Welcome everyone to episode 22 of Offshoot. My guest today is Matt Beaudreau.
In 2017, Matt founded his first school in California, eventually opening or helping to open many more. In 2021 Matt co-founded Apogee Strong with his partner, Tim Kennedy. With a mission of reseeding sovereignty and freedom by disrupting education. Apogee has gone on to create mentorship programs for men, women, and teens, helped to launch over 100 K-12 campuses, and created 2 non-profit foundations to support families with increasing their education. As a Keynote Speaker, Consultant, and Coach to organizations around the world, Matt’s clients range from Wells Fargo, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin to American Eagle, Cedars-Sinai and the United States Air Force and he has spoken from the stage to over 250,000 people across the world.
Before I go much farther, I want to remind all of you that I call this podcast Offshoot for a reason. The channel is primarily about real estate, finance, and entrepreneurship, all with an educational theme. I hope to support entrepreneurs, because if there’s any miracle cure out there, it’s the ones who accept responsibility. I also aim to foster relationships and meaningful connections, because even in a high-tech world, this thing called humanity is all about the people. And finally, I want to give experts a place to share their knowledge.
So, on its surface, this might look like a zig to the normal zag of the pod. If it’s not for you, all good. But for those of us who know there’s something off in the Zeitgeist, that perhaps we’re living in The Matrix, and that we might benefit from taking that red pill, I hope you’ll give this an hour to hear what Matt and Tim are up to with education and Apogee, and perhaps more importantly why he does this.
It’s largely about education, as a foundation to freedom, which absolutely aligns with this podcast.
Matt and Tim want to change the world by helping kids (and adults) get on a growth path to discover a more authentic education than one-size-fits-all public schooling, so that they can excel at what they want to be and express.
Listen in as we cover topics that include:
The entire idea of sovereignty, or self-governance, and what that means to Matt and Apogee.
What education is, could be, and perhaps should be.
How almost all of us have been deeply indoctrinated into the religion that is public schooling.
Matt’s background and how he came to this. Hint: this wasn’t part of the plan.
The core skills that form the foundation of any educational process.
How to run the business of a physical school, or place of leadership, which is the paradigm he prefers to use when thinking about Apogee K-12 schools.
How to think about the price of education when the public-school alternative is free.
What critical thinking is, and how it’s generally lacking.
Why the entire notion of all subjects, taught to all the people, at the same time is a fairly absurd notion.
How Apogee students think about universities, and how universities think about these alternative education students.
Why Apogee is really an investment in the human spirit, or the human condition, and our innate desire to grow and learn.
The challenges of enrolling parents into these schools, without losing center.
I loved this conversation, even though it is way out of my day to day. I hope you do too.
