Episode 95: Suzi Hunn & Her Book, Big-Hearted Entrepreneur: Own Your Worth and Amplify a Mission That Matters
- Episode 95: Suzi Hunn & Her Book, Big-Hearted Entrepreneur: Own Your Worth and Amplify a Mission That Matters John M Jaramillo 1:38:40
Episode 95: Suzi Hunn & Her Book, Big-Hearted Entrepreneur: Own Your Worth and Amplify a Mission That Matters
ABOUT SUZI
Suzi Hunn founded Teach Your Thing in 2017 to help changemakers amplify their impact. Her specialty is designing education experiences that expand audiences and create income streams. Her book, Big-Hearted Entrepreneur, is a practical guide for helping purpose-driven leaders own their worth and amplify a mission that matters to them. Suzi has more than twenty years of experience developing learning tools for nonprofits, social enterprises, cultural institutions, K–12 schools, corporate groups, authors, and founders. As an educator at the Minnesota Historical Society, her largest project was coordinating the second edition of Northern Lights, a history curriculum used by sixty-five thousand sixth graders annually. Other favorites included developing multimedia materials on Ojibwe beadwork and Hmong immigration and presenting at conferences like Games + Learning Society and National Council for the Social Studies. She lives by the rallying cry, “You have medicine that you must own.” Suzi lives outside St. Paul with her partner and golden retriever.
CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS
- The humility, curiosity, and honor we can have for the work clients have already done.
- When it comes to teaching, “The person doing the talking is the person doing the learning.”
- The opportunity that exists among those we’re teaching.
- How her own experienced trauma and her experience as an entrepreneur bolstered her message to others of recognizing and protecting their worth.
- How a crime made her more passionate
about sharing her ideas and made her trust that she had a voice. - How much you can achieve for yourself — even in the face of Imposter Syndrome?
- The power of finding what the right container is for you — does it allow your work to be fun or to be a drudge?
- Give yourself permission to create what you want to create, not what you think you should create.
The MAIN QUESTION underlying my conversation with Suzi is, What’s the medicine in you that others need? How do you own it and amplify what you can share with others?
FIND SUZI
- Website: teachyourthing.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzihunn/
LINKEDIN – Full Podcast Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/episode-95-suzi-hunn-big-hearted-entrepreneur-own-john-m–yznrf/?trackingId=FGp0c384TJCkomY0QtB25g%3D%3D
CHAPTERS
00:00 – The Book Leads – Suzi Hunn
00:50 – Introduction & Bio
02:41 – Who are you today? Can you provide more information about your work?
24:07 – What it means when “the person doing the talking is the person doing the learning.
27:46 – What the mantra “You have the medicine that you must own” means.
34:51 – How did your path into your career start off, and what did it look like up until now?
36:23 – Where Suzi’s interest in business came from.
42:09 – How Suzi’s entrepreneurial journey began.
52:32 – How does the work you’re doing today reconcile to who you were as a child?
01:04:49 – What does leadership mean to you?
01:05:44 – Can you introduce us to the book we’re discussing?
01:10:46 – How the book is organized and laid out for the reader & breakdown of the chapters in the book.
01:17:38 – Breakdown of the chapters in the book.
01:19:48- What lessons have you taken away from the book?
01:30:28- What’s next for your writing?
01:31:54 – What lessons Suzi hopes readers take away from the book.
01:33:16- What book has inspired you?
01:36:25- What are you up to these days? (A way for guests to share and market their projects and work.)
This series has become my Masterclass In Humanity. I’d love for you to join me and see what you take away from these conversations.
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- Read About The Book Leads – Blog Post
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