The Power Of Interest Led Parenting With Brett Hurt

Brett Hurt
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January 17, 2023
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Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, an Austin-based Certified B Corporation and public benefit corporation. data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. data.world's cloud-native data catalog maps its customers siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is also home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community, including public COVID-19 datasets.

Brett Hurt

Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, an Austin-based Certified B Corporation and public benefit corporation. data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. data.world's cloud-native data catalog maps its customers siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is also home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community, including public COVID-19 datasets.

Turning A Child's Passion Into A Life's Purpose

I am beyond excited to share my conversation with today’s guest, ground-breaking entrepreneur, founder, and author Brett Hurt. Brett’s incredible career path includes being CEO and co-founder of data.world, a platform for modern data teamwork with the world's largest collaborative data community. Through collaboration with David Judson, Brett released the second, expanded edition of his book, The Entrepreneur's Essentials: Lessons for Startup & Leadership Excellence, on Mother's Day 2022 in honor of his mother and his wife.

Brett was fortunate to have a mother who supported him in his passion for programming at a young age. She recognized his potential and even defended him against friends and family that felt he was not taking the more socially accepted career path. To this day, he considers her support to be one of the best advantages that helped him to succeed as an entrepreneur in the tech world. Now raising his own children, he has drawn inspiration from his mother’s influence by encouraging his son and daughter to gravitate towards interests that inspire them, rather than pushing them towards a specific path.

In my conversation with Brett, we discuss the impact that interest-led parenting has on nurturing passion in our children. Brett shares his views on why pursuing your natural calling is so important and how resiliency comes from finding your passions and sticking to them, regardless of society’s opinions.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  • The benefits of allowing our children to practice their passions
  • What Brett believes is the most important role as a parent
  • How the three phases of entrepreneurial endeavors mirror the trajectory of pursuing your passions
  • Why it is important to stick with your natural calling regardless of what others may think

Supporting Resources:

  • To get in contact or simply learn more from Brett you can read his blog www.lucky7.io or find him on Linkedin at Brett A. Hurt.

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