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Profiles in Grit : Why Entrepreneurs Triumph Over Trauma
Profiles in How Entrepreneurs Triumph Over Trauma profiles eleven survivors of genocide, war, natural disaster, disease and other devastating experiences who recovered from trauma and rebuilt their lives by becoming successful entrepreneurs. To collect these dramatic stories, Steve Mariotti traveled to Cambodia’s killing fields to meet with Khmer Rouge survivors. He collaborated with Teletime filmmakers Harold and Nan Klein to interview survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, and the Armenian genocide in Azerbaijan. They interviewed Vietnamese “boat people,” a Colombian sex-trafficking victim, a former drug dealer who spent a year in solitary confinement in a New Jersey Prison, a fashion designer diagnosed with breast cancer on the eve of her wedding, and other survivors of extreme trauma.
˃˃˃ All the entrepreneurs in Profiles in Grit nearly lost their lives. Some lost their families. Nonetheless, each discovered the power of the entrepreneurial mindset. They decided to see opportunity everywhere, and chose to be optimistic and confident. They rebuilt their lives and created thriving businesses out of nothing but grit and determination. In their riveting stories, we discover that starting a business--however small--encourages a powerful shift in consciousness from haunted victim to proud survivor.
˃˃˃ Steve Mariotti learned this as a young special education teacher in the notorious Fort Apache section of New York’s South Bronx in the early 1980s. There, he discovered that whenever he connected his lessons to business, even his most disadvantaged and disruptive students got excited about learning. Their self-esteem improved dramatically as they started their own businesses. They began to use entrepreneurship to chart their own pathways out of poverty. In 1987, Mariotti founded the non-profit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Today, NFTE has served more than one million low-income teens from Chicago to China with life-changing entrepreneurship education.
˃˃˃ Interviews with Profiles In Grit entrepreneurs appear in the powerful documentary film Trauma to The Rise of the Entrepreneur (Teletime Video). Steve Mariotti is a renowned advocate for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship education, and the founder and former president of the global nonprofit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). He is the author of numerous textbooks and trade books, including his multi-award-winning memoir Goodbye How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement.
Debra Devi is the award-winning author of The Language of the From Alcorub to Zuzu, and the co-author of multiple books with Steve Mariotti, including Goodbye How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement.
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˃˃˃ All the entrepreneurs in Profiles in Grit nearly lost their lives. Some lost their families. Nonetheless, each discovered the power of the entrepreneurial mindset. They decided to see opportunity everywhere, and chose to be optimistic and confident. They rebuilt their lives and created thriving businesses out of nothing but grit and determination. In their riveting stories, we discover that starting a business--however small--encourages a powerful shift in consciousness from haunted victim to proud survivor.
˃˃˃ Steve Mariotti learned this as a young special education teacher in the notorious Fort Apache section of New York’s South Bronx in the early 1980s. There, he discovered that whenever he connected his lessons to business, even his most disadvantaged and disruptive students got excited about learning. Their self-esteem improved dramatically as they started their own businesses. They began to use entrepreneurship to chart their own pathways out of poverty. In 1987, Mariotti founded the non-profit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Today, NFTE has served more than one million low-income teens from Chicago to China with life-changing entrepreneurship education.
˃˃˃ Interviews with Profiles In Grit entrepreneurs appear in the powerful documentary film Trauma to The Rise of the Entrepreneur (Teletime Video). Steve Mariotti is a renowned advocate for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship education, and the founder and former president of the global nonprofit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). He is the author of numerous textbooks and trade books, including his multi-award-winning memoir Goodbye How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement.
Debra Devi is the award-winning author of The Language of the From Alcorub to Zuzu, and the co-author of multiple books with Steve Mariotti, including Goodbye How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement.
Scroll up and grab a copy of Profiles in Grit today.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 4, 2021
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Steve Mariotti
53 books14 followersSteven John Mariotti was an American educator, activist, and businessman. He was the founder and president (1988–2005) of the nonprofit Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the author of books and textbooks related to entrepreneurship education. Mariotti was inspired to found NFTE by his early career as a special ed teacher in New York City, as chronicled in his 2019 memoir, Goodbye Homeboy: How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement, BenBella Books, co-authored with Debra Devi, with a foreword by Wes Moore. After retiring as NFTE president in 2015, Mariotti served as Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurial Education at the PhilaU Center for Entrepreneurship at Philadelphia University (2016–2018), and Senior Research Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Rising Tide Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey (2018–2020). In 2020, Mariotti executive-produced the PBS docu-series Trauma to Triumph: The Rise of the Entrepreneur. In 2021, he founded the nonprofit Center for Financial Independence to provide social entrepreneurs with mentorship and fundraising training.
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November 25, 2021
Amazing book to read!
The title was the first thing that made me look twice at this book. As I read, I realized that these stories from real people who survived atrocities set upon them are true works of inspiration. I found myself in admiration of how these survivors fought their way to where they ended up. They served as a baseline for me, to know that if they can survive these disasters, I can survive my own. I may not be going through the struggles they did, but knowing that they sis what they did during those difficult times, I know I can forge on in mine version of them. I also never saw the connection between life lessons in business, though, after reading this book, I saw that there was. I love it when a book can reveal things to me that I have never thought of or even thought to connect. If the reader is in need of some encouragement, this is book for them. The characters are real people, the author has the background and knowledge to put it together magnificently. Highly recommended.
The title was the first thing that made me look twice at this book. As I read, I realized that these stories from real people who survived atrocities set upon them are true works of inspiration. I found myself in admiration of how these survivors fought their way to where they ended up. They served as a baseline for me, to know that if they can survive these disasters, I can survive my own. I may not be going through the struggles they did, but knowing that they sis what they did during those difficult times, I know I can forge on in mine version of them. I also never saw the connection between life lessons in business, though, after reading this book, I saw that there was. I love it when a book can reveal things to me that I have never thought of or even thought to connect. If the reader is in need of some encouragement, this is book for them. The characters are real people, the author has the background and knowledge to put it together magnificently. Highly recommended.
December 7, 2021
Inspiring read
This book reminded me of another book by Tammy Duckworth which discussed grit as a prime factor for success in life and business. This book, however, was more interesting to me because it was really focused on the personal life stories of individuals who had suffered through some major traumatic experience, whether that was an acute incident or something ongoing like human trafficking or genocide. These people were able to emerge from these traumatic experiences and build successful businesses in addition to repeats in their lives together in a wholesome way, so both in terms of work and life it offers great insights.
This book reminded me of another book by Tammy Duckworth which discussed grit as a prime factor for success in life and business. This book, however, was more interesting to me because it was really focused on the personal life stories of individuals who had suffered through some major traumatic experience, whether that was an acute incident or something ongoing like human trafficking or genocide. These people were able to emerge from these traumatic experiences and build successful businesses in addition to repeats in their lives together in a wholesome way, so both in terms of work and life it offers great insights.
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