Firework Humans: Spark A Growth Mindset. Ignite 9 Entrepreneurial Instincts. Fuel Courage, Curiosity, Confidence, & Conviction.

by Jessica Mead

Overview

Firework Humans teaches readers how they can live an extraordinary life full of fireworks and steadily control their own orbit.

Founder, CEO, Investor, and Homeschool Mom, Jessica Mead has spent two decades focused on how to spark entrepreneurial instincts in her employees and children. In Firework Humans, she offers a powerful and hopeful perspective on parenting, running a business, and amplifying one’s life. She introduces the Nine Entrepreneurial Instincts that she believes every human possesses and guides readers through the process of developing these instincts into behavioral traits. These nine instincts can be developed through applied education, enabling people to grow more curious, confident, courageous, and convicted with a Growth Mindset, to ultimately become—Firework Humans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631955518
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jessica Mead is the Founder and CEO of Brandlync, a managing partner of Drivonic, and the co-founder of The Epek Companies and Mead Holdings Group. This all has a combined valuation toppling 100 million and a portfolio of angel investments that encompasses more than 20 companies. With offices in California, Washington, Indiana, Arizona, Brazil, the Netherlands, and India, Jessica is a non-traditional wife and mother who runs her business empire pretty much from wherever she chooses. She is seldom seen without her children as she homeschools them full-time: pioneering curriculum that is enviable by both traditional teachers and alternative education experts. She has been featured alongside Richard Branson, Shaquille O’Neil, and in publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Yahoo Finance. Regularly, Jessica is asked to comment on the power of the female investing dollar, public school reform, homeschooling children while advancing one’s own career, and how to scale companies from the inside out without giving up control. With two amazing children, a 20-year marriage, a budding business portfolio, and an emerging women’s empowerment movement appropriately titled Still Orbiting, Jessica exudes business and life mastery. She resides in Encino, CA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Who Would I Be Today? ix

Part 1 Being a Firework Human

Chapter 1 We're AH Fundamentally Entrepreneurial 3

Chapter 2 Sparking the Flame of the Growth Mindset 11

Chapter 3 The Power of Language 19

Chapter 4 Supporting a Growth Mindset 25

Chapter 5 Does Childhood Matter? 31

Chapter 6 The 9 Entrepreneurial Instincts 39

Part 2 The 9 Entrepreneurial Instincts

Chapter 7 How to Nurture the Knowledge-Seeking Instinct 51

Chapter 8 How to Nurture the Audacious Dreamer Instinct 59

Chapter 9 How to Nurture the Try-Again Instinct 65

Chapter 10 How to Nurture the Prove-It-To-Me Instinct 75

Chapter 11 How to Nurture the I'll-Fix-It Instinct 85

Chapter 12 How to Nurture the Evolving Instinct 91

Chapter 13 How to Nurture the Whatever-It-Takes Instinct 97

Chapter 14 How to Nurture the Go-Out-On-A-Ledge instinct 103

Chapter 15 How to Nurture the Connections Instinct 109

Chapter 16 Examples of Firework Humans-The Famous, Young, and Impactful 115

Chapter 17 Understanding Learning Styles 121

Chapter 18 Conclusion - My Vision for the Future 133

Acknowledgments 135

About the Author 139

Endnotes 141