I have a MBA and live in a homeless shelter!
b'Episode #589 \\u2013 December 08, 2017 This week we talk about education and the different ways you can get it. The important thing is to understand your end goal before you decide what kind of education you need: a masters degree, a high impact seminar or even traveling the world.\\n Hi, this is Dan Miller. You\\u2019re listening to the 48 Days Radio show \\u2013 where each week we take 48 minutes to dive into real life questions about finding your passion, deciding what kind of life you want to live \\u2013 and then finding or creating work that allows you to show up every day, excited to be able to do something that is meaningful, fulfilling \\u2013 and profitable.\\xa0 This is where normal, indecision and ambiguity come to die.\\xa0 Welcome to the 48 Days Radio Show.\\n Questions:\\n Here\\u2019s a Font Designed Specifically For Dyslexia\\n I have a master\\u2019s degree and live in a homeless shelter.\\n How can we teach our 12-yr-old son Entrepreneurship skills?\\xa0\\n For twenty years, I wanted to be an entrepreneur and for twenty years nothing.\\n I\\u2019ve contacted several companies inquiring about salary, but cannot get anyone to take or return my calls.\\xa0\\n Good News\\n Cliff Feightner poem: For knowledge need no further lookBetween covers of a good bookMaybe for a small feeOr the library, it\\u2019s freeFor information that flows like a brook\\n Quotation:\\n \\u201cThe goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.\\u201d Jean Piaget\\xa0 TWEET THIS\\n Show Notes:\\n 4:50 Why good news is important to share\\n 5:30 A podcast listener shares her good news. She and a church group recently bought a single mom a brand new SUV. They saw a need and they filled out.\\n 6:49 Dan shares a font designed specifically for people with dyslexia \\u2013 how and why it works.\\n 10:08 A young guy recently traveled 1,000 miles to meet an 81 year old woman he met through Words with Friends\\n 11:40 Dan shares some of the exciting things happening in the 48 Days Eagles Community, including a compilation of inspirational stories that started with the goal of 48 and is now having to be edited down to 365.\\n 12:18 Scott has a masters degree and lives in a homeless shelter. Dan says it grieves him that there are so many people out there with masters or advanced degrees earning $8-10/hour and recommends that if you\\u2019re thinking about getting a masters or advanced degree that you think about how you might be able to invest that money into yourself via a seminar, travel, in your own business, etc. Ask yourself:\\xa0 is it the best use of your time and money to get an advanced degree?\\n 20:16 Dan shares Benjamin Franklin\\u2019s concerns that higher education doesn\\u2019t provide people with practical, marketable skills, yet we\\u2019re still having the same issues today.\\n 22:43 Abby asks Dan for a list of books he would recommend for her to give to her 20 something sons to help them explore their talents and gifts and to find their careers. His recs:\\n 48 Days To The Work You Love\\n \\nWhat Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Ricard Bolles\\n \\nDo What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career For You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul Tieger\\n \\nKnock \\u2018Em Dead 2017: The Ultimate Job Search Guide by Martin Yate\\n \\nHow To Find Your Purpose and Passion: Four Easy Steps To Discover a Job You Want and Live the Life You Love by Cassandra Gaisford\\n 24:20 Dan talks about what you should be doing in your 20s and 30s. There aren\\u2019t many things he would consider a mistake at that age. Be careful about locking into a career too early.\\n 26:00 Dan shares his history of education and why he went to school, not for a piece of paper so someone would hire him.\\n 28:07 Dan shares his daughter Ashley\\u2019s unschooling experiences with his 3 granddaughters. They may be learning more than they could sitting in a seat in a classroom.\\n 29:20 Steve will soon be teaching a class on entrepreneurship to teens and asked Dan for resources. Dan\\u2019s recommendations.\\n Innovation Tech Camp\\xa0\\n \\nStart Young:\\xa0 The ABC\\u2019s & 123\\u2019s of owning a business by the age of six by Janita Pavelka\\n 48 Low or No Cost Business Ideas\\n FREE RESOURCE FROM 48 DAYS:\\xa0 10 Side Biz Ideas Whether You\\u2019re 8 or 80\\n\\n Dan\\u2019s Podcast:\\xa0 Raising Creative and Entrepreneurial Kids\\n\\n 34:30 Dan shares a Washington Post article highlighting the growing number of young Americans leaving their desk jobs to farm.\\n 36:49 A listener has been dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur for 20 years, but nothing. He\\u2019s now selling insurance but doesn\\u2019t like his job. Dan reminds him that there\\u2019s a big difference between deciding and doing and recommends that he develop a clear plan that starts by setting his goals, using the 48 Days Power of Goals Workbook. He tells him that 85% of the process in finding work you love comes from looking inward first and encourages him to do so.\\n 42:40 A listener who has had two of his four children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and his wife would like to design a shirt for the 48 Days Amazon Merch Account that says \\u201cProud Parent of a NICU Graduate.\\u201d Dan says definitely. Send it on. Send it to askdan@48days.com.\\n 45:06 A Civil Engineer is looking to relocate to Texas and asks Dan what he should do. He says he\\u2019s called several companies inquiring about salary and has not received any feedback. Dan\\u2019s advice:\\xa0 Don\\u2019t start with salary. Start the job search process using the 48 Days process. Don\\u2019t discuss salary until they decide they want you.\\n 48:23: Dan previews the 48 Days Eagles Monday Mentor Call with Deb Ingnio taking us through Think and Grow Rich. Join 48 Days Eagles.\\n Call to Action: Get your\\xa0Goal Planning Guide now\\n DISCOVER YOUR UNIQUE LIFESCORE NOW\\xa0\\u2013 the free life assessment tool from Michael Hyatt\\n Meet Dan at\\xa0Social Media Marketing World 2018\\xa0\\u2013 Click here to choose your ticket\\xa0\\n Our business partner this week is Freshbooks \\u2014\\xa0To claim your month long unrestricted free trial with no credit card required, go to\\xa0https://www.freshbooks.com/pages/48days\\xa0and enter\\xa0\\u201948 Days\\u201d\\xa0in the \\u201cHow Did You Hear About Us?\\u201d section.\\n Recommended Resources:\\xa0\\xa0 Learn to Generate Passive Income by Publishing Public Domain Content\\xa0\\xa0Aaron Kerr\\u2019s course now on sale for $48\\n Our 48 Days Coaching Mastery Program:\\xa0\\xa0https://store.48days.com/products/coaching-mastery-program\\n Here\\u2019s the font for dyslexia \\u2013\\xa0https://www.dyslexiefont.com/\\n Innovation Tech Camp 2018 \\u2013\\xa0http://ttinvent.com/ .\\xa0 \\xa0\\n So many of you continue to ask for more information about the Amazon Merch program.\\xa0 This is the only program I recommend:\\xa0provenamazoncourse.com/48days\\n 48DaysEagles.com\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Monday Mentor call \\u2013 Deb Ingino will be covering Think and Grow Rich\\n To submit a question for the Podcast, send your note to\\xa0askdan@48Days.com\\n The post I have a MBA and live in a homeless shelter! appeared first on Official Site Dan Miller.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. 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