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  • Are you ready? It's Q & A Tuesday time. (Laughter) That was creepy southern guy.

  • Q: We're going to roll with a question from Jennifer and Jennifer writes:

  • "Dear Marie, how would you teach entrepreneurial skills in a developing world? What could the

  • curriculum look like? How would you tailor a curriculum to make it relevant to the local

  • context or situation? I'm currently pursuing a master's degree in International Education

  • and work for an UN Agency on international development issues."

  • Nice work, Jennifer! "I was a participant in Rich, Happy and Hot Live this past fall."

  • If you don't know what Rich, Happy and Hot Live is, you better recognize. "I'm so inspired

  • but I'm unsure how to bridge the gap between the two worlds. Grateful for any advice or

  • insight. You rock! Jennifer."

  • A: No, you rock Jennifer! So here's what we're going to do, I want to get this concept embedded

  • into your mind. Everything is "figure-out-able." Everything! So you have this desire, right

  • to figure out a curriculum to teach entrepreneurship in a developing world. So I put myself in

  • your shoes and I said, "Well, if I was Jennifer what would I do?"

  • The first thing I thought about was getting a super-high end research assistant to figure

  • all of this out for you and I went ahead and did that. So what I did is I went ahead and

  • Googled how to teach entrepreneurial skills in the developing world or developing countries,

  • and I typed this in. Guess what? I came up with 2.75 million hits! Actually over 5 million

  • when we Googled it again later!

  • Now the reason that I went to Google is because obviously in a video that's just about you

  • know five or six minutes long. I can't really develop an entire entrepreneurialship curriculum

  • for a developing world which I don't know exactly what that world is or what country

  • it is. But what I discovered was there's tons of people working on this already. In fact,

  • I found an amazing New York Times article that talks about this very work and also names

  • several organizations that are already doing the work.

  • So why reinvent the wheel, Jennifer? I want you to go and partner with these organizations.

  • The Internet is the best thing on the freaking planet! If you have something that you want

  • to create which is this, all you need to do is Google that shit up! And then, use social

  • media, use your skills to just reach out to those organizations. Make some contact and

  • find out this, what is already working?

  • There's people doing the work in the field, find out the best practices and then find

  • out what's not working. Figure out what's frustrating them, where's this whole thing

  • falling apart. That's where you can use your entrepreneurial skills and your creativity

  • to really develop a curriculum that's going to kick some major ass. And also here's what

  • I would do, I would take it to this next step.

  • So if you start reaching out to organizations and developing relationships, the way that

  • you bring it down to a local context is simple. If you happen to partner with an organization

  • that's already working in for example, Bolivia. Well, you're going to develop a curriculum

  • for them. If you start reaching out and you happen to make some really good inroads with

  • people that are doing work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Well, you're going to develop a curriculum

  • for those folks.

  • Then once you get it right, everything will take care of itself. You know, one of the

  • things I always say to myself is clarity comes through engagement not through thought. So

  • through doing the work with these organizations, you guys will see the next step and you'll

  • see exactly how to develop those curriculums; and, just kick some major butt.

  • Cool! Cool. So check out below this video because there will be a hot link to that New

  • York Times article and anything else that I found to help get you started. So if you've

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  • anything you want me to know. Thank you so much for watching! Oh, oh yes and if you're

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  • and jump on it. Once again, thanks so much for watching and I'll catch you next time!

Are you ready? It's Q & A Tuesday time. (Laughter) That was creepy southern guy.

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