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How to Live and Work Intentionally with Silas Mahner

Career

Alumni

About the workshop

Silas talks about his career discovery process and how he got to where he is now at Next Wave Partners by being intentional and deliberate with this time and energy.

About the host

Silas is a Praxis alumnus and Consultant at Next Wave Partners.

How to Live and Work Intentionally with Silas Mahner

Career

About the workshop

Silas talks about his career discovery process and how he got to where he is now at Next Wave Partners by being intentional and deliberate with this time and energy.

About the host

Silas is a Praxis alumnus and Consultant at Next Wave Partners.

How To Get Good At Copywriting Fast

Marketing

Alumni

About the workshop

Praxis alumna Lolita Allgyer outlines the basics of building a copywriting career.

About the host

Lolita currently works as a Community Leader at Copy Cheif, a Copywriter at GROWFAST, and as a Freelance Copywriter for her own company Lita Creative LLC. Prior to this, she spent some time with Praxis as a participant, Advisor, and Content Strategist. If you’re looking to learn a bit about copywriting from a Praxis mindset, you’re not going to want to miss this session!

How To Get Good At Copywriting Fast

Marketing

About the workshop

Praxis alumna Lolita Allgyer outlines the basics of building a copywriting career.

About the host

My Marketing Career as a Discovery Process

Marketing

Career

Alumni

About the workshop

Praxis alumni Randi Hill explains her Praxis story — her experience in the program, with her apprenticeship, and how a series of seemingly unrelated events led to her starting her own freelance marketing company.

About the host

Randi Hall is a Praxis alum. She served as a Relationship Development Specialist, then Strategy & Brand Specialist at Ama La Vida, then she started her own freelance marketing company. She is currently the Founder and Chief Marketing Mastermind at cre8tives.co and a manager at a local business.

My Marketing Career as a Discovery Process

Marketing

About the workshop

About the host

Marketing Workshops

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How To Get Good At Copywriting Fast

Marketing

About the workshop

Praxis alumna Lolita Allgyer outlines the basics of building a copywriting career.

About the host

My Marketing Career as a Discovery Process

Marketing

About the workshop

About the host

How Marketing Works, Plus a Primer in SEO

Marketing

About the workshop

In this call, Ryder, CEO of UpGrow, will cover exactly how to get started with SEO (especially as it applies to your personal website), what makes a great marketing hire, and the best digital marketing channels.

About the host

Ryder Meehan is the co-founder and CEO of Upgrow, a Praxis business partner. Ryder has worked in the digital marketing space for 15 years, with a specialization in direct response advertising.

Sales Workshops

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Lessons Learned In Real Estate

Sales

About the workshop

Keaton Shultz tells his story of how he went from Praxis Apprentice to the owner of a successful real estate company.

About the host

Keaton Shulz is a seasoned real estate professional. He owns his own real estate firm in Wisconsin: Shultz Property Managerment.

Crushing it in a Sales Role

Sales

About the workshop

Olivia Van Wormer, Reid Anderson, and Luke Ruffing were some of the first Praxis hires at PandaDoc (one of our largest BPs). All three have grown and excelled in their individual roles on the PandaDoc sales team — crushing their numbers, setting themselves up for promotions, and creating growth opportunities within the company.

About the host

Olivia Van Wormer, Reid Anderson, and Luke Ruffing are all Praxis grads doing awesome things. Connect with them on Slack or via the Participant Directory!

Being Successful in Sales

Sales

About the workshop

In this call, Nick gives us a primer on being successful in sales— what works and why, how to think about your customer, how to think about your product, how to be effective via email and over the phone, and how to close the deal.

About the host

Nick Rundlett started his career as an SDR at Reliant Technology, a BP that’s based in Atlanta, GA. He had minimal sales experience, but over the course of just a few months, went from struggling to figure things out to becoming the top-performing sales rep in his department.

Operations Workshops

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Becoming the Director of Operations of Your Own Career

Operations

About the workshop

Have you ever heard people talking about becoming the CEO of the Startup of You? In this session, Sara talked about how to become the Director of Operations of your own career.

