Using Toys to Teach what Textbooks Can’t with Ilana Ben-Ari
Ripples of Radical Generosity
English - September 26, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes - 37.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Investing business sdgs womeninbusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ilana Ben-Ari was working on a design-school project when she learned there was a huge social and emotional gap between the visually impaired and the sighted community. What began as a university project grew into Twenty-One Toys, which teaches 21st Century Skills with the Empathy Toy and the new Failure Toy.
In this episode:
How Twenty-One Toys got started Ilana’s early days of bootstrapping the company The value of coaching Why it’s important to teach failure to all ages How the first SheEO Venture cohort divided up the money at the Venture Retreat The challenges of being an entrepreneur Ilana’s favourite ways to take care of herself and how she reminds her team to do the same
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