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Hir Shah & Devi Shany - Meet the Founder of Ascend Now
Entrepreneurship is a really cool vehicle to figure out who you are. It can help you understand what kind of mindset you have, how you tackle problems, and how you react differently to different situations.
Devi Shany shares her journey of founding Ascend Now and changing the educational systems. Tune in to hear what are the obstacles she faced, what motivates her to keep going, what changes she wants to see for the women of the world, and what are the most amazing stories she is proud of.
The key to success is not having things handed to you on a silver platter, but through failing and learning. The easiest way to accept failing and learning is through business and entrepreneurship, and that is the reason why Ascend Now focuses on those classes with their students.
Notes:
???? Devi is fascinated by education: filling the academic and pedagogical gaps and helping students with self-awareness. 01:47
???? Devi didn’t know she wanted to be an entrepreneur: she loves poetry. 03:47
⚡ Helping students with time management, entrepreneurship, public speaking, executive functioning, and motor skills. 05:48
???? Embracing fear as a vehicle to fail in the most healthy way: learning through failing in entrepreneurship. 07:48
???? It's important to recognize your successes, your failures, and where you want to be in life, and you can’t learn this in ordinary school. 12:25
⚖️ Issues in creating and building business: find your middle ground and balance. 14:24
???????? Leaving corporate job: Devi was not born to be an employee, even though she tried so hard to get her job at Goldman Sachs. 19:36
???? Devi is proud of her students: unique success stories about huge changes her students did. 23:48
???? Hir failed her math classes in elementary school: from math support to the highest-level math courses. 25:33
???? Women in entrepreneurship should be persistent and bold: education companies don’t engage with students. 32:27
???? Mental health: feeding your brain is as important as feeding your soul and your body. 37:08
???? Devi thinks praying and exercising are super helpful to detox her body and brain. 39:08
???? Creating Devi’s world: gender labeling and its impact on society, culture, and future generations. 43:10
???? Health and Family are two things that Devi stopped taking for granted.46:29
???? Devi loves her solitude time rather than going out. 47:50