About the host

Sara Morrison is the Director of Operations for Praxis.

Creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Your BP

Operations

About the workshop

In this workshop, Amanda Grimmett teaches you how to create and roll out Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for your business partner. She covers why business documentation is important to a startup along with the best process for tackling such a large project.

About the host

Amanda Grimmett has always been a planner and an organizer, and she’s a master of organizational systems. She currently works for a rapidly growing hospitality company in NYC, where she started as an Event Manager in 2013 and now works as the company’s first Community Manager.

Salesforce Skills Workshop

Operations

About the workshop

In this session, we’re joined by Connor Jeffers, Director of Revenue for Dose Media, for a skills development workshop on the basics of Salesforce. He talks about what it is, why business value it so much, how to use it, and how to keep mastering it.

About the host

Connor Jeffers is a Praxis Advisor who has helped the founding teams of 16 startups over the last 2 years get up off the ground. He's spent most of his career working with venture backed companies.

Skill Workshops

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RevOps 101

Skill

About the workshop

Connor Jeffers and Matt Cannizzo outline the basics of RevOps work. They explain how this field of work helps companies optimize their business processes and technology to deliver a competitive advantage.

About the host

Connor Jeffers and Matt Cannizzo are Praxis alumni who currently work at Aptitude8.

Egoism vs. Alturism

Skill

About the workshop

Craig Biddle sparks a conversation by asking the question: Which is the best approach to life, egoism or altruism?

About the host

Craig is co-founder and editor in chief of The Objective Standard, cofounder and director of education at Objective Standard Institute, and executive director of Prometheus Foundation.

How Data Works (and How to Use It)

Skill

About the workshop

In this session, Jon talked about how data works, and how to think about data to get better at your job (even if you’re not a numbers person). Data is everywhere — but it’s only useful if you know how to understand it and use it.

About the host

Jon Elordi is a Praxis alum, who works as a Data Analyst at JPL Creative, a digital marketing agency (and Praxis BP) that works with companies as well-known as Hershey, Rite Aid, and Penske.

Alumni Workshops

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Building Mastermind Groups with Nick Rundlett

Alumni

About the workshop

Nick Rundlett explains how mastermind calls can exponentially increase your problem-solving. Then, he opens up the group for a live mastermind call.

About the host

Nick Rundlett is a Praxis alumnus who is skilled in the areas of sales and building connections through Mastermind calls. He is currently the Founder of Mastermind Army.

Learning Out Loud + Leveraging Your Personal Brand

Alumni

About the workshop

In this workshop, Praxis alumna Madison Kanna joins us to talk about her Praxis experience, her journey becoming a developer, and how she’s used the art of learning out loud and the habit of documentation to open up opportunities and build a powerful network.

About the host

Madison Kanna is a Praxis alumna and self-taught developer.

How to Crush Your First 6 Months at a Startup

Alumni

About the workshop

This workshop is all about succeeding in your first "real" career opportunity. Olivia covers things like embracing the discomfort, moving to a new city, finding balance, and thinking long-term while staying patient.

About the host

Olivia Van Wormer is a Praxis alumna and advisor who is working at PandaDoc. Olivia started her career in a sales role and was quickly promoted to account executive.

Entrepreneurship Workshops

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Building a Brand Through Creating Online

Entrepreneurship

About the workshop

Steph Smith outlines how creating online content has unlocked many opportunities for her (and how Praxians can do the same).

About the host

Six years ago, Steph left consulting and a 2+ hour commute to redesign her life. Now she works remotely as a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She is the founder of Integral Labs which has allowed her to work with numerous tech companies.

All Things Bitcoin

Entrepreneurship

About the workshop

The much-awaited... Bitcoin session. Bitcoin expert Gideon Powell does a deep dive into all things Bitcoin including how he got involved and some tips for new investors.

About the host

Gideon O. Powell is the President & COO of Cholla Petroleum Inc, a private exploration & investment company. He is passionate about exploration, global energy markets, bottom-up innovation, individual liberty, and building strong communities.

Lessons Learned as a Self-Made Creative

Entrepreneurship

About the workshop

Taylor Foreman tells the story of how he went from Praxis Apprentice to a professional screenplay writer in Hollywood.

