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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