Sweat The Technique

Ravi sits down with New York Times columnist Ron Lieber to discuss lessons from his books about setting kids up for a smart financial future.  The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

Doug is joined by his children Maia and Caden Lemov for insights from real students on grading and assessments in college and beyond. Their conversation looks to determine how we can optimize rigor and stress to maximize our potential. 

Stacey sits down with The Citizen Stewart Show’s Chris “Citizen” Stewart to discuss his Huffington Post piece In The American Public Education System, Black Children Are The New Cotton.

Ryan sits down with Dan Porter, founder and CEO of Overtime and former president of Teach for America. Dan offers straightforward insights into the mindset that’s led him to success across multiple industries: Figure out what customers need, and become an expert on it Find the right people and convince them to keep working with you Take the risks you need to take to win And never pivot - just keep making thousands of adjustments until you succeed

Ravi sits down with Ian Westermann, founder of Essential Tennis, an online platform for video tennis instruction and pro tennis player analysis. Ian’s insights on improving your tennis game with purpose can be applied across a wide array of sports and endeavors. 

Ravi sits down with his Sweat the Technique co-host Stacey Shells Harvey, co-founder and chief executive officer of ReGeneration Schools. They discuss the benefit of summer teacher training, and how similar trainings can be used to optimize organizations and teams of all kinds. They also touch on Ravi’s Imbroglio piece “The Alarming Decline of Summer Teacher Training.”

Ryan sits down with Ana Lorena Fábrega, author of The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning.Anna discusses how traditional schooling has gone wrong and proposes a series of actionable strategies to help kids learn.

Ravi sits down with Alyssa Ages, author of Secrets of Giants: A Journey to Discover the True Meaning of Strength. Through the lens of her pursuit of competitive strongman weight lifting, Alyssa describes why physical strength matters, and how it teaches us that we’re capable of so much more than we know.

Ravi sits down with Jamie Hodari, the founder of Industrious, one of the world’s largest flexible workspace providers. Jamie discusses a sustainable path for startups in the era of VC money, the future of office work, and some wild run-ins with WeWork’s Adam Neumann. 

Ravi sits down with his co-host and author of The Coach’s Guide to Teaching, Doug Lemov. Doug talks about how the science of classroom teaching can be leveraged in sports to create championship caliber coaches on the court and field.