time, patience and acceptance are key.

Rick now inspires corporations, entrepreneurs, college and university students, and individuals to make their bold moves. His keynote speeches, workshops, coaching, and podcasts touch people’s souls, ignite their desires, and help them breakthrough the taboos of living by other people’s expectations.

 

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

  1. Who are you?
  2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
  3. What was valuable about your school experience?
  4. Which teachers do you remember and why?
  5. Who did you admire when you were young?
  6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?
  7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
  8. What advice would you give your younger self?
  9. What does your future look like?
  10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

 

Resources Mentioned

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F – Mark Manson

Year of Yes – Shonda Rhimes

Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert

The One Thing – Gary Keller

The Colour Purple

Les Miserables 

 

Contact Information

www.rickclemons.com

Steam School with Jade Parkinson-Hill. LF005

Jade Parkinson-Hill joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.

 

Our guest Jade Parkinson-Hill

 

Steam School was founded by former school leader, Jade Parkinson-Hill. For the past 12 years Jade has been involved in launching and leading new schools across the North West. Most notably, in 2015, Jade was named one of the ‘top 100 women in video games’ in recognition of her role in establishing the UK’s first ‘geek’ school in Liverpool.

Jade has been interviewed on TV, radio and the press, including the BBC, Radio 4 and The Times Education Supplement talking about her passions of tech and entrepreneurship, in particular, motivating and supporting young entrepreneurs.

After leaving school leadership in 2016, Jade supported STEM schools in England as a consultant. It was at this time that the idea for Steam School was born.

Steam School hosts a weekly live broadcast with innovators from the world of science, tech & digital media for #TALKTECHTHURSDAYS.  By showcasing the stories of young innovators, and discussing tech trends and scientific breakthroughs, Steam School inspires students to raise their aspirations and to develop a new awareness about how rapid technological change is transforming the world in which we live.  At the end of each broadcast, students are invited to complete a weekly mini challenge using their innate creativity and problem solving skills in a real world context.

Launched at the beginning of January 2018, Steam School has introduced schools to a wide variety of STEAM role models including US based Astronaut Abby, Craig Fenton, Director for Strategy and Operations at Google UK & Ireland, Pepper the Companion Robot, Rob Bennett, Chief Inspirer at BLOODHOUND SSC and digital entrepreneur,  Hannah Anderson, co-founder of Social Chain.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

  1. Who are you?
  2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
  3. What was valuable about your school experience?
  4. Which teachers do you remember and why?
  5. Who did you admire when you were young?
  6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?
  7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
  8. What advice would you give your younger self?
  9. What does your future look like?
  10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

 

Resources Mentioned

Smart Passive Income Podcast – Pat Flynn

Recode Decode Podcast

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

 

Contact Information

Steam School

Corporate America to entrepreneurship with Kate Erickson. LF 004

Kate Erickson joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.

Our guest – Kate Erickson

Kate’s journey takes her from working in Corporate American to an entrepreneurial  leap that resulted in creating a copywriting agency, that didn’t work out, then back into Corporate America. It took courage, insightfulness and the understanding that combining passions and expertise can be a winning formula.

Her decision to take another leap of faith and partner with her boyfriend on the now hugely successful Entrepreneurs on Fire as Content Creator and ‘Implementer’ has helped them become digital nomads and be able to travel the world while continuing to run their business.

If you would like to explore ways to combine your passion and experience then how about this FREE course Your Big Idea. Kate’s partner and EOFire host John Lee Dumas walks you through step-by-step to find Your Big Idea with video tutorials and timed exercises. yourbigidea.io

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

  1. Who are you?
  2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
  3. What was valuable about your school experience?
  4. Which teachers do you remember and why?
  5. Who did you admire when you were young?
  6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?
  7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
  8. What advice would you give your younger self?
  9. What does your future look like?
  10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

 

Resources Mentioned

The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

Essentialism – Greg McKeown

 

Contact Information

EOFire.com

kate@eofire.com

 

 

Choose to live your life in gratitude with Georgian Benta. LF 003

Georgian Benta from the Gratitude Podcast joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

Our guest – Georgian Benta

Most of us have to make a conscious effort to be grateful, we need an experience or some contrasting story that we hear about to remind us that we can be grateful and that we really should be.

My goal with this project is to inspire those that find it harder to be grateful, to choose to live a life filled with gratefulness or at least to get a boost of this amazing feeling when things don’t seem to go the right way.

My vision is to inspire 100,000 people to focus on gratitude and on what makes them grateful in their life. Help me spread the word and share what you find on this blog with your friends and family, with the ones that need it most.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

  1. Who are you?
  2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
  3. What was valuable about your school experience?
  4. Which teachers do you remember and why?
  5. Who did you admire when you were young?
  6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?
  7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
  8. What advice would you give your younger self?
  9. What does your future look like?
  10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

Resources Mentioned

Man’s Search for meaning – Viktor E Frankl

Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch

 

 

Contact Information

Twitter: @GeorgianBenta

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGratitudePodcast/

Website: http://www.georgianbenta.com

 

 

 

LF 002: Ai Addyson-Zhang – Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education.

Ai Addyson-Zhang joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.

Our guest – Ai Addyson-Zhang

Ai Addyson-Zhang, Ph.D is a Social Media Pedagogy consultant. She created Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education and has recently been featured in Forbes.

I am here to help you transform your classroom teaching.

Social Media Pedagogy has elevated and transformed my classroom teaching as well as my career as a College professor. I want to help you experience the same transformation that social media pedagogy has brought to my classroom teaching and my professional career.

BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA PEDAGOGY

  • Your students are more excited about learning and are more proactive at self-directed learning
  • Your students are getting hired and internships because of the strong personal and professional brands that you have helped them build through effective and strategic use of social media
  • You are building a learning community that transcends geographic barriers and interlinks education and practice, as well as the broader community
  • Your personal brand as a professor is gaining visibility and recognition. You become more known in your field as an authority in your subject matter.
  • Your strong personal brand is attracting opportunities for you to speak at conferences and events, to contribute featured and paid,  articles to blogs and major publications, to collaborate on research projects, to be interviewed on podcasts and live shows, and much more.
  • Your teaching evaluations are improving.
  • You are gaining more recognition from your school because of the visibility you have created for yourself, your class, your department, your university, and your broader academic and professional community.
  • And much more …

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

  1. Who are you?
  2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
  3. What was valuable about your school experience?
  4. Which teachers do you remember and why?
  5. Who did you admire when you were young?
  6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?
  7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
  8. What advice would you give your younger self?
  9. What does your future look like?
  10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

Resources Mentioned

Originals – How non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant

Mind your business podcast – James Wedmore

 

Contact Information

Featured in Forbes: https://goo.gl/yoK2Uo

Twitter: @AiAddysonZhang

Instagram: @AiAddysonZhang

Medium (Top Writer in Social Media): https://medium.com/@aiaddysonzhang

Facebook weekly show (Classroom Without Walls): https://www.facebook.com/AiAddysonZhang/

Website: https://www.aiaddysonzhang.com/

 

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