August 16, 2022 | Liz McCardle
Lifestyle First: Understanding the Entrepreneur lifestyle
The world is fast-changing, so let’s shift away from a traditional mindset of life + work.
Our curriculum, rooted in Social Emotional Learning and reflective practice, helps learners develop greater awareness, gain exposure to careers and industries, and begin the process of designing their ideal lifestyle.
The Find Your Grind curriculum focuses on shifting the traditional mindset.
We’ve been taught to think of the job we want, acquire those strengths, then somehow fit in our lifestyle around that job.
Instead of answering the question, “what do you want to do when you grow up?” Let’s start answering the question “who do you want to be?”
This mindset shift all starts with Flipping the Funnel and getting to know yourself—what lifestyle you want to live, what strengths you have, and what job matches both.
The Entrepreneur Lifestyle
Learn how Entrepreneurs bring life to ideas by tapping into their greatest strengths.
Entrepreneurs are creative, highly motivated, and born risk-takers. Their natural sense of independence and unique confidence in their own ideas enable them to be their own boss, though they can achieve success in many ways.
Entrepreneurs are smart and outgoing, and networking appears to come easily. These attributes are certainly due to the diligence and commitment they invest in developing these strengths. Their sense of urgency and commitment to excellence inspires others to work harder. Entrepreneurs are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in process, practice, and decision-making. They are the “risk managers” that reap big rewards.
Entrepreneur Mentors & Careers in Find Your Grind
Find Your Grind’s network of mentors share real-life stories and personal experiences to humanize career exploration for students. We also have a diverse and growing library of careers for students to explore and find ones that fit with their skills and lifestyles.
Mentors and careers in the Entrepreneur lifestyle include:
Karena Dawn – Wellness Entrepreneur
Amy Keller – Co-founder & CEO, Climate and Sustainability
Amish Shah – Esports Entrepreneur
Lifestyle Insights
Every learner who experiences Find Your Grind takes our proprietary Lifestyle Assessment multiple times throughout the curriculum. We’ve collected thousands of responses from learners, and Entrepreneur represents 3% of learners that use Find Your Grind.
All learners using Find Your Grind receive a personalized learning experience unique to them, and for the Entrepreneurs they’ll experience careers and mentors that are more highly associated with this lifestyle, resulting in greater learning engagement, and improved learning outcomes across the four capabilities that the Find Your Grind Future Ready Framework delivers on – Self Awareness, Social Awareness, Career Awareness, and Action Awareness.
To read about the learning science and research that supports our curriculum and learning outcomes, please check out our research section here.
To learn more about how Find Your Grind lifestyles improve career readiness and career exploration, contact us.