About the host

Taylor Foreman is a Praxis alumnus. He started his career in sales but eventually pivoted to a more creative career in writing, comedy, and show production.

Career Workshops

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How to Live and Work Intentionally with Silas Mahner

Career

About the workshop

Silas talks about his career discovery process and how he got to where he is now at Next Wave Partners by being intentional and deliberate with this time and energy.

About the host

Silas is a Praxis alumnus and Consultant at Next Wave Partners.

How to build a Philosophy Career without a Degree

Career

About the workshop

Praxis alumni Gabriel Mitchell explains how to read philosophy selfishly, how to build a professional philosophical network, and provides lots of resources for getting your philosophy career started.

About the host

Gabriel was an early adopter of the Praxis program. While working with his business partner in 2014 he learned he could use his work to promote the ideas he cared about. He's an armchair philosophy nerd who learned to get paid for his passion.

My Non Profit Career as a Discovery Process

Career

About the workshop

Nate Baker tells us about his career as a discovery process. Ultimately he landed a career he loves in the non-profit space in an operations role.

About the host

Nate Baker is an early adopter of Praxis and is currently the Deputy Director of Grassroots Operations at Americans for Prosperity- Mississippi.

Productivity Workshops

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Personal Finance 101

Productivity

About the workshop

Praxis COO, Mitchell Earl, outlines the basic need-to-know information for young people who want to manage their personal finances effectively.

About the host

Mitchell Earl is the COO of Praxis.

Getting Shit Done Workshop

Productivity

About the workshop

Amanda’s Getting Shit Done system is her take on the classic 5-part Getting Things Done system. She covers everything from procrastination (why you DON’T get shit done), productivity (how you DO get shit done), and ways to engineer your work day.

About the host

Maximizing Your Output

Productivity

About the workshop

Amanda Grimmett talks about how to maximize your output — in your job or when working on your personal projects.

About the host

Writing Workshops

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The Writing Process

Writing

About the workshop

Jon Hersey outlines his writing and editing process and addresses some common pitfalls that young writers encounter.

About the host

Jon Hersey is the Associate Editor at The Objective Standard.

Using Substack to Build An Audience

Writing

About the workshop

Jed Mahrle explains how he used Substack to build an audience that unlocked professional opportunities in the sales world.

About the host

Less than a year after completing Praxis, Jed became the leading SDR, built repeatable outbound playbooks, scripts, and sequences for our SDRs/AEs, and broke several company records at PandaDoc. He now manages a team of 11 SDRs to scale PandaDocs outbound team.

Copywriting + Customizing Your Praxis Experience

Writing

About the workshop

Jerrod Harlan walks us through how he approached his Praxis experience and used the program to help him launch a copywriting career — in which he’s now making six figures.

About the host

Jerrod Harlan is a Praxis alum that has built a career as a successful freelance copywriter. He is also heavily involved in the sales subcommunity of the program.

Communication Workshops

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Improving Your Public Speaking Using Human Connection

Communication

About the workshop

This session’s topic: the importance of human connection as a communicator, and how to use connection to level up your public speaking. This is a great workshop for anyone looking to level up their communication skills.

About the host

Abigail Kish is a Praxis alumna that has 3 national championship speaking titles, has presented at a number of conferences and events, and is the founder of Lyceum Communication.

Using Writing to Build Your Network

Communication

About the workshop

In this session, Dan Sanchez talks about how to deliberately use your writing to build your network, how to strategically use third-party sites to build your credibility, how to use your writing to unlock opportunities, and how to use your writing as a digital business card.

About the host

Dan Sanchez is the editor-in-chief at FEE and the former Praxis writing advisor.

How to Network with Anybody

Communication

About the workshop

In this workshop, Dylan covers how to build network connections (even with busy and successful people!), how to maintain those connections to build a vibrant network, the art of following up, and much more.

About the host

Dylan Gambardella is the co-founder of the Next Gen Summit and previously co-founded Students4Students. He is an accomplished speaker, having addressed audiences at TEDx events, Yale University, Duke University, and UCLA.